The carriage started to travel, gradually moving away. The large residence slowly disappeared from sight, along with the tall and upright figure in front of the house. He also disappeared from sight.
Only then did Liu Yusheng slowly put down the curtains. She retreated back to the carriage and propped her cheeks on both hands while staring at the stove where charcoal was burning, eyes red.
The carriage was warm, but her heart felt empty. It was as if a chill took a place in her heart and took a piece away.
“Lucky Nannan, don’t you cry!” Xue Qinglian flashed back, staring at the girl’s reddening eye circles and her mouth twitching.
Don’t cry, don’t she cry! He didn’t know how to coax people!
“Woo-woo ——” In the next instant, the girl’s mouth pressed into a line as she buried her head in the cloak in her hands and cried.
There was no hiding it at all.
Xue Qinglian, “…” He kicked Liu Zhixia, who was also dumbfounded. Uncle, quickly coax her!
How the hell do you act as a brother!
“Nannan, we’ll be back after the New Year. “Liu Zhixia was helpless. If his sister was still a child, he could pick her up and coax her, make her laugh. But he really could not do anything now.
Moreover, he really didn’t feel any sadness.
Weren’t they just going home for the New Year?
She hasn’t seen their grandparents and parents for so long, so she should miss them too, right?
“Feng Qingbai… he’s celebrating the New Year alone, so pitiful… woo——”
Two big men, “…” He was pitiful? Where was he pitiful?
Looking at the two men at a loss, trying to coax someone and having nowhere to start, and being gagged by the little girl’s response, Fu Yuzheng sat next to the little girl and patted her on the back.
“After the bitter comes the sweet. His Royal Highness will surely be able to spend the New Year with you every year in the future.
Truth to tell, she wasn’t adept at coaxing either.
She had never encountered such a situation.
Compared with this…she would rather fight with others than coaxing a little girl who cries tears and snot with ease.
She was also divided between tears and laughter. The events that happened recently increasingly made her regard the girl as calm and intelligent and self-sufficient among her peers.
Seeing her like this at the moment, it dawned on her that she was a young girl of only sixteen.
After a while, the little girl’s cries gradually diminished in the carriage, but she was unwilling to lift her head.
Her exposed ears were so red they were dripping blood.
Only after crying did Liu Yusheng realize how embarrassing she had just been.
How could she be like this?
She was so spoiled that she forgot her true age. She really was like a child who had not grown up, and somehow threw a tantrum for no reason.
Feng Qingbai was not present, and no one knew how to coax her, making her embarrassed!
“Do not tell Feng Qingbai!” The girl’s muffled voice burrowed out from her head buried in the cloak.
“…We won’t tell him!” the three chorused.
“You are not allowed to tell grandma, father and mother!”
“We’ll definitely not tell!”
“You guys forget about what just happened!”
“…” Could he lie? Liu Zhixia struggled with a handsome face. “Nannan, can you change it into other requests? I really can’t forget this.”
“Pfft!” Liu Yusheng laughed out loud before anyone else could react.
She blamed Feng Qingbai for making her more and more petulant.
The carriage sped on and soon left the city gates.
Another golden carriage, shining with gold, was waiting at the city gates.
“Lucky Nannan? Why are you only coming out now? Didn’t you say you’d be setting off at 7-9? It’s now minutes past 9. We waited for a full hour! I’m freezing to death!” Qian Wanjin’s voice came through the carriage.
Liu Yusheng opened the curtain and looked outside, just in time to see Shi Xianrou jumping off the carriage and taking out two large packages from the carriage.. She approached and stuffed them in the back of their carriage. “This is a festival gift that Xiao Jinzi and I prepared. Take it back to Grandpa Liu. We’ll wait for you in the capital. Uncle Chang is in good condition and can get out of bed. When you come back next time, we’ll treat you to a meal.”
The couple was here to see them off.
“Okay,” Liu Yusheng nodded, “Just take a quick look and go back soon. The weather is freezing cold.”
When it came to friendship, there was no need for too many pleasantries.
“Lucky Nannan, why are your eyes as red as rabbit’s eyes? Have you cried?” Over in the other carriage, Qian Wanjin, who did not come down, was wrapped up like her into meat dumplings. He lifted the carriage curtain to tease her.
Liu Yusheng closed the curtain to isolate the man’s sight. “Xianrou, hurry up and control him. His mouth is getting meaner and meaner! Let’s go, see you next year!”
If her eyes looked like rabbits, his eyes were that of a brown bear!
The carriage rolled forward once again, gradually moving away from the capital as their friends watched.
Fortunately, it hasn’t started snowing in the capital. Otherwise, the road would have been more difficult to travel.
It was a good time to leave.
It was indeed just right.
The day after Liu Yusheng’s group left, the first snow fell from the sky in the capital.
Afterwards, the snow became heavier, and the entire capital was soon covered with silver makeup.
Whenever the girl passed a state city, someone would report the news back to the King of Nanling Mansion.
Looking at the brief message written on it, a little smile would always ripple out of the man’s eyes, easing his raging emotions.
The winter snow in Nanling almost chased after the girl’s
footsteps and spread all the way through.
Every time she left a place, snow would fall there the next day.
And she happened to dodged all of it.
Xinghua Village’s Blessed Child, his blessed treasure.
The carriage traveled a long distance to Cangwu Town, Yunzhou, ushering the end of December.
The weather was cold. As far as the eye could see, the roadside was white frost.
At the intersection of Cangwu Town and Xinghua Village, a hale and hearty old man, wearing a fur hat on his head and thick cotton sleeves covering his arms, was sitting on an ox cart. He frequently stretched his neck to look around the town.
A middle-aged man in the front of the ox cart was also dressed in a similar fashion, with a thick padded jacket and a fur hat. His hands were clasped together, and his neck would shrink whenever the cold wind blew. “Dad, Yan Hong said it is today, right? Why haven’t we seen anyone yet at this hour? It is noon now, and spoon it will be dark. Will Nannan likely arrive at night?”
“Today is definitely the right day. Didn’t Yan Hong receive a message? Wait a little longer. We have a cart, so there’s no hurry to go back.” The old man took a breath, rubbed his hands, and immediately retracted his hands into his sleeves. “On such a cold day, Nannan must be terribly cold. I wonder if she’s frozen.”
“Hurrying back from a place as far away as the capital, she must have been frozen on such a long journey.” The middle-aged man frowned, feeling distressed.
If it wasn’t for that bastard, Feng Qingbai, would Nannan have to travel back and forth over mountains?
A trip to the capital would take several months. If this was always the case in the future, how could it be good?
“Your mother has prepared hot water at home, so when Nannan returns home, she can use it immediately to expel the cold,” said the old man while turning around to check the stuff filled cart. “You bought all the meat and vegetables that Nannan likes to eat, right?Don’t leave anything out. See if there’s anything else you haven’t bought and quickly make up for it while Nannan is still not here.”
“I’ve bought everything. I remember what my daughter likes to eat!”
The two began to bump heads and rummage through the brimful cart to check everything.
Ta-da-da! The sound of horses’ hooves resonated in the distance.
Peek-Aboo 
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