The evil spirits all over the world love me very much [Quick Transmigration]
Chapter 43 The Abandoned Prince
Generally, the scene corresponding to this kind of high-pitched mouth is mostly a cool and unrestrained wanderer under the moon or on a tree, drinking heavily with a flagon in his hand, and can't help but compose a poem when he is happy.
But when Yu He turned his head and saw the trembling Ruo Ting lying on the tree hugging the trunk, he couldn't laugh or cry for a moment.
"Prince...how did you climb the tree?" Yu He stood up, looked at Ruoting, and asked.
Ruoting hugged the tree trunk tightly like a koala, not daring to move, but he still tried to be brave: "The scenery seen from the tree is good."
"Your Highness, to be honest, you can't come down."
Fortunately, it was dark, so I couldn't see Ruoting's face that was even redder than Lao Ganma's.
Yu He was helpless, he limped over and opened his hands, "Come on, Your Highness, jump down, I'll catch you."
Trembling, Ruo Ting looked down at Yu He below, and after a little gesture, he felt that this little chestnut was thinner than him, and there was no difference between letting him follow him and dying on his own initiative.
So he shook his head desperately, meaning it was too risky, so forget it.
"Come down quickly, I can hit ten of you with your small body, don't worry, be good~" Yu He coaxed.
Ruoting has been quietly following Yu He ever since he went out alone. After Yu He sat in the backyard for half an hour, he followed him and lay down on the tree for half an hour. After staying in the tree for so long, both feet and legs are numb.
He glanced at Yu He for the last time, gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and jumped forward——
With a muffled groan, the two fell to the ground in an embrace——
Seeing Yu He who was crushed under him and almost died on the spot, Ruo Ting hurriedly got up from him, pale with shock: "Little Lizi, are you alright?"
Yu He's entire face was purple, but he still managed to squeeze out two words from between his teeth, pretending to be relaxed: "It's okay..."
Ruo Ting helped Yu He up from the ground, and smiled awkwardly, revealing a bit of self-blame in the embarrassment:
"I'm sorry, I wanted to make you happy because I saw you were in a bad mood, but in the end... I'm really useless."
"Thanks to His Highness's great love, it's good if you have a heart. I have a big heart, and it's only for a while, and it will pass soon." Yu He forced a wry smile.
"Even so, can I still ask why?" Ruoting asked cautiously.
Yu He patted the dust on his body, and smiled: "Is this important? You are a prince, so you don't need to worry about me as a slave."
At this time, Ruoting, who has always been naive, rarely looked at him seriously:
"Actually, I never regarded you as a slave."
Yu He teased and said, "Why, maybe it's a little lover, I'm so scared."
Ruoting shook his head: "We are friends, aren't we?"
"We are friends" is probably only heard from Ruo Ting's mouth, especially in the deep palace, where there are no real friends, only the formation of cliques for profit.
"Don't you think so?" Ruoting asked back.
This question made Yu He a little embarrassed.
To be honest, not really.
To him, Ruoting is just a client who needs to solve problems, and sooner or later he will have to leave, why bother to have any real feelings, so that the time of parting will be better, just like Yuzi and the others, if they didn't give affection at the beginning, parting It won't be that painful anymore.
In fact, Yu He really wanted to stimulate this kid with words to wake him up, but when he raised his head, he met his expectant eyes.
Yu He secretly sighed, and had no choice but to say: "Of course they are friends."
When Ruo Ting heard this, he immediately beamed with joy, and stretched out his hands to embrace Yu He into his arms: "Little Lizi, I knew you were sincere to me."
It's a good word, but it sounds so awkward.
In the sky, a wide silver-white river seems to flow slowly with the air, extending to a distant place——
In fact, it is normal for Ruoting to have such thoughts. He is the prince and the future emperor. He has not lived for himself since he was born. What kind of friends he will make and what kind of things he will do are all determined long ago. Yes, when everyone approaches him with a purpose, he desires to have someone who treats him sincerely.
So this little eunuch who sneaked into the imperial dining room in the middle of the night at the risk of being beheaded was somewhat different from those well-behaved servants.
The bowl of sweet-scented osmanthus and lotus seed soup, which tasted very ordinary and even cloying, was completely incomparable to the one made by the imperial chef in the imperial dining room.
But the intention in it is completely incomparable.
"Little Lizi, I'm hungry." Ruo Ting sat in the backyard with his legs crossed. It was a very elegant way of admiring the wind, the moon and the chestnuts, but in the end, his unsatisfied stomach kept barking indiscriminately.
"Your Highness, with all due respect, I don't have to worry about you so much when your knowledge and courage are like your stomach."
"Actually, I haven't had a drop of water since noon."
As Ruoting said, he stretched out his hand slowly: "I seemed to feel that you were hiding steamed buns in your arms just now?"
Yu He opened his hand and looked at him with a face full of embarrassment: "What am I hiding that thing for?"
"Yes, obviously yes, just now I jumped down from the tree and happened to touch the steamed bun you hid in your arms." Ruo Ting stretched his hand over Yu He's abdomen again as he said.
Yu He pushed his hand away again: "Have you said everything?"
This time, Ruoting was not convinced: "There must be! Why are you so stingy, it's just a steamed bun. When I return to the capital, I will order someone to prepare a basket of steamed buns for you to eat."
Conscience of heaven and earth, Yu He really didn't hide any steamed buns, not to mention that he is from the north, and it's not like he hasn't seen steamed buns before, so it's not impossible.
Ruo Ting's hand continued to reach down, and suddenly squeezed towards Yu He, squeezed it suddenly, and then shouted in surprise: "I said it must be there! Isn't it here?"
At that moment, the scene of sparks hitting the earth suddenly appeared in Yu He's mind.
Severe pain struck, and wave after wave occupied all the rationality of the brain.
"Damn—!" The screams pierced the sky in an instant.
"You you you you you!" Ruo Ting widened his eyes in astonishment, and after realizing the reaction, he backed away again and again, bumping his head against a tree.
Now he is not only doubting life, but also doubting the authenticity of this world.
Just now, I caught the familiar object from under the chestnut, but it was a little strange to the eunuch... Obviously it is... the iconic symbol of the majority of male compatriots...
But, he is a eunuch, why? !Will there be? !That thing? !
"Quick...help me, go in..." Yu He said weakly while lying on the ground.
Ruo Ting stared at him blankly, after a long while, he finally came to his senses, and hurried over to help Yu He up, the two stumbled into the room like this.
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The atmosphere was awkward and tense for a while, Ruo Ting sat five meters away from Yu He, watching him open his clothes and trousers to check his vulnerable little brother.
It's okay, it's okay, it's just that I was offended, it's nothing serious.
But looking back, Ruo Ting was still trembling with fright...
"I said, is this a terrible thing?" Yu He was helpless.
Ruoting nodded honestly.
"This...how should I explain it? It's actually because..." Yu He tried his best to organize the words in his mind, thinking about how to get away with it.
"I, it's actually the first time I've seen such a eunuch, so I'm a little shocked. If I offend you, I hope you don't mind." Before Yu He could finish speaking, Ruoting immediately interjected.
"Eh?" Now it was Yu He's turn to be confused, "So you mean you won't report on me?"
"Why, why did you report..."
"Isn't this the crime of deceiving the king?"
"However, it's the responsibility of the people in the cleansing room that didn't find out, so what does it have to do with you?" Ruoting's tone was so sincere that Yu He couldn't doubt it.
What a trick to change the concept secretly. After what he said, Yu He felt that it made sense.
That's right, it's the responsibility of those people in the cleansing room for not cleansing themselves, so what does it have to do with me?
"Then, can you not tell others about this?" Yu He asked pleadingly.
"Can't Nine Emperor Uncle?"
