The Xia family, the Hu family, and the Zhao family had more than a hundred people in total. They had also prepared livestock and carts for the journey, and they looked very powerful.

With so many people walking together, those highway robbers and lone fighters didn't dare to provoke them, and those who came and went didn't dare to provoke them either. This allowed them to walk peacefully for several days.

Li Gan's cavalry also set off, and the two sides walked together for a while at the beginning.

The Jinyi Yunqi seemed to be intentionally or unintentionally accommodating the speed of the three families until they sent the three families to the junction of Bohai County and Qingzhou County. Then the two sides separated and went their separate ways.

Jinyi Yunqi has another mission.

They actually took a detour on purpose and gave three families a ride.

Otherwise, in Bohai County, Jinyi Yunqi could directly change ships and take the sea route.

If the three families took a land route and then a water route, they could actually reach Ping'an County faster. However, most of the three families were landlubbers and felt dizzy as soon as they got on the boat, so they were not used to the water route.

Zhou and Xia Daohua are two exceptions.

Xia Daohua has a foundation in swimming from her previous life, and she also has the cheat device called Space Supermarket.

However, Zhou learned to swim since childhood.

However, she rarely uses this skill, so her family members don't know about it.

The three families traveled together, crossing states and counties along the way.

Because they were thrifty with money, the heads of the families were generally very careful with their budgets. Most of the time, they would never stay in a hotel unless it was absolutely necessary.

They all slept in the open air, or stayed in farmers' homes, or took shelter in dilapidated temples, or simply slept in the wild. Anyway, as long as it didn't cost money, they would make do with it and make do with it.

When the three families left home, they were dressed cleanly and looked neat, but after traveling like this for about a month, they began to look like the miserable refugees they were.

Perhaps to hide their identities, Li Gan and his companions also followed them camping in the wild.

Originally, Xia Daohua had hoped that they could stay in the hotel so that she could take the opportunity to persuade her family, but she didn't expect that all her efforts would be in vain.

In order to save firewood, the three families often drank raw water and ate cold dry food.

Xia Daohua said it several times, but no one took it seriously.

She had no choice but to secretly replace the river water that her family fetched on the road with mineral water or purified water from the supermarket, and then secretly prepare special meals for the children.

Lihua and Goro had long been accustomed to Xia Daohua's ability to hide things, and no matter what food she took out of her sleeve pocket, they always looked calm.

As long as Linghua has something to eat, she is content and won't bother to get to the bottom of it.

Liu Lang and Zaohua are full of faith and admiration for Xia Daohua, and these two little guys adhere to the same principle as Linghua: just take me with you when you want to eat delicious food!

I don't care if you bought it, stole it, or conjured it up.

Huaihua is still breastfeeding and can't leave Jiang.

A Liu can already eat complementary food and porridge, and Xia Dalang can't live without A Liu.

Xia Daohua doesn't need to worry about these two little ones.

However, even though Xia Daohua had been secretly looking after them, the journey was long, the body was exhausted and they were not used to the climate and water. They all caught a few colds and had diarrhea a few times along the way.

The most serious incident was when we just arrived in Qingzhou County.

The three families had almost finished their dry food. In the previous dormitory, they felt that the other party was asking for too much and they did not replenish their food in time. So they had to cook soup with mushrooms they picked in the wild and some wild vegetables.

But accidentally, a few poisonous mushrooms sneaked in.

Both the Zhao and Hu families had deaths.

Silang from the second branch of the Xia family and Lanhua from the third branch almost lost their lives because of this meal.

Fortunately, Xia Daohua discovered something was wrong and induced vomiting in them in time.

The Zhao and Hu families were not so lucky.

By the time they discovered that there was something wrong with the mushrooms, several people who were severely poisoned were already dead.

The old lady of the Hu family and his beloved grandson both foamed at the mouth. They didn't even wait for Xia Daohua to mention inducing vomiting before they died.

The Zhao family lost a daughter-in-law who was responsible for cooking that day, and a child named Sanniu.

When the daughter-in-law cooked mushroom soup, she took advantage of the convenience of cooking and secretly ate a lot of it.

Sanniu is her biological daughter and the youngest one. Like Linghua, she is a foodie and is loved by her mother on a daily basis.

This time, this love cost her life.

It was precisely because the daughter-in-law favored her that she had to suffer this fatal special treatment.

After this incident, the mood of the three families became depressed and confused.

I even began to vaguely doubt whether it was right or wrong to leave my hometown and run so far away with my family.

Among the Xia family, the one who complained the most was Sun from the second branch.

However, although Sun was a chatterbox, Wu was the one who specifically quelled her, and Erlang and Taohua were always comforting her, so she just kept nagging a few words.

After the poisonous mushroom incident, the three families finally learned some lessons and no longer slept in the open air. Instead, they looked for food in the wild.

Instead, when necessary, they would go to the inn, sleep in the big bunk bed, wash up a little, relieve their fatigue, and occasionally have a hot meal in the inn.

The three families always took the official road and did not pursue speed too much. They basically traveled during the day and rested at night. As a result, they were lucky enough not to encounter robbers.

In this way, when the three families finally arrived in Jixiang County, Ping'an County, autumn was almost over and early winter had arrived.

Fortunately, it’s not very cold in Jixiang County.

Although it is winter, the sun still makes people feel warm when it shines on them.

The clothes of the three families had become tattered, dirty and old due to the rush and dust on the road, and they looked dusty due to the continuous journey.

If they hadn't been driving a cart and hadn't been carrying their belongings, they would have been mistaken for beggars.

Even so, we experienced some twists and turns when entering the city.

The three families said they were coming to visit relatives, and they all provided their household registration passes. They honestly paid the city entrance fee per person and accepted the interrogation and inspection of the gatekeepers. Only then were they able to enter the city smoothly.

The entrance fee was not too expensive, only one cent per person. Children did not have to pay, but carriages and horses had to pay a separate fee: two cents for a carriage, five cents for a horse, three cents for a mule, and one cent for a donkey.

The three families endured the pain, paid the fee, and entered the city.

Xia Daohua observed and found that Jixiang County was divided into two parts: the inner city and the outer city.

The walls of both the inner and outer cities were built with thick blue bricks, while the bricks used for the houses varied, including blue bricks, red bricks, mud bricks, stones, and even wooden and bamboo stilt houses.

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