Chapter 22: Reserves (Happy Little New Year)
Chen Xue didn't have time to pay attention to Zhao Guang. She excitedly collected the fish into the space. These were all meat and fish soup.
Grab more now and store them so you can eat them slowly later.
The servants also had smiles on their faces as they caught fish. There were too many fish to catch them all. They could only put them on the ground and run back to the river to continue catching.
Chen Xue took the opportunity to store the fish they caught into the space.
The servants caught fish from the river, dumped them out, and then continued to catch...
It turns out that there are fewer and fewer fish in the river, which is normal, but why are they catching fewer and fewer fish? This is a problem.
If Chen Xue hadn't explained that the fish had run back into the river, this problem would probably have troubled these servants for more than ten years.
They only kept a few of them. Chen Xue pretended to release the rest of the fish, but actually put them into the space, and then came back with the fish.
They asked the servants to give one fish to the captain of the yamen runners, one to Xu Tian, one to the other yamen runners, and then one to themselves. Only then were all the fish distributed.
"What about me?"
Zhao Guang was dumbfounded. No, everyone has fish, why don’t I have it?
"Don't you dislike eating fish?" Chen Xue asked suspiciously.
"Who said that?"
"You yourself!"
Zhao Guang then remembered that he had just offered the fish to the Chen family, and then he also used the excuse that he didn't like eating fish and gave the fish to the Chen family.
But the problem is, who knew you were so good? Others catch fish one by one, but you catch them in groups.
Zhao Guang had blocked his own words and could only leave in frustration.
"But here's a little fish, if you don't mind..."
Chen Xue pointed to a palm-sized fish tied to a straw rope. The fish jumped up by itself and then hit a rock, and there was no way to save it.
"I don't mind, I don't mind." Zhao Guang was immediately happy when he heard it. "I can't eat such a big fish by myself. Small fish are good."
Having said this, fearing that Chen Xue would go back on her word, he quickly grabbed the fish and ran away, laughing all the way. This scared the surrounding prisoners so much that they all stayed away from him, thinking he was having a seizure.
Zhao Guang didn't care what others thought. He felt that since Chen Xue was willing to share the fish with him, it meant that she didn't care about what he had done before.
In fact, he was overthinking it. Chen Xue obviously didn't want to share the fish with him, but he still had to beg for the fish.
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"Cook these two fish!"
Chen Xue pointed to a fish contributed by Zhang Yiquan and the fish she caught herself. For so many people, two fish were enough.
"Mmm, delicious!"
In the carriage, Chen Xue drank a big bowl of fish soup and touched her stomach with satisfaction.
"You don't even know how to eat or sit properly." Mother Chen glared at her. "Look at you, you don't look like a young lady at all."
Chen Xue curled her lips. She was not a young lady to begin with, and she had just traveled through time. She had not had time to enjoy the life of a young lady before she was exiled.
So, she really didn't know how a young lady should eat.
"Forget it, forget it. It's not the same as before. There aren't so many rules anymore." Lord Chen was more tolerant of his daughter and didn't care about it.
"You just spoil her." Mother Chen turned around and glared at Master Chen. "Although we are down and out, we still have to be polite."
Mr. Chen didn't dare to talk back and quickly buried his head in his food, which made his mother so angry that she ate a few more bowls of rice.
Three people, oh no, four people killed one fish.
After dinner, Chen Xue took out the dessert, and the family chatted for a while before going to bed.
The carriage could seat four people, but not for sleeping. Chen Xue and the others had to remove the table in the middle and the seats on both sides, and then put quilts on them so that the three of them could squeeze in.
As for Lord Chen, he went outside and slept against the carriage.
After all, it's impossible to sleep together with Chen Xue and three other women.
"We still have to find a way to get another carriage!"
With another carriage, he wouldn't have to be outside in the wind, and many things could be placed in the carriage.
With an extra carriage, they could also buy some things and use them openly.
But the carriage is hard to find.
If it were in the capital, it would be easy to buy, but now that I am on the road of exile, I can only buy it in a larger city. Before, I was very lucky to be able to buy it in a small village.
No words were spoken that night.
The next morning, the bailiffs woke everyone up with whips.
There are regulations on how many miles the exile team must walk every day and how many days it must take to reach the place of exile.
Therefore, the yamen runners kept urging them to hurry up, and if they failed to arrive within the specified time, they would be punished.
Bang!
The Chen family's carriage suddenly fell into a pit and could not move.
Seeing this, the prisoners behind hurriedly bypassed the Chen family and hurried on their way. They did not step forward to help, and some even looked like they were enjoying the show.
If they fell while walking and did not get up immediately, the yamen runners would whip them to make them get up quickly.
The Chen family's carriage was stuck on the road and they would definitely be beaten and scolded by the yamen runners. After all, they were all prisoners, so why could they sit in the carriage? So the prisoners around them were actually unhappy with the Chen family.
Now it is a rare opportunity to see the Chen family being beaten and scolded by the yamen runners, how can I not be happy.
Sure enough, a yamen runner saw the Chen family's carriage stopped and was stuck in the middle of the road, and immediately ran over with a whip in hand.
When everyone thought that the bailiff was going to whip the Chen family, they found that the bailiff just looked at Mr. Chen and asked with concern what happened.
When he heard that the carriage had fallen into a pit, the yamen runner put the whip on his waist and helped the Chen family push the carriage.
Seeing this scene, the prisoners' jaws dropped.
"Thank you, sir!"
Lord Chen was also a little surprised that the yamen runner would come forward to help, so he quickly asked Chen Xue for some silver and then stuffed it into the yamen runner's hand.
The yamen runner named Zhou Yu did not refuse, but patted his chest, indicating that he could be approached if he had any problems in the future.
Lord Chen was very satisfied, but he knew that it was not just the result of sending them fish yesterday.
In fact, there are two types of people who can serve as yamen runners in the exile team.
One has a background.
One type has no background.
People like Xu Tian who have a background can be arranged directly to come in. After all, the exile team has a lot of money and not everyone can get in.
But people like Zhou Yu have no background.
People like them who have no background almost spent all their savings to buy this official position, hoping to make a fortune in the exile team.
The reason why Zhou Yu helped the Chen family was not only because of the fish last night, but also because of Xu Tian's face.
After all, Xu Tian has a background, so people like them who have no background naturally have to establish a good relationship with Xu Tian.
Xu Tian often told them to take good care of Lord Chen, and after hearing it so many times, they remembered it.
After getting in touch with them, they were willing to help, and Lord Chen was also very generous. Although he didn't know where the rumor that he was penniless came from, Zhou Yu felt that it was somewhat untrue.
Mr. Chen is obviously very rich, how can he be penniless?
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