Chapter 18 Does Sister-in-law Like Cheng Feng?
Cuiyi and Lingyun were pushed onto the carriage by Su Nuan. After she harnessed the horses, she took out two three-foot square pieces of oilcloth from the box, one of which she tied around her waist and the other with a hole cut in the middle to put around her neck.
She fixed the small piece of oilcloth she had cut onto her hat and put it on so that she wouldn't get soaked when she sat on the shaft of the cart.
Xue anxiously poked her head out, "Nuannuan, come in quickly. You can't get wet outside in the rain."
Su Nuan said, "Mom, don't worry about me. I won't get wet like this. You guys just squeeze together and go to sleep quickly. You can come and take my place in the second half of the night."
Seeing that the rain was not heavy, Xue nodded and said, "Okay."
She saw dark clouds covering the sky during the day, and the rain would not be light. It would definitely get heavier in the second half of the night, so she would go to keep watch at that time.
The people in the car fell asleep, hugging each other.
It’s not that they don’t worry about Su Nuan, but there is no better way at the moment. Is it considered loving and loyal to accompany her in the rain?
Moreover, during the past two days of getting along, they all regarded Su Nuan as their backbone and had an inexplicable sense of obedience.
Su Nuan leaned against the shaft of the carriage and dozed off. Sure enough, an hour later, someone came over in the rain and tried to steal the box at the back of the carriage.
Su Nuan quietly came up behind the man and asked coldly, "Do you need help?"
The man said without even turning his head: "No, I can move it."
After he finished speaking, he froze and turned around to see a man who was a head shorter than him standing there.
He breathed a sigh of relief and said with a ferocious look on his face, "You scared me. Are you the young widow of the Ling family? After all, you are a female. Come with me. If you serve me well, I will reward you with a meal."
Su Nuan took out a knife from the space, thought for a while, put it back and replaced it with an awl for sewing shoe soles.
She smiled and said, "Really? Then come on."
The man thought Su Nuan was an unsatisfied young widow, so he immediately put down the box he was holding and turned around to pounce on her.
Su Nuan waved the awl in her hand up and down, her body as flexible as a loach, making the man so tired that he was out of breath but couldn't touch a corner of her clothes.
The man was furious and pounced on Su Nuan with a ferocious look on his face, trying to press her under him with his body.
However, Su Nuan took three steps to the right slowly with a smile on her face.
The man's body stiffened and he fell straight to the ground. His eyes were wide open, filled with fear and despair, and his mouth was open but no sound came out.
Su Nuan bent down to take a look, then put the awl back into the space. She grabbed the man's ankle and dragged him to the edge of the official road in the rain.
"Good will be rewarded with good, and evil with evil; it is not that there is no retribution, but that the time has not come."
After she finished speaking, she kicked the corner of the man's clothes down, and the body rolled down the slope until it stopped at the river.
The heavy rain continued to pour down, covering up all the sinful sounds.
Su Nuan returned to the carriage in a good mood, sat against the car, and continued to take a nap, without any psychological pressure after killing someone.
Perhaps people who have died once cherish the opportunity to live more, so eliminating evil people means saving more people.
In the second half of the night, Mrs. Xue patted Su Nuan and said, "Nuan Nuan, come in and have some rest. Mother will keep watch."
Su Nuan did not refuse. She got into the carriage and gave the oilcloth to Xue.
It was drizzling at the moment, so it wouldn't be too uncomfortable for Xue to keep watch.
Su Nuan fell asleep leaning against the door of the carriage. If possible, she really wanted to change to a bigger carriage. The current carriage seemed very crowded with five people sitting in it.
In the early morning of the next day, there were cries coming from the lower part of the official road. It must be that the man's body was found by his family.
Su Nuan got out of the carriage. Although it was not raining outside, the sky was frighteningly gloomy.
She said quickly, "Mom, get in the carriage quickly. We'll be leaving soon. If you don't have anything to eat, just use some dried meat. We'll have to travel quickly."
There is not even a sheltered cave in this place now. The officers and soldiers will definitely not be able to bear it and need to hurry to find a place to shelter from the rain.
Sure enough, it wasn't long before the soldiers began to urge them to hurry on.
The family whose man had died was still crying and making a fuss, but what could they do? Prisoners had no human rights. Their bodies were simply buried after their ears were cut off.
Su Nuan drove the carriage forward, and the team's speed increased a lot under the urging of the soldiers.
The dark clouds in the sky are getting thicker and thicker, like a mountain pressing on everyone's heart.
Although heavy rain may not seem aggressive, walking in it will quickly consume one's physical strength. When one consumes too much physical strength, one will catch a cold, and without medical care or medicine, one can only wait to die.
Su Nuan lifted the carriage curtain and said, "Mom, take off the oilcloth from the quilt and I'll tie it to the top of the carriage. This rain will definitely last for a long time."
The inside of the carriage was the only dry place. If it became damp, the old and children inside would be in danger of catching a cold.
Xue felt a little sorry when she heard this, but the old lady had already pulled the quilt over and urged, "Hurry up."
"Yes, mother." Xue took out an ironwood dagger and began to remove the stitches.
Fortunately, the oilcloth was very large, and when it was torn open it just covered the roof and side windows of the carriage, so that the carriage looked like a small house.
During lunch break, Su Nuan got into the carriage again and started making raincoats and rain pants with the remaining oilcloth.
There is no way to deal with shoes. There are no waterproof shoes in this era, and oilcloth cannot withstand being walked on, so it will rot quickly if wrapped around shoes.
Xue obviously felt that the number of oilcloths was wrong. She looked at Su Nuan in confusion, but did not ask any questions.
Su Nuan saw her confusion and made up an excuse.
"I asked Dong'er to collect them, but I didn't expect they would actually be useful."
Xue's brows relaxed and she smiled, "What a kind and loyal girl. When we get there, if she doesn't mind, I'll take her as my daughter."
Su Nuan hopes Dong'er can be happy. Xue is a good woman, and it is a good thing for Dong'er to have her as a mother.
But she immediately said coquettishly: "Mom, you can't stop loving me, your daughter-in-law, just because you have a daughter."
Xue chuckled and pinched Su Nuan's nose lovingly, "You, little devil."
The old lady watched them laughing and joking with a smile, and the sadness of exile faded a lot.
Little Tuantuan sat in the old lady's arms, with her big eyes wide open, and asked innocently, "Mom, why don't you recognize me now?"
Xue sighed, "We are all slaves now. It would be bad for her if we acknowledge her. We can just find a way to buy her a poor household registration when we get there."
Little Tuanzi didn’t understand these things and just thought that having more sisters was a good thing.
Su Nuan asked curiously, "Mom, can we still buy a household registration?"
Xue nodded, "Yes, the world is in chaos now, and it's no longer a time that can be controlled by the laws of the past."
She paused and continued, "Especially in these border areas, the local tyrants have the final say. Their cities need to expand their populations as labor, so household registration is their way of making money."
Su Nuan pinched herself secretly. She was so confused in her previous life that she didn't pay attention to the changes in the world and thought it was a peaceful and prosperous era.
Fortunately, I now understand the situation. As long as I have money and the ability to protect myself, I will be able to live a prosperous life in the future.
She felt relieved, picked up two raincoats and said, "I'll send them to Cheng Feng."
Xue's lips moved slightly, her face looked unhappy, but she said nothing.
Xiao Tuantuan beside her asked, "Does sister-in-law like that Master Cheng Feng? Otherwise, why would she send him clothes?"
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