Chapter 230: The Governor's Wife
Sang Luo subconsciously stopped and didn't need to ask deliberately because she heard someone asking next to her.
Someone who was at the city gate heard this and said, "The one who just rode out was the governor, right? I heard someone coming into the city to report that it seems to be the governor's wife."
"However, how many bags and carriages did they bring? Who is this governor's wife? Why is she so grand?"
"How would we know? But if she can be the wife of a governor, she must be from a poor family."
Sang Luo and Shen Lie looked at each other, and Shen Lie said, "Let's go. Let's go back before the convoy arrives. We can still see them at the village gate."
Mrs. Chen just wanted to take a look at the excitement. Although she was interested in the governor's wife and other things, her safety was far less important than her granddaughter-in-law and Sang Luo.
The wisdom of the elderly is to avoid crowded places, especially when there are two pregnant women, so walk quickly.
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The entrance to Daxing Village is close to the official road. From the corner of the official road and the main road into the city, there is a branch road leading to the entrance of the village. It is most convenient to stand there and watch the hustle and bustle of the official road and the city gate.
Good viewing angle and absolutely safe.
When Sang Luo and his companions returned to the dirt road outside Daxing Manor, the leader of the convoy that they had just seen from afar was already very close to Daxing Manor, and the word "Fan" on the flag at the head of the team was fluttering in the wind.
Chenliu Fan family.
It really is the governor’s wife who has arrived.
The noble lady of the aristocratic family was traveling far away. Although the family soldiers could not be kept in the open now, they could still wear the same clothes as the servants. Although the whole picture was not seen, the convoy was really large. Thinking of the long dragon at the city gate, Sang Luo had no idea what the four words "Chenliu Fan Family" meant.
Because of the vague impression formed in my mind from the previous glance, I felt that the person was ostentatious and ostentatious, but it did not seem to match my original impression. Although my original understanding of the Fan family of Chenliu was limited, from the little information I knew, the Fan family had a good reputation.
Until the vanguard of a hundred men passed by, Sang Luo saw a two-horse carriage with the Fan family emblem, which was grand but not ostentatious. Most importantly, the governor Zeng was riding beside the carriage. The curtains on the windows were lifted, and a young woman with a heroic look in her eyes was talking to the governor outside the carriage in high spirits.
I guess this is the wife of the governor.
Judging from the carriage she rode, the wife of the governor was not a ostentatious person.
Sang Luo felt a little relieved. The character and conduct of the local official was too important to the people in the city, and the same went for the official's family.
When Fan's carriages passed by, Sang Luo and Shen Lie saw the carts of supplies behind them, and then they realized why Fan's convoy was so spectacular. How much supplies did they bring? No wonder there were more than a hundred guards in the vanguard.
Dozens of baggage carts passed by, and other things were replaced on the carts behind. Chen Pozi and Qin Fangniang's eyes lit up.
What do you think it is?
Chicken, duck, goose, pig, sheep, cow!
Awesome!
Awesome!
Other things like geese and piglets are rare, but they are cows! How can they be as rare as cows?
Spring ploughing is approaching, and one cow can do the work of several laborers.
Sang Luo also became excited, and Shen Ning's eyes sparkled. The little girl was good at raising chickens, ducks and geese, so she was very interested in these. They had chickens and ducks at home, but had nowhere to buy geese.
What made Sang Luo even more emotional was that behind the ten carts of poultry packed into cages, ten carts of piglets, and the long lines of cattle, there were hundreds of refugees.
Yes, refugees. It was a very cold day, and Sang Luo even saw several men with their sleeves undone.
Chen Lie watched silently, and when he saw the end of the team, he whispered, "There are about 200 guards, 600 soldiers, and the refugees, including those who helped push the carts, are about 300 people."
Sang Luo was surprised. With eight hundred guards, they dared to bring three hundred refugees with them and escort so many supplies. This governor's wife was really brave.
She turned her head and said to Shen Ning, "Go and tell your aunt Shi Er and your aunts and sisters-in-law from the Zhou family that there are many refugees outside the city. Ask them to come out and see what's going on."
Chen Ning looked at the ragged refugees who had just passed by, nodded, and ran towards the village. Qin Fangniang was a step slower to react and said, "A Luo, are you saying... they are from Shezhou?"
