Having walked for almost the entire night, Song Zhili barely slept a wink, fearing that something unexpected might happen.

She was also thinking that if they encountered any accidents or robberies on the way, in a moment of panic, she would knock them all unconscious and send them to her space.

Fortunately, the night passed without incident, and around seven or eight o'clock, they finally arrived in Wanxian.

Wanxian is the county town next to theirs. It takes about an hour to get from this county town to Xinghua Village.

The women were starving. Song Zidong drove the oxcart into the county town, but they had to pay a fee to enter the town by oxcart.

Fortunately, it wasn't much. Song Zidong paid the fee to the guards at the gate, and his group rode in an oxcart into the county town, which was much larger than their town.

There are three streets in total. Song Zili and the others found a noodle shop, stopped, parked the oxcart, and jumped off the oxcart to enter the noodle shop.

Everyone ordered a bowl of noodles, and once the hot noodles arrived, they all buried their heads in their food and began to eat.

After they finished eating, they didn't rush to continue their journey, but instead strolled around the county town.

Song Qiqi and Song Ziming stared wide-eyed at the vendors hawking their wares on both sides of the street. Many of the items were things they had never seen before.

"Sister, there are so many things in this county town! Look at that one and that one, and those bamboo toys. These are things we don't have in our town."

Song Ziming walked to Song Zhili's side and pointed out several stalls to her.

Song Zhili looked in the directions he pointed and nodded. "Yes, this is much bigger than our town. There must be more things for sale here."

As she spoke, she led Song Ziming to a stall, one of the ones Song Ziming had pointed out earlier. The stall sold small animals woven from bamboo strips.

Song Zhili let Song Ziming choose one, then she turned her head and looked at Song Qiqi, asking her to come and choose one as well.

Song Qiqi immediately let go of Ji Qingqing's hand and ran towards Song Zhili. After the two of them had finished choosing, Song Zhili took a few more.

Consider it a gift for her cousins ​​whom she has never met.

They strolled around the streets again, buying some meat buns and pork, but not much else. After all, they had brought a lot of things with them, and this was about enough.

While they were shopping, the oxcart was parked in the cowshed of that noodle shop, and the waiter even helped them feed the oxen.

Song Zhili took out a few copper coins to thank the waiter, and then Song Zidong pulled the oxcart out from inside. The group climbed onto the oxcart and left the county town, continuing towards Xinghua Village.

After traveling for almost another hour, they finally arrived at the entrance to Xinghua Village. As soon as their oxcart entered, it caused a sensation in the village.

Only one family in their village owned an oxcart, and the people driving it weren't from their village, so many people stared curiously at Song Zhili and her family when they saw their oxcart.

Hu Cuicui glanced at the crowd but didn't see anyone she recognized; she hadn't been back for several years.

Firstly, the journey was long; secondly, their family didn't have much money, and a trip would cost a lot of money; and thirdly, they didn't have an oxcart. Borrowing the village chief's oxcart for a day would be fine, but a round trip would take three or four days.

Finally, they arrived at the door of Hu Cuicui's parents' house. As soon as the oxcart stopped, Hu Cuicui jumped off. Seeing that the gate was closed, she went up and knocked on it.

"Coming, coming! Who is it? Are you trying to get yourself killed?! What are you banging for?"

Hearing a woman's angry roar coming from inside the courtyard, Hu Cuicui was stunned. Before she could figure out what was going on, the gate was suddenly pulled open from the inside.

A thin woman emerged from inside, her face full of anger. When she saw a carriage parked at the entrance and so many people, she was startled for a moment, then her tone softened slightly.

"Who are you? What are you doing knocking on my door?"

Hearing the man's question, Hu Cuicui was completely bewildered, because she didn't recognize the woman in front of her at all.

She saw that the woman was no more than twenty years old. Hu Cuicui thought carefully for a while, but still couldn't figure out who the girl in front of her was.

"Isn't this Wu Xiu'e's house? We're here to find Wu Cui'e."

Wu Xiue is the name of Hu Cuicui's mother.

"Oh, you're here to see that old hag? Get out of here! I don't know her. This is my home. Get out of here right now and don't show your face in front of me again."

Upon hearing that Hu Cuicui had come to see Wu Xiue, the woman immediately turned hostile and slammed the door shut.

Hu Cuicui was turned away and looked puzzled. This was clearly her own family home, so why was this woman living there? If this woman was living there, where was her mother?

Where did his eldest brother and second brother go?

When Song Zhili saw this, she was also confused and didn't understand what was going on. She jumped off the oxcart and looked into the crowd.

"Dear uncles and aunts, could you please tell me what's going on with this family? Does anyone know anything about them?"

As soon as Song Zhili finished asking her question, the onlookers looked at each other, and then no one was able to speak.

Seeing this, Song Zhili was also very troubled. So she thought for a moment and took out two copper coins from the money pouch at her waist.

"If any of you can tell me about this family, I will give you these two coins."

After Song Zhili finished speaking, the villagers rushed forward one after another.

"Girl, let me tell you."

"Go to the side, young lady, I'll talk to you."

"Go away, go away, girl, choose me, I'll talk to you."

Seeing the sudden chaos among the crowd, Song Zhili rubbed her temples and randomly pointed to an auntie, "Auntie, you'll do. Come out and tell me what's going on in this family."

When the aunt saw Song Zhili pointing at her, she glanced triumphantly at the other aunts standing beside her.

He then squeezed out from the crowd, saying, "Come on, everyone, make way and don't block the way. This girl is here to talk to me. You all go to the back."

The woman squeezed through the crowd and walked to Song Zhili's side. Seeing this, the other villagers didn't dare to say anything more and could only take a few steps back.

"Young lady, if I tell you about this family's situation, will you really give me that copper coin?"

Seeing that the aunt still didn't believe what she was saying, Song Zhili first placed the two copper coins in her hand in front of her.

"Here, take these two copper coins. Now you can tell me, right?"

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