"He is the most unacceptable, and you must not reveal a word to him." Yu He hurriedly covered Ruo Ting's mouth.
If Yin Chixue found out, he could write [-] leaflets and distribute them all over the world.
Although he didn't know why, Ruoting had no choice but to obediently agree.
That night, both of them lost sleep.
One is Yu He, who has always been worried that Ruo Ting will reveal the truth to him;
The other one is Ruoting. For Ruoting, only these princes and emperors in the huge imperial city can have that thing. It is the first time he has seen the second person who can own that thing besides these people, saying Not shocked is fake.
If this is the case, what is the real purpose of the little chestnut.
With this question in mind, Ruo Ting finally baked sesame seed cakes on the bed all night, until the East was pale, and he was overwhelmed by sleepiness and slowly closed his eyes.
The next day, the two went to the lobby to have breakfast with dark circles under their eyes.
Yin Chixue finally came back after a night of spring night. She looked refreshed, which made people feel uncomfortable.
"Looking at the rosy complexion of the prince, he is refreshed. He must have been served comfortably last night." Yu He couldn't help but move over.
Yin Chixue paced in front of him with her hands behind her back, slightly committed herself, looked at his facial expressions, and suddenly raised her hands to cover her mouth and smiled:
"That's natural, what's the matter, you still have to go to the emperor to sue me?"
Yu He curled his lips: "Don't dare."
Seeing his jealous appearance, Yin Chixue seemed to be able to guess his thoughts, but what did it have to do with him, a mere eunuch, thinking about something, was simply naive.
But seeing Ruoting's pale face and dull eyes as if he was walking down the stairs like a walking dead, Yin Chixue walked over and asked concerned: "Your Highness, did you not sleep well last night?"
Ruoting opened his mouth slightly, and turned his head to look at Yin Chixue, then nodded, and then shook his head quickly.
Yin Chixue raised her hand to gently touch his forehead, and muttered, "I don't have a fever."
"I'm fine, please trouble the emperor to worry about it." Ruoting forced a smile, and took Yin Chixue's hand.
Then he looked at Yu He who was still arguing non-stop with another eunuch because of the problem of leading the horse, and sighed for a long time.
A group of people set off again, heading towards the final destination - Qiuhe Village.
After leaving the urban area of Huiyuan, the car gradually drove into the suburbs. Compared with the hustle and bustle of the urban area, the suburbs were more peaceful and peaceful.
The setting sun dyed the clouds red, and the sky was churning like a fire, clamoring and rolling towards the distance.
The carriage gradually slowed down, and finally stopped in front of a slightly shabby small village.
"Here, it's here." Yin Chixue got out of the car first, walked to Ruoting's carriage and raised his hand to help him get off.
Ruo Ting got out of the car, seeing the desolation in his eyes, he shrank three points in an instant.
He murmured in despair: "Could it be here for the next half month..."
"Yes, today is the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, and the Spring Festival will be in two days. The emperor wants you to return to the palace after the fifteenth day." Yin Chixue casually took the package from the little eunuch, and handed it to Ruoting.
"Remember, this place is not like a palace. No one will serve you. You have to rely on your own resources for food, clothing, housing and transportation here. And, most importantly, you must not act willfully like in the palace." Yin Chixue said. Lowering his voice, he seemed to be deliberately scaring Ruoting, "Because here, no one will treat you as a prince, and no one will let you obey your orders, understand."
After Ruo Ting heard this, he couldn't help shivering all over, and then he looked at Yu He as if asking for help: "Little Lizi, will you stay here?"
"Theoretically, yes..." Yu He felt a little apprehensive when he saw this barren small village.
He instantly thought of a controversial TV show of his time - Metamorphosis.
Suddenly he felt that he and Ruoting were no different from the urban protagonists of the Transformation Meter.
"Then, I wish you luck." After finishing speaking, Yin Chixue stepped into the carriage again.
"Wait, where are you going, my lord? Didn't you say to accompany us?"
Yin Chixue poked her head out of the carriage: "My king's skin is delicate and sensitive, too rough an environment will make my whole body raw..."
"That's enough, that's enough." Yu He interrupted him, "Needless to say, as long as you are delicate, we are all rough."
Yin Chixue ignored him, threw the curtain and whispered "Let's go" to the little eunuch driving the carriage.
Riding on the fiery red sunset that was about to set in the west, the carriage bumped away on the dirt road, leaving only the dirty exhaust of the horseshoes flying.
"The lord is really a superficial brother, so he just left us to enjoy life alone." Yu He shook his head.
Ruo Ting was wearing expensive and exquisite clothes, standing at the head of the village, which was a bit out of place with this simple and desolate village.
Just as the two were staring at the desolate village in a daze, an old man pulling an ox cart came down from the back hill. When he saw the two, he slowly came up to them and asked, "You are from the Yin family in the capital, right?"
Yu He hurriedly regained his composure, and nodded: "This is my young master. The Yin family fell into ruin and was persecuted by traitors. As a last resort, the master ordered me to bring the young master here to escape."
As Yu He said, he also burst into tears like an actor: "From now on, the young master and I will all depend on you to take care of us. I don't know what to call the old man."
"Oh, I'm Li Fugui, the village head here. You can just call me Uncle Fugui." The old man seemed quite enthusiastic, and he dragged the two of them into the bullock cart as he spoke.
It has to be said that the smell of the bullock cart was not so strong, Yu He and Ruo Ting covered their mouths and noses in unison after getting into the cart.
"I heard the elder son of the Yin family talk about you, so I took the ox cart to the front mountain to pick you up early in the morning. I didn't think you would take another road... By the way, you haven't eaten yet, why don't you come to my house first, my house When the mother-in-law heard that you were coming, she started making arrangements a few days earlier..."
Uncle Fugui chattered endlessly all the way, but Yu He and the others lost their ability to think for a while because of the smell of cow dung, and they just nodded along with Blind JB regardless of what Uncle Fugui said.
Stepping on the red carpet splashed by the setting sun, a group of people stepped on the muddy path and arrived at Uncle Fugui's house.
To be honest, Ruoting, who grew up in the deep palace since he was a child, has never seen such a simple house. It can almost be described as a bare house with four walls. cold wind.
The cold wind was bleak, Ruo Ting was standing in front of the small shabby house, carrying his package, with a look of desolation on his face.
He felt that his father definitely didn't send him down to observe the people's situation, he simply didn't want him anymore and wanted him to die here.
"This is Mr. Yin, he looks so handsome!" Uncle Fu Gui's wife, Mei Mei, warmly greeted him with her chubby waist.
Followed by a little girl in coarse clothes.
"Come, come, come in and warm up quickly, wash your hands, we will be able to eat right away." Mrs. Mei hurriedly brought over the hot water basin.
Ruo Ting looked at the broken wooden basin with sand still clinging to the bottom of the water, and kept shaking his head, expressing that it was absolutely unacceptable.
The beautiful sister-in-law knew that the poor conditions made the young master unhappy, she was a little embarrassed, she rubbed her hands and explained: "Don't worry, it's clean, I've cleaned this basin several times."
Ruoting still shook his head vigorously.
In the past, pure gold basins were used to wash hands in the palace. To be honest, this dirty-looking wooden basin made him a little incapable of accepting it.
Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Yu He quickly pinched Ruo Ting's waist from behind, leaned close to his ear and lowered his voice to warn:
"Don't be petty to me. The conditions in the family are like this. I'll give you the best. Go wash your hands."
Ruoting looked at him with his mouth pursed, with an expression on the verge of tears.
Then he reluctantly walked to the water basin, and stretched out his delicate hands as if facing an enemy——
Only then did Sister Mei secretly heave a sigh of relief, and handed over a patched but very clean old towel for Ruo Ting to wipe her hands.
