Chapter 298 The house leaks every night rain (3 more)
Looking at Li Zian sitting on the horse, Fan Yuru felt that her head hurt more than before.
Why are two of us so willful, why can't we just do our part in peace and quiet and stop showing off?
"Sir, my father and Mr. Guo are not here in Wang Ru now. Someone must stay to control the situation and handle official affairs. If you follow us to Juzhou, if something goes wrong here in Huguang, we will be completely beyond our reach...
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"Of course I know." Li Zian's voice was calm, as if the person whose hair was standing on end was not him at all.
When Fan Yuru heard this, he asked doubtfully: "Then the prince is going to send us out of the city?"
Li Zian suddenly took something out of his arms and threw it to Fan Yuru.
Fan Yu subconsciously stretched out his right hand to catch it. After seeing the true identity of the object in his hand, he immediately held it with both hands in fear for fear of accidentally dropping it and breaking it.
This is the jade seal of the prince. All official documents in the palace and correspondence with the court must be stamped with this jade seal.
Such an important thing was thrown out by Li Zian so casually. If it fell to the ground, the consequences would be unimaginable.
It is not difficult to re-select the materials for engraving, but after re-engraving, you have to replace the rubbings from the imperial court to various places in Huguang with new ones, which takes a lot of time.
Fan Yuru hugged the jade seal in shock. Looking at Li Zian's expression, a bad premonition gradually arose in her heart.
"You stay and take care of business, I will lead the team to Juzhou!"
"No!" Fan Yuru couldn't even care about his superiority or inferiority at this moment, "Your Majesty, the son of a rich man cannot sit down in the hall. Although I have plenty of people this time, I still can't guarantee that everything will be perfect. How can I let you go and use your body to do this?"
Taking risks."
Li Zian ignored his opinion at all and pulled the reins directly, dismounting the black horse and immediately turned around.
"Follow me." He called to the back, then tucked his legs under the horse's belly and took the lead out of the alley outside the side gate of the palace.
Naturally, the guards and grooms behind could only obey Li Zian's order, bypass Fan Yuru who was sitting on the horse, and follow Li Zian straight to the west city gate.
The carriage that Shen Tianshu was riding in was guarded among the soldiers, some distance from the front, so until she left the city gate, she didn't know that the person riding in the front had been replaced by Li Zian from Fan Yuru.
Everyone went out after having dinner at the palace, so they kept marching throughout the night without stopping.
Shen Tianshu and He Yu managed to sleep all night in the rickety carriage.
Early the next morning, when the team stopped to rest and have breakfast, Shen Tianshu was surprised to find that the person leading the team turned out to be Li Zian.
Li Zi'an had a straight face. When he saw Shen Tianshu, he just nodded slightly without smiling at all. If there was any problem, he would send the boy over to inform him.
A few days after setting off, the two of them hadn't even spoken a word to each other.
But the hard work of traveling day and night left Shen Tianshu no time to consider other people's emotions.
Since they were still in Huguang and the carriages were basically traveling on official roads, she and Minghui were seizing the time to rest whenever they could to recharge their batteries for the more difficult journey ahead.
That morning, Mo Ze rode a horse from the front and said to Shen Tianshu outside the car window: "Mrs. Tong, the prince asked me to tell you that we will leave the boundary of Huguang in half an hour."
The more difficult test is finally coming.
Shen Tianshu rubbed his lower back, which was sore from riding in the car these past few days, and asked, "How many days will it take to get to Juzhou from here?"
"If everything goes well on the road, we will be there in three to five days."
There were still three to five days to go. Looking at Mo Ze's face that looked much more haggard than when he first set off, Shen Tianshu couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
She took out a large pack of pills from the medicine box and asked Minghui to hand it to Mo Ze, "I have nothing to do in the car these two days, so I prepared some pills. There are many mountains and forests to the west of Huguang, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter now." , in order to avoid being poisoned by miasma, let everyone take these pills in advance."
"Thank you, Mrs. Tong!" Mo Ze took the pills and thanked him repeatedly, but saw Shen Tianshu hand out two more small porcelain bottles.
Mo Ze quickly put away the large package of pills, then took the porcelain bottle and asked: "Ms. Tong, this is..."
"The red-sealed bottle is specially prepared for the prince, and the blue-sealed bottle contains anti-itching medicine. If you accidentally get bitten by a mosquito, smearing some on it will relieve it."
When he stopped to eat at noon that day, Shen Tianshu felt that Li Zian's mood was much better than before, and he even came to say a word in person.
"We are about to leave Huguang. This is also the last time we change horses. We won't be able to travel day and night. Even if people can bear it, horses can't stand it either."
In addition to Wuchang Prefecture, some people went to notify the prefectures along the way early and asked them to prepare horses early.
The team changed horses every morning and evening, so that they could run all the way to the present day and night.
After lunch, the team set off again, and the road soon became bumpy.
Shen Tianshu was jostled all the way and his buttocks were sore. He could prepare some pills in the car before, but now he couldn't do anything at all.
It rained continuously all night. On the morning of the third day after leaving Huguang, it suddenly started to rain. The mountain road that was already rugged and difficult to walk became even more slippery. We also had to worry about whether the mountain road would collapse and whether the top of the mountain would collapse. There are falling rocks.
Under such an environment, it was more difficult for a carriage to pass than a horse. The wheels would either slip on the slippery weeds or simply get stuck in the mud, requiring several people to get out and push the cart.
We walked like this stumblingly for another half a day, the rain showed no sign of letting up, and the carriage got stuck in the mud once again.
This time, the mud pit was very deep, and several soldiers around them dismounted and failed to successfully push the carriage out of the pit.
Li Zian in front couldn't wait to ride over to check.
Shen Tianshu opened the curtains and asked: "Are there any extra horses? Let's just get off the horse and ride. This carriage is really slowing down the progress."
"You know how to ride a horse?" Li Zi'an looked at Shen Tianshu's frail body, which looked like he was about to collapse if the wind blew.
"I should be able to..." Shen Tianshu said this a little uncertainly. She was very good at riding in her previous life, but she has never tried it in this life!
Although she didn't have much hope for Shen Tianshu riding a horse, she was right. The carriage was now a pure drag.
Li Zian asked someone to fetch an oilcloth, wrapped Shen Tianshu's medicine box and gifts, and gave them to the soldiers to take with them.
Then he handed her a raincoat and a bamboo hat.
Shen Tianshu dressed up with difficulty in the carriage, got out of the car door and stood beside the carriage, when Li Zian grabbed his waist and took him to the horse, sitting in front of him.