These cart-pulling horses were specially purchased fine horses; they could run very fast even pulling several boxes and a dozen or so people.
Only three hours had passed, but they had already traveled quite a distance. Knowing that those people would no longer catch up with them, the horses slowed down.
"Whoa—" The carriage suddenly stopped, and Lu Qingyan almost crashed into the carriage beam.
"Yiyi, are you alright?" Liuyu, who had hidden her son in her husband's arms to avoid bumping her head, became anxious when she saw her adopted daughter clutching her head. She angrily shouted outside, "How did you manage to drive that carriage?"
The coachman said in a trembling voice, "Madam, there seems to be a figure on the road ahead."
The weather had been fairly clear these past few days, and the bright moonlight at night made it quite luminous. Normally, it wouldn't be a problem while I was asleep, but traveling in the middle of the night was unsettling. Especially when a figure suddenly appeared in the middle of the road, it really startled the traveler.
Not to mention that the figure was still lying on the ground, and he could faintly smell the blood emanating from the figure, whether it was his imagination or not.
Could it be that I've really encountered a ghost in the middle of the night?
"Someone's there?" Upon hearing the driver's words, Liu Yu immediately became restless. She had always been kind-hearted and couldn't bear to see others suffer in front of her. Over the years, she had helped many people and unintentionally received a lot in return, but her original intention had never changed. This time, hearing a figure on the road ahead, she worried that he had encountered some difficulties and wanted to come out and lend a hand.
"Mom, you stay in the car, Dad and I will go down and take a look!" Lu Qingyan stopped her. Tian Mingyin was still asleep on her lap. If she woke up this little darling, there would be a lot of trouble.
Sure enough, as soon as Liu Yu moved, her son, who had been sleeping soundly on her lap, woke up. He raised his hand to rub his eyes and mumbled, "Mom, are we here?"
As he spoke, he was about to get up and jump off the carriage.
Lu Qingyan quickly stopped her, saying, "We're not there yet. Go back to sleep for a while. Your sister and father have some errands to run downstairs."
"Hmm." The chubby boy, who was about half a person's height, stammered in response and fell back down.
Lu Qingyan chuckled, "Mingyin is getting cuter and cuter." Surprisingly, she didn't cry.
"It's only because your mother spoils him. He's so old and still so immature." Although Tian Shenhua said this, everyone could see the smile in his eyes.
Tian Mingyin's older brother and sister, Tian Mingshi and Tian Mingshu, were entrusted to a wealthy family when they were very young. Tian Shenhua and his wife only had one son, Tian Mingyin, so they naturally spoiled him. Fortunately, the child was intelligent and was not spoiled by his parents. Apart from a few minor flaws, he was still upright in character.
The family that took in Tian Mingshi and Tian Mingshu was the same family that had received Liu Yu's kindness. At that time, the late emperor was still alive, and Tian Shenhua was busy fleeing with a group of people, afraid of being recognized, so she dared not bring her newborn children with her. Coincidentally, there was a family that had never had children, and remembering the old kindness, they took the two children with them.
Later, when things improved, they wanted to go and bring the two girls back, but they didn't expect that the family had already moved away.
That family was a scholarly family with a good reputation for their conduct. Tian Shenhua wasn't worried about them mistreating her children; they were her own flesh and blood, how could she not miss them? So they had another reason to travel all over the country: to find their children.
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