Begonia only stayed in the carriage for one day.

From the next day, she couldn't stand the bumpy carriage, so she simply changed into the riding clothes she had prepared early in the morning, turned over her pony neatly, and prepared to follow her second uncle and brother on the horse.

Ma was so anxious that he couldn't care about getting into the carriage by himself, so he pulled her reins and scolded: "Are you dead?!" What kind of horse do you have a car and don't ride?! You don't even look at how tall you are! What if I fall off my horse?! ”

Haitang tightly grabbed the reins of his horse and refused to let go: "I don't take the car!" After sitting all day yesterday, I was almost fainted! What's so bad about horseback riding? I've been practicing riding for more than a year, and it's not for nothing, where can I fall off so easily? I don't have to ride fast, I just need to follow the convoy slowly, which is much more comfortable than riding in a car. ”

It's not that Ma has never ridden a horse, so how can he not know that riding a horse is more comfortable than riding a car? But this is not a family out of the city for an autumn trip, they are in a hurry. Now the weather is getting colder day by day, the north wind is so strong, the surrounding is wilderness, from time to time flying sand and rocks, riding a horse has to eat the wind and sand, and it is easy to freeze, in case of freezing out of the wind and cold, but it will be troublesome. Where can I get medicine in the wilderness? No matter how bumpy the car is, at least it is warm, and you don't have to blow the wind and eat sand, which is really uncomfortable, just put a few more layers of quilts.

Ma insisted on pulling his granddaughter into the car, but Begonia didn't do it, and the grandparents and grandchildren were deadlocked there.

The Hai family did not travel alone, and there were two caravans and a dart team with more guards, and the road was relatively safe. The Hai family only needs to provide official protection and convenience to their companions, and they can use their escort power to hire no more bodyguards, which is more convenient. Now everyone has had breakfast, and they are out on horseback, ready to go. The stalemate between the ancestors and grandchildren of the Hai family will inevitably affect everyone's itinerary.

Hai Xiya came over to persuade his wife: "You let the child ride the horse for a while, if she feels uncomfortable, she will naturally give up and obediently go back to the car." She hasn't suffered before, and even if you force her in the car, she won't be convinced. ”

Ma reluctantly got into the car, but he couldn't help but lift the curtain and say to Haitang: "When the wind blows you off the horse for a while, I see that you are still hard-mouthed!" ”

Begonia couldn't help but laugh and steered the horse to the side of her brother's reef.

Haijiao looked at his sister and took the initiative to move to the north on a horse to block the wind and sand for his sister. But he wasn't as worried as his grandmother. The siblings have been riding together outside the city in recent months, and he is well aware of his sister's skills. If it weren't for the fact that his sister was not as tall as him and rode a pony, sometimes he would not dare to say that he must be better than his sister in riding. When he was still his sister's age, he had already started to practice riding and archery, but not only was he not as fast as his sister was now, but his endurance was much worse than his sister's. But if he had the level that his sister has today, his grandfather and cousin would not think that he was not a soldier and should concentrate on studying literature and preparing for the imperial examination.

It didn't take long for the team to set off. Today's wind and sand are quite strong, but the sun is still warm. A group of people rode horses and rode on the wilderness, in the open space and with a wide field of vision, it was easy for people to be heroic.

Haitang had countless poems on the theme of desert and border plug in his mind, and just as he was about to memorize a few sentences, he heard that not far ahead, the three elders Xie Wenzai, Cao Gengyun and Lu Bainian, who were sitting in the same carriage, began to improvise couplets. Compared with Begonia's choice to memorize poems, these three readers are much more creative and choose to compose their own poems. They picked a rhyme, and you and I connected it one by one, and whoever couldn't catch it would be punished. The punishment is usually a piece of meat or a glass of wine from lunch or dinner that day, and all of them are temporarily hung on the account until the punishment is slowly completed.

It is said that on the way from Suzhou to Guazhou, and on the way from Guazhou to Suzhou, they have played like this a few times. Xie Wenzai stopped meat for half a month when he first arrived in Guazhou, and Cao Gengyun also stopped drinking for a month, in order to rub two more glasses of wine from his old friend, who took a lot of effort, and it is still a reserved joke often mentioned by their old friends in exile when they correspond.

Begonia wants to maintain a personality, so naturally it can't be mixed in, but the reef was called over by the division commanders halfway, as a way to compare, and asked him to come and say a few words. It has been more than 20 years since the reef parted with poetry, even if I have not studied my homework for more than a year, and if I really want to write poetry, I still feel bitter, racking my brains, and I can barely cope with the past, and when I stop to eat at noon, people have wilted, and I can't raise any appetite, I just feel that my mind is full of common words and phrases of various side poems.

Haitang secretly smiled, added a few more pieces of jerky to his brother, and stuffed him with a handful of newly dried walnut kernels this year, so that he could make up for his brain.

In the afternoon, Begonia continued to stay on the horse. She didn't scream hard from beginning to end, and she talked and laughed with others, and she didn't run around, and there was no sign of falling behind. From time to time, Ma would lift the curtain of the car and stare at her, and he lost his temper when he saw her like this.

However, when they stayed in the big car shop of Gaotaisu at night, Ma specially called his granddaughter into the house, and carefully inquired about it, knowing that she had not been scratched on her legs, and the palm of her hand had not been strangled by the reins.

Aunt Cui fetched hot water and beckoned Begonia to wash, and Begonia went happily. Only then did Ma Shi turn out the clothes that his granddaughter was wearing today, and looked at her equipment carefully, and the expression on her face finally eased.

The granddaughter was fully prepared, not only made a new autumn and winter riding outfit, but also sewed calfskin in her pants to prevent the fine skin and tender flesh on her thighs from being bruised. In addition, she also made sheepskin gloves to protect a pair of delicate little hands. As for the other hats and scarves that can block the wind and sand, there is no need to mention them. In Suzhou, these are common equipment, and Ma is no stranger to them.

She originally planned to let her granddaughter ride in a carriage like herself, so she didn't prepare these things for Begonia, but she didn't expect the child to be quite well prepared, and she didn't know where she learned it.

Ma complained to Aunt Cui that her granddaughter was young and had a big idea, so Aunt Cui smiled and said, "Tang Tang has been smart since he was a child and has done things well, isn't this a good thing?" I saw that she was always pestering the daughter-in-law of Wang Baihu's family to talk a few days ago, and I thought she was saying goodbye to the master who learned the whip, but now that I think about it, I must have asked someone for advice on this horseback journey. ”

Ma recognized Aunt Cui's guess: "These things used for horseback riding are the most complete in Wang Chengfu's wife's shop." His family often does women's and children's business. Tang Tang wants to be customized, and he must find his home, but I don't know how much it cost. ”

Aunt Cui smiled: "What's this?" My sister can afford it by herself. These things are not valuable. Actually, if it weren't for the fact that I couldn't ride a horse, I wouldn't be happy to stay in the car all day! ”

Why didn't Ma feel the same way? It's just that I feel that the female relatives of the official eunuchs show their faces, which is too unseemly. If it's just her family going out of the city to play, or if she's running for her life when the army is coming, she's riding a horse. It's just that now, there are so many caravans and dart board people traveling with them, and they have to show their faces in front of so many strange men when they walk around on horseback......

Ma Shi thought about it, glanced at Aunt Cui, and sighed in unison, Qi Qi gave up this option.

Even if she has lived in the border city for so many years and has been contaminated with the fierce atmosphere of many border city women, she is still the daughter of the official family who has lived in the inner house since she was a child!

(End of chapter)