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After stabilizing, the carriage was not so bumpy on the official road.

Luo Hong saw that the other four people in the carriage also took out their books and started reading. Luo Hong and Liu's father looked at each other, and their desire to socialize immediately stopped.

Luo Hong also took out a book from a small bag he was carrying and started reading.

The other four were indeed surprised. They probably thought that the two were not young anymore and were accompanying several other young people in their family to the provincial capital to take the exam.

As a result, the book Luo Hong took out was the one related to this exam. The four of them were surprised for a moment, then continued to read the book.

Father Liu really had nothing to do and had no other entertainment at the moment, so he took out a travelogue from his bag and started reading. This travelogue was bought in the county town. It was a travelogue of several nearby counties, introducing these nearby counties and the surrounding mountains, rivers and other natural scenery.

The travel notes also come with a map, but the drawing quality at that time was really not very good, very rough. The map is just for a general look, but the travel notes are well written, with many small stories and local customs.

Liu Caixia and Lin Weizhong's carriage was the second to last. The last carriage was loaded with goods. The two men driving the carriages should be good at kung fu, and they were at the end of the team to prevent sneak attacks from behind.

The further we walked, the fewer people there were. Occasionally, we passed by a village, and the fields were full of villagers busy with spring planting. It looked full of vitality, completely different from the scene we saw when we fled the famine last year.

Liu Caixia also sighed from the bottom of her heart, "Looking at the green crops in the fields, I feel that ordinary days are really simple and happy."

"Yes, the simpler, the happier. So we should adapt to the local customs. We are doing pretty well now."

Lin Weizhong used to be a working class person, his family had a car, a house and some savings. Economically, he was several levels behind Liu Caixia's family, who had run such a large business. So his expected happiness was much lower.

"I know. I just want us to live a simple life on our own. Be self-sufficient and don't have such big ambitions and aspirations."

"Yeah, I know that too."

The two looked at each other and smiled.

The carriage was moving forward at a constant speed. After an unknown amount of time, the carriage in front stopped.

They have never been very good at telling the time, and can only make a rough estimate. When the sun is shining, they can make a slightly more accurate estimate. When it is cloudy or rainy, they can just muddle through. The time is not that important.

There are watches collected by Liu's father, but they are all kept in Liu Xiaolu's space. Sometimes she will take them out and look at them when she really needs to check the time.

The locals here use hourglasses or water drops to calculate time. There are night watchmen on the streets of the city, who tell the time along the streets.

"Everyone, take a break for a quarter of an hour, eat some dry food and drink some water, then get off the bus and take a walk!"

The servant beside Master Su came to the back to make a notification.

After getting off the carriage, Liu's father and Luo Hong came to Liu Caixia and the others. Liu Caixia took out the prepared dry food and distributed it to everyone.

"Dad, it seems that this place is relatively peaceful. I guess it's because the prince governs well. I heard that in addition to the drought, there is also a war in the northwest. Fortunately, we have traveled far. If we stopped early, maybe the war would come and we would have to flee again."

"I've heard about it too. I also heard that there will be conscription! Now the policy hasn't come out yet, and I don't know what the situation will be. If I can't get the money, I don't know what to do." Father Liu also sighed. He didn't mention this before, but now that he mentioned it, he was still a little worried.

"Yes, we have four accounts now. If we send people according to the accounts, we have to send at least four people. If we don't follow this, but according to the number of adult men, the number will be even higher."

"It shouldn't happen. Zhongzhou won't collect that much. The country is in urgent need of food right now. If all the adult men are conscripted, who will farm the fields at home? Even if the elderly, the weak, women and children can finish farming, they will miss the best farming time, and the harvested food will be greatly reduced."

"Don't think too much. There's no point worrying about things that haven't happened yet. Let's go to the provincial capital to inquire about the news and then make preparations. When we pass the examination to become a scholar and have a reputation, we won't be forced to be conscripted. If we can go one step further, our family can be exempted from military service and corvée labor." Luo Hong comforted Liu's father. He knew that Liu's father was considering the big family, so he was taking the exam now for everyone's good. He could only urge the people in the family to study hard.

When they were full and stood up to walk around, the servant next to the head of the Su family came over again, "Master Liu, thank you for your hard work today. We are going to Shanhe County tonight to stay overnight. The journey is a little far, so everyone will rest for a while. We will not stop on the way. Eat some dry food if you are hungry. If you need to go to the toilet on the way, we will only stop for a short time and set off immediately after that. If you get to the county inn early in the evening, you can also eat something hot and have a good sleep."

"Okay, thank you for your help, bro."

Father Liu wanted to give two buns from his home to the little brother, but there were so many people in the group and it seemed inappropriate. He had to give up in front of so many people and couldn't give anything.

After eating and drinking, the group took care of their physiological problems in the forest by the roadside. Liu Caixia went deep into the forest under the cover of Lin Weizhong. She was indeed the only woman in their group. Fortunately, she was traveling as Lin Weizhong's wife. If she was a single widow, it would be really troublesome.

They ate, and the horses were left to graze in the grass by the roadside, and the coachmen gave their own horses some water.

After Liu Caixia finished solving her physiological problem and stood up to go out to find Wang Weizhong, she suddenly heard a sound that sounded a bit like a baby crying. She stopped and listened carefully for a while, then walked in the direction of the sound. Sure enough, she saw a baby wrapped in gray cloth under a big tree.

Liu Caixia walked over and opened the gray cloth. The baby inside was white and plump, and did not look like a child from a poor family. The baby's inner clothes were also of good quality. When she looked between the legs, she found that it was actually a boy.

Liu Caixia picked up the child and looked around. She could not see anyone at this time. The child cried softly and was very cold. It was not so cold in this weather. The child was most likely abandoned here at night, so he had no strength to cry and was so cold.

Liu Caixia saw that there was a word embroidered on the child's inner garment, a traditional Chinese character for "cloud". She could not find any other tokens of the child's identity.

She wrapped the child tightly, held him in her arms, patted him and comforted him softly, "Baby, don't cry, be good..." Just like she used to coax Xiaolu. The child might have really fallen asleep because he was tired of crying, or he might have felt Liu Caixia's kindness and knew that his life was probably not in danger, so he really didn't make any sound and closed his eyes.

Liu Caixia was very worried that the child would get sick, and she really couldn't just sit back and watch, so she took the child to find Lin Weizhong.