"Mom? Are we still eating bananas tomorrow?"
"..." Xiao Guo smiled helplessly and touched his head in the dark, "I don't want to eat anymore. Mom is just teasing you."
"Mom is so bad~" Zhuangzhuang snorted unhappily, and then said, "But I like it."
Xiaoguo burst out laughing, turned around to face Zhuangzhuang, patted him, and said, "Go to sleep."
Zhuangzhuang fell asleep after a while, but Xiaoguo became more and more energetic.
These past two days, she always felt like she had done almost nothing, and always felt like she was on edge, but she just couldn't remember what it was.
Just as she tossed and turned, she suddenly heard a male voice in her ears and Xiao Guoteng sat up immediately.
"Jiang Shanhe!"
Zhuangzhuang was suddenly woken up, and Xiaoguo hurried to comfort him. After he fell asleep, Xiaoguo couldn't wait to get out of bed, light a candle, and use the candlelight to find the envelope in the pocket of the clothes he had changed.
At this moment, she wanted to slap herself on the head. How could she have forgotten such an important thing? She was so unlucky!
Looking at the letter that was delivered five days ago, Xiao Guo couldn't help but kiss it, feeling very upset.
On the day I received the letter, my train of thought was suddenly interrupted by the letter from Eunuch Su. Later, because of processing bananas, my mind was full of bananas. It was not until today that I remembered that her brain was really full of bananas!
For fear of disturbing Zhuangzhuang's sleep, Xiaoguo put on his clothes and went outside with a candle.
As soon as she closed the door, she couldn't help but open the envelope, eager to read the contents.
Finally, at the beginning, it was no longer "My wife, please see the letter", but the very normal word "Xiao Guo".
Xiaoguo felt relieved. She was not used to Jiang Danhe's literary style. She still preferred him who was straightforward.
Flop Flop...
The familiar heartbeat became restless again because of a beginning.
There were three pieces of letter paper, full of words, and all the regret and shyness in them were conveyed to Xiaoguo one by one. After reading it, she put the letter paper down. The more she thought about it, the funnier she found it. The reason was so funny. Jiang Shanhe, Jiang Shanhe, what can I say about you?
She returned to the house, stuffed the letter into the closet and covered it with clothes. She put away all the letters Jiang Shanhe had written to her.
Lying on the bed, Xiaoguo turned over and looked at the sleeping Zhuangzhuang. Under her gaze, the child didn't know what he was dreaming about, and he smacked his lips.
Xiaoguo couldn't help but chuckle. One was Jiang Danhe, and the other was Zhuangzhuang. Both father and son looked smart, but they were actually cute and silly inside.
Since he had received Jiang Shanhe's letter and almost missed reading it due to his carelessness, Xiaoguo decided to write back to Jiang Shanhe to make it up to him.
She also asked the postman for the address that day. Fortunately, her memory was still good enough to remember it, so she just had to find the place.
She wasn't too familiar with the area around the county, but she could find the place accurately. But who could tell her why it was so quiet around here even birds wouldn't shit, let alone the post station? There were hardly any people around.
Two more graves appeared in this place, making it look like a mass grave.
What a bad decision! How come we are getting further and further away?
Xiaoguo frowned and drove the donkey cart back to where they had just started. She decided to go back to the starting point first, as she was afraid that she would stray too far away if she went any further.
Zhuangzhuang behind him was quite brave. He didn't care about the surroundings and happily hugged Xiaoguo's neck and looked left and right.
"Zhuangzhuang sat down and fell down after a while."
Xiao Guo said helplessly to Zhuangzhuang who was twisting his body. Actually, she didn't want to bring Zhuangzhuang with her. After all, it was quite cold now. The back of the donkey cart at home was open air, unlike the carriage with a compartment. He would catch a cold if he bumped back with her.
But after saying this, Zhuangzhuang was not satisfied. He was not a clay doll. Besides, going out when the weather was cold could help enhance immunity.
Xiaoguo couldn't convince him, so he brought him along.
"Mom, why are we going back?"
"Mom seems to have taken the wrong road."
Xiaoguo was a little hesitant. It shouldn't be like that. There was no way she could have remembered the address the postman gave her wrongly. Besides, the address was easy to remember.
"Where are we going?"
"After leaving the county town, walk east for about 50 meters. There is a river with a bridge over it. It is right in front of you after you cross the bridge."
Xiaoguo told Zhuangzhuang exactly what the postman had said. She had not found any river along the way. Now she could only hope that Zhuangzhuang, who had been watching the river all the way, would find the way.
"East?" Zhuangzhuang looked up at the sun. Fortunately, it was not cloudy today, so he could still vaguely see the shadow of the sun. The sun rises from the east and sets in the west. "Mom, this is not the east. We should have gone the other way at the fork in the road just now."
After Zhuangzhuang said this, Xiaoguo thought carefully, where is the fork in the road? She really didn't notice it.
"Mom, it's over there." Zhuangzhuang pointed ahead and showed Xiaoguo.
Xiaoguo leaned over to take a look, and sure enough, there was a road suddenly appearing out of nowhere, but why couldn't he see it?
"How could you possibly see it, Mom? Since I left the house, you've been lecturing me to sit down and be quiet. How could I have paid attention to the road?"
Zhuangzhuang was complaining about Xiaoguo leisurely, and she was so embarrassed that she almost got angry and gave Zhuangzhuang a stick.
"So if you had been more honest, I wouldn't have taken the wrong road." He couldn't make excuses, so he started to lie. In order to maintain his dignity as an adult, Xiao Guo refused to let go.
"Yes, yes, how could mother make a mistake?" Big things won't happen, but small things are hard to say.
Zhuangzhuang didn't dare to say the rest of the words. He was confident that if he said this, the mother-son relationship between them would probably be over.
After a strange silence, Xiaoguo silently drove the donkey cart back to the correct east direction, feeling extremely regretful. She was such an adult, but she still had to rely on her strength. It was all because she was too overconfident that she subconsciously took the main road as soon as she left the county town, without paying attention to the relatively narrow road on the side.
Fortunately, she realized something was wrong and turned back in time, otherwise she would have taken Zhuangzhuang and a donkey to another county.
"Mom, I see the bridge."
"Finally I've taken the right path!" Xiaoguo felt relieved after seeing the bridge. In fact, at one point she even suspected that she had remembered the address incorrectly.
But the ending tells her that her memory is still good~
After so many days, she can still remember the address exactly as it was. This is something that most people can do. She is really amazing.
“Hahahaha~”
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but laugh a few times, which made Zhuangzhuang look confused, not understanding what his mother was doing.
After crossing the bridge, the post station was indeed right in front of us not far away.
Xiaoguo and Zhuangzhuang couldn't help but widen their eyes. It was the first time for both of them to see a post station. Although they had been to the imperial palace and the general's mansion, this was the first time they saw a post station.
Xiaoguo, in particular, stared at it intently.
I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, this is not a post station at all, it's clearly a small city!
She thought the post station was just like an ordinary inn, with horses and rooms, and not a big place. But the post station in front of her was really eye-opening!
As soon as you enter the compound, you will see countless rooms arranged in a circle, and there are two floors above and below. It is preliminarily estimated that they are all guest rooms. There are nearly a hundred horses in the backyard, nearly a hundred stables, a large warehouse, and even a prison cell with heavy shackles.
In addition to these, there are countless carriages and even boats neatly arranged together in the corners of the yard.
Xiaoguo, with her strong body and a donkey beside her, looked particularly small in the room. Looking at this scene, she inexplicably felt like retreating.