"Your Highness, you're so kind, this servant is worried for you. Those people are taking advantage of you!" Ping An complained.
The Seventh Prince laughed, "Don't you think it's better this way?"
Only by truly experiencing the lives of ordinary people could he understand how much suffering the people of the world truly endured.
Ping An couldn't guess what he was thinking, but he knew that his master was a truly kind-hearted person who cared about the people, so he thought about it and shut up.
Fine, since His Highness wants to experience it, then he will protect His Highness well.
Thinking of this, Ping An felt ashamed. He had actually caused both the prince and himself to faint from dehydration. It was such a dereliction of duty!
"Your Highness, I'll go fetch some water, please wash up first..."
Ping An picked up the wooden bucket from the thatched shed and ran towards the irrigation ditch.
...
Just as the Seventh Prince was adapting to his new living environment, Liu Ruyi's convoy finally arrived in Yongshan County.
She settled the Seventh Prince's double and the others in an inn, and then took a few trusted confidants to the county government office to meet Wei Chengzhong as the Lady of Yongshan County.
"What did you say?" Upon hearing Wei Chengzong's words about the whereabouts of the sweet potatoes in Dingshui Village, Liu Ruyi immediately stood up, her eyebrows furrowed as she glared at him. "The sweet potatoes have all been planted?"
Wei Chengzong nodded, looking troubled: "That's why I failed to fulfill the county magistrate's instructions."
He was the head of a county, a local official with real power, and had no need to grovel before a minor county magistrate who had only a title but no real power.
He only showed some courtesy because Liu Ruyi had come on the emperor's orders.
"Hmph!" Liu Ruyi sneered, "Even if you plant it, I, the county magistrate, will dig it up!" [Taking a day off, only one update today]
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