Chapter 228 Leaving Beijing (2)

The day when Yu Xi leaves Beijing is scheduled for the first day of February.

Coming out of the first month, the Duke's Mansion also became lively. Everything that needs to be packed has been packed, and now these have to be packed and taken away.

Yuxi looked at the pile of things, feeling a little helpless. Sixteen large boxes, this is the amount that Qiu Shi picked.

After looking at it, Yuxi said: "Mother, if I bring so many things now, I won't be able to hurry." The leather, satin, etc. that have been packed are all cumbersome, and Yuxi is not willing to bring them. With so many unimportant things on the road, it will take a year of the monkey to reach the northwest. What's more, having too many things is not a good thing, and it is easy to attract bandits to worry about. Yuxi picked and picked, and finally left four boxes, and she didn't want to take more of the others.

Qiu Shi was very uncomfortable. She had prepared so many things for Yuxi, such as clothes, cloth, fur and silk, furniture decorations, calligraphy and paintings, antiques, porcelain and other rouge and gouache, etc., all of which could not be brought. Qiu took Yuxi's hand and said, "My son has been wronged." If he continued, tears would come again.

Yuxi smiled and said: "Mother, don't feel wronged, mother just keep these things for me. When I return to Beijing, I will have someone come and take them away." In addition to the necessary things, there are also gold, silver and jewelry. Yuxi didn't want to bring other things. However, it's not like she didn't bring any of them, Yuxi still symbolically took one or two of each. In addition, I also picked out a box of rouge powder. She is worried that she won't be able to buy such good ones in the capital in the northwest, and they will be used when she gets married. To be on the safe side, I brought a box with me.

Qiu wiped her tears and said: "Okay, your dowry mother will be sealed in Taoranju for you, and when you come in the future, mother will send it to you."

Li's mother said beside her: "Girl, if you don't wait until you leave, we'll get someone to deliver the things to you. I heard that the border town lacks clothes and food."

Yuxi waved her hand and said: "There is a lack of clothes and food in the northwest, so can I be missing? Besides, it's not as bad as your mother and Mama Li think, but the high-quality satin is more expensive than the capital. It’s just a little. If you send things to the northwest, the round-trip cost is enough to buy several carts of satin.” It’s not a good deal at all.

Rao Yuxi Jingjian Jingjian also packed more than fifty large boxes. Yuxi muttered, "Why are there so many things?" This is already the result of simplification. Some things can be left out, but some things must be brought. For example, the wedding dress and embroidered quilt, Yuxi's clothes for four seasons and the clothes to be worn after marriage, and four big boxes of silk and satin. Decent, must not be less, only these things accounted for nearly twenty boxes.

Zisu muttered and said, "If girl can take your books and those inks, pens and nothing else, you can save a few boxes." There are only two big boxes for books alone, and pens and inkstones only take up the space. a box.

Yu Xi said: "You don't have to bring anything, but you must bring books." These books are her many years of painstaking efforts, how can she not bring them!

Zijin said: "Girl, it's not safe to put the jewelry on the carriage behind, is it? Or put it on the carriage we're riding in?" Yuxi has a lot of jewelry, the ones bought by her husband over the years, and Qiu bought extra for her , as well as gifts from Mrs. Ye, Lu Xiu and others. The accumulated amount over the past ten years is astonishing.

Other things are simplified, only jewelry is the only thing that is not simplified. Yuxi called Zisu and asked Zisu to classify these jewelry and put them away. What Yuxi meant was to put all the jewelry boxes in a long box with cushions on it to be used as stools. In this way, it is estimated that few people would think that the jewelry is placed on the carriage. And in this way, space can also be saved.

Zisu thinks this is also a good idea, so that it will not be easy to be discovered: "This matter needs Han Ji's cooperation!" Han Ji was the person who took Yuxi to Red Zaozhuang last time.

Han Jianming saw that Yuxi used it easily, so he gave him to Yuxi.

Yu Xi smiled and said: "Han Ji knows." It must be through Qi, or else he could find a suitable box somewhere.

On this day, Qiu Shi and Yuxi said: "Tomorrow, relatives and friends will come to add makeup to you, so you don't need to be busy tomorrow."

Yuxi said, "Add makeup?" She was so busy during this time that she forgot about it.

Qiu couldn't help knocking on Yuxi, and said: "Even if you marry to the northwest, you can't save on adding makeup!" She gave away so many things, so Yuxi must take them back, right?

Ye Shi and Lu Xiu were the first to add makeup, and they came together. Both of them are very down-to-earth, they both pick up valuable gems and jewelry as gifts. Yu Xi postponed, the two had already given away a shop before, this time she was unwilling to accept their things no matter what.

Ye said with a smile: "I knew Yuxi you would say that, take it! This is also the wish of the two of us to be sister-in-laws. Things are nothing, I hope you can be safe and sound, and you and your brother-in-law can be harmonious and beautiful. "

Lu Xiu put the thing in Yuxi's hands and said, "Here, just take it!"

