Chapter 121
He Yu stayed as he wished. Every day he followed Lu Xiaobai to enjoy the cool air and eat snacks. From time to time, he went out for a walk and checked the growth of crops.
In the afternoon, he would drink tea and talk about wine with He Qin. Although life was leisurely, it was much more free and easy than in the imperial city.
The only trouble was that Xiao Huang chased and bit me for two days as if I were an outsider.
But because this was Lu Xiaobai's pet, he couldn't kill or kick it, so he could only hide from it. It wasn't until the third day that Xiao Huang let him go.
He Yu was very satisfied with this leisurely life and felt that staying for three months was no problem at all. He didn't understand why He Qin didn't allow him to leave early.
But unexpectedly, He Yu regretted it a few days later.
Lu Xiaobai woke up in confusion in the morning. When Xiaobaicai told him that he had harvested a large amount of planting coins again, he knew that it was time to harvest the corn.
Sure enough, when he got up and opened the door, he saw a lot of golden corn cobs in the yard.
He Yu, wearing farmer's clothes and carrying a bamboo basket, looked at Lu Xiaobai with a look of despair, then turned away with a sad face, muttering as he walked, "I finally understand why I was asked to stay, and I finally understand why I couldn't leave early."
He Yu never thought that his second brother would plot against him and make him stay to do hard labor!
He Yu had already carried three wheels of corn. Not only was he tired and hot, but he was getting angrier and angrier the more he thought about it. He was so angry that he almost vomited blood.
But under the tyranny of his second brother, he could only go back and forth from the fields to carry the corn back home.
Looking at He Yu's gaze, Lu Xiaobai blushed a little embarrassedly, because it seemed a bit bad to leave others to do the hard labor.
However, Lu Xiaobai's guilt disappeared after a while, and he even wanted to follow them to the mountain to take a look. But before he walked out of the courtyard, He Qin grabbed his arm and said, "Don't run around, watch your stomach."
"I wasn't running around, I just wanted to take a look."
Lu Xiaobai said seriously: "It's still early and not very hot. I want to go see if there is anyone I can help with."
Although harvesting corn is tiring, breaking it seems to be easier. You just stand in the field, tear open the corn husks, break the ripe corn off the corn stalks, and have another person carry it back home.
He thought that if it was just picking corn, he could help.
But He Qin said, "You can't help. The corn leaves will make your skin red and itchy, and it's not easy to break off the corn husks after they dry up. If you go to a row of corn and can't break the top off, you'll start crying and cause trouble for them."
Hearing this, Lu Xiaobai pouted instantly: "You just want to belittle me!"
Knowing that Lu Xiaobai was unhappy, Lu Xiaobai took him to the kitchen, brought a bowl of white rice and a plate of vegetables and placed them in front of him, saying, "Eat first. How about making some mung bean soup for them afterward?"
Lu Xiaobai was really hungry after not eating all night, and the weather was quite hot. They must be tired from working, so he could make some mung bean soup for them.
So he nodded and said, "Okay."
He Qin accompanied Lu Xiaobai to finish his meal, and supervised him in making soup, which he then put in the well to keep cool.
At noon, because the weather was too hot to continue working, everyone went home, put the corn in the yard, and sat in the shed to rest.
Lu Xiaobai, with her pregnant belly, helped them serve the mung bean soup and brought it over. Ling Yi and the others thanked her and drank it.
Only He Yu said with a smile: "It is a blessing for me to have the emperor's sister-in-law serve soup!"
Lu Xiaobai knew he was mocking him, so he ignored him and turned around to serve He Qin a bowl: "You drink too."
After He Qin finished drinking, he put the bowl on the table behind him. Then he touched Lu Xiaobai's stomach and asked, "Are you tired?"
Lu Xiaobai wiped the sweat from his head and shook his head: "I'm not tired, I'm just serving soup."
Seeing Lu Xiaobai's well-behaved and sensible appearance, He Qin gently hugged him in his arms: "My little husband is really great. He knows how to work."
Hearing He Qin praising him, Lu Xiaobai smiled proudly and said, "Of course, I'm also a member of the family."
Zero One and the Others: ...
He Yu: ...
He suddenly regretted why he came to such a place to suffer. It would be better to return to the palace and analyze the world situation with his eldest brother!
He Yu put down the bowl, turned around and lay on the bed in the pergola: "I'm exhausted, I need to have a good rest."
As soon as He Yu lay down, Lingyi said, "It's not enough to just leave the corn lying in the yard. We still need to turn it over and dry it in the sun. Thirteen, you go."
Thirteen:……
Lingyi is the leader of the secret guards. He always keeps his word when carrying out missions. After saying this, he turned around and went to the woodshed to get a rake and handed it to Shisan.
When they were in the cornfield before, Shisan and He Yu were just like each other, always with sad faces and even slacking off from time to time.
The other people were all working hard, their hands never stopped moving, and they were indeed tired. Lingyi didn't know how to assign them any work.
So, we can only find two lazy people.
But He Yu was a prince of the current dynasty after all, and he couldn't order a secret guard around, so this job naturally fell on Thirteen.
Looking at the rake in Lingyi's hand, Thirteen's face wrinkled up: "Brother, I, I don't know how to do it."
Zero One: ...
Never mind, let him go.
Lingyi didn't say anything. After Thirteen said no, he turned around and went to the yard to turn over the corn.
Seeing this, Thirteen rushed over and snatched the rake from Lingyi's hand: "Let me do it, you go and rest."
Thirteen didn't want to do these things, but he also knew that Lingyi had been carrying and breaking corn in the cornfield today and was more tired than anyone else. He still had to work when he got home, and Thirteen felt a little reluctant.
