[{"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-620":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},1543955,2006,"Chapter 620 - 620 631 The Palace Rules for Seeking Death","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-620",620,"\u003Cp>620: Chapter 631: The Palace Rules for Seeking Death 620: Chapter 631: The Palace Rules for Seeking Death The Jie Residence’s Second Young Master proved to be a man of his word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The very next morning, he personally brought the consultation fee for Gu Youyou’s visit to the Jie Residence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the medical examination of his former wife and concubine, he paid a basket full of silver, amounting to a thousand taels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou, who usually dealt with large sums in silver notes, saw such a vast amount of actual silver for the first time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She reached out to lift it, but it was so heavy that her slender arms and legs could hardly bear the weight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It became an embarrassing scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, it wasn’t Gu Youyou’s fault; a thousand taels of silver at that time weighed over sixty jin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could an ordinary young girl carry that, let alone Gu Youyou with her slight frame?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, the Second Young Master suggested, “How about I help Doctor Gu carry it inside?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou forced a laugh and hurriedly said, “No, I’ll call my maids to carry it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t like the Second Young Master’s character and was determined not to deal with him in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could she let him help her?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having received his payment for the consultation, they were even.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterward, Gu Youyou was confined again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she wasn’t at Jisheng Hall, there were always people from other residences coming to invite her for consultations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Madam Lin, after dealing with it for a few days and finding it bothersome, allowed her to go out for four hours a day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The prerequisite was that she was accompanied by two martial house servants and four old maids and two young maids.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a requirement set by her Uncle Lin Xingyi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t mind having a few strong bodyguards with excellent martial skills, but what was the deal with the maids, a pile of snacks, the warmers, and the bedding in the carriage?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The medical hall was only two streets away from her home, which left her speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Qianqing, on the other hand, was filled with envy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You should be content.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I can’t even go out if I wanted to.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou said, “Freeing one is the same as freeing two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why can’t you go out?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She thought to herself: Aren’t you able to climb over walls?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a sigh, she sat on the doorstep and said, “The Empress’s birthday is in a few days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My mother is planning to take me to the Imperial Palace, and these days she is personally supervising the preparations, having matrons from the palace teach me the palace etiquette.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh!” Gu Youyou assumed that Madam Lin went to the capital for the Empress’s birthday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then you learn slowly, I’ll be leaving now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey, wait a minute!” Lin Qianqing got up, pulled Gu Youyou back down to sit on the doorstep and said, “Don’t you still have half an hour before you go to the medical hall?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sit with me for a while.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou raised an eyebrow and looked outside the courtyard, asking, “When do you start learning the palace etiquette?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In half an hour, when you leave, I start.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou felt a sudden urge to laugh and said, “Looking at your listless appearance, it seems learning that palace etiquette is as tiring as a farmer turning over two li of land.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Qianqing suddenly became interested and eagerly asked, “Cousin, have you ever seen how the rice we eat is grown?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…Gu Youyou was taken aback.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did her maternal grandmother’s yard grow vegetables without planting rice?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Women like her were often confined to large houses for a lifetime, starting in their family home until they married off, and then in their husband’s home until death, most never knowing how the everyday crops they consumed were cultivated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was indeed a sad thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially for a cousin like Qianqing, whose heart was as wide as the sea, filled with the vast blue sky and the whole world, she was constrained by her social status to a life confined to a small corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Women working in the fields envied their life of leisure, while they longed for a carefree existence, even if it meant plain food every day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou patted the back of her hand and said, “After the Empress’s birthday has passed, I’ll take you to the countryside to have a look.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Qianqing’s eyes suddenly widened in disbelief, “Can we really do that?”\u003C\u002Fp>",756,"2026-06-06T06:54:57.874Z",1,"novelbin.me","9e7069be36adffd0ead1158942a526406140d9d8341fae6c8c392fb40fa39d9e","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-621","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-619",1812,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-cover.jpg"]