Chapter 45: To the North

Although the carriage prepared by General Zhao for Han Zongqi was not very luxurious, it was much better than the carriage that Jiao Niang and they had sat in before.

The carriage was padded with thick bedding, a small table, and some food and tea, and the carriage did not feel any bumps when it moved. Soon Han Zongqi and Xin An fell asleep, although Jiao Niang was also exhausted, but when she thought of her brother and them, Jiao Niang couldn't sleep.

I don't know if Xin Ping and they are safe now? If they are safe, it is estimated that my brother will come back to them in a hurry...... Jiao Niang deliberately threw away the silver hairpin on her head when she got into the carriage, and I don't know if my brother can see it......

General Zhao shouted several times outside the carriage but no one answered, and when he opened the door, he saw his four princes and the two Chinese sleeping in the carriage.

"Fourth prince, it's time for dinner." General Zhao took a deep breath and tried to speak in the calmest tone possible.

"Hmm......" Han Zongqi rubbed his eyes, stretched a big lazy waist and pushed Jiao Niang: "Sister, hurry up and eat!" ”

General Zhao didn't want to look at it at all, so he pulled his face and asked someone to serve dinner, which was a large plate of roasted potatoes and roasted meat. Han Zongqi tasted it, and immediately spit it out with a "bah", he said with a bitter face: "Sister, this is so unpalatable......

Jiao Niang pinched a little and tasted it, and sprinkled a little salt on it, and it was not evenly sprinkled, it was indeed difficult to eat, so Jiao Niang began to call General Zhao again.

General Zhao came over with a dark face: "What's the matter?" ”

"It's so bad!" Han Zongqi stretched out his head and looked at General Zhao with a dissatisfied expression.

General ...... Zhao took a deep breath and controlled his violent temper: "Fourth prince, the army is not so particular about eating when marching and fighting, this food is already the best!" ”

Han Zongqi pouted and slapped the car door and shouted, "I don't care!" I want to eat something delicious! I am hungry! "This stance has the intention of rolling smoothly.

"General Zhao, can you let me open a small stove. My brother is too young to eat these. Jiao Niang took the opportunity to make a request.

"This is the last time, don't trouble me again. Ruowei, you are watching and preventing the Chinese from making trouble! General Zhao called the young general of the silver armor over and asked him to stare at Jiao Niang.

I asked for some ingredients from the head of the gang, Jiao Niang cut the barbecue into small pieces, mixed some seasonings and brushed them on the barbecue, saw that there were fresh vegetables and grilled some of them, and then took fresh fish and made fish fillet porridge for Xin'an.

The leader of the gang next to him sniffed and wondered, "Alas? How did she make it so fragrant? ”

Jiao Niang took the tray and walked to the carriage with barbecue and fish porridge, Han Zongqi was already hungry, so he grabbed the barbecue and stuffed it into his mouth.

"It's dirty!" Jiao Niang snorted and glanced at Han Zongqi, who immediately picked up the chopsticks honestly and began to eat. The silver-armored young general was dumbfounded, the incomparably noble four princes were subdued by a Chinese commoner, it was too humiliating!

The fish fillet porridge stewed was moist and refreshing, and the aroma was overflowing, Xin An's appetite was lifted at once, and her small mouth was wide and eagerly waiting for her sister's feeding.

When Han Zongqi finished eating, he took the initiative to take the porridge and feed it to Xin An for Jiao Niang to eat, and the three of them ate everything by the carriage like this......

In this way, the three of them stayed in the carriage, stopped and walked for a few days, and the more Jiao Niang looked at the scenery on the side of the road, the more wrong it became, as if she was getting farther and farther away from her hometown.

"General Zhao! Where are we going? At lunch time this day, Jiao Niang asked General Zhao directly.

"Of course, when I go back to the north, I received a holy decree to send the four princes back to the imperial capital." After a few days of observation and an investigation of Jiao Niang's family, General Zhao's attitude towards Jiao Niang's sister and brother has improved a lot.

"What? But my brother and I are not from the North! Can you please drop us off here ourselves? Jiao Niang doesn't know where the north is, but she knows that she and Xin An went to the north and it will be difficult to return to China in this life!

Han Zongqi also hugged Xin An and frowned and shouted to General Zhao: "Bad guy, let us go home quickly!" ”

General Zhao sneered: "Home? The Four Princes, the North is your home! As for the Chinese woman, you can leave for the sake of saving the four princes at your house, but don't blame me if you die. ”

When Han Zongqi heard that General Zhao would not let him go, he suddenly became anxious, turned around and pulled Jiao Niang's sleeve: "Sister, don't leave innocence, innocence must listen to my sister's words and no longer make mistakes." ”

Jiao Niang hesitated, I don't know what I will face after I go to the north, and whether I can return to Huaguo to reunite with my brother. If she goes, will she be able to return to her brother safely with Xin An? And leaving Han Zongqi as a child to face the unknown north, she was also a little unbearable.

"Miss Xin, don't go, it's too dangerous for a weak woman to carry a child." The silver armor junior has also been familiar with Jiao Niang in the past few days, and Jiao Niang will give him some food, so the silver armor junior kindly reminded.

Jiao Niang nodded worriedly, and returned to the carriage with Han Zongqi and Xin An.

"Ning Ruowei, you talk too much!" General Zhao glanced thoughtfully at the young general in silver armor.

"Subordinates know their mistakes." Ruowei quickly admitted his mistake.

"Okay, don't get too close to Chinese women." General Zhao meant something, Ning Ruowei bowed his head and was silent when he heard this, and General Zhao snorted coldly and waved his hand to tell him to step back.

The army walked for more than ten days, and the climate was getting colder and colder, so General Zhao sent clothes to the three of them in the north, which were all animal skins and furs, unlike silk and cotton cloth in China.

Jiao Niang was originally a delicate woman in Huaguo, wearing this plush clothes lined with a palm-sized face, she was even more pitiful, and everywhere Jiao Niang went these days, a group of people stared at her.

"Look at what! Wait until you get home and see your mother-in-law! Ning Ruowei kicked over a soldier who was staring at Jiao Niang.

"My mother-in-law is as good-looking as this Chinese woman." The soldier giggled and laughed, and the soldiers around him also giggled.

"Drag it down and hit the Ten Army Sticks!" Ning Ruowei ordered viciously, and now the soldiers were dumbfounded, just teasing a Chinese woman for a few words, which actually made Ning Xiaojiang so angry, and for a while, the soldiers were a little dissatisfied with Ning Xiaojiang.

After a few more days of walking, they finally came to a city on the northern frontier: Eternal Winter

Eternal Winter City really lived up to its name, the streets were covered with thin snowflakes, and even if the lady was wearing too much, she shivered when she got out of the car.

The soldiers were stationed outside the city, and General Zhao and more than a dozen other soldiers took Han Zongqi and Jiao Niang's sister and brother to live in the post station, and Jiao Niang finally took the first hot bath in several days.

After freshening up and dressing up, with the help of the post maid, Xin An also took a hot bath, the weather in the north was cold, and the long hair was dried with smoke. The servant woman took a stove, the lower layer of the stove was charcoal, and the middle layer was a thin grid, and the dried flowers were spread on the grid, and the long hair was held by the servant woman's hand, and the heat in the furnace was smoked and dried.

It is said that the hair smoked out in this way is smooth and fragrant, and Jiao Niang lies on the special chaise longue and lets the servant woman smoke her hair, perhaps because she has worked too hard for several days, and Jiao Niang falls asleep in the gentle fragrance of flowers.