Chapter 203: Be stingy
Although I changed my bed, I was still familiar with people around me.
Two people who have been riding in the ox cart for a day can fall asleep peacefully.
Sleeping in the room, I didn't feel anything yet.
In the morning, after the two of them washed up, Zhao Ce opened the window of the room.
The water vapor floating in outside sandwiched the cold dew of autumn, causing Su Caier behind her to shudder.
Zhao Ce quickly closed the window and asked Su Caier to find a thicker outfit.
Su Caier said while flipping through the thin cotton coat on the box: "It's much colder than at home."
"Fortunately, my aunt told me that the water vapor by the river was heavy and it would be much colder. I asked me to put these two clothes on the box for easy access."
Su Caier took out her clothes and handed them to Zhao Ce on the side first, and put them on her.
The two thin cotton jackets are also similar in color, but Zhao Ce's lapels are embroidery manually added by the little girl as usual.
Seeing his husband put it on, Su Caier nodded and said, "These embroidery still have to be embroidered to look good."
Zhao Ce smiled and said, "When I come back, let Qiu Shubai's mother teach you?"
Su Caier remembered the fact that her family wanted to buy cows and land, and thought that she seemed to have a lot of things to do.
So she said sternly: "Let's talk about it when you get home and get everything done."
Seeing her serious look, Zhao Ce couldn't help but grab her little face and rub it.
soon.
The guy brought the breakfast and the two of them started eating in the room.
Various shouts of sailing came downstairs.
All of this is very new to both of them.
After breakfast and agreed to take the boat off, Zhao Ce hired Lifu again and brought all their belongings onto the boat.
The boatman is a middle-aged man with a dark face and a pleat on his face without smiling.
These people who have been raising boats in the country all year round are exposed to the sun and rain.
Although you earn more than planting crops, you also have a lot of hard work.
After the box was put down, Zhao Ce got on the boat first, then took Su Caier, who was standing on the shore nervously, and hugged her up.
Su Caier stood up and looked carefully at the shaking water surface.
The two of them sat in the cabin and the boat quickly started to move.
Zhao Ce took out the book he wanted to memorize and looked at it. At the same time, he also took out her tools for learning calligraphy for Su Caier, and asked her to practice calligraphy on the small table.
For a moment, everything was quiet.
There were only the sound of the boat rowing across the water and the rustling sound of Zhao Ce flipping through books.
Midway through, the two of them cooked a pot of hot water in the small stove on the boat. After eating some dry food prepared by Li, they closed their eyes and took a break, and continued their morning movements.
As dusk approached, the boatman leaned on the shore and pointed to a temple on the mountain not far away and said, "Two, we can rest here tonight. If you are not used to it, you can stay in the temple for a night."
The boatman said that it takes only two quarters of an hour to walk here to the temple.
He will help watch the luggage.
If they don't want to leave, they can also stay on the boat for the night.
Zhao Ce looked at Su Caier. Su Caier thought about it and was hesitant.
She has never slept in the temple on the mountain, but she has never tried it on the boat.
It's a bit difficult to make a decision.
Zhao Ce was not in a hurry, and waited for her to decide.
Su Caier asked him in a low voice: "Husband, did we take this path when we came back?"
Zhao Ce nodded.
"You can go if you want to."
Only then did Su Caier decide.
"Then let's stay on the boat tonight, and wait until we come back next time, and we will live in the temple. By the way, we will ask our husband for a talisman for the imperial examination."
Zhao Ce didn't care, so he just followed her.
The boatman ordered a small stove, cooked a little food, and took out a small plate of pickles from a small pot.
"If you don't dislike me, just eat some."
The two of them ate some whole and looked at the huge sunset printed on the river.
At night, my ears were filled with the sound of birds and insects on the shore.
From time to time, there is also the sound of fish leaping out of the sea in the water.
Su Caier hugged in her husband's arms in fear and said with regret: "Husband, we should go to the temple to stay."
Zhao Ce hugged her tightly and pulled the cotton coat covered with his body.
"It's okay. When we came back, we went to the mountain to stay and stopped spending the night on the boat."
Su Caier held her ears again and listened to the movements outside for a while.
Soon he fell asleep in a daze.
In the middle of the night, a bell vaguely heard from afar penetrated into Zhao Ce's ears.
Zhao Ce had not fallen asleep at first and soon woke up.
The little girl in her arms breathed gently in front of his chest.
Zhao Ce suddenly remembered a poem.
"The bells came to the passenger ship in the middle of the night when Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City."
Listening to the bell ringing slowly, Su Caier drilled into his arms.
Zhao Ce closed his eyes again before he was ready to fall asleep.
The next day, they did not arrive at the ferry until noon.
I have to say that the feeling of being down-to-earth is more pleasant than drifting on a boat.
When Su Caier got off the boat, she was still shaking.
Zhao Ce supported him, saw that the boatman helped to move the box down, and gave him a little copper plate, asking him to help hire a ox cart.
As soon as they moved all the things up, two servants dressed up there, carrying a bag of angular things, ran over panting.
"Uncle, is this going to the capital city?"
The uncle who was driving nodded and said in embarrassment: "My car was rented by this young man and I won't carry anyone else."
The two of them looked at Zhao Ce.
One of them stepped forward and said, "We are from the Cao family in Fucheng. Can we ride the same car with the young master's wife?"
Su Caier knew that she could not cause trouble for her husband outside, so she didn't look up.
On the contrary, the uncle who was driving had a strange expression when he heard this name.
"The Cao family in Fucheng?"
But he didn't say anything, just waiting for Zhao Ce to make a decision.
Zhao Ce also noticed the uncle's expression and looked at the two of them again.
He is dressed in an average manner and looks like he is just a servant of a small family.
When Zhao Ce first arrived at the prefecture, he was not good at making friends with others.
So he nodded and said, "Yes."
The two of them breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Thank you, Mrs. Young Master."
"Most of the ox carts at this ferry were rented out. The two of us brothers didn't have enough money and couldn't afford to rent one."
"We both took the rear of the car and would not disturb you."
The two of them put the sacks in their hands aside and sat at the rear of the car.
One of them took out two copper coins from his pocket and handed them to Zhao Ce behind him.
"By the way, this is the car money given by my master. Please don't mind it."
Zhao Ce waved his hand and said, "It happened to be the way, so there is no need."
The man said "happy" and said, "How can this be done?"
"Our Cao family is a mansion and a well-known family. Our master is stingy, but the accounts are still clear."
"If we were given two copper coins to ride in the ox cart, then the money for this cart must be given."
As he said that, he stuffed it directly into Zhao Ce's hands.
Zhao Ce looked at the two copper coins in his hand and couldn't help but smile.
Chapter completed!