Chapter 60: Distress on the Road
Old Madam Yun didn't speak, and the room was surprisingly quiet for a while, and it took a long time for her to smile kindly: "This is a good thing, it's up to you and your wife!" ”
No matter how good she is, she can't drag the young couple apart.
Qi Yunshu saw that the old lady had agreed, but there was a sense of loss in her expression, and Mama Qin was even more unhappy.
She didn't want to give up the old lady's powerful trump card, but she really didn't want to wronged herself, and Zhao Jing had already refused......
She had an idea, and Mama Guan Qin asked for a pen and paper and wrote down a medicinal recipe.
"This is the longevity Yiyuan soup that the old lady has been drinking for the past few days!" After Qi Yunshu wrote it, she carefully talked to Mama Qin about the preparation and know-how of making medicinal food in front of Mrs. Yun.
It wasn't until she said goodbye and left, Mama Qin was still stunned, and it took a while to come back to her senses, and the unhappy look on her face had long gone.
Old Madam Yun leaned against the Luohan bed and sighed: "The girl is a good girl, then Zhao Jingzhen is really blessed!" ”
The couple came out of Yunfu, but Qi Yunshu had a worried look on her face.
"Are you really going to take me to Boryeong?" Although she thought so, the silver money she had finally saved was stolen by the Xu family, and the silver money that the couple had earned in the past few days paid off the debts they had incurred for her treatment before, and now it was only eight taels of silver in her pocket, and the money was only enough for Zhao Jing alone.
"Do you want to go?" Zhao Jing was trying to get Yun Niang out of trouble at that time, but when this idea was born, it was like a flood that burst the embankment and could no longer be controlled, he wanted her to go, but he was worried that she would not want to.
"I want to go, but we don't have enough money!"
It turned out that it was because of this, Zhao Jing said again and again that he would find a way to do this, and there were only two days before departure, so she just had to prepare with peace of mind.
Qi Yunshu wanted to ask in detail, but thinking that he was a man anyway, if she asked about everything, it would inevitably make him feel that she was too lenient, so he secretly tried to raise money while waiting for his news.
By the way, she went to Benwei Building on the second day and told Tian about her temporary departure.
Tian was naturally reluctant, holding her hand and instructing and instructing, and also gave her a monthly amount of silver in advance, and asked her if she was still short of silver.
Qi Yunshu was moved for a while, but she knew that even if she was really short of money, she couldn't mention it to Tian casually, and Zhao Jing had already said that she would find a way, so she politely declined Tian's kindness, and wrote three recipes plus two medicinal recipes before leaving in order to make them feel at ease, saying that this was specially made for Mrs. Yun.
After the matter of the restaurant is taken care of, it is left at home.
Zhao Sanniang is more reassuring than anyone else at home!
She is an idle person, since the injury on her hand has healed, she has finished handling everything inside and outside the house, and there is nothing else to explain, only let her be alone at home to watch out for those wicked people in the village!
After the explanation, Qi Yunshu heard a knock on the door.
The man's hands were very heavy, and there was a feeling that she would be knocked on if she didn't open the door again, so she hurriedly ran out and opened the door, but saw Yueniang standing outside the door vividly.
"Sister......" Yueniang gasped, and there were small beads of sweat on her forehead, which showed that she had been in a hurry for a while.
"How did you get here?" Qi Yunshu raised her eyebrows, just in time to see the disgust in Yueniang's eyes when she saw the simple thatched house and narrow courtyard behind her.
"My mother heard that my sister is going to follow my brother-in-law to catch the exam, and I am afraid that you will not be entangled enough on the road, so I will send you the dowry that should have been given to you for you!"
Yueniang said and took out a gray cloth bag, and there were actually two silver tickets in it, one was fifty taels and the other was twenty taels.
Qi Yunshu's eyes lit up, she was short of money.
