It was propitious to travel on the eighth day of the eighth month. Starting in the morning, ox carts and horse carriages bustled in and out of Guiyuan, taking three trips to move all the belongings. The fourth trip was for transporting the people of Guiyuan.
For Pan Yue, this was the third time she had left home in the fourteen years since she had married into the Qian family. The first time was when she was tricked by Fan Erhei, and the second was when Qian Yixiu went to the county town to sell flowers, and she hurried out to welcome her daughter.
Even riding in a horse carriage, she was very reluctant to leave. Qian Manjiang held her hand the entire time, comforting her in a soft voice, "Yueyue, don't be afraid. I and our children will always be by your side. And there are so many people who came specifically to protect you. Nobody will dare to bully you again."
Pan Yue still refused to go, crying as she said, "Yueyue likes this home; Yueyue doesn't want to leave this home."
