Chapter 2125: Escape
She immediately turned to look at her mother.
Qian looked at her tenderly, reached out and touched her head and said, "Just take what your father gave you. Go with peace of mind. Leave the family affairs to your brothers. Your father and I will take care of it in the capital. Don't worry."
Manbao smiled and said, "I'm not worried."
She looked at Zhou Lizhong standing beside her and warned him, "Plant the seeds I gave you well and remember the data from the experimental fields. If you lose, it's a loss. Don't feel bad."
Zhou Lizhong agreed, "Don't worry, aunt. This year we have set aside another five mu of our official land for experimental fields. We won't mess around."
Zhou Silang listened to their endless chatter and couldn't help but say, "Let's go quickly, the sun is almost shining overhead."
Little Qian was also worried that they would miss their night retreat, so she quickly pulled Manbao aside and said, "Let's go quickly. Once we get there, have someone write a letter home."
"Sister-in-law, that place is far away. It will take two or three months just to send the letter back. If you really arrive there, you might as well find a way to come back yourself. Maybe you can do it faster than the messenger."
Little Qian couldn't help but mutter, "This is too far."
Manbao was escorted into the car by the crowd. He lifted the curtain and said to Zhou Lijun, "I can't attend your wedding. I'll give you a gift later."
Zhou Lijun nodded, but he was talking to Zhou Liru behind Manbao, "Take good care of my aunt."
Zhou Liru's face was full of excitement, and he nodded repeatedly, "Don't worry, Second Sister."
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang also got on the carriage and said goodbye to everyone.
When the six sisters of the Yin family saw this, they couldn't help but hold Yin Huo's hands and cry.
Yin Huo tried several times but failed, so he turned around to look at his father.
Yin Li said with a sullen face, "Alright, let him get in the car."
The Yin sisters were reluctant to let go, but under their father's gaze, they had to let go and could only watch Yin Huo get into the car with tears in their eyes.
The caravan finally set off, and everyone in the caravan breathed a sigh of relief. After the carriage had gone far away, Manbao lifted the curtain and looked back. After making sure that there was no one to see him off, he immediately lifted the curtain and walked out, "Daji, I want to ride a horse!"
Bai Shan shouted from another car, "I want one too!"
Bai Jilang: "Together, together."
So the three of them changed their horses and soon ran to the front of Yin Huo's carriage. "Yin Huo, do you want to learn how to ride a horse?"
Yin Huo lifted the car curtain and glanced at the dust blowing in the wind, then shook his head and said, "You guys can ride, I'll just watch."
Manbao: "Then let's go to the front first, frame——"
Yin Huo smiled and lowered the curtain, holding the hand warmer in his arms, tucked his hands into his sleeves and closed his eyes to rest.
Changshou was waiting in the car, holding the stove and starting to make tea, "Master, can Master Liu get out?"
Yin Huo said, "He didn't come to see me off this morning. He must have run away."
After running for a while, Manbao and his companions felt better, so they dismounted and boarded the carriage. The three of them sat in one carriage, and they were discussing, "Did Liu Huan escape?"
Bai Shan said: "I saw him this morning. He winked at me and ran away. I don't know if he ran away."
Man Bao said: "With so many people, they must have escaped unintentionally. I don't know if the Liu family will come after them, after all, they are going to the Western Regions."
Moreover, they did not rush this time, but walked slowly, stopping to rest when they came across a post station. The Liu family was thoughtful and could catch up with them within a day after discovering it.
Bai Shan smiled and said, "You'll know in two days."
When the convoy arrived at the Yongzhou Post Station, it stopped. Liu Huan, accompanied by his servant, jumped out with a message, looked up to the sky and laughed loudly, "I escaped!"
Bai Shan couldn't help laughing and said, "It's too early to talk about this now. Let's see if anyone comes to pursue you the day after tomorrow."
Liu Huan shuddered and said quickly, "Can't you hide it from me? There are so many people in the convoy, it won't be difficult to hide me."
Bai Shan glanced at him and said, "Hide? Are you trying to drive your family crazy?"
Yin Huo helped Changshou get out of the car and said to him, "Not only will he not hide you, I think the person who sent the letter to your home is already at your house."
Liu Huan was stunned. "What do you mean?"
Bai Shan said, "It's exactly what it says. You can run away from home for half a day or a whole day, but you can't stay overnight. Otherwise, even a good person will be driven to do bad things. I left a letter at home, saying I'll deliver it to your house after noon."
Bai Shan looked up at the sun and said to him, "Well, I guess I'm just leaving for your house now. Your grandparents should know about it soon."
Liu Huan couldn't help but yell, "You, you, you bad guy!"
Man Bao patted his shoulder earnestly and said, "This is all for your own good. Minister Liu has only two attitudes towards this matter. Either he agrees to let you go and sends someone to deliver something to your house and scold you while doing so; or he sends someone to capture you and give you a beating."
"But there are limits to how much you can beat someone. We took the initiative to send a letter to your grandfather and confessed everything, and that's all Minister Liu's anger was." Manbao pinched a stump on his pinky finger and then drew a circle. "But you didn't even leave a single word, saying you were going out to see us off, and then you didn't return at night. Your grandparents searched the capital all night long and couldn't find you. Finally, with their own wit, they guessed you ran away with us. Was your grandfather really that angry?"
Liu Huan looked at the circle she made and said with a shudder, "It will only get bigger."
Manbao: "We are not on a forced march. If he wants to catch you, he will catch you back no matter where you run to. We are all doing this for your sake, right?"
Liu Huan was actually persuaded by her and nodded, but after thinking about it, he felt that something was wrong. After a while, he asked, "Then why didn't you persuade me to stay at home?"
Manbao said: "We persuaded him."
Liu Huan: "When did you persuade me?"
Bai Erlang said, "Why didn't we try to persuade you? We told you that going to the Western Regions would be very hard. You might not be able to eat white rice, you might encounter sandstorms, and you might even run into bandits. But didn't you insist on coming with us?"
Liu Huan: "...Is this your advice?"
Bai Shan and the other two nodded together.
Yin Huo smiled and said, "The post station has prepared the food, let's go in and eat."
The four of them then remembered that they had been standing at the door talking. Mr. Zhuang and the two travelers from the Honglu Temple had already gone in and sat down.
Seeing Zhou Man come in, the two men immediately stood up and saluted, ready to make room for them. Mr. Zhuang smiled and said to them, "Don't be polite with them. Let them sit together. We won't interfere in the children's affairs."
The two passers-by felt that this gentleman was very unique. His apprentices were clearly deliberately kidnapping Minister Liu's grandson, but he did not say anything and even seemed to be fanning the flames.
Manbao and his four companions went inside and greeted Mr. Zhuang before sitting down to have lunch.
Most of these people travel on public funds. They don't pay first and get reimbursed later. Instead, they stay and eat for free at the inn.
I'll stop here for tonight. Tomorrow I won't be so busy, so I should be able to update another chapter at noon. Good night.
(End of this chapter)
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