Chapter Twenty-Three: Going North to Jingzhou
Note: Friends, give some motivation and give a collection~ The group marched forward along the official road, and the road had long been unrecognizable, with potholes and uneven heights. Sitting in the car, I felt dizzy, and most people got out of the car and walked.
Yuanhang walked in front of the team and saw that there were many refugees rushing to Luzhou in front of him. Qinghe had been following Yuanhang, and when he saw the refugees, he pulled the corner of Yuanhang's coat and asked, "Why are they going in the direction of Luzhou?" ”
"They don't know what's going on, maybe they think that Luzhou City is bigger and will be safer, and they should all be people from nearby counties." When Yuanhang saw that the crowd was disheveled and wounded, he knew that the nearby counties were also badly damaged.
"Miss Qinghe, our young lady invites you to go for a while." Yingyue ran from behind, and when she saw Yuanhang, she asked for a blessing and said to Qinghe.
"Looking for me?" Qinghe looked at Yuanhang with some surprise, her heart was full of doubts, and she didn't know what the young lady was looking for her.
"Since Wanyue is looking for you, let's go." Yuanhang didn't know either, but he still nodded to Qinghe.
Qinghe followed Yingyue to the side of the graceful car, and saluted the carriage: "Qinghe see the eldest lady." ”
"Come on." There was a gentle voice in the carriage.
Qinghe got into the carriage, opened the curtain and bent in. "Qinghe is here, sit down." Said with a gentle smile, pointing to the cushion in the carriage.
"Thank you, Miss, I wonder what Miss called me?" Although Qinghe has seen Wanyue, after all, Wanyue is a young lady and she is a maid, so it is inevitable that she is a little restrained.
"It's not a big deal, just ask my sister to talk." Wanyu looked at Qinghe carefully. Sure enough, the eyebrows are clear and beautiful, and it is touching without powder.
"Thank you, Miss, for your love, Qinghe is so polite." Qinghe bowed slightly, and got up again to salute.
"Sit down, sit down." Wanyue grabbed Qinghe's body to get up and said, "Sister doesn't have to be polite, I just called my sister to talk to you today." I often hear about the voyage, but I have never had the opportunity to meet you. ”
With that, he turned around and opened the package, taking out a bracelet from it. It was the bracelet that the voyage sent to her.
"I am very happy to see my sister today, and this bracelet will be given to my sister as a memory."
Seeing this, Qinghe hurriedly waved his hand, and said in fear: "The eldest lady can't, the slave maid can be commensurate with the younger sister without abandoning the young lady, which is already a great blessing, how dare you accept the lady's things again." ”
Wanyu smiled gracefully, and without waiting for Qinghe to finish speaking, with a little force, he took her hand and brought the bracelet up.
"This bracelet was originally yours, so you're welcome. You see, I have one too. After Wan Yu finished speaking, he raised his left hand and shook it.
"Originally mine? This ......" Qinghe was puzzled, and looked up at Wanyue with doubts.
"Okay, let's not talk about that. Qinghe, in the future, we will be called sisters, okay? Don't call me Miss, just call me Sister. After Wanyu finished speaking, she smiled and patted Qinghe's hand.
"So, thank you sister." Qinghe likes this bracelet very much, and keeps fiddling with it in his hand.
"Sister, you like to sail, don't you?" Wanyu suddenly asked.
"Sister, I ......" Qinghe was startled, not knowing how to answer, could it be that the eldest lady was testing herself?
"I know he likes you, it's a long way, you are by his side, take good care of him for me." Wanyue seems to be hinting at Qinghe that she is the lady of the main house who sails away.
"Yes, please rest assured, sister." Qinghe is so smart that she already knows the purpose of Wanyu's call.
The two chatted for a while and then said goodbye, and the voyage beckoned to Qinghe.
"What is Wanyue looking for you?"
"Nothing, just talking." Qinghe didn't want Yuanhang to know what Wanyue said to her, so she passed by lightly.
"No, what the hell is going on?" How could Yuanhang believe it, looking directly at Qinghe and asking.
"The eldest lady gave me a bracelet and said that she wanted to be worthy of my sister." Qinghe groaned slightly, and stretched out his left hand to the voyage.
Seeing the bracelet with the green lotus, Yuanhang asked again: "Didn't she say anything more when she gave you the bracelet?" ”
"The eldest lady said that this bracelet was originally mine, but I don't know why I said that." Qinghe replied truthfully.
Wanyo is really smart. It turned out that he saw that one of the bracelets was given to Qinghe, but he deliberately didn't know, and now he borrowed his own hand to return to the original owner, and made Qinghe appreciate himself.
"Qinghe, Wanyue will give you a bracelet, that is, I really treat you as a sister, and I will walk around with Wanyue more if I have nothing to do in the future." Since Wanyue didn't say anything about breaking the bracelet, Yuanhang naturally won't either.
"Yuanhang, I'm just a maid. How can you forget who you are? Qinghe lowered her head, she had never felt inferior, but today compared to Wanyue, she was inferior in front of the voyage.
Yuanhang felt the change in Qinghe, reached out and grabbed her little hand and shook it hard.
"Qinghe, you are just my own maid. To others, you will always be yourself. Always believe in yourself. Yuanhang looked at Qinghe with encouraging eyes, Qinghe raised his head and looked at Yuanhang, and nodded vigorously.
