With new friends, Begonia's wilderness journey is also much more interesting.

She took the opportunity to show her riding and archery skills and whipping skills in front of her family and outsiders, and after a few more times, no one stopped her from riding out on horseback, and she also had a certain trust in her self-protection ability.

The most intuitive manifestation is that Ma Shi no longer stopped her from riding a horse. As long as the Zhou family and the Peng family let their young lady wander outside, she will also let Begonia go and stop being verbose. As for the rest of the family? Even Ma Shi didn't open his mouth, how could they be troubled? Xiaoshi still wanted to go out to play with his eldest sister, but unfortunately he was forced back into the carriage by his mother after he shouted a few words.

Reef sometimes goes hunting with her sister, serving as a part-time bodyguard while practicing her newfound riding and archery skills. He does have some talent in these things, and within a few days, he has already been evaluated as a "good seedling of archers" by the pro-soldiers of Zhou Wenjun, Peng Yuqi and Zhou Peng.

However, such a relaxing and enjoyable trip ended quickly after entering the middle of October.

It began to rain in the sky, overcast and cold, mixed with fine snow chips and ice particles, coupled with the cold north wind, blowing cold in the bones of the people. No matter how much you have to keep out the cold, anyone who rides a horse in this weather will quickly become a soup chicken, and if you don't want to become a frozen chicken, you must find a place to hide from the rain as soon as possible. Therefore, even if the carriage was bumpy, Haitang and the others were forced to give up riding and hide in the carriage.

It was not enough to have a carriage to protect from the wind and rain, and the maids also turned out the hand stove, foot stove and soup woman, and added charcoal and hot water to ensure that the ladies would not sit in the car and would not have cold hands and feet due to lack of exercise.

There are no grandmothers and maids to serve on Haitang's side, but there is ginger soup boiled by grandmother and second aunt, and she has prepared all the guys in advance. After drinking the ginger soup, she took shelter from the cold in her carriage with a hand stove and a sheepskin cloak wrapped tightly. Without Jin Guo by his side, life seems to be a little boring. Haitang didn't want to go to her grandmother Ma to listen to the chatter, and she didn't plan to go to the carriage of the second uncle's house to play with Xiaoshi, so she had to dig out the textbook and start to review and memorize her homework.

When she stayed in the post station or inn at night, she picked up the book again, and saw Haixi Cliff, Xie Wenzai and others comforted her, and also won the praise of the Zhou family's housekeeper.

After leaving Ganzhou, they walked all the way along Liangzhou, Gulang, and Zhuanglang, and then took a short rest in Lanzhou City to avoid heavy rain for two days. When the weather cleared, they continued to set off, along the line of Lintao, Longxi, and Qinzhou, and headed for Chang'an.

Before arriving in Qinzhou, they encountered the first snow of the winter. The snow was not small, and many horses slipped on the soles of their feet, and two people fell, and the carriage got stuck in a mud puddle, and it took them a long time to get the cart out. When the group arrived at the Qinzhou Post Station, they were all cold and tired, even if they took a hot bath in the post station, ate and drank enough, slept all night, and when they got up the next day, everyone was exhausted. The rain and snow outside are getting heavier again.

They rested in Qinzhou for two days, did something by the way, and watched the sky clear before leaving.

After leaving Qinzhou, a caravan separated from some of the individual travelers and large forces and turned to the south.

After arriving in Baoji, another caravan and the dart team diverted to Fengxiang Mansion. So far, Hai, Zhou, and Peng have become the absolute main force of the team. They chose to stay directly at the Baoji Station, and as for the caravans and individual tourists who traveled with them, they looked for inns or cart shops to settle down and followed when they set off.

However, the next road is an official road, stable and safe, and densely populated, if others do not plan to continue to follow the three official families, they can also choose to go by themselves.

The three families of Hai, Zhou and Peng decided to take a break in Baoji and do some errands along the way. All three of them had patients due to the continuous rain and snow, and they didn't want to continue to drive and aggravate their conditions, so they simply rested for two more days. In addition, all three have carriages that must be overhauled to ensure that they do not break down easily on the rest of the road.

