"It stands to reason that those four people are all veterans who have fought with the general on the battlefield. Not to mention that one is equivalent to ten. They are just dealing with a village girl. Even if the village girl knows some three-legged cat kung fu, it will not be impossible for four of them to handle it. The slave is wondering if those four people didn’t go at all!”
Lu Liu beside Chu Mingzhu replied cautiously.
"Didn't go? You mean they dared not listen to me and ran away privately?
This is because our aunt is in such a state of desolation that she doesn’t look down upon her!
snort! What an ungrateful thing! Don't let me see them again or I want them to look good! "
Chu Mingzhu cursed angrily when she thought that those people had left without permission.
But after a while, he still said
"Give the remaining guards Yue Yin a raise of 500 copper coins each. You two and Master Wu will also get a raise of 500 copper coins. The cook and all the stewards will get a raise of 200 coins. The other second-class girls will get a raise of 100 coins. Fifty copper coins."
"Thank you, Master!"
"This slave and the others also thank my master! I will definitely beat them back and make them serve my master well!"
Taohong and Luliu replied.
"Go!
Hey, come back!
You say~
Xiao Yi's brother's family is a farmer, and when he returned, he was implicated by the Chu family and lost his official position. In order to protect Jin Yu, he hid all the way. He must have no money when he got home. Even if he had some money, he would not be able to survive two years of drought. It's almost enough, otherwise they wouldn't be so shabby when they come back.
This time I send someone, you should follow me, take the cloth, cakes and money, and go to brother Xiao Yi's house for me.
After all, they are also my future parents-in-law and brothers-in-law. Take advantage of their current situation and reach out to them first. With this kind of kindness, I will have the weight to marry them in the future! "
Taohong thought about what Xiao Yi and Chu Jinyu were wearing when they came back. They were all made of fine cotton, and the clothes were very novel and decent, so they couldn't be considered shabby!
It was good for ordinary people to dress like this, but there was no need for her to say it out loud to displease her master.
Luliu hesitated after hearing this.
"Then how much money should I give?"
"Fifty~ no, one hundred taels!
A hundred taels must be a huge number for a group of poor peasants from the countryside! "
"Yes, I'll do it now, slave!"
"Um!"
After Luliu left, Taohong accompanied Chu Mingzhu back to her room. She didn't notice a small figure emerging from the flowers and chasing Luliu all the way.
The small figure is naturally Chu Jinyu.
He vaguely heard Chu Mingzhu talking about Phoenix Mouth outside the door, and also mentioned his mother, so he went to the window and secretly listened to a few words.
That's right, even if Chu Mingzhu corrected her eight hundred times, the people ranked in the ancestral hall were his biological parents, and Xie Yushu was just a country woman, but when he thought of his mother, he still thought of Xie Yushu first.
Later, when Chu Mingzhu walked away, he quietly followed her. When he heard that Chu Mingzhu was going to send people to Fenghuangzui and kill his mother, he immediately made up his mind to follow her and report the news to his mother.
Moreover, he has had enough of staying in this family. He wants to go find his mother and sister and never stay with his little aunt again!
Fortunately, Chu Mingzhu was afraid that the servant would disturb his studies, so she was not allowed to hang around him. She only went back to the house to keep vigil for him at night! Except for the girls and boys hiding in the outer courtyard, no one bothered him at all along the way.
Xiao Jinyu followed Lu Liu to the outer courtyard first. Watching Lu Liu ask the chief guard to order four people to go out with her tomorrow to do errands, she also ran to the warehouse and kitchen, packed some cloth and pastries, and also took some steamed buns from the kitchen. He stuffed it into his arms with Dali, looked at where Lu Liu put the box, and then quickly returned to his room.
Anlehou's Mansion is no longer the General's Mansion it used to be, and the guards are no longer what they used to be. After that disaster, General Chu's cronies and guards were scattered to death, and now there are only more than twenty people left in the mansion. The dead soldiers that General Chu pulled out from the pile of dead people, and the dead soldiers who were privately trained by the Chu family.
