Mu Zhuo bowed and saluted again: "Less than half an hour will do."
After saying that, he had the apothecary boy close the clinic's doors, and then hurried into the backyard to make arrangements.
His luggage was actually always packed and ready on a regular basis, but there was nothing to be done about the medicine. He couldn't just pack it all away when people came for treatment every day.
So now the main task was to sort out the medicinal herbs in the pharmacy. They all had to be packed and taken away. Medicinal herbs were hard to come by, and he couldn't bear to throw them away.
Before long, Mu Zhuo came out with four people. They were his wife, Madam Zhao, his son, Mu Li, his daughter-in-law, Madam Chen, and his granddaughter, Mu Chu.
Mu Zhuo looked a bit embarrassed: "Our family's carriage cannot hold so many medicinal herbs. I wonder... I wonder if you could spare some space in your carriage."
They had just been robbed half a month ago. Fortunately, he had hidden some money, but it wasn't much. After buying a carriage and some medicinal herbs, he was basically penniless.
Now there was truly no way to buy another carriage, otherwise he wouldn't have brought this up.
Jiang Jin asked, "Do you all know how to drive a carriage?"
Mu Zhuo nodded, "Naturally. Aside from the female family members, the rest of us can drive a carriage."
Although he was getting on in years, he had traveled far and wide in his youth, so driving a carriage was naturally not an issue.
Jiang Jin felt relieved: "I will handle the matter of the carriages. You all just pack the medicinal herbs as quickly as possible."
Mu Zhuo was endlessly grateful. After bowing to thank Jiang Jin, the whole family began to busy themselves.
Jiang Jin had Zhou Sui and Dong Si take the newly bought carriage slave Zhong Tong and quickly go to the carriage dealership to buy three more carriages and three horses.
It was said there weren't many medicinal herbs, but they basically filled the three newly purchased carriages.
By the time everything was done and they were ready to leave the city, it was already nearing dawn.
Jiang Jin had a total of six carriages, plus Mu Zhuo's carriage, making seven in all. Worried that the city gate soldiers might get suspicious, they split into three groups and exited through three different city gates.
The groups led by Dong Si and Yun Yu exited the city very smoothly.
However, there was a slight problem on the Mu family's side. The city gate guards recognized the Mu family.
If it were ordinary times, it wouldn't be a big deal, but suddenly leaving the city at this critical juncture seemed a bit suspicious.
Mu Li got out of the carriage and secretly slipped a small piece of silver to the city gate guard, explaining in a low voice: "We truly have an urgent matter and need to go to Shu County. Please make an exception."
The soldiers looked at the silver in their hands, exchanged a glance, and asked, "You are planning to go to Shu County?"
Shu County was the territory of Magistrate Gao. This was also the reason why Mu Li said they were going to Shu County, implying that no matter where they went, they were still under his jurisdiction.
Mu Li nodded, "Yes, I have relatives over there. Something happened to him, which is why we are in such a hurry to leave the city and travel through the night."
The soldiers carefully inspected the other items on the carriages. They only had two carriages; one was loaded with medicinal herbs, clothing, and other supplies, while the other carried the people.
Sweat broke out on Mu Li's forehead, but he maintained a calm expression on his face.
The soldiers didn't find any problems and ultimately let them pass.
Once out of the city, the Mu family secretly let out a sigh of relief and hurried toward the rendezvous point.
Inside the city, Jiang Jin and Zhou Sui watched from afar as the Mu family's carriages safely exited the city gates before turning to leave.
Jiang Jin looked around, wanting to find a place to eat dinner.
She planned to eat something and then return to the clinic to rest a bit before taking action at night. Mu Zhuo had given her the key to the clinic, saving her the trouble of finding an inn to stay at.
Suddenly, the grain shop ahead caught her eye. She had even come to this grain shop today to buy grain.
What attracted her at this moment was not the grain shop itself, but a young man moving goods at the entrance.
She saw him carrying a sack of grain on each shoulder. Looking at the size of the burlap sacks, one sack of grain probably weighed a hundred catties, and two sacks would be two hundred catties. The young man carried them without any pressure, looking very relaxed.
However, the more Jiang Jin looked, the stranger she felt. The more she looked, the more familiar he seemed, and her expression became complicated.
Seeing her stop in her tracks, Zhou Sui also stopped. Following her gaze, he asked, "My lady, is there something wrong with that young man?"
Jiang Jin continued to look at the young man, "Don't you think he looks a bit familiar?"
Zhou Sui looked very carefully for a few moments, confirming that he had no memory of this person: "I don't know him."
Jiang Jin sighed heavily, "The Yun family, Yun Chengxuan."
Zhou Sui was stunned for a moment, and it took him a while to react: "Are you talking about General Yun and the Grand Princess?"
Jiang Jin nodded, "Exactly."
The Grand Princess mentioned here was the eldest sister of Emperor Yan, Jiang Tao.
Back then, the Grand Princess had fallen for the General Who Pacifies the West, Yun Shao, at first sight, and resolutely married beneath her station to him.
Yun Shao was born with divine strength, had outstanding martial arts skills, and repeatedly achieved extraordinary merits. At the young age of twenty-one, he was already the General Who Pacifies the West.
After their marriage, the two lived a happy life. Yun Shao's backyard didn't have any other women, and their days passed very smoothly.
However, their only son, Yun You, grew up in the completely opposite direction. He accomplished nothing in either literature or martial arts, and he was particularly fond of women.
His backyard was full of beautiful women, like a blooming garden where a hundred flowers competed for beauty.
The Grand Princess was helpless and chose a daughter from a noble family to be his wife, hoping she could restrain him.
At first, he really did settle down for a few months. However, after the novelty wore off, he reverted to his true nature.
At that time, his official wife was already pregnant. Seeing her husband behave like this, she became depressed and passed away not long after giving birth to the child.
This child was Yun Chengxuan.
The Grand Princess felt guilty and brought the still-swaddled Yun Chengxuan to her side to personally care for and raise him.
And in that year, a major event occurred. In the Battle of Punan in Chongzhou, the twenty thousand soldiers led by Yun Shao were intercepted and besieged by a combined force of fifty thousand troops from the barbarian Ji tribe, Quzhao, and the Jiaoren.
After two months of bitter fighting, the Yan Kingdom's army was defeated, and Punan was lost. This also marked the beginning of Chongzhou being occupied by the barbarian tribes.
Yun Shao and his twenty thousand soldiers remained in that battle forever, with not a single one surviving!
