majestic tiger

Chapter 821 Departure
This was the reason why they told Chen Hang that Wei Hang was going to the border town of Xirong. Now Chen Hang was afraid that his mother would be worried, so he comforted his mother once before leaving.

Mrs. Xiao nodded, and said in a calm tone: "My minister is sensible, mother can rest assured."

"Mother, I will take good care of my brother. It will be safer in the border town." Hearing what his mother said, Chen Hang smiled brightly, stood up straight with his chest straight, and reassured his mother again like an adult.

"Mother believes in you. Chen'er, when you were young, your parents couldn't tell you some things. Don't blame your parents. Now that you have grown up, your parents will no longer hide anything from Chen'er." " Mrs. Xiao looked at Chen Hang happily, and said something without thinking.

Chen Hang hurriedly waved his hands and said: "Mother, Chen'er was ignorant before, you don't tell Chen'er about those important things, Chen'er understands very well, and won't blame you and Dad. From now on, you don't hide anything. Chen'er is fine. Wherever you can use Chen'er, just use it!"

After finishing speaking, Chen Hang patted his chest.

Mr. Xiao, who had already walked behind Chenhang, stretched out his hand and patted his son's shoulder and said, "Okay, I won't hide it from Chen'er, and I won't be polite when I want to use Chen'er."

Wei Hang had already gotten into the carriage, and was lying on the window looking at his parents and younger brother. Mrs. Xiao walked up to him, and the mother and son made eye contact.

What Hang'er said to their husband and wife yesterday still rings in my ears: "Father, mother, and brother, you can rest assured and leave it to me. Take care of yourself and wait for the good news from Hang'er."

At this moment, Mrs. Xiao nodded to Wei Hang with a smile, and said in a low voice: "Mother, don't worry, and Hang'er is also at ease."

Chen Hang who came over answered, "Don't worry, everyone."

Mr. Xiao patted his head and said, "Okay, Chen'er, hurry up and get in the car."

Chen Hang obediently got into the carriage and asked his parents to stay.

After waving goodbye, the carriage drove out of the Xiao residence in a low-key manner, quietly merged into the street, drove out of the city gate, and left the capital for the west.

The next morning, Yunxia woke up, Xiuzhu woke up earlier than her, the little girl had two dark circles under her eyes, and was yawning continuously, Yunxia understood that this girl was so excited that she didn't sleep well last night.

In fact, she herself didn't sleep well, she was so excited that she woke up several times during the night, and she was only thinking about the dawn, the departure, and the border town.

Yun Xianiang even got up before dawn, and together with Yang's mother, she worked hard to prepare dry food and snacks for Xia'er and the others, and took them to eat on the road.

After Yunxia finished washing, she brought Xiuzhu to the dining hall, and all kinds of dry food and snacks piled up on the dining hall table looked like hills.

Only Zhixuan standing by the table looked refreshed, it seemed that he had a good rest last night.

After everyone had breakfast, Yun Xianiang held her daughter's hand and gave instructions for a while.She took the time to read Hang'er's letter, and it turned out that Hang'er brought Xia'er a topographic map, and marked the places on the road with complicated terrain and possible dangers. Finally, she gave the topographic map to her daughter and asked Yunxia to take it. Be prepared.

"Mother, where did you find this map? It's so useful, thank you, mother." Yun Xia knew it was a good thing after just one glance, and put it away like a treasure with a smile.

"As long as it's useful." Yun Xianiang was also very happy, and Hang'er was reliable in his work.

At this time, all the luggage to be brought has been moved to the carriage, Xiuzhu and Zhixuan also got into the carriage, Captain Hu and Lao Liang were talking, mainly Lao Liang was talking about the habits of horses and the key points of caring, please Hu The captain took good care of the horses on the way.

The horses in the stable are usually taken care of by Lao Liang, and Lao Liang knows each horse's temper and living habits.He treated the horses well, and often called them Old Boys.Now that he wants to hand over the old buddy to others, he is naturally reluctant and worried, and wants to explain the experience of raising horses.

Captain Hu listened carefully, and promised Lao Liang that he would take good care of the horse, so Lao Liang was relieved to hand over the whip and reins to Captain Hu.

Before getting into the carriage, Captain Hu patted the two horses next to each other, getting acquainted with the horses, and then sat in the driver's seat.

Yun Xianiang saw that Lieutenant Hu was already in place, so she had to let Yun Xia go.

After getting into the carriage, Yunxia saw that there were all kinds of fruits, tea leaves, etc. on the carriage, and even prepared a hand warmer, which was not too rich, showing the heavy love of her mother.

