The ultimate rebirth of the abandoned woman

Chapter 293 On the Road (Part [-])
"Mother, horse, pony, little black horse."

Lingxi was lying by the window, Xiaopang pointed at the passing donkey outside the window and shouted cheerfully.

Xiao Nan followed her gaze and corrected with a smile: "It's not a horse, it's a donkey. Do you think it's much smaller than a horse?!"

Lingxi hummed, nodded, and continued to look around with wide eyes.

Ever since he left the capital and went to the official road, Lingxi wanted to be a bird released from the cage, with a small body hanging on the car window, looking around with two big round eyes, curious about everything he saw, chattering Shouting to share her happiness with Xiao Nan.

The consonant and immature voice of a child adds a little interest to the boring itinerary.

To be honest, driving in winter is not very comfortable, the wind is cold along the way, and the dirt road is icy, which makes the ruts very hard.Sometimes it gets stuck, and people need to push and pull hard to get out, which slows down the speed of moving forward.

The road conditions are bad, the weather is bad, and there are many fewer pedestrians on the roadside.Occasionally, those who passed by were in a hurry to go home, or went to the city to sell goods.

Along the way, only the sound of creaking wheels crushing thin ice and the trampling of horseshoes can be heard.

In the first day or two, Changsheng and Lingxi could still look at the scenery outside the window with great interest, and they would chirp with Xiao Nan when they encountered something they hadn't seen before.

After a long time, the two children lost interest, nestled in the bullock cart, playing with toys listlessly.

Xiao Nan couldn't do anything about it. It was like this in ancient times, with different information and less entertainment. It was impossible to go out with a notebook like in the later generations, and no matter how long the journey was, you wouldn't feel bored.

In this day and age, not to mention adding any entertainment on the road, food, charcoal and other things must be prepared from home.It's definitely not like later generations, who can travel around the world with a globally accepted bank card.

Fortunately, Xiao Nan had already made preparations, he brought a lot of food and even vegetables, and the best silver charcoal was also loaded into an ox cart.

The compartment of Xiao Nan's bullock cart was re-customized, with a large space, the top of the compartment and the surrounding walls were all covered with quilted plain cotton cloth, and the floor was covered with thick lichen.

There are wide long seats on both sides of the carriage and near the front end. Each seat is more than three feet wide (about one meter). The seats are covered with thick felt blankets, and the felt blankets are covered with plain cotton quilts. There is a fat hidden bag at both ends of each seat, and of course the cloth of the hidden bag is also plain cotton.

There is an aisle about two feet wide between the seats on the left and right sides. A small food bed (that is, a small square table) is placed in the middle, and two smoke cages are placed on both sides of the food bed. , so that the inside of the car is fumigated and warm, as long as the doors and windows are closed, you won’t feel the cold at all.

Xiao Nan sat on the long seat on the west side of the carriage, with Lingxi in his arms, the mother and daughter were playing 'tangram'.

And Chang Sheng was lying on the long seat at the front of the carriage, sleeping soundly, with his wet nurse Qin Shi sitting beside him, watching over him carefully.

There is also a separate small space at the rear of the carriage, which is not big enough to accommodate two people and a small copper stove.

Yuzan and Lingxi's nurse, Fang Shi, were sitting inside, chatting softly while looking at the tea soup on the copper stove.

At noon that day, the convoy stopped. Since they couldn't find a house or a tea shop, they found a spacious open space not far from the official road. Ah Da and Ah San led several Cui family tribes to set up tents. Spread felt blankets, set up a fire... Yulian took a few cooks to wash vegetables and cook.

Xiao Nan looked outside through the window, turned his head and called to the rear of the car: "Yuhan, tell Mr. Lang that we will eat lunch in the ox cart, so we won't go down."

The cold wind was blowing outside, even with a curtain around it, it was still cold enough, for the health of the two children, Xiao Nan thought it would be better to stay in the bullock cart.

After thinking for a while, Xiao Nan said again: "By the way, you send someone to ask Seventh Lady to see if she would like to come to my place for lunch."

Yuzan waited for a while, and after confirming that Xiao Nan had no other orders, she got off the ox cart and went to run errands.

Not long after, Wu came over in a plain fur coat, holding a baby in her arms, followed by two servants.

"Sister and sister, I'm here to bother you again!"

After a few days of getting along, the relationship between Wu and Xiao Nan has become a little closer, and they are not as polite as they were at first.

Xiao Nan got up and made a gesture of greeting, handed Lingxi to Fang, and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law Qi is too polite, hehe, we are all a family, how can you say that you are bothering me?! Come on, sit down quickly, Don't freeze our little Dalang!"

Mrs. Wu was not polite either, and sat directly on the seat opposite to Xiao Nan, untied the fur coat, took out the son from her arms and put it beside him, Xiao Dalang's nurse also hurriedly moved forward to move the hidden pouch, and put the little son Swaddled around the seat.

Handing the fur coat to the servant girl, Wu Shi rubbed his hands and said: "Sister and brother, it's really warm here...Speaking of it, you are more thoughtful, brother and sister, I only think about the speed of the carriage, but forget the bumpy carriage, the carriage It’s also small, hehe, it’s still more comfortable for an ox cart!”

Xiao Nan handed her a cup of boiling tea soup, and said, "If Seventh Sister-in-law doesn't dislike it, why not stay with me in the afternoon. Your husband will be in front to scout and direct the way, and there are only three of us in the carriage, sister-in-law and Xiao Dalang also happened to come to be our company."

