EBE Chapter 146 Unearthing Old Stories
Chapter 146 Unearthing Old Stories
The carriage sped along the official road back to Anping County. The horses ran fast and steadily, and they would steady the carriage on their own without Brother Xia having to give any instructions.
Xia Mo, sitting inside the carriage, didn't feel much of a bump.
Even at full speed, the journey between Anning Prefecture and Anping County would take about three hours by carriage.
It's too far. If it really takes that long to get back to Anping County, my family will probably worry.
About two kilometers away from Anning Prefecture City.
Xia Mo got out of the carriage, saddled the horse, and then put the carriage into his soul space, sharing a horse with his brother Xia.
Without the constraints of the carriage, the horses ran even faster.
Brother Xia felt the wind rushing across his cheeks, and his heart was inexplicably excited, passionate, and joyful.
Brother Xia became so engrossed in the activity that he completely forgot about the time.
Worried that her parents would be anxious, Xia Mo used her divine sense to transmit her voice across a thousand miles to her father.
Anjia Village, Xiajia Village—
This wasn't the first time Xia's father had heard Xia Mo's telepathic message, but hearing it again still made him widen his eyes in amazement.
Xia Moqianli transmitted his voice, saying, "Father, my elder brother and I bought a fast horse in Anning Prefecture and are riding back now."
Xia's father said to the air, "I know, be careful."
"What are you talking to the air?" Xia's mother asked curiously when she saw Xia's father talking to himself.
“It’s not talking to thin air. It’s our precious daughter who used her special abilities to send me a message. She said she bought a fast horse in Anning Prefecture and is riding it with her older brother to the village,” Xia’s father said.
Xia's mother stared wide-eyed in surprise.
“Weren’t Shenggen and I wrongfully imprisoned before? Back then, every day when Nannan came to the city, she would send us messages through her voice, and she would also use her special powers to send us delicious food through that little window,” Xia’s father said embarrassedly when he mentioned this. “After Yougen and I got out of prison, we even gained ten pounds, hahaha…”
Thinking back to the time when she got clothes for Xia's father, Xia's mother also burst out laughing.
"Our daughter is amazing," Xia's mother laughed, then turned around to continue looking after the two unconscious old women.
* * *
On the official road between Anning Prefecture and Ningping County—
"Brother, stop the horse," Xia Mo said, looking towards the village not far away beside the official road.
Brother Xia, not understanding the reason, still stopped his horse.
"what happened?"
"Brother, what village is that?" Xia Mo pointed to the village beside the official road.
This village is located in the area between Anping County and Anning Prefecture. It would take an hour and a half to travel by fast horse to either Anping County or Anning Prefecture.
“Brother, as you know, my master has assigned me a mission, and I can’t stay in Anjia Village forever. If I go on a mission, the business at home and Zuimeng Restaurant can’t be interrupted, so you’ll have to take over the delivery. I was thinking, if you run the whole route by yourself, it won’t be enough for a day, and the braised meat will lose its freshness over time. Now that’s great, there’s a village here, so let’s set up the delivery and pickup points here, what do you think?”
As Xia Mo finished speaking, she smirked smugly.
In this way, both sides can save time.
Brother Xia nodded, deciding to discuss it with Lu Xun later.
The brother and sister stopped at the village entrance and saw the sign that read "Le'an Village".
What are you doing here?
A woman chatting at the village entrance saw the brother and sister and cautiously inquired about them.
"We're not going into the village, we just came to take a look. Are there any people in your village with the surname Liu or Xia?" Brother Xia asked.
The woman nodded: "Yes."
Although the woman said yes, she was wary and didn't say anything more.
"Thank you," Brother Xia said, clasping his hands in a fist salute before leaving.
Xia Mo's divine sense enveloped the entire Le'an Village, rapidly gathering information about the village's situation.
"Let's go," Xia Mo said to her older brother Xia after she finished gathering the information.
Brother Xia nodded politely to the woman who had replied, then turned around and mounted his horse.
Are you a married couple?
When the brother and sister were about to leave, the woman became more talkative.
The woman took a liking to Brother Xia's handsome appearance, her eyes darting around, and she began to have other thoughts.
“We are siblings,” Brother Xia said. After Xia Mo was seated, he mounted his horse and spurred it on.
Regardless of what the woman was about to say, Brother Xia did not intend to waste any more time on it.
Brother Xia had already remembered where Le'an Village was.
"drive--"
The horse galloped away, and the woman, with her mouth open, didn't even have time to say a word before she got a mouthful of dirt. She turned her head and spat "Pui pui pui..." for a while before finally spitting out the sand.
"Big brother is so handsome, he's a hot commodity wherever he goes," Xia Mo said with a grin, sitting behind her older brother.
Brother Xia sighed helplessly and said, "Don't joke around with your older brother."
At this moment, Brother Xia had already remembered Le'an Village.
"Brother, is something wrong in Le'an Village?" Xia Mo noticed that her brother's mood was off.
Brother Xia frowned, hesitated, and then recounted the grudges of the previous generation.
When Brother Xia asked if there were any people in the village with the surnames Xia and Liu, he had a vague memory of it. Mainly, he was young at the time, and if it wasn't triggered, he wouldn't remember at all.
“When I was a child, you were only two years old, and I was only six years old. Our family originally lived in a village called Le’an Village,” Brother Xia thought. If Le’an Village is used as the center point in the future, this matter will be exposed no matter what.
Xia Mo frowned slightly, quickly reviewing the information she had gathered in Le'an Village using her divine sense.
Her expression hardened for a moment, then she relaxed as usual.
"I don't remember the details, but I do remember that my family was wronged and driven out of Le'an Village," Brother Xia said, his hand gripping the reins tightening unconsciously, his knuckles turning white and the veins on the back of his hand bulging.
As Xia Mo looked towards Le'an Village, a flash of coldness crossed her eyes.
"How about... Brother, you should waste more time and run around a bit more?" Brother Xia was reluctant to have any more contact with those people.
"Big brother, aren't they the ones who should really regret it and feel remorseful?" Xia Mo reminded him with a smile.
Brother Xia smiled as he thought about his family's current life.
"The reason why Dad feels a sense of belonging to Anjia Village is because when we had no village to settle down in, Gao Lizheng let us stay and even allowed us to register our household," Brother Xia explained, explaining why his parents cared so much about Anjia Village.
Xia Mo nodded, her heart filled with turbulent emotions.
She had just used her divine sense to gather information about Le'an Village and noticed that there was a family in the village with the same surname as theirs, Xia. The grandmother of that family, Xia Liu, matched the surname Liu. Could it be that... that family was the one who wronged her parents and drove them out of Le'an Village?
"Little sister, we still need to tell our parents about using Le'an Village as a transit point," Brother Xia sighed inwardly.
Parents haven't thought about Lejia Village for a long time. I'm afraid that hearing about it would make their hearts ache and cause them pain.