"Heh, a person who has gone through ups and downs in officialdom to the pinnacle of power, and who can still retire in peace and enjoy his old age after decades, now that he knows where his son is and who he is with, do you think he will really not be able to make his son obedient?" Jiang Ning said calmly.

Shen Bing finally understood after hearing this, but he still asked with some incomprehension: "Why did he ...... for so long in those seven years?"

Jiang Ning stretched out his middle finger and index finger, his eyes flashed with a strange light, and said with a smile: "Two possibilities, first, maybe the old man doesn't want his son to go back so soon, whether he quarrels with his son, or ignores it after he runs away from home, it's just for outsiders to see." ”

"However, if it is really what you say, what is the old man doing this for?"

"If that's the case, then there must be something in that Lei family's housewife or her father who is a teacher that the father and son especially want to get," Jiang Ning said: "Of course, in view of the previous identities of the father and daughter, the probability that they can have something in their hands to make the old man tempted is not large, even if there is really one, with his energy, it would be good to grab it directly, there is no need to do this at all, unless that thing must be the existence of the father and daughter who are willing to give it to have an effect." ”

"I don't think that's likely, right?" asked the girl tentatively.

Jiang Ning nodded and said: "This possible condition is indeed extremely harsh, and it can even be said that it is almost impossible, and it is precisely because of this that I will say that the old man is a wonderful person." ”

Shen Bing asked curiously, "What about the second possibility?"

"Naturally, it is the truth, but as the rumors say, the young master of the Lei family just doesn't like officialdom, and he falls in love with a girl from a teaching gentleman's family, and for her sake, he would rather not respect his father's order and run away from home. Jiang Ning suddenly felt a little funny, probably because she felt that this girl was too simple, so that she seemed almost a little stupid, but stupid was really cute.

Seeing that the girl's eyes were still full of curiosity, Jiang Ning didn't sell it, and said directly: "Do you think, an old Shoufu who used to be powerful in the world, clearly has the means to get his son back, but he has been refusing to use it for seven years, don't you think he is very interesting?"

"What's interesting?" the girl added, still confused, "But after you say so, this old Shoufu is quite strange!"

Speaking of this, Shen Bing still didn't understand, and Jiang Ning didn't bother to explain to her, and instead asked again on the topic at the beginning: "So how long did the Lei family's convoy carry us before?"

The girl, who suddenly realized that she had gone off topic and ran 108,000 miles, blushed a little embarrassedly, and hurriedly said: "The horse pulled the mountain mulberry fruit, and stopped and walked, it was already snowing at that time, and the road was not easy to walk, and it had been about a whole day since I walked here." ”

Jiang Ning made a rough calculation in his heart, from the purple mountain mound across the cedar forest, there are more than three hundred miles away, ordinary horses

If you run with all your might, you can get out in about a day, but the horses of the caravan are obviously not the kind of stagecoaches that can be rotated in time, and they will certainly not be able to maintain the fastest speed throughout the whole journey, and they will definitely need time to rest halfway, plus the heavy cargo of a horse and a cart, and the weight of the people sitting in the carriage at the same time, plus the bad weather and snowy roads, it is not bad to be able to walk a hundred miles in one day.

With a long sigh, Jiang Ning's face was a little unsightly.

"What's wrong with you?" Shen Bing asked in a low voice of concern, the girl's eyes were full of Jiang Ning at the moment, and the change in the expression on his face was much faster than the previous sudden reaction.

Jiang Ning shook his head, calmed down a little, and said with a smile: "It's nothing." ”

The girl looked unconvinced, of course, since Jiang Ning didn't want to say it, she couldn't ask questions anymore, so as not to make him bored with herself.

Of course not, really, nothing.

In fact, they are now in an awkward position. It is about a hundred miles away from the village where it left earlier, and it is even farther to the county town of Lujiang in the south, perhaps nearly two hundred miles away.

If you change the environment, other places, even if it is 300 miles, are not too difficult, but this is a snowfield that has just experienced a blizzard, the roads are buried, there is a shortage of food, and there is hardly anything else except cedar.

Although it seems closer to go north back to Zishantuo, but the Ziyun Mountain in the north has just had an avalanche earlier, if you go north, the thickness of the snow on the road will become higher and higher, and it will become more difficult to move forward, if there is only an avalanche on Ziyun Mountain, but if the same thing happened to the north of the mountain after bypassing this section of the road, then the difficulty of walking back to the original village from here is not much worse than going south to Lujiang County.

On the earth, in the snowfield, Jiang Ning and Shen Bing are now in a dilemma.

Such a little wolf meat is simply not enough to support them to walk such a long distance, the cold and the road buried by thick snow will seriously accelerate their physical exertion, if they can't find a place like this cave to settle down and shelter from the wind, when they spend the night halfway, the two of them will definitely freeze to death.

But if they just wait here, after the wolf meat is eaten, the two of them will be starved to death.

"What should I do?" Jiang Ning asked himself.

"That, that..." The thin girl hesitated for a moment, but still mustered up the courage to pull Jiang Ning's cuffs again, and said, "Is there anything you can tell me, even if you think I'm stupid, I may not be able to help you, talk to me, maybe it will be better." ”

Jiang Ning smiled and rubbed the girl's head, still not expressing his thoughts, but said in a rare gentle tone: "I feel much better now." ”

Worries and worries are such things, and when they are told to others, one point will be divided into two parts, which is just a matter of annoyance, and he has always disliked to pass on his negative emotions to others, and he has indeed received some encouragement from this happy girl.

At that moment, Jiang Ning suddenly thought of something, and asked instead: "We were left behind with those goods, and we didn't run long before we were caught up by the avalanche of Ziyun Mountain, so those mountain mulberries are actually not far from the north?"

When the girl heard this, she nodded subconsciously.

The corners of Jiang Ning's mouth were hooked, and he smiled a little happily.

(End of chapter)