Chapter 99 Departure
Throughout the day, Lu Yun listened to the news Shitou passed about the Su Family’s various misadventures, their chickens straying and getting lost, prompting a frantic search, their pig suddenly becoming violent and attempting to break out of its pen, leaving them frazzled, and then their child falling into a puddle outside, coming home covered in mud and crying...
"Poor things," it was as if the Su Family was cursed that day, everything went wrong, and they simply couldn’t find the time to hassle Xia Yuan and the mother-daughter duo of the Lu Family.
In the end, even they began to wonder if they had offended something. In pain, they spent two yuan and also offered half a bag of paddy rice, finally secretly calling the village witch to perform a ritual to quiet things down.
When Lu Aiguo came back in the evening, he didn’t start with how their "chat" with Xie Changgen went that day. Instead, he brought news that the family would need to depart around four in the morning the next day to head to the town first.
It turned out that in the evening, Lu Aiguo’s uncle received word that the train tickets he had someone purchase for Haicheng had been secured, with the train departing at six in the morning the day after next.
As soon as Lu Aiguo got the news, he rushed back to inform everyone, and then he hurried off to make arrangements with Mr. Chen Laohou for a mule cart the next day. Because they had to leave so early, he even brought Mr. Chen a bottle of strong liquor and a pound of wild boar meat to ensure that Mr. Chen would agree to pick them up directly from their home.
After sorting out the cart, Lu Aiguo finally breathed a sigh of relief and came back home for dinner. During the meal, he didn’t bother to hide anything from Shitou and Lu Yun, taking out a handkerchief-wrapped item and passing it to Xia Yuan.
When he revealed the contents, everyone’s eyes widened -- it was two small gold bars and twenty silver Yuan coins.