Spring comes to the desperate place

Chapter 291 Going out

After Song Chunlin had arranged everything in the capital, he prepared to pack his bags and hit the road. In fact, he didn't need to pack anything. Instead, he wanted to leave some supplies for his family, such as seeds.

After learning that the Charity Bureau also grew its own food, Aunt Song thought of the vegetable seeds at home. All the vegetables at home were improved by Song Chunlin using modern seeds and spiritual spring water. They taste good and have high yields. In recent years, the Song family has intentionally or unintentionally sold the seeds of these vegetables in Yongle Village. Now several surrounding villages have planted the Song family's vegetable seeds.

This time, Song A'mo wanted to bring the vegetable seeds from her home to the Charity Bureau and plant them in the vegetable fields reclaimed on the back hill of the bureau. This time she chose beans, eggplants, pumpkins, loofahs, and green peppers that had high yields. It was a little late to plant these vegetables at this time, so Song A'mo brought all the well-developed seedlings from Song Chunlin's space.

The vegetable plot at the foot of the mountain behind the Charity Bureau was quite spacious, with a total of about two acres, which was more than enough for growing vegetables. Amao Song divided the plot into five parts for them and planted all the seedlings she brought.

After the matters at the Charity Bureau came to an end, Song Chunlin prepared to leave. Before leaving, Song Chunlin specifically looked for Gu Fengyue and asked him to spare a day to accompany him.

"Date? What is that?" Ancient people did not understand what a date was, so Song Chunlin personally took him to travel around the mountains and rivers.

Although they were traveling, they only spent one day strolling around several markets in the capital. Song Chunlin used a large bamboo tube to hold milk tea. Although it looked strange, it satisfied his desire to drink milk tea while shopping, especially with a boyfriend by his side.

In the evening, Gu Fengyue took Song Chunlin to his own Sima Mansion and asked him what was left to be arranged in the mansion.

This was Song Chunlin's first time to come to the renovated Da Sima Mansion. Before that, it was still a ruin. Gu Fengyun and Gu Fengyue had no taste for mansions. It could be seen from their previously abandoned back garden that the two brothers knew nothing about this aspect.

So Song Chunlin didn't actually expect the Grand Sima Mansion to be built magnificently, as long as it could meet the basic conditions of being a habitable place.

Sure enough, as soon as the door was opened, the house lived up to everyone's expectations and was bare in the literal sense. Apart from the newly painted walls, oiled pillars and some newly added furniture, there were no green plants in the entire Sima Mansion except weeds. The previous Yongyi Marquis Mansion at least had some rare corn and peppers as potted plants for decoration, but this Sima Mansion might be because neither of the brothers lived there, so there was not even a decent flower pot to be found.

Song Chunlin looked at the bare Da Sima Mansion and deeply doubted that he would have to live there for the rest of his life.

Seeing that Song Chunlin had remained silent, Gu Fengyue cautiously probed, "Don't you like it?"

Song Chunlin: "It's not that I don't like it, but don't you think this room is a little empty?"

"Empty?" Gu Fengyue scratched his head, wondering where it was empty. Aren't there all the things that should be there? Then where else was empty?

When Song Chunlin saw his expression, he knew that he was talking to a cow. Anyway, they didn't live here anymore, so he simply stopped caring about these things. He could talk about the potted plants later.

After a quick tour of the Sima Mansion, he caught up with Gu Fengyun, who was on leave at home, and had a meal with him. Then they returned to the Song family together in the evening.

Song Chunlin was going to leave for the border the next day. This time, the Song family was not as worried as last time, but they still gave him the necessary instructions. The elders came one by one to remind Song Chunlin to be careful on the road, not to starve himself when going out, to eat whatever he wanted, and if he didn't have enough, he could go to the city to sell it. They also cared about whether he had enough money and whether he had taken thick clothes.

Song Chunlin agreed to all of them, always with a smile on his face, without any impatience at all.

Before going to bed at night, Dabao quietly came to the door of his room. Song Chunlin opened the door and let him in. Looking at his face like a young wife, he smiled with ill intention.

"What are you doing? Why are you not sleeping in the middle of the night? What bad things do you want to do here?"

Dabao snorted angrily, "No, I, I, I just... I just wanted to ask you."

"Oh? You ask, I'm listening."

Dabao raised his head and glanced at him quickly: "I want to ask you, can you take me with you."

Song Chunlin: "Take you there? Where? To the border?"

Dabao hummed vigorously.

This time, Song Chunlin finally squatted down and leveled his eyes with his. "Isn't it fun at home?"

Dabao shook his head: "No, it's not fun."

Thinking of the conflict between Song Chunxiao and Dabao last time, Song Chunlin touched Dabao's head lovingly and asked: "Have you told Uncle Fu and Uncle Lu?"

Dabao shook his head. He didn't tell anyone when he came out, not even Fu Nian and Lu Ming.

Song Chunlin reminded him: "Go and tell them, we will be on the road tomorrow, understand?"

Dabao's eyes lit up and he ran out in a hurry. He quickly returned to Lu Ming and Fu Nian's home. Unexpectedly, both of them were still awake. Fu Nian looked at Dabao who ran in and smiled: "I knew you would go out. Does Zheng'er also want to go out with Chunlin?"

Dabao didn't expect that his thoughts could be seen through so easily, and he stood there in a daze.

Fu Nian looked at his shocked expression and waved at him. Dabao walked over slowly. He thought he would be scolded by the two men. It was said in the storybook that disobedient children would be scolded. He did not listen to the adults and actually wanted to go on a long journey with Song Chunlin.

However, Fu Nian did not blame him, nor did Lu Ming. The two of them just silently dragged a large bamboo basket from the side, which was filled with clothes and food. This was the bag they prepared for Dabao.

"I know you haven't been happy at home recently. Since you want to go with Chunlin to relax, then go ahead. Clothes, food, and water bags are all prepared here. Your uncle Lu went to Doctor Wang to get you some pills. There are words on them. If you have a headache or a fever, just take one..."

Fu Nian pulled Dabao and looked through the things in the bamboo basket one by one. From small things like flint to large things like cotton-padded clothes, they prepared everything they could think of for a long journey, for fear that he would be cold and hungry along the way.

"…Well, it should be almost done. Just wait until tomorrow to send it to Chunlin's carriage. Chunlin is a capable man. It's okay for him to go out alone, but you are still a child. You must listen to your brother Chunlin along the way, understand?"

"You guys, don't you object?"

Lu Ming smiled when he heard this: "Why object? To put it bluntly, you were brought here by Chunlin. You are more familiar with him than with us. Besides, with Chunlin's own ability, if he can't protect you, then he should give up the title of Protector of the Nation."