Chapter 23: You Are Not In Exile You Are Clearly Traveling!
Chapter 23: Reserve (Happy Little New Year)
Chen Xue didn't have time to pay attention to Zhao Guang. She excitedly collected fish into the space. All this meat, all this fish soup!
Collect more now, store it for later, and you can eat slowly in the future.
The servants were also smiling as they caught the fish. There were too many fish, they couldn't catch them all. They could only catch as many as they could and then put them on the ground before going back to the river to catch more.
Meanwhile, Chen Xue took the opportunity to collect the fish they caught into the space.
The servants caught fish from the river, poured them out, and then continued catching...
As a result, they found that not only were there fewer fish in the river, which was normal, but also the fish they caught were getting fewer and fewer. This was a problem.
If it weren't for Chen Xue's explanation that the fish had returned to the river, these servants would probably have been puzzled by this problem for more than ten years.
She only left a few fish, pretending to release the others, but actually collecting them into the space, and then brought the fish back.
They had the servants send a fish to the captain of the bailiffs, one to Xu Tian, one to the other bailiffs, and one for themselves, before finally distributing the fish.
"What about me?"
Zhao Guang was dumbfounded. Why didn't he get any fish when everyone else did?
"Don't you dislike eating fish?" Chen Xue asked suspiciously.
"Who said that?"
"You did!"
Only then did Zhao Guang remember. He had borrowed a tree to present flowers earlier, and then he had made an excuse not to like fish and gave the fish to the Chen family.
But the problem was, who knew you guys were so powerful? Other people catch fish one by one, but you catch them in groups.
He had trapped himself with his words. Zhao Guang could only leave feeling depressed.
"But, here's a small fish. If you don't mind..."
Chen Xue pointed to a palm-sized fish strung on a grass rope. It had jumped onto the shore by itself and hit a rock, unable to survive.
"I don't mind, I don't mind." Zhao Guang was suddenly very happy. "I can't eat such a big fish by myself, but a small fish is good."
Saying that, fearing that Chen Xue would change her mind, he quickly grabbed the small fish and ran off. Along the way, he kept laughing, scaring away the prisoners around him, who thought he was sick.
But Zhao Guang didn't care what others thought. As long as Chen Xue was willing to share the fish with him, it meant she wasn't holding a grudge against him for what he did before.
In reality, he was overthinking it. Chen Xue clearly didn't want to share the fish with him. This fish was something he had begged for.
"These two fish, cook them!"
Chen Xue pointed to a fish contributed by Zhang Yiquan and one caught by her own family. With so many people, two fish were enough.
"Mm, delicious!"
On the carriage, Chen Xue drank a large bowl of fish soup and patted her stomach satisfactorily.
"You eat without manners." Chen Xue's mother glared at her. "Look at you, where's the demeanor of a young lady?"
Chen Xue shrugged. She wasn't a young lady to begin with. Besides, she hadn't even had the chance to enjoy the life of a young lady after transmigrating before being exiled.
So, she really didn't know how a young lady was supposed to eat.
"Never mind, it's not like before now, there aren't so many rules." Chen Yuan was more tolerant of his daughter and didn't mind these things.
"You always spoil her." Madam Chen turned to glare at Chen Yuan again. "Although we're down and out, we still need to maintain some etiquette."
Chen Yuan didn't dare to argue back and hurriedly focused on eating, angering Madam Chen into eating a few more bowls of rice.
The three of them, oh, no, four of them finished off a fish.
After dinner, Chen Xue took out some dessert, and the family chatted for a while before going to bed.
The carriage could seat four people, but it couldn't accommodate four people sleeping. Chen Xue and the others had to dismantle the table in the middle and the seats on either side, then lay down blankets to squeeze together.
As for Chen Yuan, he went outside to sleep, leaning against the carriage. After all, he couldn't possibly sleep together with Chen Xue and the other two women.
"We still need to find a way to get another carriage!"
With another carriage, he wouldn't have to sleep outside, and they could also store many things in the carriage.
With another carriage, they could also buy some things and use them openly.
But finding another carriage wasn't easy.
In the capital, it's easy to buy, but now on the road of exile, unless in a larger city, it's hard to find. It was already lucky to have been able to buy one in the small village before.
A night passed without incident.
Early the next morning, the bailiffs waved their whips to wake everyone up.
There were regulations on how far the exiled group had to travel each day and how many days it would take to reach the place of exile.
So, the bailiffs kept urging them to hurry on their journey. If they didn't arrive within the specified time, they would be punished.
Bang!
The Chen family's carriage suddenly sank into a hole in the road and couldn't move.
Seeing this, the other prisoners quickly avoided the Chen family and hurried on their way. They didn't come forward to help, and some even showed expressions of enjoyment at the sight.
They fell while walking, but didn't immediately get up. The bailiffs waved their whips to make them get up quickly.
With the Chen family's carriage stuck on the road, it would definitely be scolded by the bailiffs. After all, everyone was a prisoner, so why should they be allowed to sit in a carriage? Therefore, the other prisoners around were actually not happy with the Chen family.
Now that they had the rare opportunity to see the Chen family being scolded by the bailiffs, how could they not be happy?
Sure enough, when a bailiff saw the Chen family's carriage stop and still blocking the road, he immediately ran over with his whip.
When everyone thought the bailiff was going to lash out at the Chen family, they found that the bailiff just looked at Chen Yuan and asked what had happened with concern.
When he heard that the carriage had sunk into a hole, the bailiff even inserted his whip into his waist and then helped the Chen family push the carriage.
Seeing this scene, the prisoners' jaws dropped to the ground.
"Thank you, sir!"
Chen Yuan was also somewhat surprised that this bailiff would come forward to help, so he quickly asked Chen Xue for some silver and then handed it to the bailiff.
The constable named Zhou Yu didn't refuse, he even patted his chest and said that if they had any problems in the future, they could find him.
Chen Yuan was very satisfied, but he knew that it wasn't just because they had been given fish yesterday.
In fact, there were two types of people who could become constables in the exiled group.
One type had a background.
The other type didn't.
Those with a background, like Xu Tian, could be directly arranged to come in from above, after all, there was a lot of money to be made in the exiled group, and it wasn't something ordinary people could get into.
People like Zhou Yu, on the other hand, didn't have a background.
Those without a background, like him, had almost spent all their savings to buy this official position, hoping to make a fortune in the exiled group.
The reason why Zhou Yu helped the Chen family was not only because of the fish they gave him yesterday, but also because of Xu Tian's face.
After all, Xu Tian had a background, and people like him without a background naturally wanted to get along well with Xu Tian.
Moreover, Xu Tian often whispered in their ears to take good care of Chen Yuan and the like. After hearing it many times, they remembered it.
After some contact, they were also willing to help, and Chen Yuan was also generous. Although he didn't know where the rumor came from that he was penniless, Zhou Yu felt that it was somewhat unfounded.
Chen Yuan was obviously very wealthy. Where did the rumor of being penniless come from?
PS: Thanks to the book friends Mr. Cen, Dream of Fantasy Feathers, and the vote of book friend Liuli Muzi.
Happy Little New Year, wishing all the cute readers happiness and joy.
Also, there will be another chapter this afternoon.
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