I traveled through ancient times to escape famine with my arch-rival, the movie star.

Shen Ying paused and realized that he almost got in touch with the carriage because he was observing it.

"Excuse me, young lady. I just haven't seen such a nice carriage. I took a few extra glances. I mean no harm."

The woman in the car hummed, and seemed to have no intention of continuing to speak. However, Shen Ying suddenly became familiar and started to talk to her: "You are here to escort the convoy as well. Hey, don't ask all the escorts in the escort agency to leave.

My second uncle's third brother's wife died of illness at a young age, leaving two children waiting for her to return home in Yongcheng, a hundred miles away. Now everyone says that the road is chaotic, and we dare not rashly take her bones and tablets back. We thought of hiring a few escorts to make the journey safer.

The family has emptied out their savings for this matter, but there is nothing they can do. The child she gave birth to with all her efforts is still waiting for her... I don’t know if three taels of silver is enough to hire a bodyguard. "

Shen Ying described a simple excuse with great emotion, making it look miserable. The woman in the car was silent for a moment: "What can you do with three taels of silver?"

Shen Ying paused.

No, the tone of this girl's voice is a bit irritating.

The next moment, a slender hand stretched out from behind the curtain: "Here are ten taels of gold, you keep it. The dead are the most important, and sending them back safely is already a gesture of family affection. Three taels of silver really can't do much, and these ten taels should be enough."

Shen Ying stood there in a daze, holding the ten taels of gold.

She is rarely speechless.

The reason for striking up a conversation was to take advantage of her sympathy and ask her to leave two bodyguards for herself instead of hiring all of them.

I didn't expect to meet a girl who gives away money.

"Why, isn't that enough?"

Shen Ying came back to her senses, hesitated for a moment, and threw the ten taels of gold back to her second cousin in his astonished eyes.

It’s not that she doesn’t want the ten taels of gold, but she has no resistance to people who are purely kind, even if they are foolishly kind.

After all, she had met a young lady who had a hard life. She started working at the age of 15 and could only keep 200 yuan of her salary and had to send the rest back to her hometown.

When she met Shen Ying, who was so poor that she couldn't even afford to eat, she paid for Shen Ying's meals for half a month. Later, Shen Ying never saw this young lady again, but from then on, she had no resistance to kind people who did not ask for anything in return.

Up to now, I have never used the word "Motherland" to anyone.

Because kindness is kindness, the only difference is whether the object of kindness is worthy or not. Kindness itself is innocent.

Shen Ying retracted her previous glib look. "My lady, I'm sorry, I was actually thinking that you could hire two fewer escorts so that I wouldn't have to go in vain. What I said just now was all an excuse. My family is actually going to Yongcheng, and we're worried about encountering unexpected situations on the road, so we're asking for escorts to escort us for a while."

There was a brief silence in the car.

Shen Ying thought, it is normal even if others are angry.

Sympathy is given to a liar.

"Don't be afraid. My family is also going to Yongcheng. I will talk to my brother later. Don't make a big scene. That way you can hire an escort."

Shen Ying stood outside the car, thanked the girl inside, and then went into the escort agency with her cousin.

Since the manager of the escort agency was receiving distinguished guests who paid high escort fees, Shen Ying and the other two who were dressed casually were only received by a female guest.

Fortunately, Shen Ying felt that it was easier to communicate with female relatives, and she did not feel that she was being treated poorly. "Hello, sister. We are going to Yongcheng to visit relatives, but I heard that the price of food has risen recently, and the road is not safe. We want to hire a few escorts to help escort our luggage."

The women were somewhat speechless: "Yongcheng, if we walk fast, we can reach it in two days and one night. If we need an escort, it will cost at least three or five taels of silver. If we add the need for carriages and horses, it will be even higher. You guys, please consider it carefully?"

Shen Ying said with certainty that this was the result of a discussion among the whole family: "Our family will take care of all the meals on the road, and the escort agency only needs to collect money and provide manpower."

Oh, meals are included.

"But the men here have to eat twice a day. Warriors have big appetites."

Shen Ying had been speaking in a very affirmative manner, and her second cousin beside her also agreed. Finally, Shen Ying took out the silver she had on her body. The female family member saw that she had taken the money, was sober, and was accompanied by a male, so she went to report to her husband.

Soon, a strong but short man came over and signed the contract, which even included two meals a day.

I paid two and a half taels of silver, and the rest would be given when I set out.

The man suddenly said, "Several nobles will leave the day after tomorrow morning. If you can keep up, you will have more escorts to look after each other. However, please do not take the initiative to disturb them."

Shen Ying nodded and thought, they probably also like to charge double the price for one trip, so they suggested this.

So Shen Ying followed their advice and set the departure time for the next morning.

After going back and talking about the time, the house became even busier, busy and orderly packing up the belongings. Shen Youtian and his two brothers also got two carts, a gray donkey, and a strong mule.

The laying hens at home were not touched. The others were smoked immediately after being slaughtered. Another one was killed and stewed the next day to provide nourishment for the whole family.

How much does a chicken weigh? It can feed nearly twenty mouths, and each person only has one or two pieces of meat.

Qi Yanchuan was also preparing to go to Yongcheng.

It’s not that his words suddenly worked.

Instead, Qi Yanchuan moved out of the Xu family: "That day I overheard that they were planning to take advantage of the time when others were still not able to react, embezzle some silver and store food, so that they could leave the town and flee to the south. That's when they caught me and beat me with a stick.

If I didn’t have my brother and sister-in-law at home, who thought it would be a trouble to beat me to death, I would have died in their hands...Brother, sister-in-law, this famine is a foregone conclusion. We adults may be able to endure it for a while, but can the children?

If we leave early, we can find a suitable place to stay and avoid large crowds. "

"Is it really like this?" Mrs. Qi's opinion of Qi Yanchuan had changed recently because of the milk powder and food that he brought back. When she heard about this, she couldn't help but feel sorry for the brother whom she raised as a half-son. "Why didn't you tell me earlier? The previous quarrel at home..."

"Sister-in-law, that's not important. Brother, you've almost harvested all the food. We'll set off tomorrow!"

Because the family had few people and a simple life, all the things they needed could be loaded onto a cart, so the Qi family set off earlier than the Shen family.

However, after they had walked for two hours, they stopped to rest and noticed that there was a large group of people following behind them.

Several people quickly pushed the cart and hid in the woods.

Qi Yanchuan squinted his eyes and looked around. The leader was a man sitting on a horse with his legs crossed, looking very majestic. Behind him were two horse-drawn carriages and a mule cart, and around him were several young men in uniform.

Behind them, there were about twenty people following not far away, including donkeys and mules. Most of the people were walking, except for a child who was sitting on a cart to rest, with a sunshade cloth covering his head.

"Eh? Isn't that the Shen family? They came out early too? But why are they following strangers? They look like bodyguards." Brother Qi, who has good eyesight, recognized the team at the back.

"Escort?" Qi Yanchuan then noticed that both teams had small flags.

Could it be that Shen Ying hired people to escort them to escape the famine?

Isn’t this too high-profile and extravagant?

Looking down at himself, he saw that he was walking and pushing the cart only relying on his hands and legs, and Qi Yanchuan couldn't help but sigh.

In the past, when filming TV dramas, almost every costume drama would have a character cursing God.

At this moment, he also wanted to curse.