The three of them walked to the door with their things, and Xiao Ce had already arrived with an ox cart.
"Stepmother, the ox cart is here." Noticing that the second and youngest sisters were in a bad mood, she pursed her lips, did not ask, walked forward, picked up the bamboo baskets, and put them onto the ox cart one by one.
Lin Shuang also followed behind, carrying a bamboo basket and a backpack containing the rabbit.
While Lin Shuang was taking it, she ran to the two of them.
He looked at the two of them nervously, "What happened when I was gone? Why do you two look a little strange?"
"Brother, stepmother said that she won't stay here with us forever. She will leave when our lives are good."
Xiao Nanxin felt that Lin Shuang had been very nice these past two days. She didn't beat or scold him, and she even gave him food.
"This is a very normal thing. Everyone has their own choices." Xiao Ce was surprised for a moment and then said.
"But I don't want to. I can't tell you why." Xiao Nan shook his head in annoyance.
"If Daddy wakes up and Grandpa and Grandma come back, will you still miss your stepmother?"
Xiao Ce looked at his younger sister and said this. In his opinion, his younger sister just lacked a sense of security and was not really worried about her stepmother.
"I..." Xiao Nanxin looked at Xiao Ce blankly, with panic on his face, and lowered his head at a loss.
Maybe in her subconscious, Lin Shuang was still behind them.
"Okay, don't think about these things anymore. Things will work out in the end. We'll talk about the future later. Leave everything to time. Time will prove everything."
"Okay." Xiao Nanxin smiled.
"What are you talking about? Mumbling to yourself, everyone get in the car. Xiao Ce, can you drive?"
Lin Shuang loaded all the things into the car, clapped her hands, and turned around to see three people huddled together and whispering.
"It's nothing, stepmother, I can drive the car." Hearing Lin Shuang's voice, the three of them immediately raised their heads in fright and looked at Lin Shuang in horror.
Xiao Ce hurried over, as if to cover up his guilty conscience.
"How about this, you teach me how to drive. I'm worried about you, a 9-year-old child. If you take him into a ditch, who will I cry to?"
Lin Shuang showed no disdain at all on her face, which made Xiao Ce feel angry.
"Okay." After several people got on the cart, Xiao Ce began to teach Lin Shuang how to drive an ox cart. Lin Shuang learned it after watching it once and felt that it was not very difficult.
"So, I learn quickly, right? I'm just gifted and can learn anything quickly." Lin Shuang was bragging about herself.
The children laughed so hard that they didn’t expect their stepmother would do this. The tense mood they had just been in at home also relaxed.
We drove all the way to Qingshan Town in this way. After an hour's ox cart ride, we finally arrived at Qingshan Town.
The plaque in front of you is engraved with three big characters "Qingshan Town". The font is majestic and pleasing to the eye.
Lin Shuang pulled the ox cart and forced the ox to stop. Two soldiers were standing at the town gate in front. They were there to collect the city fees.
It's over. I have no money.
This way, they and the ox cart would have no money to enter, which was really a miscalculation.
The anxious regret on his face and his unwillingness to move forward caught Xiao Ce's attention.
Xiao Ce looked at his stepmother, whose brows were furrowed and whose expression was changing constantly. He did not go to queue up. After thinking for a while, he said, "Stepmother, what's wrong? Why don't we go over?"
Lin Shuang came back to her senses, looked at Xiao Ce worriedly and said, "Xiao Ce, I don't have any money with me. We can't get into the town."
He smiled slightly awkwardly.
Xiao Ce stared at Lin Shuang carefully, then looked at the wild boar meat and rabbit behind him, and took out a purse from his arms, on which was embroidered a straight green bamboo.
He took out 10 coins from it.
"Here, I'm lending it to you. You have to return it to me later." Xiao Ce reluctantly looked away from the 10 cents.
"Thank you, Xiao Ce. Let's go into the town." Lin Shuang immediately waved the whip in his hand with a smile on his face, and the old ox moved forward slowly.
After queuing, it was finally Lin Shuang's turn.
"What do you do?" A strong soldier with thick eyebrows and big eyes asked as usual.
There wasn't much expression on his face, and he looked a bit ferocious.
"Brother, my mother and I came to town to sell some wild boar meat we hunted in the mountains."
Lin Shuang's smile and polite attitude impressed the soldiers guarding the town gate.
He softened his attitude and said, "The entrance fee is two cents per person, and the ox cart is also two cents." The soldier glanced at the children following Lin Shuang.
"Okay, here are ten cents. Here you go." Lin Shuang immediately gave the ten cents that Xiao Ce gave her to the soldier.
The soldier took a look and waved his hand, "Go in."
Lin Shuang immediately got in the car and entered Qingshan Town. Lin Shuang had always thought that there was no entrance fee to the town, so he had never thought about this matter.
"Xiao Ce, has this town always charged an entrance fee?" Lin Shuang walked into the city slowly.
“Well, because our Qingshan Town has a canal, there are many ships coming and going at the dock every day, and the economy here is relatively developed.
There are many rich people in the town, and there are constant boats coming and going, so there is a fee here. However, the situation in the villages below is not very good. They are far away from the town, and there are still many people who do not have enough food.
Because there is a fee every time, people in the village only come to the town when they have something to do. When they come, they buy more of what they need, which saves money.
Xiao Ce has been here for several years. When he was in the East Palace, he only saw prosperity. But when he came here, he realized that there are still so many people who are not well fed and clothed.
If I could return to the palace in the future, I would definitely reduce taxes and cancel the city entrance fee so that the people could bring their belongings to the town to sell, which would also reduce the burden on the people.
The one sitting in the high position now is his royal grandfather, but there was a civil war in the Eastern Palace back then, and many people died. The one who died with the Eastern Palace was the Fourth Prince. In order to seize the position of Crown Prince, he did not hesitate to kill innocent people.
Later, he was captured by the emperor and sentenced to death, but he wanted to escape from that place where people were eaten without leaving any bones.
On one side is his own nightmare land, and on the other side are the suffering people of Dawn.
"Xiao Ce, Xiao Ce, why are you crying?" Lin Shuang kept calling Xiao Ce.
"Brother, what's wrong with you?"
"Brother!" Xiao Wangshu and Xiao Nanxin looked at Xiao Ce nervously and worriedly.
"I'm fine. The wind just now blew some sand into my eyes. You don't have to worry about me." Xiao Ce forced a smile, which was uglier than crying.
"If you don't want to laugh, don't laugh." Lin Shuang said, unable to bear it.
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