Chapter 79 Relatives
In March, when the grass was green and the birds were singing, Pan Yingying and Yu Chaosheng boarded a carriage heading to the northwest.
Batian was taken very good care of by Yu Chaosheng, and he is as fat as a tiger now as when he was first brought home.
Pan Yingying gathered her cloak around her and raised her hand to touch Fat Tiger, who was snoring beside her.
Batian opened his eyes and saw that it was Pan Yingying. He raised his head and nudged her hand, then fell back to sleep.
Yu Chaosheng was driving the carriage and humming a song, and he did not forget to chat with Yu Laoer who was driving the carriage next to him.
Before leaving, everyone picked almost all the wild vegetables on the mountain and made a lot of dry food, so there was no delay on the road and they soon arrived in Liangzhou.
The disaster in Liangzhou was not serious, so Liang Ye took the exiles to the post station to rest.
Pan Yingying and the others continued to move forward and stopped to rest in a forest.
There were so many of them that the post station couldn't accommodate them all.
Now everyone is wearing clean clothes and is neatly dressed. They don’t look like refugees at all.
Pan Yingying took charge and asked everyone to disguise themselves as a caravan, preparing to sell some glass cups, small mirrors and other things she bought from the mall along the way, and also sell some braised meat by the way, which could be considered as an income, because no matter how small a mosquito leg is, it is still meat.
After everyone started cooking, Pan Yingying and Yu Chaosheng put a leash on Batian and went to the woods.
Batian and Yu Chaosheng were having fun in the front, while Pan Yingying was collecting things that could be sold in the mall as she walked.
Not long after walking, I heard faint cries for help and several extremely obscene-sounding male voices mixed with insults.
Pan Yingying and Yu Chaosheng looked at each other and were just about to discuss whether they should go over to take a look when Batian shot out like an arrow. It now weighed about fifty or sixty kilograms and ran so fast that Yu Chaosheng was almost knocked down by it.
He cursed and followed reluctantly.
Pan Yingying found it funny and followed quickly.
There was a cemetery in front of them. A pretty young woman in shabby clothes was caught by three strong men. She was struggling, kicking and biting her. An old woman was lying on the ground, dying.
As soon as Yu Chaosheng rushed over, the sharp-eyed young woman immediately shouted, "Help! Please help me, young master!"
The three sturdy men turned their heads and their eyes immediately fell on Pan Yingying, who was the last one to walk out of the woods.
Pan Yingying noticed the looks they were giving her, but before she could think of anything, Yu Chaosheng's features suddenly turned cold.
The sturdy man in the lead saw that the two men had good temperaments, looked at their clothes, and bowed to Chaosheng.
"Sir, I'm Wu Da Jiao from Chunfeng Tower." The sturdy man spoke first and gave his name.
Yu Chaosheng didn't answer, but asked, "What are you doing?"
Wu Da Jiao glanced at the little woman who was still struggling, with a somewhat complaining tone in his voice.
"Her husband lost money in the casino and couldn't pay it back, so he sold her to us. But when we went to pick her up, she ran away with me, so we chased her."
When the young woman heard what he said, she immediately cried and explained, "I have already divorced him. These people are unreasonable. They couldn't catch him so they came to catch me."
Wu Da Jiao looked embarrassed for a moment, especially under Pan Yingying's clear gaze, and she gritted her teeth to defend herself, "But... we have to report to the mission, right..."
At this time, the old woman lying on the ground slowly opened her eyes and saw Yu Chaosheng. A light burst out from her cloudy eyes, "Cousin Fu!"
Yu Chaosheng: ???
Pan Yingying: ???
The old woman came to her senses and said, "No, you are not cousin Fu. He is not that young..."
Pan Yingying glanced at Yu Chaosheng and stepped forward, "Excuse me, mother-in-law, is the cousin Fu you are talking about called Yu Fu?" Yu Fu is the name of the deceased old man Yu.
The old woman nodded, "Excuse me young lady, do you know my cousin?"
Yu Chaosheng also remembered that Old Man Yu did seem to have a cousin. He heard that she married and moved to another place and was living a good life.
He looked at Wu Da Jiao and asked, "How much money does that man owe you?"
Wu Da Jiao also realized that these two people might be people the mother and daughter knew, and said angrily, "Twenty taels."
Yu Chaosheng handed Batian's leash to Pan Yingying and gently reminded her, "Hold it firmly, be careful not to be dragged down by our son."
Pan Yingying rolled her eyes at him, but Yu Chaosheng was too shameless to care.
He took out the purse from his bag and counted out twenty taels of silver, including small change and copper coins. It didn't look very good, but not a penny less.
Wu Da Jiao took it and counted it, then bowed to the young woman and said, "Madam Qi, I'm sorry for the offense."
Then he turned around and left with his two brothers without stopping for a moment.
After they left, Qi Fang hurriedly helped her mother up, then turned around to greet Yu Chaosheng and Pan Yingying.
Yu Chaosheng quickly dodged and said, "Come with me, I think we might be relatives."
Qi Fang was stunned, somewhat unable to believe it. She had never heard her mother say that her family had such wealthy relatives.
After Yu Chaosheng finished speaking, he ignored them and walked to Pan Yingying, took Batian's leash, and pulled Pan Yingying, "It's getting dark, be careful."
Pan Yingying shuddered and whispered, "Yu Chaosheng, did you take the wrong medicine?"
Yu Chao was so angry that he wanted to shake off her hand, but for some unknown reason, he held her hand tighter without saying a word.
When they returned to the camp, Yu Chun'er and Yu Qiu'er came running over hand in hand, "Uncle, aunt, the meal is ready, come and eat."
Batian jumped around, wanting to play with the two sisters, but was held tightly by Yu Chaosheng.
The two sisters were like bean sprouts, unable to withstand Batian's weight. Once he pounced on them, both girls would probably fall on their butts.
Yu Qiuer stepped forward and touched Batian's head, then took out a piece of dried meat from her pocket and stuffed it into its mouth, "Batian is so good."
Pan Yingying shook her head. The fact that Batian could grow so fat was closely related to the children's feeding. They would rather not eat meat themselves, but would feed the saved dried meat to Batian. What else could she say?
Yu Chaosheng looked at Yu Chun'er and said, "Xiaochun, go call your parents and tell them that I have something to ask you."
Yu Chun'er said "Oh", looked at the two women behind her suspiciously, and pulled Yu Qiu'er to her home.
Yu Laoer arrived quickly and was stunned when he saw the old woman.
"Cousin, is that you?" He stammered, feeling both like it and not like it.
In his memory, his cousin married into a good family and was generous with gifts when she came to visit the Yu family. Although the clothes she wore were not made of silk or satin, they were made of excellent material.
But the person in front of me... was skinny, his clothes were washed white and stained with dirt, his gray hair was disheveled, and his face was full of wrinkles. He couldn't be connected to that cousin at all.
But for some reason, Yu Laoer felt that they were the same person.
Qin Sanniang stared at him for a long while before she burst into tears, "Is it the second son of Yu Fu's family?"
Yu Laoer breathed a sigh of relief. Great, it was confirmed. This was his cousin who had married so well.