I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Chapter 273 Departure to Haizhou 7

Finding a village to stay overnight is undoubtedly more troublesome than staying in an inn, so most merchants will check the weather, check their vehicles, prepare dry food and fodder before setting off, and make as many preparations as possible to reach Pingyang County smoothly within one day.

Mu Jinyang and his companions were no exception. They carefully observed the weather, prepared all the necessary items, and checked the carriages and horses carefully. Only then did they make up their minds, got up early, and hurried to Pingyang County the next day.

Like most of the times before, they got up early, had a good meal at the inn, checked the carriages and belongings for the last time, and drove the carriages to wait for the city gates to open.

There were many merchants who had the same idea as them, and they all came to the city gate early to line up.

The city gate was finally opened, and everyone left the city smoothly after being checked by officers and soldiers. The team's marching speed immediately increased.

Except for a few periods when the horses had to rest, the team never stopped to rest. They even had lunch while the horses were resting.

At times like this, everyone could only make do with dry food and snacks, and Gu Wenxuan and the others were no exception.

Not to mention hot meals and dishes, they didn't even have hot water.

Fortunately, after such a rush, they finally managed to enter the city with trepidation before Pingyang County closed the city gate.

They were nervous not only because they were afraid of missing the final deadline to get into the city, but also because when they were walking in the afternoon, dark clouds suddenly began to gather above their heads.

When they finally entered Pingyang County, the sky above their heads was completely covered by dark clouds.

Mu Jinyang did not dare to delay and immediately sent someone to the inn where they usually stayed to ask if there was a place to accommodate their goods, people and horses. After the inn gave a positive answer, Mu Jinyang hurriedly took people to complete the check-in procedures.

The innkeeper also knew what the caravan members were worried about. After Mu Jinyang told the innkeeper that they wanted several yards and that there needed to be several warehouses and stables in the yards, the innkeeper immediately asked his waiter to take them to the backyard to unload the goods.

As for trivial matters such as paying deposits, getting keys, and requesting meals and hot water, Gu Wenxuan took the initiative to stay and communicate with the shopkeeper.

A group of people hurried to move the goods into the warehouse and put the carriages and horses into the shed. Mu Jinyang also assigned the escorts and men who would be on duty tonight.

Gu Wenxuan, who had been paying attention to the movements here, calculated the time and asked the innkeeper to bring them hot meals, hot dishes and hot soup at just the right time.

Bai Jingzhou and others who helped move things went back to eat with Gu Wenxuan and others. Wearing straw raincoats and bamboo hats, they hurried back to their own yard amid the rustling sound of falling rain and began to eat in the dim light of an oil lamp.

Gu Wenxuan and the others spent the second and third days in the inn room, because the rain had been falling intermittently since the night they entered the city until the early morning of the third day after they entered the city.

Although the rain was not heavy, it lasted long enough that the road became wet and slippery. For safety reasons, the group did not rush to set off on the third day, but stayed in the inn for another day and night.

The Lin family father and son took this opportunity to intensively make up for the lessons of their students and their own children for two days, while the other members of the caravan either slept soundly or gathered together to chat about this and that.

It is worth mentioning that on the afternoon of the second day after Gu Wenxuan and her friends checked into the inn, they were almost driven out of the inn by a group of aggressive people.

Mu Jinyang and the innkeeper were old acquaintances. In addition, they were one of the first groups to enter the city yesterday evening, so the innkeeper simply gave them the most spacious and convenient courtyard in his inn for vehicles to enter and exit.

After Mu Jinyang and his friends, the inn received many more guests. The separate courtyard and the dozen or so remaining rooms in the inn were also occupied by the merchants one after another last night.

As a result, with only a few old guests checking out, the inn naturally could not free up more guest rooms and courtyards to accommodate new guests.

At first, the shopkeeper didn't take it too seriously, because with such bad weather with continuous rain, old guests stayed and new guests hardly came. Overall, their inn was still able to achieve a dynamic balance of guest rooms.

However, there are always some people in this world who don't play by the rules. The shopkeeper thought that no one would travel in the rain, but someone was going to give him a surprise.

The other party was no ordinary person. Not only did he rush to the best inn in the city as soon as he entered, but he was also rejected by the other party on the grounds that the inn was full, so he came directly to their second-rate inn with a lot of anger.

Perhaps they knew that there would be people they couldn't afford to offend in the best inn, and even if they were rejected out of anger, they were worried that they would hit a wall if they acted like that. So, the group did not cause trouble in that inn, but turned around and vented their anger on the "soft persimmon" inn where Gu Wenxuan and her group were staying.

A noisy group of people stopped their carriages in front of the inn, and then a middle-aged man who looked like a manager walked into the inn with an irritable and arrogant look on his face.

He took out two heavy silver ingots weighing ten taels each and asked the innkeeper to vacate two private courtyards for them.

The innkeeper certainly wanted to make money, but he could only tell the other party with regret that their inn no longer had any private courtyards, and even only the last three rooms were left.

Of course, the other party was not satisfied with the shopkeeper's answer. They took out two more silver ingots and asked the shopkeeper to "negotiate" with other guests to vacate the two best courtyards in the inn for them within a quarter of an hour.

The shopkeeper certainly would not drive away guests who have already checked in just to make money. He is not so short-sighted and would not destroy his reputation for the sake of temporary money.

The other party got very angry at him, and the shopkeeper greeted him with a smile and seemed to be listening very seriously, but in fact, it went in one ear and out the other, and he didn't take it to heart at all.

The middle-aged manager couldn't do anything about him, so he simply took two of his lackeys to the backyard and knocked on the doors of each courtyard one by one, trying to use money to make the guests who had already moved in "voluntarily" vacate their courtyards to them.

However, those who could afford to live in a private courtyard were either from wealthy families and had plenty of money from them. Even if they wanted to earn the money, people like Mu Jinyang and his companions would not throw their caravan's large amount of goods into the water.

The manager has a strong background, so he doesn't dare to act tough after being rejected, for fear of offending someone whom the master can't afford to offend, and he will end up in big trouble.

Mu Jinyang and his gang brought a large amount of goods. Not to mention that he couldn't afford to pay the other party the huge amount of money for the goods, even if he could afford it, his master couldn't wait for the other party to load the goods and move them out.

In this case, the only vulnerable group he could target was a small group of people who seemed to have no background and did not have many carriages, horses, or supplies with them.

Coincidentally, Gu Wenxuan and others who lived next door to Mu Jinyang and his family were exactly the people he thought he could control.