From Wang Shi’s reaction, it can be seen that Gu Yanji was right.

Song Wan grabbed the man's collar and demanded, "Where is my second brother?"

Wang Shi swallowed a mouthful of blood and laughed, "Why should I tell you? I won't tell you!" You'll be so angry!

Song Wan didn't expect him to say it, so she let go of his hand. No matter where her second brother was now, as long as he was not in the hands of the enemy, she still had time to find him.

As for this guy named Wang Shi, Song Wan has already made up his mind. When the time comes, he will use his mental power to completely suppress his martial arts, let him live with Yao Xu, and serve as fertilizer for the villagers!

But it was good news that the second brother was still alive. Song Wan thought of her second sister-in-law who was about to give birth, and wondered if she could give her a biological father as a gift when the baby was one month or a hundred days old.

"Forget it if you don't want to tell me!" Song Wan snorted coldly, "But don't regret it when the time comes!"

Gu Yan hurriedly tried to comfort her, "Ah Wan, when we get back, I'll go with you to find your second brother."

"Gu Yan is anxious, but you're the best." Song Wan felt that her judgment was too good. "But don't tell my mother and the others that my second brother is still alive. We'll give them a surprise when we find him."

Gu Yan said anxiously, "Okay, let's not talk about it for now."

Compared with Song Wan's reason, Gu Yanji thought one more thing than her, that is, why Song Qin fell into the hands of King Yu. Yuzhou and the northwest are separated by countless prefectures.

And was the defeat in the northwest caused by King Yu?

If the current King Xiang is a selfish and stupid person, then King Yu is even worse than him, even more vicious, and will do anything to achieve his goals.

It was only after Xinan was poisoned that Gu Yanji began to re-examine King Yu, who had been hiding behind King Xiang.

Compared with King Xiang, King Yu was much more difficult to deal with.

Song Wan didn't know what Gu Yanji was thinking. She kicked Wang Shi, whom she disliked, back into the carriage and made him sit next to Yao Xu.

After being cuckolded so many times in one day, Song Wan decided to compensate Yao Xu.

It would be nice to put a king lion for him to bite.

So on the way back, everyone could always hear the man's miserable screams coming from the carriage from time to time.

Song Qi and others sighed and said that their eldest lady was the best at torturing people.

The several carts of gold and silver that Song Wan brought back this time filled all four walls. Looking at the countless gold and silver, she generously gave two pieces to everyone in the family.

Qi and others had received many gifts in the past, but this was the first time someone had directly stuffed a gold ingot into their mouth as a gift.

Second sister-in-law Wei touched her bulging belly and smiled, "With an aunt like A Wan, this child won't lack food after he is born."

"Of course!" Song Wan said with confidence, looking proud.

The eldest sister-in-law, Mrs. Chu, hugged her daughter and laughed softly, "Awan has been gone for more than ten days. Ayue and the others have no energy to eat every day."

"Yes, you usually take them up mountains and down rivers. Now that you are not here, they are like they have lost their backbone." Mrs. Qi touched her daughter's soft hair and said with a loving face.

"That's because they can't even compare to me in stealing bird eggs or swindling fish!" Song Wan laughed.

After dividing the gold, Song Wan went to deal with the twenty or so people she brought back. It was definitely too late for all of them to live in the thatched huts, so she asked Song Qi to take them to the mountains to cut trees and build six wooden houses for themselves.

Yao Xu is naturally in the same group as Wang Shi. Every evildoer will be punished by every evildoer.

There are five rooms left, shared by twenty-five people.

Yao Liwei never expected that Song Wan would kidnap his father this time, and who was the person next to his father whose face was unclear and covered in blood?

Yao Xu bit his mouth full of blood. When he saw Yao Liwei, who had been kidnapped a month or two earlier than him, he remembered the scene he was forced to watch for a long time in Chunfeng Tower a few days ago, and his eyes suddenly became strange.

There was no Concubine Yu among the people that day, but Yao Liwei didn’t look like him!

Sometimes, once the seeds of doubt are planted, they will always take root and sprout until they become uncontrollable.

Yao Xu no longer believes that Yao Lizhen is his son. And why was Li Hu arrested so easily? Could he also be an undercover agent sent to him by someone?

In short, everyone he sees now looks like a traitor.

