Now that the weather is getting colder and colder, it is common to travel long distances and sleep in the wild.
Zhou Yunshu bought three thick straw mats and tied them to the back of the carriage.
I went to a clothing store and bought two pairs of thick clothes for everyone in the family. The materials were commonly worn by ordinary people. In addition, each person also had two pairs of comfortable shoes.
When Zhou Yunshu saw the men's clothes, her eyes flashed slightly. She bought two men's clothes according to her and Wu Gui's sizes, showed them to the shopkeeper and stuffed them into the five thick mattresses she bought.
Five thick mattresses and six quilts filled the rest of the mule cart, but Zhou Yunshu obviously wasn't satisfied yet.
She looked at the six taels of silver left in her hand, and bought osmanthus cake, mung bean cake, cloud cake, jujube paste cake, and Longjing tea cake in the pastry shop. She ordered two packages of each portion and spent five taels of silver.
On the way to South City Gate, I saw a pork shop and bought four more large bones. The remaining money bought some vegetables and half a basket of apples from a roadside stall.
Even though she was shopping all the way, when she arrived at the gate of Nancheng, she was the first to arrive.
Li Jialan breathed a deep sigh of relief when she saw her daughter coming back and hugging her granddaughter.
Just come back. What the Zhou family is most afraid of now is the variables.
Wu Yue Jian and Zhou Yunshu nodded, holding their little grandson and keeping their eyes on the intersection. When they saw Wu Gui driving the mule cart back, the tight corners of her mouth finally relaxed.
Although she didn't say it, she was really afraid that her eldest daughter-in-law would leave like Liu Aifang.
Fortunately, she is back.
Wu Yue breathed a sigh of relief.
Wu Gui got out of the car, smiled and said to Wu Yue, "Mom, I'm back."
Wu Yue nodded and wanted to smile at Wu Gui, but she was used to being cold-faced towards Wu Gui, so she really couldn't put a smile on her face for the moment.
"I bought some medicines that are commonly used at home. In addition, there are some medicine packs for bruises, colds, heat and detoxification... I was lucky, and I also bought a ginseng stick."
When Wu Gui was talking, Zhou Yunshu took her daughter from Li Jialan's hand.
She actually has a good impression of her second sister-in-law, although she was not taken seriously by her second wife before and was not liked by her husband and mother-in-law.
"I don't know where your grandmother went or when she will come back?" Li Jialan looked at the intersection worriedly.
The return of her daughter gave her a lot of confidence, but it cannot be denied that her mother-in-law is the anchor of the family.
Perhaps because Li Jialan and Wu Yue's eyes were too eager, a carriage stopped not far from them.
The car curtain opened, and Grandma Wang leaned out and said, "First Madam, Second Madam, please get in the car. We are leaving the capital now."
Li Jialan and Wu Yue nodded immediately when they saw Grandma Wang's eyes light up.
Grandma Wang looked at Zhou Yunshu, who was holding the child, and said, "Miss, please get in the car."
Zhou Yunshu hugged her daughter and boarded the carriage; Li Jialan and his party boarded the previous mule cart, driven by Chu Qi; Chunque drove the mule cart that was fully loaded by Zhou Yunshu; Dongge drove the mule cart filled with medicinal materials, and the group Following the team leaving the city, they headed out of the capital.
As soon as they left the capital, Zhou Yunshu opened the car curtain and found someone following them.
Although he was not wearing official uniform, he looked like a well-trained soldier.
"Grandma." Zhou Yunshu lowered the car curtain and looked at Ji Mingzhu, who had been concentrating with her eyes closed.
Ji Mingzhu wore a low-key purple dress, and the Buddhist beads in her hand entered her palm one by one with her movements.
"Don't regret it?" Ji Mingzhu opened her eyes, which were faintly bloodshot and tired.
No one in the entire Zhou family suffered more than she did. She lost not only her husband, but also her two sons and three grandchildren. She almost lost her family.