"well!"
Thirteen sighed as he turned over the corn: "My hand that was holding a sword is now holding a rake. This is really killing me."
I don’t know how long this kind of life will last. If he had known earlier, he would have stayed in the imperial city instead of coming to such a place.
Thirteen complained while turning over the corn, but his elder brother was here, so he just let it be hard. Thirteen smiled helplessly and continued to work.
There were many of them, so they harvested a lot of corn. This morning, they had already harvested all the corn in their largest plot of land, and the whole yard was full of golden corn.
Thirteen was turning over corn under the scorching sun, and his clothes were all soaked.
Lu Xiaobai watched this scene and turned around curiously to ask, "He Qin, does Thirteen like Brother Lingyi?"
Lu Xiaobai didn't call Thirteen "brother" because he felt that Thirteen was about the same age as him, so there would be no psychological burden if he called him by his name directly.
Hearing this, He Qin was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Yes."
Of course Thirteen likes Lingyi. If he didn’t like Lingyi, He Qin wouldn’t let him come over.
“No wonder.”
Lu Xiaobai nodded in understanding and said, "I always see Thirteen peeking at Brother Lingyi. Last time, I saw him lying on the shower shed. I thought it was a bit strange at the time and didn't understand why he was lying there. Later, I found out that Brother Lingyi was taking a shower inside."
Moreover, since Thirteen came, Lingyi has been taking a bath in the bathhouse.
Could it be that this Thirteen is a powerful character?
Lu Xiaobai said doubtfully, "If he likes Brother Lingyi, why not just say it directly? Why does he do such sneaky things?"
He Qin secretly curled his lips and whispered, "Don't worry about it. Let them solve their own problems. We shouldn't interfere."
Although Lu Xiaobai was very curious about what happened between Thirteen and Brother Zero One, it was their private matter after all, and it was not appropriate for him, an outsider, to ask.
I could only nod and say, "Okay."
After Lu Xiaobai finished speaking, he fanned himself with the fan in his hand and asked, "But He Qin, when will summer be over? It feels like winter here is only a month long, and spring is only a few days long. Once it's over, it's all summer. It's been so long and summer hasn't ended yet. It's almost scorching hot!"
I don’t know what kind of weird place this is. The weather is so uncomfortable.
Lu Xiaobai's words made He Qin feel helpless. The winter and spring here were indeed very short.
Summer is the longest season. Even in autumn, there is still an autumn tiger that will suddenly jump out and bring heat for a while.
However, this was the season decided by heaven, and they could not change it. They could only touch Lu Xiaobai's hair and say, "Be good, wait a little longer."
Lu Xiaobai pouted and nodded helplessly. There was nothing he could do except nod and agree to him. He could only endure the heat.
Lu Xiaobai sighed, handed the fan to He Qin and said, "I'm tired of fanning, you fan me."
After hearing this, He Qin immediately took a fan and fanned him gently.
After lunch, everyone was resting.
Lu Xiaobai was sleeping soundly on the bed, but He Qin was standing by the window looking out.
Thirteen was standing by the awning, holding a pillow and saying, "The Third Prince and I switched beds, and now I sleep outside."
Zero One: ...
He Qin curled the corners of his mouth, then turned back to the bed and gently held Lu Xiaobai in his arms.
Life has been very busy these days, and I go to pick corn every morning and evening.
Moreover, after the corn is brought home, it is turned over and dried during the day. At night, in order to prevent it from getting wet by rain, fog and dew, it is picked up and piled up under the eaves. The next morning, it is picked up again and turned over and dried in the yard again.
It’s like this every day, boring and tiring, but I have to do it.
Sometimes Lu Xiaobai would get up early in the morning and sit on the corn, throwing it into the yard one by one.
The weather in summer changes rapidly, just like a person's changing face. Sometimes the sky is suddenly covered with dark clouds and it rains a little.
At this time, the whole family would run to the yard to pick up the corn under the eaves, even He Qin, who usually did no work, would do it.
But when they had picked up all the corn, the rain stopped again.
Lu Xiaobai was shocked by this kind of life. He didn't feel any joy of harvest at all, and even forgot to make popcorn.
Because this day is too tiring.
The same goes for Zero One and the others.
Because no matter whether he was a secret guard, an imperial physician, fighting in a war, or even reviewing memorials in the palace, none of them were as tiring as this.
Especially He Yu, who was tortured so much that he didn't want to talk anymore.
But the more terrifying thing was yet to come, because a few days later, it was time to peel the corn.
He Yu sat in the shed, holding a corn cob in his hand, peeling it and saying, "Oh my God, my hands are swollen. I should be a good prince, why do I have to suffer like this?"
Zero one, zero two, zero three, and four all looked at He Yu, then looked down at their red and swollen hands, which hurt more than practicing sword or knife.
Only Thirteen retorted to He Yu: "You talk as if no one's hands are swollen."
Lu Xiaobai nodded, raised his red little hand and said, "Yes, my hand is swollen too, but I didn't cry."
He Yu: ...
That's right, all of their hands were swollen.
But there was one person whose hand was not swollen, and that was He Qin.
He Qin just sat next to Lu Xiaobai as usual, and even wanted to drag Lu Xiaobai away so that they would have one less helper.
Everyone knows this problem, but no one dares to talk about it.
After all, He Qin's status is clear, and he is very serious, so no one dares to ask him to work.
And Lu Xiaobai, that stupid guy, didn't know what was going on. Not only did he not ask He Qin to work, but he said to him, "Look, it's all swollen. I told you you can't do it. If your hands are swollen, how can you practice calligraphy?"
He Yu quickly raised his hand and pinched Ren Zhong.
Zero One and the Others: ...
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