Chapter 672: Flattered
The next day, as soon as it got dark, everyone got up and ate some leftover food from last night. The motorcade set off before the sun came up.
Xia Zihan hadn't woken up yet. The car was shaking, but the shaking made her feel comfortable. Unconsciously, she fell into a deeper sleep.
When she woke up, it was already three o'clock in the morning.
"Wake up." Chu Jingqi sat next to her and read a book. When he saw her rubbing her eyes, he put down the book, took a cloak and put it on her shoulders. "The chicken soup is warm on the small stove. You should get up and wash it before you drink it."
"Well, what time is it? Have you eaten?" Xia Zihan opened the quilt and looked for shoes.
Chu Jingqi got out of bed, took out her shoes from under the bed, squatted down, and helped her put on her shoes. Xia Zihan shrank her feet and said, "I'll do it myself."
He grabbed her little feet with his big hands, put the shoes on her and called her, "You are my wife, and I will serve you as a matter of course."
Xia Zihan's pretty face turned slightly red, and her heart felt as sweet as honey. However, she still said, "Nonsense, how can any husband serve his wife?"
"I like to serve Ayu, especially in bed." Chu Jingqi winked at her lovingly, grinning with a smile on her face.
Was teased by him.
Xia Zihan felt embarrassed and glared at him fiercely.
He took out a pot of tea from the bottom of the shelf, poured it into the basin, took a clean towel, soaked it, wring it out, opened it, spread it on the palm of his hand, and was about to wait for her to wash her face.
Xia Zihan tilted his head and said nothing, "I'll do it myself." He grabbed the towel, wiped his face, and washed his hands in the basin.
Chu Jingqi didn't fight with her, and turned around to find a comb to help her comb her hair. Xia Zihan pursed her lips and smiled, "You know how?"
"Well, I learned it."
He said seriously.
This time, Xia Zihan sat down obediently and allowed him to wait on her.
Chu Jingqi had learned from Yue Jin several times before and could only do some simple buns. However, now on the carriage, everything is simple and there is no need to dress up too gorgeously.
Soon, after combing his hair, Xia Zihan raised his hand and touched it. It felt good, and he praised it with a smile. He was so proud that his tail almost went up to the sky.
He filled a bowl of chicken soup and two plates of snacks for her to eat.
He said, "The steamed buns and steamed buns are too cold to eat. You eat some snacks first and drink more hot soup. The convoy can arrive in the town at noon. Then we will go to a restaurant to eat."
Xia Zihan, who had felt no appetite for a while when he heard that he could get off the car, suddenly gained an appetite. He ate three snacks and drank up the remaining two bowls of chicken soup.
Chu Jingqi took another plate of fresh apples from the small bookshelf and placed it on the low table. "I was passing by the town in the morning and saw a villager carrying two baskets full of apples. They looked very fresh, so I just gave them to them. They all bought it and gave it to everyone to eat together.”
"Hey, why did you suddenly become kind-hearted?" Xia Zihan teased him with a smile, her eyes full of surprise.
Chu Jingqijun blushed slightly and tapped her forehead with his finger, "This is not a good intention. You entrusted so many of your escorts to others to keep. Although we gave them money, we walked more with them along the way and got closer. People will also put more thought into your baby.”
Well, they are all excuses.
He saw Zheng Wenting fighting fiercely with a group of escorts, so he had the intention to suppress him.
The two baskets of apples cost only three hundred cents, less than half a tael, but the gratitude and excitement on the faces of the escorts when they got the apples were not fake. It's not that they are rare for a few apples, but that he, his identity, the dignified prince of Anjun Prince's Palace, the great general of Dasheng, personally bought apples for them to eat. This was Zheng Wenting's huge wealth in exchange for An honor not to come.
Xia Zihan thought what he said made sense.
At noon, the convoy arrived at the next small town, and Xia Zihan booked the largest restaurant in the town to treat the escorts to dinner.
She also specially invited Li Sangwu, Lao San, and Zheng Wenting to sit at the same table with her and Chu Jingqi, and ordered some of the restaurant's signature dishes.
Hundreds of people, more than ten tables of food, how much money does that cost?
Li Sangwu was flattered and said hurriedly, "Madam, there is no need to order those signature dishes, let's just eat some home-cooked dishes."
On the last trip, he also protected a large bodyguard. He sent out 150 bodyguards and escorted five carts full of jade to Jiangnan.
The employer also went with him.
However, the employer was very stingy and liked to care about everything. Every day when he got off the carriage, he would look at people with his nose and look down on their escorts. He also always liked to boss them around, as if they deserved to be punished for having earned his money. Mockery, as if he deserves to be ordered around.
Let alone treating them to a meal, the employer didn't even treat them to a meal of plain porridge.
He didn't care if he didn't ask for it, and he didn't lack for that meal. However, the employer himself ate delicious food and drank spicy food every day, so forget it, but he actually ridiculed them for being like beggars who didn't eat anything every day. Steamed buns and pickles are like hunting prey and eating barbecue.
When they eat barbecue, they have to give a portion to their employer, otherwise they will be scolded by him for being stingy, saying that this is during the period of employment, and all the prey they kill belongs to him.
You say it's irritating or not.
Later, when he arrived at the place, the employer made various excuses and insisted on deducting 200 taels of employment wages from him, unwilling to pay him.
He became angry and threatened to bring 150 bodyguards to destroy his shop. Then the employer became frightened and gave him the remaining 200 taels of silver.
He was also drunk when he met the best employer.
After returning to the escort agency, he told his uncle that Zhenyuan Escort Agency would never take jobs from that employer again.
Too much of a dog looking down on others, too much of a bully.
Xia Zihan, Zheng Wenting, and Chu Jingqi are the best employers he has encountered in the seven or eight years he has been working as a escort.
It's not that they treat them to dinner because they think they are good, but that when they escort the carriage, they never talk much or even pay attention. They will not be like other employers, guarding the carriage like guarding against thieves. The bodyguards driving the carriage were all trembling with fear.
They hired them and treated them like thieves. This was not the first time that they had encountered such a thing. Basically, whenever they wanted to protect valuables, their employers would treat them like thieves.
This was the first time he encountered employers like Zheng Wenting, Xia Zihan, and Chu Jingqi who never paid attention to their escorts.
Not to mention, Li Sangwu and the escorts were even more flattered by the generous invitation to treat hundreds of them to dinner.
Li Sangwu was embarrassed to ask the other party to spend more money, so he tried his best to hint to the escorts to order ordinary dishes. Xia Zihan was a rich man, how could he save these few taels of silver? She told the shopkeeper, "What good dishes do you have in the restaurant? Just do it.”
(End of chapter)