The sky was dark and gloomy, a few stars were shadowed, and it was not very real, and the flowers and trees were dyed with a thin layer of clear frost, and when they rubbed it, they melted into a damp cold on their clothes.

Qingsong turned his back and yawned secretly, the young man of fifteen or sixteen was when he was smoking a strip to grow taller, and he was thirsty and slept all day long. He rubbed his eyes, looked at the sky lazily, and always felt that the stars were as thin as sesame seeds, and the sky was like baked cakes.

What a big pie. Qing Song thought and couldn't help but swallow his saliva secretly.

"What do you think, stupid."

Someone "snapped" and patted him on the shoulder, and the young man turned back in a panic, thinking that he was caught for being distracted and was going to be scolded by the manager, only to find that he was an acquaintance.

"Double Happiness Ancestor, you're going to scare me to death." Qingsong smoothed his chest, and couldn't help but complain to the girl, "But there is no next time, otherwise, otherwise I will sue your mother." ”

Qingsong and Shuangxi are both born in a family, and the two families live close to each other, so they can be regarded as growing up together.

"Why did you come here early in the morning, and the housekeeper and mother-in-law were going to scold when they saw it." Qing Song couldn't help but remind.

Although the rules of the Du family's house are not as good as those of the official eunuch's house, the family rules are clear, and the housekeeper is a powerful character, and she governs the people obediently.

"Watch out for your step, there's frost slipping." Qing Song's personality is shy and careful, "I got up early today, and the outer courtyard hasn't had time to clean yet, isn't it still waiting for the coachman to feed the horses." ”

Today is the day of the long journey, and the servants get up early in the morning to take care of it, not only to clean the house according to the custom, but also to prepare for the eldest lady's trip.

"Okay, okay, I saved it, I almost forgot what I was going to do when you messed it up like this." Shuangxi pushed his head up, "Well, this is specially prepared for me, you have to take it along the way." ”

Saying that, the girl brought over a four-layer food box, which was made of paulownia wood, and painted with insects, fish, flowers and birds, which was also quite exquisite.

"You also prepared this for me, thank you, sister." Qing Song was a little overjoyed, and hurriedly stretched out the hand in his arms, and hurriedly picked it up, but he didn't expect to just grab the hand, and he almost fell out, "Ouch sister, what is this, so old and heavy." ”

"For Miss on the road, the first layer is preserved fruit snacks, the second layer is fresh melons and fruits, and there is a place to buy them on the road, but I can't prepare to go to the boundary where there is no store in front of the village, you have money and nowhere to play, how can you be hungry and thirsty Miss?"

Shuangxi earnestly instructed, the teenage girl, chattering like an old woman: "There is also a bag of tea here, you remember, you have to use this early spring snow water to blister, and use firewood to boil the water, but you also have to remind the young lady, don't burn the young lady......"

Qingsong was dazzled by her arrangement: "It's not sister, how did this personal waiter become my business?" Isn't it your job? ”

It's good that he didn't say this, but when he said Shuangxi, he pouted his mouth high: "Where do I know, I want to follow, but Miss said that business doesn't wait for anyone, there are too many people, the carriage travels slowly, and if you miss the list, you are afraid that you will lose your trust and make the reputation of the cloth shop not beautiful." ”

"Hey, I said," Qingsong nodded, "No wonder this trip to Tongzhou, Miss didn't bring many people, and there were only two carriages, one of which was still loaded." I just thought that in the past, when my lord was alive, it was not like this when I went out to talk about business. ”

Shuangxi stopped Qingsong's words: "Don't mention this again, you are so good to take care of Miss." You have to be careful about food, clothing, housing and transportation, be smart, and know how to look at your eyes. ”

Qingsong nodded yes, and Shuangxi left satisfied.

This time the outing was indeed sudden, and there was no preparation in advance, and the housekeeper only informed everyone last night, and the obvious eyes used were that the other party was urging urgently, and the dyeing room could not be delayed more. There are not many people with them, one is to equip them lightly and facilitate the journey; Second, the dyeing room is busy and can't spare any manpower. Especially when Du Ruonan, the owner of the workshop, goes out in person, the dyeing room needs people to stay behind.

In Qingsong's ears, these reasons are also sufficient. What's more, if they are subordinates, what the lord wants them to do, they just follow suit, where can they ask for such reasons?

But he was really in a hurry, Qingsong yawned again, his eyelids drooped, and he was not very reluctant: his mother gave Su Gongzi a hand in the dyeing room last night, and he didn't have time to deliver the words. I don't know the news that the eldest lady is going to travel far away in the dyeing room.

"Miss is going to the mountains and the road is long, you must be very careful."

In the study, Ding Bo and the butler are separated on two sides. Ding Bo looked concerned and repeatedly told Du Ruonan, while the housekeeper was still counting the goods and looking at the list.

Du Ruonan stood behind the desk and freshened up early. Because she was going to travel far away, she deliberately made a men's appearance, her long black hair was combed into a bun, fixed with only a hairpin, her beautiful little face was not powdered, and her eyes were black and white.