Sang Luo didn't nod, and said, "It's just a guess. It could be someone who escaped from Shezhou during the war or was taken away by the rebel army. Of course, it could also be that I'm just overthinking it."
She just thought of Qiyang County, which was almost a deserted city.
The news I heard at the time was that the elderly were slaughtered and the women, children and young people were all taken away.
The rebellion was suppressed, but where were these people? How many people in Shezhou were forced into exile like the people in Qiyang County?
Everyone is looking forward to returning to their hometown. Now that the world is about to be peaceful, if these refugees were originally from Shezhou, it would make sense that the wife of Fan, the governor of Shezhou, dared to bring back so many people.
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The guards were placed in the governor's office, and the 600 soldiers were taken by the garrison to rest. The refugees were not allowed to enter the city and gathered outside the city gate. Chu Qichang and all the officials of the household department moved a long table and set up a temporary workshop outside the city gate. Looking from Daxingzhuang to the outside of Shezhou City, it was crowded and lively.
The Shi and Zhou family members came quickly, with mud on their hands, obviously having run down from the mountains. Upon hearing the news, Shopkeeper Xu also followed them out. He was not thinking about his relatives, but the former employees of Dongfulou.
Seeing so many refugees coming, they all held out a glimmer of hope and ran straight to the city gate to look for people.
Sang Luo and Zhou Ge did not stay any longer and returned to the farm first. When they reached the door of Chen's house, Mrs. Chen held Sang Luo and whispered to her, "The snow has melted for two days, but the mountain is still slippery. You should stay at home and don't go out to the fields or the mountain anymore."
"During the first three months, the fetus is not yet firmly seated. You should not tell anyone about your pregnancy. You just need to keep it to yourself. Do you understand?"
Sang Luo smiled and agreed, then she turned to tell Shen Lie and Shen Ning: "She can't stand the smell of meat, fumes, anything. Don't let Luo do the cooking recently, you guys should take care of it yourself."
Shen Lie and Shen Ning agreed one after another.
Mrs. Chen thought about it and felt that there was nothing else to say, so she smiled and let them go back. She was also anxious to go home, and was eager to tell her husband and son the good news that the family would soon have a great-grandson, so that they could be happy too.
Sang Luo said goodbye to the Chen family with a smile and returned home. Shen An, who had been waiting at home for half a day, hurried to the door to greet her.
"Brother, what did the doctor say? What happened to my sister-in-law?"
Chen Lie didn't dare let Sang Luo enter the kitchen again. He turned around and led them back to their own room. Chen An followed.
Chen Ning smiled happily. Seeing that there was no one outside, she came close to her second brother and whispered, "Sister-in-law is pregnant and can't stand the smell of fishy things, so she wants to vomit. Did you touch the fish? If you did, don't get close to sister-in-law."
Shen An's eyes suddenly widened, "No, no, I haven't had time to cut the fish yet."
And he was excited again: "I'm going to have a nephew?"
Sang Luo looked at him: "Why is it my nephew? My niece doesn't like him?"
Shen An smiled and said, "Little niece is fine, as are nephews and nieces."
He was so happy that he was circling around his sister-in-law.
Sniffing, Chen Lie, whose hands could only stay three steps away from his wife, said: "..."
Jealous.
He turned around and fetched water to wash his hands, washed them several times and smelled them, then changed the basin of water and washed again, wishing he could rub off several layers of skin.
Sang Luo chuckled.
Chen Ning also laughed, and then remembered something, and pulled Chen An to tell him: "You can't tell anyone outside, Grandma Chen said that you can't tell anyone in the first three months."
Shen An didn't ask what would happen if he told it, he just kept his mouth shut and nodded, indicating that he had remembered it.
Chen Lie washed for a long time, changed the water several times, and smelled it several times. After making sure that there was no smell, he tentatively moved closer to Sang Luo.
Sang Luo smiled and pulled the person forward, "Okay, I'll see you change three basins of water."
Chen Lie's heart was pounding. The person was right beside him. He raised his right hand and tentatively touched Sang Luo's abdomen.
In fact, it was no different from usual, but he was so happy that he forgot that Shen An and Shen Ning were still there. He smiled and hugged Sang Luo in his arms.
Shen An and Shen Ning looked at each other, and the brother and sister smiled and retreated.
