Chapter 218 Extra 2: Inexplicably Awkward

That day, I told my stepmother that I liked Jiang Hao.

When the stepmother heard that Shi Luo had fallen in love with the son of a farmer and hunter, she pretended to persuade him for a few words, but when she saw that Shi Luo was determined, she was so happy that her mouth almost twisted with joy.

That night, he whispered something in Shi's father's ear. Shi's father was not happy at first, as he felt it was shameful for his legitimate son to marry a countryman.

But he was finally persuaded by his wife to agree to it.

In order to avoid being criticized and affecting the future marriages of her two children, Shi Luo's stepmother generously gave Shi Luo a dowry.

Not only that, Shi's father also gave Shi Luo a dowry without telling anyone the night before Shi Luo's wedding.

Although it wasn't much, just a few hundred taels of silver and a box of jewelry, but at least he gave it.

So even though Shi's father had taken his family away from Yuan County half a month ago without telling Shi Luo, Shi Luo did not blame him.

In the morning, Shi Luo was sleeping soundly when he felt someone standing next to him.

Shi Luo stretched out his hand to push Jiang Hao aside as usual, but he felt something was wrong as soon as his hand touched him. He was stunned for a moment before realizing that he had put on his clothes again, and now the one who was scratching his clothes should be his son.

Oh, yes, I am a male mother now. Thinking of this, Shi Luo hugged the child and began to feed him in a hurry.

Jiang Hao woke up after hearing the noise. He opened the window beside the bed and looked outside. He then took out his hand from the space and adjusted it while saying, "It should be around six o'clock now. It should be the same time as in our previous world."

Shi Luo gently patted the child in his arms. Seeing that the child fell asleep again, he spoke softly, "Don't sleep if you wake up. You should leave tomorrow morning. There are a lot of things to do today."

Jiang Hao and Shi Luo got up, put on their clothes, took out toiletries from the space and started washing. After they were clean and ate a few buns from the space, they started to get busy.

Jiang Hao rummaged around and soon pulled out a large box of silver bars and copper coins. "Neither the father nor the son of the Jiang family had the habit of exchanging silver for banknotes. They both felt that silver was heavy and solid. Not counting these copper coins, there are a total of 780 taels here, which is all the savings of the Jiang family."

Shi Luo also found two small boxes and placed them on the bed. "I have six hundred and sixty-six taels of silver and a small box of jewelry as a dowry from my stepmother. I also have five hundred taels of silver notes and a small box of jewelry as a dowry from my biological father. The rest is the less than one hundred taels of silver that the original body saved up."

Shi Luo took out two more purses, stuffed them full of money, and handed one to Jiang Hao. "Take the thirty taels of silver in here with you. For the rest, put one hundred taels and some copper coins into your space. I'll keep the rest."

Seeing that Jiang Hao had collected all the money, Shi Luo also put the remaining silver into the space.

Jiang Hao held two strings of copper coins in his hand and looked at his new son who had just woken up and blinked quietly. He smiled and said, "We have a mule cart at home. Let's go to town and see what we can buy. I think there will be a lot of people going out to buy things today, so we have to show off."

Seeing that Luo nodded in agreement, he quickly picked up the child and washed him.

Shi Luo saw Jiang Hao had finished packing and stuffed two strings of copper coins into the backpack. "Let's go. The sooner we go, the sooner we can come back. We still have to pack our luggage when we get back."

Jiang Hao looked at the child in his arms and suddenly felt a little warm in his arms. His head was a little confused for a moment. "Lolo, I think he's confused. He never eats all over his face."

Shi Luo took the child and handed the backpack to Jiang Hao. He took out a diaper from the space and changed the baby's water. He threw the wet ring into the space and disposed of it directly as garbage. "Huhu was already a few years old when he became your son. He could take care of himself a long time ago. This one is still a baby. It's good enough that he doesn't cry or make a fuss."

Jiang Hao carried a backpack and led the mule out of the shed, then hung the carriage on the mule. "Hurry up and get on the carriage. I haven't driven a mule cart in decades, and I don't know if my hands are unfamiliar with it."

Shi Luo carefully got on the mule cart holding the child.

Jiang Hao led the mule cart out of the door before sitting on it and officially started driving.

Maybe it was because the mule was obedient, or maybe it was because the driving skill was ingrained in his bones, but Jiang Hao felt that he was driving very steadily.

More than an hour later, Shi Luo and the other two arrived at the town. Jiang Hao paid three cents to the soldiers guarding the gate before he was let in.

Shi Luo sat next to Jiang Hao holding the child. "This town is so prosperous, it really doesn't look like a large army is about to attack here."

Jiang Hao lowered his voice and said, "There are very few people here who really have connections. The few who knew about this have already fled with their belongings. Those who stayed are basically ordinary people. I'm afraid they really don't know about the war."

Shi Luo: "As far as I can remember, people from our village rarely go to the city except to buy and sell things. How did the village chief get the news?"

Jiang Hao: "You don't remember anything about the book you wrote."

Shi Luoli was not convinced but was quite confident. “I have written so many books in my life that I don’t even know how many physical copies have been published. I can’t remember the contents of many of them after I finished writing them. This is one of them.”

Jiang Hao, with his photographic memory, remembered almost everything in Shi Luo's book. "In our village, the village chief's brother-in-law's brother passed the imperial examination a few years ago and became an official in Beijing. Although he later resigned from his position, he still has some connections. Isn't this news the village chief's sister who wrote to him in a letter?"

Shi Luo suddenly had an idea. "It seems that the final destination of the escape route planned by the village chief is where his brother-in-law is, Youzhou. I remember that the heroine of this book is the village chief's youngest daughter, Jiang Yanran, and the hero is the You King, Baili Han, who has been hiding in Youzhou for ten years under a different name."

Jiang Hao nodded and said, "The character you set for Baili Han is really outrageous. He is the current emperor's favorite youngest son. His mother was poisoned when he was ten years old, and he was also framed. In order to protect him, the emperor punished him by exiling him to Youzhou.

Youzhou is one of the richest places in this country. Compared with our time, Youzhou here is equivalent to our mirage.

Moreover, there was always an army stationed in Youzhou. The highest commander of this army was Wei Xun, General Wei, who was Baili Han's uncle.

The village chief's brother-in-law's elder brother, Qi Yan, was the only person in the dynasty to have achieved the first place in the imperial examination. He also resigned from his official position that year and went to Youzhou to live in seclusion. Later, he became Baili Han's teacher in Youzhou.

Shi Luo remembered it all, he didn't know why he didn't feel it when he was writing it, but when Jiang Hao repeated it, Shi Luo felt inexplicably embarrassed.

"Okay, that's enough. I understand. Don't say any more."

Jiang Hao was touched by Shi Luo's cuteness and smiled. "There's a pastry shop up ahead. Let's go in and buy some snacks."

Shi Luo nodded silently and agreed.