Previously, she had already finished assigning the dye house, but now after listening to Ding Bo's words, the girl chuckled to reassure: "It's okay, there are not many people with me this time, but all of them are veterans, and the path they choose is mainly the official road, I will pay more attention to myself." ”

"Since I have taken on this burden, it is necessary to go out for negotiations. What's more, Qian Wanguan is a person who is particular about everything, and if he wants to do business with him, he doesn't come to visit him in person to show sincerity, I'm afraid it will be difficult to take his order. ”

Although Du Ruonan's voice was soft, there was bound to be confidence in his tone, and Ding Bo was relieved to hear it, and the old man nodded frequently, looking excited: "That's right, Miss is like a mirror in her heart, and she doesn't need me to talk too much about everything." The old slave is here to wish the young lady success and victory. ”

Du Ruonan also chuckled, her eyes calm and calm.

The east is white, the clouds are a little golden, and the sun is still hidden behind the clouds, like a shy and timid girl. Smoke rose from several houses at the base of the city wall, and a few roosters crowed accompanied by dogs.

Beneath the city walls, soldiers with sharp weapons stood on either side of the gate, and with the sound of trumpets, they pushed the heavy wooden doors open in unison.

The hawkers waiting outside the city swarmed in, and the carriage Du Ruonan was riding in waited quietly on the side, waiting for the soldier to finish checking their group, and then slowly left the city.

However, after only a few miles out of the city and running horses, Du Ruonan stopped the coachman: "Let's not take this road, change to another one." ”

"There are too many pedestrians on this road, especially at this time, and there are court servants, once you bump into them, you have to avoid them on the side of the road for an hour, we can't wait." Du Ruonan explained a little, and the coachman listened to it, so he turned the horse's head as he said.

"Miss, the road we are going to take has few pedestrians, but the road is also extremely bumpy, you have to sit down."

Du Ruonan responded, and then sat down in the carriage. She had been prepared for the change, and the plan was simple: not only was the path more convenient, but there were fewer pedestrians and fewer pedestrians.

Although she took the initiative to expand her business territory on this trip, to put it bluntly, she also wanted to grab business with other families. That Qian Wanguan is a rich man, and the business is very large, and many people are staring at this piece of fat, and now it is not easy for her to go to a fork in the crosshairs as a person from another county.

She deliberately concealed her specific whereabouts, and only a few stewards in the dye room knew the purpose of her trip, hoping to hide it for a day.

Not to mention anything else, if she knew about the private contact with Qian Wanguan, then in Tongzhou, who originally supplied Qian Wanguan, if she took the opportunity to lower the price and robbed the wood dyeing cloth factory, then Du Ruonan would not be able to talk about it.

Du Ruonan repeatedly polished and considered her plan in her heart, and she was also thinking about what kind of person Qian Wanguan would be, she thought for a while, and was turned upside down, so she had to firmly hold the futon under her and began to close her eyes and recuperate.

Although Tongzhou is next door to Ruan County, it takes a day or two to speed up the horse, and the road is an unrepaired dirt road, potholes are uneven, people in the car are like being on horseback, Rao is double happiness in the carriage laid three or four layers of cushions, resting in it does not feel very comfortable.

Du Ruonan endured her dizziness and smiled bitterly in her heart, running like this, and when she arrived in Tongzhou, she estimated that she would fall apart, especially her waist, and she was so tired that it hurt. Stay until tomorrow, I don't know if my body will be bruised.

The girl has a fair complexion, bullying the frost and snow, and the slightest push on weekdays can leave traces: it is obviously a hard life, but she gave birth to the delicate body of a rich lady. Thinking of this, Du Ruonan felt a little disgusted with himself.

She is not Lin Minlai, and she is not qualified to pamper herself as Lin Minlai. The road that belongs to her is probably as bumpy and rugged as the one she is taking, and it is inaccessible.

The girl smiled, but she also grabbed her thoughts in time, refusing to let herself slide into the abyss of self-pity.

Probably because of the narrowness of the road, this section was particularly bumpy, Du Ruonan couldn't help but straighten up and lift the small curtain on the window. I saw that there were many branches poking out of the dense forest on both sides, and the weeds on the roadside were also vigorous, and they could not pass the waist of people.

There was silence all around, and there was silence in the dense forest, and the birds were not heard, which was a little creepy and quiet. Qing Song sat beside the coachman, and the young man stared directly at the weeds on both sides, lest a fierce beast come out of it, he pressed hard to the coachman's side, and the coachman also wanted to laugh.

"Manly man, you are so afraid, how can you support the portal in the future?" The coachman laughed, "Could it be that you are worried that a big worm will jump out of this?" ”

As he was talking, the road in front of him suddenly turned around and turned to the side, and the one with bad eyes was afraid that he would suspect that the road was introduced into the weeds. The coachman whistled a few times, shook his whip, and drove the white horse along the road to turn around.

"Hey, slow down, uncle, slow down." Can't say why, Qing Song was a little frightened in his heart, and he grabbed the coachman's arm with wide eyes, "Uncle, it seems to be ...... ahead"

With his muttering, a shadow did rush out from the front of the road, coming straight for their carriage, but the galloping horse was so fast that the green pine didn't have time to see what it was, and felt that the wheels seemed to be involved in something, and made a muffled rolling sound.

"Isn't that then?" Qing Song asked in a trembling voice, but turned his head but also saw horror in the coachman's eyes.