The people are all good and loyal enough, but now the master is not angry and doesn't respect them at all. They are all veterans of the Chu family army and have made more or less military exploits. The reason why they are willing to stay is because of the old general's affection. , but Chu Mingzhu only treated them like slaves, calling them here and there, so her heart for repaying her kindness was half cold!
In addition, Chu Mingzhu and Chu Jinyu really didn't have enough to watch, and the guards unanimously believed that no one would hit their masters, so they just stood guard around the yard.
It's probably because of the lack of manpower that all the public and private guards in the courtyard have been withdrawn, just to ensure that no one comes in outside!
Therefore, no one noticed Chu Jinyu’s series of small moves!
When he returned to the house, he saw the boy making his bed. Chu Jinyu quietly stuffed the steamed buns and big white pears in the desk drawer, then walked to the washbasin as usual, washed up, and went to bed.
The boy who was serving him was only eight or nine years old. He had stayed with him until now and was so sleepy that he could only nod his head. After a while, he heard a little grunt.
Chu Jinyu quietly put on her clothes and wrapped herself in a cloak. She took the steamed buns and pears and quietly walked to the box containing the cloth. She took out a few pieces of cloth and dragged them under the table in the back room. She lay down in them and wrapped her little one. Cloak fell asleep peacefully.
Fortunately, the box was placed inside the house, and he was wrapped in a thick fox fur cloak, otherwise he would have been frozen!
Early the next morning, Chu Jinyu was sleeping soundly and was carried into the car and drove all the way to Fenghuangzui.
On the other side, Chu Mingzhu also packed up a cart full of food and clothing overnight, and sent a thick letter to Xiao Yi's military camp.
Chu Mingzhu rarely slept for a while, and the boy who served Chu Jinyu also rarely slept until he woke up naturally. When Chu Mingzhu had eaten breakfast and was about to check Chu Jinyu's schoolwork, the maid and the boy came over crying and saying, Chu Jinyu is missing!
It was already noon after Chu Mingzhu mobilized the whole family to search the Anlehou Mansion three times.
At this time, Chu Mingzhu had to suspect that her eldest nephew had run away from home.
There were only two carriages leaving the house. Thinking that Chu Jinyu had not mentioned that bitch in Fenghuang Zui for a long time, and Xiao Yi had just received a letter yesterday, he must be looking for Xiao Yi, so he sent someone to chase him all the way to Xiao Yi's house. Look for Xiao Jinyu in the carriage nearby.
And Xiao Jinyu's journey to find her mother was inexplicably smooth!
If eating steamed buns, chewing pears, and sleeping in a box are not bitter, then it is not hard.
Xie Yushu didn't know that her cheap son was running towards her at all costs. She was counting the days before her eldest brother Xie Tianlin's wedding. She was discussing with Xie Tianqi what day to go back and what wedding gifts to bring to her eldest brother and new sister-in-law. .
Xie Tianqi has to go home for at least six or seven days, and there are only three days of leave at the end of the month, so Xie Tianqi and Xie Tianming are frantically changing shifts with others these days, trying to spare seven days to go home peacefully to attend their elder brother's wedding banquet.
Xie Tianqi planned to buy a pair of bile bottles as a gift, and Xie Tianming wanted to give a tea set. The two of them chose a good one, decent and practical.
Xie Yushu thought for a while and realized that her gift should not be too expensive, otherwise her parents and Tianqi would not be able to get their gifts, so she chose two sets of quilt sheets and pillowcases, both of which were the most popular twill printed mandarin duck opera. It was made of thick cotton cloth, and I bought some peanuts, melon seeds and candies, planning to entertain the newlyweds.
Little did he know that there had been an undercurrent in the family because of her divorce, and the conflict would completely erupt when the people from the Chu family arrived at the Xiao family!
