Reborn as a bride, pretending to be virtuous, the prince held his waist and regretted

The guard urged, dragging Lai Fu out, "The prince is not here, let's go find him!"

Lai Fu finally reacted after he ran to a secluded place outside.

Several men in black ran towards the prince's room and rushed in.

As soon as they entered, they were surrounded by dozens of people in the yard.

As expected, four of the six men in black who assassinated the Prince of Changning were killed and two were injured, and all of them were captured.

One of them bit the poison in his mouth and died, and there was only one left.

Lai Fu lit a torch, rushed into the room, and stepped on the face of a man in black. "Who are you? Why did you assassinate the prince?"

The man in black said nothing at all, instead he just wanted to die.

Lai Fu was worried about the prince, so he said to the guards, "Take him away and torture him severely. I want to see whether his words are more stubborn or the whip of the Marquis of Changning is stronger."

"Yes!" the guard responded and dragged the man away.

Lai Fu couldn't care about these things at this time. The prince hadn't been found yet. "Who knows where the prince went?"

"I don't know." Everyone shook their heads. They didn't see the prince.

Lai Fu was getting anxious and angry, secretly blaming himself for sleeping too deeply.

At this time, a servant raised his hand and said, "I think I have guessed where the prince has gone!"

Lai Fu heard this and walked over quickly, "Tell me, where is the prince?"

The servant replied, "The prince wanted to sleep in a shed in the field last night to watch over the wheat. Brother Laifu, you disagreed. You even threatened the prince that you would tell his wife."

"The prince didn't insist on it, but I felt that he valued the crops very much and was afraid that you would complain, so he might have sneaked out."

"Oh my little ancestor!" Upon hearing this, Lai Fu slapped his thigh and said, "Come with me to the field to have a look. If these thieves knew about this, they would surely catch the prince like a wild boar."

At this time, the village old man Wu was holding a Xuanhua axe and was unhappy, "Brother Laifu, do you think our village is a casual place? You can come and go as you please?"

Lai Fu didn't bother to greet Old Man Wu, "Uncle Wu, hurry up, don't dawdle, hurry up and find the prince."

They ran towards the wheat field. It had rained yesterday and the road was muddy.

Lai Fu walked with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and even lost his shoes. He hoped in his heart that the prince was safe and sound.

At this time, Zhou Jin was lying on a bamboo bed under the shed, with smoking mugwort in a broken porcelain basin beside him.

This thing can indeed drive away mosquitoes, but it can also make people cry, sneeze and cough.

"Cough, cough, cough!" Zhou Jin slept for a while, woke up for a while, and held a palm-leaf fan in his hand, trying to fan away the smoke.

Old man Li sat up from the bamboo bed, shook his head and laughed, "My Lord, you are a rich and pampered child, you have a good life, but you have to squeeze in a shed with an old man like me to feed mosquitoes."

Zhou Jin also sat up and looked up at the sky. It was a rare good night with a bright moon and few stars.

He said in a low voice, "Mr. Li, have you ever seen starving people everywhere?"

Old man Li was startled. The joke disappeared from his voice, and a hint of sadness appeared in his voice. "I have seen it, of course I have! Starving people everywhere, people exchanging their own children for cannibalism, it was hell on earth!"

"It was like this at the end of the previous dynasty. In good weather and good harvests, the people could still survive. In years of famine, the court was ineffective in providing disaster relief, and the people had nothing to harvest and could only die!"

"My parents and brothers are all dead. There is nothing I can do. Emperor Taizu started an uprising and went to war blindly just to have food to eat. I traveled to many places and survived many deaths before the new dynasty was established."

Zhou Jin listened carefully to Old Man Li's narration. At this time, he was no longer the humorous old man who knew how to farm, but a common man from the lower class who was complaining about the fickleness and injustice of the world.

After a while, Zhou Jin sighed, "I saw it this year too! But I can't do anything. I just entered the court, my voice is not important, and I can't speak for the people. I once doubted why I had to read so many books? Why did I want to be an official?"

"Later, my wife said that the court was too large and involved too many things. It was too difficult for me, a newcomer to the officialdom, to have all-powerful hands and to make things happen. She suggested that I start with small things within my ability."

Old Man Li comforted him, "Sir, you have done very well. There is no need to be hard on yourself."

Zhou Jin shook his head, "It's not enough! I see that the wheat has grown taller than me, and the cobs that have grown in the middle are changing every day. Now they are almost the size of my palm. Some stalks have two cobs. If they are all grain, a person only needs one cob to be full."

"It has been raining for days recently. Whenever I close my eyes, I dream that the wheat is drowned and the grain that is about to mature is moldy and smelly. But when I lie down in this shed and listen to the insects and frogs, I stop thinking about random things and fall asleep."

At this time, tears welled up in the old man Li's dim eyes, "My Lord, you must live a long life. You must become an official. Only you can sympathize with the sufferings of the people."

"My father-in-law is so arrogant that he dares to advise the prince to cherish a good woman like his wife. When I saw the prince before, I always felt that he was like the big goose I raise at home, with his neck raised high, looking at anyone who disobeys him. When he sees or hears something he doesn't like, he stretches his long neck and quacks. When he is not satisfied, he will chase and bite it."

Zhou Jin was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing, "Mr. Li, you're right! No wonder they say that you should start a family and build a career. Without a family, you will always be impulsive and reckless. After I got a wife, she showed me the other side of things and taught me that there are other ways to behave and do things."

An old man and a young man chatted happily.

Listening to the chirping of insects and frogs, I imagined the moment when the wheat and corn would ripen.

Just as they were chatting, a few short figures were grunting and approaching the wheat field not far away.

Old man Li is old and his hearing is not very good.

Zhou Jin was imagining the scene of a warehouse full of wheat and was so busy chatting that he didn't notice a few black things approaching.

These black creatures swaggered into the wheat fields.

"Prince, Prince, where are you?" Lai Fu walked to the field, shouting and crying.

If something happened to the prince, he wouldn't want to live anymore.

"Prince, Prince..." The guards were so anxious that they were sweating profusely and searching everywhere.

Lai Fu cried and shouted, "Be careful, don't trample on the prince's crops!"

Lai Fu knew better than anyone that the prince cared particularly about these crops!

The guards and the people from the farm came in a threatening manner, but failed to attract the bad guys. Instead, they startled some black things in the fields.

These dark shadows were rushing through the fields, grunting and rushing towards the direction where Zhou Jin and Old Man Li were.

"Here..." Before Zhou Jin could finish his words, he saw a black shadow rushing towards him. He didn't even bother to put on his shoes and ran away.

Suddenly remembering that Old Man Li was there too, Zhou Jin quickly turned around and pulled Old Man Li to run together.