Although Wu Yue said this while looking at his eldest daughter-in-law Wu Gui, she also meant it for Fang Huiwen, the eldest daughter-in-law of the eldest family.
Zhenbei King Zhou Cungao and his eldest daughter Ji Mingzhu had two sons and one daughter.
The eldest son Zhou Jianzhang also has two sons and one daughter. The eldest son Zhou Yunzhi is the eldest grandson and is married to the Fang family. He has a pair of twin sons who are five years old this year and named Zhou Yuanli and Zhou Yuanyi.
The remaining one son and one daughter are twins, that is, Zhou Yunshu and her twin brother Zhou Yunqi are the third and fourth in the Zhou family.
Zhou Yunshu married the King of Wei and gave birth to Ji Nanxi. She is still pregnant with two children.
Zhou Yunqi was engaged but not married. The original plan was to get married in October, but now that the Zhou family was defeated, the engagement was naturally invalid.
Zhou Yunqi did not join the army. He has been traveling with the great scholar Duan Yan all year round. He doesn't know where he is now, but he just escaped the Zhou family's raids and beheadings this time.
Also studying with Zhou Yunqi was Zhou Yunjia, the younger son of the second wife.
Both of them escaped this disaster because of their study tour.
Zhou Jianzhi, the second son of King Zhenbei, had three sons and one daughter.
The eldest son, Zhou Yunhai, is the second in line in the Zhou family. He is married to Wu Gui and has a three-year-old son named Zhou Yuanruo.
The second son, Zhou Yunkun, was the fifth in the Zhou family. He went to the north to join the army two months after getting married to Liu Aifang. The two had no children. Now Liu Aifang has returned to her natal family.
Daughter Zhou Yunxia is the sixth among the grandchildren of the Zhou family. She is married to General Ma, a self-made man from Tongzhou, and has a son named Ma Jingrong, who is just one year old this year.
The remaining eldest son, Zhou Yunjia, is also the youngest of the grandchildren, the seventh and unmarried.
The Zhou family seems to have a lot of people, but in fact it is not a well-populated family in the capital.
As for the changes in the northern border, there were only ten surviving women and children of the Zhou family, including the eldest princess, in the capital.
Ten people are really too few for a family.
"Mom, the Zhou family and I will advance and retreat together!" The person who said this was Wu Gui who had attacked the soldiers in the yard before.
Wu Gui is three years older than Zhou Yunhai and is the daughter of a military general.
She got married to Zhou Yunhai because her father saved Zhou Jianzhi's life, and it was up to Zhou Cungao and Zhou Jianzhi to let the eldest daughter of the Wu family marry Zhou Yunhai.
Speaking of which, the relationship between Zhou Yunhai and Wu Gui is not deep. After all, Zhou Yunhai wanted to marry a girl from a scholarly family since he was a child, but he ended up marrying Wu Gui, who was skilled in swords and guns under the arrangement of his father.
It was okay when the two were not together, but they often quarreled when they were together.
Wu Yue's eyes turned red when she heard her eldest daughter-in-law's assurance. You must know that at the beginning, she did not like the daughter-in-law that her father-in-law and her husband had arranged for their eldest son.
Just because she was the daughter of a martial artist, she was very carefree in wielding swords and guns. She was not as polite as the aristocratic ladies in the capital. She was already twenty years old when she got married.
You know, nowadays it is common for girls to get engaged at the age of eleven or twelve, and it is more common for girls to get married at the age of fifteen or sixteen. If someone's daughter delays getting married until she is twenty, isn't that a joke?
Of course, Wu Yue did not dare to say this, because Zhou Jianying, the daughter of her father-in-law and mother-in-law, was also nineteen years old this year, but her status was different. Who allowed her to have a father who was the king of Zhenbei and a mother who was the eldest princess? .
Speaking of which, this sister-in-law ran away as soon as she received the news from abroad, and she doesn’t know where she is now.
After Wu Gui made the promise, Fang Huiwen, the eldest granddaughter-in-law of the Zhou family, also looked at her mother-in-law Li Jialan and said, "Mom, I will take care of the family for my husband."
Li Jialan patted Fang Huiwen's arm with red eyes, "Thank you for your hard work."