Ruo Ting looked at the towel and was about to shake his head, but Yu He grabbed the towel and forcibly pulled Ruo Ting's hands into the towel.
In Ruo Ting's eyes, the good food and dishes that Mrs. Meili had been making up for a few days ago were just for feeding pigs. No matter how shabby it was, his puppy Wan'er wouldn't eat it.
"Try it, this is a pullet hen that my family has raised for two years, it's a big tonic." As she spoke, the beautiful sister-in-law picked up a big chicken leg and sent it to Ruoting's bowl.
Ruoting looked at the chicken leg and didn't move.
On the other hand, the ten-year-old daughter of the husband and wife covered her eyes and sobbed softly, muttering: "Xiaohong, my parents killed my only Xiaohong..."
Mei Mei hurriedly covered the little girl's mouth, and smiled at Yu He and the others embarrassingly: "The child is young and ignorant, talking nonsense, don't worry about it."
How can you not worry about it, this family is eating dirt, and they rely on this little hen to lay eggs and sell them for money, but in the end they just slaughtered the only chick in order to receive the mud that can't support the wall, Yu He I feel like I can't keep my mouth shut.
Yu He looked at the heartbroken little girl, picked up the chicken leg from his bowl and put it in the little girl's bowl, coaxing softly: "Come on, little sister, I'll give you this chicken leg."
The little girl stared blankly at the chicken's thigh in the bowl, was stunned for a while, and then burst into a cry comparable to that of a pig being slaughtered——
After eating and drinking, Uncle Fugui led the two of them to the place where they lived.
How to describe it, a thatched hut, a broken fence, this is where the two of them will spend the next ten days.
"I do not--"
Ruo Ting was about to open his mouth to complain, but Yu He slammed his mouth shut.
He smiled awkwardly at Uncle Fugui: "Please trouble Uncle Fugui, it's getting late, you should rest early."
Uncle Fugui rubbed his dark and chapped hands, and smiled shyly: "OK, then I'll go there first, and if you two young masters need anything, just tell me."
As soon as Uncle Fu Gui left, not to mention Ruoting, even Yu He sat down on the ground discouraged, looking at this dark, dirty and air leaky broken house, he really wanted to cry.
"Can people really live in this kind of place?" Ruo Ting asked innocently.
Yu He sighed and got up from the ground: "You have to live if you can't, or you can sleep on the street."
Ruoting curled his lips: "Hmph, you know how to bully me. When I return to the palace, I will write down all your bad deeds and present them to my father, so that he can punish you."
Yu He picked up the torn quilt on the kang and patted the ashes. He coughed and said, "It's too troublesome. You'd better ascend to the throne of the king and punish me yourself."
Ruoting carried his small package around the spot, pouted even higher:
"This Uncle Fugui's family is stingy, not to mention giving us such food, and let us live in such a place."
As he said that, Ruo Ting wiped off the dust on the table with his Lan Hua finger: "It's so dirty, the place where my Jun Jun (Prince's horse) lives is cleaner than this."
Yu He straightened up impatiently: "Don't complain, can't you see that this village is very poor, do you know that the chicken you ate tonight is the young man of Uncle Fugui's family? Chicken, I killed it so hard to make you happy, do you still think this or that, do you have any conscience?"
Ruo Ting's momentum weakened at that moment, he picked the little hole on the table, and whispered: "I, I don't know, and no one has told me about it."
Yu He tidied the bed and said:
"So, you have to understand that you always lose your temper because you can't eat that mouthful of lotus seed soup, but in this world, there are countless families like Uncle Fugui, who barely feed themselves on that one-third of an acre of land. It’s not easy, and the palace has to collect a lot of taxes, and you can’t imagine how they survived.”
Ruo Ting sat on the side, and the action of picking the table slowed down, as if he was lost in thought.
After a while, he raised his head and asked:
"Since this is the case, wouldn't it be good to reduce land tax? Wouldn't it be good to exempt land tax and grain tax in especially barren areas? And allocate a little relief money from the treasury, so that they can survive, eat and clothe themselves warmly."
Yu He smiled: "You really think it should be like this?"
Ruoting nodded: "Taifu Han told me that there was a severe drought in the north last year, and the harvest of crops was not good, but the tax revenue has not been reduced at all. Some people proposed to expand the scale of production without changing the land tax, but this cannot fundamentally solve the problem." problem."
"Then what do you think is the fundamental solution to the problem."
"The Taifu often said that it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. Reduce taxes in the early stage and promote drought-resistant and drought-resistant crops suitable for the nature of the land in the north, such as upland rice, corn, and wheat. If you want the north to plant water-loving crops like the south Warm crops naturally don’t yield well.”
At that moment, hearing Ruoting say that, Yu He suddenly felt very relieved.
"What kind of monarch do you think is a good monarch?"
Ruo Ting thought for a while, then hesitantly asked: "Like my father, capable of literary and martial arts, majestic and dignified?"
Yu He shook his head, then pointed at Ruo Ting: "It's actually like you."
Ruoting was a little unbelievable. He widened his eyes and pointed to his nose: "I heard that right, do you mean like me? But others call me a waste. Can't ride."
As he spoke, he lowered his head in embarrassment——
Yu He reached out and pinched his chin, forcing him to raise his head, looked at him, and told him seriously:
"Prince, you have to keep in mind a sentence, the one who wins the hearts of the people wins the world. What the people want is not a handsome monarch, nor a monarch who can write poems or ride horses. What they want is to keep them in their hearts all the time. Empathize with them and love their sovereign."
Ruoting's eyeballs trembled, and after a while, he tightened his lips, then nodded firmly:
"I remember that in the future, I will be a Mingjun who loves and protects the people and puts the people first, so that everyone in the world can eat sweet-scented osmanthus and lotus seed soup."
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Early the next morning, before dawn, someone’s big rooster started howling again——
Yu He shrank his body and wriggled a few times like a meat worm that had been overwintering, then slowly opened his eyes.
The touch from below is a bit strange.
Last night, it was obvious that the prince with a delicate body was arranged to sleep on the bed, and he made a bed on the floor, but when he woke up, he was lying on the soft and warm bed.
Yu He sat up abruptly, looked around, but Ruo Ting was nowhere to be seen.
Yu He woke up instantly, and hurriedly got out of bed without any clothes on.
Nima, why did this kid disappear so early in the morning?Could it be that he was kidnapped again?
Thinking about it, Yu He miserably called Ruoting's name and pushed open the broken wooden door——
The warm winter sun shines in, making people feel warm all over.
At the door, Ruo Ting was pushing the big stone mill with his thin and thin body, while Uncle Fu Gui kept pouring beans into it.
Yu He almost died on the spot when he saw it, this rich uncle is really desperate!How dare the prince grind beans for him!
Ruo Ting's small face was flushed, and when he pushed the stone mill, his white boots sank into the mud.
Yu He hurried over, pushed Ruoting away, and took the stone mill: "I'll do it, I'll do it, you can't move this thing."
Uncle Fugui took the soaked beans and said with a smile: "I came here this morning to deliver tofu, and then the young master asked me how I made it, and said that I was taken care of by the villagers last night, so I planned to make some tofu for the villagers. past."
As soon as he finished speaking, Ruoting squeezed over again, grabbed the handle of the stone mill, and said stubbornly: "I can do it, I'm not a waste."
It's rare for him to be so active, so Yu He can't beat him, so he can only let him go.
In the 25 years since he was born, Yu He never imagined that one day he would be able to sit at the door and kowtow melon seeds, and then watch the current prince and future emperor push stones to grind beans to make tofu.
Thinking about it this way is a little exciting.
