activa-t Chapter 89 Did I Take the Wrong Road?
Chapter 89 Did I Take the Wrong Road?
The next morning, Yang Biao woke up and saw Xiao Zhang busy in the kitchen. He went to open the courtyard door first, then went back to the kitchen and asked, "Mom, why did you get up so early?"
Little Zhang wiped the sweat off her face onto her shoulders and said, "I thought of making you something to take with you on the road. Wait a moment, it will be ready soon."
There were already two pots of baked pancakes on the stove. It seemed that little Zhang had gotten up in the middle of the night to make them. Yang Biao felt a lump in his throat and hugged her from behind, his voice choked with sobs, "Mom!" The clothes on the wandering son are sewn by the loving mother.
Little Zhang had no choice but to put down the spatula in her hand. She wanted to pat her eldest son on the back to comfort him, but she found flour on her hands and stopped.
"Mother, can't you go to the city with your son?" Mrs. Wang was not a pushover, and she was afraid that she would cause trouble. Now Li Zi'an was involved, and little Mrs. Zhang didn't want to leave.
"In many things, distance creates beauty. For example, your aunt-in-law always finds fault with you, but if you ignore her, you won't have any worries in your heart. When you go to the capital with me and keep your distance, you rarely hear her scolding, let alone her expression." Yang Biao still tried to persuade Xiao Zhang to leave, and he didn't understand why she was so obsessed with this place. As a mother, shouldn't I be wherever my children and lover are?
"Your father is buried here. If I leave, who will burn incense and pray to Buddha for him and clean the grass on his grave during the holidays?" Little Zhang still didn't want to go.
"Hmm, something is burnt?" Qin Xiaoran got up and didn't see Yang Biao. When she opened the door, she smelled an unpleasant odor. The light was still on in the kitchen, so she ran over to check.
"Oh, it's really burnt." Little Zhang used a spatula to clean the burnt pancakes in the pan. "So much white flour, what a waste."
Yang Biao turned around and went to the stable to lead the carriage out. Seeing this, Qin Xiaoran also hurried over and climbed onto the carriage.
"Hey, Biao, take some cakes." Little Zhang came out of the kitchen with a bowl of baked cakes and put them on the carriage. "There's another bowl, mother will..."
Before Xiao Zhang could finish her words, Yang Biao whipped the horse hard. The horse felt the pain and started running away immediately.
Watching her eldest son driving the carriage very fast, little Zhang knew that the child was angry. It might take a long time for the mother and daughter to see each other again, but she just didn't want to leave here.
"Yang Biao, are you okay?" Qin Xiaoran was sitting next to him, watching him driving with a serious expression. When they arrived at the farm in the south of the city and stopped the car, she asked him.
"It's okay," Yang Biao saw her worried look and hugged her in his arms, stroking her hair. He didn't let her go until he heard footsteps around him.
In modern times, if there is something wrong at work, she likes to go home and hold her children tightly until she calms down. A mother is strong and can endure any grievance for her children.
"Captain Ning, have you brought the people I asked you to pick?" There were too many people on the farm here, so Yang Biao asked him to pick more than ten young couples to go to the provincial capital, so that they wouldn't have to hire more people to work there.
Yesterday, he bought two official maids who knew martial arts in the county town and placed them on the farm, thinking that they could be guards for Xiao Ran. The families of these two people were dispersed and sold by the government, so it didn't matter where they lived.
"Master, everything has been chosen. Fugui has also rented a carriage to the provincial capital and sent them all there yesterday." If Yang Biao set off now, he might be able to catch up with them.
"Well, just send it over," then Yang Biao instructed Ning Zhuangtou to deliver goods to Huanxi Restaurant and various wine shops, brew wine, and take care of farming and vegetable planting.
"Master, rest assured, I will take care of it." Ning Zhuangtou promised solemnly that the slaves in the farm who had no household registration like him had land to farm with their children and three meals a day. Such a life was already very satisfying. They must be loyal to the master and do the things the master asked them to do, otherwise they would end up like Xu Yue.
"Xiao Ran, let's go to the city now." Yang Biao pulled her into the car and waved to the two maids to get in. Xiao Lian and Fang Hua stayed in Yangjia Village. Their families were in the county town. It was not kind to let them stay in the city and be separated from their families for a long time. They were also afraid that Wang would act like a spoiled child and Xiao Zhang would not be able to cope with it. Someone needed to look after the family.
"Can you drive?" Yang Biao asked the two people who got in the car. If not, they would have to find someone who can drive on the farm and take turns driving with him on the road.
"Master, I can drive. Let me do it." The shorter one said. She and Yang Biao switched places. "Master, please sit in the carriage. I can drive steadily."
Yang Biao was a little surprised. The tall woman looked more intimidating, but he didn't expect that she couldn't drive.
"I, Ding Yan, cannot drive a car, but I can ride a horse." Seeing Yang Biao's incredible expression, Ding Yan immediately said that she could be of great use.
"Well, sorry!" Yang Biao knew that his expression was somewhat impolite. "Ding Yan, you and Xiaoran sit in the car." Gu Yuan was not familiar with the road to the provincial capital, so he had to watch from the side.
"Yes!" Ding Yan asked Qin Xiaoran to sit in the car first, and then she picked up a bowl of cold pancakes that was placed outside the car and sat in.
"Yang Biao, did you take the wrong road?" Qin Xiaoran looked carefully at the place where they stopped to rest. It felt very unfamiliar. It was obviously different from the previous road they took.
"Well, let's change the route this time, so we don't have to get so dirty." When he was preparing to go to the provincial capital yesterday, he had already asked about the route. This time they didn't have to rush to go to the provincial capital. They had enough money with them, and they could also take Qin Xiaoran to travel around.
"Yang Biao, Yang Biao!" Qin Xiaoran saw him sitting there motionless, and stretched out her hand and waved it back and forth in front of his eyes.
"Well, what's wrong?" Yang Biao came back to his senses and grabbed the hand that was waving in front of him.
"I was just about to ask you what's wrong." Qin Xiaoran saw that he had let go of her hand and sat down next to him. "What are you thinking about? Why are you so absorbed in it?"
"Nothing, I just wish mom and the others could come with us!" Yang Biao took her hand again, looked at her chubby face, and couldn't help but pinch it again. This child is so cute. "After going around this forest, we will reach Jiahe County. I heard that the waterfall there is very beautiful. Let's go and see if it is as beautiful as the rumors say."
"Okay!" Qin Xiaoran's face turned red after being pinched by him, but she still did not avoid it.
"Wow, Yang Biao, this waterfall is so beautiful!" Qin Xiaoran saw the waterfall pouring down from a high place, forming a huge curtain of water. The misty scenery was very spectacular.
Looking at the waterfall in front of him, Yang Biao couldn't help but recite a poem by Shi Jianwu of the Tang Dynasty:
Open up the blue sky,
A thousand-foot spring gushed out.
Like cutting a strip of silk,
The day hangs in the autumn.
"I'll go and fill up some water here as a souvenir!" Yang Biao took the water bag and went to the foot of the mountain to fetch water, and Qin Xiaoran followed him.
"Looking up here, the angle is better." The mist here is diffused, and the vision is blurred, as if in a fairyland. It's so beautiful! Yang Biao put down the water bag and habitually reached into his pocket. Alas, he is still not used to the days without a mobile phone. At this time, he wants to take a photo with the waterfall and post it on WeChat Moments. It's so beautiful!