Chu Wang was very fast and quickly ran to the place he had just passed, but he did not see the familiar figure.

Ling Wei, who arrived later, noticed Chu Wang looking around as if searching for someone.

"Chu Wang, what are you doing!" Ling Wei frowned slightly, looking at the beast-drawn carriage that had stopped because of her, which caused the vehicles following behind to also stop. She was somewhat dissatisfied, as neither she nor Chu Wang could bear the responsibility for delaying their journey.

"I just saw Lin Jingge!" Chu Wang searched around but couldn't find a familiar figure. He couldn't help but feel annoyed that he had arrived too late and that the other person had escaped again.

Hearing the name of another woman from Chu Wang—a woman who had once been Chu Wang's fiancée—made Ling Wei even more displeased.

"Chu Wang, once we enter the capital, I will be a princess. You will then marry into my royal family. Why bother with that woman? Could it be that you still have feelings for her?" Ling Wei's tone was somewhat dangerous, and her gaze towards Chu Wang was full of suspicion.

Although Chu Wang repeatedly claimed to love only her, Lin Jingge was Chu Wang's childhood sweetheart and former fiancée. She couldn't tolerate any infidelity and sent people to wipe out the Lin family, but they escaped. Now, seeing Chu Wang still thinking about her, she felt a surge of anger.

"Are you leaving or not? If you don't want to leave, then don't leave!" Ling Wei said, then turned and left.

Now that she has become a member of the royal family, it is no longer impossible for Chu Wang to be with her.

Chu Wang touched the pharmacopoeia hidden under his sleeve, gritted his teeth, and finally chased after Ling Wei, coaxing her in a low voice all the way.

After the two people had gone far away, Lin Jingge, who had been hiding behind the crowd, peeked out and watched their departing figures, a slight smile playing on her lips.

The male protagonist, who was originally so powerful in the book, seems to be having a tough time these days... Lin Jingge sighed inwardly.

What puzzled her was that Chu Wang had already tricked her into giving up the pharmacopoeia, so why was he still unwilling to let her go?

Something flashed by, but Lin Jingge couldn't grasp it. After struggling for a moment, she realized she couldn't understand it and could only give up.

From now on, she can only try to avoid the male lead, as she always feels that he has ill intentions in trying to find her.

Several days passed in the blink of an eye, and the spirit rice planted by Lin Jingge's family was showing signs of ripening.

Looking at the rice stalks bent under the weight of the plump ears of rice, Lin Jingge looked at Grandma Lin with a bewildered expression.

"Spirit plants... do they mature so easily?"

To be honest, Granny Lin traveled all over the country in her youth, practicing medicine and saving lives. This was the first time she had ever grown a spiritual plant herself. Although she didn't know exactly how long it would take for the spiritual plant to mature, it seemed strange that it matured in less than a month.

Other plants have only grown a few more leaves.

Seeing that the grains on the rice ears were about to fall off, Lin Jingge had no choice but to go down to the field with Grandma Lin to harvest them.

When they were halfway through the harvest, they were surrounded by onlookers again.

Some villagers initially didn't believe that the newcomer's spiritual plants were almost ripe, but when they looked, wow, they were surprised to find that the other party had almost finished harvesting them.

"Hiss, how come your spirit rice is ripe so early?" a villager with spirit fields asked. They also had spirit fields, but the spirit plants they planted hadn't even bloomed yet!

At this moment, Lin Jingge and Granny Lin didn't have time to reply; they were only thinking about finishing quickly to avoid attracting the monsters from the mountain.

After harvesting the rice, Lin Jingge had just sat down to rest for a while when the village chief led people to the small, dilapidated house.

There were so many people! It seemed like the whole village had been brought along. It was much more impressive than when Grandma Sun was looking for her son last time.

Lin Jingge was drinking water when she looked up and saw a huge crowd of people in front of her, a dark mass.

She was filled with doubt, wondering if she had done something wrong again. But all she had done today was harvest the crops she had grown.

Could it be for this...? Lin Jingge turned and glanced at the rice stalks behind her.

"Village chief, what's going on here?" At this point, she didn't even bother to drink the water anymore. She put the bowl on the ground and stood up.

"Your spirit rice ripened in less than a month after it was planted. Some villagers suspect you used ripening agents." The village chief said this with a frown, then added in a persuasive tone:

“The ripening agent was used, so this spirit rice is inedible. Some people in our village have bought it and used it before, and the crops they grew were completely inedible. The village will help destroy the spirit rice you harvest. It’s still early, so hurry up and you can plant another season.”

After listening to what the village chief said, Lin Jingge also frowned. She was certain that her family had not used any ripening agents.

Seeing Lin Jingge frown, the village chief and his group breathed a sigh of relief.

That makes sense. How could normal spiritual plants mature so quickly? Yes, they must have used ripening agents. The villagers thought to themselves, unaware of how sour they felt.

"Although I don't know why my family's spiritual plants mature so quickly, I can say with certainty that we definitely did not use any ripening agents!" Lin Jingge said with absolute certainty.

"Besides, you know my family's situation, village chief. I don't have the extra money to buy ripening agents!" Lin Jingge added, afraid that the village chief wouldn't believe her.

She said this with a wry smile, which made it much more convincing.

"This..." The village chief hesitated, unsure whether to believe it or not.

He naturally knew about Lin Jingge's family situation. Her family did not have the ability to obtain ripening agents, but the harvested spirit rice ears were still in the yard. If they were not used, where did the rice ears come from?

"Village chief, they definitely used it! Come and see!" Granny Sun rushed out of the crowd, pointing to the plump ears of rice on the ground, and said, "The rice ears grown in our spiritual fields are not like this at all!"

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