However, the young escort, Rong Yi, had never been to Fengxi City, so his pace along the way was a bit slow.
Whenever they came to a fork in the road, Rong Yi, who was driving the escort agency's carriage, would be completely confused. He could only stop to study the map or ask a passerby.
Sometimes he studied the wrong direction and had to take a detour or two. Then he found that the road was different from that on the map, so he had to go back and start again.
Sometimes he was unlucky and met some malicious passers-by who gave him the wrong directions, and he went through a lot of trouble before realizing that he had taken the wrong path.
After seven days of travel, Mingyue and the other two finally arrived at the next small town. According to the original plan, they should have been near Fengxi City by now.
But now they are still seven or eight days away from Fengxi City.
Faced with Rong Yi's embarrassment and unwillingness to look her in the face, Mingyue also noticed something was wrong.
This silly boy is clearly a person with poor sense of direction.
It's really misleading for someone with poor sense of direction to come out and lead the way.
However, Rong Yi was a sincere and frank person, so Mingyue really couldn't blame him, and she hadn't planned to go to Fengxi City in the first place.
Although she had already disguised herself, for safety reasons, she still planned to change locations several times so that even if those people came to find her, they would have to go around in circles and eventually lose track of her.
So what was Rong Yi's mistake? As long as he didn't charge more, Mingyue would have liked him to take a longer detour.
Speaking of which, the little girl also likes Rong Yi very much, because this uncle never dislikes her stuttering and even secretly gives her snacks.
Speaking of the little girl, Mingyue felt that the name Zhou Pandidi was really disgusting. Both the surname and the given name made her feel extremely disgusted, so she decided to give the little girl a new name.
But then again, the original owner's biological parents and adoptive parents were not good people, so it didn't seem like a good idea to let the little girl take the original owner's surname.
Finally, Mingyue thought about it and decided to let the little girl take her surname, so she was named Ming and Mingmei.
I hope her life is as bright and beautiful as her name suggests. She is herself and not some money-loser who can attract a younger brother.
Although the little girl was sensible, she was still too young and didn't quite understand the meaning of her name. But she still liked her new name very much and asked Mingyue to call her many times a day.
In the little girl's heart, the new name represents a new life.
From now on, she will be her mother's Mingmei, and not the money-losing Zhou Pandi in the eyes of her aunts.
*
Zhoujia Village.
"What's going on with Miss Wang? Didn't she say she would come to our house a few days ago? Why hasn't she come after such a long time? Chengwen, tell me the truth, are you and Miss Wang having a quarrel?"
"Yes, Third Brother, we killed all the chickens and ducks at home a few days ago, and we were just waiting for Miss Wang to come and cook them. Now the chickens and ducks are about to go bad. Is Miss Wang coming or not?"
"That's right. Our Jinbao keeps asking for chicken legs every day. When will Miss Wang come?"
"Cheng Wen, please say something. Chen Mingyue and that little stutterer have been kicked out. There's no one to do the housework. The money has been paid out. When will Miss Wang come in?"
"That's right, doesn't Miss Wang have a maid? I don't want to cook anymore..."
“…” Several women from the Zhou family surrounded Zhou Chengwen, and each of them asked about Miss Wang.
Little did they know that Zhou Chengwen also felt very bitter. They only knew to ask him, but who else could they ask him to ask
It was clearly Miss Wang who took the initiative to approach him in the beginning, but now when he went to find Miss Wang again, Miss Wang refused to even see him and just sent him away with two maids.
He thought about it over and over again and realized that he had never offended Miss Wang. They were clearly in love and discussing their lifelong affairs a few days ago. Why is it that now she won't even let him see her
You have to know that in order to marry Miss Wang, he even abandoned his wife and daughter, and even gave Chen Mingyue thirty taels of silver, which was all the property of their Zhou family.
If Miss Wang really doesn't want to marry him, then... what should I do
Zhou Chengwen clenched his fists tightly in his sleeves, but facing his mother, sister-in-law, and brother's wife, he still forced a smile on his face: "I told Miss Wang not to come first. You also know that I just divorced Chen Mingyue. If she comes so soon, it will not be good for her reputation."
When the women in Zhou's family heard this, they found it to be true.
But the fourth son's wife was not very happy. She grumbled in dissatisfaction: "Why didn't you say it earlier? Jinbao Yuanbao is thinking about the big chicken leg!"
Mrs. Zhou Huang hated to hear people say bad things about her third son. She immediately glared at the fourth son's wife and angrily scolded her, "Eat, eat, eat. All you do all day is eat. Are you a reincarnated ghost? Go sweep the chicken coop and chop the firewood. You are such a grown-up, how can you not care about life?"
Upon hearing this, the eldest and second daughters-in-law exchanged glances and quickly slipped away, fearing that they would be taken out on.
How could the fourth son's wife do so much work? You know, all these jobs were done by Chen Mingyue before.
The fourth son's wife glanced at Zhou Huang cautiously, "Mom, where can I chop firewood? Let's wait for the eldest brother and the others to come back..."
After hearing this, Mrs. Zhou Huang scolded again: "We are both wives, Chen Mingyue can do it, why can't you? You are such a lazy ox..."
The fourth son's wife felt wronged at that time, and tears were falling down her face.
Mrs. Zhou Huang became even angrier, feeling that her dignity was challenged, and she cursed even louder.
There was crying and cursing in the room, which made Zhou Chengwen feel very annoyed. He just threw his sleeves and walked out.
However, Zhoujia Village was also very lively at this moment because several horse-drawn carriages came to the village and a group of people dressed in brocade and embroidered clothes came to the village, saying that they were looking for someone.
"Mr. Chen's daughter? Isn't that Mingyue? Oh, you guys came at a bad time. Mingyue was divorced by the Zhou family."
"Yes, the Zhou family is also heartless. Mingyue worked like a slave in their family, doing all the hard work. As a result, I heard that Zhou Chengwen hooked up with a rich lady in the county town, and then he came back to divorce Mingyue, and also said that Mingyue asked the Zhou family for thirty taels of silver. Bah, Mingyue is such an honest girl, how could she do such a thing?"
"That's right. I think it was the Zhou family who slandered Mingyue. It's such a pity that such a good girl married the wrong person."
"By the way, what are you looking for Mingyue for?"
"Yeah, what do you want her for?"
A group of villagers from Zhoujia Village surrounded the carriage and got off. The fat woman with a smile as big as a dough asked.
The fat woman smiled and said, "Miss Yue is our wife's niece who is living away from home. I came back to take her to Beijing."
(End of this chapter)