Chapter Seventy-Eight: Departure

The spring cold in January is steep, the spring breeze in February is like scissors, and in March it is already three or two peach blossoms outside the bamboo, and the spring river plumbing duck prophet.

Aunt Rong stuffed things into the baggage vigorously, her eyes were red, and her heart was full of reluctance.

"It's just March, it's still cold, it's not convenient to go out, wait until next month." Aunt Rong said.

Jiang Quinoa was also very reluctant in her heart, she was so big, it was the first time she left Uncle Qing and Aunt Rong, and the first time she went back to a place that she was completely unfamiliar with, she was also very uneasy in her heart.

"Aunt Rong, the weather is just right now, neither cold nor hot, and we can walk more comfortably on the road. The people in the dart bureau said that if they waited until they went out next month, it would be hot and stuffy in the carriage, and people would be suffocated. It would be even more sinful if you missed the place to stay, and now is the right time to go out. The more north the colder, when we set off from here is the spring of March, all the way to the north is slowly warmed up, many merchants will choose this time to go north to do business, and then go south from the north in autumn, so that the weather is good, the scenery is good, and the scenery is good along the way, and people are happy. Jiang Quinoa pretended to be relaxed, and she secretly warned herself that she would be willful like this. She just needs to ask for an answer, no matter what the answer is, she will live in peace in the future, stay by Aunt Rong and Uncle Qingbo, let them enjoy the joy of family, and give them a pension.

"Alas, when the child grows up, he is like the bird with stiff wings, and he always wants to fly higher and see farther." Aunt Rong sighed: "I just want you to remember, your home is here." In Jiangli Village, we will all be here waiting for you to come back. No matter what time it is, I miss us. Fly tired, you are back. ”

Jiang Quinoa lowered her head and nodded, not letting Aunt Rong see that she had burst into tears.

That night, Jiang Quinoa and Aunt Rong chattered for most of the night, all of which were about Jiang Quinoa when she was a child, and Aunt Rong said that she sighed that those things happened as if they happened yesterday, and in a blink of an eye, the little girl she held in her arms had her own idea. I'm going to see the outside world.

Erxing Qianli's mother was worried that Jiang Chun was going to follow Jiang Quinoa to the capital, and her mother was also worried. Her lifelong reliance is on Jiang Chun, who has been held in the palm of her hand like a treasure since she was a child, and thinks that Chun'er will one day leave her eyes and go to the capital thousands of miles away. She couldn't sleep all night. When I got up in the middle of the night and saw Chun'er's red face sleeping on, I wanted to leave Chun'er behind regardless of it.

But she knew she couldn't.

Chun'er wants to go to the capital with the eldest lady, firstly, because Chun'er is the eldest lady's maid, and she has to follow the eldest lady wherever she goes. Second, it was also because the eldest lady saved Chun'er's life, if the eldest lady hadn't stopped Chun'er in front of her, the knife would have been cut on Chun'er. Every time she thinks of Chun'er, who may have been injured at the beginning, her heart is like a knife.

The eldest lady not only helped her solve the entanglement of Hu Butcher, but also saved Chun'er's life. Their mother and daughter can't repay the kindness of the eldest lady even if they are cows and horses, and it is natural to accompany her to the capital.

What's more, there is another reason why she can't open her mouth. That is, every time he mentioned going to the capital, Jiang Chun was very happy. Growing up in the village, Chun'er also wants to go to the feet of the Son of Heaven to see.

Jiang Chun lifted the burden and said happily: "Mother, I'm leaving, you have to take care of yourself at home, go to Jiang's house to find the master if you have nothing to do, I will leave with the young lady, the master will definitely be lonely, you two can just be companions." After thinking about it, he advised: "Also, I heard Uncle Qing yesterday say that I would ask the people in the village to help sow the fields that the court rewarded to the young lady, and when the time comes, Aunt Rong will definitely be too busy to cook, so you can go and help when you are free." The pigsty behind our house was crushed and collapsed in winter, I told Zhao Liang that he would go to the mountain to cut down two trees in two days and come back to repair the pigsty for us, you remember to urge him. He is a procrastinating person, and if he doesn't rush him, he doesn't know that he will fix it for us in the Year of the Monkey. Thinking about it, I didn't feel at ease: "Forget it, I'll talk to Xingni later, and let her remember it." Also, in winter, the female dog that Brother Shunzi picked up in the mountains is going to give cubs, Brother Shunzi said that the dog is a wolf dog, and it is still very fierce, when you come back with a little cub, teach it well, and you may give a door or something at night. I'm not at home, I'm alone, I'm not at ease. ”

Originally, Jiang Chun's mother was very reluctant to let her go, she chattered like this, and her mother was even more reluctant, but she felt warm-hearted, the child was leaving, and she would check the things up and down the family and let people take care of her. The last sentence is even more intimate and heartwarming.

