Today, the days are short and the nights are long, so the time for traveling is not as long as before.
In one day, excluding the time to rest the horses and have a lunch, we can only travel sixty or seventy miles at most. This is because the official road is smooth and easy to walk.
Going to Lingnan Pass, there are official roads all the way. If you go southwest to Shouzhou, most of the roads are not official roads. Occasionally the road is wide, but most of them are bumpy and difficult to walk, so you won't be able to walk much in one day.
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Therefore, Song Qiu did not intend to go to Shouzhou.
After passing Lingnan Pass, go to the three states over there and have a look.
In particular, before the Mid-Autumn Festival, she received a letter from someone sent by the Gao family, telling her about several places.
The others are all over there in Qingping Mansion, and there is also one in the south.
She has a brother who is appointed magistrate of Jianping County in Lizhou. Jianping County goes to Guiping County. The next town is forty miles away. There are villages in between, but most of them are deserted. There are many caravans traveling on the official road, so it is the most suitable place.
place.
When Aling heard about this place, he was familiar with it and responded, indeed, that area was quite deserted.
Song Qiu kept this place in mind, and when he came there, he would definitely take a closer look.
If you have to cross Lingnan Pass and there is still a long way to go, you can still see it along the way.
After a day's journey, we failed to make it into Fuling County. When we arrived at Sanshi Town, it was already getting late.
The group had no choice but to find an inn to stay for one night in Sanshi Town.
Nowadays, it is cold at night, and it is difficult to make do with it at night. You have to stay in an inn and cover yourself with quilts. Otherwise, catching a cold will be troublesome, and it will still cost money to see a doctor and take medicine.
So Song Qiu didn't intend to save even a little bit, and directly asked for five medium-sized guest rooms, ignoring Yang Dalian's suggestion that they just sleep in Datongbu. Datongbu was crowded and mixed, which was also troublesome.
From then on, whenever she stayed in an inn, it was like this. There were five guest rooms, one for her and Aling Lihua, one for Mian Mian and A Yin, one for the Tao brothers, one for Yang Dalian and Dazhong, and one for Shunzi Tiangen.
The three thinner ones squeeze into one room.
It was getting cold at night, and it was troublesome to go down to eat, so I ordered food and brought it to the house. Two young girls, Mian Mian and A Yin, went into Song Qiu's room to eat at the same table with them, and the other table was sent to the Tao brothers' room.
Here, everyone else is eating in their rooms.
After dinner, I didn’t do any activities. I went to bed early because I had to get up early tomorrow and have to go on the road.
It is nearly 40 miles from Sanshi Town to Fuling County, and several villages spontaneously formed a large wind cluster in the middle. When we entered Fuling County, it was still a while before noon.
There are many shops on both sides of the street, the middle street is bustling with people, and there are many stalls with big umbrellas outside.
Fuling County is more prosperous than Dongling County because it is also Fuguo County of Fucheng.
Crossing the Qingque Bridge over the Fuling River, Fucheng is on the other side.
Song Qiuzheng asked Yang Dalian to keep going and find a place to have lunch in Fucheng. After eating, he could go directly out of the city.
Suddenly, people in front of the already slow-moving carriage started to move. Many people came back this way, blocking the road ahead, and the carriage had to stop.
Song Qiu and the others lifted the curtains of the car and looked around. It turned out that there was a procession coming up from behind to welcome the bride, and they wanted to go to the front.
The people who rushed over came to see the fun.
The wedding team was not finished, and the carriage could not leave for a while, so Song Qiu simply hung up the curtains of the carriage to make it look lively.
No wonder so many people came to watch the fun. My dear, this wedding team is so big and impressive that it looks like someone from a wealthy family is welcoming the bride.
"Wow! That big sedan chair is so beautiful! Whose family is marrying a daughter-in-law? It's such a grand procession!" Lihua opened the car window, eyes almost staring out, and her face was full of amazement.
I saw the big red sedan in the middle, with an openwork carving of a unicorn delivering a child, and eight people carrying it, showing its grandeur.
