Her Highness Doesn’t Want to Work Hard Anymore

What follows is a long and boring journey.

Seeing that the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming.

Originally, Li Ji planned to take Manman and his son to eat moon cakes and enjoy lanterns this year, and spend the festival happily.

But at this moment, he could only look at the team in front of him from a distance, he could not get close, nor was he willing to leave.

Li Xun had already been sent back to Tianjing by someone he sent.

Originally, that kid refused to leave life or death, crying and making noises, if he was not too young to beat Li Ji, he might really have a big fight with his father.

In the end, Li Ji forcibly suppressed him with force, forcibly threw him on the horseback, and was sent away by someone.

Up to now, Li Ji can still remember the heart-piercing cry of that kid before he left——

"If you don't bring mother back, I won't recognize you as father!"

Li Ji naturally wants to take Man Man back.

Even if the person who kidnapped Man Man is his father, he will not let it go.

Recently, she has been on the road every day, which made Hua Manman unable to tell what eve is today, so that she didn't even know that the Mid-Autumn Festival was coming.

By the time they finally entered Longdong County, it was already Lidong.

Unlike Tianjing, Longdong County is located in the southeast, and there is almost no snow in winter, but the temperature is still very low.

Hua Manman had already changed into a thick jacket, with his hands in his sleeves, a heavy cloak on his body, his whole head was covered by a hood, his mouth and nose were also covered by the scarf, only a pair of big watery eyes were exposed .

The cold wind was blowing, making it inconvenient to light a fire.

They can only eat dry food in cold water.

Hua Manman ate while listening to A Yi.

"According to our investigation, Yu Wang has not shown his face in front of people for a long time.

I don't know if it's really too sick to see people, or he's already dead.

Now Yuwang Mansion is controlled by Lu Kai.

Not only did he take over the 50,000 Zhennan Army under King Yu's command, he also recruited troops in Longdong County.

In addition, Lu Wanqing, the second lady of Prince Yu's mansion, also formed a team.

They have been frequently active in Longdong County recently, and have had many conflicts with Lu Kai's subordinates. It seems that Lu Wanqing intends to fight against Lu Kai. "

Hua Manman expected Lu Kai to take power, but what she didn't expect was that Lu Wanqing also appeared at this time.

In her impression, Lu Wanqing has always been silent, and her attitude towards her is also very unfriendly, just a little girl with an awkward personality, and now she has her own power.

This is really amazing!

Li Liao looked at her: "Are you going to meet your younger sister for a while?"

Hua Manman shakes his head to express his refusal to go.

Not to mention that she is a counterfeit, even if she is really Lu Wanqing's sister, given the bad relationship between the two sisters, Lu Wanqing will most likely not buy her.

Why would she bother to make fun of herself?

Li Liao didn't force it, and ate the remaining steamed buns in two or three bites.

"lets go."

The group continued on their way.

In order not to be discovered by others, they broke up the team after entering Longdong County.

They agreed to meet in Lingxi City five days later.

Lingxi City is the location of Prince Yu's Mansion.

Now Hua Manman and Li Liao are on their way to Lingxi City.

They pretended to be a caravan that came here to purchase goods, and the entire team consisted of about seventy people.

On the way, there will inevitably be interrogation by the government. Li Liao claims that he is the owner of the caravan and that Hua Manman is his son.

Not everyone in the local government has seen Prince Yu's son, and even if someone has, it's from a long distance, and they can't see his facial features clearly.

At this time, Hua Manman was wrapped up like a big bear, only a pair of eyes were exposed, no one recognized her at all.

In addition, Li Liao gave the money very happily, so they passed the interrogation smoothly.

The carriage is walking on the official road.

Hua Manman looked out through the car window and saw many people carrying their bags and dragging their families on the road, and all of them were in a hurry, looking anxious, as if a tiger was chasing them.

As a result, they didn't go for long before they were stopped by another checkpoint.

The officers and soldiers sat next to the checkpoint with sabers. Every pedestrian who walked through this road had to be interrogated and had to pay tolls according to the number of people.

This is already the fourth hurdle they encountered today.

It is normal that there will be checkpoints on the official road, but checkpoints will not appear so frequently.

Even Hua Manman sensed something was wrong, and Li Liao naturally felt it too.

Ah Yi stepped forward to make friends with those officers and soldiers.

The officers and soldiers didn't want to talk to him at first, until he secretly stuffed a silver ingot into the hands of the officers and soldiers.

The officer weighed the weight of the silver, and the stern look on his face disappeared, replaced by a happy smile.

What follows is the harmonious scene of the government and the people as a family.

However, as soon as their caravan left, the officers and soldiers regained their impatient expressions, yelling at the people passing by, urging them to pay the toll as soon as possible.

Hua Manman stuck his head out of the car window, looked back, and saw an old man kicked to the ground by officers and soldiers.

The old man didn't dare to resist. After being kicked a few times, he got up and kowtowed to the officers and soldiers hurriedly, begging the officers and soldiers to let his family go.

However, instead of letting him go, the officers and soldiers arrested the gray-haired old man and planned to send him to the barracks.

Behind the old man was an old woman with two children. The three of them cried and tried to hold the old man, but they were hit on the back of the head by the officers and soldiers, and they passed out on the ground in pain.

The carriage drove farther and farther.

The cries then became indistinct until they disappeared completely.

Hua Manman has seen similar scenes more than once.

This kind of thing happens around almost every level.

Those people who couldn't pay the toll had to be stopped outside the checkpoint. No matter how they cried or begged, the officers and soldiers remained indifferent.

If it gets too serious, it will be beaten severely.

The reason is that after Lu Kai took power, he ordered a large number of conscription.

Originally, according to the regulations of the Great Zhou Dynasty, only men who were over 14 years old and under 40 years old with sound limbs were recruited into the army. In addition, there were some special circumstances, such as the only son in the family, and those who were famous, could also be exempted from military service.

However, the number of conscription required by Lu Kai was too large, and local officials began to arrest people by any means in order to complete the task targets.

It doesn't matter whether he is old or young, and it doesn't matter whether he is the only seedling of the third generation, and it doesn't matter whether he has fame or not.

As long as they are men, they will all be arrested and sent to the barracks.

This not only led to the separation of many wives, but also caused another bad consequence——

It was the autumn harvest time, but because all the men in the family were taken away by the government, only the old, weak, women and children were left in every household, and they could not complete the harvest with their physical strength, but a lot of wheat and rice rotted in the field.

This also means that all their hard work for a year was in vain.