"Work harder! You haven't eaten, you!" On a whim, he even imitated the unscrupulous supervisor in the TV series, cursing and throwing melon seeds at Ruo Ting.
With that flushed face on his face, Ruo Ting gritted his teeth and said in a low voice while pushing the stone mill hard:
"When I get back to the palace, I must... punish your crime..."
After grinding the beans, Ruoting took the initiative to ask Ying to help make flowered steamed buns for the Spring Festival. He sat in the group of middle-aged women like a handsome young man, and he really didn't feel disobedient.
"Little chestnut, you come, let's go together."
Seeing that Yu He had been looking at him with a malicious smile, Ruoting naturally understood three points, so no one should try to escape today.
Every year during Chinese New Year, there is a clear division of labor in the village. The men are in charge of physical labor, and the women are in charge of making steamed buns and making dumplings. But this year, there are suddenly three more big men squeezed among a group of women...
Not only Yu He, but even Uncle Fu Gui was brought in to make steamed bun flowers.
"I'm a monkey, I want to be a little monkey." Ruoting squeezed the dough in his hands, clamoring like a seven or eight-year-old child to knead animal-shaped steamed buns.
Yu He: "Don't waste your noodles, are you still a three-year-old? I'm a pig, so I'm going to make a little pig."
Uncle Fu Gui: "You two children are really... old woman, I am a ox, so pinch a big bull for me."
"Let me pinch a hammer for you."
If you say that Ruoting is from a delicate background, but in less than three days, he seems to have integrated into this big environment, but if you say that he has a strong adaptability, he still complains endlessly.
Although, someone came to the palace, saying that the emperor ordered the prince to be taken back to the palace for the Spring Festival.
As a result, the prince directly rejected the emperor by saying "don't go, I haven't eaten the monkey steamed bun flower I pinched."
Yu He asked him what it was like to celebrate the Spring Festival in the palace every year.
Ruoting rested his chin on his hands, looked at the red lantern hanging at the door, thoughtfully said:
"At that time, one had to get up early to worship the ancestors, and then all the imperial concubines, all the princes and princes and ministers would come to celebrate the New Year with the emperor. The sound danced, and the palace was full of joy and excitement."
"Then why do you still refuse to go back to the palace, and follow the villagers here to eat bran swallowed vegetables?" Yu He was puzzled.
"Because I'm lonely." Ruoting said this inexplicably.
"Lonely? So many people celebrate the New Year together and still be lonely." Yu He remembered that every year during the New Year's Eve, there were only his aunt and sister at home, and it was deserted, so he still envied this kind of big family.
"The step-by-step procedure is exactly the same stylized every year. It has always been the congratulatory speeches of the officials, saying the New Year's greetings without pain. The table is full of delicious food as if it is a decoration. After the ceremony, the table is removed."
Saying that, Ruoting smiled helplessly.
A child of seventeen or eighteen years old has a mature look in his eyes that does not match his age.
Yu He felt a little distressed, he really felt that the children living in their era were so happy.
"We're going to set off firecrackers! Young master, do you want to come together?" The two were chatting when Uncle Fugui suddenly rushed in, his old face flushed with excitement.
When Ruo Ting heard this, a carp jumped up: "I'll go, I'll go!"
Seeing Ruo Ting happy like a child, Yu He also laughed foolishly.
On the night of the New Year's Eve, the village was full of joy and excitement.
The little children bounced around the village with small lanterns, and the sound of firecrackers resounded through the sky. These miserable villagers finally showed a little joy on their faces at this time.
It's another year, and I disappeared again without saying a word, but this time I left a letter to my aunt and Peipei, saying that I have to go on a business trip and I can't spend the New Year together this year.
Thinking about it now, it's a bit embarrassing.
Not to mention that the crown prince feels lonely in the new year, Yu He himself feels a little deserted now.
"Happy New Year." An abrupt and too calm voice sounded somewhat out of place in the hustle and bustle.
Yu He turned his head in a daze.
Under the colorful fireworks, the white and tender little face was printed with a touch of color.
"You..." Yu He was stunned.
"What are you, you have no rules." The man chuckled, and suddenly took out a small blue box from his cuff.
"My lord? Didn't you go back to the palace? Why are you back?" Yu He was so surprised that he could swallow a whole watermelon with his mouth.
"I didn't leave, I have been living in the inn in the town."
"You are very kind."
"Why, I need your permission to do anything?" Yin Chixue said, passing the small box in his hand.
"What is this?" Yu He dared not answer.
After all, with Yin Chixue's personality, it's possible to put a bomb in it.
Seeing that Yu He didn't pick it up, Yin Chixue lost his patience: "Count to three, if you don't accept it, throw it away."
As he said that, he made a gesture to throw it out.
"Why not, you spend money anyway." Yu He rushed down the mountain like a tiger and snatched the small box.
He turned and looked at the small box, and then at Yin Chixue: "What's in it, it must be poisonous gas."
Yin Chixue glanced at him, but said nothing.
Yu He opened the small box, and a transparent milky white Hetian jade lay quietly on the soft couch.
"Wow! This is so pretty! Can I sell it? I happen to be short of money." Yu He took out the jade pendant, examined it carefully, and found that it was still in the shape of a peach.
"You dare." Yin Chixue glared at him.
"Just kidding." Yu He caressed the jade pendant as if it were a treasure, "But why did you give me such a precious thing?"
"Isn't it because you donated generously to Miss Rong and the two of them, and secretly left your jade pendant to them. It just happened to be the Spring Festival, so it was a New Year's gift." Yin Chixue said casually.
"Thank you, I don't have money to buy you a gift, can I give you a kiss?"
"No, then I'd rather you don't give me anything."
Yu He made a grimace, and let out a disdainful "hum".
Then he raised his head and looked at Yin Chixue.
He was looking up at the fireworks, and today he specially wore a new dress that was pinkish and reddish. Everyone said that the red color made him look whiter, and now Yin Chixue looked pale.
Not exaggerating, it is really pale, even the lips have no color.
"Are you... not feeling well?"
Yin Chixue gave him a sideways glance, but said nothing.
"My lord, this slave dares to..." Saying that, Yu He bravely stretched out his restless hand.
Yin Chixue's forehead was scorching hot, and Yu He even subconsciously shrank his hands when it was so hot.
"I kiao, you have a fever." The tone was strangely excited.
Yin Chixue raised his eyebrows: "Why, are you happy when I'm sick?"
"No."
Yes, I was so happy that I almost danced on the spot.
It has always been because non-humans like Yin Chixue must be invulnerable to all poisons, and colds and fevers are very far away from them, but only in this way, he also has a fever and cold like a normal person, and he will feel that he is close to him a little.
"My lord, since you're sick, tell me."
Yin Chixue didn't say a word, but actually felt that the Chinese New Year was coming, and she didn't want to spoil other people's interest, so she endured it all the time.
"Don't bear it, your body is delicate, we can't bear it if something happens to you."
Yin Chixue flicked his sleeves: "Okay, I've finished my New Year's greetings, I'll go back first."
"Huh? Why don't you stay and make dumplings together?" Yu He asked innocently.
"Did I do this kind of thing?" Yin Chixue looked at him contemptuously, then turned around and left.
But within two steps, it was obvious that his body began to sway.
Yu He watched his leaving back and saw his swaying steps, so he subconsciously followed.
Seen from the back, Yin Chixue's hair is very long and neatly tied up, and the proportion of the whole body is just right, making people unable to help but stare at it.
But looking at it, he suddenly stopped in his tracks.
Yu He also subconsciously stopped in his tracks.
Yin Chixue turned her head slightly, as if she wanted to observe something from the corner of her eye.
But with a burst of dizziness, it felt like the world was spinning for a moment.
