HLnovel Chapter 265 Arrival at Youzhou City
Chapter 265 Arrival at Youzhou City
Xiaoju quickly pulled her sister to kneel on the ground.
He kowtowed to Li Lanzhen, then stood up and spoke.
"Thank you, auntie, and thank you, Aunt Shui."
Li Lanzhen and Shuiniu Niang stepped forward, each pulled up one and patted their backs.
"Okay, we're all family now, so don't thank me, let's go quickly.
Didn’t Xiaoju say that the village chief and his family would gather everyone in the village to chase us?”
Looking at the three children wearing thin clothes, the temperature in the mountains was even colder on this early winter night.
Li Lanzhen took out three half-worn cotton-padded jackets from her backpack and gave them to the three children.
The buffalo put the boy in his big cotton-padded jacket, tied the two sleeves of the jacket to his chest, and carried him forward.
Li Lanzhen took three large boiled goose eggs and gave them to the three children to eat. Seeing that they wanted to pack them up, she said.
"Eat it all. Don't keep any. There will be more food later."
They walked all night without stopping, and when they were more than two miles away from the south gate of Youzhou City, Buffalo said.
"Mom, aunt, the Youzhou city gate is just ahead. Let's rest here first. If we go over now, the soldiers guarding the city gate won't let us in."
Li Lanzhen also said, "Okay, let's rest here. I guess the village chief and his men wouldn't dare to chase us here.
If he dares to chase us here, I will catch him and send him to Youzhou City to see the officials."
After she said that, everyone felt relieved and found a piece of grass to sit down and rest.
The baby in the car started crying again. He was hungry and wanted to drink milk.
He cried loudly once on the way, and his mother fed him milk.
In front of Baoya's mother and the baby, Buffalo Mother used a quilt to build a wall to block the wind.
When Shuishan saw her youngest son crying for milk, she held up the quilt to block the wind for the mother and daughter.
Bao Yan's mother had a thick scarf wrapped around her head, and the baby was dressed warmly, with a piece of fine cotton cloth that Li Lanzhen had given him wrapped around his belly, and a small jacket on his body, but no small cotton pants.
But the cotton-padded jacket was long and completely wrapped his little body inside. Niu Niu’s mother tied up the cotton-padded jacket with a cloth bag, and wrapped it with a thick small quilt outside, and then covered herself and her mother with a big quilt on top.
As long as he is not hungry, he sleeps warmly.
Shuishan walked over, spread out the quilt above their heads, and let Baoyan's mother feed her young son.
When he was full, he hummed and fell asleep again.
When it was dawn, many people walked on the road one after another.
People kept passing by, carrying loads on their shoulders and pushing carts carrying firewood. They walked towards the city gate and no one paid any attention to them.
Han Mingjiang stood up, looked towards the city gate and said.
"Mom, let's go too!"
Shuiniu said, "That's right, mother, aunt, we have to set off early and line up to enter the city."
By the time they pushed the cart and carried the children into Youzhou City, it was already dawn, people were walking on the market, and the shops were open.
Li Lanzhen was thinking all the way that when they arrived in Youzhou City, they still had to go to Sifang Restaurant to find Manager Hua.
Whether he was telling him that he was going out to find a water route, or about the experience of the Buffalo family, or the tyranny of the family of the village chief of Shanghe Village.
Talk to him about all these things.
So after entering the city, Li Lanzhen said to Han Mingjiang.
“Second brother, let’s go directly to Sifang Restaurant.
The Shuiniu family didn't know the relationship between Li Lanzhen and Sifang Restaurant.
I'm wondering how much it would cost to go to a restaurant.
Buffalo mother quickly stopped him and said.
“Sister, let’s not go to the restaurant, it costs too much!
Where do you live? Let’s just go.”
Li Lanzhen comforted her.
"Sister, now that you are here, just listen to me.
To get to our village, we have to cross mountains and hills, but the carts can’t go up. The children are so young, and Shuishan’s wife just gave birth to a child, so they can’t stand the wind or the cold. The children are frozen, which is really terrible.”
Shuishan and the others all looked at his mother, and then Shuiniu's mother said.
"Okay, I'll listen to you, sister. Whatever you say is what I'll do. I'll remember your kindness!"
Li Lanzhen asked Han Mingjiang to protect them and wait here.
She first entered the Sifang Restaurant, and as soon as she stepped into the restaurant, the waiter greeted her with a smile.
"Auntie, you are here. It's so cold, but you came alone?
Come on, sit down and drink a bowl of hot water to warm yourself up."
The shopkeeper Hua Zixi came out of the kitchen. He was not surprised to see Li Lanzhen. He smiled and nodded.
He asked her to sit at the table and pushed the hot tea brought by the waiter towards her.
"Madam, please drink some hot tea to warm yourself up."
Li Lanzhen was indeed a little tired and a little cold. She picked up the hot tea, blew away the steam rising from the bowl, and took two sips.
The hot tea warmed her body.
The shopkeeper sat quietly, waiting for her to drink her tea and wait for her to speak.
Hua Zixi knew that Li Lanzhen came today because of something.
Li Lanzhen put down the tea bowl, held the bowl with both hands and looked at the shopkeeper and said.
"Shopkeeper Hua, I have something to ask you!"
Hua Zixi smiled gently and said, "You're welcome, ma'am. Please go ahead."
Li Lanzhen briefly told him why she came out of Taohuayuan and what happened to her in Shanghe Village.
Upon hearing this, Shopkeeper Hua asked, "Where are the people you brought with you? Let them come in and warm themselves up.
I heard you say there are children and a woman who has just given birth."
Li Lanzhen stood up and smiled.
"They are outside. Thank you very much for this time. I will go and call them in."
Hua Zixi said from behind Li Lanzhen, "Madam, go in through the backyard door and go directly to the backyard. I will arrange a few rooms for you."
Li Lanzhen had been to the backyard of Sifang Restaurant before, so she took them around the street to the back. When they arrived at the gate of the backyard of Sifang Restaurant, the waiter had already opened the gate.
He greeted Han Mingjiang warmly, "Brother is here too, come in quickly, it's so cold, come in and have some hot tea to warm yourself up."
Manager Hua took them into an inner and outer room.
The room is very big, with a large bunk bed outside that can probably accommodate seven or eight people.
There is also a kang in the inner room, which is smaller and can accommodate about four people.
Hua Zixi said to Li Lanzhen, "The kang in the inner room is a little warmer."
Li Lanzhen knew what he meant and said to Shuishan.
"Shuishan, carry your wife to the kang inside, and bring the child over as well."
Wait until they have settled Baoya and her mother and the other children.
The waiter and Han Mingjiang came in carrying a long table.
After a while, the waiter brought rice porridge, steamed buns, and two side dishes.
Shopkeeper Hua said to Li Lanzhen, "Madam, please have breakfast first and then take a rest. If you need anything, please call me from the front."
Li Lanzhen said, "Thank you. I'll come to the front to talk to you after dinner."
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