Sun quickly packed up her bedding, took Taohua and Sanlang with her, hid six taels of silver under her skin, went to the third room and called Xia Daohua, and the group hurried out.
Jiang was extremely reluctant but she did not have the courage to resist Zhou's decision. She had no choice but to pull Xia Youtian with tears in her eyes and sent Sun and the others to the village entrance. She turned back reluctantly until she could no longer see Xia Daohua's back.
Xia Daohua followed Sun silently. Sun didn't know if she was sincere or not, as she walked very fast along the way.
Taohua and Sanlang are several years older than Xia Daohua, so it is not difficult for them to keep up with Sun.
If they continue at this pace, Xia Daohua might really fall behind.
However, Xia Daohua was not in a hurry at all.
She knew that with Sun's greed for money, she would never let her fall behind - after all, if she could not return to the Xia family safely, Zhou would not give her money, let alone let Sun off easily.
Sure enough, seeing that Xia Daohua was following them slowly and not too far away, Sun finally stopped and waited for her to catch up.
It was just the process of waiting, and Sun felt a little sour:
"Daohua, why are you walking so slowly?
It’s hard to tell how much time has passed since your brother Erlang was injured and when he brought the news home!
If we don't hurry up, what will happen if your brother Erlang's injury is delayed?"
Daohua smiled and reminded her:
"If Second Aunt is really anxious, when we get to Beiguan Town, we can hire a carriage and a bodyguard to take us there.
After all, I heard that the place where Erlang Ge is is not very peaceful!
If we don’t have the escort, we are small and weak. If we meet a bad guy, we might not even be able to afford him a bite.
Brother Sanlang is just a teenager, so his strength is probably not enough.
Even if he can protect Second Aunt, I'm afraid he can't protect Sister Taohua; even if he can protect Sister Taohua, I'm afraid he can't protect Second Aunt!"
After hearing this, Sun suddenly became depressed.
What this little girl said actually made some sense.
But with the little money he had, if he hired a bodyguard and a carriage, how could he even afford to pay for Erlang's medical treatment? He had no choice but to rent two mules, find a caravan going his way, and ask them to give him a ride!
When she arrived at the carriage and horse shop, Sun asked about the price and carefully calculated the money. She was reluctant to hire a carriage or a bodyguard. As for the mule, she rented an old mule with a painful look on her face.
People these days all value being kind to others, so Sun's plan to seek shelter in the caravan did not fail.
Although the two companies she asked at the beginning rejected her outright.
But when Sun inquired about the third caravan, the people saw their group, and Sun, a tired-looking woman with three children, and felt pity for them. Without waiting for her to plead, they allowed them to follow their own caravan and walk slowly.
Sun was overjoyed and thanked the manager of the caravan again and again. She put the luggage on the mule's back with a beaming face, let Sanlang sit on it, let Taohua pull Daohua, and she led the mule.
The old mule is so old that even its eyelashes have turned white, and it wheezes when it walks.
However, the animal's leg strength was surprisingly good, and it was able to follow the caravan at a close distance, barely keeping up with the caravan's carriages.
The caravan traveled at dawn and slept at night, eating and drinking in the open air. Sun and his companions endured many hardships following the caravan. The children took turns riding on the mules, resting their feet in turn, but Sun mostly walked on her own two feet.
It took three or four days of walking before they reached the small village where Erlang was recuperating.
At this time, almost a week had passed since Erlang was injured.
Erlang was injured when he rolled down the mountain. He was unconscious for several days and the bones in his arms, waist, legs and feet were all injured.
Fortunately, Erlang is lucky and has a reliable boss.
Erlang's boss immediately called a doctor to take his pulse, prescribe medicine, boiled some medicine and gave it to him to drink. He also asked San Mengzi from the old Lu family, who was from the same village as him, to stay and take care of him.
San Mengzi did his job conscientiously and Erlang woke up soon.
After Erlang learned that his injuries were serious and even his movements were very inconvenient, he was depressed for a long time.
After much deliberation, he decided to send a message home, asking them to come and look after him.
Whether they will come is another matter.
San Mengzi strongly supported Erlang's decision. Not only did he enthusiastically help him draw a route map, he also asked someone to pass Erlang's message and route map to the drunkard Lao Lu, and specifically instructed Lao Lu to take the letter to Lao Xia's house.
As soon as the messenger left, San Mengzi got up and went to catch up with the main force. He still had to go to his superiors to cancel his leave and report back!
Erlang was injured and was left temporarily in a local farmer's house.
The family lived with an old lady in her fifties and a young widow in her twenties. The widow had three children: the eldest daughter was only eight years old, the second daughter was only five years old, and the youngest son was less than two years old.
There are families with complete populations in the village, but ordinary people inevitably have some taboos about the sick and the wounded that are not easy to show openly.
But since the family had lost the man who supported the household, making a living was difficult and they could not care about so many things.
Besides, this family is well-liked in the village and is famous for their good character.
Erlang's superiors specifically asked the head of the village and the village chief, and also conducted an on-site investigation. They found that the family had cleaned the small yard very cleanly and the house was tidy, so they felt relieved.
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