"You can change clothes anywhere, but food is only available in the kitchen." Wan Xueying thought about it. She knew she wouldn't be able to eat well in prison, and there wouldn't even be clean water to drink. Although she had stockpiled a lot of food in her space for the trip to Northern Xinjiang, she couldn't eat it all directly. She had to prepare some food that could be eaten directly, and also some water.
"You're right, we need to prepare more food." Aunt Chen's eyes reddened again. "Poor thing, we finally managed to escape imprisonment, and now you have to suffer that punishment again!" If she could, she would have wanted to go to jail instead. She also decided that if that didn't work, she would just send Wan Xueying delicious food every day.
"Auntie Lian, please don't rush around on my behalf. This involves the Third Prince, and Shen Yu and I will most likely be exiled along with him." She said this because of that hint. Then she soothed him, "Even if I'm imprisoned, I have the ability to protect myself. I'm sure I'll be fine, Auntie Lian, don't worry." Even if she suffered some physical pain, she had her vitality and would recover quickly. This was her greatest support.
"As a girl, your reputation will be ruined if you go to jail." Aunt Chen was not appeased. "Besides, exile is even more painful!"
"Reputation is not important. You have to be alive. So Aunt Lian, you must stay calm. If I am exiled, I will rely on you to help me deal with the officials and take care of me from time to time." Wan Xueying then transferred a silver note of five hundred taels from the space, pretended to take it out of her arms and handed it to her.
"Here..." Aunt Chen glanced at the banknote but didn't take it. "If you need money, Aunt Lian has it."
"You must keep it." Wan Xueying stuffed the banknotes into Aunt Chen's hands, "Dealing with government officials means spending money like water. These may not be enough when I am exiled." She added, "After your household registration is completed, add Nanny Wu and the others to your name. After everyone's travel permits are processed, you have to keep them too." Nanny Wu, the guards, and the three grooms were registered as slaves and had to follow their masters, so of course their travel permits were also required.
"Okay, I'll keep it for now." Aunt Chen solemnly put the banknote in her arms. "If you really are exiled, I'll take my people with you." The reason they had to go to Northern Xinjiang was because of Wan Xueying. If she couldn't go, there was no point for them to go there.
"Then let's make it a deal." Of course, she thought so too.
Aunt Chen nodded heavily, "Okay, let's make it a deal."
Before entering the kitchen, Wan Xueying was afraid that Aunt Chen would discover the secret of her space, so she said to Aunt Chen: "Aunt Lian, please go back to my room and help me pick out the oldest coarse cloth clothes from Nanny Wu's clothes for me." There were limited rooms, and currently Aunt Chen and Nanny Wu lived in one room.
In order not to attract attention on the way back to the northern border, she not only bought some coarse cloth clothes of varying thickness for each of the guards and coachmen, but also bought a few pieces for the three women.
Wan Xueying also asked Aunt Chen and Madam Wu to alter some coarse men's clothing for the three of them, so they could use it when they disguised themselves as men. However, those were all new, and Madam Wu was the only one of the three who had any old coarse clothing.
She added, "I'll go into the kitchen first to hide some food, and then I'll change clothes in the kitchen later."
"Okay," Aunt Chen nodded heavily, "Don't worry, I'll get it for you right away." But she was afraid that if she walked too slowly she would delay Wan Xueying, so she ran to her room.
After seeing her walk away, Wan Xueying went into the kitchen and looked around. She found that there was no shortage of rice, flour, grain, and oil. There were also two big roosters to stew at noon, four big carps, and some vegetables.
The reason for such a sumptuous meal was that since settling here, Madam Wu had the opportunity to show off her culinary skills. Seeing that Madam Wu had been increasingly thin due to her busy trip to the Northern Frontier, and fearing that she might get anxious and angry, she kept finding ways to prepare delicious meals for her.
Wan Xueying had ordered the servants to prepare the extra food. She said it would be difficult to find good food on the way to Northern Xinjiang, so she had prepared a better meal for everyone in advance to help them stay well nourished.
However, there were more of them, and the same large rooster and two large carp required a lot of side dishes to fill them up. Even this food was much better than the time she had been at the Bo's house, which made those who followed her very happy and they often praised her kindness behind her back.
But these were not what she wanted to take. She ran straight to the steamer and opened it. Inside was not only the leftover steamed buns from the morning, but also a few small cakes made for her. This finally fulfilled her wish.
Because of the Tree of Life, her space not only prevented food from spoiling, but also kept its original state. For example, hot food would always remain at a constant temperature inside and would not cool down. It was definitely the perfect container for storing food.
After packing the steamed buns and pastries, she went to the water tank again.
In order to go to the Northern Frontier, in addition to one water bag for each person, she also bought fifty more. Regardless of whether the water was still boiling or not, she took out ten water bags from her space and filled them up, finally feeling a little more at ease.
To be honest, the water here is of good quality and unpolluted. Even drinking too much well water, stream water, or even river water won't cause diarrhea. When she was a child in the countryside, she would drink any water she was thirsty from, as long as it wasn't muddy.
To say she wasn't angry at all would be a lie. Shen Yu had been helping out to fulfill her previous promise, and she couldn't leave the capital without a result on the matter of the Bo Mansion.
Speaking of the Bo Mansion, Shen Yu told me that her "former elder brother" Wan Jiangyuan did something stupid right after he was put in jail.
She said that when the prison boss and the jailer were searching her body, Wan Jiangyuan was afraid that the medicine she had given her a few days ago would be taken away, so she poured all the medicine in the bottle into her mouth in a hurry.
Even if it's a tonic, you can't take it like that! Besides, even though the pills aren't too big, taking so many at once is pretty choking.
Not to mention, he almost choked to death. Even then, he refused to pick his throat, because he knew that without the medicine, he would probably die.
If Shen Yu had not rushed over in time and asked someone to feed him some water to help him swallow the pill, he might have died in prison early just as the words flashed through Wan Xueying's mind before.
However, his fate did not change. Not long after, he started to have a high fever and kept mumbling, saying that he should not have overturned the bowl of medicine. He also said that Wan Xueying was an ungrateful and heartless person. Shen Yu did not tell him all these things.
Yesterday, Shen Yu sent someone to deliver the news that Wan Jiangyuan hadn't woken up yet, so he had been spared physical torture. You know, every male prisoner who entered the Dali Temple prison would first receive a beating during interrogation, and even Wan Chengji couldn't escape it.
Upon hearing this news, Aunt Chen could no longer sit still and clamored to visit Wan Chengji in prison. Putting aside her status as a concubine, she and Wan Chengji had been married for many years and had shared a good time together, so it was normal for her to worry about Wan Chengji's safety.
Wan Xueying didn't stop him and even asked Shen Yu to help arrange it. But she had no intention of going. Even if her heart was soft, it was still crushed by the repeated trampling of these blood relatives.
Now, Shen Yu not only implicated himself, but also implicated her. Without Shen Yu's help, it was hard to say whether Concubine Chen could even visit her "former father" in prison, let alone her?
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