After seeing that it was really Yao Xu, Yao Liwei suppressed his guilty conscience and was about to go over and call for help. However, before he could take the first step, he was scared back by the other party's disgusted and resentful look.

Yao Liwei was shocked. Could it be that his father knew about this matter because he accidentally let it slip?

Regardless of whether it is true or not, he can't take this step.

At this time, Song Wan came over, his eyes swept between the father and son's faces, and finally said, "You two don't look alike."

She used the word "also" very cleverly, successfully making Yao Xu's face darken.

Yao Liwei was confused. "What do you mean?"

Song Wan didn't intend to hide it from him. "When we went to your house, we found that your father didn't hide the silver in the mansion, but kept it all in the dark room of Chunfeng Tower. When we went there, we happened to see your father's concubines sleeping with young men. Unfortunately, your brothers happened to look a lot like those young men."

Yao Liyun: "..."

He suddenly felt fortunate that he had not walked over there.

Song Wan told him the whole story. As for whether they were father and son, probably only Aunt Yu knew.

The wooden house where Yao Xu and Wang Shi lived was right next to the thatched house, only a step away. Ever since Song Wan went to Xinzhou, Yao Liyun and Li Hu had been free of pressure. In addition, there was not much farm work to do recently, so they felt relieved and gained weight.

However, this relaxed feeling was broken by the arrival of Yao Xu. Li Hu didn't know what means Song Wan used to suppress their martial arts and internal strength, making it so that they couldn't even get rid of Yao Xu.

Fortunately, they have more people, six to one, so they can't lose no matter how you look at it.

Thinking of this, Li Hu was no longer so scared when facing his former master who was staring at him viciously.

He even tried to persuade the other party earnestly, "Since you are here, you should work hard. Miss Song is a person who distinguishes between gratitude and resentment. If you do your work in the fields well, she might even spare your life."

As the former head of the secret guards, Li Hu knew a lot of secrets. When it came to the war with Daye, no one in the Yao family had clean hands. Even if they didn't fight in person, they certainly contributed to the flames.

Li Hu has more or less come into contact with several of these lines.

"It's actually pretty good here. I can eat three meals a day on time. It doesn't matter if there's less meat. At least I don't have to sleep in the open air and live on the edge of a knife or fire anymore." Li Hu sighed, "It's much happier than being a secret guard."

"You traitor!" Yao Xu was pinned down by two of the secret guards. He could not move and could only roar in anger.

Fortunately, Li Hu was known for his foresight and asked his two brothers to suppress him in advance, otherwise he would be the next to suffer.

Don't think he didn't recognize him. The person who was just carried into the house was Wang Shi, the left deputy leader of the Dark Guard Camp where he used to be.

Miss Song said that Wang Shi was King Yu's man, and that was why he was bitten beyond recognition by Yao Xu along the way.

He doesn't want to be the second Wang Lion.

However, Wang Shi was kidnapped, so the only person left in Xinzhou City was Zhang Bao, the right-hand man.

I don’t know whether Miss Song will let him become the head of the secret guards, whether he will lose his personal freedom, and whether he can eat meat every day if he stays in Xinzhou?

"What traitor? We haven't told anyone what we did for you in the past." Li Hu put away his chaotic thoughts and said with a straight face. This was also the reason why he had been staying here with peace of mind.

It’s definitely not because I can’t run away at all.

"You are all traitors!" Yao Xu was clearly mad. "And you, bastard! Get out of here! Go to hell!"

"Dad, face the reality." As a person who has experienced it and as a son temporarily, Yao Liwei decided to persuade his father.

"Shut up! I'm not your father!"

Yao Liwei was silent for a moment, then turned and went to find Song Wan. "Well, I want to ask, am I his son?"

He wants to beat someone up.

The sudden appearance of more than twenty people in the village naturally attracted everyone's attention, but fortunately Jiang Zhen was there. He told everyone according to Song Wan's request that these people were newly exiled serious criminals. Unlike other exiles, these people had no freedom and could only rely on working for others to get food or compensation.

Jiang Zhen also said that if someone had unfinished work in the fields, they could just give some porridge and corn and choose someone to help with the work.

Although the villagers were curious about the sudden increase in people, very few were really willing to use them.

Although corn porridge is not a delicacy, for them who have been poor for several lifetimes, it is better for them to work harder and keep it for themselves than to use it to hire an outsider.

