Chapter 207 Family Reunion

The people in the carriage were shocked when they heard the sound and quickly opened the curtain. Although she couldn't see her face through the power fence, her eyes suddenly turned red and she tried her best to hold it back.

Shen Zhao lifted the fence and asked in a deep voice, "Why are you here? There are refugees and bandits everywhere on this road, why are you running out again?"

Yu Wanqiu sniffed, smiled, and said, "I'm going to Pingcheng to visit relatives."

Shen Zhao looked around and asked, "Where are your followers? Why didn't the family send someone to escort them?"

Just as Ying'er was about to speak, Yu Wanqiu jumped in and said, "We met a bandit on the road and got separated. Fortunately, we will arrive in Pingcheng soon."

Shen Zhao saw her haggard face and didn't dare to think about how much hardship she had suffered on the road. The coachman looked at her with a stern look, and he was not the coachman from her family.

"What were you arguing about just now?"

Ying'er said angrily: "He won't leave even after we've agreed on a price. He won't send us into the city until we ask for a higher price. How can there be such a person?"

Seeing that the visitor was not easy to deal with, the coachman quickly apologized and said, "It's hard to do business these days, so the price we offered can only go so far."

Shen Zhao glanced at the coachman with a sullen face, and the coachman was suddenly frightened.

"No, it's really not a lie."

Shen Zhao pulled the reins and approached the carriage, stretched out his hand towards Yu Wanqiu, "Come up, I will take you into the city."

He held Yu Wanqiu's hand and held the waist with the other hand, then lifted the person onto the horse and placed him in front of him.

Shen Yu had followed her a long time ago and stopped not far away to watch. Seeing this, she stepped forward and said, "You are Miss Yu's maid, right? I'll take you for a ride."

Riding a horse was much faster than a carriage. We entered the city before dark and stayed in an inn.

Shen Yu finished washing and went to Shen Zhao's room.

"Miss Yu, what are you going to do?"

Shen Zhao's hair was still wet and he said, "I have asked her and her maid. I will send her to a relative's house tomorrow and we will continue to Hezhou."

"Are you stubborn?"

"What's wrong?" Shen Zhao was confused.

"If she really wants to go to a relative's house, she can go as soon as she enters the city. Why does she stay in an inn with us?" Shen Yu sat down opposite him. "Also, have you seen her baggage?"

"I saw it." Shen Zhao said.

Shen Yu is really confused, "She said that she met bandits and got separated from her servants. She could still carry her luggage with her even if the carriage was gone. In my opinion, she probably ran out secretly. You'd better ask." Just ask."

Shen Zhao thought to herself, if it wasn't to visit relatives, what could she do? Could it be that he left her and came after her? But they had obviously said goodbye that day.

After all, men are not as careful as women. He can deduce the art of war, but he really knows nothing about women's minds.

The woman he had interacted with the most over the years had a carefree and talkative temperament. How could he know that a woman's mind could be twisted in all directions.

"I'll ask her." Shen Zhao stood up.

"Don't ask her." Shen Yu said, "Since she told you about visiting relatives, she just wants to hide it from you. You'd better ask her maid."

Shen Yu returned to her room. After a long time, she was ready to sleep, when Shen Zhao knocked on her door.

Shen Zhao at the door looked very depressed, "Let's talk?"

Shen Yu pointed her chin, Shen Zhao looked over and smiled immediately.

Wine has been prepared on the table for a long time. In the past, when the two brothers and sisters wanted to talk, they would prepare a pot of wine and chat while drinking.

"Go to the roof?"

"Yeah." Shen Yu smiled and nodded lightly.

She picked up the wine pot, Shen Zhao took the wine glass, and the two of them climbed onto the roof quietly.

"Is there a problem?"

"Yes." Shen Zhao held out the cup for her to pour wine, "She was kicked out of the Yu family."

Shen Yu said "Yeah" and just wanted to be a listener.

Shen Zhao raised his head and finished the drink, then continued: "She has been kicked out a long time ago, I...I never knew that every time I sent her back to the back door of Yu Mansion, she would wait for me to leave before going to her rented yard. "

Shen Zhao lowered his head and two tears fell silently.

"Is it because she always comes out to find you?" Shen Yu guessed.

Shen Zhao nodded, "Her family is not just a few people like ours. The Yu family is an aristocratic family with strong family traditions."

There are four or five girls in the Yu family. When she went to Yanliangguan last year, Taifu Yu became furious. After returning to Beijing, she went out frequently. Taifu Yu asked people to follow her, and then they discovered Shen Zhao's traces.

Taifu Yu asked her to break off from Shen Zhao, but she refused and was kicked out of the house to sever ties with her.

The family thought that if they let her go out to endure hardships, she would turn back, but it turned out that she lived outside and did not go back. As soon as Shen Zhao left Beijing, she followed him.

When they met on the roadside, she thought that she had nothing now and was no longer the golden person she once was. She couldn't help but lie, saying that she was going to Pingcheng to visit relatives.

Shen Zhao stretched out his cup, and Shen Yu filled another cup for him.

"Ah Yu." Shen Zhao suddenly called her.

"Um?"

Shen Zhao looked sideways at her, "Before the expedition last year, you said you had a dream. Did the dream come true?"

Shen Yu slowly exhaled the breath from her chest, "Half of it came true. I didn't go to Yanliangguan in the dream. You left, and so did my father. I was the only one left. Except that you are still alive, there is no difference. "

Shen Zhao was silent for a long time, "What about you after I die?"

"Me?" Shen Yu smiled and drank the wine, "I was given a marriage to Jiang Lianzhi, and I drowned in a small lake in Jiang Mansion three years later."

Shen Zhao took a few breaths, his heart aching terribly, "What about late autumn?"

"When I got married, she came to add to my makeup. When I died, she was not married."

Shen Zhao wiped his face and said, "I want to take her back to Hezhou."

"If you don't bring it, I will bring it too, and I will scold you on the road with her." Shen Yu handed over the wine bottle.

Shen Zhao smiled and turned away with tears on his face.

He owed too many people.

The brother and sister did not drink too much and set out for Hezhou early the next morning.

Yu Wanqiu had never traveled on horseback before, and originally planned for Shen Yu to go first. Shen Zhao bought a carriage and took Yu Wanqiu's master and servant to follow later. Yu Wanqiu was worried that it would delay their trip, so he insisted on not agreeing, so Shen Zhao took the lead. On the way.

She ran on the road for three days without complaining about the pain. It was only on the fourth day that Shen Zhao discovered that something was wrong with her walking. The maid said that her thighs were worn out by riding horses, but she didn't complain about the pain.

How could a young lady from an aristocratic family with a delicate body and expensive body have ever suffered such hardship?

Shen Zhao wanted to stop and let her rest, so she threatened not to go to Hezhou. Yu Wanqiu endured the nearly one-month journey, and even Shen Yu admired her.

Hezhou is a big city. It is the birthplace of the Lu family, as well as business roads and shipping ports.

This place is not like the refugees along the way. Instead, it is peaceful with singing and dancing. The boats on the river are full of young men who spend a lot of money and live in a drunken life. Who knows what kind of life the people outside are living?

Mrs. Lu knew they were coming and sent someone early to wait for them on the official road.

The old lady stood at the door, surrounded by a group of maids.

Looking at the horses approaching, Mrs. Lu took two steps forward and said with tears in her eyes: "Auntie, Zhao'er is finally here."

Shen Yu's eyes were hot. She had not seen her grandmother for four years in her past life and this life.