Su Yunuo held up her hands to ward off the leaves swirling in the wind. She squinted and glanced at the house, visible in the distance, with a weary expression. With strained arms, she struggled to lift the increasingly heavy basket on her back.,Su Yunuo is the eldest child and now that her father, the scholar, is seriously ill in bed as the head of the family, there is a big problem. The town doctor has diagnosed him with tuberculosis, a terrible illness that people talk about. It's unclear whether he will survive. Otherwise, even if her stepmother, Xiao Yangshi, cried and made a fuss, it is unlikely that her grandfather would be so cruel as to drive her scholarly son out of the house.,The capital wasn't too close to Yanshan Prefecture, nor was it too far. Even at a fast gallop, it would only take about seven or eight days. However, Ning Zhongping had been gone for three months without returning. Su Yunluo didn't believe anything had happened.。