Chapter 162: Sky Screen Live Streaming System (37)

Xie Yang's mother's maiden home is located in a small village under Fenglu City in the central plains.

Fenglu City is only a county-level city and does not have an airport.

If traveling by plane, one must first arrive at the prefecture-level city of Pingyang, then take a train or long-distance bus to Fenglu, and then transfer to a public bus or taxi to the villages and towns below.

High-speed rail or bullet trains can go directly to Fenglu City, but considering the need to travel with a pet cat, high-speed rail is not the best choice.

"Taking children and pets on a long trip is not as good as driving yourself!" When Nuo Nuo Ma came to pick up her son from school, she heard Xie Yang mention it and enthusiastically suggested, "Especially with the New Year approaching, stations and airports are packed with people. You are alone and have to manage the children and the pet, as well as carry luggage; you won't be able to handle it. It's better to be safe than sorry; if you lose one in the crowd, you won't even have a place to cry."

Xie Yang had also thought about whether to drive, but the distance from Beijing to Fenglu is 1,400 to 1,500 kilometers. Even if taking the highway the whole way, driving would take fifteen or sixteen hours without sleep or rest.

However, she had studied this driving route, and it passes through several relatively famous cities along the way.

If she really were to drive, she certainly wouldn't be on the road all day.

Instead, she would drive for half a day, then find a city to stay in for the night, buy some local specialty New Year goods while she was at it, and get back on the road after resting enough.

Nuo Nuo Ma's eyes lit up as she listened: "That's not bad! It's equivalent to checking in at several first or second-tier cities along the way. It's a pity that Nuo Nuo Ba's hometown and mine are not far away, otherwise I would also want to go on a road trip. But if you drive to a scenic spot, there are too many people. Your way is better: driving back to your hometown not only avoids the peak crowds at airports and stations, but you can also take the children to experience the New Year markets in multiple towns along the way."

Hearing that Nuo Nuo Ma's analysis made sense, Xie Yang no longer hesitated and decided to drive!

Thus, before the New Year truly arrived, she began preparing New Year gifts for her aunt and uncles.

Beijing specialties like Roasted Duck, crisp candy, tuckahoe pie, candied haws, Beijing Eight Treasures, and Old Cloth Shoes were a must. She also packed several portions of Ginseng, velvet antler, black fungus, and hazel mushrooms that she had asked Nuo Nuo Ma's relatives in the Northeast to send over.

These, plus the luggage for three people and one cat, filled more than half of the trunk, leaving a small space to put the New Year goods bought along the way.

After spending two days shopping and packing, her nephew also reached his final exams.

On the day the exams finished, Xie Yang asked for leave from the head teacher, meaning she was taking the children back to their hometown for the New Year. Since the journey would take a lot of time, they would not attend the closing ceremony.

She entrusted the report card and winter vacation homework to young Feng Zinuo to collect on their behalf.

She and Nuo Nuo Ma had agreed that if there was a lot of homework, she would trouble her to help mail it; if there was little, they would catch up when they returned.

She had originally been worried that the head teacher might not agree, as the closing ceremony is a relatively important collective activity.

If it were required for her nephew to attend the closing ceremony, the departure time would have to be postponed.

There was nothing else to worry about, just that after the closing ceremony, primary and secondary school students across the country would enter "winter vacation mode" at the same time, and there would be more cars on the road; the road conditions would definitely not be as good as they were now.

Unexpectedly, the head teacher approved the leave note readily without even asking.

Xie Yang: "..."

The bellyful of reasons she had prepared did not come in handy at all.

It seems that young Xie Jilin has performed quite well this semester, and the teacher is willing to give him the green light.

The leave note was approved, so what was there to wait for!

The next day, Xie Yang set off for Fenglu City with the two children and a cat.

They traveled in the morning, got off the highway at noon, and stayed at a city hotel she had booked before departure.

In the afternoon, she took the children to experience the local New Year atmosphere, buying a little of whatever New Year goods they were interested in.

Then they had a hearty dinner with local characteristics, and went back to the hotel for a good sleep.

The next day, they ate the hotel's buffet breakfast and continued on their way.

This road trip route connects the north and south and runs through the east and west; it can be said that it had no overlap with the three-month-long national tour before the summer vacation.

The two children felt both unfamiliar and excited about this. Plus, they ate well and rested well, so when they arrived in Fenglu City five days later, they were still full of energy, just as they were when they first set off.

The Provincial Graduates of Daliang who were traveling to the capital for the imperial examinations under the Sky Screen were extremely envious.

Among them, some had hometowns nearly three thousand li away from Jingcheng. On the road to the capital, even if they were free from illness and disaster and had no other delays, it still took nearly three months to reach Jingcheng.

If they happened to get caught in the rain or fall ill on the way, to the point of needing to find a doctor to prescribe and decoct medicine, they would have to find an inn to stay in until they recovered before setting off again, so three months wouldn't even cover it.

Therefore, seeing the Little Marquis and the Princess travel from the capital to Fenglu, three thousand li away, in just three to five days with their aunt, and often stopping along the way to eat and shop in towns with a rich New Year atmosphere, who wouldn't be envious?

【I have to say, the roads in the Heavenly Palace are truly smooth!】

【If you say this isn't the Immortal World, who would believe it! Besides the Immortal World, what place has roads that can pass through mountains? And can span across great rivers? Only immortals have this ability!】

【How did I hear the Little Marquis's aunt mention 'Anfeng Town' and 'Beihe Village'? Could it be that there are villages in the Immortal World too?】

【Then I must take a good look at what the villages in the Immortal World are like!】

From the monarch of the country down to the common people, everyone in Daliang was looking up at the Sky Screen.

Xie Yang hadn't told her uncles and aunt which day she would return, so after arriving in Fenglu City, she wasn't in a hurry to get on the road.

She found a themed hotel with hot spring baths, and the aunt and her niece and nephew had a comfortable hot spring bath and rested for the night.

The next morning, they put on clean and dried clothes, ate the buffet breakfast provided by the hotel, and set off refreshed on the road to the countryside on the outskirts of the city.

Xie Yang's two uncles and one aunt were all in Anfeng Town.

Her aunt was married in Nanhe Village, only one river away from her maiden home, making it very convenient to visit her parents' home;

Her eldest uncle and youngest uncle both stayed in Beihe Village, but they didn't live together.

Her eldest uncle inherited the Wen Family Old House.

Her youngest uncle married the village beauty of Beihe Village back then.

Because his father-in-law only had one daughter, although he didn't require him to marry into the family, he hoped he would live closer. Therefore, when the Wen family divided the property, he didn't want the house, but instead took the money he received and chose a plot of land between the old house and his father-in-law's house to build two rooms.

After the original body's parents became successful, they had repeatedly invited the Wen family to develop in Beijing.

But the Wen family felt that although Beijing was good, their roots were here. Moreover, Xie Yang's father paid for the children of their families to go to school, which was better than anything else, so they decided not to move.

Thus, Xie Yang's father invested in helping Nanbeihe Cun build roads, which were built all the way to the town.

The saying "If you want to be rich, build roads first" is true for all time.

Nowadays, Beihe Village has become the largest ecological fruit and vegetable Planting base in the whole county, and the eldest uncle and his wife can earn wages as soon as they walk out of their door.

The area where the youngest uncle's family lived was bought by a coal boss who built villas and factory buildings, and the youngest uncle's family moved into a two-and-a-half-story small western-style house built according to the village's unified plan.

It can be said that the once-poor small village has now truly achieved poverty alleviation, and the villagers can earn wages comparable to those of city dwellers right at their doorsteps.