After more than a month of travel, the Shen family and Hui Niang finally left the border of Jiangxi and set foot in the north of the river.

The hard work all the way made Hui Niang feel very tired, she thought she was a person who could withstand the ordeal, but she didn't know that after a few years of hard work, her body was a little unable to hold on, and she couldn't even stay up too late at night, even if the road was in the carriage, the bumps made her dizzy.

However, Hui Niang did not complain, because she didn't want to be looked down upon by the Zhou family.

On the other hand, Zhou's people didn't come out to flee at all, but traveled to the mountains and rivers, as long as they stayed along the way, they could hear Zhou's voice scolding his son and daughter with his throat, and Hui Niang couldn't help but feel distressed for Shen Xi's younger brothers and sisters.

This doesn't look like a mother is raising, but like a stepmother taking care of a child.

"Mother, I want to play with my little brother and sister." Lu Xi'er was in good spirits along the way, because she was about to meet her brother Shenxi and sister Dai'er, and she didn't need to go back to Tingzhou to live in the capital for a long time in the future, so she could play with the three of them happily as before......

Silly girl, don't you know that your brother Shen Xi is already married!?

Even if he is not married, he is now a senior official of the imperial court, and he is so busy with business on weekdays, how can he have time to play with you?

This time to the capital, Jiangxi is mainly to take the official road, from Ganzhou to Ji'an, Nanchang, from Jiujiang to cross the river. To the Jiangbei boundary, still by land, from Dingyuan, the capital of Fengyang, Kaifeng, Handan, Zhending to Beijing, the reason for this is that there are too many carriages in the team, and they can't rent so many boats and boats for a while, and the other is to take the Grand Canal, the goal is obvious, once they are targeted by the people of the Fujian political envoy and the Yamen, and ask Nanjing to cooperate in handling the case, they are likely not to be able to get to the capital.

Hui Niang has endured hardships along the way, but she has no complaints, she chose to go north, no matter how good or bad this road is, she can't complain about others, and she has made up her mind, if the affairs of the Chamber of Commerce may really affect Shen Xi's career, she would rather die than affect Shen Xi.

After a serious illness, Hui Niang always wanted to think more about herself, but when it came to Shen Xi, she would rather pay more, because she felt in her heart that she had today and the Chamber of Commerce had today, which was completely due to Shen Xi.

You can't be ungrateful!

"Take a look, there's a town ahead, Ma Jiu, speed up a little, let's not leave the town today, I want to go into the city to buy something......"

Along the way, as long as Zhou passed through the town, she would inevitably have to stop, usually after arriving at the inn, her butt was not hot, she took Xiaoyu and a few brothers from the chariot and horse gang out to "buy goods".

Hui Niang can only use "purchase" to describe Zhou's shopping.

There are local specialties in every place, most of which are related to food, which is delicious but will spoil if you can't get to the capital. Every time Zhou's is not old or young, and people have no appetite at all when the journey is bumpy, and even if they have a good appetite, Zhou's will not eat, and they will not let everyone eat, not to mention keeping it for her eldest son.

Emotional money is blown by the wind, and your son helped you earn so much money, just to spoil it for you on the road, right?

In the past, Hui Niang felt that this sister was saving, the two of them did business together, discussed with each other, were diligent and thrifty, and soon made the industry bigger and stronger, and now I know that this sister will also spend money lavishly, and she used to be diligent and thrifty because she did not dare to publicize it under the control of the old lady, of course, it is also possible that she has never mastered so much silver in her hands, and now she is a nouveau riche mentality.

Zhou's idea is very simple: "I bring so much silver, even if the food and clothing are the best, it is enough for me to spend a lifetime, so what are you doing mean?" If you have money, you must spend it! ”

Hui Niang couldn't see it in the end, and hurriedly reminded Zhou: "Sister, let's save some, we have to start over again when we get to the capital, and it will cost a lot of money...... Besides, when you go to a place where you are not familiar with life, you must have more silver to carry yourself. ”

Zhou said proudly: "Then you should be worried about your sister...... I thought about it, I will no longer do business in the future, find a place close to Hanwaer's house, buy a yard to live in, and don't disturb his life, if there is anything at home in the future, I will go over to help, if there is a child, I will bring him. ”

Hui Niang frowned: "Sister, Lord Shen has Yun'er and Dai'er to take care of, as well as maids, housekeepers, and slaves, what happened to you in the past?" ”

Zhou scolded: "He was born to me, what's wrong with me taking a child for him?" In the past, my child wanted his grandmother to take it, but his grandmother didn't even look at me, and he should be secretly happy if I was willing to help. Those housekeepers, maids or something, where I have the heart, I may not be able to train his children to be talented, lift people or something......"

Hui Niang really wanted to wake up this invincible sister when she heard it, just your virtue, and you also want to teach Xiucai to raise people, don't lead other people's children astray.

It is said that dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes, look at your youngest son, and his father have a virtue, but your daughter is carved out of the same mold as you, too much jumping. How do you look at it, Lord Shen is also a creation given to you by God, you don't know how to cherish it, the children brought out by learned people can become princes and generals, you help bring it, and the result is that the dragon and phoenix who should have spread their wings and fly high forced you to teach you to be a mouse to make holes!

After Hui Niang went back, she thought indignantly, why don't I have a son like Xiaolang? If it were me, I would definitely not be so stubborn with this sister...... When I went to the capital, it was good to inform my son, it was better to live my own life, do business and make money to support my family, and let my son have leisure to go over and have a look.

It's good now, it's not about fleeing to the capital at all, it's ******** to disturb your son's peaceful life and affect his future.

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Hui Niang was so angry that she forgot to say what she had thought of reminding Zhou before...... She wanted to tell Zhou that the biggest taboo on this long journey is to show off money.

