The Devil's Coming [Quick Transmigration]

Chapter 41: The Uncrowned King 7

Xu Mingjin in prison didn't know that his cousin Xu Mingyu, who had been beaten to the punch by him, had already arrived and was chatting happily with Su Ying. Xu Mingyu had the token of the Duke's Mansion and the testimony of Magistrate Zhang, so his identity was certainly correct.

Therefore, the same statement about the two people's life stories, when told by Xu Mingjin, whose identity was unknown, was just a kidnapper who tried to deceive people and was imprisoned on the spot; but when told by Xu Mingyu, it became the ironclad truth.

Su Ying naturally accepted this truth.

He also accepted the message from Xu Mingyu that once he returned to the Duke's Mansion, his name would be recorded in the family tree again.

- From now on, he is Xu Mingjue, the son of the Duke of Wei!

At this time, Xu Mingjin, who knew nothing about all this, was still lying in the dim cell, deeply doubting his life.

After learning the truth about his life, in addition to the fear of falling from the clouds, he also had another worry in his heart: What if the real prince returned to the Duke's Mansion and tried every means to drive him away or even suppress him? What should he do then?

——Xu Mingjin asked himself, if he were in his place, he would definitely not allow the person who had occupied his identity for 16 years to continue to enjoy wealth and glory, and he would definitely take revenge on him to vent his hatred.

So, he came from afar, showing goodwill before Xu Mingyu came, winning over the country boy who had never seen the world, and avoiding his attack and revenge. Only in this way can Xu Mingjin continue to gain a foothold in the Duke's Mansion.

According to Xu Mingjin's investigation and understanding of Li Sanlang, this naive country boy should be easy to talk to, but who would have expected that he would fall directly into the hands of the other party? The first step of the plan was aborted halfway!

He was imprisoned for the first time in his life. The scene of his "public execution" reappeared in front of his eyes repeatedly. In the dim cell, his teeth creaked. Anger, humiliation, hatred... all kinds of emotions rushed back and forth in his chest, and finally turned into a strong hatred for "Li Sanlang".

If it weren't for Li Sanlang, his life would have been smooth sailing!

But now that things have come to this, useless anger and hatred can't help him. Xu Mingjin forced himself to calm down and began to think about what to do next-he was not worried about being locked up all the time. His cousin Xu Mingyu was on the way. When he arrived, he would naturally rescue him.

But how should he explain to Xu Mingyu at that time?

--Say that he accidentally learned the truth about his life experience and couldn't continue to study with peace of mind, so he secretly came to see the person who exchanged identities with him, wanting to take him back to the Duke's Mansion?

If the original plan went smoothly, seeing him and Li Sanlang appear in front of everyone in harmony, not to mention Xu Mingyu, the people in the Duke's Mansion would not care about his presumptuousness, but would only think that he was knowledgeable, polite and sensible.

But now, he was trapped in prison as a kidnapper!

Xu Mingjin really couldn't predict how the people in the Duke's Mansion, including Xu Mingyu, would feel about him, and whether they would still accept the set of rhetoric he had thought of?

That's right!

And the woman called "Aunt Lanxin" by "Li Sanlang"... What does she know... I have to find an opportunity to test it inconspicuously later...

For a while, Xu Mingjin's mind was full of thoughts, thinking about the things he would face after he got out, he just felt a headache.

Thinking too much, he accidentally forgot the pain in his body. Xu Mingjin subconsciously wanted to get up and pace back and forth. Just as he straightened his waist, the whole person gasped.

——There was no place on his body that didn't hurt!

"Li, San, Lang——!"

Xu Mingjin couldn't help but burst out the anger and hatred that he had suppressed, and he gritted his teeth and read out the name again.

Su Ying, who had hit it off with his cousin Xu Mingyu in this body, was leading people to Shanglin Village.

——Xu Mingyu took the initiative to propose the idea of ​​wanting to see where his cousin had lived in the past few years.

So Su Ying led people all the way back to the Li family.

"Before I was ten years old, I followed my father to learn medical books, and I knew some knowledge of herbs. I also learned a rough understanding of words from medical books..." Su Ying led people into the small yard. Seeing Xu Mingyu carefully looking at the furnishings in the house, he flipped through the memories of the original owner and told them one by one, "After I was ten years old, I made a living by farming and collecting herbs... Well, since the year before last, I also learned to raise pigs!"

When he said the last one, his tone was quite proud.

In the village, it is not easy for a child who lost his parents at a young age to support himself well, and he can save money to buy piglets and enter the pig farming industry, which is really remarkable.

So Su Ying's tone is absolutely sincere. His good impression of the original owner of this body continues to +1+1+1.

Although Xu Mingyu cannot understand this pride, it does not prevent him from understanding the difficulties of this little cousin over the years.

After seeing this simple house and the even simpler furnishings, and comparing it with Xu Mingjin's life in the past, he was even more moved.

"You have worked hard these years."

Xu Mingyu sighed from the bottom of his heart.

"It's not hard work, don't we all live like this?"

Su Ying expressed the original owner's heartfelt thoughts. The villagers here have lived like this for generations.

Then he looked at Xu Mingyu and suggested: "Since you are here, do you want to go out and take a look around?"

