When a passerby becomes a princess

Most of the land in Hu State is grassland, with a small amount of swamps, woods and deserts. Hu people graze cattle and sheep, and live by grass.There is hardly any agriculture in Hu State, because the wind on the grassland is so strong that only weeds can grow.

Winter is the most difficult time for the Hu country. The heavy snow and cold wind can be endured, but the pasture will dry up in winter, and the cattle and sheep will freeze to death in the wind and snow. Because of the food shortage, countless Hu people will starve to death every winter. .In order to obtain food, the Hu people would come to Daliang State every autumn to dig grass and valleys, and rob them of food and people.It's just that the great war more than ten years ago hurt Hu's vitality, and with Lin Lian's strict defense of the border, it was rare for Hu people to even fight Caogu in these years.

Spies like the stewards of the Nursing House were sent to Daliang State. In addition to spying on the military situation, they were also responsible for smuggling people, salt and grain to Hu State. The source of these funds was not only selling fur and medicinal materials on the grassland to Daliang State In addition, it also includes the assets of the elderly in the nursing home.

Don’t think that the elderly who enter the nursing home are from poor families. In fact, many elderly people have fields and houses, but they have no family members and do not want to spend their old age alone, so they enter the nursing home.At first, the steward may not have thought of the old man, but when an old man passed away and left the family property, he finally discovered the huge "profit" in it.

In order to persuade more elderly people to enter the nursing home, he took Huang Shu, an official of the household house, to deceive, lure and threaten the elderly to enter the nursing home in various ways, and then killed the old man and sold off the old man's property.

The dead Uncle Chang was such an old man. His son didn't fall to his death from a tree at all, but the steward killed him and tricked Uncle Chang into the nursing home.Uncle Chang didn't know the cause of his son's death at the time, and met a childhood playmate in the nursing home, so he lived in the nursing home with peace of mind.

But not long after, he found that the number of people in the nursing home was wrong. There were more than 20 people on the list, but in fact there were only seven or eight elderly people in the nursing home, and some people with strange behavior often haunted the nursing home.

When Liang Xi came to inspect, the stewards temporarily recruited a dozen beggars and swindlers to pretend to be old people in the nursing home, and the original old people were given lethargic decoction to prevent them from being exposed in front of Liang Xi.Who knew that after Liang Xi left, the old people woke up and seemed to realize something, so they made a fuss.The steward had always treated the people of Daliang Kingdom like cattle and horses, so he didn't care about it, he directly grabbed the old man who made the most trouble, and poured a bowl of poison into it.

The rest of the old people stopped making trouble. The steward thought they were afraid, and proudly led his men to drag the corpse away, but he didn't realize that the cloudy eyes of the old people were full of anger and hatred.

The old people decided to collect evidence, but the more the evidence was collected, the more frightened the old people became. More than half of the county magistrates, pawns, and six house officials actually collected money from the stewards. Could it be that they will never have a day of revenge? up?The only hope here is the new county magistrate, but how can we talk to the new county magistrate?

Just when the old people were at their wits end, Uncle Chang woke up one night and happened to meet one of the men in charge who came to settle the "wages". When Uncle Chang heard the content of the "wages", he almost wanted to rush out and hack them to death , it turned out that his son didn't die by accident, but was killed by the killers these days.

Uncle Chang retreated back silently, and sat quietly in the room all night. The next day, he left a letter to his childhood friend. After dark, he went to the backyard and first stole a handful of killing machines from the kitchen. With a fish knife, he used a shovel to expand a dog hole in the corner of the wall and climbed out.He calculated the time when Liao Qi came to collect Yexiang, put the fish killing knife on his back and hit it against the wall, the dagger was hit into his body, and he fell forward.

All this was written in the letter left by his childhood playmate, and it was also stated that all this was done by himself, because only by making the illusion of being killed can those people be negligent and finally put the The case was handed over to the county magistrate.

Now this letter is placed on Lin Qiu's desk, and all the officials and officials mentioned in the letter have been imprisoned.

The case was solved, but the county magistrate who investigated the case disappeared.

Lin Bo led hundreds of cavalry to follow the coachman to that hidden path, but he didn't know if he could find anything.

Lin Qiu sat at the table all night.

"Crown Princess, use a bowl of noodles." In the early hours of the morning, Mammy Liu came in with a small bowl of chicken noodle soup. "Today is your birthday, no matter what you have to eat a bowl of longevity noodles."

The noodle soup is extremely clear, and the oil flowers are washed very clean, only a few green onions floating on the surface, exuding a strong aroma of chicken soup.

Lin Qiu stared at the noodle bowl for a while, then said softly, "Put another bowl."

"Ah?" Madam Liu was taken aback for a moment, then hurriedly responded, filled another bowl and put it on the side.