Zhou Yunshu looked at this family of women and children and sighed in her heart.
The big house has a slightly larger population. Li Jialan and Fang Huiwen have two five-year-old babies, and together with her and their daughter, there are six people. The second uncle's family now only has the second aunt Wu Yue, the second sister-in-law Wu Gui, and the three-year-old Zhou Yuanruo. .
The others were either out without news, died in battle or disappeared.
Zhou's family was too small, and if anything went wrong on the way to exile, the whole army might be wiped out.
"Time is running out, mother, second aunt, let's split up."
Before it actually happened, even if Zhou Yunshu knew that the Zhou family in her previous life had left the capital today, she did not dare to make too many preparations, for fear that her reborn butterfly wings would change the past.
But now that Zhou Yunshu has confirmed that the Zhou family will leave the capital today, some things must be prepared.
"Mom, you, your sister-in-law, and your second aunt will take the children to the South City Gate first. Chu Qi will follow you."
Chu Qi was her grandmother's bodyguard and was very skilled in martial arts. With him around, Zhou Yunshu felt at ease.
"Okay." Li Jialan has long been accustomed to her daughter being the head of the house, so she has no objection.
"Second sister-in-law, go buy some commonly used medicinal materials, especially those for treating colds and injuries."
Although she had a lot of medicinal materials in her space, she had to have some inventory to cover them up.
It would be great if Aunt Wang was here. Her medical skills were excellent. With Aunt Wang coming forward, they could prepare more comprehensive medicinal materials.
After hearing this, Wu Gui responded: "Okay."
As the eldest sister of a military general's family, she often interacted with doctors and pharmacies.
"How much money is left?" Zhou Yunshu asked Chunque.
Chunque took her burden in front of her, took out a cloth bag and handed it to Zhou Yunshu: "Girl, the hairpin was sold for five hundred and fifty taels, and the mule cart and food cost one hundred and eighty taels, three hundred and fifty-seven. Wen, the rest of the money is here."
Zhou Yunshu nodded. Although she knew that the pawnshop must have lowered the price, it was already a good price to sell it for five hundred and fifty taels.
Zhou Yunshu gave Wu Gui two hundred taels and said, "Second sister-in-law, you can buy the medicinal materials."
"good!"
Zhou Yunshu took one hundred taels for herself and gave the rest to her mother, "Meet at the gate of Nancheng in two hours at the latest."
"good!"
After Zhou Yunshu arranged it, Chu Qi drove a mule cart and took Li Jialan and others to the south city gate; Dongge followed Wu Gui to the medicine store; Zhou Yunshu took Springque to buy grain.
Zhou Yunshu didn't know what the current price of food was. She only knew that there was a severe drought in two states around the capital, and they would definitely pass through these two states when they went to the south, so she had to buy food in advance.
The capital is at the feet of the emperor, and the increase in food supply will not be too exaggerated, so Zhou Yunshu thought of buying more in the capital and nearby cities to take away.
She hadn't thought about buying some food now and smuggling it into her own space. After all, their every move was under the eyes of the political opponents of the emperor and the Zhou family, and they would be discovered if there was any abnormality.
She had to leave the capital and get out of sight as soon as possible before she could stock up on supplies.
Even so, Zhou Yunshu still couldn't hold it back after entering the grain store.
One hundred catties of white flour, one hundred catties of rice, one hundred catties of cornmeal, thirty catties of millet, ten catties of red dates, ten catties of red beans, and fifty catties of sweet potatoes.
After Zhou Yunshu paid the bill, Chunque moved onto the mule cart, and she went to the grocery store next door to continue shopping.
Twenty catties of salt, twenty catties of sugar, ten catties of dried vegetables, ten catties of dried mushrooms, twenty catties of bacon, twenty catties of sausages, and a lot of other condiments. Zhou Yunshu also bought a lot of them. She even bought three jars of spirits.
In addition, Zhou Yunshu bought a pot, two large clay pots, plus daily necessities such as bowls, chopsticks and plates for the whole family.
These things were loaded onto the mule cart and occupied most of the mule cart, but Zhou Yunshu still had important things to buy.
