[{"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-665":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},1544200,2006,"Chapter 665 - 665 676 This is Mother's Friend","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-665",665,"\u003Cp>665: Chapter 676 This is Mother’s Friend 665: Chapter 676 This is Mother’s Friend Young Master Xie let out a light sigh and whispered, “I was afraid you wouldn’t accept it, so…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So it was you who sent it,” Miss Du said with a brief look of surprise before continuing indifferently, “Please come in first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Make yourselves at home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I still have guests, so I won’t be able to attend to you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xie Qinyun didn’t say much and smiled, “Then you go ahead, I’ll just let myself in.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mm,” Miss Du hummed softly and then pulled Xie Qinyun aside to whisper, “Miss Lin and Doctor Gu are in the T-shaped room upstairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you’re looking for them, you should be careful since Doctor Gu has brought her dog along.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright, thank you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Similarly, Xie Qinyun brushed past Young Master Xie without a word, as if he were a stranger to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Miss Du was busy back and forth, attending to the guests, while Young Master Xie never entered the house and stood by the door, watching her bustling figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou and Lin Qianqing, standing by the window, found the view uninteresting and turned back to their seats to drink tea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Cousin, do you think Miss Du has come to terms with it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou pecked at her light tea and said with a faint smile, “What’s there to come to terms with?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three-legged toads are hard to find, but aren’t there plenty of two-legged men?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as one is outstanding enough, why fear the lack of men falling over themselves to court her?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Qianqing had grown accustomed to Gu Youyou’s way of thinking, but hearing these progressive thoughts still shocked her somewhat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luckily, Xiang Chun, who was sent to get meat for Abao, had not returned, or she might have been scared silly by Gu Youyou’s words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elsewhere, Xie Qinyun had gone upstairs and knocked on their door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Qianqing said excitedly, “It must be Qinyun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ll go open the door.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she got up to open the door, Gu Youyou said from behind in a faint voice, “How do you know it’s not Xiang Chun returning?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Qianqing’s hand paused mid-air as she turned back to smile at Gu Youyou, “Xiang Chun is a meticulously trained maid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her knocks should be careful and the volume just right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wouldn’t sound like this, so urgent and forceful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoever it is seems…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>excited and eager.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So I guess it must be Xie Qinyun, and she’s eager to share the gossip from her family with us.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Qianqing’s analysis was on point, and Gu Youyou gave her a thumbs up, saying, “Cousin, you’ve really improved lately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Good analysis.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Living in a large household, a woman needed to be shrewd to survive; perhaps her aunt was right—only a person like her could emerge as a victor in the inner courtyards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This had nothing to do with her mother’s family status; with her disposition and tactics, even if she were of the same status as the other women raised by her uncle, she would still stand out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon opening the door, indeed, they saw Xie Qinyun and her maid enter happily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You all arrived so early!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oh, what a big dog!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No sooner had she finished greeting Gu Youyou and Lin Qianqing than she saw Abao lying on the floor, looking up at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou gently patted Abao’s head and spoke to it softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This Miss Xie here is a friend of mother’s, you can’t scare her.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mother?” Xie Qinyun was taken aback by the appellation and promptly sent her maid downstairs to fetch some food, then closed the door and sat as far from Abao as possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Qianqing laughed, “Its mother is my cousin.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She herself had been startled when she first heard Gu Youyou introduce Abao that way; her cousin was truly unique in every sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xie Qinyun chuckled awkwardly, “Doctor Gu is really…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this is too…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>unique.” She had meant to say that Gu Youyou’s behavior with the dog was quite unreasonable.\u003C\u002Fp>",676,"2026-06-06T06:54:58.678Z",1,"novelbin.me","9e52cfd143ac06a158444e4e4d3ee90ca60dbb4f89d95367dd2f71004d260cad","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-666","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-664",1812,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-cover.jpg"]