Just one pregnancy and four babies, but the prince actually pledged his love to her

However, he did not intend to let anyone investigate. After all, Li Mengyue was already his and was pregnant with his child, so she also accepted the title of princess.

Even if Li Mengyue has a secret, so what? As long as he knows that Li Mengyue will not do anything harmful, and can give birth to his child, then the two of them will raise the child together in the future.

Li Mengyue stayed at Banyue Villa to discuss food with Xie Ruiyuan and let the refugees participate in the construction of the reservoir. She did not go there until dark, and then she and Xie Ruiyuan went to Xinghua Village together.

The sun set and the sky gradually darkened. The men from Xinghua Village who joined the patrol team began patrolling according to their assigned duties.

There is no way, the number of refugees is increasing.

Li Mengyue had previously told the villagers about the refugees. Although everyone obeyed and formed patrol teams, some people did not take it seriously.

They thought that no matter what the refugees were doing, it was impossible for them to run into the village and rob people. Besides, even if they came to rob, there were so many people in the village that they would be able to drive them away.

But no matter what people think, no one dares to say that the patrol team is useless, and they still patrol as usual every day.

The village chief has also asked people to bring back food from the town, which has further increased the enthusiasm of the patrol members.

However, the arrival of the villagers from Zhulin Village that night brought a severe blow to the entire Xinghua Village.

The people who will be patrolling tonight include Wang Daniu, Wang Erniu, Li Dazhui, Li Erzhui, Li Yan, Li Nian and ten others.

The first person to discover the villagers of Zhulin Village was Li Yan.

"Look, is there anyone coming?"

"They are from Zhulin Village, and the one leading them is Zhulin Village Chief Zhu."

"Quick, Erniu, notify the village chief. I'm afraid the person here has ill intentions." Li Yan looked at the dark crowd behind Zhu Lei and had a bad feeling in his heart.

Zhulin Village has a population of more than 2,000 people and is the largest village in Qingshan Town. They usually look down on other villages and always think they are the boss. They harass villagers from other villages from time to time, and Xinghua Village is no exception.

It’s just that their village and the other six villages were so poor that Zhulin Village couldn’t make much money, so they didn’t do anything excessive.

But this year is different. With Li Mengyue in their village, they have made a lot of money by selling locusts, and every household is no longer in a situation where they cannot get enough food even if they tighten their belts.

The arrival of the people from Zhulin Village at this time was definitely not a good thing, and it turned out to be true.

Chief Zhu of Zhulin Village came forward and said threateningly, "I heard that your village got a large amount of food a few days ago. Now everyone is suffering from a locust plague and the fields are barren. Zhulin Village has a large population and they don't have enough to eat every day. Their faces are pale from hunger. If they can't eat food, I'm afraid they won't be able to hold on. There are few people in Xinghua Village, so why don't you lend us the food first? When the food comes in next year, we will return it to your village in full."

After Zhu Lei finished speaking, the people on patrol all looked extremely grim, but they knew that the other side had more people, and if they took action, they would probably be beaten so badly that even their parents wouldn't recognize them.

They lived in the same town, although not from the same village, but they knew a little about Zhulin Village.

Many villagers in Zhulin Village are lazy and like to eat. They basically don't do any work in the fields. They don't pull out the grass when it's full, and the grass even grows taller than the crops.

In their village, people work in the fields every day during the busy farming season, and when the slack season comes, they try to find work to supplement their family income.

But even so, their village was still poor, and life was nowhere near as good as the ones in Zhulin Village.

And they also knew that the reason why Zhulin Village was like this was because it was built on the basis of plunder.

They didn't know where the Zhulin Villagers went to steal things from, but the villagers of Zhulin Village didn't rely on farming for their livelihood.

That’s it, all the villagers in Zhulin Village have a kind of bandit spirit.

Li Yan saw the villagers standing behind Zhu Lei, looking at the patrol team with a covetous look on their faces.

He believed that if Village Chief Zhu had not spoken, they would have been beaten to the ground.

Soon, Village Chief Li followed Wang Erniu to the village entrance, and they were accompanied by other villagers, including men, women, young and old.

Everyone was very tired after a day's work, but the village chief urgently rang the gong, saying that someone was causing trouble.

How can they tolerate someone causing trouble? They have finally seen a glimmer of hope and their lives have become a little better, how can they tolerate others destroying their lives?

Without the village chief's words, everyone picked up their weapons and ran towards the village entrance.

When Zhu Lei saw Village Chief Li bringing people over, he did not show any unhappiness on his face. Instead, he greeted Village Chief Li with a smile.

"Hey, Village Chief Li is here."

"Zhu Lei, our Xinghua Village and Zhulin Village don't usually have much contact, what are you doing?"

"Hey, Village Chief Li, what are you talking about? What do you mean by no contact? We are all villagers of Qingshan Town, living on the same land, and we are all fellow villagers. Why are you saying no contact? You can't say that."

When Village Chief Li heard this, he became so angry that he couldn't stand still for a while.

"Village chief, be careful."

Wang Erniu, who went to inform the village chief, happened to be standing nearby and supported Village Chief Li.

Village chief Li looked at Zhu Lei. Even if he wanted to drive him away, he couldn't say it rashly.

When he saw Zhu Lei again, he still couldn't understand how Zhu Lei could be so thick-skinned as to say again that they were all from the same village.

If he really cared that they were all from Qingshan Town, he would never have brought people to the village to steal things.

That's right, it was robbery. He clearly remembered that twenty years ago, there was a heavy snowstorm and every household in the village had no food to eat.

In order to get something to eat, the young men in the village gathered together and went hunting in the mountains.

But the mountains were blocked by heavy snow, and many prey either hibernated in their dens or went deep into the mountains, so it was not easy to find prey.

Besides, there had been a heavy snowstorm and the mountains were covered with white snow. It was easy to get lost if you were not careful, and it was very difficult to find your way out.

But even knowing this, it couldn't stop everyone from going up the mountain, because if they couldn't get food, many people would starve to death.

He remembered that his family was in the same situation, not much better. He was still young at the time, so he naturally joined the hunting team in the mountains.

More than 30 people went up the mountain together and stayed there for three days and two nights. When they were about to finish the dry food they brought, they had to go down the mountain and encountered five wild boars who were out foraging for food.

They were not too happy to see the wild boar because they knew how ferocious it was. Even though there were more than 30 of them, their physical fitness had already declined a lot due to long-term hunger. In addition, they had walked a lot in the past few days in the mountains, so everyone was tired and hungry and had little strength.

Fortunately, the mountain was blocked by heavy snow and the wild boars had not eaten for a long time, but everyone worked together to release five wild boars.

At that time, they all felt that they were saved. As long as they brought the five wild boars down the mountain, the villagers could survive.

With this belief, more than 30 people, exhausted and hungry, managed to drive the wild boar down the mountain.