Jiang Huaixu was walking leisurely. She saw Second Grandpa in front of her waving at her: "Xu girl, come here, Second Grandpa."

As he got closer, Jiang Huaixu looked at the adults in front of him in confusion, and exchanged glances with Jiang Erlang, who was also called.

"We have to thank Erlang and Xu girl. If they hadn't been kind enough to save us, how could we have settled down so easily?"

Jiang Zhengmao said to everyone proudly that he was holding the black cards in his arms, as if he was holding a pile of gold nuggets.

The villagers all agreed with a smile and kept praising him.

"We are all family, we are all family, why are you talking nonsense?" Jiang Huaixu accepted the villagers' gratitude calmly.

Jiang Erlang felt a little embarrassed by the praise. When he turned his head and saw Jiang Huaixu's expression, he couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth.

A sister-in-law heard the commotion and came forward from behind. One of the maids saw Jiang Huaixu's smiling face and couldn't help but slap her thigh, as if she had discovered something new and wonderful. "Why didn't I notice it before? You are quite pretty, Xu girl! You look blessed!"

"Auntie, you have good taste!" Jiang Huaixu gave the old lady a thumbs up.

This lady is really interesting. Because there are so many people at the city gate, she deliberately smeared dust on her face, so you can't tell that she is pretty.

But since the compliment had been given, she accepted it.

A young wife said in a crisp voice: "None of Uncle Boliang's children are bad-looking. Erlang is a famous handsome young man in the surrounding villages!"

As she spoke, she saw Jiang Erlang's face flush, and she quickly turned her gaze away to look at Jiang Huaixu. This glance was not a big deal, she said curiously: "I never noticed before, why does Miss Xu look so little like Uncle Boliang and Aunt Xiuzhu?"

With just one word, everyone who heard it fell silent.

The young wife realized later that she had said the wrong thing. She laughed dryly and was about to say something to make amends when she was interrupted.

"Xu girl, there's so much dust on your face. How can you, Lai Fu, have such sharp eyes? What can you see?" Jiang Zhengmao said angrily, "Hurry up, stop talking nonsense. Yuantou will come to urge us later."

The young wife was dragged away by her mother-in-law. On the way back, she asked in confusion: "Mom, what happened? Could it be that Xu girl is not..."

"Shut up!" The mother-in-law pinched her waist with one hand and pressed a finger of her other hand on her daughter-in-law's forehead. "I can't stop your big mouth even if I walk around all day. You ask all kinds of questions. You are cut from the same cloth as your parents!"

The young wife didn't dare to ask any more questions due to her mother-in-law's authority, and she kept muttering to herself.

Jiang Huaixu was not affected by this little episode. She looked around and found the Yuantou that Jiang Zhengmao mentioned.

The man surnamed Yuan was assigned to be the leader of their team. Most of the people in the team were refugees who had money on them.

After walking for a while, they arrived at a porridge stall in the city.

Yuantou reminded loudly: "You'd better beg for more food. If you miss this village, there will be no such store. Once you leave, you can't stop. You have to walk all the way to the destination."

Not many people in the entire team moved, except Jiang Huaixu and his group.

The adults squatted beside the porridge shed, slurping porridge and eating steamed buns. Jiang Huaixu pulled Jiang Erlang to join Jiang Sanlang and the others, and said, "Say more auspicious words."

After a period of chaos, everyone was not only well fed and warm, but also had warm winter clothes and charcoal in their hands.

All the auspicious words were heard from the officials and their wives.

Jiang Sanlang took out a silver leaf from his arms with a smile, "Look!"

"Wow!"

"silver!"

"Third brother, did you get it?"

Jiang Sanlang proudly picked up Xiaofeng who was standing at his feet and said, "Xiaofeng got it!"

"Second brother, what's that behind your head? A handkerchief?" Jiang Wei walked around and came behind Jiang Erlang, and when she came back, she was holding a delicate and small handkerchief in her hand.

Jiang Erlang's face instantly turned red to his ears, "I don't know..."

"Hehe, second brother is favored by a girl!" Jiang Huaixu teased with a smile.

The sounds of "Hehehe" merged into one, and everyone returned to the team laughing and making noises.

Jiang Huaixu was very keen to catch the contempt in the eyes cast at him.

She didn't care, put the things in her hands into the carriage, sat on the side of the carriage and swung her short legs leisurely.

"How long has it been since these people last had food? They're like starving ghosts reincarnated!"

"Are we really not going to get some food?"

"If you want to go, you go. I won't go. Isn't this just begging for food? What's the difference between that and being a beggar?"

"I don't know how those people ended up in the same group with us. They are so shameless!"

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After listening to the gossip for a while, the adults still didn't come back. Jiang Huaixu stood in the carriage and saw that the adults were still eating heartily. The white flour buns and hot soup were very tempting to this group of people, and they would not stop until they had enough.

When Yuantou called them, the group came back satisfied, burping as they walked.

After a brief rest, everyone continued their journey.

This walk lasted until the hour of Xu.

Just as night fell, the other families traveling with Jiang Huaixu and his group began to complain of hunger. They kept complaining for an hour or two, but Yuantou didn't ask to stop until the team stopped in front of an inn in the middle of nowhere.

Yuantou shouted a lot at the top of his voice, roughly meaning that the rooms are divided into different levels and you can decide for yourself.

The consequence of letting Jiang Huaixu and his group take care of it was that they didn't even enter the inn and just slept on the floor.

Yuantou laughed at this. After inviting the others in, he said to Jiang Zhengmao, "Are all of you stingy people? You are so stingy."

"Don't blame me, Yuan. With so many of us here, it would cost a lot of money to settle down. We are all peasants with no skills and can only farm. Please bear with us."

As he said this, he stuffed a silver ingot into the other person's hand.

After being given a lot of instructions before leaving, Yuantou thought this group of people was quite interesting. They had such a powerful backer but didn't use him. Instead, they gave money to those who knew about the situation and were interested.

He weighed the silver in his hand and said with a satisfied smile, "If you need hot water and firewood, go to the inn and ask for them—it will cost silver."

"Yeah, I understand."

Just after agreeing, Jiang Zhengmao turned his head, took two bites of steamed bun, and fell asleep.

You've been away from home for more than a day or two, so let it get dirty. It won't stay dirty for many days anyway.