At the village head, this household is a typical farmhouse with four rooms.
At the courtyard gate, two ducks and four or five chickens were wandering.
The rooster saw strangers approaching and clucked noisily.
The ducks, frightened, waddled into the small grove beside the house.
The chickens, however, were not afraid of strangers and leisurely pecked for seeds near the house, occasionally scratching the soil with their claws.
Uncle Gui stopped the mule cart and went over to knock on the courtyard door.
The door quickly opened, and an old man came out. Seeing Chai Eying alight from the mule cart, he exclaimed, "It's Miss Chai? What brings Miss Chai here?"
He stepped aside and welcomed Chai Eying inside.
"Uncle Tian, is Brother Da Wang home? I want to ask him something," Chai Eying said with a smile.
This was the old servant of the Chai Family, and the younger generation of the Chai Family addressed the old servants according to generation.
