When he heard that Li Mengyue was the peasant girl who saved him as his cousin said, he had a bad feeling.

Sure enough, what his cousin said next was hard for him to accept.

My cousin said that he fell in love with Li Mengyue, and the reason he stayed in Xinghua Village and had a house built for him was so that he could be close to her and marry her home as the Crown Prince's consort as soon as possible.

Seeing his cousin's serious look, he didn't want to tell the truth and hurt his cousin.

But he also knew that it was best to cut the Gordian knot and make things clear as soon as possible, so that his cousin wouldn't get deeper and deeper into the problem and affect the relationship between the two brothers.

What's more, he didn't want him and his cousin to become enemies because of a woman.

So he told others that Li Mengyue was the woman he was looking for.

After hearing this, his cousin remained silent for a long time. He knew that his cousin understood.

His cousin knew that he had had sex with a strange woman.

The woman is Li Mengyue, which means that Li Mengyue is already his cousin's woman.

As an older brother, he couldn't compete with his younger brother for a woman. Even though he really liked Li Mengyue and wanted to marry her home, he could only tell himself to give up.

He just told his cousin the fact that Li Mengyue was his woman.

The cousin simply left the house to him and took Afeng away.

"My Lord, the room has been cleaned."

"Ah."

"My Lord, it's time for dinner. I'll go get you something to eat."

"Need not."

"No, I'll do it."

The first two words were said by Xie Ruiyuan, and the second two were said by Qingxuan. When they heard Qingxi say "cook something to eat", they subconsciously spoke out to stop him.

It’s not that they’re not hungry, they simply dislike Qingxi’s cooking skills. None of them wants to have to go to the toilet frequently and suffer from diarrhea, or endure stomachache just to have a meal.

Qingxi, who was originally in high spirits, was not unhappy when she saw that her desire to cook was disdained. Instead, she wanted to go to the village to find out the news.

"My Lord, I'll go to the village then...what smells so good?"

Qingxi, who was opening the door and walking out, felt her nose twitching as a strange and tempting fragrance rushed into her nose.

"My Lord, Qingxuan, do you smell it?"

"Needless to say, I didn't expect that in such a small mountain village, there are people with such superb cooking skills. Just the aroma alone makes people salivate."

Qingxuan was right. At this moment, all the villagers passing by Li’s house would stop.

However, they did not dare to stay for long, as they were worried that they would not be able to control themselves and would go to the Li family and ask what delicious food they had made.

"What delicious food has the Li family cooked again? The aroma is so fragrant that it makes people dizzy."

"Of course, it must be Miss Yue who has returned. Only Miss Yue can make such delicious food."

"Li An and Wan Niang are so lucky. After losing their adopted daughter, their biological daughter came back. Not only did she help Li An heal his leg, but Wan Niang also became younger and more beautiful."

"Of course not. I have nothing to worry about when I eat delicious food every day. Of course I am getting younger and younger."

"I really envy Wanniang."

"You are envious. Wouldn't it be nice if you also gave birth to a daughter like Yue?"

"Get lost, everyone in the surrounding villages knows that Yue girl is a very capable person, how could I give birth to such a capable daughter?"

"No, no, this smell is too irritating, I can't stand it!"

"Me too. I'm leaving."

Soon, the villagers who smelled the fragrance at the door of Li's house left because they could not bear the fragrance.

However, there was a person standing not far away, looking at the Li family's gate with hatred.

"Your Majesty, I..."

"From now on in the village, you should still call me master."

"Yes, master."

"Master, I smell this fragrance coming from the Li family. How about I go to the Li family to see what kind of food Miss Li has cooked?"

Xie Ruiyuan didn't say anything, but Qingxi already knew what her prince meant, so she turned around, opened the door and went out.

Li Mengyue didn’t know that the roast duck she made was a success. The aroma alone made the villagers very hungry. But that was not enough, it also attracted someone she didn’t expect.

She had now reached the edge of the 500-acre field and immediately saw her mother bending over and pulling weeds.

But besides her mother, there were also two little girls in the field.

"Mom, stop working and go home for dinner."

Li, who was busy pulling weeds, heard someone calling her, gave up the weeds she was about to pull and stood up.

"Yueyue, why are you here?"

"Mom, Dad and I made some roast duck and asked you to go back and try it."

Li looked at the weed-filled field and wanted to weed it for a while longer, but she didn't want to refuse her daughter, so she immediately answered loudly, "Okay."

But Li did not move, instead she called the two sisters who were pulling weeds not far away.

"Qiao'er, Rou'er, stop pulling weeds and go to your aunt's house for dinner."

Sisters Li Rou and Li Qiao knew it the moment Li Mengyue spoke.

However, the two of them didn't even dare to raise their heads, they just kept pulling out the weeds.

"Aunt, my sister and I will be home soon. You can go back with Sister Yue first!" Li Rou said.

Mrs. Li felt so distressed when she saw the timid sisters Li Rou and Li Qiao.

She knew very well that ever since their family moved out of the old house, life must have been even more difficult for her eldest brother, sister-in-law and their two daughters living in the old house.

But she and her husband almost lost their two sons. She knew her own health very well and she was very ill. Her husband's leg was injured and he couldn't work in the fields.

If they had not listened to their daughter and had not separated the family and stayed in the old house, I believe their family would still be living a life of torture and hopelessness.

Fortunately, with the efforts of their daughter, the family successfully separated from the old house, escaped from the miserable days of the past, saw hope, and came back to life.

But their family lived a good life, even better than 99 percent of the villagers, but my eldest brother and his wife's family were still sinking deeper and deeper into the quagmire.

She knew that her husband could not let go of his eldest brother's family, but her husband also knew that it was impossible for his eldest brother to move out of the old house.

After all, no matter what, the eldest brother is still his father's eldest son. Even if his father is counting on the third son Li Jian, he will never agree to separate from the eldest brother.

But he couldn't bear to see his elder brother living a hard life and wanted to help him, but his elder brother was unwilling to accept.

The villagers who came to her house to sell locusts would chat while waiting in line, and she would often hear from the villagers that Old Lady Li had beaten and scolded Wang and her two daughters again.

Sometimes Li Rou and her sister would bring locusts to her house to sell, and every time she would give the two sisters a lot of food.

She felt sorry for the two sisters, and the two sisters knew how to be grateful and would stay to help for a while.

Now that the locust plague is over, there are no locusts in the fields, and my family no longer does locust business.

The two sisters came out to cut grass for the pigs every day, and would rather walk a little further to get to the medicinal herb field.

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