- This is also the wish of the original owner of this body.

The original owner, Li Sanlang, had deep feelings for Shanglin Village where he grew up. After learning the truth about his life from Su Ying, he actually looked forward to meeting his family and introducing them to the village where he had lived for more than ten years.

In his original destiny, he was led astray by Xu Mingjin and always thought that the sixteen years he spent growing up in Shanglin Village was a stain on the Duke of Wei's mansion, so he never mentioned the past.

But when others asked curiously, his attitude of keeping silent about the past and avoiding Shanglin Village could easily cause misunderstandings. It was too greedy for wealth to make people think that he regarded the past sixteen years as a shame.

Although the Duke and his wife would not be prejudiced against him because of this, they would feel more sorry for him and would not let their son reveal his wounds to others, but outsiders would look down on his character. They mistakenly thought that he was a "nouveau riche" who could not wait to cut off his past after flying to the branches, and when they talked about him behind his back, they all said, "Sure enough, he came from a small place", and they felt sorry for Xu Mingjin, "This person is good in every way, if he had not been taken away by mistake."

As similar things happened more and more, the original owner, who knew nothing about it, stepped on the traps of things he didn't understand one after another, and unknowingly left the impression of stupidity, short-sightedness, greed for wealth, and low character in the hearts of many people.

Even though he was still the heir of the Duke's Mansion, the only people willing to interact with him were those who flattered the Duke's Mansion or the dandies who were eating, drinking and having fun. The truly outstanding people in the circle of nobles and the self-righteous talents looked down on this prince who was found halfway.

Sensitive to the hidden contempt of others, the original owner just thought that it was normal for him to be looked down upon because of his shallow knowledge. So he studied harder, trying to make up for the years of missing education in a short time.

And his abnormality finally attracted the attention of the Duke and his wife. After a careful investigation, they found Xu Mingjin's small actions to guide people's hearts behind the scenes and ruin their son's reputation.

Originally, seeing that the brothers were in harmony, the Duke and his wife thought that their biological son would inherit the Duke's Mansion, and the excellent adopted son would enter the officialdom through the imperial examination. The former would serve as the latter's backer in the officialdom, and the latter would serve as the former's right-hand man after he got to a high position. The brothers worked together to make the family stronger. Who would have thought that Xu Mingjin accepted the reality on the surface, but secretly targeted their biological son? The Duke and his wife were furious and drove Xu Mingjin out of the Duke of Wei's Mansion.

However, their actions brought disaster to the Duke's Mansion later, and also made the original owner who learned about his original fate from Su Ying feel guilty, blame himself for the disaster, and willingly entrusted everything to Su Ying.

With Xu Mingyu and his party, Su Ying happily traveled all over Shanglin Village. They also climbed the mountain where he and the original owner signed the contract, and took a mountaineering trip.

The capital has its prosperity, and the countryside has its own scenery. Xu Mingyu found that this newly recognized cousin was also a wonderful person, as if he could find fun in everything he did.

Unconsciously, he had followed this cousin and did everything he had never done before, such as catching rabbits in the mountains, fishing in the water, and finally having a barbecue in the wild... While eating the hot and fragrant roasted rabbit legs, Xu Mingyu almost got inspired to write a poem on the spot.

At some point, the sunset went down the mountain, and the village in the distance was shrouded in twilight, with curling smoke rising.

Looking down from the mountain, everything in sight melted into the gentle twilight with the melting sunset.

Xu Mingyu was in a good mood.

"It's time to go down the mountain!"

He reluctantly called his cousin who was catching squirrels, and always felt that he seemed to have forgotten something.

What exactly did he forget?

A few hours ago, Xu Mingyu and his party arrived not long ago.

In the prison of the county government, Xu Mingjin was listening to several jailers discussing what happened outside with a blank expression. Suddenly, he heard them mention that a group of people from the Duke of Wei's Mansion came to Yu County and met the county magistrate.

He immediately stood up excitedly:

"What did you say? The Duke of Wei's Mansion sent someone?"

"Why are you so excited? What does it have to do with you!" The jailer slammed the prison door loudly, "Look at you, pretending to be a nobleman from the Duke of Wei's Mansion! I passed by the county magistrate's house this morning and saw with my own eyes that the nobleman was welcomed in. How could you pretend to be someone with that kind of demeanor?"

Xu Mingjin was too lazy to get angry for such a small person.

He was nervous and excited in his heart. He was nervous because he had run over on his own initiative and had not achieved his goal. He didn't know what Xu Mingyu thought. Of course, he was excited because he could finally get out of this damn cell!

——After meeting the county magistrate and learning about his situation, even if Xu Mingyu was dissatisfied with him, he would definitely clarify his identity and let him go as soon as possible!

So Xu Mingjin waited and waited.

His expression gradually changed from nervous, excited, and excited to confused, entangled, and worried...

Could it be that Xu Mingyu was already dissatisfied with him to this extent? Could it be that his speculation about this cousin's character was wrong?

It was unknown how much time had passed until the jailer handed in the porridge with a few vegetable leaves floating in it, and Xu Mingjin vaguely realized: "...It's already dinner time."

So, where is Xu Mingyu?

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