To be honest, Yu He had been thinking before, that a person as strong as Yin Chixue who is not normal would definitely not easily fall or hit him, and he couldn't imagine him being embarrassing.
But unexpectedly, God seems to have heard his inner wish.
But when Yu He turned his head and saw the trembling Ruo Ting lying on the tree hugging the trunk, he couldn't laugh or cry for a moment.
"Prince...how did you climb the tree?" Yu He stood up, looked at Ruoting, and asked.
Ruoting hugged the tree trunk tightly like a koala, not daring to move, but he still tried to be brave: "The scenery seen from the tree is good."
"Your Highness, to be honest, you can't come down."
Fortunately, it was dark, so I couldn't see Ruoting's face that was even redder than Lao Ganma's.
Yu He was helpless, he limped over and opened his hands, "Come on, Your Highness, jump down, I'll catch you."
Trembling, Ruo Ting looked down at Yu He below, and after a little gesture, he felt that this little chestnut was thinner than him, and there was no difference between letting him follow him and dying on his own initiative.
So he shook his head desperately, meaning it was too risky, so forget it.
"Come down quickly, I can hit ten of you with your small body, don't worry, be good~" Yu He coaxed.
Ruoting has been quietly following Yu He ever since he went out alone. After Yu He sat in the backyard for half an hour, he followed him and lay down on the tree for half an hour. After staying in the tree for so long, both feet and legs are numb.
He glanced at Yu He for the last time, gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and jumped forward——
With a muffled groan, the two fell to the ground in an embrace——
Seeing Yu He who was crushed under him and almost died on the spot, Ruo Ting hurriedly got up from him, pale with shock: "Little Lizi, are you alright?"
Yu He's entire face was purple, but he still managed to squeeze out two words from between his teeth, pretending to be relaxed: "It's okay..."
Ruo Ting helped Yu He up from the ground, and smiled awkwardly, revealing a bit of self-blame in the embarrassment:
"I'm sorry, I wanted to make you happy because I saw you were in a bad mood, but in the end... I'm really useless."
"Thanks to His Highness's great love, it's good if you have a heart. I have a big heart, and it's only for a while, and it will pass soon." Yu He forced a wry smile.
"Even so, can I still ask why?" Ruoting asked cautiously.
Yu He patted the dust on his body, and smiled: "Is this important? You are a prince, so you don't need to worry about me as a slave."
At this time, Ruoting, who has always been naive, rarely looked at him seriously:
"Actually, I never regarded you as a slave."
Yu He teased and said, "Why, maybe it's a little lover, I'm so scared."
Ruoting shook his head: "We are friends, aren't we?"
"We are friends" is probably only heard from Ruo Ting's mouth, especially in the deep palace, where there are no real friends, only the formation of cliques for profit.
"Don't you think so?" Ruoting asked back.
This question made Yu He a little embarrassed.
To be honest, not really.
To him, Ruoting is just a client who needs to solve problems, and sooner or later he will have to leave, why bother to have any real feelings, so that the time of parting will be better, just like Yuzi and the others, if they didn't give affection at the beginning, parting It won't be that painful anymore.
In fact, Yu He really wanted to stimulate this kid with words to wake him up, but when he raised his head, he met his expectant eyes.
Yu He secretly sighed, and had no choice but to say: "Of course they are friends."
When Ruo Ting heard this, he immediately beamed with joy, and stretched out his hands to embrace Yu He into his arms: "Little Lizi, I knew you were sincere to me."
It's a good word, but it sounds so awkward.
In the sky, a wide silver-white river seems to flow slowly with the air, extending to a distant place——
In fact, it is normal for Ruoting to have such thoughts. He is the prince and the future emperor. He has not lived for himself since he was born. What kind of friends he will make and what kind of things he will do are all determined long ago. Yes, when everyone approaches him with a purpose, he desires to have someone who treats him sincerely.
So this little eunuch who sneaked into the imperial dining room in the middle of the night at the risk of being beheaded was somewhat different from those well-behaved servants.
The bowl of sweet-scented osmanthus and lotus seed soup, which tasted very ordinary and even cloying, was completely incomparable to the one made by the imperial chef in the imperial dining room.
But the intention in it is completely incomparable.
"Little Lizi, I'm hungry." Ruo Ting sat in the backyard with his legs crossed. It was a very elegant way of admiring the wind, the moon and the chestnuts, but in the end, his unsatisfied stomach kept barking indiscriminately.
"Your Highness, with all due respect, I don't have to worry about you so much when your knowledge and courage are like your stomach."
"Actually, I haven't had a drop of water since noon."
As Ruoting said, he stretched out his hand slowly: "I seemed to feel that you were hiding steamed buns in your arms just now?"
Yu He opened his hand and looked at him with a face full of embarrassment: "What am I hiding that thing for?"
"Yes, obviously yes, just now I jumped down from the tree and happened to touch the steamed bun you hid in your arms." Ruo Ting stretched his hand over Yu He's abdomen again as he said.
Yu He pushed his hand away again: "Have you said everything?"
This time, Ruoting was not convinced: "There must be! Why are you so stingy, it's just a steamed bun. When I return to the capital, I will order someone to prepare a basket of steamed buns for you to eat."
Conscience of heaven and earth, Yu He really didn't hide any steamed buns, not to mention that he is from the north, and it's not like he hasn't seen steamed buns before, so it's not impossible.
Ruo Ting's hand continued to reach down, and suddenly squeezed towards Yu He, squeezed it suddenly, and then shouted in surprise: "I said it must be there! Isn't it here?"
At that moment, the scene of sparks hitting the earth suddenly appeared in Yu He's mind.
Severe pain struck, and wave after wave occupied all the rationality of the brain.
"Damn—!" The screams pierced the sky in an instant.
"You you you you you!" Ruo Ting widened his eyes in astonishment, and after realizing the reaction, he backed away again and again, bumping his head against a tree.
Now he is not only doubting life, but also doubting the authenticity of this world.
Just now, I caught the familiar object from under the chestnut, but it was a little strange to the eunuch... Obviously it is... the iconic symbol of the majority of male compatriots...
But, he is a eunuch, why? !Will there be? !That thing? !
"Quick...help me, go in..." Yu He said weakly while lying on the ground.
Ruo Ting stared at him blankly, after a long while, he finally came to his senses, and hurried over to help Yu He up, the two stumbled into the room like this.
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The atmosphere was awkward and tense for a while, Ruo Ting sat five meters away from Yu He, watching him open his clothes and trousers to check his vulnerable little brother.
It's okay, it's okay, it's just that I was offended, it's nothing serious.
But looking back, Ruo Ting was still trembling with fright...
"I said, is this a terrible thing?" Yu He was helpless.
Ruoting nodded honestly.
"This...how should I explain it? It's actually because..." Yu He tried his best to organize the words in his mind, thinking about how to get away with it.
"I, it's actually the first time I've seen such a eunuch, so I'm a little shocked. If I offend you, I hope you don't mind." Before Yu He could finish speaking, Ruoting immediately interjected.
"Eh?" Now it was Yu He's turn to be confused, "So you mean you won't report on me?"
"Why, why did you report..."
"Isn't this the crime of deceiving the king?"
"However, it's the responsibility of the people in the cleansing room that didn't find out, so what does it have to do with you?" Ruoting's tone was so sincere that Yu He couldn't doubt it.
What a trick to change the concept secretly. After what he said, Yu He felt that it made sense.
That's right, it's the responsibility of those people in the cleansing room for not cleansing themselves, so what does it have to do with me?
"Then, can you not tell others about this?" Yu He asked pleadingly.
"Can't Nine Emperor Uncle?"
"He is the most unacceptable, and you must not reveal a word to him." Yu He hurriedly covered Ruo Ting's mouth.
