The blessing of the splendid farm family is married to the world

Chapter 95 Follow-up
An Xu smiled and said, "Sorry, I got up late."

Shen Xiao walked up to her, "I'm probably saying I'm sorry, I dragged the girl to gossip for so long last night."

An Xu shook his head, "It's a pleasure chatting with you."

"Then, go down and have something to eat first?" Shen Xiao turned sideways, but his words were full of inquiries.

"Okay." An Xu was indeed very hungry, and gave this Mr. Shen another point for being considerate and considerate.

An Chong, who seemed to be forgotten by the whole world, looked at his sister to the left and then at Mr. Shen, feeling confused.

Doesn't my sister like Brother Che?Some time ago, Brother Che gave his sister a hairpin.Why is my sister so enthusiastic about Mr. Shen?
"Chong'er, are you not going down?" An Xu asked.

An Chong returned to his senses, shook his head and said, "Sister, I'm going to pack up my things. Brother Che ordered millet porridge for you early in the morning, and it's still hot on the stove. Go down and eat."

"Where's Zong Che?" An Xu glanced at the next room.

An Chong said: "I was still downstairs just now, maybe I heard you woke up, so let's go to the back kitchen."

So take a look, the one that appears in front of you the first time is not necessarily better than the one that is invisible.

But An Chong saw that his sister didn't understand what he meant at all, so she agreed and went downstairs laughing and talking with Mr. Shen.

An Chong finally understood why Brother Che was in a bad mood when he woke up this morning.

But it's his sister who is half-hearted, so he doesn't think it's too much to worry about.

Don't care who his sister chooses in the end, he just cares whether that person treats his sister well or not.

An Chong shook his head, and went into his sister's room to pack things.

After eating, they set off on the road. After leaving the small town, the villages were densely packed. In the middle of the afternoon, they saw the same wide official road as before, and there were no people on both sides.

Before going out, Zheng Changsheng did his homework. He inquired about the route with many businessmen who often go out, and he knew that the post station was about twenty miles away, so he did not recommend resting in the villages he just passed.

The Ming Dynasty was well developed in terms of transportation, probably because of the stable rule of the dynasty, the official roads extended in all directions, and some important towns had more official roads leading to other places.

There is a post station almost every [-] miles. At this time, the post station is also engaged in private business. As long as there are no important officials, as long as you have money, you can live in a good room.

But don't even think about good service, those postmen will only greet officials and family members with a smile on their faces.This is what An Xu personally experienced when he stayed at the inn on the way ahead.

In fact, if there is a folk inn in front of her, she would prefer to choose a folk inn.

"Changsheng, stop for a moment."

An Xu in the car was looking out with the curtains lifted, his eyes stopped on a tree as thick as a wrist by the side of the road.

Is that a locust tree?
Feng Nian was also sitting outside, as soon as the car stopped, he jumped out first, "Miss, what's the matter?"

"I want to see that tree," An Xu jumped out of the car, and walked to the tree by the side of the road while talking.

The tree body is dark gray bark with undulating bumps, and there are tiny spikes on the lowermost twigs.

This is the locust tree.

In the historical process of her world, the locust tree was introduced into China during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Because of its drought and alkali resistance, the locust tree grows fast, and the leaves are loved by livestock. However, it has become popular in China in a short time. area planted.

After confirming that it was a locust tree, An Xu looked around again, but couldn't find any other small tree species.

Shen Xiao led the horse over and asked, "Is there anything special about this tree?"

An Xu was about to speak when Zong Che's voice sounded from the side: "Can't you tell? This tree looks like a locust tree instead of a locust tree. Isn't that special?"

There is also a kind of locust tree in the Ming Dynasty. An Xu saw it in the mountains. It is the same species as the national locust tree. It has small light yellow flowers and has high medicinal value. At the same time, although the flowers are slightly bitter, they can also be eaten after treatment.

But this point is slightly inferior to that of acacia. The flower of acacia has a strong fragrance and is an important source of honey. The flowering period is earlier than that of acacia. After picking it, wash it with water and eat it directly.

It can also be made into various foods, which are more delicious.An Xu's favorite food is steamed acacia cauliflower. When the acacia was in bloom when she was a child, she and her grandfather had steamed acacia flowers on the dining table almost every day.