There was an old woman crowding outside the carriage to watch the excitement. Hearing Lihua’s exclamation, she couldn’t help but turn around and look around. She heard Lihua in the carriage. It was funny again. This girl was sitting in the carriage. Why didn’t she seem to have seen her before?
It looks like a big sedan chair.
People from Fuling County had seen this large sedan chair used by Qilin to send off his son several times.
Thinking like this, the old woman couldn't help but laugh out loud. Seeing that everyone was watching the excitement, and no one in the wedding team could see her as an old woman, she couldn't help but move closer to the carriage and said, "Hey,
Girl, are you from other places?"
Song Qiu answered her words, "Ah? He's from out of town."
The old woman laughed and said, "No wonder! This Qilin's sedan chair to send off his son is not unusual, and this battle is not unusual either. It is much worse than Yuan Su marrying his first daughter-in-law."
Song Qiu was surprised and curious.
The old woman then continued: "Have you ever heard of Yuanwai Su? Commander Qin's father-in-law is thirty years old this year, and he is marrying his wife today! You are not locals and you probably don't know that Yuanwai Su is already marrying his sixth wife.
I’m a daughter-in-law! Every time I wear this unicorn sedan chair, people from our county can recognize this sedan chair even with our eyes closed!"
What the hell? Married six times?
Aling and Lihua were also very curious, and stuck their heads out to wait for the old woman to continue talking.
The old lady has always watched this bustle, but she knew it very well. However, most people in the county knew it, and she didn't say anything about it. Today, she finally met a few people from out of town. The old lady couldn't keep her mouth steady, and she wanted to
It's quick to spit it out.
He started talking loudly.
This Yuan Su is a very strange person in the city. Who wouldn't whisper in private that this man is a wife-killer?
Why do you say it secretly? It's because Yuan Su's family has a huge fortune. They ordinary people can't afford to offend him, so they don't dare to laugh openly.
Except for Su, who married his first wife at the age of eighteen and had two children in three years, it would be difficult to give birth.
In order to have a pair of children, Yuan Su quickly married his step-in-law, the sister of his first wife. His aunt came into the house to be a stepmother and take care of the two children. She was sincere, so she had no intention of having children.
But within a year, the daughter-in-law contracted a serious disease and died within two months.
Yuan Su is still young and has plenty of money. How can he be a widower? That's not possible.
Then he spent a lot of money and married a third daughter-in-law.
This daughter-in-law actually lived longer than the previous two. She gave birth to three children and raised her children until they were eight years old. When she went out to worship Buddha, she met a bandit and died tragically.
At this time, Su Yuanwai was in his early thirties, still young, had nothing to do, and had plenty of money, so he would beg for it later.
But some people already think that he is scorning his wife, and no one from a well-matched family is willing to be his second wife.
Some people advised him to take as many concubines as they wanted, since they were all the same.
But Yuan Su was not willing to take a concubine, so he had to marry his wife.
After searching for a long time, a family finally married off their concubine for a high betrothal gift. This woman's life was even shorter, and she died within half a year.
After four wives died in a row, Su Yuanwai did not think that he was too weak to marry his wife, so he could marry again.
The fifth daughter was the daughter of a small family. She lived the longest since entering the family. In more than ten years, she gave birth to five children to Yuan Su. She died of illness just two years ago.
Everyone thinks that Su Yuanwai will never marry again, right? After all, this wife has been with him for more than ten years, which is quite long, and Su Yuanwai is already fifty, has a lot of children, and he has already become a grandfather.
Now, why are you still marrying me? Which little girl is willing to marry?
Unexpectedly, Yuan Su never recognized his old age. After taking a break for two years, he got married again this year!
"Then the daughter of the Chen family is only sixteen this year. She is the same age as Hua. Oops, she is the same age as the eldest granddaughter of member Su! I don't know what she is thinking!"
"I heard that Mr. Chen Er thought that his son-in-law was a commander, and wanted to curry favor with him, so he married his daughter to him. It was like selling his daughter for glory!"