As the head of the family, Cui Youbo naturally became the leader of the entire team. Although there are housekeepers and servants around him to run errands, he still has the attitude he should have.Therefore, when he was on the road during the day, Uncle Cui sat in the carriage in front of the convoy, and only returned to the cart at night to talk to his wife and children, and then went to bed together.

"Well, my husband and I often stay with Dalang, and accompany our mother and son from time to time. Since my siblings don't think I'm bothering you, then I'll just stay in your ox cart!"

Wu took a sip of the tea soup, and felt a warmth flowing from his throat into his heart and lungs, which was extremely comfortable.

In fact, Wu Shiyuan didn't like going out in winter, especially since her son was still young, and she didn't want him to suffer.

However, as long as she thinks of being able to take care of her unreliable mother-in-law and the vicious son at home, she would rather suffer some punishment than return home with the man to serve her father-in-law.

While the two of them were talking, Yulian had already brought the food box, bowed briefly to the two ladies, opened the food box, and laid out the food for the two of them.

Eating is very simple, and there is no other reason. The Cui family is a mourning family, so meat and meat should be avoided in the first place, not to mention the usual fish and meat, even chickens are not allowed to be placed on the food table.

The few dishes in front of Xiao Nan and Wu were all boiled or steamed vegetables, and the soup was tofu soup, not even a trace of oil.

To be honest, the food eaten by Cui's family master is not as good as those guards and coachmen outside.

In order to show that he is a family of benevolence and kindness, Cui Youbo is very generous to Xiao Nan's guards, his family's trilogy, and the coachman, and he is even more unambiguous about food.

No, as soon as the convoy was stationed, a fire was set up outside, the broth in the copper tripod boiled, and a strong smell of mutton immediately permeated the air.

Hubing made of meat oil is even more openly available, allowing a group of young and strong to eat extremely happily.

Smelling the smell of meat coming from outside the ox cart, Xiao Nan looked at his meal with clear soup and little water, and seemed to think of something, then turned his head and told Yulian: "The mutton is being boiled outside? Remember to send some to Yuye later. , she is pregnant with a child, so don't follow me to be a vegetarian."

Yulian hurriedly responded, and said: "Don't worry, lady, the servant girl will arrange it in a while."

Wu and Xiao Nan got along for a few days, knowing who the jade leaf she was talking about, she couldn't help but smiled and said: "My brother and sister are kind-hearted, and I still miss those concubines at this moment." The son, that is, Xiao Nan's "Dadu", if it were her, if she didn't kill her, it would be considered a kindness, and she would not take special care of her.

Xiao Nan understood the meaning of Wu's words, but she thought she was too 'virtuous', so she didn't explain, but replied flatly: "Yu Ye is a girl I brought from my natal family."

Although she didn't say it explicitly, the meaning was very clear - Yuye was hers, so she naturally wanted to cover it up.

Wu Shi is a smart person, knowing that he has overstepped, he hastily added: "So that's the case, I was thinking too much."

Then, the two picked up the silver chopsticks and began to eat.

The nanny also carried Wu's little Dalang down to nurse him. The carriage was very quiet, not even the sound of silver chopsticks touching dishes.

Half an hour later, the two of them finished their lunch, and Yuzan had already cooked thick tea soup, so they hurriedly brought it out and presented it to Xiao Nan and Wu Shi with both hands.

Holding the white porcelain teacup in both hands, Wu took a sip, his eyes drifted to the sky outside the car window, and sighed: "Look at the sky, it seems to be snowing."

Xiao Nan followed her gaze and saw that there were dark clouds in the distance, and the thick clouds had already covered the sun, so he couldn't help but nodded in response: "Well, it's already the twelfth lunar month, and it's time for snow to fall."

But Mrs. Wu was thinking about the itinerary, and said worriedly: "When the snow falls, the road will become more difficult. I wonder if we can reach Luoyang before the end of the year."

The speed of the convoy is already slow enough. If it encounters rainy and snowy weather, the road is muddy and icy, it will be even more difficult for them to move forward.

Although before departure, Mrs. Wu also made sufficient preparations, including a lot of food and charcoal, but she really didn't want to celebrate the New Year on the road or in the posthouse.

But that's the way it is, the more you don't want to, the more you will.

Xiao Nan and Wu Shi finished drinking the tea soup, and after the people outside had finished their meals, they lay down on their respective seats one on the left and one on the right and took a nap after the convoy set off on the road.

When I opened my eyes, the sky was getting dark, snowflakes as big as goose feathers were flying in the sky, and the surrounding fields and the official road under the wheels turned white.

Seeing Xiao Nan, he was also a little worried, if they couldn't get to the expected post house before it was completely dark, the group of them would have to spend the night in the wild.

She and the children are all fine, the carriage of the ox cart is spacious, even if Uncle Cui comes back and spends the night together, it will be fine.

But what about the guards and parts outside?You can't let them freeze in the wild in heavy snow, right?

Just as I was worrying, I suddenly heard the servant outside reporting back: "Lady, the posthouse is ahead, and the gentleman ordered the servant to call you back first..."

PS: Well, Kavin is stuck to death, I can only update it today, I will make it up tomorrow, thank you for your support, O(∩_∩)O thank you!

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