And the mother was still standing by the car door thinking about what else to bring, and mobilized Mama Yang and the other maids to think together. Yunxia hurriedly said that she had it all, and even if she didn't have it, the bank notes she brought could be bought. arrive.

"Xia'er, as the saying goes, a poor family gets rich on the road, it's always right to prepare more on the road. You should also think about it and see if there is anything missing."

Her mother still insisted on begging her, so Yunxia had to sort out the things she brought, as if she had everything except the medicine bag.

"Mom, bring me some bandages and medicine for wounds."

Yunxia hurriedly sent someone to fetch it. Yunxia recalled the time when she sent her father away and encountered bandits, so she asked the servant to go to the woodshed to get two wooden sticks and put them under the bench for emergencies.

Everything is ready, the real farewell should come.

Captain Hu got the order, and with a yell, the horse started to move forward.

In order to reduce her sense of existence when traveling, Yunxia had already agreed with her mother that she would only deliver it to the gate of the carriage, and her mother would not even go out of the gate.

When she arrived at the gate, she lay down in front of the car window and asked her mother to stop. Yun Xianiang stopped, waved her hand and said, "Xia'er, be careful on the road. The first thing you do when you arrive in the border town is to write a letter to your mother to tell her you are safe."

"Understood, mother, goodbye." Yun Xia waved her hand.

The gate opened, the carriage drove out, Yunxia was still waving, and she didn't stop waving until the gate was closed again.

Yun Xianiang stood there in a daze, watching the door close in front of her eyes, she just stood there for a long time, then turned around and prepared to leave under the persuasion of Mama Yang.

Yun Xiao and Zhi Yuan, who thought they were still sleeping in the room, ran out from behind the tree, supporting Yun Xia Niang from left to right.

The two brothers were afraid that they would cry when they said goodbye to their sister face to face. Now that they are no longer children, they are teenagers, and they would be embarrassed to cry in front of everyone.So although the two got up early, they didn't meet their sister face to face, but hid behind a tree and watched her off.

The carriage drove out of the street, turned a corner, and headed for the south gate.

Yunxia, ​​who put down the car curtain, tilted her head comfortably, and leaned against the carriage board covered with rush mats.

Needless to say, with rush mats, the carriage board is no longer as hard as it used to be.

"Cousin, why do I feel like I'm dreaming?" Although he was sitting in the car, Zhixuan still found it unbelievable what happened.

Yun Xia smiled and said, "Really? Brother Xuan, do you want me to pinch you, and then feel for yourself if you are dreaming?"

While speaking, he raised his hand towards Zhixuan.

Zhixuan shook his head quickly, showing his white teeth, and said with a mean smile: "No, no, cousin, I'm sure this is not a dream, it's real."

"Hehehe, Virtue!" Yunxia reached out and tapped his forehead that came closer.

The boy tilted his head back and let out an uncontrollable laugh from his throat.

Xiu Zhu, who had been watching the young lady chatting and laughing with the young master Biao, also laughed.

At this moment, Zhixuan really wanted to yell: "I'm going to the border town, I'm going to fight with my uncle!" But my cousin said that now we have to keep it secret, so Zhixuan could only silently shout a few times in his heart.

Not long after their carriage set off, another carriage also set off at the fork in the street.

The coachman was a brother that Shen Sanhe had found temporarily, and Shen Da deliberately asked the two brothers who were not good-looking to be the coachman, so as not to arouse the suspicion of the girl of the Li family.He, Shen Da, often walks in Shen's residence, if that girl sees him, wouldn't it be a bad thing?

Shen Da himself hid in the carriage, commanding the two brothers through the small hole dug between the driver's seat and the carriage.

The carriage hung far behind Yunxia's carriage, and they walked towards the south gate together.

The arrangement for Yunxia and the others was to leave the city through the south city gate, and then make a detour to Jin County, meet up with the Chenhang brothers, and then go all the way to the border town.

After leaving the city gate, the atmosphere on the carriage became even more lively.Zhixuan stretched his waist, opened the car curtain a crack, looked at the receding trees outside the car, the fields and houses without turning his eyes, and shouted twice from time to time.

And Xiuzhu sorted out the dry food and snacks packed by Yang's mother, showed them to the young lady, and asked the young lady and the young master if they wanted to eat.

"Xiuzhu, I just ate, and I'm not hungry at all now. Young Master Biao is full of seeing the scenery, and he doesn't know how to eat. If you want to eat, you can eat it, and if you don't, you can keep it." Yunxia was teased by the little girl I couldn't laugh or cry, so I directly pointed it out to her.

Xiuzhu let out an oh, gave up and asked again, after neatly stacking the dry food and snacks, she couldn't be idle and started to pack the things in the carriage again.