"You take care of yourself, take care of the young lady, I will take care of myself at home. Miss will go to the capital to see, and she will come back in a few months, if I come back when the time comes, I will see that Miss has lost weight, but I will settle accounts with you. Jiang Chun's mother said.

Jiang Chun wrinkled his nose: "Mother, you are eccentric, you don't care for me." ”

"Miss is obedient, well-behaved and sensible, of course I like such a little girl. Where is it like you, frizzy all day long, not at all girl's house, I really worry if I am wrong with you. ”

The mother and daughter said this and came to the Jiang family, and Jiang Quinoa had just said goodbye to her family and told her all the things at home, and Jiang Quinoa picked up the burden on the table.

"Have you brought everything with you?" Jiang Chun took the burden and was about to open it for inspection, but Jiang Quinoa stopped it, and they were about to stuff something into it again.

At that time, the dart bureau was still thinking that it was difficult to go to the capital in winter, and it was a little girl, so I was very unhappy, but it was difficult to refuse because of the loss of face. Later, Jiang Quinoa was injured, and the day of travel was stranded, and the people in the dart bureau were very happy to hear it, and they didn't have to go out in the cold.

When the court's reward came down, and Jiang Quinoa's name was corrected outside, the dart bureau knew that the person they wanted to escort was Miss Jiang from Jiangli Village, who donated food in the most difficult time, and also organized rich families to donate money and food, I don't know how many lives were saved.

The dart head of the dart board is living a life of licking blood on the knife edge, and he knows that people are weak, and he admires such a benevolent and righteous person. Knowing that Jiang Quinoa was going to the capital, they came over by themselves and said that they would escort Jiang Quinoa to the capital. And there is no need to pay for it. Jiang Quinoa didn't want to take advantage of this, so she made an appointment that if there were darts in the dart bureau to go to the capital, she would just go with her. But the cost still has to be paid. The people of the dart bureau also happily decided like this, this time the dart bureau was going to escort a batch of goods to the capital, and they made an appointment to pick up Jiang Quinoa.

The carriage of the dart bureau arrived at the door of Jiang's house early in the morning, and the coachman who arranged it was also an honest and loyal person who drove safely.

Coming out of the gate and slowly walking to the carriage step by step, Jiang Quinoa couldn't help but look back. There were quite a few people standing at the door.

Uncle Qing, Aunt Rong, Jiang Tiezhu, this is her family.

Sister Lotus, Wang Li, Jiang Chun, her mother, Xingni, Zhao Liang, patriarch, village chief, etc., these are her relatives. Today she is going to part with them for a while.

"Wait for me. I'll be back soon. Jiang Quinoa whispered, turned around sharply, and climbed into the carriage in three or two clicks, tears blurring his vision.

Outside, Jiang Chun also followed into the carriage. He turned around on the wheel and shouted, "Mother." I'm leaving. If you want anything, ask my cousin to write to me, and he has the address in the capital. Write to me when you want anything you want, and I'll bring it back to you when I come back from the capital. ”

"Don't miss me too much." Jiang Chun laughed twice, lifted the curtain and sat in.

As soon as the carriage walked up, Jiang Chun also comforted Jiang Quinoa, who was crying, she usually quarreled and would not be taken advantage of, but she was really not good at this comfort, and she just didn't cry over and over. What is there to cry about.

Originally, Jiang Quinoa was very reluctant, and was comforted like this for a while. But I stopped crying. What are you crying about, it's not that you won't come back. She's only been away for a few months. It's also a relief to think about it.

The carriage ran all the way to the direction of the county seat, but did not enter the city, and went directly to the ten-mile pavilion outside the city gate to meet with the people and horses escorting the goods by the dart bureau.

"This carriage is really fast." Jiang Chun looked at the carriage curiously, lifted the curtain and watched the trees on the side of the road retreat quickly, sighing with emotion.

Jiang Quinoa also leaned over to look out, the wind in early spring was still a little cold on her face, especially when she had just cried, and the wind was cool.

There is already a little green on the branches of the trees on the side of the road, and in the fields in the distance, the crops are green, and the heavy snow last winter is heavy, and it is said that the snow is a good year, and this year the snow has melted, and the crops are indeed gratifying. However, in view of the heavy snow that fell in the winter of the previous year, everyone's hearts were hung after the beginning of spring, and they were worried that there would be no rain this spring, and the villagers would often carry hoes around the fields.

Later, it rained twice in a row, and everyone's hanging hearts were relieved. After two days, I will be able to get down in the field, so I have to go to the ground to hoe the grass.

The ten-mile pavilion was a farewell place, and there was a convoy parked there, followed by two or three people dressed in the same clothes. Jiang Quinoa recognized that the people in the dart bureau were wearing clothes like that.

"Old Chen, but the eldest lady of the Jiang family is here." Someone saw the carriage coming and asked loudly.

