The Zhao family members were settled in a side room in the backyard. Zhao Zhili, the governor of Nanyi County, had already woken up from a coma. Shang Ruoyi simply treated his injuries and left some medicine for the Huo family.
Mrs. Huo hugged the child in her arms and said with tears in her eyes, "Thank you very much, my dear." Then she was about to kneel down again.
Shang Ruoyi hurriedly helped her up: "You must be polite, please stay here for a while!"
As soon as she went out, she saw the man who was exiled with the Zhao family standing in the distance. When he saw her come out, he hurried over to her.
The man knelt on the ground and said, "Thank you for taking me in. We are very grateful."
"Thank you for everything that's convenient for you. When you guys recover, I'll ask Zhang Hu to find a good place for you."
When they heard it, they looked at each other and followed suit.
"Thank you for your help." Zhao Zhiwen looked at the closed door opposite and asked in a low voice: "What about my brothers?"
"Their injuries are quite serious." Shang Ruoyi looked at the family and smiled, "You are lucky, these are just minor skin injuries." She said to Shaoyao beside her, "Take them to clean up and find some warm clothes."
"yes."
The woman standing opposite her looked at the warmth on Shang Ruoyi's body, and a light flashed in her eyes.
She took a step forward and bowed to Shang Ruo in a proper manner: "I am Zhao Xinyin, thank you for your rescue."
Shaoyao took them away, and Shang Ruoyi came to the study. Yunqi stood at the door and whispered, "Crown Princess."
"He Jingheng hasn't come out yet?"
Yunqi nodded, hesitated for a while, and said: "Lord Zhao was once under the command of the prince. If the prince is in trouble, the court will punish all the officials who were once on good terms with the Dingguo Palace, and implicate them. I believe the prince must be very sad."
Shang Ruoyi understood clearly that He Jingheng had personally killed the yamen runner. There must be a reason for this. He was an impulsive person.
Shang Ruoyi looked at the tightly closed door, probably, the things he had always believed in were collapsing bit by bit.
Zhao Zhiwen and his wife changed into cotton-padded clothes. Zhao Xinyin touched the coarse cotton-padded clothes on her body, her eyes sank slightly, and her eyes fell on Shaoyao. At this time, Shaoyao was wearing a cotton-padded clothes made of ordinary satin. Zhao Xinyin said, "Sister Shaoyao is really lucky to meet such a generous master like Sister Guiren."
Shaoyao saw her eyes fall on her clothes, and said with a smile: "It is true, our young lady has the best heart and treats us servants very kindly."
"Is the man who saved us the brother of your noble sister?" Her eyes flickered slightly. Although the man was sitting in a wheelchair, his aura was even more noble than that of a royal family member. She dared not take a few glances at him secretly. His handsome face, which seemed as if he were a fairy, made her feel dazed.
"That's your lady's husband." Shaoyao looked at her strangely, but seeing that she looked normal, she said nothing.
Zhao Xiyin's heart sank when he heard this. This man actually had a wife and children. Shang Ruoyi's face appeared in his mind. Then he looked at himself in the mirror and saw that he was sallow and thin. The light in his eyes gradually dimmed.
How can I compete with her when I am like this?
Any man knows who to choose.
When I came to the side room, Zhao Zhiwen and his wife were already waiting there.
"Yin Yin." Liu walked forward, looked at Shaoyao behind her, and said with a smile, "Thank you, young lady."
"You're welcome. Someone will bring some food over later."
Hearing that there was food, everyone's eyes lit up.
After all, during exile, even eating some coarse grain cakes required the charity of the officials.
After a while, two servants came in carrying a tray.
When the people saw the plate full of meat, they couldn't help but swallow the water.
"Her father, is your eyesight bad? Is there really meat on this plate?" Liu murmured, "He must have fainted from hunger."
Zhao Zhiwen also stood there in a daze.
The servant saw this and laughed: "It is indeed meat, freshly cooked. Eat it while it's hot!"
Everyone gathered around the table, not caring about etiquette and manners, and started eating noisily.
After eating and drinking to his heart's content, Zhao Zhiwen wiped the oil from his mouth and couldn't help but sigh, "It's so satisfying." After he finished speaking, he burped very loudly.
Liu nodded: "How long has it been since you last saw meat? I thought I would starve to death here, but I didn't expect to have such a good life."
Zhao Xiyin sat there, staring at the food on the table that had not been taken away. After a while, she said to Zhao Zhiwen and his wife, "Mom and Dad, do you want to live this good life forever?"
"Of course I do." Liu sighed, "But we are now guilty, how can we continue to live this kind of life that our master can live? When the spring comes next year, we will start to farm."
"Farming?" Zhao Xi was shocked. "How to farm? Mother, my daughter is not well, how can I farm?"
"We have to pay taxes every year. If we don't pay enough, we will be caned." Zhao Zhili said in a deep voice: "If your uncle gets involved, we can't do anything about it."
"My uncle did the wrong thing, why do you want to implicate us?" She pouted, "I was originally a cousin of the county governor's mansion. It would be great if I could find a husband who did the wrong thing. What should I do in the future in this desolate place of exile?"
"I think you can find a husband here." Liu touched her head and said, "If I had known earlier, I would have promised you a husband sooner. You wouldn't have to suffer like this."
Zhao Xiyin thought for a while and whispered, "There is no good husband's family here either."
"Where are the good families here? The poor people here are either exiled prisoners. Where can they live like this..." Liu paused and raised her head suddenly: "You mean, this family?"
Zhao Xiyin nodded and whispered, "We have already found out that the man who saved us is the owner of this house, and the woman is his wife."
"Since he has a wife, do you want to be his concubine?"
"Mother, what's wrong with being a concubine?" Zhao Xiyin sneered, "If you marry a poor man here, what's the point of being the main wife? You will live a hard life. If you get sick, I'm afraid you won't even have the money to hire a doctor." She pointed to the room and said, "This is the side room, where the servants live. Even the servants in their family live like this, so you can imagine how luxurious and comfortable the master bedroom will be."
When Liu heard this, her thoughts became more active.
"Mom, think about it, it's so good here, why should we go out and suffer?"
Zhao Zhiwen and his wife were also willing to endure hardships, otherwise they would not have stayed in the county governor's mansion for so many years and lived for free.
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