Chapter 73: Prepare to go over and play the victim
Chapter 73: Prepare to go over and play the victim
"Xiao Jiu, after all, they are the ones who lead the army into battle. They are generals, not soldiers who only know how to rush forward. It is normal for them to have doubts."
[Why do they have that expression? It feels the same as before at Chenfengling.]
Zhou Jinran thought about the behavior of the women of the Zhou family when they were in Chen Fengling. Sure enough, they thought the same as she did, and they all believed that the women of the Zhou family were not simple.
"Xiaojiu, the Jiang family has become much quieter after what happened with Chen Fengling. It seems like they have completely come to their senses, huh?"
Yes, if they didn’t wake up, they wouldn’t have kept those people from the Jiang family in Chenfengling.
As for other families, I don’t know if it is the same. Zhou Jinran hopes that they have all come to their senses.
After all, if nothing unexpected happens, they will be assigned to the same place later.
Although they could find suitable places to live later, according to the laws of this dynasty, exiles, whether criminals or commoners, had to stay in the place where they were assigned for a full year.
Unless there is a pardon from the emperor, no one can leave that place. And leaving means leaving for a long time.
Of course, although there are such regulations, there is no requirement that you cannot leave at all. After all, people have to make money to eat.
For Zhou Jinran, such regulations are still somewhat humane.
In her opinion, if this rule was not aimed at exiles, she would probably have thought it was the emperor's protection for exiles.
After all, this regulation not only restricts exiles, but also greatly restricts local people.
As long as the exiles do not set foot on the place where they are, the attacks they receive will not be very serious.
But Zhou Jinran suddenly thought that very few exiled people could keep their money in the place of exile.
If they want to live, or even live well, they have to go out to make a living every day, and it is inevitable that they will be attacked.
After figuring this out, Zhou Jinran finally understood why the Jiang family had been worried about retaliation before.
The exile team that set out from the post station again was very quiet and nothing unusual happened.
Shortly after they set out, the boss of Jingming City, Chu Ming, prepared all the arrangements for the memorial.
Along with the memorial to the capital was a large amount of treasure that was moved out of the bandit’s lair in Chen Fengling.
Of course, Chu Ming and his men kept 20% for themselves. This was a customary practice. The main force could keep 20% of whatever they obtained from suppressing bandits, and the rest had to be handed over.
Compared to handing in all of it, this is already very good.
Especially when encountering a situation like the Chen Fengling bandit den, after all, they are very good at hiding. They have been hiding for so many years, and their foundation is extremely rich.
Even when Xiao Jiang and other officials left the yamen, Chu Ming took some of the 20% and gave it to them.
As for the exiles who helped, I'm sorry, but they are still guilty.
As for those common people, given Xiao Jiang's character, he would definitely not treat them unfairly.
Zhou Jinran had already known about Chu Ming and Xiao Jiang's affairs through signing in.
In fact, sometimes Zhou Jinran doesn’t want to know so clearly.
After all, the human brain has limited capacity. She is busy studying medicine and practicing martial arts, so how can she have time to care about these things?
It’s just that the sign-in system is afraid that she will become obsessed, so it wants to use miscellaneous tasks to let her relax.
Zhou Jinran would not refuse the kindness of the sign-in system. After all, the information it provides is sometimes very useful.
As soon as they left the city, Zhou Jinran did not sit on the donkey cart, but got off and followed behind.
Because she wanted to practice Qinggong.
However, before practicing Qinggong, Zhou Jinran, like Zhou Jinan, started practicing footwork first.
The footwork was naturally taught by Wang Yaoxing. He said that practicing the footwork well before practicing Qinggong would have twice the result with half the effort.
Zhou Jinran is still very receptive to the advice of people who have experienced it.
So at this time, she mobilized the true energy in her body under her feet and began to practice.
Apart from Zhou Jinan, the only people present who noticed it were the Jiang family father and son who were standing not far away.
It’s just that they already knew that Zhou Jinran and his sister were good at martial arts, so they didn’t find it strange when they saw Zhou Jinran’s behavior.
As for the Wang family caravan, it did not set out with them this time.
After all, Jingming City is much bigger than the previous cities. A big city means more things, so the Wang Yaoming brothers will not miss this opportunity.
Of course, this is also because they are sure that there will not be much danger in the places they pass through during the next few days of journey, so they can do their work with peace of mind.
In this way, time passed as Zhou Jinran and Zhou Jinan took turns driving the carriage and practicing martial arts.
It was not until a rain a few days later that their progress was blocked.
The rain was so sudden and heavy that many people were soaked before they could even react.
The rain was so heavy that they couldn't continue their journey, so they had to stop where they were.
"Sister, wipe it off first, don't catch a cold."
"Brother, don't worry, let's put up the tarpaulin. The rain is too heavy, I'm afraid it can't withstand it."
Fortunately, they prepared a lot of tarpaulins, otherwise they would not be able to support such a large shed at this time.
"Sister Ran, do you want to put the rain sheet together?"
Zhou Mingyu first settled her mother and brother down before coming over to help.
"Put them together. We have some extra tarpaulins on our donkey cart. Ask Uncle Zhou to get them and have them fix them. Let's keep out of the rain together for now."
Not all of the common people in the Zhou family have tools to keep out the rain. After all, they could use straw raincoats last time it rained, but in this rain, straw raincoats are useless.
After Zhou Jinran explained to Zhou Mingyu, he handed the bag wrapped in rain cloth at his feet to Zhou Jinan.
Without Zhou Jinran saying anything, Zhou Jinan understood and took the bag to Xiao Jiang's side.
After Zhou Jinan walked over, she was about to go over to help Zhou Mingyu when she saw Wang Nan and the other two.
I don’t know if they were negligent last time or what, but they didn’t prepare anything to keep out the rain.
It was at this time that Zhou Mingyu came over again. She followed Zhou Jinran's line of sight and naturally saw the two women and the child.
"Sister Mingyu, go and call them over."
Zhou Jinran has been seeing their performance over the past few days. Compared to others, they are indeed quite good.
I think it's time to join them.
In this case, she might as well take this opportunity to win their hearts. After all, she has helped them twice in times of need. If they really have some ulterior motives in the future, they can't blame her for not giving them a chance.
Old Master Zhou over there was looking at the scene on Zhou Jinran's side, his eyes rolling around.
Although he knew that the Zhou family was killing each other in Chen Fengling, he lay down too early, and he didn't dare to move after lying down, so he didn't know the specific situation.
Now that he saw the situation on Zhou Jinran's side, he seemed to have forgotten everything that happened before and was about to go over and play the victim.
But before he could start to use his crutches, Zhou Jinyue and her brother carried him to the other side.
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