After staying at the old man's house for one night, Xu Yue's family continued their journey. They could not stay here for long.
But where to go next, you really need to think carefully about it.
Xu Da rolled his eyes and said, "Go and join my aunt!"
Everyone in Xu Yue: "Ah?"
Don’t they have any relatives anymore? Where did their aunt come from?
Xu Da raised his lips and smiled, and said mysteriously: "Do you still remember that I told you before that a cousin of our grandfather's generation did something bad?"
Wang Dayou didn't know the original situation of the Xu family, so he drove silently, listened carefully, and did not participate in the conversation.
Because after he chose to escape from Hejian County with the Xu family, he knew that his family and the Xu family would be grasshoppers on a string in this life, and he would go wherever they went.
It's a pity that the child and his mother-in-law were left alone in a strange land.
Hey, I don't want to think about this anymore. He will take Junmei and Ajian by himself, and together with the Xu family, life will get better and better.
When the time comes, they will come back to greet their grandma.
Wang Dayou stopped thinking about this and listened to Xu Yue's family talking in the car as he hurried on.
Xu Da said: "Didn't my cousin's family get rich and move away? I heard that he married his only daughter, my cousin's aunt, into the Gongsun family of Youzhou."
"The Gongsun family is a well-established and wealthy family. Some of them are high-ranking officials in the court. The governors of several counties in Youzhou are all from the Gongsun family. It takes a lot of effort for our cousin to get into this family.
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"We still have such a powerful relative?" Xu Yue couldn't believe it.
They are from the same family. My cousin's family jumped up in class directly, or jumped several levels in a row. Why did their family become like this?
Wang and Xu Erniang didn't believe it either. In this feudal era where clan culture was prevalent, how desperate could Gongsun of Youzhou be to marry a commoner merchant woman at the risk of being rejected by other aristocratic families?
"Could it be that this aunt is as beautiful as a fairy? She will conquer the country and conquer the city?" Xu Erniang asked.
This was the only reason she could think of.
Men, when they see a beautiful woman, they always have to think. Maybe they are just stunned by the beauty.
Facing the disbelieving looks of his family members, Xu Da coughed twice unnaturally, "Ahem, what, she is a stepmother."
Xu Yue and others suddenly realized that it was indeed possible that they were step-brothers.
But this is not enough. The stepchildren of aristocratic families will also be chosen from aristocratic families, and at most they will be chosen from the legitimate daughter to the concubine.
If you have a big family like the Gongsun family, you can also choose a legitimate daughter for your second marriage.
Xu Da added awkwardly: "He is a bastard from the collateral clan."
Everyone was silent.
A common man who is a collateral descendant of a big family can become a step-brother with great efforts. This society is indeed realistic enough.
But being able to receive the blessing of a big family, in this troubled world, is already a good marriage that many people can't even ask for.
Xu Yue asked: "Where is our cousin in Youzhou?"
Xu Da carefully recalled the vague memories left behind by his original body, and said uncertainly:
"It should be Yuyang County, because fifteen years ago when my father was still alive, I received a letter from my cousin from Yuyang County, saying that my cousin was no longer here and she invited my father to attend the funeral.
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"It's a pity that they didn't ask for some travel expenses when they sent the letter. My father was so poor that he couldn't afford the travel expenses, so he didn't go. I don't know if your cousin will hold a grudge against us..."
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Speaking of this, Xu Da, who had just said enthusiastically that he was going to join his relatives, suddenly lost his confidence.
The ancients valued rituals and funerals.
My cousin's grandmother is an only daughter, so they are the only relatives left in the whole family.
Think about it for a moment, you traveled thousands of miles to ask someone to send a message to your father’s only remaining relatives to come to attend the funeral, but when your father is buried and these relatives haven’t come yet, don’t you think they are too heartless?
Xu Yue could only smile bitterly and pat her father's shoulder, comforting her:
"Perhaps my cousin never thought that our family would be in such a mess that we couldn't even pay for the funeral. When we meet, let's tell her carefully and she will understand...right?"
Xu Da took his daughter's comforting hand and said quietly: "With the life span of people like us now, it's hard to say whether your cousin and grandma will still be alive."
Xu Dalang counted carefully on his fingers, "She is at least forty years old, and the average life expectancy here is less than 30..."
Xu Yue: "..."
Everyone in the Wang family: "..."
Xu Da, who is 29 years old in real life and 30 years old in disguise, looks up at the sky and hopes God will not include him in this average.
But all joking aside, the fact is that now their family has no better choice than to go to that aunt who doesn't know how to live or die.
It has been more than half a year since time travel to the present for a family of five, and they have deeply experienced the horror of not having a foundation in this era.
You don't have a family or a few relatives. In this era, you are like a child who can be bullied by anyone.
Because there is no fear of retaliation for bullying such a single household, and there is no need to worry about the various powerful connections behind them.
Just imagine, if their family really had a relative in Hejian County, would the prefect still doubt their origins casually like he does now, and kill you directly if he is unhappy?
Obviously not!
Even if I still want to kill them, at least I won't do it so blatantly. I have to delay a few days to do a background check to make sure that they are really a nobody before I take action.
"Then let's go to Youzhou?" Wang Dayou stopped at a fork in the road and asked uncertainly.
Xu Da looked at Wang, and Wang looked at the Xu Yue brothers and sisters. The five members of the family nodded in unison.
Wang Dayou expressed his understanding, raised his whip, and prepared to take the road north.
"Wait a minute!" Xu Da suddenly stopped.
Xu Dalang's heart tightened subconsciously. He listened carefully and frowned suspiciously.
There were no pursuers, and there was not a single person in sight in this wilderness. Only animals in the woods were running around.
Xu Da didn't take care of Da'er's conditioned reflex. After pondering for a moment, he said:
"Let's take the water route and go east to Bohai County."
Even if no pursuers have caught up yet, he will not feel comfortable as long as he is still in Hejian County and has to pass through Hejian County.
When Wang heard this, he remembered the geographical situation of Jizhou that he had learned from the city before, and asked tentatively:
"Do you want to take a sea route from Bohai County and take a boat, bypassing Jizhou directly and go to Yuyang County?"
Xu Da nodded, that's what he meant.
The couple looked at each other and reached an agreement, but they still had to look at the children's opinions, especially Xu Yue's. She seemed to understand this era better than they did.
Xu Yue frowned. There was nothing wrong with taking the sea route, but she was a little worried about whether ships of this era could cross the sea.