Ji Changying was too lazy to bother with the old man.
Xie Siheng suddenly spoke: "My name is Xie Siheng."
Ji Changying was stunned for a moment before she remembered that they had not yet exchanged names.
"Ji Changying."
It turned out to be the Ji family.
Xie Siheng nodded and said nothing more.
Instead, Mr. Huang asked curiously, "Are you not from the Ji family in Beijing?"
"No, we are from Lord Ji's hometown." Ji Changying was very calm.
Speaking of this, Mr. Huang sighed: "Master Ji is a good man."
Speaking of this, the atmosphere became a bit heavy. Ji Changying didn't want to chat with them, so he put down his chopsticks and said goodbye.
"Xie Siheng, don't forget to teach me about internal strength. Starting tomorrow night, I will come to see you when I have time."
Ji Changying's words were a notification, not a discussion.
She turned and left without waiting for Xie Siheng to answer.
Seeing her figure coming down the stairs, Huang Lao sighed: "I really don't understand. Your father is the Marquis of Xuanping, your mother is a princess, and the current emperor is your grandfather. With such strong connections, who is so desperate to kill you?"
"You're not even twenty yet. If anything happens to you, you can go back to your parents and elders. But you chose to find someone as unlucky as me. You won't even let me send you back to the capital. You won't even let me pass on a message. You're so stubborn!"
After saying so much, Xie Siheng only drank a sip of tea and warned: "Don't forget you promised me that you would not act on your own."
Mr. Huang rolled his eyes: "Just be stubborn!"
He shook his head and sighed and walked away.
As soon as the door was closed, Xie Siheng's bony hands crushed the teacup in his hands.
The porcelain shard pierced his palm and blood slowly flowed down his wrist, but he seemed not to feel the pain.
There was bone-chilling hatred in his eyes.
He also wanted to know why.
Why did he kill his mother? Why did he want to kill him?
Xie Siheng seemed to be crying and laughing: "Why? My good father..."
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Ji Changying was in a good mood. Even after she had eaten, she did not forget her family. She asked the waiter to order a portion from the same table as before, paid the money, and asked him to deliver it to their room.
Just as I was about to go back, I was attracted by the noise coming from the door of the inn.
Ji Feng came back after buying things.
Not only was he carrying a lot of bags on his back, but there was also a large bundle of things on the cart that Zhang Zi was using to pull things for them.
Two yamen runners stood on both sides with uneasy expressions, and there was no place to sit.
"Dad, did you buy all this?" Ji Changying naturally couldn't just sit there and watch, so she went to the door to greet him.
Ji Fengshou's eyes lit up when he saw her: "Hurry up, Dad is almost overwhelmed, grab some money!"
After saying that, he couldn't wait to signal her to quickly take the things from him.
Ji Changying did not let him down. Not only did she take the things from him and hang them on her body, she also reached out and picked up the things in the car.
After getting the things, Ji Changying felt that they were quite heavy. She didn't know what Ji Fengshou bought.
Seeing the things being taken down, Ji Fengshou smiled and looked at Zhang Ziwei and the two yamen runners: "I'm so sorry for what happened just now. There are a lot of things. The weather is getting colder. I bought a few jugs of wine for you to warm up. I'll bring them over after I finish sorting the things."
The two yamen runners looked better after hearing this. They smiled and patted his shoulders: "It's all a small matter. If you have any difficulties in the future, just let me know."
"Thank you so much for your care, big brothers. I have a lot of stuff, shall I take it back first?"
"Go, go!"
Ji Changying brought back a lot of things, which immediately attracted the attention of the whole family.
After Ji Mingxuan and the others hurriedly opened all the things, they looked at the torn quilts and scraps of cloth inside and fell silent.
When Ji Feng saw them like this, he quickly explained, "Cotton is too expensive, and there's not much to buy. These old quilts can be taken apart to make clothes. The scraps may not look good, but they're cheap and plentiful! In our current situation, why should we care about appearances? As long as we can sew them together and wear them, that's all that matters."
"I chatted with the cloth shop owner for a while, and he said that even the thickest clothes wouldn't work there! The wind would blow through the seams of clothes and it was as cold as a knife cutting flesh. If you stood outside for a cup of tea, you'd be frozen into an ice stick. You had to wear leather."
"How much would it cost to wear leather for so many people in our family? I thought I'd have to find a way on the road. Hunting some wild animals would cost nothing."
"And food. The price of food here is much higher than ours, so I didn't dare to buy too much."
Without waiting for anyone to speak, Li Fengshou explained his thoughts.
Ji Fengyi frowned deeply. He had never expected the environment in the north to be so bad. What he had read in the books was just superficial after all.
After hearing this, Mrs. Hu immediately praised: "Well done."
Speaking of food prices, Ji Changying naturally thought of what Sister Li said during the day.
Although she didn't know whether it was true or not, she still said it.
Ji Fengyi could no longer sit still:
"I'll go find the clan leaders and tell them this news. We're all one on this journey. We don't know what the situation will be like in Liangzhou. If we're away from home without family, we're like we have no roots."
"You guys and Changchuan, come with me! Things are different now, and you have to learn to take responsibility for household chores from now on."
He signaled the men in the family to follow him and went to discuss matters with the patriarch.
Ji Changying was pulled by Hu to sew clothes.
But Mrs. Hu fell silent as she looked at Mrs. Zhou and the cloth she had sewn.
Not only are their stitching crooked, but how on earth did they manage to create pleats?!
"Forget it, stop messing with things!" Mrs. Hu stopped the two of them with a headache.
Zhou put down her things with a bit of regret: "Isn't what I made beautiful?"
Hu nodded perfunctorily: "You two should just unwrap the cotton!"
The two of them were good at this job. In a short while, they had taken apart several quilts cleanly, revealing the dirty cotton inside.
Mrs. Hu took a look and felt relieved.
When the waiter brought the food, Ji Changying ran to open the door.
Hu was surprised and asked where the food came from. Ji Changying made up a lie: "It was sent by that old doctor. He saw that I was strong, so he asked me to help move things."
"Why didn't you call me? I'm strong too." Zhou said enviously, but then she became happy.
She can eat these things anyway.
After dinner in the evening, the whole family asked the waiter to bring back many buckets of water. We took a good bath and felt a little more alive.
The next day, before Huang Lao and the others woke up, the large group of exiles set off before dawn.
When Mr. Huang woke up and went downstairs, he found out that Ji Changying and the others had already left.
After hearing what the waiter said, Mr. Huang's nose almost turned crooked with anger: "What a stubborn girl! She just promised me last night, and now she abandons us and tries to run away!"
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