Chapter 232 A Major Event That Changed Japan
"Your Highness, Shia is missing." Lin Ruoxi hurriedly found Qin Mo and said anxiously.
After her marriage to Qin Mo was arranged, she never saw Qin Mo again. Even a little girl can be shy, but now she had no choice but to ask Qin Mo for help.
"Missing? She wasn't staying at your place?" Qin Mo asked curiously. Xia lived in the Prince's Mansion, but she often went out to eat with Lin Ruoxi and occasionally stayed at the Lin family's house, so Qin Mo didn't pay much attention to it.
"She didn't come to see me for two days in a row, so I asked my maid to bring her some braised meat, but neither of the servants came back."
Qin Mo's face turned cold. Although Xia was usually very rude to him, she was still his prisoner, and he couldn't let her get away so easily.
"Ruoxi, don't worry, I'll go find Allen and see who has the audacity to seduce the Prince's property?"
Lin Ruoxi looked at Qin Mo, who was clearly displeased, and said guiltily, "Your Highness... Xiana found me... wanting to be my dowry maid, but I didn't agree... so she left in a huff..."
Qin Mo was dumbfounded. It would be one thing if she ran away from home because she was dissatisfied with her tyranny, but to disappear in a fit of pique because she couldn't become a dowry maid was simply incomprehensible.
"Ruoxi, how much money did she take with her when she left?"
“Not much… Shia’s monthly salary doesn’t amount to much at all.”
"I understand. I'll wait two more days. If she still doesn't come back... then let her go!"
Qin Mo felt somewhat guilty. Although Xia had capsized his pirate fleet, she hadn't intentionally hurt anyone, which showed that she was still kind-hearted. He had restricted her freedom... which was really wrong of him.
Shia returned in no time, went straight to the kitchen, ate two roasted lamb legs in a row, and then let out a satisfied burp.
"Are you full?"
Shia immediately stood up straight, not even having time to wipe the oil stains off her lips, so she had to lower her head and stick out her tongue to lick them clean.
Kaihime, dressed in an embroidered Hanfu, walked over, and the frost on her face made Shia shiver involuntarily.
Do you know who you are?
"Oh...I know."
"Is staying out all night a prisoner's duty?"
Shia suddenly looked up, her face cold and her teeth clenched as she stared at Kaihime, saying hatefully, "I am Qin Mo's prisoner, not your slave."
Kaihime said expressionlessly, "Let's find a place!"
"Let's just find a place..."
She went all out and won a satisfying battle. Although she lost, she suddenly felt better. When Qin Mo found her, she was gnawing on the braised pig's trotters that Lin Ruoxi had given her.
Qin Mo sat down opposite her, saying nothing, just watching quietly, her eyes filled with silent care.
The braised pig's trotters were delicious; the broth, simmered with spices, had infused them with a rich flavor. Perhaps one of the seasonings was a bit irritating, because as Shia ate, she started sniffling and her eyes watered.
"Waaaaah..."
Shia became more and more excited as she ate, until finally she buried her face in her arms on the table and burst into tears.
"I jumped into the sea, where I could smell the familiar scent... I love the sea... I swam freely far, far away... I wanted to leave this place..."
"I know I've escaped...you can't catch me...but...I don't know...how did I come back...waaaaah!"
Qin Mo smoothed her disheveled hair, the soft, smooth golden hair trembling wildly as her head twitched.
Do you like braised pig's trotters?
Shia nodded.
"You like roasted lamb leg?"
Shia continued to nod.
Do you like roasted venison?
Shia looked up, tears streaming down her face, and said, "I like steamed deer tail..."
Qin Mo forced a laugh and asked, "Do you have roasted lamb leg or steamed deer tail in the sea?"
Shia shook her head frantically. She had figured out why she had come back: because there was good food here, and it was free.
"Qin Mo, will your palace be under Kai's control from now on?"
"Oh! Maybe, I don't really care."
Shia said with a pained expression, "Then what should I do? I don't want to live in her house."
"You can stay at Ruoxi's house..."
"Ruoxi will also be moving into the Prince's residence; she can't beat Jiafei anyway..."
Qin Mo finally understood why she had run away from the Li family; it turned out she had developed "Kai phobia".
“This is actually my home. Kai and Ruoxi are both my family. You are Ruoxi’s good friend, so you can stay here as a friend. No one can kick you out. But you can’t go too far and start fights with people.”
Shia immediately nodded vigorously, "Qin Mo's is excellent! Nobody would want to fight with Kai!"
Edo has always been the largest city in the Kanto region of Japan. Over the past five years, due to maritime trade, the vast city has expanded repeatedly, and the wide harbor is always crowded. Edo has prospered at an astonishing pace, becoming the undisputed largest city in Japan.
The people of Edo were already very proud, and now they were even more so. They looked down on outsiders who came to Edo looking for a living, and even merchants from other places were despised by them. In their eyes, only true Edo natives were city people, and the rest were just country bumpkins.
Of course... except for the people of Ninja City.
Ren City wasn't big before, and it still isn't big now, but the people of Ren City have one thing that's exceptionally big: their money bags are huge.
No one would deny that Edo was the largest city in Japan, and similarly, no one would object to the fact that the people of Oshijo were the wealthiest people in Japan.
After Toyotomi Hideyoshi's failed siege of Oshi Castle, the people of Oshi Castle embarked on a path of commercial expansion. They traded people, sugar, ironware, Daxia silk fabrics, spirits, and other Daxia goods, each of which occupied a large share of the Kanto region. The Toyotomi family, as an old and established family in the Kanto region, maintained a tacit and tolerant attitude towards the Narita family's expansion, and as a result, Oshi Castle became famous.
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