So the twenty-five people were picked and chosen, and finally only twenty were left.

The deep understanding that they would have no food if they didn't work was finally confirmed after they had been hungry for two whole days.

They can be punished, but they cannot go without food.

Seeing that they were obedient enough, Song Wan bought several more acres of wasteland and asked them to reclaim it. They ate the same three meals a day as Yao Lixuan and the others: coarse flour buns, stir-fried cabbage, and occasionally some minced meat.

As for the crazy Yao Xu and the unrecognizable Wang Shi, they were thrown into picking fertilizer and were only given one meal a day. If they cooked too little that day, they would have no food to eat.

In order to prevent the two from talking nonsense, especially Wang Shi, Song Wan used her mental power to suppress their voices, making them unable to speak.

In the blink of an eye, it was mid-June and the potatoes were ripe.

Gou Wa's family had been worried for half a year, but when they saw the lush leaves growing in the fields, they felt a little comforted and felt that their careful care for the past six months had not been in vain.

Not long after they returned at the end of April, Wei gave birth to a baby girl. Perhaps because she was well taken care of in the later stages of pregnancy, the child was different from other babies when she was born and was extremely round.

Song Wan loved this cub very much, and she also found that this cub had a very big appetite. Its mother's milk was not enough to feed it, so it had to find another wet nurse to help feed it.

She is white, tender and good at eating, and she has caught Song Wan's eye.

This made Song Wan even more determined to find her second brother.

How could such a chubby little cub be without a father?

Soon the day for digging potatoes arrived. Almost everyone in the village put down their work and went to Gou Wa's field to help dig potatoes.

They wanted to see what potatoes that yielded 1,000 kilograms per mu looked like.

Zhang Shan and Li Si were hired by Gou Wa's mother from the thatched cottage to dig potatoes. One acre was not too big nor too small, and she and Gou Wa's father could not dig all the potatoes in a day.

But when they arrived at the place early in the morning, they found that some villagers had already taken their jobs. This was not acceptable.

Fortunately, Gou Wa's mother was a trustworthy person and did not let the two return the same way. So Zhang Shan and Li Si saw the potatoes that the villagers were talking about.

They said that this thing can produce 1,000 kilograms per mu. Zhang Shan picked up a freshly dug potato with fresh soil on the surface and looked at Li Si calmly.

Regardless of whether the yield per mu can be 1,000 kilograms, Zhang Shan wants to know whether they can eat this thing after digging it out.

You know, they are tired of eating either fried cabbage or stewed radish for three meals a day.

Starving people is a simple and effective method. These people used to be a group of desperate criminals with a murderous aura. After being recruited by Yao Xu, they became so-called secret guards. They were still living on the edge of a knife, so there was not much difference.

But once you are kidnapped here, apart from having less meat to eat, you no longer have to worry about being killed quietly when you sleep at night, and you don't have to go out to fight and kill. You just need to weed and plant the crops to have food to eat.

Occasionally, if he behaved well, he would be given a bowl of braised pork. Zhang Shan hoped that he could live this kind of heavenly life forever.

Thanks to the efforts of the whole village, the potato yield per mu came out in the evening.

Jiang Zhen ran to the Song family excitedly with the results, completely disregarding his image as an official.

"Miss Song! Miss Song!" Jiang Zhen shouted loudly outside the door.

At this moment, Song Wan was in the room of her second sister-in-law Wei, teasing Chi Chi.

Chichi is the nickname she gave to the cub.

Hearing Jiang Zhen shouting outside, Song Wan had to give up her tender little face and leave reluctantly.

"Big Beard, what's wrong with you?"

"Miss Song! Three thousand kilograms! A full three thousand kilograms!" Jiang Zhen was so happy that he almost went crazy. "If every family in Dayue planted potatoes, there would be no worries about not having enough to eat!"

That's 3,000 kilograms! Planting one acre of potatoes yields as much as planting more than ten acres of rice and wheat.

"That's great!" Song Wan encouraged generously, "But remember to return my potatoes to me." This is the most important thing.

"Of course I have to return it!" Before Jiang Zhen came, he had someone pick up the best and biggest ones.

Song Wan nodded with satisfaction, so that she could go to Yuzhou with Gu Yan without any worries.

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