If Yin Chixue found out, he could write [-] leaflets and distribute them all over the world.
Although he didn't know why, Ruoting had no choice but to obediently agree.
That night, both of them lost sleep.
One is Yu He, who has always been worried that Ruo Ting will reveal the truth to him;
The other one is Ruoting. For Ruoting, only these princes and emperors in the huge imperial city can have that thing. It is the first time he has seen the second person who can own that thing besides these people, saying Not shocked is fake.
If this is the case, what is the real purpose of the little chestnut.
With this question in mind, Ruo Ting finally baked sesame seed cakes on the bed all night, until the East was pale, and he was overwhelmed by sleepiness and slowly closed his eyes.
The next day, the two went to the lobby to have breakfast with dark circles under their eyes.
Yin Chixue finally came back after a night of spring night. She looked refreshed, which made people feel uncomfortable.
"Looking at the rosy complexion of the prince, he is refreshed. He must have been served comfortably last night." Yu He couldn't help but move over.
Yin Chixue paced in front of him with her hands behind her back, slightly committed herself, looked at his facial expressions, and suddenly raised her hands to cover her mouth and smiled:
"That's natural, what's the matter, you still have to go to the emperor to sue me?"
Yu He curled his lips: "Don't dare."
Seeing his jealous appearance, Yin Chixue seemed to be able to guess his thoughts, but what did it have to do with him, a mere eunuch, thinking about something, was simply naive.
But seeing Ruoting's pale face and dull eyes as if he was walking down the stairs like a walking dead, Yin Chixue walked over and asked concerned: "Your Highness, did you not sleep well last night?"
Ruoting opened his mouth slightly, and turned his head to look at Yin Chixue, then nodded, and then shook his head quickly.
Yin Chixue raised her hand to gently touch his forehead, and muttered, "I don't have a fever."
"I'm fine, please trouble the emperor to worry about it." Ruoting forced a smile, and took Yin Chixue's hand.
Then he looked at Yu He who was still arguing non-stop with another eunuch because of the problem of leading the horse, and sighed for a long time.
A group of people set off again, heading towards the final destination - Qiuhe Village.
After leaving the urban area of Huiyuan, the car gradually drove into the suburbs. Compared with the hustle and bustle of the urban area, the suburbs were more peaceful and peaceful.
The setting sun dyed the clouds red, and the sky was churning like a fire, clamoring and rolling towards the distance.
The carriage gradually slowed down, and finally stopped in front of a slightly shabby small village.
"Here, it's here." Yin Chixue got out of the car first, walked to Ruoting's carriage and raised his hand to help him get off.
Ruo Ting got out of the car, seeing the desolation in his eyes, he shrank three points in an instant.
He murmured in despair: "Could it be here for the next half month..."
"Yes, today is the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, and the Spring Festival will be in two days. The emperor wants you to return to the palace after the fifteenth day." Yin Chixue casually took the package from the little eunuch, and handed it to Ruoting.
"Remember, this place is not like a palace. No one will serve you. You have to rely on your own resources for food, clothing, housing and transportation here. And, most importantly, you must not act willfully like in the palace." Yin Chixue said. Lowering his voice, he seemed to be deliberately scaring Ruoting, "Because here, no one will treat you as a prince, and no one will let you obey your orders, understand."
After Ruo Ting heard this, he couldn't help shivering all over, and then he looked at Yu He as if asking for help: "Little Lizi, will you stay here?"
"Theoretically, yes..." Yu He felt a little apprehensive when he saw this barren small village.
He instantly thought of a controversial TV show of his time - Metamorphosis.
Suddenly he felt that he and Ruoting were no different from the urban protagonists of the Transformation Meter.
"Then, I wish you luck." After finishing speaking, Yin Chixue stepped into the carriage again.
"Wait, where are you going, my lord? Didn't you say to accompany us?"
Yin Chixue poked her head out of the carriage: "My king's skin is delicate and sensitive, too rough an environment will make my whole body raw..."
"That's enough, that's enough." Yu He interrupted him, "Needless to say, as long as you are delicate, we are all rough."
Yin Chixue ignored him, threw the curtain and whispered "Let's go" to the little eunuch driving the carriage.
Riding on the fiery red sunset that was about to set in the west, the carriage bumped away on the dirt road, leaving only the dirty exhaust of the horseshoes flying.
"The lord is really a superficial brother, so he just left us to enjoy life alone." Yu He shook his head.
Ruo Ting was wearing expensive and exquisite clothes, standing at the head of the village, which was a bit out of place with this simple and desolate village.
Just as the two were staring at the desolate village in a daze, an old man pulling an ox cart came down from the back hill. When he saw the two, he slowly came up to them and asked, "You are from the Yin family in the capital, right?"
Yu He hurriedly regained his composure, and nodded: "This is my young master. The Yin family fell into ruin and was persecuted by traitors. As a last resort, the master ordered me to bring the young master here to escape."
As Yu He said, he also burst into tears like an actor: "From now on, the young master and I will all depend on you to take care of us. I don't know what to call the old man."
"Oh, I'm Li Fugui, the village head here. You can just call me Uncle Fugui." The old man seemed quite enthusiastic, and he dragged the two of them into the bullock cart as he spoke.
It has to be said that the smell of the bullock cart was not so strong, Yu He and Ruo Ting covered their mouths and noses in unison after getting into the cart.
"I heard the elder son of the Yin family talk about you, so I took the ox cart to the front mountain to pick you up early in the morning. I didn't think you would take another road... By the way, you haven't eaten yet, why don't you come to my house first, my house When the mother-in-law heard that you were coming, she started making arrangements a few days earlier..."
Uncle Fugui chattered endlessly all the way, but Yu He and the others lost their ability to think for a while because of the smell of cow dung, and they just nodded along with Blind JB regardless of what Uncle Fugui said.
Stepping on the red carpet splashed by the setting sun, a group of people stepped on the muddy path and arrived at Uncle Fugui's house.
To be honest, Ruoting, who grew up in the deep palace since he was a child, has never seen such a simple house. It can almost be described as a bare house with four walls. cold wind.
The cold wind was bleak, Ruo Ting was standing in front of the small shabby house, carrying his package, with a look of desolation on his face.
He felt that his father definitely didn't send him down to observe the people's situation, he simply didn't want him anymore and wanted him to die here.
"This is Mr. Yin, he looks so handsome!" Uncle Fu Gui's wife, Mei Mei, warmly greeted him with her chubby waist.
Followed by a little girl in coarse clothes.
"Come, come, come in and warm up quickly, wash your hands, we will be able to eat right away." Mrs. Mei hurriedly brought over the hot water basin.
Ruo Ting looked at the broken wooden basin with sand still clinging to the bottom of the water, and kept shaking his head, expressing that it was absolutely unacceptable.
The beautiful sister-in-law knew that the poor conditions made the young master unhappy, she was a little embarrassed, she rubbed her hands and explained: "Don't worry, it's clean, I've cleaned this basin several times."
Ruoting still shook his head vigorously.
In the past, pure gold basins were used to wash hands in the palace. To be honest, this dirty-looking wooden basin made him a little incapable of accepting it.
Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Yu He quickly pinched Ruo Ting's waist from behind, leaned close to his ear and lowered his voice to warn:
"Don't be petty to me. The conditions in the family are like this. I'll give you the best. Go wash your hands."
Ruoting looked at him with his mouth pursed, with an expression on the verge of tears.
Then he reluctantly walked to the water basin, and stretched out his delicate hands as if facing an enemy——
Only then did Sister Mei secretly heave a sigh of relief, and handed over a patched but very clean old towel for Ruo Ting to wipe her hands.
Ruo Ting looked at the towel and was about to shake his head, but Yu He grabbed the towel and forcibly pulled Ruo Ting's hands into the towel.
