Quickly wear a life of peace

Suddenly, Song Qingning saw a stall selling candy figures, and her eyes lit up. She ran over and bought a few strings, shared them with a few people, and ate them with relish.

When others saw her look, they couldn't help laughing.

They wandered around town for a while, buying some snacks and gadgets, and replenishing some things they would need on the road.

Song Qingning even sent everyone away and took the opportunity to take out some fresh vegetables from the space.

Everyone’s appetite has not been very good recently. With fresh dishes, everyone’s appetite will be better.

"Hey? Is that the person in front a member of the Xie family?" Everyone was walking on the street, and Song Jihong suddenly saw a concubine of the Xie family doing a lot of shopping in front of him.

"Didn't their house get all robbed? Why do I see she buys quite a lot?" Sister-in-law Sun looked at the girl's shopping in confusion.

"It must be money given by relatives!" Song Jichang guessed.

"It's impossible to let a concubine's daughter go out to do shopping. Which family doesn't have legitimate sons and grandsons going out to do shopping? Have you ever seen a family that lets a girl take the lead?" Song Jiyang said disapprovingly.

Song Qingning had a guess in her mind, but she didn't want to get involved with the protagonist unless necessary. "It has nothing to do with us, why bother with them? Her family is quite weird, we should stay away from them, just don't get close to them and don't offend them!"

The other people also thought it made sense, so they stopped paying attention to it, bought a bunch of things, and then returned to the post station contentedly.

Everyone was used to the other items, but the fresh vegetables that Song Qingning brought back made everyone happy.

"Oh, it's really not easy to eat fresh vegetables at this time. Qingning is so lucky!" Grandmother Jia couldn't let go of the small cabbages and couldn't take her eyes off them.

"That's right! So many of us were walking on the street together, and I happened to run into my second sister. Look, grandma, these wild vegetables are so juicy!" Sun was pregnant, and her taste was different from before. She craved the bitter wild vegetables.

Zhang looked at the golden thread dates in the pile and asked curiously, "Why did you buy so many dates? They are so cumbersome to carry around. Can't you just buy more when you want to eat them?"

Song Qingning wanted to buy it himself, so he quickly explained the reason, "Mother, I'm going to sell it. I thought, we'll spend a lot on this trip, so it would be good to earn more money."

Wang looked at her daughter disapprovingly, fearing that the mistress would think her daughter was materialistic and greedy and blame her.

Jia and Zhang frowned and said nothing. After a long while, Jia sighed and said, "It's really hard for my granddaughter. She knows how to worry about our family's livelihood at such a young age. She is a good child."

The oldest ones spoke, and the others followed suit.

Jia then instructed her three grandsons, "You three are men, the backbone of our Song family, and you will also be responsible for supporting the family in the future. Qingning's idea is good, you three should also think about whether there is anything you can do."

Song Jiyang and the other two stood up and saluted in unison, and the topic was over.

The eldest sister-in-law, Ms. Sun, talked to several elders about the concubine's daughter of the Xie family. After chatting for a while, they concluded that this little girl was good at hiding things. It should be the money that was collected somewhere in advance and not stolen!

Song Qingning: ...

Okay, this reason is quite reasonable, but she was determined to stay away from the girl named Xie Muyan.

After chatting for a while, it was time for dinner. After dinner, everyone went back to their rooms, completely forgetting about the Xie family's affairs and not thinking about it any more.

They set out on the second day. As soon as they left the city, Song Ji Yang stuffed silver into Wang Dahu's pocket. Song Changgeng's shackles were finally removed, and he got into his own carriage. However, the handcuffs were still on his ankles, and they would not be taken off until they reached their destination.

Other families followed suit, stuffed silver into their pockets, and removed the shackles from their necks.

However, the Xie family had a lot of disputes over this matter, and it seemed that they were short of money.

In fact, although they don’t have much money, it is not difficult to get the money to remove the shackles. The main reason is that some people have evil intentions.

Some people want others to pay the money, for example, those from the side branches want the main branch to pay the money, and the illegitimate sons want the legitimate branch to pay the money.

The descendants of the direct branch are not fools. With so much money, not to mention that they cannot take it out, even if they can, they will not spend it on others.

There were also people who saw those who bought a lot of things and became envious and wanted to share them equally, which led to another verbal sparring.

But Xie Muyan was not one of them. In her backpack there were only some food and a few sets of clothes and shoes, nothing that could make people greedy.

The people from the Song family did not see this scene. They were busy scrubbing and applying medicine to Song Changgeng. Blisters had formed on his neck, wrists and feet, so they had to apply medicine to him properly.

The Song family didn't care about the exiles' lawsuits at all.

Finally, the officers became annoyed by their noise and threatened them that if they continued to make noise, they would be shackled and marched away. Only then did they calm down.

At noon, they didn't reach the place where there was a post station, so everyone had to eat the dry food that they had paid the cooks to prepare in the morning, accompanied by cold ginger tea.

The Song family brought a stove and charcoal, so they could naturally have hot meals.

But they still had to worry about the officials' food and drink.

Zhang, Jia and Song Changgeng discussed it and decided to find a few exiles who knew how to cook and let them help prepare the meals along the way.

In the past, it would have been impossible for these wives and daughters of officials to do this.

Now there is no choice but to do it. Many people who have seen the situation clearly are scrambling to get this job.

After some consideration, Song Changgeng decided to keep one person from each family that wanted to make money.

Men are responsible for setting up the stove and collecting firewood, while women are responsible for lighting the fire and cooking. Of course, the cook must have good cooking skills.

Xie Muyan from the Xie family also signed up. Zhang felt pity for her because she was a girl and her family was unreliable, so she kept her and put her in charge of making fire, which was the easiest job of all. The job of making fire was basically assigned to the young girls.

The officials had no objection to this. They were the ones who benefited anyway, and they were satisfied to be able to have a hot meal.

Zhang also hired a few more people to be responsible for washing clothes. It was freezing cold and they were all spoiled, so how could they be willing to do this job?

In the past, it was easy to come across an inn and just ask the people at the inn or nearby for help.

However, the further south they go, the more opportunities they have to sleep in the wilderness, and they can't find people to work for them everywhere.

As for buying servants, it is not so easy to find one that suits your taste. All you can do is go with the flow!

Song Changgeng also took the initiative to invite Zhou Imperial Physician and his family to his own carriage.