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Chapter 81 Why did the prince entrust his son to her?

Lin Xin opened her mouth but said nothing. Forget it, just go at night. At worst, she could go back tomorrow night. Besides, she always felt that there was something wrong with the baby, but Mo Ziyuan was very sure that he was the little grandson of the emperor. What was the problem?
Lin Xin spent most of the next time thinking about this problem.

If the little prince was real, why did those people send him all the way here? If they wanted to attack the prince, wouldn't it be better to just kill him?

She could clearly see that they didn't really care whether the baby lived or died.

If he is fake, everything can be easily explained. For example, let Mo Ziyuan think that he is raising the emperor's grandson with all his heart and soul, and then expose the truth when the grandson he thinks is the emperor grows up and returns to the imperial city?

But isn't this too much trouble? Besides, the little grandson is still a baby. It will take at least ten years for him to grow up, which is too time-consuming.

Or do they want to use the little grandson of the emperor to find Mo Ziyuan's hiding place and then catch them all in one fell swoop?
This seems to be the most reasonable guess so far.

After thinking for a long time, Lin Xin's mind was still a mess. She couldn't help but sigh, "Alas! Traveling through time only changed her time and space, but it didn't give her a smart brain!"

As night fell, the atmosphere in the farm gradually became heavy. Lin Xin finally checked Mo Ziyuan's wound and found that he had recovered well. To ensure that everything was safe, she secretly used a lot of wood-related abilities to repair his body. Although the wound did not seem to have changed much on the surface, it was actually almost healed inside.

"Okay, go!" Lin Xin helped him smooth out his coat, thought for a moment, and gave him a devil vine seed. "You know how to use it, right? You'd better come back alive, otherwise I can't guarantee I can keep this little brat alive."

Mo Ziyuan stared at Lin Xin for a long moment, then smiled. A radiant light flickered across his handsome face. He lowered his head and said in a tender voice, "I will definitely come back alive. You have to wait for me."

"Well, go ahead!" Lin Xin moved her neck uncomfortably, letting her drooping hair cover her hot earlobes.

After taking a deep look at the girl who made his heart beat faster, Mo Ziyuan turned around, climbed over the wall, and his figure gradually disappeared into the night.

The abandoned farm was completely silent at night, with no sound except for the occasional gust of wind. The untrimmed branches of the trees stretched out in all directions, and the shadows cast by the moonlight on the ground looked like ghosts with bared fangs and claws, which reminded Lin Xin of the dilapidated and decadent world at the end of the world.

"Waaaa~" The sudden cry of a baby added a spooky atmosphere to this sleepless night. Even Lin Xin, who had experienced the baptism of the end of the world, felt a little creepy.

She hurriedly prepared a bottle of milk powder, tested the temperature, and then put the nipple into the baby's mouth. The crying stopped abruptly and turned into the sound of eager swallowing. The atmosphere not only did not ease, but became even more gloomy.

Lin Xin thought for a moment, then carried the basket containing the baby to the center of an open space, away from the shabby room that always made her feel like ghosts might come out at any moment. Then she took out a stool from the space and sat on it, watching the baby gulp down milk from the bottle.

Time passed by little by little. The baby, having drunk his fill of milk, happily spit out a huge bubble, then yawned, closed his eyes and fell into a blissful sleep, leaving the miserable Lin Xin alone to face the entire empty abandoned farm.

Suddenly, Lin Xin stood up as if she had sensed something, jumped onto the wall, and looked into the distance. She saw two figures staggering towards her, one of whom was Mo Ziyuan.

She frowned, returned to her original place and picked up the basket containing the baby. No matter who came with Mo Ziyuan, she had to protect him until she found out the identity of the child.

Mo Ziyuan's figure soon appeared on the top of the wall, then he bent down and pulled up another one.

Then, the two of them jumped off the wall and walked towards Lin Xin side by side.

"Miss Lin, this is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Mo Ziyuan pointed at the man beside him who looked a little disheveled but still had an extraordinary noble character in his bones and said to her.

Lin Xin nodded, knelt slightly, and said, "I greet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"Miss Lin, there's no need to be so polite," the prince said in a gentle voice. He extended his right hand to support Lin Xin, then said seriously, "This is an urgent matter, so I'll be frank. Miss Lin, I entrust my child to you. If I achieve great things in the future, I will send someone to pick him up. If I fail, then you can let him live out his life as an ordinary person!"

Lin Xin was stunned. Shouldn't she be the one she should be addressing? Why had the Crown Prince entrusted the child to her? And how could he possibly trust her with the child? She looked at Mo Ziyuan, bewildered, questioning his intentions.

However, Mo Ziyuan stood beside the prince with his head down, pretending to be dead.

"This... I'm afraid I'm not capable of doing this!" Lin Xin declined politely.

"No, Miss Lin, there is no need to belittle yourself. Besides, you are someone Ziyuan trusts, so naturally you are also someone I trust. Thank you for your help." After the prince finished speaking, he actually bowed to Lin Xin.

Lin Xin: “…”

"Your Highness, Mo Ziyuan must have told you that I come from the countryside. I can guarantee the safety of the little prince, but I don't have the confidence that he can grow up to be a worthy descendant of the royal family."

The prince smiled bitterly and shook his head, "I understand, Miss Lin, there is no need to worry too much."

Lin Xin was completely speechless now, and decided to just give up. It was just a baby, so she could just raise it. She had enough baby supplies in her space to ensure that he lived a healthy life. As for his future education, she would let Meng Yichen worry about it.

Suddenly, Lin Xin frowned slightly.

"What's wrong?" Mo Ziyuan asked.

"Someone's coming." Lin Xin pried open her ears. "They're coming on horseback. There's about a dozen or twenty of them."

"Don't worry, they're my personal guards." The prince glanced at the basket in Lin Xin's hand, took a deep breath, and turned around. "To avoid any more trouble, you should hurry and leave the capital! I don't know how many people around me have betrayed me. If the news leaks out, you might not be able to leave."

Mo Ziyuan and Lin Xin exchanged a glance, and then they both dodged and hid in the dilapidated house where Mo Ziyuan had been hiding before. The basket containing the baby was directly transferred into the space by Lin Xin the moment they entered the room.

They each chose a suitable place to observe the outside and looked intently at the empty yard.

The sound of horse hooves came from far away, then slowly moved away, and then moved towards this side from another direction. Lin Xin then realized that these people did not climb over the wall, but found the gate of the farm and came from there.

"Your Highness!" As the leader approached, he leaped from his still-running horse and knelt on one knee before the Crown Prince. "I'm late. Is Your Highness injured?"

The others also arrived and were ordered to dismount and kneel on the ground.

"I'm fine. Have you dealt with the pursuers?"

The leader replied, "Those were the former Grand Tutor's former subordinates, and we have all killed them all."

"So good."

"Your Highness, this place is too unsafe. How about letting your subordinates escort you back to the palace?"

"Well, let's go then!"

(End of this chapter)