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"No, no, no, you can tell at a glance that you’re not an ordinary person, but I, as a farmer, can’t bear the address ’Old Brother’. Just call me Old He instead." Despite being a farmer all his life, having only gone to the capital once and never leaving the county, Old He still had a good eye.

He had seen many people of status and identity at He Teng and He Zhilan’s wedding, and they all had an aura as strong as this Mr. Gu’s.

"Old Brother, don’t make fun of us. We are all ordinary people.

Who isn’t born into a farming family? My Gu Family, for three generations, has been no different.

" Gu Hengyuan said with a smile, seeing that He Teng’s father was easy to speak with, and then he continued, "Old Brother, to tell you the truth, we’ve come here to inquire about your daughter He Zhilan. "

"You are my Boss’s comrades-in-arms, why such curiosity about my sister-in-law’s matters?" He Da spoke, his tone carrying a hint of dissatisfaction.

"Ada!" Old He stopped He Da upon hearing him speak to the guests in such a manner, but when he heard they were He Teng’s comrades with some status inquiring about He Zhilan, he couldn’t help but overthink, "Did our Zhilan do something wrong in the capital?

Honestly, my daughter Zhilan has a kind heart.

If she did do something wrong, it must have been unintentional. "

Even without knowing if something had happened, Old He’s words were filled with the defense of his daughter He Zhilan.

"No, Old Brother, you’ve misunderstood. He Zhilan hasn’t done anything wrong," Grandmother Gu quickly shook her head and said, "We just want to understand more about He Zhilan’s childhood. We heard that she was a child bride who was bought by your family, is that right?"

"Ah!" Old He nodded his head, "Back then the family was poor, we didn’t have much money, and the Boss was already fifteen, so we thought of buying him a wife. Initially, we didn’t plan to buy such a young bride, but when Old San brought her over, seeing Zhilan covered in injuries and hearing that her parents didn’t want her and sold her off, I decided to buy her.

When she came to the He Family, she was only six years old, but she had a stubborn streak tougher than people decades older. "

"Six years old?" Mother Gu murmured, her heart racing as she thought that her own daughter Miss Zhilan had left home when she was just six as well.

"Who gave Zhilan that name? Do you know where her biological parents are?" Mother Lan patted Mother Gu’s hand gently as she knew what was on her mind, so she could only offer this gesture to comfort her.

"She named herself!" Old He said with a laugh, pride lacing his tone, "Zhilan was smart from a young age. When enrolled in the household registration, she said she wanted to be called Zhilan. At first, we didn’t know which characters to use, but she wrote them down for us to see. At that time, villagers praised her when they saw the beautiful characters she wrote by herself, saying that for a six-year-old to write so well was a sign she’d be clever in the future. "

This story is still used in the village to educate their children, with people saying, "Look how amazing He Zhilan from Capital University is. She could write her own name beautifully at six. That’s what you call a top student’s seedling.

" Because of this, many kids in the village, barely five or six, are now being forced by the adults in their homes to start learning to write.

Hearing all this, Mother Gu’s emotions completely collapsed.

"It must be her~ It has to be her~" Mother Gu clutched Gu Hengyuan’s hand tightly, crying, "Miss Zhilan would remember her own name, it must be our Zhilan~"