[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law":3,"chapter-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-343":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1543728,2006,"Chapter 343 - 343 343 Discussing matters in the middle of the night","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-343",343,"\u003Cp>343: Chapter 343 Discussing matters in the middle of the night 343: Chapter 343 Discussing matters in the middle of the night If you want to open a clinic, then the house can’t be renovated like it was before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the consultation table and the medicine cabinet are set up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou was on-site directing the bustling renovation, realizing that the work wouldn’t be completed in three days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked at the sizable house, located at a prime street corner, thinking that such a property in Lingnan City must be expensive, and even with money, one might not be able to buy it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So she looked at Jin Zijin curiously and asked, “Does the Taoist Temple have a good income?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Zijin was taken aback for a moment, then nodded and said, “Yes, the Dao Family Tianzong has always had a generous patronage.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then why were you so poor in Lotus Village that you lived in a drafty straw hut that hardly kept out the wind?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I was just avoiding trouble!” Jin Zijin declared righteously, “I went to Lotus Village on official business.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I’d flaunted my wealth, every household within ten miles would be competing to marry their daughter to me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou: “…” She remembered how poor it had seemed when she first married over; there was no need to exaggerate that much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides renovating the house, there was another matter—that was to make a signboard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She felt that since she had acknowledged Dr.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou as her teacher and was under the care of Jisheng Hall, there was no need to establish her own practice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, she immediately had someone make a plaque that read “Jisheng Hall.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At night, Gu Youyou worked by candlelight, not doing anything other than painting a signboard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jisheng Hall, with the subtitle in small characters: Lingnan Branch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the ink dried, she was very satisfied with the signboard she had painted; all that was left was to find a signboard master to make it the following day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After putting the paper away, she thought for a moment, then sketched some other things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regarding the clinic’s decor, she had some more scientifically minded suggestions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they couldn’t be easily explained, they could be drawn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were scattered footsteps from outside the courtyard, and Gu Youyou paused her writing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t the delicate steps of the maid Xiaotao, but a man’s, Yue Rujing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She glanced at Jin Zijin, who had taken off his coat and was leaning against the bedhead reading a book, and wondered why Yue Rujing would come visiting at such a late hour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The door was not shut, and the lamp was on; Yue Rujing directly entered the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Zijin turned his head to look at him, his brow slightly furrowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good, you haven’t gone to bed!” Yue Rujing cut to the chase and said, “Brother, my father wants to discuss some matters with you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm!” Jin Zijin nodded, not asking further, and immediately got up to dress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll be out for a while, if I return late you should go to sleep first,” Jin Zijin told Gu Youyou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou smiled slightly and said, “Go ahead, I’ll sleep after I finish drawing.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After they had gone far, Gu Youyou got up and closed the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She stood next to the table, pondering for a while, then muttered to herself as if talking to herself, “Nothing during the day, but something needing discussion in the dead of night, really…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shaking her head, she hung the wet writing brush on the rack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother, do you know what my father wants to discuss with you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I know,” Jin Zijin said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah, since you know, then I won’t talk about that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ll just tell you about this Gu Youyou, this woman can’t be trusted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides looking like a country girl, in what ways does she resemble one?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She can ride a horse, and she rides no worse than I do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ordinary families don’t let their daughters learn horseback riding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The embroidery she should know, she doesn’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The guqin, chess, calligraphy, and painting favored by ladies of fine families, she doesn’t know either, but she’s remarkably good at handling a knife fiercely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I think she’s been specially trained by someone since she was little, and keeping her around is bound to lead to trouble sooner or later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, I know you’re reluctant to kill her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why not just go along with my father’s wishes this time, and find an excuse to send her away?”\u003C\u002Fp>",752,"2026-06-06T06:54:47.695Z",1,"novelbin.me","d5519ea108e286ef3613416a8259d27515a23c1fd17dc650342210b72d3797c0","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-344","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-342",1812,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-cover.jpg"]