Fang Yuan was unaware that the two people upstairs knew she was a woman disguised as a man.
She had no idea that this Lee Seung-cheol was her maternal grandmother's grandson and her mother's nephew.
Since Li Wan'er had no memory of this man, she didn't take it seriously.
I just felt that this kid was good-looking and had a somewhat familiar face.
Early the next morning, Fang Yuan took his mother and younger siblings onto the donkey cart.
Her donkey cart was very small, only one meter wide and less than two meters long.
At the very back is a wide bench connected to the carriage, less than a meter wide, which can barely squeeze three people in, but it's inconvenient.
So Fang Yuan placed a wooden box, more than a meter long, on the side as a stool.
A cushion was laid out, and the mother sat inside with Fang Yi, while Fang Cheng sat to the side.
Several large suitcases and bows and arrows were placed opposite Fang Cheng.
In this way, there's not much space left.
"Brother Fang, why don't you stay in the middle of the group?"
After Cheng Hezhou finished inspecting the goods, he saw Fang Yuan driving a donkey cart out and came over to ask him a question.
Knowing that Fang Yuan was a woman and that she wanted to take her mother and younger siblings to the capital to find her relatives, he was inevitably more soft-hearted.
"No need, our donkey cart is not as fast as your horse cart, we can just follow behind."
Fang Yuan shook his head and refused after seeing their carriage.
She just wanted to walk along for a while; it wouldn't make sense for her to squeeze into the middle of the group.
"Alright, remember to contact me if you need anything." Cheng Hezhou didn't press the issue.
A moment later, Lee Seung-cheol also came down. He glanced at Fang Yuan and said:
"My surname is Li, and I am Uncle Cheng's bodyguard. If you need anything and it's inconvenient for you to contact Uncle Cheng, you can contact me."
He only now realized that the boy was indeed quite handsome, but her disguise was also quite good; no wonder he hadn't noticed it before.
But this girl is really bold, daring to bring her sick and weak family to the capital to find relatives.
"Okay, thank you, Brother Li." Fang Yuan paused for a moment and then nodded.
After the horse-drawn carriage team left, Fang Yuan followed in his donkey cart.
"Big sister, where are we going?"
The little boy, Fang Yi, leaned against his mother, still half asleep, and asked.
He was carried into the car by Fang Yuan while he was still asleep, and woke up as the car shook. He had long forgotten what they had talked about yesterday.
"Didn't I tell you to call me 'Big Brother'? How could you forget again?"
Fang Cheng glared at Fang Yi. How did her younger brother become so stupid? He can't even remember such a simple thing.
"Oh, I remember, it's my eldest brother!"
Fang Yi quickly nodded; what he remembered was that he had just forgotten in his daze.
"Big brother, where are we going?"
Fang Yi turned to Fang Yuan outside the curtain and asked again.
Hearing what was being said inside, Fang Yuan chuckled and replied, "We're going to the capital to find Dad, so behave yourself and don't say anything out of line, okay?"
This little rascal said he remembered it yesterday, but he forgot it again after taking a nap.
Fortunately, his donkey cart was following behind the other horse-drawn cart, and there was some distance between them.
"I understand. But can we really find Father?" Fang Yi asked with some doubt.
His father has been away from home for so long that he has forgotten what his father looks like.
"We'll definitely find it, and then no one will bully us anymore," Fang Cheng said confidently.
If their father were home, they wouldn't have been bullied by their aunt's family, and their eldest sister wouldn't have been beaten and bled so much.
"We can find it; we'll find it once we get to the capital," Fang Yuan continued, trying to deceive him.
She's almost made this lie seem true; it's truly a terrible thing.
I don't know where we'll find them a father once we get to the capital.
"Is Father really in the capital? Is the capital far away?" Fang Yi asked again, full of doubt.
"The capital is far away, which is why Father can't come back. We have to go to the capital to see Father."
Their territory was the junction of the fiefdoms of the King of Jin and the King of Qin, and also a fortress leading to the border.
Both sides came to recruit soldiers one after the other, and it was unknown which king her father served under, but in the end, the King of Qin ascended the throne.
But Li Wan'er's father never appeared in her memory.
Could it be that he was recruited by the Prince of Jin, and that's why he's gone?
“I remember we’re going to the capital, but... Big brother, I’m hungry,” the little boy said again.
He woke up in the car. He hadn't eaten anything that morning, and he wanted to eat something.
"Hey~ have some steamed buns!"
Fang Yuan glanced ahead, then took out an oil paper package and handed it in; inside were four large steamed buns.
Wow, a big meat bun!
"Don't fight over it, let's each have one, and Mom will eat two." Fang Cheng was good at distributing.
"Okay! Mom will eat!"
"Thank you, Chengcheng. Chengcheng will eat too, and Xiaoyi will eat too!" The silly mother still remembered her child.
The three people inside quickly fell silent, and the aroma of meat buns soon filled the carriage.
Fang Yuan smelled the aroma and ate two steamed buns outside.
Along the way, the little one would fall asleep after sitting in the car for a long time, and then want to get out of the car after waking up.
"Big sister..."
"Shut up, eat your candied hawthorn, eat your candied hawthorn!"
Upon hearing this address, Fang Yuan handed over three more candied hawthorns wrapped in oil paper.
To prevent the three of them from getting bored and continuing to ask her questions that would give them away.
"Candied hawthorns~" Fang Yi shouted happily.
"Thank you, big brother!" Fang Cheng remembered Fang Yuan's words.
"Thank you, Yuanyuan!"
The silly mother always called her Yuanyuan, and outsiders couldn't understand what was going on with that nickname.
However, Fang Yuan also found a way to shut the three of them up.
She made a deal with the three of them: as long as they didn't say anything out of line, they would be able to eat something delicious in an hour.
The two children, one big and one small, were very well-behaved when it came to food.
After traveling for a day and a night, the group arrived in the county town.
The caravan stopped in the county town for another day, and Fang Yuan took the opportunity to go to the county government office to apply for a travel permit and register his household.
Previously, the certificates issued in the village were only valid within a small area; for those further away, a certificate stamped with the county magistrate's official seal was required.
These things cost her two taels of silver to make, no wonder prices were so high in ancient times.
When traveling long distances, a travel permit must be obtained by paying money.
They also had to bribe the officials and runners in the government offices, which explains why only merchant caravans could travel all over the country.
For ordinary people who want to leave their local area and travel far away, the money spent on bribes is enough to cover their expenses for a year. Who would be willing to do that?
After leaving the government office, I looked at the fairly prosperous county town.
She bought ten large earthenware jars, each nearly a meter tall, and filled eight with clean well water and two with boiled water, placing them in her storage space.
Not only her, but Cheng Hezhou and his caravan also loaded a lot of water and dry food at the inn.
After all, the journey to the provincial capital would take almost half a month, and the area was sparsely populated, with even bandits lurking along the way.
"Brother Fang, the journey to the provincial capital will take almost half a month, so you'd better prepare plenty of provisions," Cheng Hezhou kindly reminded him.
"Thank you for the reminder, Uncle Cheng. I've already made quite a few preparations. I'll need your help on the road ahead," Fang Yuan replied with a smile.
She prepared a lot of things, but it wasn't visible from the outside.
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