Either steam it and add a little oil to stir-fry it, or mix it directly with garlic juice, it will be extremely delicious.

Now that he saw the acacia tree growing by the roadside, An Xu naturally wanted to find one or two small saplings to take away.

"I just think this tree is different from ordinary locust trees, and I want to find two young seedlings to take back to verify." An Xu smiled apologetically at Shen Xiao, and then gave Zong Che a hand, "Help me find it in the surrounding area. .”

Zong Che twisted his heart again, turned around and pointed in a direction, and said, "There is a tree over there."

An Xu looked at it, and it was really a tiny one. Because it didn't start spring, it stuck there like a lifeless tree trunk.

She ran over quickly, squatted down and gently pawed down, the roots buried in the soil still had the moist breath of life.

This is a living sapling.

An Xu thought for a while, and buried the soil back again.

"Aren't you poaching it?"

Shen Xiao asked.

An Xu clapped his hands and stood up: "Dig again on the way back, so as not to bump and die along the way."

Although the vitality of the locust tree is tenacious, she is not willing to use this only small sapling for experiments.

Remembering the approximate location here, they continued on the road.

Afterwards, An Xu observed the side of the road carefully, but did not see the locust tree again.

She had some guesses that the acacia on the roadside might just be a seed that was accidentally brought from a foreign merchant ship by a passing caravan, and it grew into a tree as thick as an arm after an unknown period of gestation.

The carriage was driving steadily on the road with few pedestrians, passing through a section of woods in front of it, and when it was about to reach the post station, there was a sudden burst of shouting.

The car came to a sudden stop, and Zong Che, who was sitting opposite An Xu, immediately reached out and grabbed her shoulders to help her stabilize her body.

"What?" An Chong just lifted the curtain of the car when a gleaming big knife was pressed against his neck.

An Xu was startled, but quickly forced himself to calm down.

"Get out of here."

In the sound of Xiao Daoxiang crying in fright, the big man pressed the knife to draw a line of blood on An Chong's neck, and shouted angrily at several people in the car: "Get off quickly, no one wants to play tricks."

An Xu unconsciously held hands with Zong Che, and Xiao Daoxiang on the other hand, and slowly got out of the car.

The situation outside caused her heart to rise in her throat, Feng Nian and Zheng Changsheng both fell to the ground, and both of them had a thin thread around their necks.

Seeing that there was no blood on their necks, just a white strangle mark, not life-threatening, An Xu secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

Shen Xiao's master and servant, who were riding on horseback, were also forced to stop by several masked men.

"Who are you and what do you want to do?" An Xu glanced roughly, and there were about five or six such masked people at the scene.

If there is no ambush in advance, these people may not be able to restrain their group with one move.

"Hahaha," the man who hijacked An Chong raised his head and laughed, and said, "Is there something wrong with you little lady?"

As he spoke, he raised one hand and tapped his forehead, "Of course we're the ones who do it,"

Before he could finish speaking, the little lady with a face that didn't know where she was in the blink of an eye raised her hand and took out something. There was a burning pain in both eyes.

An Xu took the opportunity to quickly pull An Chong back to his side, and sprayed the pepper water spray in his hand on the two people who were kidnapping Shen Xiao's master and servant not far away.

The chili peppers she planted had just picked up small berries, and she picked two before going out, and made this anti-wolf spray with quicklime.

She made the spray bottle step by step. The spray was strong and powerful. Even though they were separated by two or three meters, the pepper water directly reached the eyes of those two people.

All this happened in a few seconds, the two accomplices who saw their accomplice being attacked, and the two accomplices who were watching Fengnian and the two rushed over in an instant.

After the pepper water was sprayed over, Shen Xiao and Dong Lou immediately countered the two robbers.

On the side, looking at Fengnian and their two accomplices, An Xu couldn't care less, one of them was more flexible, and threw the big knife in his hand at An Xu, while the other pointed the knife at her back cut.

When Zong Che raised his leg to kick away the thrown sword, he turned sideways to block behind An Xu, and his left shoulder was chopped off by the blade that came over in an instant. The strong man was kicked and staggered several steps back, he couldn't stand still and fell to the ground.

An Xu shouted: "Be careful."

Throwing the spray bottle in his hand, he threw it at the person who was knocked down by Shen Xiao and then grabbed the knife and slashed at him.