The coachman's surname is Chen, he is an old man in the dart bureau, he was strong when he was young, and he still has a little kung fu under his hands, so he followed the dart and made a hard-earned money. Later, when he was old and his energy was low, he retired from the front and raised horses in the dart bureau to catch a car. But he is old, and many of the younger generation of dart masters in the dart game are also taken out by him to escort the darts and darts, and he is also half a master, and everyone usually respects him very much, and he is easily not allowed to go out. This time, it was also because the goods they escorted were urgent, and they had to hurry on the road, for fear that Miss Jiang, who had never been out, would suffer too much, so he asked him to help catch the car.

The coachman Lao Chen Tou answered, his subordinates gently pulled the reins, and soon the carriage stopped smoothly, and Jiang Quinoa who was sitting in the carriage leaned forward gently, if it wasn't for listening intently to the movement outside, I am afraid that I would not know that the speeding carriage suddenly listened.

"This master's driving skills are really good, when Ming'er goes back and asks Brother Zhuzi to worship him as a teacher, it also saves us every time we take the ox cart driven by Brother Zhuzi, we are worried that we will be thrown down." Jiang Chun leaned into Jiang Quino's ear and whispered.

Jiang Quinoa made a shushing motion, and sure enough, the two of them talked outside, and they greeted each other with Shunzi, so they heard Shunzi at the door of the carriage and asked, "Miss, do you think you should rest for a while or leave now?" ”

The people in the dart bureau have been waiting here for a long time, and it can be seen that they are in a hurry, she is already late, how can she rest and delay: "If there is nothing to do, let's leave as soon as possible, let's leave early, and it is better to start early in the evening." ”

Shunzi got the order to pass the word to the people of the dart board, and soon there was a shouting in front, and Lao Chen Tou said outside, "Miss is seated, we are about to leave", and the carriage moved as soon as the voice fell.

In the end, Jiang Chun is usually very arrogant, but he is quite measured at this time, so he didn't dare to lie on the car window and look out, quietly opened a crack in the curtain, and lay there to look out.

"The convoy is so long, I don't know what to transport, one person in front of each carriage leads the horse, there is a person in the middle to escort the car, and there is another person behind to help, but the guard is very tight."

"The man seemed to be the head of the dart board, and I saw him riding his horse back and forth around the convoy. Ah, there's a scar on his face, I'll see, where the scar comes from, oops, it's so annoying, gave me a back, I can't see it. Jiang Chun said while watching, sharing everything she saw with Jiang Quinoa, and she couldn't see how long the scar on the person's face was, and she was very disappointed.

"The scar on Scar's face, it's from the corner of the left eye across the bridge of the nose to the right side of the chin." Outside, there was the voice of the coachman, Lao Chen.

The road is lonely, and Lao Chen Tou also likes to tell people stories about the past, especially the two little girls sitting in the car, who are moving and quiet, with different temperaments, but they are very polite, and they are not those little girls who twist and pinch, which are very pleasing.

"That time, the dart was originally to escort a rich man back to his hometown, who would know that the rich man provoked a vendetta, an ordinary dart was suddenly very dangerous, when Scar had only been walking for more than a year, he had never encountered such a situation, he was frightened. At that time, the dart bureau only sent seven or eight people, but there were more than 30 people on the other side, and the number of people on both sides was very different, plus these seven or eight people who came except for Scar and the other two subordinates who had a little real kung fu, and the other few were ordinary young people. Seeing that it was too late to escape, Scar gritted his teeth and went up. ”

Jiang Quinoa listened to the story with relish, and couldn't help but pull up the curtain, holding her chin and listening to the story told by the old Chen Tou on the wheel.

"You have to take care of the people on your side, but you also have to make sure that the rich don't have accidents, otherwise this dart will be considered a failure. For a dart master, a failed dart can be a stain on his life. Scar was still young at the time, how could he allow such a stain to exist. He took his big knife and stood in front of the men in the dart game, facing the bandits head-on. He only knew how to swing and kill, only knew how to cut people, and then he was red-eyed, and almost caused a catastrophe. He was a husband, one person fought more than a dozen bandits, waiting for the bandits to kill and flee, his whole body was already covered with scars, he held the knife and stared at the back of the bandits fleeing, until their figures were invisible, he fell. ”

"Scar was brought back and almost couldn't be saved from blood loss. Fortunately, he was blessed with a great life, and he picked up a life, and when he was better, we found that there was such a big wound on his face, and he was not treated in time at that time, and finally left such an obvious scar. Lao Chen said: "It's strange to say, since then, although Scar doesn't smile, the knife technique is better, not to mention one against a hundred, with one against ten is still not a problem." ”

Injured like that, he can still stand up straight and scare the enemy away, such a person...... Jiang Quinoa raised her eyes and suddenly saw a pair of deep eyes, shooting cold like a sharp sword, she seemed to be in a cold pool, and suddenly pulled down the curtain to block this gaze. (To be continued......)

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