Early in the morning, after Lu Zhutou finished speaking, the crowd plans to go out to work.

Zhang Asan waited at the door, and when he saw Xiao Qi coming out, he immediately stepped forward, "Little Qi girl, we Zhu Shizi are invited." ”

Xiao Qi followed Zhang Asan to Mufu, and when he entered the house, Zhu Yuan was playing chess with Zhu Wu.

Seeing Xiao Qi coming, Zhu Yuan stood up, "Miss Xiao Qi, please take a seat." ”

Zhu Wu frowned, the prince was too polite to this little girl.

Soon, the beautiful little maid brought the soup with red and bright tea.

Zhu Yuan took the tea to his hand, took a sip and said, "Little Seventh Girl, this is the black tea offered by Fujian over there, and the annual output is less than 100 catties. ”

It sounds quite rare, Xiao Qi took it up and drank half of it, she didn't know much about the quality of tea, after drinking it, she felt that the tea tasted very mellow, with a little sweetness.

Zhu Shizi put down his cup, "Little Seventh Girl, you promised to escort me to Huainan, and I plan to leave tomorrow." ”

Xiao Qi: "This is what I promised to the son of the world a long time ago, and I will not break my word, but I want to ask the son of the world for help." “

Zhu Yuan: "But it doesn't hurt to say it. ”

"I won't help those thieves in Tiger Roaring Mountain, but some of the people caught in the cottage are innocent, I hope that the prince will talk to Lord Mu and release the innocent people as soon as possible."

"I'll talk about this with Lord Mu."

Xiao Qi: "I hope this matter can be resolved before we leave for Huainan." ”

After Xiao Qi left, Zhu Yuan sent Zhang Asan to invite the Mu Governor.

Zhu Wu still had a harmless smile on his face, and continued to play chess with Zhu Yuan.

"Shizi, this deputy Liu is really arrogant, after entering the house, he didn't take the initiative to salute the prince, and he didn't say anything, but he still pointed fingers at the prince, it's really hateful. This girl doesn't give you face so much, why are you so polite to her? ”

Zhu Yuan dropped lightly, "It's not because you're too useless, but if you're a little better, I don't have to whisper to a little girl." ”

"The prince doesn't have to be so polite to her, people have weaknesses, we hold her weaknesses in our hands, and see if she is not obedient."

Zhu Yuan: "You first find out the masked man who joined the goatee, and don't act rashly for the time being." ”

After some discussion between Governor Mu and Zhu Shizi, some women and children were really released, and several of them were seriously injured.

Hua Xi'er rented a small courtyard for them near the Wanbao Silver Building, and planned to let Aunt Guan and two of the women go to the Wanbao Silver Building to help cook for the people who built the house.

The four owners have already discussed together, and the newly built building is called Qixi Building.

I've already found someone to look at the yellow calendar, and construction will start tomorrow.

March 28 is a good day, Qixi Building is about to start construction on this day, and Zhu Shizi also set off for Huainan on this day.

Outside the South City Gate, a group of more than a dozen officials bid farewell to Zhu Yuan.

On the other hand, there are hundreds of people who see Xiao Qi off, in addition to the people of the Liu family and the Hua family, there are also Mu Ziqi and the Feng family.

In addition, there are many ordinary people who spontaneously came to see off the Seven Women.

Seeing Liu Dahe wiping his tears, Xiao Qi smiled and comforted: "Dad, don't worry, Huainan is very close, and I will be back soon." ”

Feng Xiaogongzi snatched the donkey rope from the little servant Awang, "Master, I'll go to Huainan with you." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Feng Wanbao and Ngawang grabbed two arms.

Feng Xiaogongzi couldn't break free, so he had to shout loudly: "Master, have a good trip, come back early, don't bring me a gift." ”

Xiao Qi understood, this was to remind her not to forget to bring gifts back, this reminded her of two days ago, when her old lady Niu had a treat, she also said that there was no need to give gifts, and everything turned out to be silent.

After waving goodbye to everyone, they hit the road.

After about an hour, Zhu Yuan stopped the team, jumped out of the carriage, and said to Xiao Qi:

"Little Seventh Girl, it's too hard to ride a horse for a long time, do you want to ride the carriage with me?"

Xiao Qi's expression was faint: "No need, I'll just ride a horse." ”

This time they also brought their goatees, loaded them in prisoner wagons, and walked at the front of the line.

Zhu Yuan rode in a carriage in the center of the line, and the person driving the carriage was Zhu Wu.

In order to facilitate the protection of Zhu Yuan, Xiao Qi followed Zhu Yuan's carriage not far away.

At noon, the group was eating by themselves in the wild.

The team is basically full of old men, although the prefect sent two maids, but these two maids are very eye-catching, but they are not proficient in cooking.

So from the prince to the ordinary soldiers, all the lunches were tasteless.

After eating, the two maids helped Shizi boil tea.

When one of the maids carried the teapot into the carriage, Zhu Yuan, who was sitting on the wheel, suddenly jumped down and pinched the maid's buttocks, the maid's eyes were red, and she dared not speak angrily.

This scene happened to be seen by Xiao Qi who was standing not far away, this Zhu Wu usually has a harmless smiling face, Xiao Qi always thought that this person was a good person, but he didn't expect to be so obscene and despicable, as she said with her aunt, knowing people and knowing faces does not know their hearts.

Xiao Qi bent down and picked up a stone from the ground and hit Zhu Wu's hair, the hairpin on Zhu Wu's head fell, and his hair was immediately blown by the wind.

The soldier next to him was stealing fun.

Another maid walked up to Xiao Qi's side, "Little Qi girl, you did it, I just saw you picking up stones from the ground." ”

Xiao Qi smiled, and the maid immediately stepped forward and saluted Xiao Qi.

"Thank you, Little Seventh Girl, the one who lifted the tea water just now is my own sister Xiang'er, and my name is Qiu'er."

Xiao Qi lined the group and had not set off yet, so he rode a horse to patrol the front and back of the team, and saw that the goatee had chapped lips and was dying, and said to the thin officers and soldiers guarding the side:

"You're going to get him some water?"

The thin officer and soldier were a little embarrassed, "The boss didn't give him water to drink." ”

Xiao Qi: "The prince brought him with him, naturally there is still a place to use him, you better not torture people to death, feed him some water and food." ”

The thin officer and soldier figured it out when Xiao Qi mentioned it like this, and when he thought about it, the prince spent so much effort to escort this person, if the person died in his hands, he might really be held responsible.

In the evening, when we reached about fifty miles from Suzhou City, it was already completely dark.

Zhu Liu came over and asked: "Shizi, it's not early, it's difficult to reach Suzhou tonight, why don't we set up camp here." ”

Zhu Wu looked around and said to the carriage: "Shizi, there are forests all around here, it's not very safe, why don't we go a little further ahead and set up camp in an open place." ”

Zhu Yuanren stayed in the carriage and didn't come out, but his voice came out clearly.

"Just do what Zhu Wu said."

The group marched for less than half an hour, and at last they came to an open place and began to set up camp.

Xiao Qi threw a pheasant in front of Qiu'er, "You can pluck chicken feathers." ”

Qiu'er nodded, her eyes shining brightly, and she took the pheasant and began to pluck the feathers, but it was too difficult to pull it out at all.

Xiao Qi's expression was helpless, "Sister Qiu'er, don't you know how to boil tea?" This has to be scalded with hot water before it can be pulled. ”