Shen Xiao turned around, knocked the man down with an elbow, grabbed the knife, and when he turned his head again, his pupils dilated suddenly, and then ran a few steps, threw An Xu who was also walking towards him, and rolled twice on the ground.

With a whoosh, a feathered arrow was stuck on the ground where An Xu was standing just now, the arrow feather was still trembling, and there was still a piece of moon-white cloth hanging on the ground where the arrow was.

"You are hurt?"

An Xu asked.

Only then did Shen Xiao let go of An Xu who was under his protection, looked at his right arm, and said with a smile: "It's okay."

"You idiot who only dares to shoot cold arrows in the dark, do you dare to come out and compete with Grandpa Donglou?" Donglou took the big knife he had taken, stood in front of the young master and Miss An, and cursed in the direction of the arrow.

An Xu was still worried that the people in the dark would be angered and shoot arrows again, but he didn't expect Donglou to curse for a long time, and there was no more movement.

Fengnian and Zheng Changsheng had already tied up the few big men who were picked up, and the few who were sprayed with pepper water were still rolling with their eyes covered.

An Xu knew in her heart that the eyes of these people were probably going to go blind. At that time, she was worried that the chili peppers were not hot enough, so she made two layers of the bottle, the upper layer was dry quicklime powder, and the lower layer was water.

Press the cap on the upper part of the bottle, and the pepper water will meet the quicklime and heat up instantly. Because of the poor conditions, the bottle she made is not precise enough, and the lime powder will spray out, and enter the eyes of those people along the water mist, which is nothing unusual.

Seeing the pain of these people, An Xu didn't regret it at all, and felt that the bottle was too small to spray all over their faces.

"Miss, one ran away."

Fengnian shouted, and then went to chase.

The one who ran was the one who had been kicked by Zong Che just now, and was staggering towards the woods with his hands on his chest.

"Feng Nian, forget it." An Xu called to stop him, "There is still a man with a bow and arrow hiding in the dark, let's go."

Only now did she see Zong Che who was sitting on the dry grass beside him with blood on his left shoulder.

"How did you get hurt?"

Zong Che was not seriously injured. Where he was sitting, there was a circle of blood dripping on the withered grass next to him.He glanced at her lightly and said nothing.

"Chong'er, help him up, let's get in the car and let's go."

Zheng Changsheng came over with two thin, almost invisible silk threads, and said, "The horse was also cut for a while by this kind of thread, but I checked just now, and they are all bleeding slightly, nothing serious."

The silk thread is very thin and tough enough, if a single thread is suspended in the air, it is really hard to see.

No wonder they all fell down without knowing it.

If the silk thread is stronger,

An Xu could hardly imagine the consequences.

The east building also found two and handed them over to his young master.

Shen Xiao looked at it, and said: "This is silk from the sky, which is famous for its toughness. It seems that the person who planned this catastrophe has some knowledge."

He walked up to a person who hadn't been sprayed with chili water, but just fell to the ground without saying a word, knelt down and asked, "Who are you? Why are you robbing us?"

The man sneered and said, "It's best to let Grandpa go quickly, otherwise, you'll be left with nothing to eat."

According to this, their lair is nearby?

An Xu, who was struggling with how to deal with these people just now, is even more at a loss as to what to do now?

Send an officer?

The nearest place related to "official" is the inn in front.

Not to mention that they don't care about this kind of thing, they only have one carriage, how to transport these people to the post station is a problem.

killed?
Although An Xu is a cook and knows how to use a knife and kill, he has never killed anyone.

For a while, I was really sad about this hurdle.

Looking at the robber's fearless appearance, the only way at present seems to be to leave these people behind and get on their horses to leave here.

Before An Xu could figure it out, Shen Xiao had raised the saber in his hand and stabbed the saber into the big man's heart.

Donglou saw that the young master had made a move, so he started to do the same. In just a few breaths, three of the four people caught died.

Shen Xiao said: "Leave one alive."

Only then did Dong Lou retreat to the side, the only survivor was covering his eyes and moaning, but when he heard this movement, he felt as if he was dead and didn't dare to make a sound.

"Go back and tell the people behind you that I am the eldest grandson of General Zhen Guo, Mr. Shen, and don't do anything wrong here. Otherwise, you little bandits won't be able to withstand the suppression of the army."

