The world is heavy and late

Chapter 324
Xu Zhong intentionally walked slowly, but when night fell and no one came, both Xu Zhong and Xia Qing felt that there should be no hope.

Xu Zhong didn't ask Xia Qing. There were too many uncontrollable factors in this kind of thing. They expected that maybe it was because they had overcome all difficulties and worked hard for themselves for a long time before making up their minds.

They just feel lost for the effort, energy and emotion they put in during the process, and they don't feel much about the person itself or the existing affairs.

At night, I lived in a post station outside the city of Yizhou. In big continents such as Xuzhou and Yizhou, like the capital, there will be a post station thirty miles away from the city gate, but the farther to the west, places such as Suzhou and Xiazhou are remote. It may take a day to meet a dilapidated post station.

Xia Qing was very reluctant to take apart her bun at night, and pestered Xu Zhong, asking him to promise that he would comb her hair along the way.

Actually, Xu Zhong also had a bit of a headache. It is not surprising that he can comb a woman's hair in a bun. In the palace, there is no servant who can't do this.

But what he knew was far from what Xia Qing asked for. Xia Qing didn't know how much trouble he had caused Xu Zhong, so he fell asleep peacefully after pestering Xu Zhong to agree.

When he was on the road at first, Xia Qing not only couldn't sleep well at night, but he didn't even have much energy during the day, probably because he hadn't traveled far since he was in this world.

Even if they buy and enter the palace, they are not qualified to be horse-drawn carriages. Basically, they walk around the waterway, and then take the land road near the capital, but they also walk out step by step with their legs, from the first month to the third month. , This is the capital.

So when he first left Beijing, Xia Qing didn't sleep well for several days because of the exhaustion caused by the bumping of the carriage. After getting familiar with it, he basically fell asleep with the pillow on his head.

On the contrary, Xu Zhong squinted in the car for a while in the afternoon because he was sleepy from alcohol, and now he was still looking at Xia Qing with some energy.

It's very lively during the day, but it's also very quiet this way.

The sober Xia Qing is always difficult to resist. She doesn't want to be that shy and blushing person, so she desperately wants Xu Zhong to be such a person.

But the quiet Xia Qing is very distressing. Xia Qing's eyes are black and blue all the year round. Of course, both of them are. The burden is too heavy in their hearts, and they can't sleep well every night.

Xu Zhong leaned over slightly, and pressed his forehead against each other. The warm touch made Xu Zhong feel at ease.

Young lady, I have no dreams tonight.

The most difficult thing for Xia Qing to deal with on the road at the station was not anything else, but the breakfast at the station.

Generally, the breakfast food in the post station is made by the family members of the post station. Whether it is delicious or not is not the point. The most important thing is that the post stations in each place are full of local characteristics.

Xia Qing looked wrinkled at the fiery Zhuyu in front of him, and of course Yicheng saw it, and he was a little nervous, this lady wouldn't ask them to clean up some chicken, duck and fish in the morning, right?

The elderly Yi Cheng glanced cautiously at the little chicken in the backyard, swallowed his saliva and was not about to ask the lady aloud.

Just kidding, he can't prepare anything.

Xu Zhong looked at the things on the table and didn't say a word, he just asked Yi Cheng for a pot of hot water and a little bit of caramel, was it really just a little bit, or was it the result of Xu Zhong's extra money.

He took out a large bowl, picked up the dry food pancake prepared on the table, tore the pancake into small pieces, and finally put all the caramel into the bowl, held the kettle and turned it around to remove every piece of the pancake. Dissolve one piece and powdered sugar.

Put it in front of Xia Qing and say, "Eat it, it's delicious."

Xia Qing glanced at Xu Zhong, stretched out his hand to take a bite, and then nodded to save face. As for Xu Zhong, he picked up his chopsticks and started attacking the plate of salted dogwood.

Xia Qing quickly knocked it off and said, "Do you want to die? They are used to eating this in the morning. Can you still get used to it now?"

Speaking of picking up the bowl, the two shared the bowl of sugar water soaked cakes. As for Cheng Dalang and Zhu Bahousan, of course they could only drink a sip of water and eat a mouthful of cakes honestly.

They didn't feel very good after eating. Why didn't the post station outside Yizhou City even have a porridge in the morning, but the master didn't get angry, and they were the ones who got angry?

Yicheng still felt that his painstaking efforts were not understood by others. He got up early in the morning and ordered his wife to bake the cakes, thinking that the nobles would have strength after eating, and they would not be hungry on the road. Dislike, hum!
A few people finished their breakfast feebly, Xia Qing stood at the gate of the post station and still couldn't help but glanced in the direction of Yizhou City, Xu Zhong stood aside and didn't speak, Cheng Dalang who was getting ready to leave, and Zhu who was following behind Seeing that the two were motionless, Ba also stopped what he was doing.

Looking back for some unknown reason, after looking at it for a while, I felt that there was really nothing special.

Hou San, who often works as a backup scout, moved his ears, frowned, and whispered to Zhu Ba, "Brother, there seems to be horses on our way."

Zhu Ba looked at Hou San inexplicably, and really wanted to pat this melon on the head, but looking at Xu Zhong and Xia Qing in front of him, it was hard to reach out, so he could only whisper: "You melon, let's pat him on the head. What are you holding?"

Hou San: ...It's a horse, no, no, that's not what he meant.

Hou San touched his head and moved closer to Zhu Ba's ear, habitually looked around cautiously and said, "No bro, it's the sound of horses running."

Zhu Ba frowned: "How many people are there?"

Hou San: ... "No brother, not a bandit, there is only one person."

Now Zhu Ba couldn't help but slapped Hou San on the head twice and said: "I told you not to do business, I told you not to do business; why are you afraid of a horse on the road? "

Hou San touched the back of his head aggrievedly, and muttered: "I have learned from talents for a few days, and I eat melon seeds every bite, hmph."

Whispering, before Zhu Ba could hear it clearly, Hou San had already turned around and said, "I know brother, I just don't say anything."

After speaking, he held his head and ran to the carriage in front to talk to Cheng Dalang, Zhu Ba was a little stunned.

This melon boy, dare to make face to him?I really came out for a trip, and I became more courageous.

Xia Qing watched for a while in the foggy morning, not knowing what he was looking at, but finally got into the car with Xu Zhong calmly.

Hou San and Zhu Ba hurriedly followed behind in the carriage. After walking not far away, Hou San was a little restless, and Zhu Ba said angrily: "What are you swaying around, you have hemorrhoids under your buttocks. You shook all your luggage away."

Hou San and Zhu Ba were sitting together on the shaft of the carriage, one on the left and one on the right. On the carriage were everyone's luggage. Hou San kept turning his head anxiously and curiously, but Zhu Ba naturally couldn't stabilize himself.

Hou San was yelled at by Zhu Ba, but he was so used to it that he didn't hear it. He still looked behind and said, "No, brother, there are really people behind."

Zhu Ba didn't even have hands when he was driving the carriage, so he raised an elbow in the hope that people would be quieter.

"If there are people, there will be others. What's wrong, a grown-up girl is afraid of meeting people."

Hou San said anxiously: "No, it feels like this horse is chasing us."

As soon as Hou San finished speaking, Zhu Ba also heard the sound of horseshoes approaching and shouting.

Zhu Ba and Hou San looked at each other, and Hou San nodded with a bitter face. He didn't have much real ability, and the substitute scout had better ears than ordinary people. Just after he finished speaking, Zhu Ba could already hear it.

(End of this chapter)