In Love With My Fierce Farming Wife!
Chapter 505 - 504: Excuse Me, May I Borrow a Light? _1

Chapter 505: Chapter 504: Excuse Me, May I Borrow a Light? _1

Unable to resist a moment of exploration she said, "He must be greeting me, surely he’s also excited about going out to explore mountains and rivers. Pan’er do you think he can understand, is he currently excited?"

Su Pan’er smiled warmly.

Once the travel arrangements were made, both of them felt a sense of relief.

They had breakfast at the relay station and rested for a while to recharge their energy before looking for a trading team to travel with to Yongzhou City.

The reason for travelling with a trading team was twofold; firstly, it was more sociable and secondly, it was to avoid encounters with wild animals or highway robbers.

The cost came at the price of some silver coins.

For Qin Yi, the safety of Su Pan’er and her unborn child was their top priority!

Money was nothing more than material possession.

However, when he thought about the money, he checked all over his body but didn’t find much silver.

It was then that he remembered when they first went down into the tunnel, they never thought they would encounter the current situation, only bringing along enough essentials like water, food, ropes, candles, etc. Ironically, they didn’t bring the silver coins they currently needed the most.

When he emptied his pockets, all he found was some loose silver coins, not even enough to make up ten taels

Even though he was financially challenged, for Su Pan’er and their child’s safety, Qin Yi still went to negotiate with the trading team.

After three unsuccessful negotiations with different trading teams, the members learned that one of the travellers was a heavily pregnant woman. Before he could finish his sentence, they rejected him on the grounds that there were already too many people and they couldn’t accommodate any more.

With no other option, he reluctantly turned his attention to the last trading team which had the fewest guards.

However, when the manager of the trading team was informed that a heavily pregnant woman would be joining, he hesitated.

Qin Yi negotiated extensively with him.

When his gaze fell onto Qin Yi’s robust figure, he changed his mind: "It’s not impossible for you to travel with us. However, you must agree to one condition. On the journey, you must help us take care of the team. If we encounter wild animals or robbers, you can’t stand idly by. You must be the first to fight back. What do you say?"

"Alright!"

Qin Yi agreed without hesitation.

While traveling with the trading team, he was duty-bound to protect Su Pan’er in case of any trouble.

The manager was pleased with his attitude.

"If so, no need to pay. However, you’ll have to prepare your own food rations, water, and tent."

Qin Yi was overjoyed!

"Thank you very much!"

Naturally, travel with the trading team is slow.

Su Pan’er, pregnant as she was, was accommodated in a horse carriage in the middle of the convoy.

There were several women and children of different ages on the carriage. They all arrived at the horse carriage before Su Pan’er, glanced at her as she arrived, and no one took the initiative to greet her.

Su Pan’er didn’t want to be involved with strangers too much. Once she got on the cart, she tucked herself in a corner and dozed off.

The horse carriage was not windproof. The howling cold wind invaded through crevices, causing everyone’s faces to become freezing and everyone to huddle together.

Due to Su Pan’er being the last to arrive, her seat was closest to the edge, and she faced the cold wind throughout the journey. The woman next to her kept trying to hide behind her.

Su Pan’er didn’t mind. Her body was always strong and she had cultivated her inner strength, meaning she didn’t feel particularly uncomfortable.

At noon, the trading team temporarily rested in a mountain valley.

Seeing all the women and children getting off the horse carriage walking towards the mountain, she was somewhat baffled.

Soon, Qin Yi came over. His feet were full of mud, yet he was all smiles. He asked gently, "It’s already noon. They’ve lit a campfire. Pan’er, do you want to get off the carriage to stretch your legs and eat something?"

"Sure."

Su Pan’er originally wanted to refuse, but thinking about how she had been sitting in the carriage for half a day, she agreed it was time to stretch her muscles and agreed.

"Why didn’t I see you if you were leading the convoy?"

She closely observed his feet and asked curiously.

"I was in the second horse carriage in front of you. This mud is from helping push the carriage earlier."

Qin Yi smiled, raised his eyebrows and came forward to support her.

Therefore, even though the official roads were paved with stones and rubble, if a carriage got stuck in a hole, it often required several people to lift the carriage out.

Qin Yi carefully helped Su Pan’er to a fireside nearby.

Su Pan’er took a look and requested Qin Yi decisively, "Go find some water, I’m thirsty."

Hearing that Pan’er was thirsty, Qin Yi quickly went to find water.

Winter was almost here. Vegetation had withered and Su Pan’er randomly grabbed a large amount of dried grass from the side of the road. However, dry grass couldn’t withstand long burns. She simply chopped down a small fir tree by the roadside and dragged it over.

This small fir tree had already withered on the surface and was barely green at the top by winter.

She put the firewood directly into the fire and placed the fir tree at the bottom to light it gradually. The temperature from the campfire took away the cold from their bodies. Two women warming themselves by the fire on the other side came closer.

They asked cautiously, "Can we share the fire?"

"Sure."

Su Pan’er was reorganizing the contents of her bundle, without lifting her head, she responded casually.

Previously, these two women sat closely next to Su Pan’er on the carriage. At this moment, seeing her indifferent attitude, they figured she didn’t want to chat and didn’t forward much conversation. They took out cone-shaped cornbread from their bundle and began roasting it by the fire.

They noticed that Su Pan’er had no food and a younger woman, somewhat embarrassed, handed her some popped rice.

"Here, I made this home-style popped rice, you wouldn’t mind...," she said, her face turning a bit red mid-sentence.

Su Pan’er looked at her puzzled. From the woman’s faded linen clothes, she inferred that her family was not well off.

"No need, you should eat it. I have my own dry provisions."

She declined the woman’s kind gesture and took out the dry rations she had bought at the postal relay station that morning from her bundle to roast over the fire.

The rations were made of mixed grain biscuit, a bit different from what ordinary people made at home.

The popped rice given by the woman was a common choice for travelers.

They cooked rice or mixed grains at home, then fried it to make popped rice. It was fragrant and crunchy with a golden-yellow color. When hungry on the road, they just took a handful of popped rice from the basket hanging from their shoulder or from their bundle, dipped them into a sauce contained in an earthenware or bamboo tube, and squatted on the road to eat.

And finally, they would drink some mountain spring water, which was sufficient for a meal.

Usually, the trading team would not lit a fire halfway. However, due to the harsh cold weather and the presence of numerous elderly and weak women and children, they were afraid of potential problems if they continued in the cold. Hence, they halted and had the "privilege" of warming up popped rice before eating!

Despite this, the rest would be no more than two quarters of an hour.

These two quarters of an hour would amount to half an hour today, enough for everyone to eat something warm!

At this time, people were crowding around the fire. They were so cold that they couldn’t help but move closer.

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