Chapter 403 – Trapped Halfway on a Snowy Day

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Wei Ruo received a three hundred taels of silver checks from the people of Tong De Tang.

The silver in white flowers has arrived, Wei Ruo is in a very good mood.

Together with the newly acquired 1,500 acres of land, Wei Ruo’s mood was not generally good.

Now all that was left was for Wei Mingting to nod his head and agree to the marriage between himself and Zhao Xun.

Wei Ruo knew that in the past few days Wei Mingting had sent people to inquire about the Zhao family’s situation already Zhao Xun’s body.

Wei Ruo is not worried about this because Zhao Xun’s body has indeed improved, he took the disease to participate in the autumn test is really risky, but he can survive also proved that his body has indeed been a lot better.

Now Wei Ruo has a lot of property, a lot of stores, a lot of silver has been saved, and the marriage has been settled.

Everything was going in the direction Wei Ruo wanted it to go.

“Miss, now we have the money to open a new store and buy a new mansion.”

“This time I’m going to use this silver to buy a store in the provincial city.” Wei Ruo said.

“Miss, didn’t you already ask the Nurse to buy the store that?” Xiu Mei said in disbelief.

“That’s right, the store to be opened has already been bought, the store I intend to buy this time is not to be used to open my own store, it is intended to be used to rent out to earn rent.” Wei Ruo said.

Wei Ruo recently got a reward, the harvest on the farm, a few piles of business and earned some, so the hand and more silver.

Wei Ruo likes to use money to make money, so she thought about becoming a chartered house.

Taking advantage of the general environment of the provincial city is not good now, low-priced purchase of a number of stores, wait until the disaster passed, the value of the stores in the provincial city is bound to rise, then whether it is to re-sell or collect rent is very cost-effective.

“It’s good to collect rent, you’ll get silver every month!” Xiu Mei had a look of anticipation on her face.

“In a few days I’ll have to think of a way to run to the provincial capital and personally take care of this matter. Incidentally, I’ll also deal with the matter of Wind Pavilion Villa.” Wei Ruo pondered.

Wei Ruo has planned, find an excuse to go to the provincial capital to stay for a while, both can do business, but also can hide leisure.

Speaking of which, the last time I went to the provincial capital was with my second brother, so I wonder how he’s doing where he is now, and how that thing that’s bothering him is going.

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The next day, Wei Ruo took Mrs. Yuan and the opening of the land and went out.

He said he was going to stay at Yuan’s house but in fact he was traveling to the provincial capital.

It was already half a month after this trip and back again.

Originally, Wei Ruo was able to arrive at Taizhou Province this evening, but early this morning goose feather snow fell, and in only half a day’s work, there was thick snow on the road.

The city was white with snow both inside and outside, and the road into the city was covered with a thick blanket of snow.

The wheels of the carriage got stuck in the snow and couldn’t move on. Wei Ruo’s carriage was forced to stop outside the city.

“Miss, what should we do, we can’t walk.” Xiu Mei tried to push the carriage out, but failed.

“Meimei, let’s not rush on for now. The snow is still falling, and it’s getting thicker and thicker, even if we push the carriage out from here, the front is still just as impossible to walk.” Wei Ruo analyzed.

“What then?” Xiumei worried.

“Don’t worry, we have everything, even if we stay on this roadside for a few days, it won’t be a problem.” Wei Ruo said.

“Miss has a point! I forgot about it in my haste!” Xiu Mei suddenly realized.

“We’d better clear the snow next to the carriage and build a shed to come.” Wei Ruo planned to set up camp on the spot and get through the snow before making plans.

“Good.”

Wei Ruo and Xiu Mei changed their clothes first, in the morning the two of them wore autumn clothes enough, this moment they will have to wrap the thick winter clothes.

After changing their clothes the duo got to work, clearing the snow around their wagon.

This carriage that Wei Ruo was currently riding in was newly purchased by Wei Ruo herself.

Because Wei Ru herself always want to go out, using the Wei family’s carriage is inevitably inconvenient. And Wei Ru has money is Wei family up and down all know things, she own money to buy a carriage own make sense.

This carriage is more spacious than the original Wei family’s two, and the four walls of the carriage have warm pads, warmth, not leakage, excellent comfort, enough Wei Ruo and Xiu Mei two people in the night.

The duo started by sweeping out a clearing around the wagon.

Xiu Mei stepped on the snow and went to the light bamboo forest not far away to cut a bundle of bamboo.

Then Wei Ruo got a piece of cloth as if by magic and supported a simple shed with bamboo and cloth.

The shed was a little larger than the wagon, leaving a small open space in addition to sheltering the wagon.

Then Wei Ruo fetched the fire pot and charcoal and burned them in the open space next to the carriage, although it was a bit of a waste to do so, the heat generated by the fire pot could to a certain extent make it less likely for the snow to accumulate on top of the shed.

Otherwise the snow will be too heavy and in no time there will be a thick layer of snow that can easily overwhelm the shed.

Next to the fire pit, Wei Ruo raised another stove, set it up, and began to boil water.

Because they couldn’t leave for a while they had to eat on the spot.

Although there was no shortage of dry food on the carriage, but when it was so cold, it was still more to Wei Ruo’s heart to eat something hot.

While the water was boiling, Wei Ruo fetched some more hay and gave it to the two horses.

While Wei Ruo and Xiu Mei were busy, a line of people appeared not far away.

Wei Yichen, Xu Fengyuan, Lu Yuhong, and the others were supposed to ride back to the city from Anzhou Academy, but they were forced to dismount because the snow was just too thick.

After some more distance, walking became difficult, the snow was knee-deep both horse and man, and it was both laborious and dangerous to hurry in such conditions.

But at this time, stopping in place, is also a very dangerous thing, no one knows how long the snow will continue to fall, they only have silver money and no food, just wait in place, there will be the risk of freezing to death and starvation.

Just as the men were wondering what to do and were hungry and freezing, they saw a shed not far away, and saw fire and smoke coming out from underneath it.

A look of surprise and puzzlement appeared on several people’s faces at the same time.

Why is there a shed by the official road on this snowy day?

After a while, a sharp-eyed man recognized the busy figure.

“Brother Eichen, that seems to be your family’s eldest sister?”

At those words, Wei Yi Chen and Xu Fengyuan’s gazes looked over at the same time.

And then both of their gazes changed as they both determined that the figure was Wei Ruo.

At the same time, the busy Wei Ruo also noticed the line of people in the distance.

Upon closer inspection, I realized that it was the students of the Anju Academy.

“Why are they here?” Wei Ruo was a bit puzzled.

What are these scholars doing here on a snowy day instead of staying in the academy?

As she thought about it, she saw these people coming in her direction.

There were six people in this line, namely Wei Yi Chen, Xu Feng Yuan, Lu Yuhong, Yuan Wang Yuan, the first son of the Yuan family’s collateral line, Liu Yu, the second son of the Liu family, a big family in Taizhou Prefecture, and a humble student named Gao Qiant.

After the six people approached and saw the situation on Wei Ruo’s side, they couldn’t help but become more and more surprised and curious.

(End of chapter)