Abandoned daughter reborn, legitimate son is resourceful

"You really don't plan to go back with me?"

Yan Qiu bent down and hugged the hem of her skirt, then squatted in the corner, watching Nan Jinming in front of her mixing rice bran to feed the chickens and ducks.

"What are you going to do if you go back? You will just become a target of public criticism."

Yan Qiu curled her lips, she couldn't understand why she was so young, she could have become famous in one battle, but she faked her death and escaped...

"What on earth are you thinking about? What did you go through eight years ago? It's as if you've matured all of a sudden."

Nan Jinming reached out and quickly stirred the rice bran in the basin, and added some chopped vegetable leaves. The chicken and duck would taste more nutritious. The eggs laid by chickens and ducks raised in the countryside have very sticky eggshells that do not break easily, and the egg membrane inside is very heavy and sticky.

"Everyone grows up. I just... became wise two years earlier than you."

Nan Jinming smiled and just spoke casually, unwilling to tell her about his past experiences. What should he say? That the person he loved betrayed him? Or that he loved the wrong person?

Or was it that the king was jealous and framed her with a false charge?

Or is it the pressure from the elders in the family?

Being excluded by court officials in the court?

"Look at you. How many times have I advised you? I am taking a big risk by coming to see you secretly, but you still don't want to tell the truth."

Yan Qiu hugged her knees, looking aggrieved, with her head hung, unwilling to speak. She always felt that people like Nan Jinming were like cocoons, who liked to wrap themselves up and then get trapped in their own cocoons step by step.

"What? All these years, everything I've said to you has been true. How could it be false?"

Nan Jinming poured the rice bran and vegetables in his hand into the chicken and duck pen, and then went to the kitchen to wash his hands.

"Okay, okay, I can't argue with you. I came here this time to tell you that Master Murong is in poor health and may not have much time left. There are many people in the court who are against the Murong family. Ever since the news of your death on the battlefield reached the capital, the Murong family has been in a slump and has long lost its former glory."

Nan Jinming's eyes flickered, but she quickly suppressed her emotions and smiled calmly: "Their daughter died a long time ago. I am Nan Jinming now, the daughter of the Nan family."

Yan Qiu knew that he couldn't persuade this piece of wood, so he could only change the subject.

"I heard that the son of the Prime Minister has also come to Yuecheng. Have you seen him?"

Nan Jinming used a melon bag to fetch water to rinse his hands, and then wiped them casually on his clothes.

"I have seen him, but he is now recovering in Yuecheng."

Nan Jinming did not hide it from Yan Qiu, after all, her information network was the widest.

"Yo~ You care about him so much. I just got the news and wanted to tell you."

Yan Qiu stood up, put down the hem of her skirt, swung her feet and relaxed. She had been squatting for too long and felt a little uncomfortable. This place was really too desolate.

Nan Jinming has been here for eight years. If I were to come here, I might as well become a monk.

"Since you know his whereabouts, you should also know the whole story. Don't you know who saved him?"

Nan Jinming moved a stool under the eaves for shade. The weather was stuffy and a little hot today, but the sky was now covered with dark clouds, so it was probably going to rain.

"To be honest, Jin Ming, you have a really bad temper."

Nan Jinming glanced at her. It was up to her to decide what her personality was. Even if it was a personality that others disliked, as long as she was true to herself, it didn't matter what the outcome was.

"So what if it's not good?"

Nan Jinming reached out and grabbed a handful of melon seeds and cracked them in his mouth.

"What you see now is me farming in Laifu Village for a living, working from sunrise to sunset. In fact, I live a free life. My free soul has never been restrained. I have never thought that the life I want to live can be seen and recognized by others."

“Maybe… everyone’s path is different.”

Yan Qiu was convinced by her words, knowing that if he continued to argue he would only be suppressed. Nan Jinming was right, life was nothing but life and death, how long one could live depended on God's arrangement.

"Where did Chenliang and the others go?"

Nan Jinming was busy working just now and didn't see anyone for a while, and suddenly he remembered.

"Just now they said they were going to the foot of the northern slope to pick wild vegetables. I thought there was nothing much to do at the foot of the mountain, as long as we didn't go into the mountain."

"Wait a minute, where did you say they went?"

Nan Jinming paused while cracking melon seeds, then he reacted and stood up from the stool.

Yan Qiu's face suddenly became serious. He was just busy talking to Nan Jinming and didn't react. He hadn't been here for a long time. When he came before, he followed Yan Qiu to the back mountain to hunt.

There may be too many things in the back mountain, although they won’t come out now.