Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Five carriages arrived at Yunke Lai Restaurant, also located in the east of the city, with great fanfare. The boxes and cages were moved into a small courtyard behind the restaurant by the coachmen and waiters.

Here, the senior management has sent two stalwart women, a young maid and a young boy to stand by. They have also prepared two tables for reception banquets for men and women.

Very grand.

In his previous life, just such a small amount of kindness could make his wife busy as a dog.

According to this attitude, his wife must not work for Mrs. Gao.

But I have to admit that Mrs. Gao's methods are really good. Even the high-level executives she trained are talented people. The location of the small courtyard she arranged is very good.

It is far away from the front hall of the restaurant, and it is not a courtyard named "Tian", but it happens to be very close to the corner gate, and there is an alley leading to the street.

After the banquet, Gu Wenxuan and Zhou Banxia mentioned that the senior executive was very experienced in handling affairs, and the senior executive also praised to his wife that Gu Wenxuan really didn't look like a farmer.

No wonder even the third wife said that the old lady can train people.

Miss Banxia has good taste and has found such a husband-in-law who is good-looking, well-spoken and well-controlled.

It is also the husband's family in the same village. As long as they don't do whatever they want with the old lady as their backer and have no ambitions, they are better than being the first wife of a wealthy family.

So what if the old lady's previous maid, Amber, was betrothed by the great master's disciples and became the county magistrate's wife.

My intention in seeking marriage is not trivial, and we are not a couple who share the same hardships. It's a good thing that the eldest man's official career is going smoothly, otherwise it wouldn't even be considered a bad wife if she doesn't go to court.

"According to what you say, those people who made fun of Miss Banxia before are no longer allowed to get close to her.

Maybe the old lady values ​​​​Miss Banxia's integrity as a human being and does not covet glory and wealth. That's why she repeatedly reminded you in the letter that once Miss Banxia is bullied, can you make an exception and put her first? "

How should I put this? In his opinion, it was mainly because Miss Banxia protected the old lady from disaster that year.

As far as his mother knew, the old lady had a nightmare that night, and the next day she sent her mother to find a master in private to tell her fortune.

I don’t know what the master said, but after that, Miss Banxia’s status in the mansion was different. Even the eldest lady once wanted to accept Miss Banxia as her adopted daughter.

The senior executive hesitated for a moment, but decided not to tell his wife this secret that few people knew, lest she reveal it one day and spread it to the old lady's ears.

"Anyway, just don't put on airs in front of her. Even the big boss looks at her differently. Maybe one day we will need her help to say good things."

Zhou Banxia didn't hear this, but it wouldn't be surprising if he did.

For the stewards who also had their slave status cancelled, she was a fellow traveler with them, but she was also the old lady's supervisor outside.

No, she was just about to say that this place was no longer suitable for long-term stay, when Gu Wenxuan mentioned that she could only stay for two nights at most.

Even if the Shunyi Escort Bureau does not have a caravan to return to Qingyang County, they will have to go out of the city to Zhuangzi where the Shunyi Escort Bureau is located. They would rather go to a nearby town to purchase and stock up than live stupidly.

Speaking of this issue, Zhou Banxia couldn't sit still. He was either busy making money or visiting in the past two days, and he didn't have time to go shopping.

Taking advantage of the fact that there was still an hour and a half before the curfew, the two of them dressed up in disguise after going out, bought a trolley, and first purchased the small items on the list.

For example, Gu Wenxuan insisted on stocking up donkey-hide gelatin, white fungus, red dates, longan, lotus seeds, tea, etc., as well as scattered tea sets and bottles.

Finally, at dusk, he went to a grain store that he had been eyeing for a long time, and here he rounded up almost all the rice from several origins in the store.

If he hadn't been worried that there would be too much noise and asking the waiter to deliver it to the place he pointed out would attract attention, which would be detrimental to Zhou Banxia's putting it away, he would have wanted to clear out the store's inventory. Grain procurement seems like even grain merchants need to be qualified to operate it, and buyers have to show off their reputation if the amount is huge, but in fact, it is about sales volume, and these people have many ways to break it into pieces and sell it in small pieces.

Especially rice and white flour, unlike rice and wheat that can be stockpiled, and unlike corn and other coarse grains that can be used as war preparations, the quantity is strictly controlled.

Two carts of rice were purchased without any danger.

When he returned to Yunkelai before the curfew, Gu Wenxuan became a bookworm again and chewed books until midnight, which made Zhou Banxia laugh.

The next day, they left the city early for Zhuangzi, Shunyi, fearing that a visitor might come to visit them.

As expected, they learned that Yun Chengming had taken a convoy to Jingu, but it was impossible for him and his wife to wait for him and Wang Mazi to return before returning to Qingyang County together.

Gu Wenxuan proposed to Uncle Qi, the steward of the escort agency, that he and his wife should bring six or seven boxes and cages with them to see if there would be a caravan returning to the county in the next two days.

After all, the journey from Qingyang County to Fucheng passes through a county town, three to five large villages and towns, not including the county town, villages and towns in the opposite direction from Qingyang County to Fucheng.

Moreover, as the New Year is approaching, the snow will only get heavier and heavier, making it difficult to travel. The large caravans who want to be escorted by the escort may not be found for a while, but the small caravans and the people who want to visit relatives and friends before returning to their hometowns to worship their ancestors are always indispensable. Together they form a large fleet.

After making an appointment with Uncle Qi to send someone to Yunke to inform him and his wife as soon as there was any news, Gu Wenxuan took Zhou Banxia to the second stop in a carriage.

They got off the bus at the entrance of a village where he had heard about the farming village in the southern suburbs and paid the fare. The two walked for a while to find a forest.

After being disguised, they took out the mule cart and drove it to the breeding farm.

I picked thirty sheep and three pigs to be slaughtered here, and made an appointment to pick them up at noon.

Pay the price, collect the receipt, take a cart of bacon, dried chicken and duck and chicken and duck eggs, and continue to the third station of the mill.

Passing by a kiln factory, he bought a few jars and jars. When he arrived at the mill in the western suburbs, it was almost noon. He quickly purchased and asked the mill to send someone to take him to the place he designated.

Zhou Banxia, ​​who was disguised as a rich man, pulled the first cart. After he was in charge, he mainly used coarse grains, which had been ground but not ground. He pulled five oxen carts and one mule cart back and forth.

After the two met, they sent away the last bullock cart and its driver, and Zhou Banxia drove the mule cart back and forth to collect grain one cart after another.

After that, the two of them ran away.

Return to the breeding farm.

Using the same operation, the steward of Zhuangzi sent someone to deliver the slaughtered sheep and pigs to the place he designated, and put all the baskets and buckets into the space.

In case he smelled of blood, he took a shower, had no time to pack his things, and even dared not let the mule cart show up. He rushed to the big carriage shop in the eastern suburbs and rented a carriage to enter the city.

After getting off the bus and walking a short distance into the city, we made an appointment to meet at Huiwenzhai on Fuxueqian Street. We watched Gu Wenxuan hail a carriage and leave, and Zhou Banxia went to Ruyifang.

Yesterday, I didn't have time to inform shopkeeper Hu in person, so I just sent the boy from Yuelai Inn to run errands to Ruyifang to tell her that the couple had changed their stay at Yunke.

Shopkeeper Hu guessed that she would come around this time.

Then I heard Zhou Banxia say that she went to the Shunyi Escort Bureau early in the morning, and then went to two big car shops to find out if there was someone who would go back to Qingyang County to make fun of her.

"I really don't enjoy happiness."