Chapter 2 The Trail
The clouds and rain stopped, and many people seemed to emerge from the ground on the empty official road in an instant, and it became bustling again.
The people who sheltered from the rain in the ruined temple laughed and dispersed, but what they saw today was enough for them to talk about for a few days.
"I heard that the ministers of the Taishi Bureau in the capital will observe the wind and rain like this..."
"Then this lady is as powerful as those princesses?"
The people dispersed in a blink of an eye, and only the master and servant of Banqin and the old man and girl were left in the ruined temple.
Banqin's things had already been packed, and the coachman helped load the cart and drove the donkey out.
The old man also went out with the girl on his back.
"The lady will call the wind and rain!" The girl listened to it for a long time and laughed and seemed to understand, but reading the delicious pastries, she couldn't help clapping her hands and shouting at the donkey cart.
My lady is an immortal, and Banqin grinned with a bit of pride.
"No, it's to look at the sky." Again a word came from the donkey cart, and at the same time half of the curtain was lifted.
At this time, they had already walked to the gate of the temple, after the rain, the sun was clear, the sun was beautiful, and the curtain of the car door was lifted to block some shadows, but they could still see the woman sitting inside, the girl.
So small! The old man was taken aback, he couldn't say he was young! I'm only thirteen or fourteen years old!
"When I went out in the morning, there was a cloud of cotton wool." Cheng Jianniang said, looking at the girl lying on her grandfather's back.
Where can the girl understand, but the old man understands, looking at the clouds and knowing the rain, watching the rain and knowing the sunshine.
"Lady Bocai, Lady Bocai." He said in a loud voice.
Cheng Jianniang bowed her head to return the salute and looked at the old man.
"Uncle, your illness should be cured as soon as possible." She said suddenly.
The old man had already stood up for them to go first, and was stunned when he heard this.
"Will the lady still see a doctor?" He asked.
"Slightly." Cheng Jianniang said, her eyes fell on the old man's slightly rickety back.
From an outsider's point of view, this old man was carrying a girl on his back, so his body was stiff and forceful.
"What did the lady say I was?" The old man was stunned for a moment, then asked with a smile.
Cheng Jianniang was silent.
"I don't know." She replied.
The old man was stunned again.
"But I can cure it." Cheng Jianniang said.
"How can that be cured?" The old man asked with a smile, his expression already unimpressed.
"My lady's medical treatment fee has to be paid first." Banqin said on the side.
As soon as these words came out, the old man smiled unabashedly.
"Thank you lady, the old man is not physically exhausted with a child, so he hurried first." He said, but he directly cut off the conversation, nodded and walked out of the temple gate and strode along the road.
The coachman couldn't hold back any longer.
"Lady, you can't do this business, how can you say that?" He said, "How can you say that you don't know about the disease? Even if you don't know the way, since it can be cured, it's good to make up a name for the disease. ”
Banqin glared at him unhappily.
"We're not in business." She said.
The coachman pouted.
"It's not a business, why do you still ask someone for a consultation?" He muttered.
"Because we need money," Banqin said, and looked at the coachman's teasing appearance, a little annoyed, "hurry up, we must hurry to the town in front before dark." ”
"I'm here for your good." The coachman was still a little aggrieved, muttered, and urged the donkey to go out.
The car shook out of the temple gate, the sunlight was already a little dazzling, and Cheng Jianniang put down the car curtain.
Banqin sat in the car, the coachman drove the car, and the group went forward.
When the night was deep, the donkey cart finally stopped in front of an inn, the shopkeeper yawned and came to greet him, Banqin jumped out of the car and asked seriously for a long time, before finally waving his hand at the coachman.
"It's really hard to serve, so many inns are asking about this and that, it's not good, tossing until dark, you still have to give me a day's money, and you have to take care of my food and accommodation for a day, what is the picture." The coachman muttered and led the donkey cart to the backyard carriage and stable.
"It's not good to have money for you to earn." Banqin said dissatisfiedly to the coachman.
Cheng Jiaoniang had already gotten out of the car, and Banqin hurriedly reached out to help her.
The shopkeeper who led the way in front looked back and saw that this lady was taller than the girl, with a power cover from her head to her feet, wearing a brown placket and half an arm, and a looming plain wrap skirt.
At this time, there were no guests walking around in the hall, and the lights in the back rooms were basically turned off, and the night wind was blowing, and the woman walking under the lantern was particularly eye-catching.
There were two people leaning on the building and talking on the other side, and one of them happened to look over and couldn't help but light up his eyes.
"This lady is such a beauty." He said.
Another person looked for him, but saw Cheng Jianniang's shallow back when he stepped into the door.
