As soon as the words left her mouth, Tang Xihua wished she could find a hole to crawl into.
How could he do such a thing? It's so rude, disrespectful, and even a bit shameless!
“Okay, we’re not in a hurry anyway, let’s go together later.” Hong Xiaoduo noticed the other’s embarrassment and agreed.
This person wasn't a cunning or treacherous individual. So what if they were in the same industry? Anyway, the goods they were escorting were quite heavy, and their travel speed wasn't much faster than his.
She actually agreed? Tang Xihua was quite surprised. Watching her turn and walk towards the children, he suddenly felt contempt for himself.
As he turned around, he saw his bodyguards all turn their heads at once.
"Get to what you're supposed to be doing and stop dawdling," Tang Xihua snapped in a low voice.
After he walked away a bit, the bodyguards secretly laughed.
They had just finished feeding the horses and hadn't even finished their bread when their third senior brother urged them to pack up and set off.
The bodyguards showed no resentment whatsoever. They tidied up with smiles on their faces, while continuing to stuff the flatbreads into their mouths. The journey ahead was sure to be very interesting.
I wonder if the Second Madam would be so angry she'd vomit blood if she knew that her beloved Third Senior Brother, who had never shown her any romantic feelings, was now treating a young woman like this!
"Tian Shu, let's set off!" Da Zhi called to Tian Shu, who was already sitting on the carriage shaft.
Tian Shu laughed and cracked his whip in the air, causing the horse to lift its hooves and move.
Whether it was Tang Xihua's arrangement or not, the bodyguards sandwiched Hong Xiaoduo and his two carts, one donkey and one horse, in the middle. Every now and then, they would sneak glances at their third senior brother on horseback. Although he was sitting upright on horseback, looking straight ahead, they knew him best.
He's never usually this stiff!
Tang Xihua, on horseback, controlled her horse's speed. Only after the bodyguard in front of her turned around and revealed a glaring smile did Tang Xihua realize that she had somehow ended up next to her carriage.
But if we urge the horse on further, wouldn't that just make it seem like we're trying to hide something? It would only make us a laughingstock to the guys at the escort agency.
Tang Xihua suddenly felt a little regretful. Why did she try to persuade the other person to stay and wait for her to leave together? Otherwise, she wouldn't be feeling so awkward now.
I could hear several children reciting poetry in the carriage, but I didn't hear her voice.
As evening fell, Dazhi approached the carriage and said, "Young lady, our third senior brother said he'll be spending the night here."
"Okay." came the reply from inside the carriage, and the carriage stopped.
Knowing the children's abilities, the bodyguards didn't offer to help. They were all busy working diligently, thinking that no matter what, they couldn't let the children outdo them.
As it turned out, the tent was set up by someone else first, and the campfire was lit by someone else first.
The bodyguards looked at their own side and realized that they had gathered more firewood than the group of one big and seven small ones.
Furthermore, they seemed to have prepared more complete supplies than when I last met them.
Steamed buns and meat pies were baking over the fire, and porridge was cooking in a copper pot.
Beside the campfire, there was a long table with bowls, plates, chopsticks, and sliced braised meat on it.
"Hey, you guys have it easy," Dazhi said with a smile as he strolled over to Hong Xiaoduo and the others, biting into a burnt pancake.
Tian Shu immediately got onto the donkey cart, took a small folding stool, and placed it in front of Da Zhi.
"Please sit down. If you don't mind, would you like to have something to eat with us?" Hong Xiaoduo invited.
Dazhi smiled and said, "That's so embarrassing," before sitting down.
Seeing this, Tianxuan went to get another set of bowls and chopsticks, placed them on the table in front of him, and then took a few meat patties and grilled them.
Soon, the porridge was ready, and the meat patties and steamed buns were baked.
Looking at the millet porridge in the bowl in front of him, Dazhi, whose mouth was dry from eating the pancakes, didn't stand on ceremony and picked up the bowl and started slurping it down along the rim.
Kaiyang, who was sitting next to him, picked up some baked buns and meat pies for him. The buns were baked until golden brown, and with one bite, they were crispy and fragrant, while the meat filling inside was incredibly delicious. After a sip of fragrant millet porridge, Dazhi squinted his eyes in satisfaction.
"Third Senior Brother, why aren't you going over there? Look how much Dazhi is eating," one of the bodyguards asked anxiously.
Tang Xihua looked up at him after hearing this, but did not respond.
Not long after, Dazhi returned, burping contentedly.
"Third Senior Brother, let's buy some millet tomorrow. If we're spending the night outdoors, we can cook a pot and drink a bowl to warm ourselves up. That young lady said that millet porridge is good for the stomach," Dazhi said, sitting next to Tang Xihua.
The other bodyguards kept giving him meaningful glances, implying that his third senior brother was in a bad mood. Why don't you have eyes? Why are you going up there instead of staying away?
But to everyone's surprise, the third senior brother, who had just been sullen, didn't get angry at Dazhi. Instead, he agreed in a normal tone: "Well, if you don't mind the trouble, go ahead and buy it."
"Okay." Dazhi replied, got up, and walked into the tent.
Watching Dazhi disappear into the tent, Tang Xihua snapped the wooden stick in her hand. Why is that brat going to bed so early tonight?
As night deepened, at the escort agency, apart from a few bodyguards on night duty in four directions, Tang Xihua sat alone by the fire, watching another figure sitting by the fire not far away.
Tang Xihua stood up, hesitated for a long time, and then walked over.
This time, he didn't walk directly to her side, but stopped a few meters away from her: "Would you mind if I, Tang, came over and sat down? I brought some tea."
Hong Xiaoduo didn't turn around, but gestured for her to sit down.
Tang Xihua stepped forward and sat down, putting down the teapot and two teacups in her hands. She first rinsed the teacups with the tea from the pot, then poured it out and poured one for her.
Since she didn't want to sleep anyway, Hong Xiaoduo wasn't worried about not being able to sleep if she drank tea at night. She said thank you and picked up the teacup to take a small sip.
She doesn't know much about tea, but this tea smells quite fragrant.
"How were you all when it rained the other day?" Tang Xihua asked.
He asked that question because he felt awkward sitting there without saying anything, so he started a conversation.
“We stayed at the inn and didn’t get wet during the rainy days,” Hong Xiaoduo said, but in her heart she wondered why he asked that.
She didn't like to overcomplicate things, but because she hadn't reminded them last time, they got caught in the rain on the way and one of the bodyguards fell ill, she couldn't help but feel a little guilty.
“You’re quite lucky. I have a friend who said that you knew it would rain, so you weren’t in a hurry to set off,” Tang Xihua added.
Once the topic was brought up, he realized it wasn't so difficult after all.
Hong Xiaoduo looked at the teacup in her hand, thought for a moment, and said, "Which bodyguard said that? He was right..."
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