The empress is also very hot today

Chapter 66 The taste of home
Nothing happened on the way back from Chengjing, Ran Tong only felt himself jolted awake in the carriage, and fell asleep jolted after a while.

She was also a little concerned about whether she would be robbed by bandits on the official road. After all, nine carriages had been robbed of the convoy transported from Shangguan Yuce to the manor.But the road was unusually quiet, and they occasionally stopped to rest along the way. After driving for a whole day, the carriage stopped in Youzhou.

Looking at the appearance of this impoverished place, and recalling the prosperity of Chengjing, Ran Tong felt quite uncomfortable. The same country, not far apart, has such an exaggerated gap between rich and poor.

The city gate side suffers from hunger and cold, while the city gate side enjoys singing and dancing.

"It's really a rich family's wine and meat stinks and the bones are frozen to death." Ran Tong watched the appearance of Youzhou along the way from the carriage, and couldn't help expressing emotion.

After all, when he came here, even though he passed by Youzhou and Bianzhou, Ran Tong was sleeping, so he basically didn't take a good look at these two cities.

Now it seems that most of these two cities are incomparable compared with their own manors.

Although he sighed a little, Ran Tong couldn't help much, so he put down the car curtain and followed him.

They changed two horses in Youzhou, and then the carriage continued north. For them, time was running out, and they had to race against time.

The afternoon of the second day when the carriage drove.

While bored, Ran Tong activated the workbench system in the car.

"Your uncle's."

"Welcome back, host, Mr. System will serve you wholeheartedly."

Hearing this familiar voice, Ran Tong glanced at the upper left corner of the page. In so many days from the manor to Chengjing, Ran Tong has completely raised his level to level 9, but because there is no reward for completing the main task, Ran Tongguang With the experience gained from completing side missions and daily daily missions, the speed of upgrading is still too slow.

The things she can make now are several times more than when she was at level 5. Even if she doesn't have all the materials, Ran Tong can still make a complete thing with a single part, it just costs experience.

Ran Tong looked at the column of main missions, his eyes lit up.

I saw the column of the main task, which was written impressively.

"Main task - [accumulate more], task description: accumulatively obtain 10000 taels of silver, and the current progress is 1000/10000."

Seeing this description, Ran Tong suddenly laughed.

The previous progress was only 800/10000, but in just two days, it has already increased by 200 taels of silver?
Ran Tong suddenly remembered one thing, and that was the Shuililao hotpot restaurant in Chengjing!
But she never thought that the hot pot restaurant has made so much money in only two or three days since its opening?One must know that even the most popular restaurant in Chengjing has a daily turnover of less than 50 taels of silver, but his own hotpot restaurant earns nearly 100 taels of money every day?
The money of these officials is really easy to make...

Ran Tong thought about it, but his scalp felt a little numb. The 1 taels of silver is too much, and now only one-tenth of it has been completed... It seems that there is a long way to go.

Ran Tong turned off the system, staring at the desolate scenery outside the window in a daze.

Another two days and two nights passed.

On the morning of the fourth day, Ran Tong's carriage finally saw the familiar city gate that was getting closer and closer in the distance.

The carriage roared, and Ran Tong even heard the cheers of the sea in front of the carriage.

"I'm back!!!"

The sound of the sea resounded in the barren land, and Ran Tong lifted the curtain of the car and looked forward happily. It was indeed his own manor. Above the uniquely shaped city gate was a small watchtower. The stretching city walls above also give people a special sense of security.

The closer they got to the manor, the more comfortable Ran Tong felt, this feeling was unprecedented in Chengjing.

When their carriage was still a few hundred meters away from the city gate, people started to come out to greet them!

"Dahai? Damn! It's really you, hurry up, go back and tell the generals, Dahai... Lord Abu, the lord is back!!"

The whole manor suddenly seemed like a fast-running machine. All kinds of people inside, men, women, old and young, came out to pay attention. After a while, the old imperial doctor Alan Qingqing came out, and then, generals like Chen Gang and Zhang Peng. Ladies and gentlemen, the last one to come out was Ah Qin who trotted out.

In front of the city gate, there was a dense mass of people who lined the road to welcome them.

The carriage stopped, and Ran Tong got off the carriage slowly with Abu's support. When people saw Ran Tong, there was a thunderous cheer from the place!

"Lord Lord!!"

"Great, the lord is back."

People seemed to never see Ran Tong again, and many girls wept with joy.

Ran Tong still couldn't accept the enthusiasm of the people in the manor, she waved helplessly to the people around her: "Okay, I'm not dead yet, you are howling and crying."

Seeing that Ran Tong was safe and sound, Ah Qin, Zhang Peng and others walked over.

"Sister is back? Brother, have you taken good care of my sister?" Ah Qin pouted at Abu beside him.wink

Abu fondled the girl's head.

"Your lord, you have worked hard all the way..." Zhang Peng looked at the two carriages with people behind Ran Tong, and he was a little puzzled.

"My lord, this carriage..."

For the people in the manor, the main purpose of Ran Tong's trip this time was to conduct logistics trade with Chengjing, but there was nothing on the two carriages here except the sedan chair.

Before Ran Tong could speak, Zhao Qichuan who was behind suddenly jumped up and cursed.

"Ge Laozi, he must have been robbed by those bandits again!"

With this tone and momentum, Zhao Qichuan even forgot that he was a bandit before.

Ran Tong didn't intend to tell these things at the gate of the city, she was a little tired.

"Let's talk about this matter in the study room at night, by the way, military advisor." Ran Tong greeted Zhang Peng, "There are some girls in the carriage driven by Dahai, please let them settle down and arrange some work for them."

At this time, people saw some seventeen or eighteen-year-old girls stepping down from the carriage one after another. They were like frightened birds. Even after getting out of the carriage, they hugged each other subconsciously and dared not speak.

"You'd better let Sister Qingqing come later, you rough guys can easily scare them."

Zhang Peng wanted to ask these girls why they came, but seeing that Ran Tong didn't take the initiative to ask, Zhang Peng didn't ask, and agreed, but also opened his mouth.

"My lord, there is something I just want to report to you."

Seeing Zhang Peng like this, Ran Tong also nodded curiously: "Military teacher, tell me."

"The day before yesterday, the manor took in a group of refugees, but we didn't dare to make a decision because you didn't come back. I temporarily put them in an unoccupied room on the south side of the warehouse. There are... more than 400 people in total."

More than 400 refugees?
Ran Tong was taken aback, this is the frontier of the Northern Territory, where do refugees go to this place?
Seeing Ran Tong thinking about it, Zhang Peng continued.

"They said they were from Youzhou."

(End of this chapter)