But after thinking about it, it seemed that the adoptive mother's temperament could not be so kind, so she simply pushed it away: "I can't accept this!" ”
Yueniang asked in surprise: "Why can't you accept it, this should belong to you, I know you know that you are not born to our family, you came to our house when you were a child with this money, I heard my father said that there were originally three hundred taels of silver, so many years ago before and after spending some, there are so many seventy taels left, but my mother said that I saw you marry a sick seedling, I was afraid that you had no support, so I temporarily collected it for you, and now my brother-in-law went to catch the exam, if you are lucky, we will come back in a show and we will also follow the light!" ”
Yueniang said the truth, and every sentence was reasonable, but Qi Yunshu had an indescribable weirdness in her heart, but she couldn't say it, but at this moment, she really didn't have to refuse the silver ticket in Yueniang's hand.
So in the push and push, he accepted the silver ticket with Yueniang's body temperature.
At night, Qi Yunshu told Zhao Jing about this, and he also looked weird after hearing it.
He told Qi Yunshu that he had raised enough money for them to go on the road together.
Qi Yunshu's eyes flashed: "Then Ming'er will find a time to return them!" ”
The two originally planned to wait for dawn to go to Qijia Village to return the money, but when the village sent the ox cart to send the students to the town in advance, they missed the time.
Qi Yunshu couldn't help it, so she had to sew the silver ticket into her close-fitting clothes, thinking that she would return her when she came back, or if there was a necessary one on the way, she could also save the emergency!
When the first rays of sunlight were rising, Zhao Jing said goodbye to Mr. Yun and Mr. Yun of the Academy and took Qi Yunshu on the journey to Boryeong Mansion.
When the carriage drove out of the city gate, Qi Yunshu saw Zhao Jing take out the road guide for the first time.
It was a yellowed piece of paper with body temperature, on which Zhao Jing's place of origin, age, and where he went to do were neatly written with a brush, and the inscription in the lower right corner was stamped with the county government's order.
Don't look at it as just a small piece of paper, if you don't have it in the girder, it's hard to move an inch.
The carriage traveled all the way north, over the Pingchuan, over the low mountains, flowing the stream, and driving north for a whole day.
Stay overnight in the official post set up by the government, the price is fair and safe!
Qi Yunshu took a look around and found that the scholars who lived here were basically the scholars who went to Baoning Mansion to catch the exam, and this batch was also the last batch, basically all of them were people whose family conditions were not very good, and they went to the time in order to be able to rest in the state capital for a few nights and save some money, like Zhao Liangtian and Qi Yancai, who were not short of money, and set off three days earlier.
In order not to attract the attention of others when Qi Yunshu went out, Zhao Sanniang specially changed Zhao Jing's unwearable gray shirt and wore it on herself, pretending to be a scholar, and she was in a hurry along the way, but no one saw it.
It's just that when I set off in the morning, there was a candidate with sharp eyes, and when he saw her thin skin and tender flesh, he took a closer look, and saw the ear piercings in her ears at a glance, and couldn't help but smile at Zhao Jing: "Brother Qian is really elegant, and he goes out with a confidante!" ”
Zhao Jing took the opportunity to introduced: "Brother Zhiping, don't talk nonsense, this is the lady Yun Niang!" ”
Bo Zhiping raised his eyebrows and praised: "Brother Qianzhi is so blessed, my sister-in-law looks like a fairy!" ”
While speaking, Qi Yunshu got into the carriage, and Zhao Jing stayed below to talk for a while with a group of candidates who gradually gathered around.
Qi Yunshu listened to them chatting and knew that they basically knew each other, especially the person named Bo Zhiping, his experience was very similar to Zhao Jing's, and it was very unsmooth to try many times.
Qi Yunshu listened to him talk about some bizarre things, and couldn't help but quietly lift the coarse cloth curtain to look out.
Bo Zhiping, who was not far away, was wearing a gray cloth shirt and a headscarf, and he looked like a gentleman, but a pair of eyes always liked to glance, and at this time he had already discovered that she was peeking and bent his eyes at her.
Qi Yunshu was displeased, and suddenly lowered the curtain and called Zhao Jing.
Soon Zhao Jing got into the carriage, and the body suddenly sank, and Qi Yunshu frowned.
