Chapter 207 Family Reunion
The people in the carriage were startled at the sound and quickly lifted the curtain. Although her face could not be seen because of the veil, her eyes immediately turned red, but she tried hard to hold it back.
Chen Zhao lifted up the curtain and asked in a deep voice, "Why are you here? There are refugees and bandits everywhere on this road. What are you doing out here?"
Yu Wanqiu sniffed, forced a smile, and said, "I'm going to Pingcheng to visit my relatives."
Chen Zhao looked around, "Where are your followers? Why didn't your family send anyone to escort you?"
Just as Ying'er was about to speak, Yu Wanqiu spoke first, "We ran into bandits on the road and got separated. Fortunately, we will be in Pingcheng soon."
Seeing that she looked haggard, Shen Zhao didn't dare to think about how much she had suffered on the road. The driver looked shifty and was not her family's driver.
"What were you arguing about just now?"
Ying Er said angrily, "We agreed on a price, but he came here and refused to leave. He insisted that we raise the price before he would take us into the city. How could there be such a person?"
Seeing that the man was not to be trifled with, the driver quickly apologized and said with a smile, "Business is not good right now, so the price I offer is really only good enough for this trip."
Shen Zhao glanced at the driver with a sullen face, and the driver was immediately frightened.
"Really, I didn't cheat anyone."
Chen Zhao pulled the reins closer to the carriage and stretched out his hand to Yu Wanqiu, "Come up, I'll take you into the city."
He held Yu Wanqiu's hand, and with his other hand supported his waist, then lifted him onto the horse and placed him in front of him.
Chen Yu had already caught up, and stopped not far away to watch. Seeing this, she stepped forward and said, "You are Miss Yu's maid, right? I'll take you for a ride."
Riding a horse was much faster than riding a carriage. We entered the city before dark and stayed in an inn.
After Shen Yu finished washing up, she went to Shen Zhao's room.
"Ms. Yu, what are you going to do?"
Shen Zhao's hair was still wet, and he said, "I have asked her and her maid. Send her to her relatives' house tomorrow, and we will continue to Hezhou."
"Are you stubborn?"
"What's wrong?" Shen Zhao was puzzled.
"If she really wanted to go to her relatives' house, she could go there once she entered the city. Why did she stay with us at the inn?" Chen Yu sat down opposite him. "Also, have you seen her bag?"
“I saw it.” Shen Zhao said.
Chen Yu was really confused. "She said she met bandits and got separated from her servants. She was able to carry her luggage even though her carriage was gone. In my opinion, she probably ran away secretly again. You'd better go and ask her."
Shen Zhao thought, if
If she wasn't visiting relatives, what else could she do? Did he leave her and come after her? But they had clearly said goodbye that day.
After all, men are not as careful as women. They can deduce military strategies, but they know nothing about women's minds.
The woman he has come into contact with the most in recent years is the kind of person who says whatever she wants. He has no idea that a woman's mind can be so complicated.
"I'll go ask her." Shen Zhao stood up.
"Don't ask her." Chen Yu said, "Since she told you that she was visiting relatives, she wanted to hide it from you. You'd better ask her maid."
Shen Yu returned to her room. After a long time, when she was ready to go to bed, Shen Zhao knocked on her door.
Shen Zhao at the door looked depressed, "Chat?"
Shen Yu pointed at her chin, Shen Zhao looked over and immediately smiled.
There was already wine on the table. In the past, when the two siblings wanted to have a heart-to-heart talk, they would prepare a pot of wine and drink while chatting.
"To the roof?"
"Yeah." Chen Yu smiled and nodded slightly.
She picked up the wine jug, Shen Zhao took the wine glass, and they climbed onto the roof silently.
"Is there a problem?"
"Yeah." Chen Zhao held out the cup for her to pour the wine, "She was kicked out by the Yu family."
Chen Yu said "hmm", and just needed to be a listener.
Chen Zhao raised his head and drank it all, then continued, "She was kicked out a long time ago, and I...I didn't even know that every time I sent her back to the back door of the Yu Mansion, she would wait until I left before going to the yard she rented."
Shen Zhao lowered his head, and two tears fell silently.
"Is it because she always comes out to look for you?" Chen Yu guessed.
Chen Zhao nodded, "Her family is not like ours with only a few people. The Yu family is an aristocratic family with a strong family tradition."
There are four or five girls in the Yu family alone. When she went to Yanliang Pass last year, Yu Taifu was furious. After returning to Beijing, she went out frequently again, so Yu Taifu asked someone to follow her and found Shen Zhao's whereabouts.
Imperial Tutor Yu asked her to break up with Shen Zhao, but she refused and was kicked out of the house to cut off all ties with him.
Her family originally thought that if they let her go out and suffer a little, she would come back, but she ended up staying away and not going back. As soon as Shen Zhao left Beijing, she followed him.
When they met on the road, she thought that she had nothing now and was no longer the wealthy woman she used to be. She couldn't bring herself to do that, so she lied and said that she was going to Pingcheng to visit her relatives.
Chen Zhao held out the cup, and Chen Yu
He filled a glass.
"Ayu." Chen Zhao suddenly called her.
"Um?"
Shen Zhao turned his head to look at her, "Before you went to war last year, you said you had a dream. Did the dream come true?"
Chen Yu slowly exhaled the air from her chest, "Half of it has come true. In my dream, I did not go to Yanliang Pass. You left, and my father left too. I am the only one left. Except that you are still alive now, everything else is the same."
Chen Zhao was silent for a long time, "What about you after I die?"
"Me?" Chen Yu smiled and drank the wine. "I was married to Jiang Lianzhi and drowned in the small lake in Jiang's mansion three years later."
Shen Zhao breathed in silence for a few times, feeling heartbroken, "What about Wanqiu?"
"When I got married, she came to add to my dowry, and when I died, she was still unmarried."
Shen Zhao wiped his face and said, "I want to take her back to Hezhou."
"If you don't take it, I'll take it too, and by the way, I'll scold you along the way with her." Chen Yu handed over the wine jug.
Shen Zhao smiled and turned away with tears on his face.
He owes too many people.
The brother and sister did not drink too much, and set off for Hezhou early the next morning.
Yu Wanqiu had never traveled on horseback before. The original plan was for Shen Yu to go first, and Shen Zhao would buy a carriage to take Yu Wanqiu and his servant to follow later. However, Yu Wanqiu was worried that it would delay their journey, so she refused to agree and let Shen Zhao take her on the journey.
She ran on the road for three days without complaining, but on the fourth day Shen Zhao discovered that something was wrong with her walking. The maid said that her thighs were rubbed raw from riding a horse, but she didn't complain.
How could a delicate young lady from an aristocratic family have ever suffered such hardship?
When Chen Zhao wanted to stop and let her rest, she threatened not to go to Hezhou. Yu Wanqiu managed to hold on for nearly a month, and even Chen Yu admired her a little.
Hezhou is a big city. It is the place where the Lu family made their fortune and it also has trade routes and shipping ports.
Unlike the refugees along the way, this place is not full of refugees. Instead, it is a place of peace and prosperity. The pleasure boats on the river are filled with young men who spend money lavishly and live a life of drunkenness and debauchery. How could they know what kind of life people outside are living?
Old Mrs. Lu knew they were coming, so she sent people to wait for them on the official road early.
The old lady stood at the door, surrounded by a group of maids.
Looking at the horses running towards her, Old Lady Lu took two steps forward and said with tears in her eyes, "Ayu, Zhao'er, you are finally here."
Chen Yu's eyes were hot. In her past life and this life, she hadn't seen her grandmother for four years.
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