Chapter 387 Before the Exile Team Departs
The strange incident in Yucheng has spread throughout the neighboring prefectures and counties in less than half a day. By the Erjiang River outside the main city, many nearby villagers came to watch. Even those who arrived late could see small "offer platforms" built with stones by others on both sides of the glacier, kowtow and make devout wishes.
Tu Hua was in the basement. After listening to the conversation between Yu Ji and Mrs. Wang, she casually placed a piece of gold that Han Qiguang had paid filial piety to before on a high table by the wall and left.
When leaving, she did not let the system take her away directly. Instead, she was sent outside through the closed door.
A cramped and narrow staircase came into view.
She walked up the stairs. She thought she would appear in Hanshuang Courtyard, but unexpectedly she was in another mansion.
Going out of a secret door that is one person high, you turn around and see an extremely ordinary courtyard. The only thing that is the same as Hanshuang Courtyard is that it is remote.
Tuhua thought to herself, it turns out that the entrance and exit are here.
The system asked: [Host, do I need to take you directly back to the villa? 】
“No, it doesn’t look too far away. I’ll take a walk in the morning.”
When we came up from the ground, it was already bright outside.
On the way back, I met the two faces I had seen before. They were carrying food boxes in their hands and passed by Tuhua. When Tuhua saw the two of them, one urged the other.
“After taking care of this, don’t delay for a while.”
“I’ll finish serving breakfast to this fish girl early, and then I’ll go to the yard to listen to the training. How can I live this life? It's not interesting at all. If you ask me, they are both pregnant. This one is reasonable, and the other one doesn't know what to do if she yells five or six times a day. She really thinks that she is the master. "
"Be careful that the walls have ears."
"What are you afraid of? Who else can come to this shabby yard besides you and me."
Tu Hua watched the two of them enter the house. inside, closed the door, then turned around and walked back.
The system prompts in my ears: [Host, your gold has been received by the other party. 】
Tu Hua smiled slightly and went back to the villa to catch up on her sleep.
In the basement, not long after Tu Hua left, the sharp-eyed mother Wang got up to clean up the room and saw Jin Zi.
"Girl! Look! Gold!"
Yu Ji looked at the gold that Wang Ma put in her palm and was also stunned.
"Who put this...? Has it been there before?"
Mother Wang shook her head, "Definitely not! I know what I'm doing in the house."
Yu Ji was silent on the bed for a long time. She grabbed Mother Wang's hand and went down to the table where she found the gold. She stroked the flat surface with her palm for a long time and then turned around and said, "Mother Wang, take my piece of Bodhisattva's "Bring the jade pendant here."
The half-finger-sized jade Bodhisattva was visited seriously by the master and the servant on the high table. Yu Ji filled a bowl of water with her own hands and held it firmly in her hands. , place it in front of the Bodhisattva statue and worship it.
Just as he was about to return to worship God, there were footsteps outside the door.
The two looked at each other, bowed, and put away the gold as if nothing had happened. When the door opened, nothing unusual was seen.
This breakfast, Yu Ji ate more seriously than any other day, and her appetite was also good.
The two women who came to deliver the meal were surprised, and they couldn't help but look at Mrs. Wang who was being punished with admiration. "I didn't expect Madam to send you here, and you might be of some use."
The two stared at Yu Ji after finishing the meal, packed up and left. The door was still locked, but the master and servant, who were strictly guarded in the room, sat quietly for a while, turned over again and took out the ingot. Gold was found.
Yu Ji held the gold that came from nowhere and said, "Mother Wang, do you think the Bodhisattva has appeared?"
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Early in the morning, the air is cold. , Tuhua went back to her room, took a quick shower and then fell asleep.
After a day and night of exhaustion, her body fell into a warm dream. She had no idea how much influence she would have in and outside Yucheng in the morning just because she was at the riverside last night and satisfied with Han Qiguang's handiwork.
When the Xie family woke up, the atmosphere in the inn was not bad, but during breakfast, the officers were always whispering, which was a bit strange, a bit curious, and I don’t know. what happened.
After breakfast, everyone has to start working and packing up.
The burden on the team is no greater than before. The supplies carried along the way have increased a lot. The extra carriages and horses will be managed by officials who can drive the carriages, while other things naturally need to be taken from the flow. Among the offenders, select some who are relatively strong and come forward to help.
All morning, people were busy inside and outside the inn courtyard.
After Xiong Jiushan came back from the county government, he briefly talked with Xie Yuchuan about Feng Chen's intentions. Xie Yuchuan had no objection. The two prepared separately. Xie Yuchuan also handed over the life-saving "equipment" sent by the family god Tuhua to Xiong Jiushan in advance.
Xiong Jiushan called several interpreters who had "watched" the scene of the Xie family's spiritual apparition last time. After covering up the things, he put them on the carriage and horse sent by the Tian family. When they arrived outside the city, he then pressed the heads. distribution.
The two of them originally planned to have a warm lunch at the inn and then set off.
Xiong Jiushan specially asked people to hand over half a fan of wild boar meat in the hands of their officers to the inn for processing, firstly to make some warm soup, and secondly to turn it into dry food that can be easily carried on the road.
Gan Rong, the shopkeeper, and his kitchen staff also worked in front of the stove all morning, and finally prepared the dry food required by the escort officer Xiong Jiushan.
I made a lot of delicious things secretly and took the opportunity to stuff them into the baskets carried by the Xie family.
"Old Madam, if Master Han hadn't asked me to stay here for a while longer, I, Gan Rong, would have definitely left with the Xie family."
Old Madam Xie said gratefully: "No hurry, no hurry, you have already taken good care of us, and we have a long time to come."
"Okay, old lady, after I finish the instructions from Han Dong's family, Lao Gan and I will pack my backpack and go to Liaozhou to find him. You!”
Mrs. Xie was moved.
After the exile team finished their work, everyone found that this time the attitude of the officers seemed not to be right, and the arrangements they were used to had made other arrangements before they were ready to set off.
In the wide and flat courtyard, all the prisoners are no longer divided into groups of men and women, but divided into groups according to the old and the weak. Some of the people who are usually in good health during the exile are taken out alone to stand together. It is not bad but it is not bad. The healthy ones were put together, while the old, weak, sick and disabled remained where they were, looking at each other with horrified expressions.
For a while, there was a lot of chatter and noise in the courtyard, and some even fragile people were frightened and cried.
From the beginning to the end, Xiong Jiushan stood on the steps in front of the handrail, watching coldly as the guards below picked and pulled people.
Don’t explain, don’t listen to complaints, force the team to break up and re-form.
A family that was originally a good family was suddenly torn into two sides. They were scared and sad. There was obviously nothing in the middle. The noisy scene in front of them seemed like the yin and yang were about to be separated forever.
Xiong Jiushan had a gloomy expression and frowned.
In just a short while, he was able to spot a lot of fishiness in this seemingly ordinary team.
(End of this chapter)