Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 10836

In winter, the days are short and the nights are long, especially when it is gloomy with wind and snow, and the sky gets dark very quickly.

He obviously had lunch and didn't waste much time. He immediately got on the carriage and the carriage drove forward without any further delay.

They didn't stop to relieve themselves for twenty miles, but even so, when the carriage traveled ten miles, the sky was about to turn dark.

"Grandma, I'm afraid."

Little Fuwa used to like to lie down by the car window and look at the scenery outside, but gradually, the little guy looked at the dusk that enveloped the surroundings and felt a little timid.

Mrs. Sun held Fuwa in her arms, touched the top of her hair and coaxed her, "Don't be afraid, your grandpa and the others, as well as many grandpas and uncles, are all helping us shovel the snow on the road outside."

Xiaohua also smiled and said to Fuwa: "Yes, there are people everywhere on the road, don't be afraid, it's lively!"

Those words were true, but the little Fuwa was still lying limply in Sun's arms and had no interest in looking at the scenery outside.

While holding her, Mrs. Sun coaxed her to fall asleep in her arms, and picked up the small blanket prepared nearby to cover Fuwa.

There was no lantern in the carriage, and the heavy windproof and heat-insulating curtains hung down, making the light in the small carriage even darker.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law also talked quietly in the dark carriage.

Sun said: "The children suffered a lot during this trip home."

Adults can't bear it, let alone such a small child? It's freezing cold...

Xiaohua said: "It's not bad. We have cotton clothes, trousers and shoes, and we can also provide hot meals and dishes. It's just that the journey is a bit long and they are getting irritated in the car."

Counting the days until I leave Beijing, this trip will be almost a month on the road.

Traveling during the day and staying at an inn or inn at night, the journey is boring.

"If we grit our teeth and persevere, we are already halfway through the journey. If we can successfully reach the station ahead today, we can take a breather." Xiaohua said again.

Mrs. Sun nodded, "I don't know how the snow shoveling is going in front..."

"It should be about the same. We can feel it when we are in the car. It has not slowed down, which means that the snow on the road ahead has been shoveled away..."

It was completely dark, and Sun's carriage was still driving on the vast official road. This road seemed to have no end.

"Your father and the others don't know where they shoveled the snow. When we came here before, we could see a few people shoveling the snow every now and then. Why can't we see them anymore as we get closer to the inn?"

Mrs. Sun glanced out of the car window. Outside, in the fields and mountains, there was white snow everywhere.

No one was seen in the snow.

"Mom, don't look at it. Dad must be with the big guy,"

Xiao An raised his hand and pulled Sun to sit down, "Da'an is driving the car in front. We have guards and drivers escorting us here. If anything happens, Daan and the others outside will see better than me."

"If Mom is sleepy, just take a nap with Fuwa. I'll call you when there is any movement."

"Okay, you better keep your ears up!"

……

The conversation between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the carriage reached the ears of Daan who was pressing the car in front of the carriage.

A trace of worry also condensed between Daan's brows. He wasn't worried about Dad and the other shovelers because he knew they were all scattered along the road shoveling snow.

Daan was not worried about rushing to the post station at night because it was getting dark.

What worries Da An is that bandits will appear on the road at night.

Sometimes these bandits are not the kind of bad guys who make a living by blocking roads. These bandits are just honest farmers in broad daylight when they are busy farming.

You can check it no matter which village you live in.

But when there is slack in farming, or when there is such bad weather, or during the New Year, or during famine years... they will throw piles of stones and trees on the official roads near the village and at the intersections of the mountains and forests to create roadblocks. , followed by roadblocking and robbery.

Only money and food left behind can be released.

Da'an brought guards along the way to guard against these.

Because we were traveling in broad daylight before, we had to find a place to stay before dark, and we brought a dozen or so knife-wielding guards with us, so we didn't encounter these things.

But tonight, Daan felt a little panicked, leaving only two guards with him, and his luggage and family were all in the car...

……

I don't know how much time passed, but in the swaying wheels of the carriage, Mrs. Sun heard Xiaohua calling her in her ear.

"Mom, wake up, someone is here."

Mrs. Sun suddenly opened her eyes. It was not dark in the carriage at this time, because Xiaohua freed up a hand to lift a corner of the curtain in front of the carriage that blocked the wind.

At this time, the carriage had slowly slowed down because a fast horse was approaching on the official road ahead.

The man on the horse held the reins with one hand and held a pine tar torch with the other. As he ran, he shouted to the people on the horses here: "Are you the Yang family in Changping Village ahead of you?"

Two sword-wielding guards were already guarding the carriage.

At this time, Da'an was sitting steadily in front, but he bowed his hands to the oncoming fast horse and the man on the horse: "Exactly, your Excellency?"

After receiving Da'an's reply, the other party reined in the reins, got off his horse, took two quick steps forward, knelt down on one knee and saluted Da'an on the carriage: "My subordinate xx, on the order of Mrs. Luo, I have come to greet the master, the old lady, my uncle and the couple." The young lady returns home to celebrate the New Year!”

Mrs. Luo?

Isn't that the bodyguard sent by sister Yang Ruoqing?

At this moment, on the official road in the dark night, Da'an, who was originally a little worried that robbers would appear along the way, breathed a sigh of relief.

Daan hurriedly asked the Luo family guard to get up without courtesy and summoned him to come to the carriage to talk.

In the carriage, Mrs. Sun and Xiaohua also understood each other's origins. Mrs. Sun excitedly said to Xiaohua at that time: "It's your sister who sent someone to pick us up? Did I hear you right? Is that what you meant?"

Xiaohua smiled and nodded, "Mom, you heard me right, it is indeed my sister who came to pick us up."

Outside the carriage, Daan was questioning the Luo family guard. Sun stretched her neck to listen, and Xiaohua held Jun'er in her arms. It was inconvenient for her to lean out, but she sat in the carriage and listened with her ears pricked up.

The Luo family guards told Sun and Da'an that when it started to snow, Yang Ruoqing had already started making arrangements, fearing that they would be stuck in the middle of the road.

"What about your wife? Is she in the village or out?" Mrs. Sun couldn't help but ask the Luo family guard.

The Luo family guard bowed respectfully to Mrs. Sun and said, "In reply to the old lady's words, she sent me to explore the way, and she herself followed with her troops."

"They should have arrived at the inn at this moment. Madam asked me to tell the old lady and uncle that the inn has been packed up. Madam is waiting for everyone at the inn!"

(End of this chapter)