After feeding the exiled criminals, she was forced to reveal herself

Chapter 387 Before the Exile Team Sets Off

The strange event in Yucheng spread to neighboring prefectures and counties within half a day. Many villagers from nearby villages came to watch the Erjiang River outside the main city. Even those who came late could see people building small "altars" with stones on both sides of the glacier, kowtowing and offering sacrifices and making sincere wishes.

Tu Huan was in the basement. After listening to the conversation between Yu Ji and Wang Po, she casually placed a gold ingot that Han Qiguang had given her as a gift on a high table beside the wall, and then left.

When she left, she did not let the system take her away directly, but sent her outside through the locked door.

A narrow and cramped staircase came into view.

She walked up the stairs, thinking she would end up in the Frost Courtyard, but unexpectedly she would end up in another house.

Coming out from a secret door that was as tall as a person, I turned around and saw an extremely ordinary courtyard. The only thing that was the same as Frost Courtyard was that it was remote.

Tu Huan thought, so the entrance and exit is here.

System question: [Host, do you need me to take you directly back to the villa? ]

"No, it doesn't seem too far. I'll take a walk early in the morning."

When I came up from underground, it was already bright outside.

On the way back, she met the two faces she had seen before. They were carrying food boxes in their hands and passed by Tu Huan. When Tu Huan saw them, one of them urged the other.

"After taking care of this person, don't delay for a while."

"After delivering breakfast to Miss Yu, I have to go to the courtyard to be lectured. Life is boring. In my opinion, they are both pregnant. This one is sensible, while the other one doesn't know what to do all day long. She really thinks she is the master. No matter who is the master, she can't be the master!"

"Be careful, the walls have ears."

"What are you afraid of? Who else would come to this broken yard except you and me?"

Tu Huan watched the two of them go into the house, close the door, and then turned around and walked back.

A system prompt came to my ears: [Host, your gold has been received by the other party. ]

Tu Huan smiled slightly and went back to the villa to catch up on her sleep.

In the basement, not long after Tu Huan left, the sharp-eyed Mother Wang got up to clean the room and saw the gold.

"Girl! Look! Gold!"

Yu Ji was also stunned when she saw the gold that Wang Ma put in her palm.

"Who put this? Has it been put there before?"

Mother Wang shook her head. "Definitely not! I know the house I cleaned."

Yu Ji was silent on the bed for a long time, then she grabbed Wang Ma's hand and went down to the high table where the gold was found. She stroked the flat surface with her palm for a long time, then turned around and said, "Wang Ma, bring me my Bodhisattva jade pendant."

The half-finger-sized jade-carved Bodhisattva was carefully visited by the master and servant on the high table. Yu Ji personally filled a bowl with clear water, held it steadily in her hands, and placed it in front of the Bodhisattva statue for worship.

Just as he was about to turn around and kowtow to the god, he heard footsteps outside the door.

The two men looked at each other, bowed, and put the gold away as if nothing had happened. When the door was opened, there was nothing unusual.

Yu Ji ate this breakfast more seriously than any other day and had a good appetite.

The two maids who came to deliver the food were surprised and looked at the punished maid Wang with admiration. "I didn't expect that the lady sent you here to be of some use."

The two men watched Yu Ji finish her meal, then packed up and left. The door was still locked, but the master and servant, who were under strict guard in the room, sat quietly for a while, then turned over again and found the gold ingot.

Yu Ji held the gold that came from nowhere and said, "Mother Wang, do you think it was the Bodhisattva who showed his power?"

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Early in the morning, the air was cold. Tu Huan returned to her room, took a quick shower and went to bed.

After being exhausted for a whole day and night, she fell into a warm dream, totally unaware of how much of an impact her satisfying Han Qiguang's hand by the river last night would have inside and outside Yucheng in the morning.

When the Xie family woke up, the atmosphere in the inn was fine. But during breakfast, the officials kept whispering to each other, which was a bit strange and curious, but they didn't know what was going on.

After breakfast, everyone started working and packing up.

The burden on the team is no longer than before, and the supplies they carry along the way have increased a lot. The extra carriages and horses are managed by the officers who can drive carriages, and the other things naturally need to be carried out by selecting some relatively strong people from the fugitives to help.

The inn was busy all morning inside and outside.

After Xiong Jiushan came back from the county government office, he briefly talked to Xie Yuchuan about Feng Chen's intentions. Xie Yuchuan had no objection, and the two of them prepared separately. Xie Yuchuan also handed over the life-saving "equipment" sent by the family god Tu Huan to Xiong Jiushan in advance.

Xiong Jiushan called over several escorts who had "watched" the Xie family's miracle last time. After concealing the things, they put them on the carriage sent by the Tian family. When they got outside the city, they distributed them according to the number of people.

The two originally planned to have a hot lunch at the inn and then set off.

Xiong Jiushan specifically asked someone to hand over half a wild boar meat in the hands of their officials to the inn for processing, firstly to make some hot soup to warm the body, and secondly to make it into dry food that was easy to carry on the road.

The shopkeeper Gan Rong and his kitchen staff worked in front of the stove for the whole morning and finally prepared the dry food that the escort officer Xiong Jiushan wanted.

He secretly prepared a lot of delicious food and took the opportunity to stuff it into the Xie family's backpacks.

"Madam, if Young Master Han hadn't asked me to stay here for a while longer, I, Gan Rong, would have gone with the Xie family."

Madam Xie said gratefully, "No hurry, no hurry. You have already taken good care of us. There is still a long way to go."

"Okay, old lady, when I finish taking care of Mr. Han's instructions, I will pack my backpack and go to Laozhou to find you!"

Madam Xie was moved.

After the exile team finished their work, everyone found that the officials' attitude seemed to be a little strange this time, and the arrangements they were used to had other arrangements before they were ready to set off.

In the wide and flat courtyard, all the exiles were no longer divided into teams based on gender, but on age and the weak. Some people who were in good physical condition during their exile were picked out separately and stood together, while those who were neither good nor bad but looked healthy were put together. The remaining old, weak, sick and disabled were left where they were, looking at each other with terrified expressions.

For a moment, the courtyard was filled with noise and chatter, and some fragile people were even frightened and started crying.

From beginning to end, Xiong Jiushan stood on the front steps with the handrail, watching the officers below picking and pulling people away with cold eyes.

No explanation, no listening to complaints, forced separation and re-teaming.

The family was originally doing well, but was suddenly split into two. They were scared and sad. There was clearly nothing in between, and the noisy scene in front of them made it seem as if they were about to be separated forever.

Xiong Jiushan had a gloomy face and a frown on his face.

In just such a short while, he even discovered a lot of tricks in this seemingly ordinary team.

(End of this chapter)