In Ruo Ting's eyes, the good food and dishes that Mrs. Meili had been making up for a few days ago were just for feeding pigs. No matter how shabby it was, his puppy Wan'er wouldn't eat it.
"Try it, this is a pullet hen that my family has raised for two years, it's a big tonic." As she spoke, the beautiful sister-in-law picked up a big chicken leg and sent it to Ruoting's bowl.
Ruoting looked at the chicken leg and didn't move.
On the other hand, the ten-year-old daughter of the husband and wife covered her eyes and sobbed softly, muttering: "Xiaohong, my parents killed my only Xiaohong..."
Mei Mei hurriedly covered the little girl's mouth, and smiled at Yu He and the others embarrassingly: "The child is young and ignorant, talking nonsense, don't worry about it."
How can you not worry about it, this family is eating dirt, and they rely on this little hen to lay eggs and sell them for money, but in the end they just slaughtered the only chick in order to receive the mud that can't support the wall, Yu He I feel like I can't keep my mouth shut.
Yu He looked at the heartbroken little girl, picked up the chicken leg from his bowl and put it in the little girl's bowl, coaxing softly: "Come on, little sister, I'll give you this chicken leg."
The little girl stared blankly at the chicken's thigh in the bowl, was stunned for a while, and then burst into a cry comparable to that of a pig being slaughtered——
After eating and drinking, Uncle Fugui led the two of them to the place where they lived.
How to describe it, a thatched hut, a broken fence, this is where the two of them will spend the next ten days.
"I do not--"
Ruo Ting was about to open his mouth to complain, but Yu He slammed his mouth shut.
He smiled awkwardly at Uncle Fugui: "Please trouble Uncle Fugui, it's getting late, you should rest early."
Uncle Fugui rubbed his dark and chapped hands, and smiled shyly: "OK, then I'll go there first, and if you two young masters need anything, just tell me."
As soon as Uncle Fu Gui left, not to mention Ruoting, even Yu He sat down on the ground discouraged, looking at this dark, dirty and air leaky broken house, he really wanted to cry.
"Can people really live in this kind of place?" Ruo Ting asked innocently.
Yu He sighed and got up from the ground: "You have to live if you can't, or you can sleep on the street."
Ruoting curled his lips: "Hmph, you know how to bully me. When I return to the palace, I will write down all your bad deeds and present them to my father, so that he can punish you."
Yu He picked up the torn quilt on the kang and patted the ashes. He coughed and said, "It's too troublesome. You'd better ascend to the throne of the king and punish me yourself."
Ruoting carried his small package around the spot, pouted even higher:
"This Uncle Fugui's family is stingy, not to mention giving us such food, and let us live in such a place."
As he said that, Ruo Ting wiped off the dust on the table with his Lan Hua finger: "It's so dirty, the place where my Jun Jun (Prince's horse) lives is cleaner than this."
Yu He straightened up impatiently: "Don't complain, can't you see that this village is very poor, do you know that the chicken you ate tonight is the young man of Uncle Fugui's family? Chicken, I killed it so hard to make you happy, do you still think this or that, do you have any conscience?"
Ruo Ting's momentum weakened at that moment, he picked the little hole on the table, and whispered: "I, I don't know, and no one has told me about it."
Yu He tidied the bed and said:
"So, you have to understand that you always lose your temper because you can't eat that mouthful of lotus seed soup, but in this world, there are countless families like Uncle Fugui, who barely feed themselves on that one-third of an acre of land. It’s not easy, and the palace has to collect a lot of taxes, and you can’t imagine how they survived.”
Ruo Ting sat on the side, and the action of picking the table slowed down, as if he was lost in thought.
After a while, he raised his head and asked:
"Since this is the case, wouldn't it be good to reduce land tax? Wouldn't it be good to exempt land tax and grain tax in especially barren areas? And allocate a little relief money from the treasury, so that they can survive, eat and clothe themselves warmly."
Yu He smiled: "You really think it should be like this?"
Ruoting nodded: "Taifu Han told me that there was a severe drought in the north last year, and the harvest of crops was not good, but the tax revenue has not been reduced at all. Some people proposed to expand the scale of production without changing the land tax, but this cannot fundamentally solve the problem." problem."
"Then what do you think is the fundamental solution to the problem."
"The Taifu often said that it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. Reduce taxes in the early stage and promote drought-resistant and drought-resistant crops suitable for the nature of the land in the north, such as upland rice, corn, and wheat. If you want the north to plant water-loving crops like the south Warm crops naturally don’t yield well.”
At that moment, hearing Ruoting say that, Yu He suddenly felt very relieved.
"What kind of monarch do you think is a good monarch?"
Ruo Ting thought for a while, then hesitantly asked: "Like my father, capable of literary and martial arts, majestic and dignified?"
Yu He shook his head, then pointed at Ruo Ting: "It's actually like you."
Ruoting was a little unbelievable. He widened his eyes and pointed to his nose: "I heard that right, do you mean like me? But others call me a waste. Can't ride."
As he spoke, he lowered his head in embarrassment——
Yu He reached out and pinched his chin, forcing him to raise his head, looked at him, and told him seriously:
"Prince, you have to keep in mind a sentence, the one who wins the hearts of the people wins the world. What the people want is not a handsome monarch, nor a monarch who can write poems or ride horses. What they want is to keep them in their hearts all the time. Empathize with them and love their sovereign."
Ruoting's eyeballs trembled, and after a while, he tightened his lips, then nodded firmly:
"I remember that in the future, I will be a Mingjun who loves and protects the people and puts the people first, so that everyone in the world can eat sweet-scented osmanthus and lotus seed soup."
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Early the next morning, before dawn, someone’s big rooster started howling again——
Yu He shrank his body and wriggled a few times like a meat worm that had been overwintering, then slowly opened his eyes.
The touch from below is a bit strange.
Last night, it was obvious that the prince with a delicate body was arranged to sleep on the bed, and he made a bed on the floor, but when he woke up, he was lying on the soft and warm bed.
Yu He sat up abruptly, looked around, but Ruo Ting was nowhere to be seen.
Yu He woke up instantly, and hurriedly got out of bed without any clothes on.
Nima, why did this kid disappear so early in the morning?Could it be that he was kidnapped again?
Thinking about it, Yu He miserably called Ruoting's name and pushed open the broken wooden door——
The warm winter sun shines in, making people feel warm all over.
At the door, Ruo Ting was pushing the big stone mill with his thin and thin body, while Uncle Fu Gui kept pouring beans into it.
Yu He almost died on the spot when he saw it, this rich uncle is really desperate!How dare the prince grind beans for him!
Ruo Ting's small face was flushed, and when he pushed the stone mill, his white boots sank into the mud.
Yu He hurried over, pushed Ruoting away, and took the stone mill: "I'll do it, I'll do it, you can't move this thing."
Uncle Fugui took the soaked beans and said with a smile: "I came here this morning to deliver tofu, and then the young master asked me how I made it, and said that I was taken care of by the villagers last night, so I planned to make some tofu for the villagers. past."
As soon as he finished speaking, Ruoting squeezed over again, grabbed the handle of the stone mill, and said stubbornly: "I can do it, I'm not a waste."
It's rare for him to be so active, so Yu He can't beat him, so he can only let him go.
In the 25 years since he was born, Yu He never imagined that one day he would be able to sit at the door and kowtow melon seeds, and then watch the current prince and future emperor push stones to grind beans to make tofu.
Thinking about it this way is a little exciting.
"Work harder! You haven't eaten, you!" On a whim, he even imitated the unscrupulous supervisor in the TV series, cursing and throwing melon seeds at Ruo Ting.
