Surprise! The prince is busy reading the princess' mind while raising a child!

Gently patting Duoduo's thin back, Shi Yi listened carefully: "Then what? How did you get lost?"

"My second mother took me to see the lanterns, but then she disappeared. I started crying, and then an aunt said she would take me to find her. Then she took me to a carriage and we got here."

Zhao Zhao also came over and squatted in front of Shi Yi, blinking his big eyes at poor Duoduo.

"Then Duoduo, do you want to go back to your home?" Zhaozhao asked her with his head tilted.

"No, no, no, I don't want to go back, Auntie, can I live in your house? I eat very little and I'm easy to feed. Please keep me!"

Duoduo's tears flowed out.

Zhaozhao quickly rummaged through her small bag, took out a handkerchief and wiped Duoduo's tears.

"Why don't you want to go back?"

Ye Lingfeng's voice came from behind.

Duoduo took off her panties, revealing her skinny legs. The inside of her thighs were covered with red and brown dots, as well as purple pinch marks.

Shi Yi stood up with a bang and yelled:

"Who did it?"

Duoduo rushed over, hugged her thighs, and burst into tears:

"Second Mother, it's my Second Mother! She pinched me and stabbed me with a needle! Auntie, Duoduo is in so much pain!"

Shi Yi was crying so hard that Zhao Zhao started crying beside her too.

"Have you told your father?" Ye Lingfeng's eyes were red.

"But my father hasn't been back for a long time! When he comes back, he goes to see my brother. I can only see him when the whole family is having dinner together. But Second Mother is also here, I dare not! Otherwise, she will prick me and hurt me even more next time!"

Shi Yi endured the pain in her left arm, squatted down and held Duoduo in her arms.

"Okay, I won't go back! Aunt and uncle will support you!"

"Mom, I will also raise sister Duoduo!" Zhaozhao also cried with tears all over her face and threw herself into Shi Yi's arms.

"Okay! Auntie, uncle, and brother Zhao Zhao will raise you together! We won't leave!"

Duoduo cried in Shi Yi's arms, which scared Zhao Qingxi to death!

"What's wrong? Why aren't you sleeping yet?" Zhao Qingxi asked anxiously.

Shi Yi let go of the two little ones and wiped her tears: "Master, we have a little daughter now!"

Zhao Qingxi glanced at Duoduo and nodded.

"Okay, you two little guys, go to bed quickly. When it's daybreak, Grandpa will take you to kill fish!"

Zhaozhao walked forward, helped Duoduo put on her pants, then took her hand and went to bed.

Shi Yi turned around, walked gently to Ye Lingfeng's wheelchair, squatted down, and rested her head on his legs:

"My lord, I won't."

Ye Lingfeng's heartstrings were suddenly touched. He was stunned for a moment before he realized that Shi Yi was talking about his stepmother.

He stretched out his rough hand and gently stroked Shi Yi's face:

"You are Zhao Zhao's biological mother, and you will always be."

"Okay." Shi Yi's tears quietly slid down and dripped into the corner of Ye Lingfeng's clothes.

Since she was ready to raise Jiang Duoduo, Shi Yi thought about making some small clothes for Duoduo. After all, she couldn't wear Zhao Zhao's clothes all the time.

"Husband, after daybreak, I have to go to town to buy some clothes for Duoduo. I also have to go to see Sister Wang as well."

Ye Lingfeng pushed the wheelchair into the yard and looked at Shi Yi packing up her things, with a smile on his face:

"Okay, go ahead."

"By the way, go water the vegetable patch in the backyard when you have time. Otherwise, we won't have any vegetables to eat."

"understood."

They asked and answered questions, discussed and negotiated, and the two felt like an old married couple.

After dawn, Shi Yi came to the town again, riding on Uncle He's ox cart.

When they arrived at the Yuyi Pavilion, Wang Qingqing grabbed her and asked, "Where's the child? Has he been rescued?"

Shi Yi smiled and nodded: "I've saved him, don't worry!"

"These bastards, the government should catch them and skin them alive!"

"Who says it isn't?"

"That day, I listened to you and went to Zhao Xiaoming's house next door. I found that Zhao Xiaoming and his blind mother were tied to chairs with ropes and their mouths were gagged." Wang Qingqing was still frightened.

"Is he okay?" Shi Yi was also a little worried.

"When I arrived, I released the couple. Zhao Xiaoming said it was a man with a black mole on his face who tied them to a chair and stole his candied haws stand."

"That makes sense. It seems there is a master who is good at planning among this group of people." Shi Yi narrowed his eyes.

"That's right. You must take good care of the children from now on."

"By the way, I just come to buy some girls' clothes. Is that okay?" Shi Yi thought of Duoduo, and her heart softened a little.

"Isn't your Zhaozhao a boy?" Wang Qingqing was a little surprised.

Shi Yi only said that her sister had hemorrhage during childbirth and her brother-in-law remarried, so he left the child to her.

Shi Yi bought two sets of clothes and two sets of skirts. She also drew the blueprints herself and made two new sets of clothes for Zhao Zhao and Duo Duo.

After leaving Yuyi Pavilion, Shi Yi found Sun's Iron Shop, drew a blueprint, and ordered three hot pot stoves and a barbecue rack.

Make something delicious for Master. The prince’s leg is almost healed and it’s time to detoxify.

Shi Yi laughed in her heart, wondering if she was too utilitarian.

After buying some cakes, Shi Yi walked towards the place where Uncle He usually parked his ox cart.

At the corner of the street, I found a man in tattered clothes, squatting on the ground with a sad face, looking at the mountain of chili peppers in front of him and sighing.

Shi Yi's eyes lit up instantly!

You know, there was no chili pepper in this dynasty! She usually cooked with peppers from space.

"Hey, young man, what are you selling? The colors are pretty, green and red."

Shi Yi squatted down, picked up a pepper and looked at it.

When the man heard someone asking, he stood up quickly:

"My dear, this is called chili pepper. My grandfather brought back seeds from somewhere. I thought it was something new, so I planted an acre of land. But after it grew, it turned out to be extremely spicy, and no one wanted it. If you want it, I'll sell it to you for 200 copper coins!"

Shi Yi thought about it and said nothing.

The young man squatted down again in annoyance, pulling his hair, without saying a word.

"Brother, are you in trouble?"

The young man's tears fell drop by drop onto the yellow earth.

"I am from Liujia Village. My family originally rented two acres of land from Mr. Liu in the village. When he came to my house to collect rent, he fell in love with my wife and tried to bully her in my house, but I punched him out. Later, he sent people to smash my house and took back the land. He beat my mother to death, and my father died of his injuries last month."

Hearing about his miserable experience, the people setting up stalls nearby also had tears in their eyes.

"I have no choice but to send my wife and children back to her parents' home and clean up the house first. I have worked so hard to grow these things, but I can't sell them. It's really driving me crazy!"

A grown man was forced to cry loudly in the street.

"Don't cry yet. These things of yours should be called chili peppers. I'll buy them all for one tael of silver! But you have to send them back home for me, okay?"

The man wiped his tears, stood up, and stared with disbelief: "Are you telling the truth?"