The woman in the room moved to the edge of the kang, her feet already on the shoes.
Kong Shangyun, who was sleeping soundly, had also been woken up.
"Is this someone sent by your son-in-law?" the woman asked hurriedly as soon as Kong Yinfan returned to the house.
Kong Yinfan nodded and whispered: "Take your bags and leave now. The carriage is ready. Second son, help your mother get her things."
After hearing this, Kong Shangyun jumped down from the kang and held a package on the kang in his arms.
There were several packages on the kang. The woman lifted one in each hand, and Kong Yinfan took all the remaining packages in his hand.
Kong Yinfan's family walked out through the door of the outhouse carrying packages.
"Why did you bring so many things?" Xing Yun, who was outside the house, handed Kong Yinfan's family their large and small bags and walked out, frowning subconsciously.
Kong Yinfan said with embarrassment: "From poor to rich, these are things that can be used wherever you take them. It's a pity to lose them."
He himself felt that he had brought too much in his suitcase, but his mother-in-law had packed everything and was reluctant to throw anything away. He could not persuade her, so she had to take it with her.
"Okay, then bring it with you. Let's get on the carriage first." Xing Yun didn't want to waste too much time, so he let him take everything with him.
Ranwen
There was not one carriage outside the courtyard gate, but two.
Xing Yun asked Kong Yinfan and his family to get into the carriage in front, while all their luggage was placed on the carriage in the back.
After doing all this, he ordered the driver to go on the road.
The animals pulling the cart stepped on the ground, the axles made a creaking sound, and the carriage went farther and farther until it disappeared into the night.
"Master, can you see if there is any movement outside?"
In the neighbor's house next door to Kong Yinfan, a female voice whispered in the house.
Every house has paper windows, which are windproof but also block out light. I saw that the window of this house was pushed open a gap and I looked outside.
Every house in the village has a fence or a yard surrounded by sticks and branches, so you can directly see the outside of the yard from the house.
Although it was dark, because of the moonlight, I could see some movement outside the yard.
"Let's go, I can't hear any more noise." The man standing at the window said.
Although Kong Yinfan's family tried their best not to disturb too many people with their departure, the carriages and animals were moving around, so naturally they could not hide it from the surrounding neighbors.
"It's fine to leave, but I was scared to death. I don't know who it was, but someone working the night shift came to my door." The woman in the room said with a trembling voice.
When it gets dark, every house closes its doors and goes to bed. Not many people light oil lamps, and no one goes out to hang out. Those who are still out in the middle of the night are either thieves or bandits.
The woman was worried that if some thief found Kong Yinfan, their neighbors might be implicated.
"You should go and go to sleep!" The man closed the window, retreated to the bed and lay down.
However, a group of women raised their hands and pushed him, saying: "You'd better go to the yard and check to make sure the people outside are gone before going to bed, otherwise I will always feel uneasy."
"I must have left. There is no movement at all outside." The man said this, but he still got off the kang, put on his shoes and clothes and went to the yard.
The woman herself uneasily opened a crack in the window and looked outside.
After a while, the man returned from the yard and complained: "I told you that he was gone, so I had to go out and take a look. Now I can sleep peacefully!"
With that said, he lifted up the quilt and lay down in it.
Similar things happened to several families around.
However, if something happened to Kong Yinfan's family, no one would come to help. Each family would sweep the snow in front of the house. However, Xing Yun and the carriage left like this, which actually made many people living nearby breathe a sigh of relief.
Xing Yun took Kong Yinfan and his family and left the village overnight. In order to prevent Kong from sending people to chase them, they spent the rest of the time on the road except for letting the animals pulling the cart rest for a while.
However, the departure of Kong Yinfan's family did not cause much disturbance.
The elder of the Kong clan didn't care about an ordinary Kong clan member like Kong Yinfan, let alone send someone to keep an eye on the situation of Kong Yinfan's family.
The same goes for Kong Yinjing.
If he had to use Kong Yinfan's daughter to marry into Datong, he, a master of the Kong family, would not see Kong Yinjing several times throughout the year.
On the other hand, many people in the village where Kong Yinfan lived knew that something had happened to Kong Yinfan's family, but not many knew what exactly happened.
Several neighbors who lived nearby knew that Kong Yinfan had married his daughter and that the clan boss had given him a lot of benefits. They thought that Xing Yun and others who appeared in the middle of the night were bandits who wanted to make a fortune, and robbed Kong Yinfan. As a family, they all kept silent for fear of attracting bandits.
The departure of Kong Yinfan's family was so indistinctly concealed.
Xing Yun took Kong Yinfan and his family out of Qufu, and then returned to normal traveling speed, finally giving Kong Yinfan and his family some more time to rest.
"Weiwei Xing, we have been gone for several days. Where is my daughter?"
While resting on the way, Kong Yinfan, urged by his mother-in-law, finally couldn't help but inquire about the whereabouts of his daughter.
Xing Yun held a baked pancake in his hand and handed it to the young Kong Shangyun, smiling and saying: "This pancake is cooked, take it and eat it!"
With that said, he handed the pancake in his hand to Kong Shangyun's hand.
In order to ensure that Kong Yinfan's family can eat better, the pancakes they eat are sent to the town in advance to buy them, and then they can be eaten directly after heating them, instead of the dry and hard ones that are eaten during long distances. Unmoved pancake.
After passing the cake in his hand to Kong Shangyun, Xing Yun faced Kong Yinfan and said with a smile: "Madam, let's leave Qufu first. We should have arrived in Jinxiang by now."
"Where is Jinxiang?" The woman sitting next to Kong Yinfan asked her man in confusion.
She has never left Qufu in her life and has no knowledge of other prefectures and counties below the capital. It can be said that once she leaves her own village, she is basically blind.
Unfortunately, the person she asked couldn't grab much more than she did, and they also didn't know where Jinxiang was.
Although Kong Yinfan didn't know where Jinxiang was, he asked, "Guard Xing, where are you taking us?"
"Let's go to Caoxian and pass through Caoxian to Henan. When we get to Henan, we won't be afraid of Kong's people coming to arrest you." Xing Yun said the destination of their trip.
"Henan?" Kong Yinfan was stunned for a moment and then said, "Could it be that all the rebels in Henan have been eliminated?"
There were a lot of rumors coming from Qufu about the rebels in Henan. Although he had not paid any attention to them, he knew about the bandits in Henan.
Now their group was going to Henan. He thought that the banditry in Henan had been wiped out by the imperial court.
