I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Chapter 270 Departure to Haizhou 4

Gu Wenxuan brought the meals for Lin's father and the others. Since two of the Fang brothers had big appetites, they stayed behind. In addition to the full food box, Gu Wenxuan also brought them twenty hot and fragrant donkey meat buns, twenty mutton pot stickers, and twenty white buns stuffed with leeks and eggs.

Lin's father and others, who originally wanted to eat some noodles in the inn to satisfy their hunger, had not yet had the time to go to the inn lobby to order food. Gu Wenxuan and others, who had returned on time, brought the food boxes over.

The three children of the Lin family, who were too tired to go out, were extremely happy. They chattered a lot, totally unlike their usual calm and polite little adults.

The four adults in the Lin family felt both distressed and amused. They looked at each other and tacitly agreed that no one would talk to the children about rules and etiquette at this time.

They ate their own food. Gu Wenxuan and the others chatted with them for a few minutes, then went to wash up and put away the newly bought things.

Before they entered the city today, Mu Jinyang had already told them that they would have to stay in a roadside inn on the way tomorrow. The environment there was very poor, and they would have to make do with the food and drink, so he asked them to make all the preparations in advance.

Bai Jingzhou asked him carefully about the specific situation of the foot shop. After understanding it, he roughly understood what he needed to prepare on his side.

Just today, when Bai Jingzhou was shopping with Gu Wenxuan and others, he also bought a lot of things that needed to be prepared.

After putting everything in place, everyone turned off the lights and went to bed early again, except for the two people who had their turn to keep watch tonight. They had to take turns paying attention to any movements outside.

The next evening, Mu Jinyang really took them to one of the foot shops beside the official road.

During the day, Gu Wenxuan and others often heard the idle chatter of other people in the caravan, so they knew that there were many such foot shops built beside the official roads in Dayan. They depended on the post stations for their existence and specialized in doing business with traveling merchants.

In terms of accommodation conditions and food quality, this kind of foot inn is definitely not comparable to the inns and regular post stations in the city, but traveling merchants sometimes have no choice but to stay in this kind of foot inn.

When Gu Wenxuan and the others arrived, they found that these shoe shops were unexpectedly doing good business. Due to the limitations of practical conditions, Mu Jinyang was unable to build a separate small courtyard for them.

On Gu Wenxuan's side, the men had one room and the women had another, while the people in the caravan slept close together on the kang or on the floor.

The caravan's goods and carriages were placed in a simple shed together with the carriages, goods and personal belongings of other merchants, and were guarded and fed by the escorts and servants in turns.

Gu Wenxuan and his companions' carriages, horses, and personal belongings were also placed with those of the caravan. However, Gu Wenxuan and his companions did not entrust them to the care of the caravan's escorts and servants. Instead, they sent someone to take charge of them.

Mu Jinyang felt relieved that they were so understanding.

It's not that he was unwilling to ask the escorts and men of his own caravan to help look after it, but after all, Bai Jingzhou and his men were not in the same team as the Mu family caravan. If something happened to Bai Jingzhou and his men's belongings or carriages at night, even if people were reluctant to hold the caravan accountable due to emotional reasons, the caravan could easily be suspected of embezzlement.

Rather than waiting until problems arise and everyone feels uncomfortable, it would be better for their caravan not to get involved in matters that they shouldn't be involved in from the beginning.

Not to mention Bai Jingzhou, who is extremely shrewd, even Gu Wenxuan, who has never been very cunning, because of her rich life experience, knows very well that it is most appropriate for everyone to be responsible for their own belongings and vehicles.

Anyway, the accommodation conditions of this foot inn are not good. Not only is it crowded, but the sanitary conditions are also terrible. Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou don't mind letting some people sleep in the carriage.

The female members of the Lin family on this trip included Gu Wenxuan, Jia Yuelan, Lin's mother, Lin's elder sister-in-law, and Lin's younger sister. In order to ensure the personal safety of the three female members of the Lin family, Gu Wenxuan decided to take turns on duty with Jia Yuelan at night.

As for the men, the six brothers Fang Youfu, Bai Jingshan, and Yang Wandong were all sent to guard the carriages and their personal belongings. There were eight carriages and they could sleep in any of them.

As for how they took turns on night duty, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou didn't care. After all, they were all very reliable companions and it was just night duty, which they could arrange themselves.

Bai Jingzhou, Gu Wenhai, Gu Wenche, and Ning Qirui lived in the same room with Lin's father, eldest brother Lin, and eldest brother Lin's two sons. It was more like they were protecting the three generations of the Lin family who were powerless from a close distance rather than resting with them.

Whether they lived in a carriage or in a house, the bedding and sheets they brought with them came in handy at this moment.

There are no ready-made pillows, but you can just roll up some clothes and use them as a substitute.

Bai Jingzhou and his team had already bought the food last night.

After everyone had settled down, Bai Jingzhou took out the cooking utensils they had brought with them and cooked porridge and boiled hot water for everyone.

In addition to glutinous rice, the porridge also contains shredded dried meat, chopped preserved eggs, and cleaned and picked vegetables, as well as the cakes, pancakes, braised pig's trotters, and braised pig's head they bought yesterday, as well as the meat sauce, pickles, and salted eggs they brought from home, and a bowl of hot fried noodles made with boiling water, garnished with some chopped dried fruits and nuts. It tastes really good.

Not only did the people in their own team enjoy the food, but even Mu Jinyang, who came to see if they needed help, was shocked by the variety of food.

He had reminded Bai Jingzhou and the others in advance, and of course he had made corresponding preparations, but compared with Bai Jingzhou's, his preparations were really insignificant.

Looking at what other people were eating, and then recalling the dinner he had prepared for himself - dim sum and tea, Mu Jinyang suddenly felt sad.

He also wanted to eat the hot lean meat and vegetable porridge, the braised pig's trotters and the braised pig's head, the meat sauce, pickles and salted eggs they brought with them, and the fried noodles, which smelled so good when you rinse them with hot water! Slurp~(￣ ii￣;)

Bai Jingzhou was sharp-eyed and immediately noticed Mu Jinyang staring at their table. He smiled and went to get him some new, clean bowls and chopsticks. "Uncle Yang, if you don't mind, why don't you try my porridge cooking skills?"

Mu Jinyang was surprised, "You cooked it?"

Bai Jingzhou nodded, then handed him the bowl of porridge and chopsticks. Bai Jingshan quickly brought him a small stool and motioned for him to sit down and eat slowly.

Mu Jinyang sat down and had a delicious meal with Bai Jingzhou and the others.

After eating and drinking, Mu Jinyang went to the shed where their caravan stored its vehicles and goods in a good mood.