"Put them together?" Li Jialan said this.
After Wu Yue glanced at Wu Gui and saw Wu Gui letting you make the decision, she said, "Let's put it together."
They all know in their hearts that at this juncture they can only survive together if they work together, otherwise it will be useless no matter how much money they have in their hands.
Not to mention, they shouldn't have any money at all.
Zhou Yunshu looked at the gold and silver jewelry piled on the desk, and suddenly felt that although they were exiled, their family was still quite wealthy.
"There is no need to put them all together. Each family can take out a thousand taels and keep the rest by themselves."
After Li Jialan and Wu Gui took out a thousand taels, Zhou Yunshu took another thousand taels and put them inside.
These one thousand taels were secretly kept in the space when she left the palace.
"Shu'er?"
"Just this once." Zhou Yunshu said.
There are too few people in the second bedroom. The big bedroom takes up twice as much space as the second bedroom, so there should be an extra share.
"Everyone also knows how we got out of the capital, so before we got rid of the people who followed us, the only money we had on the surface was the money I got from pawning the jewelry and the money I took out from the palace."
Everyone nodded.
"The public money is in charge of my sister-in-law."
Fang Huiwen nodded and put away the three thousand taels of silver notes.
"Mom, you and Dong Ge are watching the children at the inn, and keep an eye on the physical conditions of grandmother and second aunt; sister-in-law, please take inventory of our current things."
Li Jialan and Fang Huiwen nodded.
"Second sister-in-law and I went out to buy some things. Do you have anything you want to buy? We will buy it for you."
Li Jialan thought for a while and said: "Buy some oilcloths. Although it has not rained for a long time, it is good to put them up at night to block the wind."
Lest anyone gets cold again.
"good."
"Sister, I want some needlework." Fang Huiwen said.
"no problem."
Wu Gui looked at her mother-in-law, "Mom, is there anything you want?"
Wu Yue shook her head, "Please pay attention to your safety."
"Um!"
Fang Huiwen took out 500 taels of silver notes from the 3,000 taels she had just collected and handed it to Zhou Yunshu, "Take it, I will keep track of it."
Fang Huiwen has a photographic memory, which is why Zhou Yunshu asked her to take charge of money and inventory materials.
After making arrangements for Li Jialan and others, Zhou Yunshu and Wu Gui visited their grandmother's room again before leaving.
Ji Mingzhu had already taken the medicine and lay down. Zhou Yunshu and Zhou Yunshu did not enter the room. They only asked Grandma Wang if there was anything she needed to bring.
Grandma Wang glanced at the room and whispered to Zhou Yunshu, "Don't do too much."
Zhou Yunshu raised her eyebrows slightly, then nodded and said, "I understand, mama."
It seems that grandma has some plan.
Not being able to buy things lavishly, Zhou Yunshu thought of modifying the carriage of the mule cart so that it would be more comfortable during the long journey.
When the two of them went downstairs to lead the mule cart out, they saw four soldiers in disguise who had been sitting in the lobby of the inn getting up.
Judging from this, he planned to follow them.
Seeing that they wanted to follow, Zhou Yunshu simply stepped forward and said under the surprised looks of the four people, "Can you help me?"
"……good."
With a good word, the person who was originally ordered to monitor the Zhou family's departure instantly became a follower of Zhou Yunshu and the two of them, and Zhou Yunshu even said that this was to make it easier for them to monitor her.
There were four well-dressed and muscular officers and soldiers following them. Even if Zhou Yunshu and the two went directly to the horse market, where there was a mixture of fish and dragons, no one dared to take the initiative to talk to them.
Zhou Yunshu took Wu Gui directly to the most famous carriage and horse racing shop in the Zhou Dynasty. As soon as he entered the door, the shopkeeper walked up to him attentively.
"What do you two ladies want to buy?"
The shopkeeper was a little surprised. After all, it was rare for a lady from a wealthy family to come to a horse and carriage shop like theirs in person. She usually asked the housekeeper to do it for her.
