Chapter 213 First Arrival
The Xia family, the Hu family, and the Zhao family had more than a hundred people in total. They had also prepared livestock and carts for traveling, so they looked very powerful.
With so many people walking together, those highway robbers and lone fighters did not dare to provoke them, and those who came and went did not dare to provoke them either. This allowed them to walk peacefully for several days.
Li Gan's cavalry also set off, and the two sides walked together for a while at the beginning.
The Jinyi Yunqi had been accommodating the speed of the three families, seemingly intentionally or unintentionally, until the three families were sent to the border of Bohai County and Qingzhou County, and then the two sides separated and went their own ways.
Jinyi Yunqi has another mission.
They actually deliberately took a detour and gave three families a ride.
Otherwise, in Bohai County, Jinyi Yunqi could directly change ships and take the sea route.
If the three families traveled by land for one section and then by water for another section, they could actually reach Ping'an County at a faster speed. However, most of the three families were landlubbers and felt dizzy as soon as they got on the boat, and they were not used to traveling by water.
Zhou and Xia Daohua are two special cases.
Xia Daohua has the basic knowledge of swimming in her previous life, and she also has the cheating device called Space Supermarket.
Zhou, however, learned to swim since childhood.
However, she seldom uses this ability, so her family members are unaware of it.
The three families traveled together, crossing states and counties along the way.
Because they were thrifty with money, the heads of the families were generally very careful with their money and most of the time, they would never stay in a hotel unless it was absolutely necessary.
They all slept in the open air, or stayed in farmers' homes, or took shelter in dilapidated temples, or simply slept in the wild. As long as it didn't cost any money, they would make do with what they could and make do with what they could.
When the three families originally left the house, their clothes were clean and their appearance was neat and tidy, but after traveling like this for about a month, they began to look a bit like the miserable refugees.
Perhaps to hide their identities, Li Gan and his companions also followed them camping in the wild.
Originally, Xia Daohua had hoped that they could stay in the hotel so that she could take the opportunity to persuade her family, but she didn't expect that all her efforts would be in vain.
In order to save firewood, the three families often drank raw water and ate cold dry food.
Xia Daohua said it several times, but no one took it seriously.
She had no choice but to secretly replace the river water that her family fetched on the road with mineral water or purified water from the supermarket, and then secretly prepare special water for the children.
Lihua and Goro had long been accustomed to Xia Daohua's ability to hide things, so no matter what food they saw her take out of her sleeve pocket, they remained calm.
As long as Linghua has something to eat, she is content and won't get to the bottom of it.
Liu Lang and Zao Hua are full of faith and admiration for Xia Dao Hua, and these two little guys uphold the same principle as Ling Hua: just take me with you when you want to eat something delicious!
I don't care if you bought it, stole it, or conjured it up out of thin air.
Huaihua is still breastfeeding and can't leave Jiang.
A Liu can already eat complementary food and porridge, and Xia Dalang can't live without A Liu.
Xia Daohua doesn't need to worry about these two little ones.
However, even though Xia Daohua had been secretly taking care of them, the journey was long, the body was exhausted, and they were not used to the climate and water. So they all caught a few colds and had diarrhea a few times along the way.
The most serious incident was when we just arrived in Qingzhou County.
The three families had almost finished their dry food. Because they felt that the hostel owner was raising their prices and they did not replenish their food in time, they had no choice but to cook soup with mushrooms picked in the wild and some wild vegetables.
But accidentally, a few poisonous mushrooms got mixed in.
There were deaths in both the Zhao and Hu families.
Silang from the second branch of the Xia family and Lanhua from the third branch almost lost their lives because of this meal.
Fortunately, Xia Daohua discovered something was wrong and induced vomiting in them in time.
The Zhao family and the Hu family were not so lucky.
By the time they discovered there was something wrong with the mushrooms, several people who were severely poisoned were already dead.
The old lady of the Hu family and his beloved grandson both foamed at the mouth. They died without waiting for Xia Daohua to mention inducing vomiting.
The Zhao family lost a daughter-in-law who was responsible for cooking that day, and a child named Sanniu.
When the daughter-in-law was cooking mushroom soup, he took advantage of the convenience of cooking and secretly ate a lot of it.
Sanniu is her biological daughter and the youngest one. Like Linghua, she is a foodie and is loved by her mother on a daily basis.
This time, this love cost her life.
It was precisely because the daughter-in-law favored her that she had to eat this deadly special meal.
After this incident, the mood of the three families became depressed and confused.
I even began to doubt whether it was a right decision to leave my hometown and run so far away with my family.
Among the Xia family, the one who complained the most was Sun from the second branch.
However, although Sun was a nagging person, she had Wu to ward off evil, and Erlang and Taohua were always trying to comfort her, so she just grumbled a few words.
After the poisonous mushroom incident, the three families finally learned some lessons. They no longer lived outdoors and instead looked for food in the wild.
Instead, when necessary, he would go into the inn, sleep on the large bunk bed, wash up a little, relieve himself from fatigue, and occasionally have a hot meal at the inn.
The three families always took the official road and did not pursue speed too much. They basically traveled during the day and rested at night. As a result, they were lucky enough not to encounter robbers.
In this way, when the three families finally arrived in Jixiang County, Ping'an County, autumn was almost over and early winter had arrived.
Fortunately, Jixiang County is not very cold.
Although it is winter, the sunshine still makes people feel warm.
The clothes of the three families had become tattered, dirty and old due to the long journey and the dust on the road, and they looked dusty due to the continuous journey.
If they hadn't been driving the cart and hadn't carried any belongings in it, they would have been mistaken for beggars.
Even so, we experienced some twists and turns when entering the city.
The three families said they were coming to visit relatives, and they all provided their household registration passes, paid the city entrance fee per person, and accepted questioning and screening by the gatekeepers. Only then were they able to enter the city smoothly.
The entrance fee was not too expensive, one cent per person. Children did not have to pay, but carriages and horses had to pay separately - two cents for a carriage, five cents for a horse, three cents for a mule, and one cent for a donkey.
The three families paid the fee with great reluctance and entered the city.
Xia Daohua observed and found that Jixiang County was divided into two parts: inner city and outer city.
Whether it is the inner city or the outer city, the walls are all built with thick blue bricks. The bricks used for the houses are different, including blue bricks, red bricks, mud bricks, stones, and even wooden and bamboo stilt houses.
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