Yuanhang smiled and asked, "Qinghe, if I want to marry you and Wanyue, will you be a wife or a concubine?" ”
"I'm going to be a wife." Qinghe plucked up the courage to reply.
"Haha, don't be shy, you're in a hurry to marry me." Yuanhang ran away with a smile, and Qinghe realized that he was being teased again, and stomped his foot angrily and chased after him.
It was not until it was nearly dusk that I came to a small village called Liu Zhuang. This is the closest village to Luzhou, which was originally only half a day's journey, but now it is a full day's walk.
"Butler, there is Liu Zhuang in front, do you think we are resting here tonight?" A nurse came over and asked about the voyage.
When I sailed to see Liuzhuang, most of the houses had collapsed, and there was no one in the village at a glance.
"Don't enter the village, we're just looking for an open area to rest in the carriage these days." Yuanhang was afraid of aftershocks and did not dare to go to the house to rest.
After a few miles of Liuzhuang, Yuanhang chose a flat place far away from the official road, parked the property, food, and the carriage of the female dependents in the middle, and the family and the nursing home were on guard all around.
"In these turbulent times, and in the wilderness, we must pay more attention at night and not be careless." Yuanhang instructed the nursing home.
"Butler, please rest assured, I have already taken shifts, one shift for every five people, until tomorrow morning." That nursing home hugging fist do.
"That's very good." Yuanhang looked around again and walked towards his carriage.
Qinghe had already laid out the quilt in the carriage, and when he saw Yuanhang coming in, he got up and said, "It's been a tired day, let's rest and sail away." ”
"I'm very tired, I'm so tired after only one day of walking, I don't know when I'll be able to get to Jingzhou." Yuanhang unbuttoned his robe and handed it to Qinghe.
"Yuanhang, when we go to Jingzhou, can we continue to open a restaurant?" Qinghe took the cheongsam and asked.
"Yes, we will make our business bigger than Luzhou, otherwise what will I use to marry you." As he spoke, Yuanhang ran away from the topic and turned to amuse Qinghe.
"You, you're still poor after all this." Although Qinghe said it, he was still amused by the voyage.
"Isn't it very good now, at least it didn't bother us anymore." Speaking of Liqiu, Yuanhang suddenly lost his smile, and he felt his heart tremble and stopped talking.
"I don't know what happened to Sister Liqiu, I'm so worried about her." Qinghe heard Yuanhang talk about leaving the autumn, and also frowned and sighed.
"Don't worry, that girl is very clever. Rest, Qinghe, I have to hurry tomorrow. After Yuanhang finished speaking, he turned over, closed his eyes, but his mind was full of Liqiu's figure.
Stop-and-go, Yuanhang and others walked for nearly ten days before they walked out of Luzhou. Although it was slow, but fortunately, there was nothing to do along the way, and when he saw the boundary gate of Jingzhou, Yuanhang finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The state and county of Jingzhou, which is adjacent to Luzhou, were not badly affected, with only a few houses in disrepair collapsing. It can be seen that the earthquake only affected one state in Luzhou.
"Yuanhang, we have arrived in Jingzhou, you see, the road here is much easier." Tang Yuanwai smiled and walked side by side with Yuanhang.
"Yes, we should be able to find an inn to rest today, the lord has been tired these days." A smile also appeared on Yuanhang's face.
"It's just that I don't know how far this is from Jingzhou City, so it's better to find an inn in the county in front of us to rest and inquire."
"What the master said is right, today we will rest early and let everyone sleep well." Yuanhang also wanted to find an inn to sleep comfortably.
A few miles ahead, I saw a small inn, and everyone's eyes lit up, as if they saw home. Yuanhang hurriedly took the two family members into the house first.
"Ouch, I'm sorry, but the shop is full." Before he could speak, a fellow came up and said.
"Full?" Yuanhang looked around the store, but there were not many people. A little angry, he said, "There are clearly rooms in the store, why are you turning me away?" ”
"This ...... Guest officer, to be honest, the small shop has been rented by a guest officer today, so it is no longer entertaining. The man pointed forward and said, "Guest officer, ten miles further north, there is an inn, can you go there and have a look?" ”
"This little brother, we have come all the way from Luzhou, and we are already very tired. You can discuss it and give us two rooms. Yuanhangdui smiled and took out a few copper coins from his sleeve and handed them over.
"Guest officer, don't be embarrassed by the small ones, the small ones can't be the masters." The man hurriedly reached out and blocked the copper coin.
At this time, a middle-aged man at the stairs heard their conversation and walked down, and said to Yuanhang: "Dare to ask if this son is from Luzhou?" ”
Yuanhang hugged his fists and saluted back: "Yes, I came from Luzhou, I don't know how ...... brother Tai"
"In that case, my lord invites you into the room for a while." The man took a step back and asked for a long voyage first.
"Your lord? It seems that we have never been ...... in life" Before Yuanhang finished speaking, the man interrupted: "Son, don't be suspicious, my lord just asks you to talk about it." ”
Yuanhang thought about it and instructed the family behind him: "You go back first and tell everyone to rest, and I will go back as soon as I go." Then he followed the man up to the second floor.