They had hired the carriage for two taels of silver, and they had checked that there were no problems when they set off, but now something was wrong!
Qi Yunshu thought of Zhao Jing's extraordinary experience of rushing for the exam, and specially had an extra heart.
Along the way, he was paying attention to the situation of the carriage from time to time, so that the young coachman who was driving the car outside the door thought that this little lady had taken a fancy to him, and he was so stinky and beautiful while driving the car.
When he arrived at Fenglin Bridge, Qi Yunshu suddenly smelled a strong fragrance.
She sniffed, and the whole smell almost choked her in her nostrils.
She frowned as the body made a "creaking, creaking" cracking sound.
She immediately clenched Zhao Jing's hand and said nervously: "Be careful, the horse seems to be going crazy!" As soon as he had finished speaking, the horse began to gallop.
The two of them were so turned that they almost couldn't sit still and wanted to fly out.
Fortunately, Qi Yunshu reminded them in advance, and the two of them were able to stabilize their figures, but the driver who drove the car was very unlucky, and he screamed and was turned upside down before he got on the bridge.
The stimulated horse, without the driver's control, scurried around like a wild horse.
But in front of it is the Maple Grove Bridge, and the bridge can only accommodate two carriages side by side, and the horses will run rampantly as soon as they are in chaos.
The carriage, which was already in question, had begun to shake violently under the violent collision.
Qi Yunshu rolled up the curtain and looked at the long bridge pier, her heart was cold, the horse went crazy, the coachman was gone, and the body was about to fall apart.
She looked at Zhao Jing, and guilt appeared in his eyes: "I'm sorry lady, I've bothered you!" After all, he still couldn't escape the bad luck of not being able to catch the exam, and even this time it affected his wife.
"It's none of your business, someone is trying to calculate you!" Qi Yunshu quickly made a judgment.
The horse was drugged, the body was man-made, and they chose the place of the accident on the bridge, even if they didn't even give them a chance to jump out of the car.
You must know that there is a surging river under the Fenglin Bridge, although the river surface is not wide, but the flow speed is very fast!
With Zhao Jing's always weak body, he has no chance to learn to swim, and the other party is properly asking for his life!
Qi Yunshu couldn't help but look at Zhao Jinglai, with starry eyebrows and handsome eyes, facial features sharpened and axe-cut, handsome and handsome, and not annoying to look at, how could he recruit such a powerful opponent?
Is there some secret hidden in him?
Qi Yunshu couldn't help but think about it a little more, and Zhao Jing's anxious voice came from her ears: "Lady, the carriage is about to fall apart, I'll help you get down!" ”
"I'm going down, what are you going to do?" Qi Yunshu asked rhetorically.
The carriage was so close to the bridge deck that jumping out of the river with inertia was tantamount to suicide for those who could not swim.
So one of the two people must assist the other in order to barely overcome the action of inertia.
"Lady, go down!" Zhao Jing didn't explain, just grabbed Qi Yunshu and pushed her off the car.
"No, no, don't ......" The speed of the car is getting faster and faster, and the curtain can't block the wind, and the rapid wind pours straight into the mouths of the two, and at the same time, there is a strong suction force that drags people down.
This wind, depending on the degree of mania of the horse, it is no longer possible to save himself.
"Lady......" Zhao Jing was really anxious, her eyes were blood-red, and she held her hand tightly and tried to try.
"It's too late, it's too late!" The speed of the car is too fast, and if you jump down, you will not fall into the river, but you will fall to the ground and be tortured half to death, and maybe the bad people will stand and watch at this time, and when they fall, they will give another fatal blow!
The body made a "click" sound again, indicating that the body was about to fall apart in the speeding Mercedes!
"Jump out of the car!" Qi Yunshu screamed and clenched Zhao Jing's hand with his backhand.
When the two of them got out of the carriage, she seemed to hear Zhao Jing's voice:
"Do you regret it?"
Regret it?
With frantic horses and scattered carriages in front of her, and a rushing roaring river underneath, she thought she should regret it!