The capital city remains prosperous.
The city gate was bustling with people, and there was a long queue of people waiting to leave the city.
Ningshuang, Tingxue and the other two who were guarding outside the city gate finally felt relieved when they saw Wei Yunlan, who was dressed like an ordinary woman, sitting on the front shaft of the mule cart.
The next moment, their eyes couldn't help but become sore. How could these ladies, who had never done housework, have ever done a job like driving a coach?
The mule cart stopped in front of her. Ning Shuang suppressed the bitterness in her eyes and stepped forward to report: "Miss, I heard that the team escorting the exiles left the city half an hour ago and headed north."
Wei Yunlan's heart was in a knot. She could not feel at ease until she saw her mother's family in person.
Seeing that the cart behind the other mule cart was already full of things, Wei Yunlan pointed to the other side beside him and said, "Ningshuang, get on. Let's catch up quickly."
"Miss, let me drive the car."
"Okay."
Thinking that Ningshuang just knew the direction the escort team was leaving, Wei Yunlan handed over the reins.
But as soon as the reins were passed to Ningshuang's hands, the mule pulling the cart became uncontrollable and ran around recklessly, almost knocking over the cart driven by Suihe in front.
Wei Yunlan hurriedly pulled the reins back into his hands, and the irritable mule calmed down and followed the car in front obediently.
Ning Shuang patted her chest in fear and said, "It's all my fault. I almost got into trouble."
"It's not your fault. After all, you have never driven a cart before." Ningshuang and Tingxue were both first-class maids around her. Not to mention driving a cart, even the laundry and sewing work were not theirs.
This was Wei Yunlan's first time driving a carriage, but she felt that she had some talent in this area.
With a slight shake of the reins, the mule trotted steadily on the official road.
Out of her sight, a group of people were quietly following them, not too far away.
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The mule cart had not been running for long when a group of people were seen parked by the official road in the distance.
When Wei Yunlan drove closer, several carriages were turning back towards the capital.
The leading car had the word "Jiang" on it. Wei Yunlan guessed that it must be the Jiang family of the Yong'an Earl's Mansion, to which his younger brother was engaged.
In her previous life, when she learned that her natal family had been exiled from the capital, the news that the eldest daughter of the Jiang family and her younger brother had broken off their engagement had already spread throughout the capital.
I think at this time, the Yong'an Earl's Mansion sent someone here to return the engagement letter.
A gloomy look flashed across his eyes, and Wei Yunlan cheered himself up and caught up with the team that was about to set off.
The official riding on a tall horse saw the mule cart stopped and frowned with a bit of pickyness and impatience.
Tingxue jumped off the car, ran forward and stuffed a bag of silver into his pocket.
The frown on the officer's face finally relaxed, and he dismounted from his horse. "Let's continue to rest here, and we'll set off in a quarter of an hour!"
The officers sat down where they were.
Dozens of people being escorted looked at the two mule carts, their eyes falling on Wei Yunlan, whose attire was obviously inconsistent with his temperament, with surprise and inquiry in their eyes.
Among the crowd, the Wei family members were stunned.
Especially the middle-aged man wearing the wooden yoke and the beautiful woman beside him who was wiping the sweat off his face just now, looking at the figure walking towards them, with deep worry in their eyes.
Wei Yunlan took off her veil and stepped forward excitedly, "Dad, Mom! Sister-in-law, Mingxuan!"
"Big sister!"
Wei Mingxuan, who was listless just now, suddenly jumped up from the ground, "Why are you here!"
"Lan'er, did you come here specially to see me off?" Cheng Yue'e, holding the baby in her arms, asked with some emotion.
People from the Liang and Bai families nearby came to see them off, but no one cared about the Feng family, which had no roots in the capital. And someone from their Wei family did come, but their purpose was not to see them off, but to cancel the engagement...
Wei Maolin and Gao, who had remained silent, were not as optimistic as the eldest daughter-in-law.
Looking at her daughter, who was dressed in plain clothes, without her pearl hairpins, and with her face bare, Gao's eyes were filled with uneasiness, "Lan'er, why are you dressed like this?"
Wei Yunlan knew that he could not hide it from his parents, so he answered truthfully without hesitation: "I want to leave the capital with you and go to Beiguan."
"I have divorced Shen Feng."
Even though she had some suspicions in her mind, Gao was still shocked. She grabbed Wei Yunlan's hand and tightened it, "Did the Marquis of Jinyang force you to leave?"
Wei Maolin, who was always calm and composed, also showed anger at this moment, "How dare the Jinyang Marquis' Mansion do this!"
Their Wei family has done a favor for the Jinyang Marquis' Mansion. Now that the Wei family is in trouble, the Jinyang Marquis' Mansion has abandoned Lan'er. Aren't they afraid of being drowned by spit?
Wei Yunlan did not make any excuses for the Jinyang Marquisate. Although the Marquisate did not take the initiative to let her leave, what they did in their previous life was far more excessive than letting her leave.
"Chen Feng married his concubine who lives in Xiping Lane today and brought her into the mansion as his second wife. There is no point in me staying here any longer, so I might as well leave the capital with my father and mother."
"Lan'er, you are so confused." Although Gao couldn't bear to see her daughter being humiliated by the Marquis of Jinyang's mansion, she couldn't bear to see her suffer exile even more. "It's bitterly cold in the north, and there's no telling how many hardships there will be along the way. At least staying in the capital will be safe and secure..."
"Mom, there will be no peace." Wei Yunlan decided to add another thing to the Jinyang Marquis Mansion to completely put an end to his parents' thoughts. "After our family got into trouble, they took tens of thousands of taels of silver notes from me and promised me to help with the arrangements, but they turned around and confined me to the mansion, and allowed Chen Feng to marry Xue as his concubine."
"Today, the decree of confiscating my property and exiling me came down, and they agreed to sever the relationship between the two families. Do you think if I continue to stay in that mansion, they will simply let me die of illness, so as to make room for the Xue family, whose brother from my mother's family has just gained power, without giving me any reason to be criticized..."
Gao couldn't hold back the tears in her eyes. She hugged Wei Yunlan into her arms and said distressedly, "My poor Lan'er."
Wei Yunlan hugged her mother with her backhand, patted her back, and comforted her softly, "Mom, I am not miserable as long as our family is together."
Not only is it not bitter, but it is full of motivation and hope.
The Wei family members were crying and trying to comfort each other. The two families closest to them all looked surprised when they saw this.
The official Jie, who dismounted to rest after receiving the silver, had a look of even more contempt.
They didn't know the inside story of Wei Yunlan leaving the Jinyang Marquis Mansion, they only knew that the Wei family was really in decline now.
The son of the Wei family was broken off from engagement, and the daughter of the Wei family was divorced. The family that was once high and mighty has now completely fallen into oblivion.
Glancing at the cart covered with oilcloth and filled with stuff, Jie Guan suppressed a flash of greed, raised his whip, and lashed the ground with it.
"Go now, stand up!"
"Damn it, don't dawdle for me!"
However, just as everyone was returning to the official road at the urging of the official, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from behind them.
Two carriages drove towards us from the direction of the capital.
The leading one was extremely exquisite, and judging by its specifications, even if it didn't come from a royal palace, it at least came from a duke's mansion.
Seeing that the escort team was about to move forward, a man who looked like a manager on the carriage quickly stuck his head out and shouted over here,
"Wait a minute!"
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