Zhou Wenjun has an uncle who is an official in Baoji, and her aunt sent someone to take her home early. Peng Yuqi was left in the post station, her best friend was not there, she began to be depressed again, and she was not even in the mood to eat the lunch sent by the girl.

After Haitang heard about it, she asked her grandmother for a few snacks after the meal and took her to visit her: "Sister Peng, why are you in a bad mood again?" Although Sister Wenjun has left temporarily, she will be back soon, and we will continue to go to Chang'an on the same road! ”

Peng Yuqi said sullenly: "Who is unhappy about this kind of thing? Wen Jun hasn't seen her aunt for a few years, and it's rare to pass through Baoji, and it's normal for people to live for two days in the past. If it weren't for the fact that I had a heavy filial piety and was afraid of colliding with others, when Wenjun invited me to go with me, I would have followed. ”

Haitang was a little curious: "Then why is Sister Peng unhappy?" ”

Peng Yuqi said: "My uncle was doing a soothing job in Fengxiang Qianhu, and Tuo Wenjun's uncle brought a message and asked me to wait for him in the post station. He said that he had taken leave of absence and wanted to escort me all the way to Chang'an, for fear that I would have no one to take care of me on the way...... I've walked nearly 2,000 miles safely, do I need him to worry about it?! ”

Haitang blinked: "Sister Peng, you seem to be ...... Don't like your uncle very much? But aren't you about to go to his house? "Don't you feel uncomfortable if you don't like to go?

Peng Yuqi and Begonia have traveled nearly 2,000 miles, and they have already formed a deep friendship for more than a month, and they have less worries when they speak, and told her directly: "I didn't think my grandmother and uncle hated them before, and I would write letters and send gifts to them every year!" But this year, my mother died, and my uncle specially took leave to come to the funeral, and after entering the door, he didn't say that he would go to my mother's spirit to put incense on the front and cry, so he directly asked my father to marry the aunt in the next room. My father refused, and they mentioned my marriage to my cousin. My father said that there was no reason to say that he was married, and he politely refused, and they changed their words again, fearing that I would lose my upbringing in Ganzhou and would take me back to Chang'an. In fact, I am not afraid that after my mother dies, my father and I will be separated from the Jin family, and my uncle will have no backers in the officialdom, so he will have to marry again. My mother refused before she died, saying that I was not compatible with my cousin. Her bones are not cold, and her grandmother and uncle came out like this, what do they think of her? What did you think of me again?! ”

Haitang suddenly said busily: "Since your mother meant this when she was alive, she has her own reason, and you should be obedient." It's just that since your father doesn't plan to marry you back to your uncle's family, why did he let you go to Chang'an to live with your grandmother? ”

Peng Yuqi flattened her mouth: "My father made up his mind at first, but my uncle wrote a letter, saying that my grandmother was sad about my mother's death and worried about me, so she fell ill...... My father still remembered that when he was penniless in the past, my grandmother was kind to him, and thought that my mother was the most filial to my grandmother before her death, so he asked me to go back to visit my relatives, and I couldn't let my grandmother stay sick......"

Peng Tongzhi was in the middle of the family when he was a teenager, but the Yue family, who had been engaged for many years, did not break the marriage and broke the contract, and when he came out in the army, he also married his beloved daughter according to the contract, which made him very grateful. Twenty years have passed, Peng Tongzhi has been in the official residence from the second rank to command Tongzhi, and he has long been not Wuxia Ameng, but the Jin family is tepid, and the current family is just a Wei Zhenfu from the fifth grade, and he is still promoted by relying on his brother-in-law. Now that her sister has passed away, leaving only an only daughter, the Jin family is afraid that Peng Tongzhi will continue to have a child and share with her own family, so they can only hold on to Peng Yuqi tightly.

Peng Tongzhi and Peng Yuqi both knew the Jin family's thoughts, but because they were worried about Jin's grandmother's illness, the former still sent their daughter over.

(End of chapter)