Chen Ning was a careful person. She returned to the kitchen and saw that her second brother had already steamed the rice and cut the vegetables, tofu and other ingredients. Thinking that her sister-in-law couldn't stand the smell of fish and that Grandma Chen also couldn't stand the smell of cooking fumes, she simply closed the doors and windows of the kitchen and only opened the back window for safety's sake. She was afraid that Chen An would be covered in cooking fumes, so she simply pushed Chen An out and started cooking.
Chen Ning was really talented in cooking. He made stir-fried vegetables, braised tofu with green onions, and stewed fish head and tofu soup on another stove. As for the extra fish meat, he spread some salt on it and marinated it for the next day.
Three light dishes.
Fish head and tofu soup was originally the most nutritious, and she also added a lot of ginger slices. However, when she asked Chen An to bring it over, he didn't even get to drink two sips and started retching again.
Chen Lie and Chen An were extremely anxious, and they hurriedly took the fish soup away. But, maybe because of the fish soup or because she couldn't eat it in the first place, she couldn't eat tofu, vegetables, or rice. Even when Chen Lie poured her a glass of warm water to make her feel better, she felt like vomiting when he brought the water to her mouth.
I couldn't eat anything.
Chen Lie's brows were knotted with worry: "How can I not eat?"
Sang Luo waved her hands weakly: "It's okay to go hungry, but I really can't stand the smell. Just don't ask me to eat, and it's fine."
She also knew that this was willful. If she didn't eat it, she still had another one in her stomach, so she added, "Try again when you're hungry."
For dinner, I only drank a mouthful of fish soup and ate two chopsticks of vegetables.
Seeing that her reaction was too big, Chen Lie did not dare to force her. He sent the meal back to the kitchen and stayed with Sang Luo for a while. Seeing that she was better, he did not bother to eat and closed the door to go to Chen's house to learn from her.
As a result, when Zhou Ge arrived at Chen's house, he was not in a much better condition. Fortunately, Mrs. Chen and Qin Fangniang were both experienced people. Qin Fangniang took care of Zhou Ge, while Mrs. Chen went into the kitchen and served Chen Lie a bowl of finely chopped and freshly fried sauerkraut.
"Tell Luo to take it easy first. She's angry now and will want to vomit if she eats anything. When Luo gets hungry later, you can cook some porridge and add a small dish of pickled vegetables for her to try."
Chen Lie thanked him profusely and went back with a bowl of pickled cabbage.
When I got home, I found that there were guests at home. Manager Xu, the Zhou family, and the Shi family were all there. Sang Luo was entertaining them. Fortunately, there were many people, so they stood outside the house and talked.
Chen Lie subconsciously looked at Sang Luo, and when he saw that she looked a little better, he felt relieved. He greeted everyone, walked a few steps quickly to return the bowl in his hand to the kitchen and covered it with a plate, then turned around and asked, "How is it?"
Several families shook their heads. Zhou Cunzheng said, "They are indeed from Shezhou. There are also people from Qiyang County, but none of them we know."
Chen Lie was silent, and said: "Maybe it's a good thing. At that time, everyone got the news and hid in the mountains. This batch should have returned from somewhere else, right?"
Shi Erlang's wife said, "A Luo said the same thing. I think so too. I heard that this group came back from several neighboring states."
"So far?"
Shopkeeper Xu nodded, "Some of them escaped or were taken away by the rebel army. Our governor's wife is also very capable. Not only did she bring guards, she also borrowed soldiers from somewhere. Since entering the territory of Huainan Road, she would ask if there were any refugees from Shezhou when she met them. If there were any, she would show the name of the governor's wife and recruit them all back."
"They took all those poultry and livestock to Shezhou and clearly stated that they were for the people of Shezhou. The refugees they recruited were originally from Shezhou. Who wouldn't want to go back to their hometown?"
Shopkeeper Xu asked Sang Luo, "From what the governor said the other day, you and the governor's wife are half from the same hometown. Have you heard of this lady's reputation before?"
Sang Luo shook her head. "I seldom leave my house, so I am not familiar with the Chenliu Fan family. However, I have taken a general look at the things that the convoy brought today. Whether it is borrowed or sold, with such a governor's wife who cares about the people's livelihood, the people of Shezhou will have a better life in the future."
Thinking of the heroic face of the woman in the car she had seen earlier, Sang Luo smiled. The discomfort she had just felt because of the dinner was much relieved. Only four words came to her mind - a heroine.
This word is very appropriate when used to describe the wife of the governor.
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