Chapter 638 South Tower Pass
Qin Yao looked at the happy crowd and finally realized what the bitter emotion in her heart was.
It was the instinctive closeness produced by blood connection, which prompted her to get close to another person with the same blood.
But since they are brothers and sisters, they have to settle accounts clearly.
Qin Yao coughed twice, pulling the happy Qin Feng back to reality from his fantasy, and asked him how much silver he spent on Bai He's men last night.
Qin Feng said unhappily: "We are brothers and sisters, why do we say these things? They are all trivial matters."
Qin Yao took out the banknotes that she had prepared earlier from her arms and said calmly: "Brothers and sisters should settle accounts clearly."
Qin Feng saw that she was so serious and sighed, "Okay, I'll ask Uncle Qi."
After a while, he came back and told her unhappily: "A total of 200 taels of silver were taken care of."
Qin Yao took two banknotes of 100 taels with satisfaction and handed them to him, and smiled.
Qin Feng had a dark face and did not take the money directly. He proposed a condition, "If you accept the gold hairpin, I will accept your money."
"Besides, yesterday's arrangement was not all for you. I also chose to spend money to avoid trouble for the caravan. Let's split it in half."
Seeing Qin Yao narrow her eyes dangerously, Qin Feng was not afraid. Maybe he was sure that she would kill her husband but not her own brother. He was inexplicably confident and continued to argue with her.
"If we really settle the accounts as you said, we have to start from Wildcat Village. Although I paid for the food and accommodation along the way, you, Awang and Miss Yin Le also helped the caravan a lot. You also saved my life in the Taoist temple that day. So, I have to pay you back."
"My life, Master Qin, is worth at least a few thousand taels of silver, right? Let's say five thousand taels, five thousand minus one hundred, then I still have to ask you for four thousand nine hundred taels?"
Qin Feng's calculation made Liu Ji's eyes light up. He gave a thumbs up and praised sincerely: "Uncle, you have a good calculation!"
As soon as the voice came out, the brother and sister yelled at him: "Shut up!"
Liu Ji: "."
So fierce! Can't afford to offend.
Quickly call the four children and slip away in the name of inspection and self-review, so as not to be involved in the brother and sister and become their unified gun muzzle.
As soon as Liu Ji left, the brother and sister started to stare at each other again, which made Qin Yao's eyes sore and Qin Feng's eyes tearful. The two of them took a step back and reached a consensus.
Qin Yao: "You take the money."
Qin Feng: "Okay, you take the hairpin too."
Qin Yao: "That's it!" Just think of it as spending two hundred taels of silver to buy a gold hairpin.
The brother and sister exchanged the money and the goods, and Qin Feng made a small request, "My family is not short of money, I will buy you a headdress, your clothes are a little shabby, I feel bad for you."
"What did you say? Who is shabby?" Qin Yao raised her voice.
Qin Feng: "I am shabby, you think I didn't say that."
He raised his hand and made a gesture to sew his mouth, and then left decisively.
He was sure that she would not kill him, but he could not guarantee that she would not beat him, so it was better to leave.
He walked to the stairs and poked his head out to ask Qin Yao in the lobby weakly: "Why don't you call me brother today?" He also prepared a red envelope for her to change her name.
She looked back, her eyes full of murderous intent, Qin Feng immediately retracted his head and chose to give up.
Forget it, she still needs time. If you give her more time, she will definitely call him brother in the future.
In the evening, the heavy rain stopped. Seeing that the dark clouds in the sky had retreated, Qin Yao and Qin Feng decided to dry the water on the road tomorrow morning and continue their journey after lunch.
Fortunately, although it was cloudy and not sunny the next morning, the rain had completely stopped.
At noon, after a simple lunch, the two families set off again.
The road was muddy, but fortunately the road was wide and not particularly difficult to walk. Even if the carriage occasionally got stuck in the mud, with Qin Yao, a strong man, there, the carriage could be rescued from the predicament in a few minutes, and the journey was quite fast.
Resting in a small town at night, the next day, walking north for a whole day, and leaving the state boundary of Qingzhou.
Standing on a high place and looking far away, the outline of Nanlou Pass, a must-pass checkpoint for entering Beijing, can be seen.
Qin Feng said: "We will walk for another day tomorrow. If the weather is clear, we can reach Nanlou Pass in the evening if we are fast. If we are lucky, we can enter the pass before it closes and rest at Jiuquan Inn over there."
"Go two more hours from Nanlou Pass and you will reach Kyoto."
The children looked at their parents happily. Qin Yao and Liu Ji looked at each other, and they were also very excited.
Liu Ji calculated the time in his mind. It has taken fifteen days from home to now.
There are still two days to the capital, which adds up to a total of seventeen days, which is only two days later than Liu Fei's boat ride.
"I don't know how the teacher is now?" Liu Ji suddenly muttered while cooking dinner while camping in the woods at night.
The person in charge is confused, but the bystander is clear. Qin Yao remembered Bai He's state when she saw him before, and analyzed rationally: "It should not be a big deal, otherwise Bai He would not be so stable when he saw you and me."
The implication is that the person must be alive.
Moreover, the closer we are to the capital, the more news there is about the capital. The most talked-about topic among the merchants from the north in the post station is the gossip about the imperial master and the princess, and there is no gossip about Confucian scholars, great Confucian scholars, Gong Liangliao, etc.
Liu Ji was relieved immediately. He believed his wife. If she said it was okay, it must be okay.
However
"What happened to the princess and the imperial master?" Liu Ji approached curiously with a spoon in his hand, his gossip spirit burning.
Qin Yao felt that some gossips, Liu Ji didn't know that it could make him live longer, and glared at him, "Go cook your meal, how dare you and I, two ordinary people, discuss these nobles' affairs?"
Liu Ji retreated to the pot in a huff, muttering: "There are no outsiders here, tell me what's wrong."
Qin Yao pulled her face, and Liu Ji, who was worried that he would be beaten for the first time in front of his uncle, really stopped thinking.
The night was peaceful and everything went well. As soon as the next day dawned, everyone rushed to Nanlou Pass, and did not stop at noon, just to be able to enter the pass smoothly before the evening.
The children were so excited that their buttocks were almost broken into three pieces without complaining. The group rushed and finally arrived at Nanlou Pass at Shenshi.
Qin Yao's family of eight passed the customs quickly. The only problem was Qin Yao's weapons. After explaining the source, they were not embarrassed because of Qin Feng's arrangement and were released smoothly.
But in fact, for Qin Yao, what she was most worried about at this level was not her weapons, but Awang's identity.
Fortunately, the guards did not check the servants, so Awang passed smoothly.
In comparison, the caravan was much more troublesome. Qin Feng sent a subordinate to go into the city with Qin Yao's family to arrange accommodation. He stayed behind and waited for the caravan to complete the process before meeting them at the inn.
It is worth mentioning that the guard at Nanlou Pass was a tall and strong woman. When she saw Qin Yao carrying weapons, she came downstairs and took a look at Qin Yao twice.
With that look, Liu Ji always felt that the guard wanted to snatch his wife away at any time.
Before entering the capital, he had already anticipated how popular his wife would be.