Chapter 59 Feeding the man spiritual spring water and making him push the cart
Yun Zhaoxue advised, "Exile is no joke. You are not among those to be exiled, so they will not care about your food, clothing, shelter, or safety. Don't go."
The two girls were only fifteen or sixteen years old. She couldn't bear to let them follow her through the hardships of life, sometimes going hungry and sometimes not.
Green Branch tried to persuade her, "Princess, we servants can follow you and do your laundry and cooking. We are really worried about you having no one to serve you. We are not afraid of hardship."
“This servant is not afraid.”
“I can take care of myself. You can disguise yourselves as caravans and follow the exiles. You might be needed in some situations. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Go back.”
Yun Zhaoxue pushed the two towards Zhuiying, "Ying'er, take good care of them. If even a single hair on their head is lost, you will be held responsible!"
Zhuiying clasped his hands in a fist salute, "Your subordinate obeys!"
Xiao Xuance pushed his cart over to join the queue.
There wasn't a single part of his body that was unharmed; his lower back, buttocks, and thighs had been subjected to caning, and his calves had been subjected to clamping.
Yun Zhaoxue grasped his wrist. "Wait a moment."
The moment Xiao Xuance was grabbed by her, he instinctively flinched, thinking she was going to push him away, and said, "You don't need to worry, I can push you away."
As a man, as long as he could still move, he would not let his pregnant wife push the cart.
Yun Zhaoxue thought he didn't like being touched.
Although they were husband and wife, they were intimate only twice: once for consummating their marriage and once for applying medicine, both of which he resisted.
Yun Zhaoxue let go of his hand. "Don't misunderstand, I don't want you to push the cart. I just want you to drink the water before you push it."
She rummaged through the cart and found a water bag, opened the lid, and brought it to his lips. "Drink."
Xiao Xuance pursed his lips, not daring to drink. In the prison, someone had poisoned him time and time again, and the food had been fed to rats. He only ate the food brought by his own people.
Little did anyone know that the poison sent by Yun Zhaoxue was also poisonous. Although it was not fatal, it still took another life.
"What? Are you worried I'll poison you?"
It contains spiritual spring water from the space. I gave it to Zhuiying and the others to take out through the secret passage yesterday, and I'm bringing it to her again today.
She only has a few water pouches, and she can't just take out whatever's in her spatial storage, so she's reluctant to drink any of it.
If it weren't for the fact that he was injured and would collapse on the road, unable to push the cart and becoming a burden to him, I wouldn't have been willing to give him the drink.
First, feed him two sips of spiritual spring water, and continue until his midday rest. He should be fine. Then feed him some more at midday and continue until evening.
This way, she won't have to push, freeing her hands to enjoy the scenery along the way.
Xiao Xuance's narrow, phoenix-shaped eyes fell on her face, his gaze seeming to say, "You've done it before, haven't you?"
Hearing the escort's urging, Yun Zhaoxue said, "My good intentions are wasted. I'm thirsty, I'll drink first."
She also didn't like drinking what others left over, so she drank a third of it in one gulp.
"Here you go, drink this. It will be good for your wound and reduce the pain," Yun Zhaoxue handed him the water pouch.
"Thank you." Xiao Xuance took the water pouch and took a sip. Water was scarce on the road to exile, and he couldn't bear to drink more. If he drank less, his family could drink more.
"Drink one more sip, two more sips will be more effective. If you can't hold on and collapse, don't drag me down with you."
Was it easy for her to travel such a long distance while pregnant? Absolutely not!
Xiao Xuance assured him, "I won't be a burden to you."
Yun Zhaoxue pouted, "That would be best, I can't lift you anyway."
She's here for tourism, not to be a nanny, so she won't take on everything; she'll slack off when she needs to.
The two pushed the bike toward the group, and everyone except a few came over to join them.
The Yang family members all carried bundles on their backs, while the three children carried small bundles sent by their maternal grandparents.
The group saw that the cart was full of things.
Yang asked in confusion, "Ce'er, why are you carrying so much stuff? You're still injured, how can you push it? The guards will provide food, so you don't need the pots and pans."
The escorts used a small donkey to pull a horse-drawn cart, which was probably filled with their food.
Xiao Xiuning was also there and immediately complained, "Mother, I don't know who she sent it to. I suspect she deliberately wanted to exhaust Third Brother so she could find another family to help."
She dared not say that, otherwise her mother would scold her again.
Xiao Xuanwu said, "Mother, on the road to exile, adults will only get two steamed buns per meal, and children will get one steamed bun."
He ate these things on the way back to Beijing under escort.
Mrs. Yang was surprised, "Two cornbread buns? How can that fill you up?"
Xiao Xuanwu said, "Mother, I think Third Brother is right. With pots and pans, we can cook the game or wild vegetables we catch in the wild. Without a pot, we can only eat cornbread every day. We adults can manage, but the children can't. Third Sister-in-law is so thoughtful; we didn't even think of that."
"Third Brother, you're injured, let me push the cart."
"No need, you're injured too."
"Third Brother, you're also injured. My injuries are nothing serious, but yours are more serious. Let me push you."
Seeing that the two brothers were arguing about who should push the cart, Yun Zhaoxue suggested, "There's no need to argue. Just take turns pushing it on the way."
"You think you're so smart." Xiao Xiuning had just gone to the second branch of the family and had been brainwashed again. She was full of malice towards Yun Zhaoxue. This bad woman was not on their side. They had to drive her out of their family so that she wouldn't harm her own family.
Yun Zhaoxue retorted without hesitation, "I'm not smart, but I'm a tiny bit smarter than you."
He gestured with his thumb and forefinger spread wide.
In the original book, Xiao Xiuning was simple-minded and easily manipulated by Ye Hongying. She opposed the original owner of the body and caused the first branch of the family to suffer losses at the hands of the second and third branches of the family on many occasions.
Xiao Xiuning glared at her defiantly.
Yun Zhaoxue glared back, "What are you glaring at me for? I know you have big eyes. Be careful with the sand on the road. If you get sandy, you won't be able to see people or the road clearly, and you'll easily go astray."
A cold, deep voice rang out, "Xiao Xiuning, apologize!"
"Third Brother, you want me to apologize for such a trivial matter?"
Xiao Xuance frowned deeply. "She is my wife, your third sister-in-law. As the eldest sister-in-law, she is like a mother to you. Your disrespect for your elders is no small matter."
He spent most of his time at the border and had no idea that his obedient younger sister, who had always been well-behaved, had turned out like this.
Madam Yang also advised her daughter, "Ning'er, just apologize. Xue'er is broad-minded, she will forgive you. From now on, you two sisters-in-law can get along well."
"I only glared at her, didn't I? She glared at me too. I don't want an apology. You're all on her side. I don't want to go with you. I want to go find Sister Hongying." Xiao Xiuning ran away sadly, heading towards the back of the group.
"Ning'er, Ning'er, come back to me..."
The more she shouted, the faster Xiao Xiuning ran, as if she was deliberately going against her.
As Yun Zhaoxue watched the person she disliked leave, her beautiful face showed no remorse, but rather a sense of relief. Meeting the man's deep phoenix eyes, she shrugged slightly and then looked away.
Yang took two steps to chase after her, wanting to find her daughter, when she heard another angry voice.
"Yun Zhaoxue, take off your prison clothes and give them to me."
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