Chapter 11: You Are Not In Exile You Are Clearly Traveling!
Chapter 11: You Call This Exile?
Chen Xue, accompanied by her maid and her mother, got on the carriage. As for her father, he remained outside, driving the carriage.
Except for another servant who knew how to drive, everyone else followed the carriage to guard it.
Once inside the carriage, Chen Xue collapsed onto the seat. "Riding in a carriage is so comfortable!"
"You..."
Chen Xue's mother shook her head, wanting to say something but sighed instead. She remembered that her daughter had never experienced hardship since childhood. Whenever they went out, they always traveled by carriage. Even she, after just two hours of travel, felt sore and tired.
"Alright, now that no one can see, don't be sneaky anymore."
Chen Xue suddenly sat up and opened the small table in the middle of the carriage, pretending to get something from it.
In no time,
A small stove, a teapot, and several teacups were brought out by her.
In addition, there were fruits and pastries. In the blink of an eye, the empty table was filled with snacks.
Madam Chen and the maid were dumbfounded.
"Xiao Xue, what's this..."
"Oh, it's just a trick my master taught me."
"So that's it!"
Madam Chen suddenly realized. No wonder Xiao Xue could easily produce so many things.
She not only quickly accepted this explanation but also felt happy about it. Originally, Chen Xue had suffered hardships with them, but by chance, she encountered an immortal master, which could be considered turning misfortune into blessing.
"Call your father in too!"
At Madam Chen's words, she opened the curtain and called her husband in. Chen Yuan quickly entered.
As soon as he entered, he saw the table in the middle of the carriage filled with food, and each person holding a cup of tea, which stunned him.
He rubbed his eyes, thinking he was hallucinating.
"You..."
He opened his mouth, not knowing what to say, and looked down at the shackles on his body. He was still in exile; it wasn't a dream!
How come he felt like he was the only one being exiled while everyone else was on a vacation?
Damn it!
Hot tea, pastries, carriage!
To see these things on the road of exile was like a dream. When he was still a clerk of the Ministry of Revenue, he would experience such scenes when he went out for a picnic with his classmates.
Now, on the road of exile, there was a strange feeling of going on an outing.
Seeing him dumbfounded, Madam Chen pinched his arm, pulled him back, and explained what Chen Xue had just said.
"This must be kept secret!"
Chen Yuan said solemnly, "Except when no one is around, try to be as discreet as possible at other times."
If people found out that his daughter could perform magic, the entire Great Kingdom would go crazy, and the Emperor would definitely have them brought back to the capital.
Not to mention, if others knew, they would definitely use any means to obtain such abilities.
"Right." Madam Chen nodded, then looked at the maid beside Xiaoxue. "Most importantly, Xiao Die, if I find out that you've leaked any information, you know the consequences..."
Although Madam Chen seemed kind, when she got angry, she was terrifying. Everyone in the Chen family feared her.
The reason she didn't stop Chen Xue from bringing the maid was that Chen Xue had no one her age to interact with in the exiled group. So, she allowed Chen Xue to bring the maid along. However, letting her bring the maid didn't mean she could do anything she wanted. So, she had to discipline the maid.
Hearing this, Xiao Die hurriedly knelt down to show her loyalty. "I understand. Even if I die, I won't leak any information about Miss."
"Alright, Mother, don't worry."
In fact, Chen Xue's space could exchange for various items, so there was no need to worry about exposure.
For example, the simplest method, hypnosis. Even if everyone saw her conjure things out of thin air, with just a bit of hypnosis, they would think it was an illusion and wouldn't pay attention to it.
This was the simplest method. There were other means, but they didn't need to be listed one by one.
The few of them chatted and drank inside the carriage, contrasting sharply with the miserable prisoners outside.
"Damn it, why do they have a carriage while we only have a donkey cart?"
Next to them, a family sat on a donkey cart, looking at the carriage not far away, filled with envy.
They had asked Xu Tian for help, but Xu Tian ignored them, so they had to ask other Yamen officials for help.
But it cost them over a hundred taels, and they ended up with a dilapidated donkey cart.
Not to mention the bumpy ride, there was also a foul smell on it, whether it was from hauling donkey or cow dung, they didn't know.
Anyway, as long as they sat on it, they could occasionally smell a foul odor. Even after getting off the cart, there was still a faint smell lingering on them. This made them, who had never experienced such a thing before, vomit up last night's meal.
Thinking about how their donkey cart was both smelly and uncomfortable, and also draughty, while the Chen family's carriage, although old, was much more high-end, they couldn't help but feel jealous.
"It's all your fault, look at you, just a clerk of the Ministry of Revenue, although others are poor, their face is still intact, but what about you, what use do you have?"
The woman beside him cursed loudly. In fact, their relationship with the Chen family was quite good before. After all, their husbands were both offcials of the Ministry of Revenue, so these women often visited each other.
In fact, she had been to the Chen family several times, and at that time, she couldn't tell that the Chen family was poor at all. But when she heard these rumors, she felt that the Chen family deliberately showed her their poor side when she went there before. In fact, the Chen family was not poor at all.
Because of this, she was even more angry. Normally, she would compare herself to them. After all, although they were both officials of the Ministry of Revenue, Chen Yuan's official position was higher than her husband's, so she felt resentful.
Now, everyone was exiled, and there was no longer any difference in status between them.
But who knew that although the Chen family was poor, they had a lot of face, easily getting a carriage.
And their family only had a donkey cart.
"Zhang Yiquan, Zhang Yiquan, I really blinded myself, looking at you such a person. I worked so hard to give birth to a son for you, and haven't enjoyed any good fortune yet. In the end, I have to suffer this kind of torment!"
The more the woman thought about it, the more she felt heartbroken, and couldn't help but cry out loudly. Beside her, Zhang Yiquan, who had been overwhelmed by the smell on the donkey cart, suddenly became angry.
"Enough, what's the point of crying like this, isn't it even more embarrassing?"
"Embarrassing?" The woman raised her head mockingly. "We've all been exiled, what's there to be embarrassed about?"
Zhang Yiquan was speechless. Indeed, now was not like before when they were officials, full of prestige and dignity.
"Mother, look at him. Even if he doesn't care about himself, he should think about our Wei'er. He's so young and has to suffer this kind of torment. He's our Zhang family's only hope!"
The woman turned to look at an old woman beside her, couldn't help but cry out, and pinched a chubby child next to her.
The chubby child couldn't help but cry out loud, and when the old woman saw this, she felt heartache and looked at Zhang Yiquan.
"Quan, now that our family has reached this point, it's all because of you. Wei'er had a bright future ahead of him, but now he has to suffer because of you..."
Although the old woman didn't scold him, the nagging words made Zhang Yiquan's scalp tingle.
"Go and talk to the Chen family. They don't have money, right? Our family has money. We can give them money to buy their carriage."
"Why would they sell it!" Zhang Yiquan shook his head. He knew Chen Yuan's character very well. How could he bear to let his wife and child suffer?
"Why wouldn't they sell it? They don't have money, right? We can give them the donkey cart. They get a carriage for nothing and make some money. They'd be stupid not to agree."
"You won't know until you try, or do you want to exhaust me to death? From now on, no one will care about you... oh, I didn't expect that I would give birth to such an ungrateful son..."
Seeing that his mother was about to explode, Zhang Yiquan's scalp tingled.
"Alright, alright, I'll go try!"
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