Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 648 Escape

"Thank you so much, brother, you are such a good person!" Yuan Qing looked grateful and bent down unconsciously while speaking.

The man's impression of him became better and better. Seeing his thin figure, he couldn't help but ask, "Where do you live? If it's not far, I can use the ox cart to pull you back."

Yuan Qing waved his hands repeatedly: "Brother, you have helped me too much today. I can't trouble you anymore. Fortunately, I met you today. If it were someone else, I really don't know what to do..."

After a while, amidst Yuan Qing's continuous expressions of gratitude, the man happily drove away on the ox cart.

After he walked away, Nanny Zhang came out hurriedly, "Mr. Yuan, let this old servant hold him."

He then said with a look of relief: "I didn't expect to meet such a good person. He didn't run away with the money."

Yuan Qing gave her a quilt and chuckled, "Yeah, we're lucky."

The fact that the family has an ox cart means the situation is not particularly bad; the person has a calm expression, nothing bad has happened recently, and is unlikely to do anything extreme; when it is not his fault, he can still patiently talk to the perpetrator and teach the younger generation, which shows that he is a kind-hearted person.

Such people are naturally less likely to run away with the money.

After feeling relieved, Nanny Zhang continued, "Mr. Yuan, you have a way of seeing people. Look around and see who might not run away with the money. I'll follow your example and try it once, and then ask someone to buy us some rice and flour to eat."

Yuan Qing shook his head: "No, the same thing happening twice in one day will easily attract attention. We will think of a solution to the food problem later. There are fishing nets on the boat, let's try to catch some fish first."

Now Nanny Zhang was very convinced of Yuan Qing, but she felt a little sorry for her own mistress. She had just given birth, and not only could she not replenish her body as usual, she couldn't even have decent food to eat.

The two of them returned to the boat carrying the cotton cloth and immediately smelled a strong aroma of meat. Nanny Zhang felt her stomach growling with hunger and her internal organs were clamoring for food.

She was pleasantly surprised. "You've already cooked?"

Yanqiu emerged from the cabin, impressed. "Yes, I didn't expect Doctor Song to be not only a skilled doctor, but also a fantastic fisherman! He dug a few earthworms out of the mud, bent an embroidery needle into a hook, and broke off a branch to make a simple fishing rod. He threw it into the water, and soon a fish was hooked!"

Thinking back to Song Ying's fishing experience, Yanqiu still finds it incredible. The more she interacted with him, the more shocked she was by him.

It's rare for a woman to possess such advanced medical skills, but I didn't expect her to be so skilled at fishing! She's also very adept at descaling and filleting fish!

Song Ying smiled and thought to herself that if Tangtang were here, she wouldn't even need to make a fishhook. She could just reach out and catch a fish with one claw.

Well, I miss Tangtang a little. I don’t know if she has eaten well and played well recently.

Putting down the quilt, Aunt Zhang lifted the lid of the pot, and hot steam wrapped in a fresh fragrance hit her face. There was not only fish in the pot, but also a few jade-green water sunflower leaves floating on it. The soup was clear and reflected the slightly golden color of the stove fire.

"You also found water sunflower?!"

"That's not all," Yanqiu smiled, pulling out a small bamboo basket from behind her. Inside was a selection of fresh wild vegetables: red purslane stems stretched out like coral branches, a few green fruits dotted among the green leaves of wolfberry seedlings, and a few Kochia scoparia seedlings with their furry shoots curled up...

Nanny Zhang was stunned. "Doctor Song, you have such a talent. You can live well even if you live alone in the mountains!"

She couldn't help but feel some confidence in the upcoming escape journey. With a smart man like Mr. Yuan planning the escape route, and Doctor Song being well-read in medical books, she knew exactly which wild vegetables were edible and which were poisonous.

Now that the two major problems of route and food have been solved, maybe I can escape from Scar and others' pursuit smoothly.

Song Ying pointed to a place not far away and said, "Oh right, we just found a small river over there. We walked along it for a while, but we didn't reach the end. We don't know where it leads to."

Dongchangfu is too close to where the accident happened, otherwise she would have to find someone to ask.

Yuan Qing looked over and said, "Let's go that way. Captain Chu mentioned to me before that there's a small river in Dongchang Prefecture that we can avoid going through the sluice gate."

"When did you ask Captain Chu?" Song Ying was a little surprised. Before last night, they had completely thought about rowing on the road, so naturally they would not think of asking about the route.

"Before arriving in Linqing."

"Why did you think of asking this?" Song Ying became more and more confused. At that time, Zhang Renzhi had not yet contacted Wang Zhizhou, so there was no possibility that Yuan Qing noticed anything and made preparations in advance.

Yuan Qing pursed her lips and said, "Didn't they charge a fee to pass the gate at that time? I wanted to learn more so that I could write something meaningful in the future."

At that time, Chu Dajiang looked regretful and said that the small river was too narrow for the canal boats to pass through. Otherwise, he would have taken his boats to pass through there and saved a lot of tolls.

At that moment, several people rowed the boat towards the small river.

The reeds around were so tall that they almost covered the small river. From a distance, one could not even notice that there was a small river. Passing through it made the fleeing people feel very safe.

You just have to be careful, otherwise the reed stems will rub against your exposed skin and immediately leave red marks and cause itching.

Yanqiu is good at sewing, and she quickly made clothes as soon as she got the cloth. The clothes they were wearing now were really eye-catching and had to be changed as soon as possible.

Although Aunt Zhang's eyesight was not very good, she also picked up the needle and thread to help her sew, while Song Ying fiddled with some newly picked herbs.

Yuan Qing rowed desperately, not wanting to stop for a moment. Before he knew it, the sky was already filled with sunset.

At this moment, a team of canal soldiers broke into a village, breaking the tranquility of the village.

A canal soldier grabbed an old man who was resting at the village entrance with a fierce look on his face, took out a few portraits and opened them, "Look, do you see them?"

Several elderly people were extremely frightened, and the old man who was caught by the canal soldiers was shaking all over. "Sir, I didn't do anything. I'm already old..."

"I didn't ask you that!" The soldier interrupted impatiently, almost shoving the portrait in his hand into the old man's face. "I just want to see if you have seen them."

“N-Never.”

The canal soldier impatiently left him and asked others.

They went door to door asking questions, not sparing anyone they met.

The village chief gritted his teeth and followed, asking cautiously, "Sir, what have these people done wrong?"

Cao Bing glared at him and said, "Why do you care so much? Just answer whatever is asked."

The village chief shrank his neck in fear, but he thought that there must be something fishy about this so-called criminal, otherwise the authorities would have just issued a wanted order.

Although he understood, he didn't dare to stop it, and he felt more and more uneasy. It would be fine if it was an official wanted criminal, but if he asked this kind of inexplicable question, he might kill him because he was worried that he knew too much.