On the seventh day of the eighth lunar month, Lu Zheng drove over to help the two sisters pack their luggage.
Gu Hui is eighteen years old this year. This is the first time she has left home to go to such a far place. Like Gu Xin, she is also reluctant to leave the place where she was born and raised.
She saw Uncle Gu looking depressed and silent, leaning against the door frame watching her and Xin Xin. She walked over and said with a smile, "Dad, why are you such a different person today?"
Uncle Gu angrily smacked Gu Hui: "You still have the mood to laugh! I'm heartbroken! It's my daughter's first time going on such a long trip, and it's not even me, her father, taking her. I'm not happy about it."
Gu Hui: "...Would you like to come with us, Dad?"
Uncle Gu said firmly, "No! My crops haven't been harvested yet!"
Gu Hui: "...So, Dad still cares more about the crops, huh!"
Uncle Gu: "Of course! Without crops, how am I supposed to feed you? Sigh, never mind, I have to go to the fields. Huihui, you're the older sister, remember to take good care of Xinxin. Xinxin, you're the younger sister, don't be naughty and annoy your older sister! Okay, I won't say anymore, I'm leaving!"
Gu Hui looked at her father's back as he carried the basket on his back and sighed. "Oh well, I'll see him again by the end of next month at the latest."
Grandpa Gu and Uncle Gu also gave the two sisters some instructions.
Then Grandma Gu urged me to get in the car.
Even after walking quite a distance, Gu Xin still stuck her head out to look back.
When they arrived at the dock and boarded the ship, Gu Xin and Gu Hui didn't say much.
Lu Zheng knew they were reluctant to leave, so he patted them on the shoulder.
The boats on the dock set sail and went downstream.
One ship isn't enough to transport the grain; there will be ten ships in total. Five of them will be handed over to the imperial envoy sent by the emperor in Yizhou.
Lu Zheng planted potatoes in the autumn and winter of the past two years, so the emperor specially sent officials from the Ministry of Revenue to wait for Lu Zheng there. At that time, an imperial envoy would directly bring the seeds to Jiangnan so that some could be planted there.
The remaining five ships were transported directly back to Beijing by Lu Zheng.
For the group traveling by land, Lu Zheng sent Bai Yi and his men to escort Grandpa Zhou.
Grandma Xiao didn't go with them. She hadn't decided yet whether to stay in Zhoujia Town with Grandpa Zhou or accompany Lu Zheng to the border.
She only has one granddaughter and one grandson. She is very confident in her granddaughter, but she is worried about her grandson, Lu Zheng.
As for Old Man Zhou, their relationship has been somewhat harmonious recently, but she has gotten used to being alone for more than ten years. If she were to stay with this annoying old man again, she would not stay in Zhoujia Town for him unless he came with her. She would rather go to the capital and live next to Old Gu's family than stay with this old man.
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Two days had passed since the ship left, and Gu Xin finally came to her senses.
She clung to Gu Hui's arm: "Sister Huihui, it's a good thing you came with me, otherwise, I would have been so scared! I've never been out alone before. Hehe, last time we went to Yuzhou, it was just the two of us!"
Gu Hui rolled her eyes at her, annoyed: "Is your brother Yuanyuan no longer a human being? Don't think I don't know what you're thinking."
Gu Xin smiled ingratiatingly, "Hehe, Sister Huihui, I just wanted to stay with Brother Yuanyuan a little longer. I was afraid that he would have already left by the time we got to Beijing. But if we go with him, he will leave, and Grandpa and Grandma will come soon. Sister Huihui, Brother Yuanyuan is very pitiful. We are his sisters, and we should care for him."
Gu Hui wanted to tease the girl, so she asked, "Xinxin, aren't you afraid that your brother Yuanyuan's sweetheart will be unhappy if he sees so many of his half-sisters?"
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