"Then do you want to go home or come with me?"
Xu Yin simply let him choose.
"Hiccup!" Xiaozhengtai shed tears, and with a burst of excitement, she let go of her hand holding Xu Yin's sleeve, "Nan, Nanman... it's so scary... wow——"
Just burst into tears.
Xu Yin: "..."
I have never seen such a crying child.
I remember that there seemed to be a wooden slingshot in the system warehouse. I bought it from a stall owner when I was setting up a stall in Tongcheng.
The handle is polished by a master and is smooth and easy to hold.
It costs fifty cents a piece, and it’s cheaper to buy three, only one dollar.
She bought three at the time, gave two to the Douding brothers, and threw the remaining one in the system warehouse.
She found the slingshot and put it in Xiao Zhengtai's hand:
"You are still young, let's play with the slingshot now. When you are older, my sister will give you a bow and arrow, so that you can become a brave and capable general in the future."
Little Shota was immediately attracted to the slingshot and burst into tears.
"I want to be a general!" He jumped up and down holding the slingshot.
"Then don't cry all the time from now on. Which general have you seen who always cries?"
Xiao Zhengtai was so embarrassed that she turned around and hid in the arms of her grandmother behind her: "I won't do it anymore."
"Then let's pull the hook." Xu Yin taught him how to pull the hook, "Hang yourself on the hook and don't change for a hundred years. If you change, you will be like a little yellow dog!"
After coaxing her brother, it was time for Xu Yin to get on the carriage.
King Jinnan and his party were already ready to go and were waiting for her.
"Fourth sister——" Little Shota was carried into the carriage by the guards, stuck her head out and shouted, "I will miss you!"
"Come and see me if you miss me." Xu Yin replied with a smile.
Little Shota's body visibly froze.
Xu Yin laughed and waved to him: "Goodbye brother, go back and practice your slingshot, but don't bully others. Also, you must listen to your father."
After this trip of three thousand miles, I don’t know if I will see the prime minister father again in my lifetime.
However, as long as you behave well and don't act like a monster, the Prime Minister's Office should not be in bad luck, right?
No matter how fearful the emperor is, he has no choice but to find a reason. After all, he still has to take the overall situation into consideration.
…
The carriage went all the way south and drove for five days in a row. It stopped in a relatively large town and said it would rest for two days.
Not to mention the excitement of the maids, Xu Yin also wanted to cheer, missing the down-to-earth feeling so much.
Of course you have to go shopping if you need supplies.
Xu Yin asked her grandma to bring enough silver, and she was ready to make purchases.
Seasonings, dried goods, local specialties... whatever she thinks is of good quality, she buys.
After going shopping, I realized that the prices of seasonings at this time are not as expensive as usual.
Especially soy sauce, which is actually made from fresh meat and has the same principle as fish sauce.
Ordinary people couldn't afford it at all. No wonder the shops selling condiments were said to be opened by imperial merchants. How could ordinary people afford them?
The salt is yellowish coarse salt, and the sugar is brown rock sugar, each of which is as big as a fist. When buying it, the store owner asked her if she wanted to smash it.
She didn't buy food here. There wasn't much difference in food between the north and the south. She planned to buy another large batch before leaving Furong County.
The people below don’t know what she is thinking. If they knew, they would probably cry:
master! Don't you call this a big purchase? All the thousand taels of silver have been spent, and the banknotes are already being used.
God knows why we bought so many condiments, sauces, and dry goods. We don’t know, and we don’t dare to say. We can only follow behind and carry the baggage.
In this way, whenever she went to a relatively prosperous town to rest, Xu Yin would go shopping.
When we entered the territory of Furong County, we spent a total of two thousand taels together with the purchase expenses when we first left Beijing.
Nanny Feng couldn't persuade her anymore, she was so depressed that she almost rolled her eyes.
Xu Yin told her that money is dead, and materials... although they are also dead, will they be more practical than silver if they want to live in Nanman in the future?
Aunt Feng: "..."
What could she say?
…
"Your Majesty, everything has been arranged in the Nanman Mansion." Yan Qi came in to report.
Yan Kejin put down her pen and rubbed her sore eyebrows: "How did the county guards react?"
Yan Qi hesitated for a moment before reporting truthfully:
"Qianzhong and Baipu counties were very happy and sent people to give generous gifts; Baigui County was relatively silent; Baiyue and Minyue counties have become more and more outrageous in recent years because they are richer than the other three counties. …
Master, why not just let the little one wipe their necks! Anyway, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, so even the imperial envoys come here. When I came here, I only saw taxes. "
The term of the county governor is three years, and the current one was transferred last year. Seeing that the prince had temporarily lost the emperor's heart, he made disrespectful remarks and kept making small moves in private. He used the prince's name to increase taxes and enrich his own pockets. I really thought that the prince didn't know about it.
If he were to tell him, he might as well replace them all with his own people. Anyway, the news wouldn't reach Beijing within two years.
He firmly believed that his prince would never be trapped by the Southern Barbarians.
Two years later, I will either obey the order or fight back. In short, I will definitely go back and take back what belongs to me.
Yan Kejin snorted lightly: "Forget it, I'd better keep a low profile when I first arrived, so as not to fall into some people's tricks."
There are still people in Jingzhong waiting to pull his pigtails. As long as the old man doesn't abdicate, that person will be uneasy. It's not because he is afraid of changes.
"Your Highness..." Yan Qi hesitated before retreating.
"What else?"
"It's that one..."
Yan Qi pointed upstairs, where Xu Yin and the people serving around her were placed on the third floor of the inn.
"Jiujiu said that she bought ten cartloads of things, one cartload of seasonings alone, and one cart full of medicinal materials, which are high-quality medicinal materials that are not usually found. After entering Furong County, she was still asking about it along the way. The price of food seems to be that she wants to buy food on a large scale, what kind of medicine do you think she is selling in this gourd?"
Yan Kejin was a little surprised, but she didn't take it to heart: "Let her be."
They probably believed the rumors outside and thought that the Southern Barbarians were so poor that they couldn't even make fire. They ate raw meat, drank animal blood, and wore animal skins and grass skirts. They were afraid.
He had learned about the Xu family's concubine's personality through tips, but she was just trying to get Yan Keheng to notice her out of shame. Although it's hard to explain why he is so brainless, if he really doesn't want to, there are ways to refuse the marriage.
It's just...instead of letting the old man send someone who doesn't know his background to lurk around him as an informant, it would be better to just do this. At least she has no brains.
"Ah sneeze——"
Xu Yin sniffed. She didn't have a cold. Why did she keep sneezing today? Is someone scolding her or missing her?
Grandma Feng quietly told the maid to go out and make some soup, lest she fall ill before reaching Nanman.
Xu Yin didn't pay attention, took a sip of water and continued to study the "Geography of Furong County" she just bought.
One of the pages is a map of Furong County. In fact, it is a map, but it is not as detailed and clear as the maps of later generations.
Xu Yin looked at the outline of Furong County, and the more she looked at it, the more it looked like the province of Hunan where Tongcheng was located.
She couldn't help but wonder: If Furong County is really Hunan Province, then wouldn't the Nanman...
