Wang Yunjuan was intelligent, and logically speaking, she should have understood what Chi Qiao meant as soon as she heard her words.
Unfortunately, she is currently preoccupied with her children's marriages and is slow to react.
Chi Qiao didn't hide anything either. Seeing the confusion in her anxious eyes, she said directly:
“Since you need to talk to me, why don’t we get in the carriage?”
As we talk, you urge the carriage toward Chijia'ao.
Once you've finished talking, have the driver drop us off, and then you can go home.
That way, you'll have made your point clear, and I can save myself a lot of walking!
Wang Yunjuan: "..."
Who said that mountain folk and village women are ignorant? Look how shrewd Zhou Sanya is!
This proposal is really hard to refuse!
Feeling both helpless and amused, Wang Yunjuan ultimately agreed to Chi Qiao's suggestion.
She immediately moved to the side, then patted the empty space beside her, "Sister Zhou, come up here!"
Chi Qiao turned her head to look at Chi Kang, a smile playing on her lips, her voice filled with joy as she said:
“Ah Kang, the second wife of the Zhong family is kind-hearted and couldn’t bear to see us walk back, so she decided to escort us part of the way.”
"Come on, let's get in the carriage with your aunt!"
When Chi Kang heard his aunt's words, his lips twitched slightly, but he was also delighted.
If you can take a carriage, who would want to walk back?
He wondered how long the second mistress of the Zhong family would talk to his aunt; he hoped it would last an hour or two.
In this way, he and his aunt could avoid walking a lot!
After Chi Qiao sat down in the carriage and Chi Kang sat down on the carriage shaft, Wang Yunjuan instructed the driver to continue the journey.
After the carriage left Qingping Lane, Chi Qiao saw that Wang Yunjuan didn't seem inclined to speak, and the carriage headed towards the east of the city. She then quickly said to Wang Yunjuan:
“Sister Wang, you’re wrong, you’re wrong. This time, I’m going back with A-Kang, but we won’t take the main road. We’re going to take a shortcut back.”
I wonder if the zipline over there is broken. Let's go check it out.
If it's not broken, then she and A-Kang can return to Chijia'ao today.
If it breaks down, we'll have to take a longer route, and based on previous experiences, we won't get home until the day after tomorrow.
Because Chi Qiao's voice was quite loud, the coachman also heard it.
As the coachman of the Zhong family, especially the second branch, he was quite familiar with the various villages in Anping County.
Without Wang Yunjuan even having to tell him, he automatically turned the carriage around.
Chi Qiao breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that she was heading in the right direction this time.
However, Chi Kang, who was sitting on the carriage shaft, asked in confusion, "Auntie, why do we need to take a shortcut back?"
The zipline we use for shortcuts isn't made of iron; it's something our ancestors painstakingly crafted from resilient vines.
In previous years, we would reinforce it every one or two months.
But we haven't changed our schedule since the disaster started last October.
When we heard that Uncle Qingshan was divorcing his wife, everyone took the shortcut, and the vines became less effective.
So much time has passed now, it must be broken by now.
Even if the vines don't look damaged, I wouldn't dare use them if we took the shortcut back.
When Chi Kang mentioned this, it reminded Chi Qiao of the time when she and Qin Mu went down the mountain together, they also took a shortcut.
The vines were still usable then, but they needed to be reinforced.
She didn't pay attention to whether anyone repaired or reinforced it afterward.
But I doubt there was such weather back then.
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