Chapter 240 Did something happen on the road?

Chapter 240 Did something happen on the road?

The trip to deliver potatoes to Baijiazhuang, Nanning Prefecture, ended earlier than expected.

"Brother Bai has already considered the impact of the flood and reduced the original itinerary by half. Why did he reduce it again on this basis?" Shui Qing looked at Fan Jin, his eyebrows full of confusion.

You must know that one more transportation can produce dozens of acres of potatoes. The original reduction is half, and Bai Manxin is bleeding, not to mention that it has been reduced once more on the basis of the original reduction.

The most important thing is that Bai Manshan didn't come back!

Fan Jin gently squeezed Shui Qing's hand to comfort him, then turned to Hu Wenhua and others who came back and asked, "Are you in trouble?"

Bai Ziqian immediately became nervous.

He was not worried that Uncle Wenhua and the others would abandon his father, but he was worried that his father would be injured?

I was worried that they would be worried, and I had to recover from my injuries and couldn’t move, so I couldn’t come back!

He only looked at Hu Wenhua, stared at him closely and asked, "Uncle Wenhua, tell me, is my father injured?"

Dad said, when asking important things you want to know, don’t ask a lot of people in general, but designate one person to ask.

Ask a lot of people, and everyone will hesitate and push the envelope. Often no one will answer you. If you designate a person to ask, this person must answer you when asked, and taking into account the presence of other people who know the situation, the possibility of lying and deception is also small. too much.

Hu Wenhua was asked by Bai Ziqian and shook his head violently: "No, no! We have not been attacked. Everyone is fine."

Bai Ziqian was half-hearted, and then asked: "Okay, then tell me, what happened, why did my father not come back even though he promised to come back?"

Dad had agreed before going out this time that he would come back to see him before returning to Nandu.

Besides, dad always settles the money for the trip with these men after he comes back. If he doesn't pay in advance, how can he pay the money if these people don't come back with him?

Hu Wenhua's rough face showed discomfort. He opened and closed his mouth, closed and opened it several times, and still couldn't speak.

The faces of the men in Shanshui Village behind him had different expressions, ranging from blue to white. Everyone wanted to say something, but the children in front of him swallowed it all.

Every time they think about what they saw on the road, they feel terrified, with coldness in their hearts and cold sweat on their backs. How can they let these children know about it.

What they saw, they could only keep in their hearts and tell no one.

Li Wu's explanation: "Mr. Bai said that the outside world is more uneasy than he thought. He was worried that your mother was in Nandu. It would be closer to go back directly from Nanning Mansion. From here, we still have to pass through Nanning Mansion, so we didn't follow her back. "

Bai Ziqian knew the distance. Nandu was to the south of Guangning Prefecture. To go to Nandu, he had to pass through Nanning Prefecture.

His father has always known that things are not peaceful outside. His father has stepped up the delivery of potatoes because he wants to have them shipped earlier and then go back. Something happened or he saw something on the way, otherwise his father would not suddenly change his plans and itinerary!

Bai Ziqian looked at the seventy or eighty men in front of him. They all shrugged their shoulders and looked worried before. They were completely gone from the high spirits they had when they came back from the previous four trips, let alone the joy after making money those few times.

It's just that they seemed to have agreed upon it and kept silent and would not tell them.

"By the way, Brother Bai has written a letter to you!" Hu Wenhua dug through the oilcloth in the car, took out two pieces of paper and handed them both to his brother-in-law: "I don't know which copy is which, brother-in-law, take a look. "

The letter was written in Baijiazhuang, so it was naturally impossible to have an envelope.

As for these men, even if there were seventy or eighty of them, except for a few common words that he knew a little bit, the rest were all illiterate, so there was no need to be on guard.

Fan Jin took it, opened the paper with his long fingers, only looked at the letter's header, then folded it again and handed it to Bai Ziqian beside him, saying warmly: "This is for you."

Bai Ziqian quickly took it and read it.

This is his father's handwriting.

There was a code word in it that his father had agreed with him. It was indeed okay. He just said that if he saw some bad things on the road, he should return to Nandu first and let him remember his homework and protect himself at Aunt Shui Qing's house.

Don't worry too much about your parents.

Fan Jin opened the second piece of paper. After reading it quickly, he picked the key points and said to Shui Qing beside him: "Brother Bai, please ask us to advance the money for this trip and return it to us when he comes."

Shui Qing understood immediately: "Okay, luckily we saved some money from selling medicinal materials, which is just in time to help Brother Bai."

Bai Manshan kept his belongings with them. She and Fan Jin knew about it, Bai Manshan, Li Huyu and Bai Ziqian knew about it, but they didn't know about the rest.

Nowadays, the courtyard is full of people, and they are going to perform a full set, and no one can leak it.

Bai Ziqian reacted very quickly and thanked the two of them: "Thank you, Uncle Jin and Auntie!"

Li Wu waved his hand quickly, "Actually, there's no rush. It's just that the money has not been paid this time. You can wait until Mr. Bai comes before paying. We can trust Mr. Bai."

The previous few times I came back at noon on the last day, it was actually only calculated as half a day and fifty cents, but Mr. Bai generously calculated it as a whole day. Each of their families had already earned more than three taels of silver. This time it will be later. It's okay, the family is not waiting for rice to be cooked.

Other men echoed: "It's okay, just be late. I have food and drink at home, and there is no shortage of money at the moment."

"Your family also needs to save some money for emergencies. You can't use it all. Otherwise, what should you do if you need to spend money on something urgent?"

"Yes, you should have some money at home!"

Shui Qing had already turned around and went into the main room to get the money. When he came out, he said with a smile: "Since Brother Bai asked us to advance the payment, he is trusting us. We can't be sorry for his trust!

Although the family doesn’t have much money after paying, there is still some leftover, which is enough, so everyone can rest assured. "

This also shows that all of his belongings are here, and there is basically not much left after paying, so as to prevent others from thinking about him.

The men in the village couldn't help but lament that Hu Shuiqing was so generous in his work.

No wonder a rich man like Mr. Bai is willing to be on good terms with the Fan family. Such a person feels at ease.

Shui Qing pressed the broken silver and copper plates into people's hair, making sure not to miss anything.

The men who received the money all thanked Bai Ziqian.

Fan Jin looked at Shui Qing and said, "Brother Bai also said that he would keep thirty swords and give the rest to us."

Shui Qing looked very happy.

This is equivalent to passing these swords through the open road.

Baijiazhuang really needed big swords. They originally asked Bai Manshan to keep half of fifty swords, but they didn't expect that Bai Manshan only kept thirty swords.

When the men in the yard heard that Bai Manshan had given dozens of swords to Fan Jin's family, their eyes were bright and dark!

No one in the village knows the deterrence and importance of these swords better than them!