The current situation is only slightly better than the loss of a family.
"No regrets."
Zhou Yunshu looked at her grandmother, and confidence slowly poured into her body.
Ji Mingzhu was silent for a while, then took a deep breath.
"Ancestor." A voice sounded.
Xi Xibai's soft and delicate little hand held Ji Mingzhu's pampered hand, and the Buddhist beads in Ji Mingzhu's hand paused.
She looked at the delicate and beautiful breast dumplings in front of her, and the ice in her eyes melted slightly, "He is actually willing to let you take his only heir out of the palace."
Zhou Yunshu watched Ji Mingzhu purse her lips, and finally decided to confess, "Grandma, I'm pregnant for two months."
Ji Mingzhu frowned. She looked at her granddaughter and asked, "King Wei doesn't know?"
If he knew, he would never let Zhou Yunshu leave the palace.
Zhou Yunshu nodded.
In her previous life, she was diagnosed after learning that the Zhou family was driven out of the capital, and she was so furious that she fainted. Therefore, no one in the entire palace knew that she was pregnant except her.
The carriage was silent again.
"You've all grown up."
Zhou Yunshu looked at Ji Mingzhu who said this with a tired face, feeling a little uneasy in her heart.
"Grandma." Zhou Yunshu looked at Ji Mingzhu worriedly.
"fine."
"My sister-in-law..."
My sister-in-law was born in the same year as she, Zhou Yunqi, and Zhou Yunkun. Although they have different generations, they have always had a good relationship.
Especially Zhou Yunshu and Zhou Jianying, before Zhou Yunshu got married, they were as good as one person.
"Before the emperor issued the decree, she received the news and took people to the north."
She and the Prince of Zhenbei both had their own connections. The emperor ordered the Prince of Zhenbei to confiscate and behead his family, not only to eradicate the Zhou family, but also to force Ji Mingzhu to hand over her dowry.
Ji Mingzhu's dowry can be said to be the largest among the princesses since the founding of the Zhou Dynasty, even worse than that of the vassal king.
When Ji Mingzhu's father, Zhou Ruizong, was in power, Ruizhong and the queen prepared the most generous dowry for their eldest daughter since the Zhou Dynasty, and even made the entire state of Nanzhou a fiefdom for Ji Mingzhu.
Ji Mingzhu's younger brother had been on the throne for three years. Before his death, he emptied one-third of the treasury to give his imperial sister more money, and also gave Ji Mingzhu her own military management rights in Nanzhou.
You must know that although the Great Zhou Dynasty had a female emperor, only the princes could be enfeoffed, and the garrison in the enfeoffed places was the responsibility of the court. This was also for the emperor to have better control over the country.
The operations of Zhou Ruizong and Emperor Zhou Guang can be said to have completely turned Nanzhou into Ji Mingzhu's territory, which is almost as good as China.
The reason why the current emperor was able to stand out from the clan and successfully ascend the throne was because Ji Mingzhu single-handedly pushed him to the throne.
Therefore, he did not dare to do anything to Ji Mingzhu blatantly, even though he had been the emperor for more than thirty years.
The emperor knew in his heart that once he made a move against Ji Mingzhu, he would definitely be attacked by the royal family and courtiers.
But the emperor is jealous!
In recent years, natural and man-made disasters, constant wars, and the emperor's obsession with the art of immortality have meant that the national treasury has long been unable to make ends meet.
Not to mention that the Ministry of Revenue couldn't come up with the money, the emperor's private treasury was already empty.
This is why the emperor became obsessed with confiscating homes over the years, and set his sights on the Zhenbei Prince's Mansion for confiscation and exile.
But simply confiscating her home and being exiled could not force Ji Mingzhu to hand over her huge dowry, so he wanted the lives of the Zhou family and asked Ji Mingzhu to use her dowry to buy the lives of the Zhou family!