"Yes, I see."

The robber who was lucky enough to escape his life cried sobbingly.

There were so many words, An Xu didn't understand what was said.But she didn't understand Shen Xiao's behavior, since she killed him, why didn't she kill them all?
She was puzzled, so she asked the same question.

Shen Xiao said with a smile: "I killed them all, how can I scare the person behind me?"

"This is already under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou Prefecture. Go to the nearest county government office and notify them to dispose of the corpses of these robbers."

The latter words were told to Dong Lou, and Dong Lou hurriedly agreed to come down.

But he said in his heart: Young master, you still have time to care about this. Hurry up and explain to Ms. An, don't scare away the first girl you like.

Shen Xiao could tell that An Xu wasn't frightened at all.

She is a little different from ordinary girls.

But after restarting the journey, Shen Xiao thought for a while, and felt that he still needed to explain.

He turned his horse's head around, walked to the carriage, and called inside: "Miss An."

An Xu was treating Zong Che's wound, but he didn't reply when he heard the words: "Mr. Shen, if you have anything to say, just tell me."

Shen Xiao who was outside smiled, and said: "This time I was negligent, I practiced martial arts since I was a child, and yet I fell into the hands of some bandits."

An Xu pressed a clean veil to Zong Che's wound, and replied, "They calculated with their minds but without their intentions, and they were calculated without their intentions, so it's not negligence."

The smile on Shen Xiao's face became more genuine, and he said: "Actually, at first I thought it was because someone in my family was targeting me, but I didn't expect that it was just someone looking for money."

Since they have captured so many individuals, it is naturally impossible not to interrogate them.

Both Zheng Changsheng and Donglou questioned, and those people couldn't stand the cross-examination, so they explained the arrangement and purpose of this robbery.

It was a follow-up to those two fairy dances yesterday, and they did have a den nearby.

No matter what you say about this incident, Shen Xiao felt a little guilty for An Xu and his party who were involved in Shen Xiao's involvement.

After arriving at the inn, Shen Xiao and Donglou arranged for the group of people to stay. In addition, seeing that An Xu was worried about her younger brother's injury, Shen Xiao even spent a few taels of money to ask the people in the inn to invite a doctor nearby. .

Unexpectedly, when the doctor came, Zong Che said, "No need, nothing is hurt."

At this time, it was around [-] o'clock in the evening, and the doctor came over exhausted and out of breath, An Xu said, "We don't have any medicine, so you should ask the doctor to prescribe it."

Zong Che said: "The wound medicine provided by the post station is very good. I have stopped the bleeding, and I don't want to open the wound again."

An Xu listened and had nothing to say.

In the end, she didn't let the doctor see, she just bought two bottles of good hemostatic powder from the doctor.

Shen Xiao wanted to pay, but An Xu refused, "You have done your best to find a doctor, and then I can do it myself."

Shen Xiao has never seen a woman like An Xu, she didn't scream in fright when encountering things, and she was calm as usual when she saw a murder, and she also knew the truth of killing a thief by eradicating the roots.

It's amazing.

In her body, there is no frailty and pitifulness of a woman, but she is strangely attractive.

Shen Xiao smiled and said: "Alright then. The doctor will stay at the station for one night. If you have any problems during this period, you can come to me."

An Xu nodded, suddenly remembered that he was also injured, and hurriedly said: "Thank you for helping me block it, remember to apply medicine to your wound."

Shen Xiao moved his arm and said, "I've already taken the medicine. It's getting late, let's go back to the room and rest."

An Xu returned to the room, and before reaching the bed, he sat down on the stool while supporting the table.

How could she not be afraid?
I have seen killing chickens and geese and even killing pigs a lot, but this is the first time I have seen killing people.

Thinking of the scenes in the afternoon, An Xu felt that her heart was full. She would not want to eat meat again for at least a month.

"Dong dong dong."

There was a knock on the door, An Xu rubbed his face, got up and went to open the door.

Standing outside the door was Zong Che holding a tray in one hand.

An Xu quickly took the tray over and asked, "Why haven't you slept yet?"

Zong Che gestured to the tray in her hand, "Sedative medicine, take it before going to sleep."

