Xiao Yunchen listened to his mother's wails and felt as if his soul was being tightly grasped and torn apart, but he couldn't even cry out in anger or shout without any image.
He also has to maintain his sanity and take care of the aftermath.
He pinched his palms desperately, his nails digging into the flesh and causing waves of stinging pain, but the pain made him more aware of the truth of the matter.
A painful and unacceptable truth for him.
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The carriage had been traveling for a long time and was getting farther and farther away from the capital.
Ancient official roads were not like modern ones, where everyone would build their houses right next to the road. People in this era preferred to build their houses away from the streets, as close to their own fields as possible.
Therefore, since leaving the capital, there are almost no trees along the way.
Because the carriage was going so fast, it was shaking violently and the tail of the carriage raised a cloud of dust.
Li Sisi shouted to the driver, "Brother, please drive slower. My wife is pregnant and can't handle this kind of bumpy ride."
Upon hearing this, the driver quickly slowed down and said apologetically, "Oh, if you had told me earlier, I wouldn't have been driving so fast. Is your wife okay?"
"It's okay, big brother, just slow down a bit." Li Sisi felt that the carriage was obviously slowing down, and asked again, "Big brother, can we get to the next city before dark?"
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. I won't let you two spend the night in the wild," the driver replied cheerfully.
Li Sisi thanked them with relief and took out an apple from their package and handed it to the driver.
The coachman thanked them gratefully. In the past, when driving a carriage, the passengers treated people of their status as servants. The young couple's conversation and temperament along the way were obviously of noble status, but they gave him a very friendly feeling, without the arrogance of a superior person.
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