The carriage Xie Qiao was riding on had not been arranged by her stepmother. She even had to fork out her own money for food and clothing.
This just showed how mean her stepmother was.
Now, many people around her felt that she had treated Xie Qiao harshly. If her daughter got sick and tried to stir up trouble with Xie Qiao again, she would not be able to reason for herself once she reached the Imperial City.
So she decided to endure.
'If Xiao Qiao displeases me, I better avert my gaze.
'Xiao Qiao will feel more at ease this way.'
At that time, Zhao Xuanjing had already led people to find the desolate and ruined village in the southwest. The village was quite big, and it was not easy to scour it for a single item.
But it was also much better than blindly searching like what he did before.
He had everyone search the village thoroughly.
