Included were nightgowns for each person.
Then, there were small quilts, also one set per person! kuAiδugg
He refused the help of the shop assistants and it took him three trips to load everything onto the carriage.
Watching the small, stubborn back of Mo Xingchen, who was carrying a quilt almost as big as himself, the shop assistants felt both pained and touched: this must be a child from a wealthy family out for experience, right?
The shop assistants reflected: what was he doing at such a young age? He couldn't remember, but he was probably playing in the mud.
The shop assistants immediately concluded: therefore, he was still a shop assistant now.
The young shop assistant mused, if he had started his training earlier, would his life have been different?
Meanwhile, Mo Xingchen, as he struggled to load the last quilt onto the carriage, felt as if he had almost worn away the few pounds of flesh on his body.
Only when half the carriage was filled did Mo Xingchen's shopping spree stop.
Wen Bai never disliked having too many things; looking at the increasingly ample supply of food, his heart also felt fuller.
After making thorough preparations, the three of them headed back!
The carriage swayed as it took the three of them out of the city.
Human traffickers would travel towards remote areas, far from where children were abducted.
System 001 discovered that the current location of Wen Bai and the other two was more than 1000 kilometers away from the Wen family.
This carriage, carrying three children, could not possibly gallop the entire way. Even if they traveled day and night at a speed of 200 kilometers per day, it would still take five days to reach their destination.
Fortunately, Wen Bai and the other two did not have to drive the carriage themselves, so it was manageable.
Otherwise, they truly wouldn't have been able to return.
In fact, Wen Bai's initial thought upon entering the city was the simplest method: report it to the authorities.
Letting the officials contact the Wen family to pick them up, or having the officials send them back, would have been much easier than the three of them traveling on their own.
However, System 001 stated that once they reported it, they likely wouldn't be able to return.
One reason was that the officialdom was too complex, and the other was the great distance.
Most importantly, it involved Mo Xingchen's father's political enemies. If the news was intercepted by the Mo family's enemies before it reached the Wen and Mo families, none of the three of them would be able to go home.
Wen Bai had to abandon that plan and chose what appeared to be the only option.
However, looking at the well-stocked provisions before him, Wen Bai was quite satisfied.
At noon, when the sun was strongest and the temperature highest, the three children briefly washed up by the river and changed their clothes.
Then, they all became drowsy in the carriage.
Children at the age of five were in a period of growth, and as the saying goes, more sleep means more growth.
Wen Bai was also limited by his small body.
Soon, his eyes became heavy. Together with the other two children, they rolled into a ball wrapped in their small quilts.
System 001 slowed down the carriage. Looking at the three children sleeping soundly inside, its mood was quite subtle.
A peaceful night.
Upon waking in the morning, the three children once again went to the river for a quick wash.
All three were wearing white nightgowns.
Wen Bai and Wen Jue both had to roll up the sleeves of their hands and feet because the clothes were too big.
Wen Bai carefully controlled his small body, squatting by the river, about to cup his hands to scoop up the icy water to wash his face.
A small, tender hand offered him a clean piece of cloth.
It was Wen Jue.
Wen Bai took it and was about to throw one end of the cloth into the river when he found that the cloth in his hand was already wet.
Wen Bai turned his head and saw that Wen Jue had somehow procured a basin, into which he had already poured water, and was elegantly washing his face.
The cloth in Wen Bai's hand had clearly been moistened by the other boy.
Wen Bai looked closely at the basin.
This seemed to be the basin that the shop had used to pack fruit for Mo Xingchen when he bought too much and it was difficult to carry.
As Wen Bai wiped his face, he watched Mo Xingchen walk past him.
Mo Xingchen was even more extravagant.
He walked to a place with weeping willows, stood on tiptoe to break off a branch, softened it with his teeth, and then took out... tooth powder?
He dipped it in and began to brush his teeth diligently.
Afterwards, he even offered the tooth powder to Wen Bai and Wen Jue.
Wen Bai was silent for a moment.
These two five-year-old children seemed to know how to take care of themselves better than he did.
After washing up, the three got into the carriage.
Mo Xingchen, who had a large appetite, took out a bag of pastries. Wen Jue found a small steamed bun from the pile of food, while Wen Bai picked up a roasted chicken...
Mo Xingchen and Wen Jue both looked over instantly.
Although Wen Bai didn't care much, he disliked being stared at like that.
He endured it for a moment and then asked, still confused: "Do you want some?"
There was clearly still more.
Mo Xingchen dared not speak and turned his gaze back to his pastries.
Wen Jue hesitated for a moment and asked, "Brother, eating such heavy meat so early in the morning will give you a stomachache."
He had experienced this before, which had led Wen Jue to shy away from greasy and strong-flavored foods.
Wen Bai peeled open the oil paper wrapping of the roasted chicken and took a serious bite, his small face smeared with oil: "It won't."
...
Before Wen Bai had even finished his roasted chicken, a booming voice suddenly came from outside: "Robbery!!"
Wen Bai: "..."
Wen Jue: "..."
The pastry that Mo Xingchen had taken a bite of slipped and rolled onto the carriage floor: "?"
"!!!"
Wen Bai couldn't understand: Who would rob in the morning, instead of dusk or midnight? Do these bandits not sleep in...
Mo Xingchen looked at Wen Bai, who was calmly still eating, his eyes wide.
He remembered again that Wen Bai had killed two adults before!
Mo Xingchen's fear gradually subsided.
He was counting on Wen Bai to go out and drive away this terrifying bandit.
The next moment, the person outside the carriage curtain seemed to have never encountered someone being robbed without any reaction.
The carriage curtain was lifted.
Wen Jue clenched his small hands.
Mo Xingchen covered his eyes.
Wen Bai took another bite of the roasted chicken.
After all... he wouldn't be able to eat it soon.
-
The bandit's laughter was almost enough to scare away the birds in the nearby woods.
He had even called two accomplices for safety.
As a result, this was it?
Three little kids?
It shocked every single one of his hair follicles!
They had never had such an easy robbery.
In fact, when Wen Bai and the other two were in the city, they had already attracted the attention of bandits who were constantly scouting the city.
Even when exercising children, one child buying so many things was too much.
Moreover, their parents had never appeared.
And this carriage seemed to be deliberately avoiding the same areas where they had bought things.
There was a clothes shop right next to the fruit stall in the west of the city, but they bought fruit and not clothes, and had to make a detour to buy clothes in the east of the city.
After Mo Xingchen left, the bandit had also gone to the clothing store to inquire and found out that they had bought 12 sets of children's clothes.
12 sets for one child!
This was definitely a fat sheep!
The bandit had been secretly tailing them from a great distance the whole way.