Zhou Yunshu didn't care what the shopkeeper thought, she said directly: "I want to change carriages."
The carriage Chunque bought was a regular one, so it was a bit crowded for four adults.
Zhou Yunshu wanted to change to one that was about the same size as Ji Mingzhu's carriage, so it would be looser and more comfortable for long distances.
When the shopkeeper heard this, he immediately smiled and said: "You two ladies have really come to the right place!"
"We have carriage shops all over the country. Even the carriages of princes and ministers' homes are customized from us."
Zhou Yunshu knew this, otherwise she wouldn't have come directly to their horse and carriage dealership.
“I wanted it ready-made, large in size and with lots of storage space.”
Upon hearing this, the shopkeeper asked: "Do you want a single-horse carriage, or a double-horse carriage..."
"one."
The shopkeeper knew it well and said, "Miss, please come this way."
The backyard of the carriage house is a large open space. In addition to Zhou Yunshu and the others, there are also many customers looking at the carriages.
The shopkeeper had a clear goal and took Zhou Yunshu directly to the larger carriage.
"This carriage can accommodate six people without any problem, and the cabin can also accommodate two people. Most importantly, its body is strong but lightweight, and there is a separate space behind the carriage to store luggage."
The shopkeeper said while showing Zhou Yunshu how to use the carriage, "The luggage compartment at the back can be opened from the outside or from the inside of the carriage."
"Luggage can be stored under the seat in the carriage, and there is a place for a charcoal stove in the middle."
The shopkeeper said as he got in and pulled the car seats on both sides toward the middle. "If you are traveling a long distance or sleeping in the wild at night, you can put down the support pole under the car body and the car will be fixed like a small house. Pull the left and right car seats. Open it and it turns into a bed.”
The premise for this is that there are guards outside, otherwise no one would be sleeping in the carriage so carelessly. Who knows what might happen in the wilderness.
Zhou Yunshu was very satisfied with this carriage, "How much does this cost?"
"Our carriage is the latest model designed by the best masters, and the materials are also the best, so it costs eighty-eight taels."
"Fifty taels, we want two."
When Zhou Yunshu negotiated the price, the shopkeeper was obviously stunned. Just because people like Zhou Yunshu, who looked like they belonged to a wealthy family, usually gave money directly, so why did they negotiate a higher price!
Not only the shopkeeper was stunned, but also the four officers and soldiers who had been following Zhou Yunshu.
One of them had a stiff expression. Why didn't he know that the princess was such a person who knew how to live a good life?
"The lady is joking. Our cost is not just fifty taels, but eighty-five taels. It's really the cheapest."
"Sixty taels."
The shopkeeper: "..."
"Seventy-five taels can't be cheaper. If you don't think it's suitable, the 60-tael carriage next to us is also OK, that is..."
Before the shopkeeper finished speaking, Zhou Yunshu said, "Seventy-five taels is seventy-five taels, but you will give us a new set of cushions and curtains."
Shopkeeper: "...Okay."
After the transaction was finally completed, the shopkeeper looked at the two carriages in front of his store and the sixty taels of silver in his hand and fell into deep thought.
He sold two best-selling carriages, but in the end he only exchanged them for sixty taels of silver!
Yes, those two carriages were ignored by him.
The shopkeeper of the carriage and horse shop was in a depressed mood, but Zhou Yunshu was in a good mood.
She knew in her heart that without the four disguised officers and soldiers following her, she would not have been able to go so smoothly.
The shop owner of the carriage shop couldn't figure out his origins, so he was so tolerant of himself.
After leaving the horse market, Zhou Yunshu went to buy everything Li Jialan and Fang Huiwen asked for. She also bought a hundred pounds of flour, a hundred eggs, and twenty water bags.
The further toward Luzhou, the more severe the drought became, and she had to find a way to store more water in the space.