Yunxia took out the map her mother gave her and began to look carefully. The more she looked at her, the more she frowned. The road to the border city of Xirong is difficult and dangerous. are marked above.

The person who drew this picture is very good, and the drawing is clear and clear, which can be of great help to passers-by.

Seeing that his cousin was doing business, Zhixuan stopped shouting and looked out of the car quietly.

Captain Hu yelled loudly, and the horses pulled the cart forward with all their strength. The speed was very fast. Gradually, there were fewer carriages and horses on the road, almost no pedestrians, and the carriage had already driven some distance away from the capital.

"Xiuzhu, all right, sit down and have a rest."

After reading the map, Yunxia put the map away carefully, then looked at Xiuzhu who had been dangling in front of her. This little girl had been busy for a long time, and she had tidied up the carriage. Tell her to stop busy.

Only then did Xiu Zhu stop his movements, and obediently sat down next to the young lady.

Xu Shi was too excited last night and didn't sleep well. When he calmed down, Xiu Zhu felt his eyelids clenched and he was extremely sleepy.

She yawned, rubbed her eyes and looked at Yunxia.

Yunxia was not much better either, being infected by her yawns, she also felt sleepy.

So he said to Xiu Zhu: "Let's rely on taking a nap."

Xiu Zhu was feeling sleepy, the lady handed him a pillow, of course he was very cooperative.So the two of them squinted their eyes and fell asleep in the swaying carriage head to head.

Only Zhixuan was still looking at the strange things outside, as if he didn't see enough.

The carriage turned a corner and headed west.After the carriage turned a corner and went straight, Xiaowei Hu specially sat on the side of the carriage and looked back. Except for a farmer carrying a load on the field beside the road, there was no one else walking towards the road. .

He turned his head reassuringly and shouted, and the horse ran faster.

When the carriage turned, Zhixuan slipped and sat on the other side of the bench. He simply leaned on the window to watch the scenery.

A horse-drawn carriage came out of a clump of bamboo forest far behind, because there were few cars and people on this road, Zhixuan became refreshed when he saw this carriage.

Then he parted the curtain, and watched the carriage to see if it followed theirs.

Soon the carriage came to the corner, and it depended on whether it continued to go south or turned to the west like their carriage.

In order to see clearly, Zhixuan poked his head out.

Sure enough, the carriage also turned to the west road.

At this moment, there was a stone on the road, the carriage bumped, and Zhixuan's head hit the window frame, he couldn't help crying out in pain, which woke up the lightly sleeping Yunxia.

"Zhixuan, what's the matter with you?" Yunxia opened her eyes and asked Zhixuan who was sitting opposite and rubbing her head.

Zhixuan pointed to the window frame of the car with some unhappiness and said, "I was hit."

"You, why don't you be careful, you can bang your head when you look at the scenery, my cousin really admires you." Yunxia laughed at him.

"Cousin, I was hit because I went to see the carriage following us." Zhixuan, who was teased by his cousin, expressed dissatisfaction and immediately defended himself.

Follow our carriage?Yun Xia hurriedly asked Zhi Xuan to sit back, and she sat in Zhi Xuan's seat and looked back.

But there was a carriage far away from theirs, and it was driven by two men.

Because it was too far away, Yunxia couldn't see the faces of the two men clearly, but could only see the two men's huge bodies.With a thought, she told Captain Hu that there was a carriage behind.

Captain Hu responded, and immediately moved to the side to look back. Sure enough, there was a carriage that suddenly appeared.

"Miss, when I changed lanes just now, I took a special look. There was no carriage behind, and this carriage appeared strange." Captain Hu immediately reported to Yunxia.

It seemed that there was something wrong with the carriage, Yunxia immediately ordered Captain Hu to drive faster, so as to take the opportunity to observe the carriage's next move.

"Okay! Miss, you all sit down." Captain Hu waved his whip, let go of the reins, and shouted.

The horse immediately sped up and galloped, leading the carriage to run fast, kicking up the yellow dust on the road and lingering on it.

When the smoke cleared, Yunxia noticed that the carriage also started to speed up.

"Lieutenant Hu, you can slow down now." Yun Xia estimated that the speed had been accelerated for 10 minutes, and she gave another order in a deep voice.

Captain Hu immediately tightened the reins and yelled to slow down the horse.

The speed of the carriage also slowed down.

Sure enough, there is a problem.

Yunxia patted Zhixuan on the shoulder and praised him: "Zhixuan, you have done a great job. This carriage is following us."

"Really? Cousin, what shall we do then?" The young boy got a compliment, and before he had time to rejoice, he became worried.

"What should we do? Of course we have to deal with them. Don't be afraid, we will make them regret it." Yunxia put down the curtain of the car and said to Zhixuan affirmatively.

(End of this chapter)