Transmigrated as a Stepmother: Time to Bring the Family to Prosper!-Chapter 348 - 347: Lotus Courtyard

After leaving Gongliang Liao’s bedroom, the group continued to tour Qi Xian’s white lotus-themed bedroom, guest room, kitchen, storeroom, servants’ quarters, and stable.

The bunk beds from Qin Yao’s home were used in the guest room and servants’ quarters, perfectly solving the problem of insufficient space in the old house.

After all, it wasn’t a large mansion in the city; in a village home that barely counted as a two-part courtyard, finding accommodations for twenty people, two carriages, and over a dozen horses meant bunk beds were undoubtedly the best choice.

The courtyard’s pathways were so wheelchair-friendly that Gongliang Liao often forgot he needed to be carried to move.

After touring all the rooms, as they looked at Qi Xian, who stood in front of them with a mysterious smile, Gongliang Liao couldn’t help but feel touched.

"Hold on!" Qi Xian signaled with a raised hand for the teacher not to be moved yet, asked Liu Ji to push the teacher along with him, and the group proceeded to the flat area at the gate.

At this moment, Gongliang Liao noticed that an important person was missing.

"San’er, where’s your wife?" Gongliang Liao asked suspiciously.

Clearly, they had come together from Liu Ji’s home, yet Qin Yao was nowhere to be seen now.

Despite the old man’s secret grumblings about his disciple’s wife being too fierce, he actually admired her as a woman if he set aside her identity as his disciple’s wife.

The occasional reminders of a certain ambitious woman from the capital city did give him a psychological discomfort. Naturally, he preferred less contact.

However, on such an important day, if she truly hadn’t come, the old man started to feel uneasy.

Liu Ji was similarly confused, looking around, "Yeah, where is she?"

He was so busy admiring this guesthouse that made him envious that he hadn’t noticed when she disappeared.

Just as the teacher and disciple were puzzled, the sound of wheels rolling came from afar, approaching them.

Qi Xian eagerly ran forward, stood at the railing of the viewing platform, and looked down to see Qin Yao leisurely pushing a brand-new wheelchair along the dusty road.

Seeing him on the viewing platform, she looked up with a puzzled "Huh?" and asked with a smile, "You’re done touring already?"

Qi Xian nodded, the two exchanged a smile, and Qin Yao quickened her pace.

A brand-new wheelchair was pushed in front of Gongliang Liao, Qin Yao introduced it: "The brand-new frame perfectly matches your size, ensuring you become one with the chair, moving as you wish."

"The metal connecting parts make the frame stronger and more flexible, the double-layer wheel design provides a sense of control from outside to inside, allowing you to move freely..."

After explaining every little detail, she worried about the group not remembering it, so she asked again, "Is there any part you want me to explain again?"

Liu Ji was about to speak up when Qi Xian replied, "No need, I’ve memorized it all."

Photographic memory and exceptional listening - such are the basic skills of a prodigy!

Qin Yao clapped her hands and stood up, "Great, I won’t repeat it then."

Liu Ji: "..."

But being the action-type, he immediately had the teacher abandon the old wheelchair, helped the teacher onto the new wheelchair, and led him to enjoy the smoothness in front of the guesthouse.

Even Gongliang Liao himself could glide smoothly around the flat area.

However, compared to rubber wheels, the wooden and metal ones seemed heavier to Qin Yao.

Yet without comparison, there’s no harm; old wheelchairs were ready to be split and burned as firewood compared to the new ones.

Gongliang Liao’s face showed a long-missed relaxed smile, like a mischievous old child, pushing away everyone’s help and smoothly gliding back and forth through the courtyard, becoming increasingly accustomed.

Finally, the old man pushed the wheelchair to Qin Yao, his heart understanding that this guesthouse soon to be named "Lotus Courtyard" was specifically crafted by Qin Yao as a sanctuary of freedom for him.

Since departing the capital city, all the concern shown by those around him combined couldn’t compare to the autonomy he felt in this moment.

Even the Qi Family only thought to arrange more servants for him.

No one was like Qin Yao, who genuinely cared about the needs the disabled may have internally.

Touched, Gongliang Liao gazed deeply at Qin Yao for a long while, unsure how to articulate and asked her, "Yao Niang, is there anything you want? Speak freely."

Qin Yao was taken aback, then lightly shook her head with a smile, "No, nothing."

She said just two words before turning away.

Reaching the village road, she suddenly remembered something and called back to Liu Ji:

"Help Mr. Qi and Mr. Gongliang with their luggage, you need to prepare the wheat seeds!"

The weather has been good these days, need to plant them quickly to avoid missing the season.

With ten acres in the village, Ah Wang plowed it all by himself, even while transporting the Da Lang brothers and sisters to and from school every day.

This gave Qin Yao a sense of exploiting laborers, planting this time certainly couldn’t be left to Ah Wang alone anymore.

As for those distant two acres, Qin Yao simply didn’t count them, rounding them off to non-existence!

The factory’s affairs suddenly increased, Qin Yao had no free time, and the household was severely understaffed; Liu Ji knew he couldn’t escape this time.

But looking at the guards watching over Qi Xian, he smirked readily and replied, "Understood, wife. I’ll be in the field early tomorrow!"

Shi Tou suddenly shivered, feeling an ominous premonition.

But there wasn’t time to think, once the new house finished the simple fire-crossing ceremony and was named, the move officially began.

The bulk of the luggage from the start was placed in the guesthouse... no, it should be called Lotus Courtyard now.

Most of the luggage was already in Lotus Courtyard, now it just needed to be placed in its respective spots.

The baggage left in Qin Yao’s house wasn’t much but tidying it up was very tedious.

Liu Ji, a habitual shirker, clung onto the handles of Gongliang Liao’s wheelchair.

Under the guise of taking the teacher around Lotus Courtyard to test if the new wheelchair was good, he actually sneaked away from work.

This left Qi Xian alone to worry about the new home’s arrangement.

Busy from noon till dusk, finally the cold, quiet Lotus Courtyard gained a bit of vitality and began to look like a home.

Liu Ji calculated the time, waited until all the work was done by others, then came back with an exhausted expression of "I’ve been looking after the teacher all day and I’m dead tired" while clutching a bunch of reeds for the new desk, pushing Gongliang Liao back.

Qi Xian knew Liu Ji’s true nature long ago and couldn’t be bothered to argue with him.

The young boy stood upright in the courtyard, looking at the Lotus Courtyard he had arranged himself, feeling a surge of accomplishment.

To be frank, he didn’t want to go home at all now.

He only wanted to live to the end in this Lotus Courtyard he had crafted, which met his every fancy!

Qi Xian felt this way, and Gongliang Liao felt even more so.

The old man could not fathom finding such a perfect courtyard anywhere else outside Liu Family Village that provided such convenience. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

The teacher and disciple exchanged glances, both extremely satisfied with the new house.

Liu Ji excitedly thought to himself, "My study can finally be built!"