"Yuan Lang is now more and more sharp-eyed, and he can see the person's appearance from the back through the power." He laughed.
The man who was called Motoro laughed.
"The so-called beauty is not just good looks." He said.
As he said this, he looked at the room where the lady was, and the room was dimly lit, and it seemed to have stopped.
Banqin sat under the dim lamp, counting the money seriously.
"Lady, there are only three taels of silver." She said.
Cheng Jianniang leaned on the head of the bed, the dim light could not dispel the night around her, and the whole person was hazy.
"Rent a car tomorrow, two meals, and go to Jiangzhou City before sunset." She said.
Although Banqin is very familiar with the price of car rental, meals, etc., she is not as fast as Cheng Jiaoniang, so she simply only remembers the price, reports the number each time, and waits for the lady to arrange the itinerary directly.
"Lady, it's just a day's journey, do we still change cars?" Banqin asked puzzled.
Cheng Jianniang was silent for a moment.
"Yes." She said.
"Well, this coachman is very noisy." Banqin nodded and said.
It's not because of this, but she subconsciously wants to do this, change cars, travel with multiple cars, and disrupt her own whereabouts from and without anyone noticing, these practices make them spend a lot more along the way, in the eyes of ordinary people, this is completely unnecessary expenses, but for what, she wants to do this? What does it seem to be dodging, what is it dodging?
Is it Cheng Jianniang's evasion, or whose evasion?
Cheng Jianniang pondered again, what was in her confused and unclear memory?
Seeing that the lady beside the bed fell into a stupor again, Banqin carefully packed the money bag, blew out the light, and lay on her side on the mat cushion and closed her eyes.
Since she fell ill last month, the lady has not been sick again along the way, and she is about to get home, and she no longer has to travel and be helpless.
Banqin's mouth showed a sweet smile, and she fell asleep with a little excitement and ease.
On the second schedule, when Jiao Niang's master and servant got in the car and drove out of the city gate, it was almost noon, and the road was bustling with cars and horses, and Cheng Jiaoniang's donkey cart was inconspicuous in it.
"Urgent, urgent."
The sound of horses' hooves came from behind, and the pedestrians on the road dodged and watched a group of soldiers gallop by.
Escaping the crowd, a horse-drawn carriage almost sank into a ditch on the side of the road.
"Father, you're fine, are you?" A middle-aged man in a satin robe next to him hurriedly dismounted and asked.
The boys raised the curtains.
There was an old man and a child in the car.
"Daddy, Danniang wants to ride a horse." The girl shouted at the man with her hands outstretched.
The old man reached out and stroked the girl's head.
"It's hot outside, wait until it's cool, Danniang will ride a horse." He reassured the girl and nodded, "I'm fine, hurry up, don't miss your business." ”
"It's the son who is not filial, let the father work together." The man bowed his head with a bit of shame and said.
"Don't say this, hurry..."The old man said, but he suddenly stopped in the middle of speaking, and his expression was slightly surprised.
"Father?" The man was puzzled and shouted, and when he saw his father's gaze looking ahead, he looked over as well.
There was a donkey cart there, and a girl of fifteen or sixteen was lifting the curtain to say something inside, looking a little anxious.
Looking at the donkey again, I don't know what is going on in the road, as if the crowding has hurt his legs and feet, and the coachman is squatting down to check.
It's the lady
The old man groaned, are they also going to Jiangzhou Mansion?
The last time I saw them on the road and the young and the old were slow, they took the initiative to invite themselves to take the car, saying that they were in a hurry to avoid being caught in the rain, at first they didn't take it seriously, just thought it was kind to help the elderly, although they didn't believe their words, but they still believed in this kindness, so they let the girl sit outside the car with the little girl for a while.
Do you want to invite them with you this time?
I still have a car at home, which is better and faster than their donkey cart.
But...
The old man remembered what the lady said, it will be treated, unknown, and the consultation fee.
He shook his head.
"Father?" The man shouted again with some anxiety.
The old man came back to his senses and nodded at his son.
"It's okay, let's go." He said
The middle-aged man saw that his father looked fine, so he breathed a sigh of relief, comforted the girl a few more words, and turned to get on the horse.
The guards opened the way, and they quickly walked to the front of the road.
The car blew the curtain, and the old man subconsciously looked outside, and the small donkey cart flashed by.
Your illness needs to be cured as soon as possible...
The voice of the lady Mumu came to my ears.
The old man reached out and touched his waist, then shook his head and smiled.
This lady is just a teenager and a little bit of a little bit of a way.
The convoy soon moved away on the official road.