Chapter 226: We Found Them
"There are soldiers and officials in the city. They will naturally not let these people wander around in the city, otherwise it will be a disgrace to the government." Gu Xiaoxi probably understood what was going on?
Ying Si nodded after hearing this: "That's what the young lady understood. I guess it's because there are too many refugees, so the defense outside the city has been strengthened."
Gu Xiaoxi didn't ask any more questions after hearing this.
The carriage passed through this street in a mighty procession and when it reached the intersection of the next street, there were soldiers guarding the place.
When the officers and soldiers saw so many carriages coming, they stopped them immediately.
Ying Si got off the carriage and calmly took out a token from his body and showed it to the leader.
The leader saw the token and respectfully saluted Ying Si.
"Brother, no need to be so polite. We are just doing our job." Ying Si said politely.
Seeing that Ying Si was not arrogant, the leader nodded and removed the wooden frame blocking the middle and let them into the street.
The carriage stopped again at the end of the street. Ying Si dismounted and knocked on a gate.
Crunch!
The door opened wide, and the doorman seemed a little excited to see Ying Si.
"Open the gate, there are many carriages coming in.
Tell the others to clean up all the guest rooms, have the kitchen boil water, and then go to the restaurant to order a few tables for the banquet. Hurry up." Ying Si told the concierge all at once.
"Yes!" the two doormen responded.
One doorman went to the backyard to instruct his brothers to work, while the other doorman stayed behind to serve.
This is a three-courtyard house. After the carriages stopped, the originally spacious courtyard became narrow.
When the brothers in the yard heard that the girl leading the team was their master's savior, they all started working diligently.
Gu Xiaoxi gave some instructions to the elders, asking Ying San to stay here and Ying Si to go out with her.
Ying Si brought Gu Xiaoxi to the largest medicine store in Jiangcheng, and Gu Xiaoxi sold several old ginseng roots and several Ganoderma lucidum stored in the space.
At this time, the boss was so happy to see such good medicinal materials that he couldn't stop smiling. In addition, Ying Si had a special identity, so the price he gave was very fair.
All the medicinal herbs were sold for a total of five thousand taels of silver. In order to make it easier to carry, she could only accept the silver notes temporarily.
Holding the banknote, she asked Ying Si to go to the address given by Chen Qinian.
When they arrived at the place, the doorman told them that the Chen family had left two days ago.
Before leaving, he asked them to give a letter to Gu Xiaoxi.
Gu Xiaoxi took the letter from the doorman, opened it and looked at the contents, then laughed after reading it.
"I didn't expect that the Chen family's idea coincides with mine. Let's take a rest tonight and continue our journey tomorrow." She said happily and showed the letter to Ying Si.
Ying Si also smiled after reading the content: "This is good, everyone can take care of each other."
"That's not the case. Besides, they took Brother Tan and Sister-in-law with them. Let's go to the street to buy some dry food. We will set off early tomorrow morning." After saying this, Gu Xiaoxi turned around and got on the carriage.
The two men walked around the street and replenished some dry food they needed for the journey, then drove the carriage back to their residence.
Everyone in the yard had eaten their fill, and now they all returned to their houses to have a good sleep.
The journey was dangerous and no one could sleep well during this period. Finally, I got to bed and took a shower and changed into clean clothes.
When Gu Xiaoxi and Ying Si came back, the yard was quiet.
In order not to disturb everyone, the two of them simply went to the kitchen to eat.
After dinner, Gu Xiaoxi drove the carriage out by himself.
During the war, she was worried about the banknotes, so she found a big bank and exchanged the banknotes for silver and gold. She put the silver and gold in the space before returning.
After dealing with the banknotes, she did not rush back, but took a walk around the city.
There are no beggars or refugees in the downtown area, and the rich still live a comfortable life.
When it got dark, she saw that there were still many people at the fireworks display areas. She was afraid that her family would worry, so she hurried back to her residence.
When she got home, everyone was up.
The children also became energetic and played happily in the yard.
Seeing her mother coming back, Ruixue rushed towards her: "Mom!"
Gu Xiaoxi shared the candies she had just bought in the city with the children.
There was a brazier in the main room, and the old people were sitting there chatting and laughing. When they saw Xiaoxi coming back, everyone looked over.
"Xiaoxi, have you found Qinian and the others?" Gu An asked anxiously.
"Don't worry, they've left and are heading to Lecheng, which is about three days' carriage ride away from here. We'll set off tomorrow." Gu Xiaoxi told everyone the situation.
Gu Yunju asked in confusion, "Isn't it safer here with so many soldiers?"
"It's useless no matter how safe it is here. Land is very expensive and we can't survive here." Gu Xiaoxi didn't say what he really thought.
After hearing this, Gu Yunju fell silent.
He had thought that Jiangcheng was a big place and it would be easy for him to find a job as a cart puller if he stayed here, but he forgot that land was very expensive here and they simply couldn't afford to buy a house here.
"Okay, just follow Xiaoxi's arrangements." The old patriarch Gu spoke.
Why……
Gu Yunju nodded and didn't ask any more questions.
Not long after dinner, everyone went back to sleep.
It was quite quiet in the first half of the night, but after midnight, shouting and yelling could be heard from outside, and it was a noisy scene.
Gu Xiaoxi was awakened by the noise. She put on her clothes and walked out of the room, then jumped onto the roof to see what was happening nearby.
In the street behind, I don’t know who is fighting, it’s very noisy and crowded.
When the doorman saw the girl jump onto the roof, he also jumped up and said, "Don't worry, girl. Those people are fighting for territory. This street is inhabited by the city's dignitaries. They dare not come here because there are soldiers guarding it. You can just sleep peacefully."
"Thank you for telling me, young man." Gu Xiaoxi thanked him and jumped off the roof.
After hearing this, the people who came out to check the situation went back to sleep one by one.
Gu Yunju jumped onto the roof and looked over. Seeing so many people fighting, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"It seems that although this place is prosperous, it is full of murderous intentions and is indeed not suitable for us." He muttered, jumped off the roof, and went back to the room to rest.
The fights came in waves, sometimes coming from the east, sometimes from the west, and the sounds stopped only when it was almost dawn.
In the morning, Ying San asked the kitchen to cook a big pot of egg noodles. It started snowing heavily again, and it was not certain that we could get a hot meal on the road. So everyone ate more so that they would not get hungry so quickly.
Going out from the other side of the city gate, Gu Xiaoxi found that there were still many merchants entering and leaving the city.
The border town did not have much impact on this area, except that there were more refugees and some beggars.
"Girl, look who that is?" Ying Si suddenly saw a woman sitting in a carriage leaving the city.
Gu Xiaoxi looked in the direction that Ying Si pointed, and actually saw Mrs. Mo and a man sitting in a gorgeous carriage, talking and laughing.
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