Wen Meijiu walked forward calmly, opened the sack, and picked up the white rice to show his parents.

"Dad, Mom, look what this is?"

"Rice!"

Dad and Mom shouted out in a low voice at the same time.

"Yes."

Wen Meijiu said with a smile, very satisfied with the look of his parents.

"Where did this come from?"

Wen Meijiu just said that she could hide things, but she didn't say that she could make things appear.

Making the little things disappear is just a trick they have seen at the market.

Such a big sack of rice cannot be concealed even with a sleight of hand!

Wen Meijiu looked proud, looked at his surprised father, and whispered:

"If I tell you, don't scold me, Dad."

Hearing what Wen Meijiu said, Dad felt a little relieved. He said that this thing would not appear out of thin air, and if it could be made up, there must be some trick.

"Tell me, Dad promises not to blame you."

Dad was afraid that Wen Meijiu wouldn't tell the truth, so he deliberately spoke gently so as not to scare her.

"Then I'll tell you something," Wen Meijiu leaned in between Dad and Mom and whispered:

"It was taken from the private residence of the county magistrate."

Dad's eyes widened even more, and he said in disbelief:

"How can you make stealing sound so refreshing? What did your father teach you since you were a child? Kneel down in front of me."

Seeing that Dad was instantly angry, Mom quickly winked at Wen Meijiu, and at the same time quickly persuaded Dad:

"You listened to the child finish his words, why did you get angry when you only heard half of them?

Aren’t we talking about how she conjured up food?”

Dad also knew that there were guests outside, and such an embarrassing thing could not be heard by outsiders.

He suppressed his anger and spoke word by word:

"Okay, I'll give her a chance and let her speak slowly."

Wen Meijiu didn't expect her father's reaction to be so big, and she regretted telling him about it.

She secretly looked at her mother, who pursed her lips and told her to explain things to her father.

Well, my dad is a man who reads books of sages, so it’s normal for him to be a little pedantic.

In order to make her father accept it faster, she had no choice but to change her words.

"Last night, many disaster victims broke into the county magistrate's private residence to steal food. I was jealous, so I followed them in to steal."

The father is heartbroken that his daughter is learning to rob others. What’s the difference between this and bandits?

Now, the father no longer cares how the food was produced through a magic trick. He is worried that his daughter has gone astray. What should he do then?

In the county town, there were fully armed soldiers patrolling everywhere, and the victims on the streets were all old, weak and sick. Who would have the courage to go against the government and steal the food from the county magistrate's private residence?

This can only be implemented if someone takes the lead, organizes and plans it.

Once discovered by the county magistrate, you will lose your head.

His daughter is at the age of a beautiful girl. What if she is taken away and beheaded? What will he do?

"Nonsense, I don't want to live anymore, do you want to live too?

Who is the county magistrate? How dare you steal his food? Don't you want to die?"

Seeing his father getting angrier and angrier, Wen Meijiu explained:

"Dad, do you know?

The city is now full of hungry local people and disaster victims. There are also disaster victims outside the north city gate. The county magistrate has hidden several yards of grain in his private residence, but he refuses to open the granary to release the grain or set up a tent to distribute porridge.

He explicitly told the people that they were not allowed to raise prices or hoard food, but he himself plundered the people's wealth, hoarded goods, used his power to oppress others, robbed people of their money, and seized people's property. He was simply two-faced and harbored evil intentions.

If we don’t rob such a corrupt official, wouldn’t it be a waste?

Besides, what will our family eat on the journey of thousands of miles?

Dad, have you ever thought about this problem? "

The last sentence directly hit Dad's sore spot. Even if he wanted to refute Wen Meijiu's words, he could only sigh, and his ambition fell to the ground.

The whole family depends on the eldest daughter for survival, and he just wants his daughter to stay at home in plain clothes and bare hands, but who will take care of the family's livelihood?

Forget it, forget it. That corrupt official deserves it. He has forced the people into a state of desperation. Now you still want to talk to him about benevolence, righteousness, and morality. Go to hell.

Sighing again, Dad slowed down and said weakly:

"The wine is right. Dad has lived for more than thirty years in vain, but he only knows the books of sages and has forgotten the worldly affairs."

"That's right. My daughter has gone through a lot for her family. Others may not know how hard it is, but don't you and I know?"

Mother felt sad when she saw father scolding Wen Meijiu. She thought about how difficult the previous days were and how the whole family finally got together. Those days, which were worse than death, were deeply engraved in her mind and she never wanted to experience them again.

In order to share the burden of the family with her daughter, she was even prepared to become a shrew. How could she dare to blame her daughter for her misbehavior? She only hated why she was not the one who went, letting her daughter take such an ignominious risk.

Having said that, as a father, he still doesn't want his daughter to reach a point where she cannot recover. After all, she is a daughter. If this matter gets out in the future, how can she face people, let alone get married?

"Only the three of us know about this. Don't mention it to anyone else."

Dad turned around to instruct Mom, then looked at Wen Meijiu who was standing in front of him.

Mother nodded, and Wen Meijiu hung her head and nodded as well. She didn’t think she had done anything wrong!

The room was quiet, and the three people were thinking about their own things.

After a long time, Dad broke the deadlock and said slowly:

"Let's go on the journey together with Prince Wang."

Dad was not talking nonsense; he made this decision after careful consideration.

His daughter stole the county magistrate's food, and who knows who might come forward to identify her.

The world is so big, it belongs to the king. Even if they escape to the ends of the earth, isn't it still the government's world?

She is wanted wherever the government has jurisdiction.

Now they can only hope that no one sees their daughter and that their whole family can escape the disaster.

That young master Wang has an extraordinary status and has some feelings for Wen Meijiu. Although he doesn't want his daughter to be a mistress of young master Wang, at present, he is the only person who can give Wen Meijiu protection.

After thinking it over again and again, Dad finally made a decision that went against his own wishes.

Wen Meijiu suddenly looked up at his father, and his mother also looked at him. Neither of them expected his father to say that.

She just made her father angry, and although he didn't lose his temper, it could be seen from his sighs that he was in a bad mood.

At this time, Wen Meijiu was not in the mood to continue discussing the matter of Young Master Wang with her father. She was worried about her father. You know, there were five carriages of food outside that also belonged to the county magistrate. He would definitely go crazy.

"Wine, what do you think?"

Although it was what my mother wanted, she was still worried about Wen Meijiu, fearing that she would feel wronged.

Dad has already spoken out, and Wen Meijiu will definitely not object directly. She is thinking in her heart how to tell Dad about the origin of the five carriages?

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