The Pretty Eldest Daughter of a Scholar's Family

Chapter 299 On the Road to Beijing ([-])

Ning Zhongping looked in through the car window at Su Zechen who was burying his head in eating melons, and couldn't help but smiled again.

Su Zechen is usually an active child, it must be very difficult for Su Yunduo to be able to sit in the carriage with him for a few days.

Ning Zhongping was still in his infancy, although he had watched his nephews and nieces grow up, but he didn't really spend much time with them because he had been running darts for many years, and he really didn't know such a big child. That's why we didn't think too much about it when we came here. Now that Su Yunduo asked me this carefully, I feel that my uncle's nerves are too big.

Recalling that I was already 16 years old when I went out with the escort for the first time, and I was not much better than Su Zechen, who was six or seven years old.

Thinking about it this way, Ning Zhongping can really understand Su Zechen's fuss all the way, and even more understand Su Yunduo's mood at this time, which must be the same as the mood of the escort to him back then, funny and helpless.

"Okay, let them eat the melon first, I will say hello to Mr. Lu, and I will take them for a run when I come back." After speaking, Ning Zhongping shook the rein and went forward to greet Lu Jinkang.

"Sister, what did you say to uncle? Who is uncle going to take for a while?" Ning Zhongping said before leaving, his voice was a little high, Su Zechen heard half of it, and asked curiously while eating watermelon.

There was a curtain of black lines hanging on Su Yunduo's forehead, this kid's ears were almost catching up with dog ears!
Looking at the watermelon flesh that Su Zechen ate all over his face, Su Yunduo shook his head in amusement.

After he finished eating the watermelon in his hand, he stretched out his hand to take the handkerchief in Zisu's hand, wiped it carefully for him, and then said two words in a casual way: "Guess!"

Su Zechen blinked his eyes, tilted his head and thought for a while, then suddenly his eyes lit up and said: "I know! Uncle is definitely going to take me to ride a horse! Sister, are you right, right?"

While talking, he grabbed Su Yunduo's arm and shook it.

"Is that right, when my uncle comes over, you can ask him yourself!" Su Yunduo just didn't want to give Su Zechen an answer.

In the past few days, Su Yunduo has been driven mad by Su Zechen, wishing to throw him to Su Chengzhi and Ning Shi, and replace him with Su Zerui. Compared to the well-behaved Su Zerui, Su Zechen is really too noisy.

When Ning Zhongping and Lu Jinkang turned their heads together, Su Zechen's eyes lit up, and he was about to lean out of the window again, but Su Zexuan pressed him firmly on the seat and couldn't move.

Fortunately, Ning Zhongping and Lu Jinkang did not disappoint him. The two brothers sat on Ning Zhongping's and Lu Jinkang's horses respectively. to the carriage.

Going back to the carriage naturally had to show off by chattering. Su Zechen even encouraged Ning Zhongping and Ning Zhongping to run slowly. Put his ear to shut him up.

However, Lu Jinkang looked at Su Yunduo with raised eyebrows and a smile, as if as long as Su Yunduo nodded, he would take Su Yunduo on a horse and let him go. With Lu Jinkang's gaze, he heard Lu Jinkang's wanton laughter outside the carriage, moving from near to far.

Su Yunduo was ashamed and annoyed, grabbed Su Zechen's ear and ravaged her until Su Zechen repeatedly begged for forgiveness before letting go, but this day he insisted on not telling Su Zechen the story of "Journey to the West", even if Su Zechen was tired of She begged and pretended to cry in her arms, but he didn't let him succeed. Su Zexuan, who had heard the story all the way, naturally hated Su Zechen.

Su Zexuan, who was already ten years old, naturally knew how to defend between men and women. He was so open-minded about Su Zechen that he had to help Su Yunduo reprimand him. Now he pulled Su Zechen out of Su Yunduo's arms: "How old are you? Is it?! Do you still think you are a third child?! If you keep talking like this, I will tell daddy!"

Su Zechen puffed his face, he didn't dare to talk back to his elder brother, and sat looking out of the window in a daze, when Su Yunduo looked at him again, he saw that he had already dozed off against the wall of the car, so he quickly sat beside him , let him rely on himself to prevent the carriage from bumping and hurting him.

The days passed like this day by day, and the weather became hotter the further south we went, and gradually Lu Jinkang did not dare to let the convoy rush on the road at noon.

They had to set out at dawn every day. At noon and late hour, the two hottest times of the day, they had to find a post station to rest or find a forest to bury pots and make food on the spot. They often arrived at the scheduled post station after dark.

In this way, there is less time to rest at night, and in addition to the hot weather, even if you stay in a post station with good conditions, it is too hot to sleep.

Lu Jinkang wanted to take out some saltpeter to make some ice for the Su family's two horses, but Su Chengzhi politely refused. It was the sergeants and guards who were driving and guarding the car, and their family sat in the carriage. Anyway, I can't bask in the sun, so why put an ice basin in the car? !
Su Yunduo was very willing to accept Lu Jinkang's kindness, but she couldn't get past Su Chengzhi, so she could only watch Su Chengzhi politely reject Lu Jinkang's kindness, and could only purse her lips regretfully and suppress the suggestion that reached her throat.

In this way, leaving early and returning late, after a few days, not to mention the driving sergeants and guards, all of them have blue shadows, even the people sitting in the carriage are all listless, and they have been in a state of excitement even since they set off. Su Zechen, who was in a state of desperation, has become a listless monkey and no longer has the energy to make trouble.

As long as the car stops for a rest, Su Yunduo will find out the heat-relieving medicinal materials that she brought along with her, and try her best to cook soup for everyone to cool off the heat. However, there are more than a hundred people in this group, so it is enough for her to bring Zisu and four servants. How much soup can the horsepower make?
The small tan stove she carried with her car was able to run at full power at first, but as the temperature became hotter and hotter, it was always too hot inside the car, so she had to turn off the fire and throw it away.

After walking like this for another two days, the weather has always been fine, but it is precisely this fine weather that shows the power of the scorching sun even more.

Lu Jinkang made necessary adjustments to the itinerary according to the weather conditions, but even if it was only two and a half hours from Maochu to Sizheng in the morning and two and a half hours from Weizheng to Youmo in the afternoon, the break at noon was extended to two hours. At the time when the sun is the hottest and the temperature is the highest every day, there are still people falling ill with heatstroke.

Fortunately, both Su Yunduo and Su Zechen have talked with the old doctor a few times, and the general illnesses are not under their words. During this trip, Su Yunduo brought a lot of medicinal materials to cool off the heat, so these people with heatstroke have taken the medicine prescribed by Su Yunduo It will be fine soon.

Although the Su family had Su Yunduo who had been thinking about it all the time, they still did not escape the serious illness.

The weak Ning fell ill first. At first Su Yunduo saw Ning's symptoms and thought it was just heat stroke, so she gave Ning some pills to relieve the heat and gave her scraping, but Ning still vomited and pulled. Initiated a high fever.

(End of this chapter)