Chapter 1384: Chapter 1362 Departure
She laughed, "He wants to ask me for money."
Manbao was puzzled, "Ask for money?"
Zhou Xi nodded, "He knows he can’t have children, so he heard that seeing a doctor might help. He wanted to spend money on medicine, but after taking it for a while, it’s useless, and the money at home is all spent."
She said, "He came to ask me for money, saying if I didn’t give it, he would go to tell your brother-in-law how we used to live before."
Manbao was shocked, mouth open wide, took a long while to find her words, "Well that’s just shameless!"
"Isn’t it? And he was just telling me these things when your brother-in-law happened to catch him. I didn’t even have time to make a move, and he was already beaten up by your brother-in-law."
Manbao was a bit worried, "Is he still daring enough to come find you now?"
"If it were only your brother-in-law, he would dare, but your brothers are there too," Zhou Xi laughed, "When dad and mom found out, dad sent big brother and Two and Third to Liu Family Village to deal with him. He doesn’t dare come to the county town to trouble me anymore."
Manbao hummed, "Scoundrel! Big sister, your decision to divorce was right back then!"
Zhou Xi glanced at her son, who was crawling all over Manbao’s bed, nodded with slightly red-rimmed eyes, "Yes, thanks to our family."
Because she also didn’t expect her ex-husband to become so shameless, he wasn’t like this before.
Seeing Manbao completely diverted from thinking about Erji’s passing, Zhou Xi finally smiled, changing the topic to gossip she rummaged around for.
Manbao listened with great interest to gossip all afternoon, and only when it was almost dinnertime did the two sisters go out.
As tonight was the last night at home, Junior Ms.Qian made a lot of delicious food for them.
Manbao couldn’t help but eat too much, her stomach was round, she couldn’t help but cry while hugging Junior Ms.Qian, "Big sister-in-law, I will miss you very much."
Junior Ms.Qian hugged her back, "Big sister-in-law will miss you too."
Looking at the two hugging, the whole Zhou family was speechless.
The next day before dawn, the Zhou family started loading things onto the carts. Aside from a cartload of tea leaves, there was another cart carrying their luggage.
Bai Shan’s family had already discussed with them, Manbao and Sanya and others would ride in their carriage because their carriage had a cover. In this cold weather, sitting in an open cart, especially with mules running, would definitely freeze them.
By the time Manbao groggily crawled out of bed, the luggage was already loaded.
Junior Ms.Qian cooked noodles for them, each bowl covered with a thick layer of bamboo shoots and mutton mince. Eating a bowl made one warm from the inside out.
Especially comfortable.
She also made a lot of steamed buns and boiled eggs for them, put them in clean cloth bags, "Stop at noon, boil a pot of water, heat them up and you can eat, traveling outside is sure to be hard."
But Third and the others were very excited, this was their first time traveling far, they didn’t feel it was hard at all.
After finishing the noodles, the sky was slightly bright. Someone from the Bai family came over, helping to drive one of the carts out.
Zhou Wulang drove the mule cart carrying tea leaves, the cart with luggage was handed to the servant from the Bai family.
This time, Old Madam Liu and Ms.Zheng were also going to Beijing with them, most of the Bai family’s servants would accompany them to the capital, leaving only three here to guard the house, one of them being Manor Head Bai who had to manage Bai Shan’s Little Manor.
So they brought quite a few servants, and quite a few vehicles and horses.
The three little horses kept at Bai Shan’s house were also pulled out, Manbao stepped forward to pet Chiji, put her small bag onto the cart, then mounted the horse and looked at Bai Shan, raised her whip smiling, "Shall we go?"
Bai Shan smiled slightly, also mounted the horse, nodded with a smile, "Let’s go."
Bai Erlang climbed up the carriage yawning, no intention of riding a horse, leaned against the window and glanced outside, muttered, "Riding a horse so early, not afraid of getting blown away."
Getting blown away was impossible, Luojiang County’s wind wasn’t as strong as in the capital, here surrounded by mountains, rarely gets windy.
Bai Erlang glanced at Third, they had always played well together, so he called out to him, "Want to come sit with me?"
Third had his eyes on his horse, stared brightly and asked, "Second Young Master, can I ride your horse?"
In the village, people respected Old Master Bai; when they met him, they called him Old Master Bai. Before Bai Shan came, Bai Dalang and Bai Erlang were the only young masters in Qili Village.
Especially Bai Erlang; when their family moved here, he had just started understanding things, loved being carried around the whole village by servants, adults respectfully calling him Second Young Master.
Even though they weren’t Bai family’s servants or tenant farmers.
So the village children also liked calling him Second Young Master, even when they later became classmates in school, unless fighting or arguing, they liked calling him Second Young Master.
Just like now, Third and the others still liked calling Bai Shan Young Master Shan.
Bai Erlang looked at his Lv’er, refused, "My horse only recognizes me."
Third disagreed, made a face and said, "So stingy!"
Bai Erlang yawned again, nonchalantly said, "If you don’t come up, forget it, I also have tasty bean buns."
Third hesitated for a moment, then climbed onto the carriage, "Alright, I’ll sit with you."
Fourth and Sanya beside them: ...
While they were talking, Bai Shan and Manbao were already riding around the convoy, Old Zhou and Ms.Qian only sent them to the doorway, then stopped.
According to Old Zhou’s words, "It’s not like you’re not coming back. Sending them to the village entrance, what for?"
Old Madam Liu and the old lady sending her said their goodbyes, seeing the two children had already ridden out of the village, smiled, "Sister-in-law, go back quickly, we’ll arrive in Mianzhou City in the afternoon, then Lizhi and others will meet us in the city."
After saying that, she had someone go inform ahead to start moving.
The convoy slowly started moving, in the morning light slowly left Qili Village, and by this time, Qili Village’s villagers just woke up, hearing the noise, came out, saw the slowly disappearing convoy, couldn’t help but say, "Zhou family and Bai family are leaving again."
Words naturally carried some envy.
Manbao and Bai Shan rode quite fast, not too bumpy, ran for a while warming up, further from the convoy, they slowed down, occasionally looking back.
Daji wasn’t there, but Old Madam Liu gave them two guards, both at this moment riding behind them.
Seeing them looking back, the guards said, "Young Master, Miss Man, we’re about half a mile ahead of them."
Bai Shan nodded, said to Manbao, "Let’s go ahead first, if we stop to rest at noon, we can help find a place to rest, and gather some firewood."
Manbao agreed.
So the four continued running ahead.
Behind in the convoy, because of the difficult road, Bai Erlang, who intended to sleep again, was thoroughly bumped awake.
He yawned, squeezed out a tear, focused on the person opposite eating a bean bun, after a moment of silence asked, "Didn’t you eat breakfast?"