With that flushed face on his face, Ruo Ting gritted his teeth and said in a low voice while pushing the stone mill hard:
"When I get back to the palace, I must... punish your crime..."
After grinding the beans, Ruoting took the initiative to ask Ying to help make flowered steamed buns for the Spring Festival. He sat in the group of middle-aged women like a handsome young man, and he really didn't feel disobedient.
"Little chestnut, you come, let's go together."
Seeing that Yu He had been looking at him with a malicious smile, Ruoting naturally understood three points, so no one should try to escape today.
Every year during Chinese New Year, there is a clear division of labor in the village. The men are in charge of physical labor, and the women are in charge of making steamed buns and making dumplings. But this year, there are suddenly three more big men squeezed among a group of women...
Not only Yu He, but even Uncle Fu Gui was brought in to make steamed bun flowers.
"I'm a monkey, I want to be a little monkey." Ruoting squeezed the dough in his hands, clamoring like a seven or eight-year-old child to knead animal-shaped steamed buns.
Yu He: "Don't waste your noodles, are you still a three-year-old? I'm a pig, so I'm going to make a little pig."
Uncle Fu Gui: "You two children are really... old woman, I am a ox, so pinch a big bull for me."
"Let me pinch a hammer for you."
If you say that Ruoting is from a delicate background, but in less than three days, he seems to have integrated into this big environment, but if you say that he has a strong adaptability, he still complains endlessly.
Although, someone came to the palace, saying that the emperor ordered the prince to be taken back to the palace for the Spring Festival.
As a result, the prince directly rejected the emperor by saying "don't go, I haven't eaten the monkey steamed bun flower I pinched."
Yu He asked him what it was like to celebrate the Spring Festival in the palace every year.
Ruoting rested his chin on his hands, looked at the red lantern hanging at the door, thoughtfully said:
"At that time, one had to get up early to worship the ancestors, and then all the imperial concubines, all the princes and princes and ministers would come to celebrate the New Year with the emperor. The sound danced, and the palace was full of joy and excitement."
"Then why do you still refuse to go back to the palace, and follow the villagers here to eat bran swallowed vegetables?" Yu He was puzzled.
"Because I'm lonely." Ruoting said this inexplicably.
"Lonely? So many people celebrate the New Year together and still be lonely." Yu He remembered that every year during the New Year's Eve, there were only his aunt and sister at home, and it was deserted, so he still envied this kind of big family.
"The step-by-step procedure is exactly the same stylized every year. It has always been the congratulatory speeches of the officials, saying the New Year's greetings without pain. The table is full of delicious food as if it is a decoration. After the ceremony, the table is removed."
Saying that, Ruoting smiled helplessly.
A child of seventeen or eighteen years old has a mature look in his eyes that does not match his age.
Yu He felt a little distressed, he really felt that the children living in their era were so happy.
"We're going to set off firecrackers! Young master, do you want to come together?" The two were chatting when Uncle Fugui suddenly rushed in, his old face flushed with excitement.
When Ruo Ting heard this, a carp jumped up: "I'll go, I'll go!"
Seeing Ruo Ting happy like a child, Yu He also laughed foolishly.
On the night of the New Year's Eve, the village was full of joy and excitement.
The little children bounced around the village with small lanterns, and the sound of firecrackers resounded through the sky. These miserable villagers finally showed a little joy on their faces at this time.
It's another year, and I disappeared again without saying a word, but this time I left a letter to my aunt and Peipei, saying that I have to go on a business trip and I can't spend the New Year together this year.
Thinking about it now, it's a bit embarrassing.
Not to mention that the crown prince feels lonely in the new year, Yu He himself feels a little deserted now.
"Happy New Year." An abrupt and too calm voice sounded somewhat out of place in the hustle and bustle.
Yu He turned his head in a daze.
Under the colorful fireworks, the white and tender little face was printed with a touch of color.
"You..." Yu He was stunned.
"What are you, you have no rules." The man chuckled, and suddenly took out a small blue box from his cuff.
"My lord? Didn't you go back to the palace? Why are you back?" Yu He was so surprised that he could swallow a whole watermelon with his mouth.
"I didn't leave, I have been living in the inn in the town."
"You are very kind."
"Why, I need your permission to do anything?" Yin Chixue said, passing the small box in his hand.
"What is this?" Yu He dared not answer.
After all, with Yin Chixue's personality, it's possible to put a bomb in it.
Seeing that Yu He didn't pick it up, Yin Chixue lost his patience: "Count to three, if you don't accept it, throw it away."
As he said that, he made a gesture to throw it out.
"Why not, you spend money anyway." Yu He rushed down the mountain like a tiger and snatched the small box.
He turned and looked at the small box, and then at Yin Chixue: "What's in it, it must be poisonous gas."
Yin Chixue glanced at him, but said nothing.
Yu He opened the small box, and a transparent milky white Hetian jade lay quietly on the soft couch.
"Wow! This is so pretty! Can I sell it? I happen to be short of money." Yu He took out the jade pendant, examined it carefully, and found that it was still in the shape of a peach.
"You dare." Yin Chixue glared at him.
"Just kidding." Yu He caressed the jade pendant as if it were a treasure, "But why did you give me such a precious thing?"
"Isn't it because you donated generously to Miss Rong and the two of them, and secretly left your jade pendant to them. It just happened to be the Spring Festival, so it was a New Year's gift." Yin Chixue said casually.
"Thank you, I don't have money to buy you a gift, can I give you a kiss?"
"No, then I'd rather you don't give me anything."
Yu He made a grimace, and let out a disdainful "hum".
Then he raised his head and looked at Yin Chixue.
He was looking up at the fireworks, and today he specially wore a new dress that was pinkish and reddish. Everyone said that the red color made him look whiter, and now Yin Chixue looked pale.
Not exaggerating, it is really pale, even the lips have no color.
"Are you... not feeling well?"
Yin Chixue gave him a sideways glance, but said nothing.
"My lord, this slave dares to..." Saying that, Yu He bravely stretched out his restless hand.
Yin Chixue's forehead was scorching hot, and Yu He even subconsciously shrank his hands when it was so hot.
"I kiao, you have a fever." The tone was strangely excited.
Yin Chixue raised his eyebrows: "Why, are you happy when I'm sick?"
"No."
Yes, I was so happy that I almost danced on the spot.
It has always been because non-humans like Yin Chixue must be invulnerable to all poisons, and colds and fevers are very far away from them, but only in this way, he also has a fever and cold like a normal person, and he will feel that he is close to him a little.
"My lord, since you're sick, tell me."
Yin Chixue didn't say a word, but actually felt that the Chinese New Year was coming, and she didn't want to spoil other people's interest, so she endured it all the time.
"Don't bear it, your body is delicate, we can't bear it if something happens to you."
Yin Chixue flicked his sleeves: "Okay, I've finished my New Year's greetings, I'll go back first."
"Huh? Why don't you stay and make dumplings together?" Yu He asked innocently.
"Did I do this kind of thing?" Yin Chixue looked at him contemptuously, then turned around and left.
But within two steps, it was obvious that his body began to sway.
Yu He watched his leaving back and saw his swaying steps, so he subconsciously followed.
Seen from the back, Yin Chixue's hair is very long and neatly tied up, and the proportion of the whole body is just right, making people unable to help but stare at it.
But looking at it, he suddenly stopped in his tracks.
Yu He also subconsciously stopped in his tracks.
Yin Chixue turned her head slightly, as if she wanted to observe something from the corner of her eye.
But with a burst of dizziness, it felt like the world was spinning for a moment.
To be honest, Yu He had been thinking before, that a person as strong as Yin Chixue who is not normal would definitely not easily fall or hit him, and he couldn't imagine him being embarrassing.
But unexpectedly, God seems to have heard his inner wish.
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