Chapter 140 The Wu family joins the family

Amu couldn't stop his father, so the family finally went up the mountain with torches all night and picked hundreds of kilograms of lychees and honeydew melons.

However, it was already midnight after they came down the mountain. They were afraid of disturbing Qiao Ran's rest, so they placed the lychees and honeydew melons under the archway at the entrance of the town. The next morning, Amu asked Amu to go find Qiao Ran and ask her to take these melons. Go away.

"Miss Qiao, my father said that these fruits are grown by us at home. Anyway, we can't sell much every year and they are not worth much. You must accept them, otherwise my father will feel uneasy and will always feel bad about it. "

Amu said sincerely.

Qiao Ran couldn't resist the family's enthusiasm, so she had to follow Amu to the archway at the entrance of the town.

There were several sacks there, all filled to the brim.

Qiao Ran counted roughly and found that there were six sacks in total, three bags of lychees and three bags of honeydew, which were more than what she brought back last night.

According to the selling price of these lychees and honeydew melons, I'm afraid they might cost twenty or thirty taels of silver?

Qiao Ran didn't want it, but Amu insisted on giving it to her, saying that if she didn't accept it, his father wouldn't give him food when he went back.

Qiao Ran had no choice but to drive her carriage over and carry all the bags of fruits aboard.

After saying goodbye to Amu, Qiao Ran entered the carriage and put all the lychees and two bags of honeydew melons into her own space.

Lychee is a fruit that is not easy to preserve. “The color changes in one day, the aroma changes in the second day, the taste changes in the third day, and after four or five days, the color, fragrance and flavor are gone.”

So Qiao Ran put them in her own small space. The space can keep them fresh. No matter how long they are kept, they will still be in the same state when they were taken out.

I only left two bags of cantaloupe for everyone to see. Anyway, it doesn’t hurt to leave the melons outside for a few more days.

When Qiao Ran drove the carriage back, the villagers had already started to leave, and Qiao's family was still waiting where they were.

When he saw Qiao Ran driving the carriage back, he didn't have time to ask any questions. He loaded the packed things into the carriage and cart, followed the villagers, and prepared to start walking on the mountain road according to the map, walking around Xuanzhou County. .

As soon as the Qiao family set out, they suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves and the rumble of carriage wheels coming from behind.

I also heard someone shouting: "Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Please wait for us!"

"Sister Qiao, wait for me!"

Qiao Ran, who was walking behind, looked back and saw three carriages approaching in a hurry.

Someone leaned out of the car window and waved his arms desperately at her.

Qiao Ran had good eyesight and already knew who the person was, so she waited where she was.

Seeing Qiao Ran stop, the Qiao family also stopped in place, looking back at the three approaching carriages.

The three carriages finally stopped in front of them. As soon as they stopped, several people jumped out of the carriages.

"Sister Qiao, I finally caught up with you!"

The first person to jump out of the carriage was a young girl. She ran forward excitedly and took Qiao Ran's arm very happily.

It turned out that the visitor was Wu Qianqian, the old lady of the Wu family, Mrs. Wu, and Wu Qianqian's younger brother Wu Maosheng.

"What are you...?"

Qiao Ran looked at Wu Qianqian doubtfully.

At this time, a few more people jumped out of another carriage behind them, and as soon as those people jumped out of the carriage, they held on to the tree trunks on the side of the road and vomited wildly.

The Qiao family had already recognized those people, and they turned out to be Wu Dawang's family.

Qiao Erhe called out in surprise: "Brother Dawang, why is it you? Didn't you go to Linzhou Fucheng?"

Wu Dawang, who was traveling in a hurry and had never been in a carriage before, suffered from motion sickness just after vomiting. He waved his hands and replied feebly:

"Alas! Our three families entered Linzhou City. Unexpectedly, the Linzhou City government did not resettle refugees. The refugees who entered the city had no food or shelter. They wanted to find hard work but could not carry sacks. Many of them begged on the streets. ."

"My mother-in-law is thinking about my Shuanzi again, and she has been crying all day blaming me for not going with everyone and for letting her be separated from her son. I thought that there was no way to survive in Linzhou Fucheng anyway, so I decided to chase you. I still want to go with you. You go to Zhongzhou together."

"Then we were lucky enough to meet Miss Wu and her family just after we left the city gate. They kindly let us sit in the carriage, otherwise we would not have been able to catch up."

At this time, Wu Qianqian also came forward with her family to greet the Qiao family.

When the Wu family saw their benefactor, Mrs. Wu took the lead and knelt down to kowtow to thank her. Mrs. Qiao and her two daughters-in-law quickly stepped forward to help him up.

"Mrs. Qiao, thank you for saving my family Qianqian. You are my family's great benefactors! If you hadn't saved Qianqian, my son would have died, and if Qianqian was gone, then our family would have been destroyed. ah!"

Mrs. Wu held Mrs. Qiao's hand and was so moved that she burst into tears and thanked her repeatedly.

Mrs. Qiao quickly patted the back of her hand to comfort her: "Mrs. Wu, don't call me old lady. I'm just an old farm lady. I'm older than you. If you don't mind, call me elder sister! Wu Miss is a good child, let the past go! From now on, look forward to the future, life is better than anything else!"

"Yes, yes! Thanks to my eldest sister, you are your eldest granddaughter! Miss Qiao is really a rare heroine. Sister, please don't call me Madam. Let's treat each other like sisters from now on!"

Seeing that her attitude was sincere and not coy, Mrs. Qiao responded generously to her sister: "Sister, what are you...?"

Mrs. Wu said: "Since my son's accident, the clan members in my family have always tried to seize my family's property, and colleagues in the city have also joined forces to squeeze out my family's grain shop, and the government's taxes have also increased. Seriously, we really can’t stay in Lianzhou City any longer.”

"I heard that you were going to the capital. After much thought, I quickly sold off all my property in Linzhou City and took my family to catch up with you. I wanted to go to the capital with you and take my poor granddaughter to other places. Life. But, I wonder if you can take in outsiders like ours?"

After some conversation, the Qiao family knew that after Qiao Ran said goodbye to the Wu family, the Wu family knew that the head of the family had been brutally murdered, and only Wu Qianqian was rescued by Qiao Ran. Don't think about future plans.

Wu Qianqian heard that her business in Linzhou City was not only coveted by her clan members, but also squeezed out by her colleagues. The prefect of Linzhou City was also becoming more and more greedy, and the taxes collected were getting higher and higher.

I feel that with the four of them, mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandfather and grandson living in Linzhou City, they will definitely face difficulties from all sides in the future.

As a female prostitute, it was difficult for me to fight with so many people, so I discussed with my grandmother and mother to sell off my family property and go somewhere else to survive.

Mrs. Wu heard that her granddaughter's savior was going to the capital, so she decided to catch up with them and follow them to Zhongzhou.