An Xu was taken aback, looked down at the brown medicinal soup in the bowl, and said with a smile, "Thank you."

Zong Che frowned slightly, turned around and said, "Just leave the soup and medicine bowl in the room, sleep peacefully, and call if something happens."

After finishing speaking, he had already entered the door next door.

An Xu sighed, and Zong Che looked up.

"Did you drink this?" She raised the tray in her hand.

Zong Che said, "I've already drank."

An Xu smiled and said, "Good night then."

Zong Che nodded and closed the door.

An Xu returned to the room, took a sip of Anshen Soup, and then remembered whether An Chong and the others drank this.

Especially Xiao Daoxiang, today's scene is really unfriendly to children.

She opened the door and looked left and right, but the doors were closed, presumably they were all asleep.

An Xu went directly down to the first floor. The lobby of this post station is very spacious, and there are postmen there at night.

She walked over to say hello first, and then asked the postman with a look of indifference: "I don't know if the children in our family want soothing soup?"

During the New Year's Eve, they were the only ones who came to stay in the store. The postman couldn't say he didn't know who was who, so he said: "I want it, I didn't pay attention."

An Xu: - - -
When I went upstairs again, I saw my younger brother An Chong was also walking towards the stairs.

"Sister, what did you do?"

"Did you drink soothing soup?" There are too many things to do today, and she should have prepared them all from the beginning.

In An Xu's heart, these children are her responsibility, and she really doesn't want what happened today to leave any shadow on them.

An Chong was taken aback for a moment, and said, "We've already had a drink. Sister, don't worry about it, go back to your room and rest."

An Xu felt relieved.

In the middle of the night, there were bursts of screaming and crying of children in the station.

The bowl of calming soup that An Xu had before going to bed was very effective. He heard the sound vaguely, but his eyes seemed to be stuck with glue.

In the lobby on the first floor, Dao Xiang was crouching in Feng Nian's arms with a dying expression.

An Xu recalled the crying that he heard vaguely in his sleep, and asked, "How is Daoxiang? Does the soothing soup not work?"

Fengnian concealed his worry and said with a smile: "She's fine, I called her soul yesterday, just rest for two days."

At this time, the doctor came down and said, "If you have children who are frightened here, don't tell me earlier. I only have a pack of soothing decoction in my medicine box, and the compatibility is not particularly good. It's not surprising that it doesn't work. I think this The child is really scared, it is best to find a professional pediatrician to take a look."

An Xu understood that the soothing soup last night was only for herself.

She wanted to take care of these children who were younger than her, but she didn't expect to be taken care of by them.

An Chong was afraid that his sister would be angry, so he said, "We didn't expect Xiao Daoxiang to be so frightened."

He knew that his sister never regarded the Fengnian brothers and sisters as servants, so he was worried that she would be angry, but even if he knew that Daoxiang was very frightened yesterday, Zong Che didn't insist on giving the soup to his sister, he would fry it for her.

An Xu said: "It's because I didn't pay attention, Feng Nian, ask Dao Xiang to sleep with me tonight."

Dao Xiang grabbed her brother's sleeve and kept shaking her head.

Fengnian couldn't bear to scold her at this time, so he said: "Miss, I will take her for two days first, she will affect your rest."

An Xu smiled, but she couldn't figure it out. Although she felt that she could take care of children better than a teenager, she forgot that Fengnian was Daoxiang's real brother.

"Alright." An Xu agreed, then turned around and asked the doctor where there is a better pediatrician nearby.

Then they took Daoxiang to see a doctor before continuing to Nanfeng Mansion.

When he was standing under the gate of Nanfeng Mansion, An Xu was deeply moved. It was not easy to be a merchant in ancient times.

Shen Xiao's eyes fell on the woman. Although she was only wearing an ordinary rabbit fur cloak and didn't have any gorgeous decorations, she seemed to be radiant in his eyes.

"Miss An," Shen Xiao dismounted, "Let's leave now, I don't know where the girl lives, so I can give you some novelty flowers and plants when I go back."

Need an address?
Isn't this the same as adding WeChat?
An Xu only hesitated for a while, and then told the other party his home address.

She has no selfishness. She really wants the flowers and plants of the wealthy families in this period. What if she discovers the delicious food that is popular in later generations.

(End of this chapter)