Wu Chao: Take the whole family to escape the famine

Chapter 178 Returning to the Western Territory
Ouyang Jinhua and Ouyang Ming father and son had prepared everything before speaking.

According to Ouyang Jinhua's understanding of the emperor's temperament, they were able to obtain the imperial edict allowing them to leave Beijing and return to the west so smoothly.

But I didn't expect the emperor to be so anxious and let them go immediately. This is really a surprise.

After the two left the palace, they returned to the mansion and sent all the servants in the mansion to a safe place according to the plan, and after a brief tidying up, they took their family and left the city gate in light clothes.

Since Ouyang Ming returned to the capital, Prince An's Mansion has been exempted from confinement and can move freely inside and outside the imperial city.Therefore, the soldiers guarding the city saw that it was the chariot frame of Prince An's Mansion leaving the city, and did not order to stop it.

In the carriage, Ouyang Xue opened a corner of the curtain to look out, and asked in a low voice: "Brother, are we going back?"

Jiang Shiying pulled back the little girl who was looking out and half embraced her in her arms, and said softly: "Yes, we are going back, is Xue'er happy?"

Ouyang Xue replied happily: "Happy, I don't like this place."

Hearing Ouyang Xue's words, Ouyang Jinhua also reached out and patted her on the head lightly.

The Ouyang family's journey back to Beijing was full of twists and turns. First, Ouyang Ming was killed and disappeared, and then he was assassinated countless times.

After returning to the capital, Ouyang Jinhua and Jiang Shiying were protected in the palace in a disguised form, while Ouyang Xue was brought into the palace alone as a bargaining chip to threaten them.

Ouyang Xue's memories in the palace were not good either, so it's no wonder she didn't like it here.

About ten miles outside the city, Ouyang's family has a house, and Ouyang Wang has already brought people to wait there.

Their plan this time started planning half a month ago. The servants in the mansion who should be dismissed should be dismissed, and those who have not been dismissed have also arranged a place to go when they just left, and they will never be arrested by the fourth prince and others.

There is a team of hundreds of people parked outside the house, all of them are soldiers who have followed Ouyang's family for many years.

In addition, there are more than a dozen carriages, and all the supplies needed on the road have been prepared.Ouyang Wang stepped forward and saluted, "My lord."

The hundred-man team behind him also knelt down and saluted.

Ouyang Ming and Ouyang Jinhua lifted the curtain and jumped out of the carriage, turned over and rode on the horse prepared by Ouyang Wang for them.

"Assemble the team and set off immediately."

"Yes, son!"

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After reading through the thick stack of letters carefully, Jiang Zhiyue put the letter back into the envelope.Knowing that Ouyang Ming was still safe, Jiang Zhiyue felt relieved.

The letter also wrote about their plan to leave Beijing, but there were still some days before the date of writing the letter and when Ouyang Ming and his son went to the palace to face the saint, so Ou Yangming only mentioned it.

Jiang Zhiyue didn't know how far their plan had progressed, and whether they had left Beijing safely.

But she believed in Ouyang Ming's ability, as long as it was something he was determined to do, there should be no failure.

Jiang Zhiyue's thoughts could not help but drift away. According to the temperament of the Fourth Prince and Concubine Rong, it should not be possible for Ouyang's family to leave smoothly.

How the fourth prince has nothing to do with her, she only knows that her A Ming is not of the nature of sitting still, and will definitely find a way to take the initiative in the matter.

She thought about how she could help him.
While thinking, the carriage slowly drove into Guhuai Village.

The driver gently buttoned the carriage and said, "Girl, we're home."

Jiang Zhiyue recovered and got out of the carriage. Tian Qiu, who was sweeping the floor in front of the door, saw Jiang Zhiyue come back and went up to meet him.

Tian Qiu smiled and said, "Young lady is back."

The two of them jumped out of another carriage behind them to carry things down, while Jiang Zhiyue looked towards the yard and asked, "What happened during the time I was away from home?"
Tian Qiu slowly told what happened in Guhuai Village during this period.

"It's nothing serious. The young masters and Uncle Jiang are all in the town. We left these at home and are busy with the paper-making workshop every day."

"It's just that a few nights ago, when Jiang Wu got up at night, he saw a dark shadow sneaking towards the workshop. He paid attention to it and called a few people who lived with him to follow him."

"As a result, a person was caught trying to sneak into the paper-making workshop at night to steal something."

Jiang Zhiyue stopped and wanted to go in the direction of the papermaking workshop, "Can you find out who did it?"

Tian Qiu hurriedly said: "Miss is tired from traveling on the road, so let's go home and rest first."

"The paper-making workshop is fine. Jiang Si and the others arrived as soon as the man climbed over the wall. The man was so frightened that he fell directly from the wall and broke his leg."

"Later, the commotion here woke up the sleeping people in the village, and everyone recognized that the person who wanted to steal at night was Fang Houzi from the village.'
"The man heard that the paper made in the paper workshop is better than others on the market, so he wanted to steal it, but he heard that his leg was broken once, and it took a long time to heal. , and then came out to do this kind of shitty thing again."

"At that time, half the people in the village came out after hearing the commotion. Fang Hou's defense was undeniable. The next day it was turned over to the county government office. With so many witnesses, he was convicted without allowing him to defend himself.'

Jiang Zhiyue still has some impressions of Fang Hou.

When he first came to the village, Fang Hou's mother, Aunt Fang, had a lot of words against Jiang Wang's family, and later when recruiting workers, they were not very happy.

What's even worse is that Aunt Fang was also the chief culprit for her third aunt's almost dystocia.

At that time, they were asked to pay money, and later they heard that their family had suffered disasters, and each one was worse than the other, so Jiang Zhiyue didn't pay any more attention.

He left home for a few days without realizing it, and Fang Hou, who had recovered from his injuries, started acting like a demon again.

Jiang Zhiyue went straight to the direction of the workshop, and asked Tian Qiu to go back and instruct those people to move the things they brought back into the house.

When Jiang Zhiyue rushed to the paper-making workshop, she saw a few unfamiliar faces outside. When they saw Jiang Zhiyue, a 'stranger', coming over, they questioned her.

It happened that an aunt passed by and saw Jiang Zhiyue, and she called "Little Boss" in surprise.

The people who were going to interrogate confirmed Jiang Zhiyue's identity before letting him in.

The aunt took Jiang Zhiyue directly to the place where Mrs. Zhang was, and then went to the place where she went to work.

"mother."

Mrs. Zhang saw Jiang Zhiyue happily walking over and said, "Oh, Zhiyue is back."

Jiang Zhiyue asked about those people outside, and Zhang explained: "It's not that I met a sneaky guy a few days ago, we thought, our workshop is getting bigger and bigger, we need to buy some people to guard against these villains, your third uncle will go The county bought some mid-level people and came back to guard outside the workshop.'
While the two were talking, Mrs. Zhang had already taken Jiang Zhiyue around the papermaking workshop.

It was promised that the workers in the workshop would leave work for half an hour early at noon today, and Jiang Zhiyue and the others turned their heads and went back.

(End of this chapter)