Lin Qiu took a few mouthfuls with chopsticks and drank some soup.Soothing medicine was put in the soup, and he finally fell asleep with his eyes closed not long after eating the noodles.

Nanny Liu quickly hugged him to the bed, and lit some tranquilizing incense.I haven't slept for two nights, and I haven't eaten anything. If I don't take a good rest, I'm afraid my body will not be able to withstand it.

After putting up the gauze curtain, Mammy Liu carefully retreated, while the other mammies were waiting anxiously outside.

"How is the young master? Are you asleep yet?" Pang Nanny asked immediately when she saw Liu Nanny coming out.

Nanny Liu nodded, sat down on the chair, and said to them: "You all get ready, if the prince dies, we will immediately protect the young master and go to the border camp to see what the general has in mind." , if he is foolish and loyal, we will take the young master out of customs."

Several mothers looked at each other and nodded, only Mother Xing asked, "What should Madam do?"

Liu Mama thought about it for a while, and said, "Don't worry about Madam, Madam is not a temperament that can be manipulated by others. If the emperor dares to attack Madam, it will be very easy to escape with Madam's martial arts. Besides, there is Jingci over there."

Nanny Pang hesitated for a moment, then asked again: "What if the prince is not dead, but was captured by Hu Zi?"

But Nanny Liu sighed, and said: "Although I have never been optimistic about the prince, but judging by the young master's appearance, I am afraid that his love is deeply rooted. If he is not dead, I have no choice but to go out of the mountain again."

"Old sister!" Several nuns exclaimed in a low voice.

Nanny Liu waved her hand to calm them down, and then said: "The prince's news should not have leaked out yet, even if he was caught, he was just sent to the Hu country to be a slave. My lines on the grassland, Although we haven’t contacted each other for more than ten years, we can still find them if we look for them, and it’s still possible to find a slave through them.”

Nanny Xing also said at this time: "In this case, I can also contact those old guys. Although my shop is gone, the contact method should not have changed."

Nanny Pang also nodded repeatedly beside her. Her banditry group has never disbanded. Yesterday she saw a mark made by a former subordinate at the gate of the city, which made her feel itchy all day long.

Only Mother Chen hesitated for a moment and asked, "Old sister, do you want to contact the brothers in the village?"

Nanny Liu knew that she was talking about the brothers in the horse bandit village. When she left, she made a solemn oath that she would never return to the village in this life.She thought for a while and said, "If it is absolutely necessary, I will not contact them for the time being. Besides, the heavy snow season is coming soon, and they will all go back to the Gobi Desert. Even if they want to contact, it will be next year."

Nanny Chen nodded, her face turned pale when she thought of the heavy oaths she made back then.

They all fell silent, and they could only know what to do when Lin Bai came back.

Even after lighting the soothing incense, Lin Qiu woke up after only two hours of sleep. In his dream, the old man lying down in the alley turned into Liang Xi. Struggling and shouting desperately, I finally woke up from the dream, only to find that my face was full of tears.

Dabbing a teardrop from the corner of his eye with his fingertip, Lin Qiu stared blankly for a long time.

Lin Qiu has always known that he is not a human being. Even if he has a human body, he can feel cold, hot, sour and sweet through the human body, but in essence he is still the npc composed of a bunch of data, because he only inherited most of the original owner. memories, but did not inherit the emotions of the original owner.When did he start to have happiness, sadness, anxiety, sorrow... these emotions that only human beings have?

Staring at the teardrops on his fingertips, Lin Qiu sat on the bed and thought about it carefully, it seemed... every emotional outburst was related to Liang Xi.

He thought of Liang Xi's carefree smile, of the hares and pheasants that Liang Xi had killed for him on the way to Yangui Mountain, of Liang Xi's embarrassment when he was knocked down by the boomerang, and of the Ghost Festival and the others. The scene of waiting for the lotus lantern by the river reminded me of the worry on Liang Xi's face when he was seriously ill when he came to Beimo County...

"You can't die...you can't die..." Lin Qiu lowered his eyes slowly and said in a low voice.

The voice was very soft, and the mothers outside the door didn't hear it, but Liu mother opened the curtain and walked in, because Lin Bai brought someone back with the news.

"The major general discovered the traces of the crown prince. I am afraid that the crown princess will be worried, so I ordered you to come back first and report." The man who came was Lin Bai's personal soldier, and he articulated in detail what he found along the way.

The hidden path is in the mountains not far from the city, just in the gap between the two mountains, passing through the path is a large dense forest, they found new wheel marks on the path, and found in the woods made a pit.

"The major general found the prints of the official boots worn by the prince and the footprints of wolves around the pit. Initially, it was suspected that the bandits thought the prince was dead, so they buried the prince in the woods, but were dug out by wolves. , and then the prince walked towards the north of the forest. Now the major general is following the footprints to the north, and he should be able to find the prince soon."