You have spent money lavishly along the way, didn't you attract the attention of thieves?

Although she forgot to say it, Hui Niang breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, and she didn't bother to remind Zhou when she remembered it later......

When a woman loses her temper, she is simply unreasonable when she is selfish, even if she is virtuous like Hui Niang, there are occasional times when she loses her mind.

Of course, what Hui Niang thinks is that now that the river has been crossed, the people who are far away from the Yamen of Fujian's political envoys, plus in Jiangxi and Nanzhili, seeing that the local wind and rain are smooth, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, there is no tragic situation of the prevalence of insect plague in Fujian, and intuitively thinks that the Central Plains is also very peaceful.

But she didn't know that the further north she went, the greater the danger, and the more bandits and thieves there were.

Thieves also want to eat, have their own business models, robbing in poor mountains and bad waters, it will become the same as Zhu Shan's father Zhu Qi, even if they do the business of killing heads, a group of people can still only eat bran vegetables, and live a life without clothes and food. Only in the Central Plains, there are frequent commercial exchanges, and there are fat sheep passing by at any time, and the oil and water are sufficient when the bandits.

Moreover, even if the Central Plains of the Ming Dynasty is rich, it is also due to the frequent occurrence of plagues and natural disasters, and many areas are deserted from time to time.

From last autumn to this summer, there was a severe drought in the Central Plains, and the crops were almost wiped out, and it stands to reason that after the government sent people to provide disaster relief, the situation would ease down a lot, but this was not the case, and this had to start with the disaster relief from Gaoming City to Beijing, Henan, Shandong, and other places at the beginning of the year.

Although Gaoming City was affirmed by Emperor Hongzhi in dealing with the disaster, the method he adopted was very extreme, that is, to disperse the victims and settle them separately.

In fact, it cannot be regarded as resettlement, it is to drive people to a certain area and leave them to fend for themselves.

On the surface, the number of displaced people going to the capital was greatly reduced, and the victims were scattered and could not make trouble, and at the same time saved money and food for the imperial court.

Look, I didn't use people wrong at the beginning, this is a capable person, even if he is greedy for some money, he will be handed over to the public, and I will continue to use him regardless of my previous suspicions.

After the end of the drought control, the local tranquility was generally restored, but the problem also came, the bandits in the Central Plains increased suddenly, and those who had no way to live were unable to rise up, but they could occupy the mountain as the king, and there were already bandit nests in the locality, these bandits were regarded as "professional bandits", taking advantage of the disaster to recruit troops, and each cottage was currently strong and strong.

The yamen and guards of the prefecture and county, for the sake of their own food, adopted an attitude of ignoring the bandits...... It's always been like this in the local area, and before things get bigger, they want us to take practical actions to solve the problem, but there is no door.

As a result, as soon as the group arrived at the ground of Guide Mansion in Henan, they were targeted by a group of bandits.

But it was only an eye, because there were quite a lot of followers in this line, especially Zhu Qi, who had been a bandit and had studied the robbery business, was extremely cautious, so that many small-scale bandits could only sigh.

Be careful along the way, you have avoided several groups of bandits, but there are always some big bandits who can't dodge, especially this line is still so public, the Zhou family spends money lavishly outside, and it is difficult not to attract attention.

On the fourth day of the winter month, it is already very cold, and the days become very short. I wanted to stop setting off after noon, because I basically got up at midnight every day, and before the sun set in the afternoon, I had to find a place to stay, which was a good way to avoid the bandits.

The robbers, accustomed to operating from dusk to the first half of the night, did not say that they ran to plunder early in the morning without sleeping.

Usually the most dangerous period is around the turn of Shen You.

At noon that day, she happened to pass through a town, but Zhou was very anxious to see her son, and heard that there was another town less than twenty miles ahead, and there was an official post in the town, so she proposed to continue the road, so that she could reach it before dark.

Hui Niang also relaxed her vigilance, and saw that the official road was flat and there were no mountains around, so she wanted to hurry more, so she agreed.

As a result, a group of seventy or eighty bandits suddenly rushed out of the grass on both sides of the twenty miles of unconcealed and wide official road.

When Hui Niang reacted, the car had already been surrounded.

"White movement! White move! Poke you in a few more holes! ”

The words of the Central Plains are too different from the Hakka dialect of Fujian, the language on both sides is not incomprehensible, and there are many bandits pouring out, and the car is very messy at the beginning of the siege.

These bandits are not like ordinary grass bandits, they all have weapons, and their swords, guns, swords, and halberds are extremely messy, but they are all bright blades.

Although Hui Niang's line was mixed with a large number of chariot and horse gangs who were accustomed to fighting and killing, in order to pass the checkpoints and meet the inspection along the way, the convoy only brought some self-defense sticks at most, so they were at a great disadvantage in terms of weapons and numbers.

"This ...... What's going on? Oh, you dare to rob us, my son is an official of the imperial court! ”

Hui Niang jumped down from the carriage, and heard Zhou's screaming from afar, and her attitude was extremely arrogant...... My son is an official, you robbed us, and you don't want to live?

It's a pity that no one can understand her words, the western Fujian dialect has reached the Central Plains, and it is not much easier to understand than the language of Java.

However, Zhu Qi has experience, and the official words are very smooth, so he quickly reported his identity as a family member of the official province.

As a result, those bandits didn't care at all, sneered at the arrogant Zhou, and shouted: "The robber is the family of your group of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, this aunt we have stared at her all the way, scolding people unscrupulously, spending money everywhere to show off, she is simply a wicked woman who is not kind to the rich, we will never let it go." ”

"Brothers, rob the money, and if there is resistance, kill it, and the women are not allowed to touch it. As for this wicked woman, you can take it back and let it be disposed of! ”

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