Gu Chengyu pushed open the courtyard gate and found the yard empty. He guessed that Yang might have been taken back to the house by Aunt and the others. After all, causing a scene in the yard would only make the villagers laugh at them.
He lifted the curtain of the main house and went inside, realizing that everyone was present: Mr. Gu and the others were there, even Gu Wanhua and Yan Bi were sitting in a corner of the room.
"Uncle! Aunt! Father!" Gu Chengyu greeted all the elders in the room before standing behind Mr. Gu. The once quiet atmosphere in the room was broken by his greetings.
"Ah! Is Xiao Bao back? Is everything outside settled?" Uncle Gu asked upon seeing Gu Chengyu return.
"Yes! I was delayed by some matters in the Prefecture!" Gu Chengyu replied while observing his uncle. He was surprised to see that Uncle Gu's hair, which was once only silvered at the temples, was now half-white. He clearly remembered it wasn't this much when he left last time.
