Chapter 1373 Departure
She laughed and said, "He wants to ask me for money."
Manbao was puzzled, "You want money?"
Zhou Xi nodded. "He knew he couldn't have children. He heard that a doctor could cure him, so he wanted to spend money on medicine. But after taking it for a while, it didn't help, and the family's money was gone."
She said, "He came to ask me for it, and said that if I didn't give it to him, he would go to your brother-in-law and tell him how we used to live."
Manbao's mouth opened in shock, and it took him a while to find his words, "This is too shameless!"
"That's right! He just finished talking to me when he was caught by your brother-in-law. Before I could do anything, he was beaten up by your brother-in-law."
Manbao was a little worried, "Does he still dare to come to you now?"
"If it was just your brother-in-law, he would certainly dare to do it, but there are also your brothers," Zhou Xi said with a smile, "When my parents found out about this, my father sent my eldest brother, the second and third brothers to Liujia Village. He no longer dares to go to the county town to cause trouble for me."
Manbao snorted, "Bad guy! Big sister, you were right to divorce me!"
Zhou Xi glanced at his son who was crawling around on Manbao's bed, nodded with red eyes, "Yes, thanks to my family."
Because she didn't expect her ex-husband to be so shameless. He was not like this before.
Seeing that Manbao had completely diverted her attention and was no longer thinking about Erji's death, Zhou Xi smiled and changed the subject, looking for gossip to tell her.
Manbao listened to gossip with great interest for the whole afternoon, and it was almost time for dinner before the two sisters went out.
Because tonight was their last night at home, Xiao Qian prepared a lot of delicious food for them.
Manbao couldn't help but eat too much, her belly was full, she couldn't help but hugged Xiao Qian and cried, "Sister-in-law, I will miss you very much."
Xiao Qian also hugged her and said, "Sister-in-law misses you too."
Looking at the aunt and sister-in-law hugging each other, the Zhou family was speechless.
Before dawn the next day, the Zhou family began loading things into the car. In addition to a car of tea, there was another car for their luggage.
The Bai Shan family had discussed with them earlier that Manbao, Sanya and others would all ride in their carriage because their carriage had a cover. If they rode in an open cart in such a cold day and the mule ran, they would surely freeze to death.
When Manbao got up from the bed in a daze, the luggage had already been packed.
Xiao Qian cooked noodles for them, and each bowl was topped with a thick layer of bamboo shoots and mutton sauce. After eating one bowl, they felt warm from the inside out.
Very comfortable.
She also made a lot of steamed buns and boiled eggs for them, and put them in clean cloth bags for them. "Stop at noon, boil a pot of water, heat it up and you can eat it. You will definitely suffer when you are away from home."
But Santou and others were very excited. This was their first time traveling far away, and they didn't feel it was hard at all.
After finishing the noodles, the sky was getting light. A servant from the Bai family came and helped drive a car out.
Zhou Wulang drove the mule cart loaded with tea, and handed the luggage to the servants of the Bai family.
This time, Madam Liu and Zheng also went to the capital together. Most of the servants of the Bai family would go with them, leaving only three people to guard the house here. One of them was the head of Bai Zhuang, who was responsible for managing the small farm of Bai Shan and his family.
So they brought a lot of servants and a lot of carriages and horses with them.
The three ponies that had been kept at Bai Shan's house were also pulled out. Man Bao stepped forward to touch Chi Ji, put the small bag she had brought with her on the carriage, and then jumped on the horse, looked at Bai Shan, raised the whip and said with a smile: "Let's go?"
Bai Shan smiled slightly, jumped on the horse, and nodded with a smile, "Let's go."
Bai Erlang climbed onto the carriage yawning, showing no intention of riding. He leaned against the window, glanced out, and muttered, "Riding so early in the morning, aren't you afraid of being blown away by the wind?"
It is impossible to be blown away. The wind in Luojiang County is not as strong as that in Beijing. It is surrounded by mountains and there are rarely strong winds.
Bai Erlang glanced at Santou, with whom he had always gotten along well, so he called him and said, "Would you like to come sit with me?"
The third one took a fancy to his horse and asked with a sharp gaze, "Second Young Master, can I ride your horse?"
The people in the village respect Mr. Bai. When they meet him on the road, they call him Mr. Bai. Before Bai Shan came, Bai Dalang and Bai Erlang were the only two young masters in Qili Village.
Especially Bai Erlang. He had just become sensible when their family moved here. He liked to be carried around the village by the servants. The adults all respectfully called him the Second Young Master.
Although they were not servants or tenants of the Bai family.
So the children in the village also liked to call him Second Young Master. Even when they became classmates in school, unless they quarreled or fought, everyone liked to call him Second Young Master.
Just like now, Santou and the others still like to call Bai Shan "Master Shan".
Bai Jilang glanced at his green ears and refused, "My horse only recognizes me."
But Santou didn't think so. He made a face and said, "How stingy!"
Bai Erlang yawned again and said nonchalantly, "Forget it if you don't want to come up. I have some delicious bean buns here."
Santou hesitated for a moment, then climbed into the car and said, "Okay, I'll sit with you."
Si Tou and San Ya on the side: ...
While they were talking, Bai Shan and Man Bao had already ridden their horses around the convoy. Old Zhou and Qian only saw the people off to the gate and then stopped there.
In Old Zhou's words, it's not like he won't come back, so why send him to the village entrance?
Madam Liu said goodbye to Madam Bai, who had come to see her off. Seeing the two children had already ridden out of the village, she smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, please go back quickly. We will arrive in Mianzhou City this afternoon, and Lizhi and the others will be there to pick us up."
After saying that, he sent someone to the front to notify everyone to start their journey.
The convoy slowly moved forward, slowly leaving Qili Village in the morning light. At this time, the villagers of Qili Village had just woken up. When they heard the noise and came out to see the convoy slowly disappearing, they couldn't help but say, "The Zhou family and the Bai family have gone out again."
There was inevitably some envy in his words.
Manbao and Baishan rode their horses faster and the ride was less bumpy. After running for a while, their bodies became warm and they were a little further away from the convoy, so they slowed down and looked back from time to time.
Daji was not there, but Madam Liu had assigned them two guards, who were now riding horses behind them.
Seeing them looking back, the guard said, "Master, Miss Man, we ran about half a mile longer than them."
Bai Shan nodded and said to Man Bao, "Let's go ahead first. If we stop to rest at noon, we can help find a place to rest and collect some firewood."
Manbao agreed.
So the four of them continued running forward.
In the convoy at the back, Bai Erlang, who had been planning to take another nap, was completely woken up by the shaking because the road was difficult to travel on.
He yawned and squeezed out a tear. He looked at the person across from him who was chewing on a bean bun. After a moment of silence, he asked, "Didn't you have breakfast?"
I'm too busy with my writing today, so let's keep it simple tonight. See you tomorrow! Hahahaha
(End of this chapter)
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