Chapter 382 Chapter 381 Little White Flower's Designed Encounter

That day, a group of young ladies saw Li Ziyu and Kong Xun pretending to be two traveling students. After returning home, they were all a little absent-minded, as if they had met Pan Lang and would be ruined for the rest of their lives.

Especially the young princess Si Lingling from Prince Liang's Mansion and the daughter of the county magistrate Xin Weiwei, while the two of them were competing secretly, they also did not want to be outdone and attacked Li Ziyu and Kong Xun.

Xin Weiwei, this delicate little white flower, created an encounter. The carriage going to the temple broke down on the way, and it happened that Li Ziyu and Kong Xun, who were on their way to the temple, were stopped by the carriage passing by here.

An Xin and the others saw from afar that Xin Weiwei shyly bowed to the two men and stopped them to ask for help. Jiang Zhou, the venomous tongue, couldn't help but tut, "There were so many people in carriages passing by just now. Did the county magistrate's daughter guess that they were all hard-hearted and didn't stop the carriage to ask for help? She just knew that Li Mian Tan and that kind-hearted man were willing to save her from danger."

"Pfft." An Xin: "How kind-hearted is your Senior Brother Li?"

Zhu Shijing glanced at his cousin who was looking up at the sky with an expressionless face.

He looked so disgusted with the world, as if he was going to transform into an immortal in the next second.

Everyone looked at Kong Xun next to him, who had the gentle and modest temperament of a gentleman. He extended his hand gracefully to invite Xin Weiwei to get on their carriage and go back to the city. However, he and Li Ziyu chose to sit outside the carriage to avoid suspicion.

Seeing Xin Weiwei's eyes filled with tears of emotion, she looked so pitiful, but she frequently secretly glanced at the two men's stunning faces and their eager eyes, which made Li Ziyu and Kong Xun frown secretly.

An Xin: "There's no more show to watch, let's go back."

"Cousin, what should we do next?" An Rui looked up in the direction of the temple. "It seems that the temple there is very famous. How about..."

"Ah!" An Rui: "Cousin, you are too cruel."

"I want to live on this face for the rest of my life, and I can't let you ruin it."

An Rui moved back with a fearful look on his face. Zhu Shijing and Jiang Zhou, who were squeezed in, looked at each other and pushed him forward together without mercy.

“You…you guys…”

Facing the two men's raised fists, An Rui chose to swallow his anger and shrank next to the relatively gentle Leng Xiangbai.

An Xin raised his eyebrows proudly, and then said seriously: "Do I need a reason to beat you who never uses your brain?"

"Why don't I use my brain? Cousin, you look down on me." An Rui curled his lips to express his dissatisfaction.

"Xiang Bai, tell this idiot why we can't go sightseeing and have fun here now."

An Xin saw that the other people in the car had clear eyes that showed understanding. Compared with his cousin's ignorant eyes, this guy seemed even more stupid.

Leng Xiangyang smiled faintly and answered An Rui, who was full of doubts: "We have been wanted by the government because we escaped on the way to the exile village.

There are our portraits on the city wall. Junior Brother An, are you sure you want to visit the temple now?"

An Rui froze and scratched the back of his head, then he realized how stupid he was.

"Hehe...hehe...it's better not to go."

Leng Xiangbai, Zhu Shijing, Jiang Zhou and others also laughed when they saw him like this.

Knowing that he has no ambition, doesn't like to use his brain, and prefers a comfortable life, everyone thought that they should just take better care of this junior brother in the future.

"Let's go back." An Xin glanced at the direction where Li Ziyu and Kong Xun left, and said faintly, "Those two people are not stupid. They know what to do. We should not worry about them."

She didn't believe that Emperor Sheng An didn't place a few secret guards with high martial arts skills around Kong Xun, the dragon egg.

Even if An Xin was not there, four people were transferred from Qinglong to protect Li Ziyu and Kong Xun in secret to prevent them from encountering any accidents.

Liu Huai, acting as the coachman, drove the carriage slowly away towards a remote and impoverished village in the mountains.

After An Xin came here for a while, he discovered that Lingnan, this wild place of exile, was indeed as harsh as rumored, with many poisonous insects and high temperatures.

People also lacked knowledge and education, so it was called a barbaric land.

However, this is only the bad side of this place. An Xin discovered through the geographical map of Lingnan that the geography and environment here are very similar to the current South China region.

The weather here is humid, with abundant rainfall all year round. It has excellent water resources, and the hot and sunny climate is obviously very suitable for growing rice.

It is said that rice is grown in many places in Daqian, but for some reason, An Xin saw that most of the crops planted in the fields in Lingnan were corn, wheat and other crops similar to those in the northern regions.

An Xin remembered that there was a book called "Records of Strange Things" in the Eastern Han Dynasty that recorded that the climate in southern China was suitable for growing Cochin rice.

It harvests in summer and winter, and farmers plant it again every year, so it is called double-season rice.

An Xin looked at the narrow and bumpy road that was only wide enough for one carriage. The houses in the villages not far away on both sides were dilapidated and looked extremely depressed in the autumn wind.

Most of the villagers walking on the road were pale and thin, their clothes were full of patches, and they looked ragged, and their eyes revealed fatigue and despair.

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"Whoa!" An Xin suddenly said. Liu Huai, the driver, hurriedly grabbed the reins to stop the chestnut horse. "My lord, is there something wrong?"

"Yeah." An Xin opened the carriage curtain and jumped out of it. "I want to go to the village over there and take a look."

Leng Xiangbai and others also got off the carriage.

An Rui: "Cousin, why are you going to that village?"

"Don't you think the expressions on those villagers' faces are too desperate and angry?" An Xin said, looking at the others.

Leng Xiangbai and Zhu Shijing looked carefully at a big tree at the entrance of the village. There was a group of people standing or sitting there. There was sadness, anger, and despair on their faces and in their eyes.

"Little Shanzhang, do you think something must have happened in their village?"

An Xin nodded, and she already had a guess in her mind.

At this time, the villagers under the big tree at the entrance of the village also discovered that An Xin and his companions were followed by a carriage coming towards them.

"No... Could it be that those bandits are coming to steal our food?" a villager said in a trembling voice of fear.

"Most of the food we harvested this year was snatched away by them. If they come to steal again, I will fight them to the death."

"Wow, wow, wow," the woman leaning against a big tree cried bitterly, "Will you let us live? Every year they come to rob us of the little food we just harvested. When will this end?"

"Every winter, due to food shortages, elderly people would commit suicide in order to save food for their children and grandchildren and avoid starvation.

This year the bandits are more vicious than in previous years. In the past they would at least leave some food for us, but this time they came to rob us and took everything they saw. They really left no way for us civilians to survive."

From a distance, An Xin heard miserable shouting and crying.

As she had guessed, the grain that had just been harvested in the autumn in this village was just as Erhu had said in the information he had obtained.

The harvest was robbed by bandits who were eyeing the people's gains covetously.

(End of this chapter)