A poor family counterattacks, she is beautiful and sassy on the way to the imperial examination

Chapter 136 Chapter 136

On the way, An Chuxia already knew that Si Heng was going to the northern Hebei frontier, and they would separate when they got here.

Originally, Si Heng wanted to send someone to take them to Wei County, but An Chuxia refused, "This is not far from Wei County, where we are going, and we can't make it to the county government office today... we should be there tomorrow morning, so we don't have to bother Mr. Si." .”

"Alright then! Be careful all the way, we will meet later!"

Si Heng waved goodbye to An Chuxia and Zuo Wang, then turned around and rode on his horse gracefully, galloping away with dozens of people behind him, leaving only a cloud of dust flying around with the wind.

Liu Xue, who was sitting in the carriage, never came out, but when Si Heng led people away, she watched his leaving back from the window of the carriage with dazed eyes.

He thought to himself that this man is really a gentleman, and he couldn't bear to hurt himself when such a beautiful girl like her came to his door automatically.

At first, I was sad about this, but when I thought about it, I realized his hard conscience, but Liu Xue was too embarrassed to see Si Heng when what happened that day.

Before getting into the carriage, An Chuxia glanced at the carriage made by Liu Xue for some unknown reason, got back into the carriage she was riding in, and started heading towards their destination.

The carriage entered the jurisdiction of Wei County in the afternoon, and An Chuxia couldn't help but shrink her eyes when she looked around. The crops in the field had already been harvested, which did not surprise her.

It's just that when An Chuxia saw the passing villages from a distance, they were all simple and low thatched huts with earthen walls, and none of the villages had a decent blue brick and tile house.

This only shows that the people here are very poor!

An Chuxia asked Xiaoxi to stop the carriage, turned her head to the left and said, "Lead them to the tea shed in front to rest for a while, and Zixi and I will go to the nearby village to have a look."

Zuo Wang looked at the tea shed not far from the road ahead, nodded and said: "Sir, wait here for a while, I will send them to the tea shed in front to accompany you.

In some places, the villages are very repulsive to outsiders, so we should be careful when we are newcomers. "

An Chuxia thought for a while, and felt that what Zuo Wang said made sense, so she agreed with his statement that she was waiting for him.

Zuo Wang took the lead in driving the carriage to take Liu Xiang, Liu Xue, Mrs. Wu, mother and son to the tea shed for a rest, and let the tall and rough Da Zhuang watch the carriage and wait for them to come back.

Da Zhuang nodded clumsily, and said in a voice like a bell, patting his chest: "I will take good care of them... Watch out for the carriage!"

Zuo Wang patted his big and thick arm, turned around and walked quickly to An Chuxia's carriage, and sat next to An Zixi.

Several people drove the carriage down the road, followed the country road, and headed towards the village not far away.

As soon as An Chuxia and the others drove the carriage to the village, a group of curious children followed behind their carriage. An Chuxia lifted the curtain of the carriage and saw that all the children following were very thin.

Some even have skinny and protruding faces, with small eyes sunken in, already considered skinny and skinny.

Some children are so thin that when chasing a carriage, their legs are weak and they will fall every few steps.

An Chuxia asked Zixi to stop the carriage and let her get off the carriage. By this time, some villagers had already heard the noise and came out of their homes.

When these villagers saw the carriage, they obviously showed some timid expressions, and they only looked at it from a distance and did not dare to approach it.

An Chuxia saw that no matter adults or children here, they were all in ragged clothes, their bodies were emaciated, and the clothes on their bodies were patched on top of each other, which made her feel sour.

An Chuxia walked towards a thin woman who was standing in the fenced yard, and asked softly, "Sister-in-law, can we ask for a bowl of water when we pass by?"

When the thin woman saw a woman with a bun tied up to ask for water, she relaxed a little from her nervousness, nodded cautiously and said, "Wait here for a while, I'll bring it for you. "

At this time, there were several children surrounding them not far away, looking at An Chuxia and the others curiously.

An Chuxia couldn't bear to look at these scrawny children, so she asked Zixi to take out the pastries they ate on the road and distribute them to the seven or eight children here.

At first, these children were timid and did not dare to take it, until one bold child couldn't resist the temptation of pastries, trembled slightly and walked up to the smiling An Chuxia.

After taking the cake in her hand and putting it in her mouth, the other children couldn't help but took the cake that Zuo Wang and Zixi handed to them.

The children in the village seldom had such good cakes, and they chewed them for a long time before swallowing them. The soft, glutinous and sweet taste made them very nostalgic.

The woman who came out with water saw An Chuxia and the others take out cakes and gave them to the children in the village. Her eyes flickered and she shouted, "Girl, the water is here."

An Chuxia walked over and looked at the chipped bowl and took it without hesitation. Before Zixi could stop her, she had already gulped it down.

The woman saw Andrew Chuxia drinking water boldly, and her impression of her became very good, and a slight smile appeared on her thin face.

At this time, a dusty little boy ran over and handed the woman the remaining piece of pastry, "Mother, the pastry is delicious. I left this piece for my sister."

The woman touched the little boy's head with watery eyes, took the pastry from him, and said to An Chuxia, "Thank you, if it weren't for you and they grew up so big, they wouldn't even know the taste of the pastry." .”

The woman's words made An Chuxia's eyes twitch. How poor is this place? There is no money to buy snacks for the children all year round.

An Chuxia could see that there was still a trace of defense in the woman's eyes, and such a reaction was quite normal, after all, they were strangers.

Seeing her like this, An Chuxia withdrew her desire to go in and find out the situation, and asked kindly, "Sister-in-law, can you tell me where the village head's house lives?"

The woman was startled at first by An Chuxia's question, and then thought that the village was full of people in broad daylight, and bad people would not dare to ask for directions so blatantly to do bad things.

The woman pointed to the family at the head of the village, "It's the third family in the front row, what can you do with the village chief?"

An Chuxia smiled and didn't answer, but asked Zixi to bring some more cakes to the woman. Hearing the voice of a child coming from the room, she probably had a young child at home.

The woman was obviously very happy to accept the pastries, and called the little boy from home to let him guide An Chuxia and the others.

The little boy took the last piece of pastry from Zixi, and happily brought them to the village chief's house. Several women on the way avoided them when they saw them.

It wasn't until An Chuxia came to the courtyard of the village chief's house that she realized why she didn't meet any man from this village along the way.

It turned out that all of them gathered in the courtyard of the village chief's house for a meeting, and heard that they were talking about paying taxes this year.

An Chuxia stopped the child who was about to run into the yard, and asked him to play elsewhere first.The little boy probably ate the pastries they gave, and obediently went to find his playmate not far away.

(End of this chapter)