Chapter 551: Half a Month
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Jiang Yue nodded. It turned out that he had been to the Heavenly Spirit Temple in his previous life.
“Then I’ll go with you to the county to send this letter tomorrow.” Jiang Yue said. “We can say that we want to go to the county for a stroll, and that we haven’t been to the county yet. We’ll go after lunch. Sanfu wants to send ice to the Pei family, so we’ll let Sanfu set up a carriage to take us to town. We’ll hire a carriage from town and go to the county. The carriage is faster and we should be able to come back before dark.”
“Sounds good.”
When Jiang Yue and Xue Yan told their family that they wanted to go to the county tomorrow afternoon, the family didn’t have any objections. They were very happy and felt that children should have fun and see the world.
Now, the family was very assured of them and was not afraid that they would get lost. They only told them not to be reluctant to spend money and to buy whatever they liked. The only thing was that they must hire a carriage to come back before dark.
At noon the next day, Jiang Yue and Xue Yan made lunch again. After lunch, Jiang Yue and Xue Yan sat in the carriage driven by Sanfu and went to town together.
The town that their village belonged to was called Peace Town.The county it belonged to was called Xinyuan County. Further up, they could also be called Yiran.
There were many counties in Yiran, and one of them was Xinyuan County.
The county was much livelier than the town, and it was also much larger. There were many shops, and both sides of the street were full of small vendors who had set up stalls to sell their goods.
Although it was still very hot, there were many people walking around or buying things.
Jiang Yue and Xue Yan had separated from Sanfu when they were in town. Then, they came to the county by a carriage hired by the town. They were small, so they shuttled through the lively crowd. Because there were too many people and they were taller than them, they were covered, so the two children were not conspicuous at all.
Although Xue Yan had never been to the county in this life, he had been here in his previous life, so he knew his way around. He led Jiang Yue to a shop.
This was the shop opened by the wealthy merchant Qin family. Usually, people would come to this shop to deliver letters. They just had to give the letter and money to the staff here, and there would be a staff here to handle the matter.
At this moment, the waiter was lazily lying on the rattan chair with his eyes closed as if it was just another day. There were many large wooden boxes behind him, each of which was open. One could clearly see that there were many letters piled inside, and each wooden box had a word stuck on it.
One of the wooden boxes had the words capital city pasted on it.
It was obvious that the letters in the wooden box were to be sent to the capital city.
Jiang Yue and Xue Yan walked in.
Xue Yan took out the letter and 100 coins and put them on the table in front of the waiter, saying, “For the capital city.”
Without even looking at the letter, the clerk took it and threw it into the big wooden box that was going to be sent to the imperial capital. He didn’t even look at Jiang Yue and Xue Yan. He only glanced at the coins and put it away after making sure it was enough. Then, he lay back down and closed his eyes lazily.
Xue Yan had already told her the general situation yesterday, so Jiang Yue was not surprised to see the worker being so casual.
No wonder Xue Yan was so assured.
Jiang Yue couldn’t help but glance at Xue Yan. Xue Yan also looked back at her, and then walked out of the shop with her.
After buying some desserts that could only be eaten in the county, Jiang Yue and Xue Yan hired a carriage to take them back to Locust Village.
On the way, Xue Yan told Jiang Yue that it would take at least half a month for the letter to reach the Empress because they were going to the imperial capital by ship..
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