Now is a special period, the number of officials from Jiangnan to Bianjing has increased, the post house is not as deserted as usual, the father and brother are busy visiting their colleagues, and their girls' families stay in the house by themselves, and the old lady does not allow them to go out at will, so as not to be rude in front of others.

After dinner, Xiaowei, the maid beside Xie Qinghan, sent a small box of ointment, saying that the second girl specially brought it to wipe the third girl's leg injury in the morning.

The redness and swelling on Qingzhi's legs have disappeared a lot, and looking at the red and red is bluffing, it is actually no big deal, but she still accepts the second sister's intentions, at least the second sister can still remember it.

She reached out and touched her left cheek, how much strength can a girl have, her cheek has long been out of pain, but Xie Qingrui's words remained in her heart.

In Xie Mansion, her biological mother is an existence that is almost never mentioned, Qing Zhi has asked many people since she was a child, but whether it is an old lady or a housewife, or a father, she can avoid it, and never answer her positively, and the housemother is always cold.

Later, when she was older, she stopped asking, she only knew that her biological mother had died in childbirth when she gave birth to her, and she did not even have a name when she died, and the next day, she was carried to the master's mother's house, and the person who gave birth to her was as if it never existed.

The people outside thought that Xie Qingzhi was from the main room.

Qingzhi thought blankly, she was actually the same as A-Niang, she was a superfluous person in that family, but when she suddenly thought of the third brother, she was in a better mood, in Xie Mansion, only the third brother really felt sorry for her.

People who are used to being pampered on weekdays can't stand the trek the most, not only the old lady has rested early, but the rest of the people are even more, even Qingzhi, who has slept all afternoon, began to get sleepy again when it was dark.

It was very boring to rush on the way, Xie Jiangcheng couldn't stay in the carriage all day, and after four or five days, he left the carriage and switched to horseback riding, and sometimes he could go ahead to explore the road first, and bring back some snacks for Qingzhi by the way.

Ten days later, it passed through Shouzhou, which was an important military town, which was still under the jurisdiction of the Southern Tang Dynasty more than 20 years ago, and later returned to the Later Zhou Dynasty, and now belongs to the Song Dynasty. Naturally, now even the entire Jiangnan is the Song Dynasty, and tomorrow after Shouzhou, the journey will be half over.

Entering Shouzhou City and entering the post house, the old lady specially called the juniors to instruct them, saying that Shouzhou is not peaceful now, so they must not go out and stay in the post house.

In the past ten days, the juniors have been exempted from going to the old lady to ask for peace, the old lady is old after all, even if she usually has a hard body, but she can't stand the fatigue of the boat and car for days, and her expression is sad every day.

Even Xie Jiangcheng specially instructed Qingzhi to let her stay in the post house, and it was best not to even go out of the door.

Although Qingzhi didn't know what the situation was in Shouzhou, but the third brother told her like this, she stayed in the room and never went out, but at night she suddenly heard a bustle outside the house, and suddenly the fire was bright, Ah Xin hurriedly ran in, Qingzhi asked what happened, Ah Jing closed the doors and windows tightly, and then said: "The third prince asked the girl to stay in the room and not go out, saying that the post house is safe." ”

"What's going on?"

"It looks like there's a thief."

Thief? Listening to this battle, how can it be as simple as a thief? And this is a post house, and the people who live there are officials from the DPRK and China, what thieves dare to openly confront the officials?