Yuxi smiled and said: "Thank you sister-in-law and sister-in-law." After a pause, she said: "Mother will trouble sister-in-law and sister-in-law to take care of her in the future." She is so far away that she can no longer take care of Qiu Shi.

Mrs. Ye held Yuxi's hand and said, "Don't worry, I will take good care of your mother." Now Mrs. Qiu no longer cares about things, except for chanting scriptures and taking care of the children all day long, there is no conflict with Mrs. Ye. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law get along very well now.

Lu Xiu also nodded beside her.

Not long after, Yuchen also sent someone to bring things over. Yuchen has always been generous, and this time is no exception. Yuxi looked at the ten kinds of jewelry lined up side by side on the tray, each of which was exquisite, luxurious and valuable. Immediately smiled and said: "Third sister has a heart."

Nanny Gui said: "The princess said that when the girl goes out, the princess will come to see the girl off in person." By the time Yuxi went out, Yuchen was also confinement.

Yuxi shook her head and said: "It's freezing cold, even if the third sister is confinement, don't let her come out." It's not a joke if the wind blows.

Nanny Gui began to look at Yuxi from the moment she entered the door, and seeing that Yuxi was not in a hurry, now she heard what Yuxi said, and said with a smile: "If the princess listens to the girl, she will definitely be very happy."

Yuxi felt that this was not right, what did she mean that she would be very happy after listening to her words. But Yuxi didn't think about it, it's better to do something else with such blind skills.

Not long after Nanny Gui left, there was a reward from the palace. Concubine Song Gui gave Yuxi a pair of jade ruyis. The jade ruyis of mutton fat jade are crystal clear and worth thousands of gold.

After Yu Xi thanked her, she looked at the pair of Yu Ruyi with a smile on her face.

Zisu felt a little uneasy: "Girl, this thing is here now. After we leave the capital, you can do whatever you want with it. It doesn't matter even if you hit her. But this time, you must not touch her!" , can't waste all previous efforts at this juncture.

Yuxi glanced at Zisu, smiled, and said, "I was thinking, how much can I get for this Yu Ruyi when I send it to the pawn shop?"

Zisu's heart skipped a beat, and she hurriedly said, "Girl, you can't send it to the pawnshop. It's something from the palace, and those who send it to the pawnshop don't dare to accept it."

Mother Qu said beside her: "It's not that I dare not accept it, it depends on what kind of pawnshop. No one dares to accept pawnshops in general, but as long as the background is strong, they dare to accept it." After finishing speaking, she told Yuxi and Zijin In the palace, there are also some powerful eunuchs or nuns who will secretly transport them out of the palace to exchange for money.

Zi Su was shocked: "Will you not be caught?"

Mother Qu shook her head and said, "Of course someone will be caught." Doing anything is risky, let alone such shady things, and once you are caught, you will only die.

Yu Xi has no interest in this: "Put things in the house!"

I don't know if it's because Concubine Song and Yuchen both came to put on makeup. In the afternoon, there are obviously more people who come to put on makeup, and the things they give out are not cheap.

After two days, the harvest is not bad: "These jewelry are placed in the box and carried with me." All the previous things have been put away, and there is no place to put them in again.

Han Jianming came to look for Yuxi and said, "Thirty bodyguards will be sent from the Escort. These bodyguards are the best bodyguards of Xinglong Escort, and the leader of the team is their chief bodyguard. The bodyguard of Xinglong Escort is here The folks also have some prestige, and if he leads the team, it will be safer on the road." Han Jianming spent a lot of money this time. However, for Yuxi's safety, no matter how painful it is, she has to pay for it. As for how much it cost these bodyguards, Han Jianming didn't tell Yuxi, and Yuxi didn't ask, because there was no need to ask. As long as she is alive, the eldest brother will be rewarded in the future. As long as the event is gone, well, there is no such event.

Yuxi nodded her head and said her plan: "The bodyguards are in charge of all matters, the people who follow in our mansion are responsible for the safety of the goods, and the twelve guards of the Lu family are mainly responsible for my safety." The division of labor is clear , then no conflicts will arise.

Han Jianming nodded and said, "It's a good arrangement for you, I will tell Escort Huang." Although he was ashamed, he had to admit that the guards of the Han family were not even a little bit worse than those of the Lu family. Han Jianming can rest assured that safety is entrusted to them.

Yu Xi said: "The twelve guards of the Lu family will come over on the day of departure." Since the second master Lu said that there are twelve masters, Yu Xi believes that the other party will never cut corners.

Han Jianming nodded, and then said: "Yuxi, I have already written to your second brother, and your second brother will bring someone to pick you up." Han Jianming also knew that the journey would not be peaceful. Shanxi and Shanxi are famous for their bandits.

Yuxi smiled: "That's naturally good." But she didn't count on Han Jianye in her heart. Han Jianye is the general who leads the troops, so he can leave casually. Even if they came to pick her up, they would be in the Gansu area at most. But the places she passed, such as Shanxi and Shaanxi, were all places where bandits roamed. That's why she had the cheek to ask her second sister-in-law to borrow someone from Lu's house. She doesn't feel at ease without someone reliable to protect her! (to be continued)