Chapter Eighty-Eight: People
As for the descendants of the Tan family, the main family is indeed rich and has no shortage of silver, but their second master's temper is really not flattering, they usually don't even dare to catch their breath when they go back to business, let alone ask for silver.
It stands to reason that there is no need to ask the second master directly for a little silver, you can ask the housekeeper to find the account, but the housekeeper's account room is not something that these servants at the lowest level can easily talk to.
From this, it can also be seen that the management of the Tan family is chaotic, maybe not the entire Tan family is like this, but the second master of Tan must be in chaos.
Not to mention the careful thinking of the Tan and Song families, a carriage and a mule cart left the city one after the other, and the process was as smooth as I never imagined.
As soon as they left the city gate, even though there was an endless wilderness outside the city, and it was already late, they didn't even know where to stay, but the mood was not good.
Even the coral, which has always been steady, opened the curtain at this time and looked at the goose feather snow falling from the sky, and said with a smile: "Even God helped us, there was not much snow today, but when we went out of the city, it snowed so much, covering the sky, and the sky was suddenly a lot darker, girl, in fact, I heard Liu Jun's voice, but he and the people of the Tan family didn't notice the carriage we were sitting in at all, but wanted to search for Xie Gongzi's mule cart, but was reprimanded by the captain."
At that time, the city gates were about to be closed, and there were still many people waiting to get out of the city, and at the same time there were several mule carts, where there was time to investigate. ”
It turned out that the subordinates of the Song family guarding the south city gate were Liu Jun, who was led over by Li Xing's father and son in Huaihua Hutong.
"No, we have to thank them for those few mule carts."
The lotus root waved her fat hand, signaled that after leaving the city, she smiled at the few mule carts that were gradually widening from them.
Song Xiaochi felt that it was a little unexpected that it went so smoothly, but for safety reasons, she and Coral had been in the carriage, the curtain was drawn tightly, and no cracks were exposed, so she didn't know the specific situation outside.
"Did the Captain of the City Gate recognize you?"
Just thinking about it, Xie Yan's voice came from behind, he was leaning on the wall outside the mule cart at this time, sitting a little loosely, only pulling the reins at will, the whip was placed on the side of him, and the mule cart leaned over slowly.
When Lotus Root heard this, she glanced at Xie Yan in surprise, "How did Gongzi Xie know?" ”
Xie Yan said: "When you drove the carriage out of the city gate, I noticed that the captain looked at you, and then at me, and then he said a few words to the two men who came forward and seemed to be going to do something, one of which was that the city gate was about to be closed, and there was no time for them to waste, and implied that if those two people had nothing in the car, not only would they not receive the reward, but they would also have to spend money to reward them as the city gate guards."
Xie Yan said it very lightly, but the lotus root looked at Xie Yan with a shocked face, and she asked in surprise: "This ...... This son, you ...... Did you hear it, did you see it? ”
"My surname is Xie!" Xie Yan said.
"Oh, yes, Gongzi Xie, I have the same surname as the emperor, I can't forget it."
Lotus Root said quietly, and asked again: "Gongzi Xie, I remember that when Lord Qin looked at me and when he was talking to those two subordinates, you were still some distance away, it was snowing so much, there were many people, and there was a lot of noise, how could you see and hear clearly?"
Lotus Root's big round eyes stared at Xie Yan, and there was shock and surprise inside.
Xie Yan smiled: "I have my own skills, if you are curious, you can ask you girls."
Xie Yan unceremoniously threw the question to Song Xiaochi, and shouted again, "Miss Song, do you want to change cars?" ”
Song Xiaochi stuck his head out of the car, looked at Xie Yan's confident appearance, and said lightly: "Gongzi Xie, Coral and I will take the lotus root to catch the car."
Speaking of this, Song Xiaochi paused and said, "I think...... Lotus Root's driving skills are a little better than that of Xie Gongzi. ”
Xie Yan was still waiting for Song Xiaochi to come up with a convincing reason, but he didn't expect her to give such a sentence.
Xie Yan felt that the smile on his face was a little unbearable, his craftsmanship was not as good as that fat girl, what a joke.
"Hiccup......" Suddenly, Xie Yan heard a strange sound, he looked towards the source of the sound, and saw a black round head sticking out of his cuffs, which was the source of the extremely unpleasant sound.
"Don't laugh if you laugh so ugly, it hurts people's ears."
Xie Yan said, stretching out a finger and grabbing the Xuanniao's head again.
Xuanniao did not show weakness, although his head was violently grabbed by Xie Yan, the voice came out.
"If you can't drive, don't drive, it's hurtful, hiccup...... Belch...... Hiccup......"
At the same time, there was a long, ugly laughter.
A mule cart at the head, a carriage at the back, two cars in front of the other and one behind the other drove at almost the same speed on the thick snow-covered official road, the road was staggered with ruts and messy footprints, and on both sides was a vast wilderness, and the eyes were far away, and those with good eyes could see the villages in the distance, as well as a few low peaks.
As the light faded, the other cars and pedestrians on the road began to pour in different directions, leaving only the two of them, and the wilderness became a snow-covered farmland.
"If we go in this direction, there should be a village, let's find a farmer to stay for one night."
Xie Yan raised his voice and shouted to Song Xiaochi in the carriage in front of him.
Song Xiaochi stuck his head out of the window of the car, looked back, Xie Yan had already driven the mule cart to a position parallel to the carriage window, and saw Song Xiaochi squinting his eyes blown by the wind and snowflakes, and the corners of his lips were slightly hooked, "If you don't take my car, you will suffer now."
Song Xiaochi naturally didn't know what Xie Yan was thinking, she shivered from the wind and snow, and said, "Listen to Gongzi Xie."
She had been living a life of not going out of the door before, and she didn't have the slightest experience of walking outside, so she naturally had to listen to Xie Yan in this regard.
To say that Song Xiaochi is afraid of being pitted by Xie Yan, it stands to reason that she should be afraid, but the strange thing is that she is not worried in the slightest.
After walking for about a quarter of an hour, the lotus root said outside: "Girl, we have seen people, we should hurry into the village."
Song Xiaochi breathed a sigh of relief, it's good to have someone, at least there is no need to spend the night in the carriage.
"Hey, girl, there's two people in front." The lotus root suddenly said again.
"There is something strange about someone, there are naturally people here." Coral Road.
"No, it's a person carrying a person, the snow is so deep, isn't it the person who was carrying it and broke his leg?"
Lotus Root speculated, and asked Song Xiaochi again, "Girl, should we take them for a ride?" ”
The lotus root has a chivalrous and righteous heart.
Song Xiaochi was not as innocent as lotus root, she said: "Don't be reckless first."
As soon as Song Xiaochi's words fell, the carriage was overtaken by the mule cart, and when he passed by the carriage, Xie Yan said, "I'll go and see it first."