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

Their village is currently experiencing a shortage of food. Now that he knows that the seven villages of Xinghua Village, Lianhua Village, and Zhoujia Village have obtained large amounts of food from other places, it would not be Zhu Lei's style not to take some back.

He was thinking of starting from Zhoujia Village, but Master Liu disagreed and insisted that he start with Xinghua Village first.

He said that the prerequisite for him to introduce him to the second lady of the prime minister's mansion was not only to help him get 50,000 kilograms of grain, but also to destroy Li Mengyue.

It's not like he hasn't heard of Li Mengyue. Some time ago, the villagers told him that there was a girl in Xinghua Village who had lost her innocence and was doing business of frying locusts. They asked if they should go to the fields to catch locusts and bring them to Xinghua Village to sell.

At that time, he directly scolded the villagers, saying that they were not so poor that they had no food to eat, so why did they need to sell locusts? They refused to catch them. He also said that they were all grown men, and how could they catch locusts and sell them to a girl who had lost her innocence like this? How could they be so depraved? As the village chief, he would never allow the villagers to have any intersection with Xinghua Village.

Everyone in their village listened to him. He said that no one was allowed to catch locusts. As expected, adults and children did nothing every day. They just watched the locusts flying around in the fields and would not catch a single one.

What he didn't expect was that the girl called Li Mengyue by the villagers not only relied on the locust trade to greatly improve the living standards of the seven villages, even surpassing Zhulin Village, but also attracted the attention of nobles in Beijing.

When he heard Li Mengyue's name from Master Liu again, he knew he was wrong and should not have taken Li Mengyue's locust collection seriously.

The key point was that he later asked someone to find out who Li Mengyue was and how she could come up with the idea of ​​bombing locusts.

Upon learning that Li Mengyue was the biological daughter of Li An and his wife from Xinghua Village who was swapped, he immediately felt that Li Mengyue must have had a very hard life in the past, otherwise how could she even eat locusts.

She even had the crazy idea of ​​frying locusts and selling them. Even if she dared to do it, would anyone dare to buy it? So he treated it as a joke and didn't take it seriously.

It was not until just before the locust plague came that someone went to their village and said that a locust plague was about to come and that the rice should be harvested in advance that he found it ridiculous.

The rice will be harvested in a dozen days. Even if the crops in their village are not well grown, they know how much loss will be caused by harvesting early.

Not to mention that he was unwilling, the villagers would not do so either. As a result, a locust plague really came and ate up all the crops in their village.

Only then did he realize what a big mistake he had made. Hundreds of acres of land in the entire village were swept away by locusts, leaving him with absolutely no harvest.

But even if the grain harvest from the fields was not much in previous years, they still had other ways to make a living, so they would not be unable to see a single grain of food.

He knew that the whole village listened to him and no one dared to contradict him because he could lead everyone to survive.

But what the villagers didn't know was that although he was brave, he also needed to know where the food was before he could bring people back.

But as far as he knew, a locust plague had hit not only the entire Qingshan Prefecture, but also Yongkang Prefecture, and everyone was out of food. Even if he had extraordinary abilities, he could not create food out of thin air.

But they can't live without food. The villagers listen to him because he has the ability to ensure that everyone has enough food to eat.

No matter what means he uses, as long as the people of Zhulin Village don't go hungry, it's fine.

He would have been able to deal with this in previous years, but not this year, because there was no food anywhere and he couldn't take out money to go to the town to buy food.

Not to mention that he doesn't have that much silver, even if he did, he would never spend it on the villagers.

Just as he was getting anxious and angry about this matter, what he didn't expect was that his grandson Zhu Sijin brought a man back home, who was Mr. Liu, a subordinate of the second lady of the prime minister's mansion.

Although he looked down on Master Liu, he knew that Master Liu represented the second young lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

The Prime Minister's Mansion was of such a prominent family. Not only had he not dared to think about it before, he had never even heard of it.

And now he actually has the opportunity to enter the sight of the second young lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion. How can he not be surprised?

If he could get an appointment with the second young lady, I believe the Zhu family would be able to change its fortunes in no time, which would be a real blessing for the family.

Therefore, he had to seize this opportunity no matter what, since Xinghua Village and the other six villages were all related to Li Mengyue.

Li Mengyue is someone that Mr. Liu wants to deal with. In other words, she is someone that the Second Miss wants to deal with. He will naturally spare no effort to help the Second Miss achieve her wish and make sure that Li Mengyue will never be able to "jump around" again.

He wanted to see whether Xinghua Village would allow Li Mengyue to live in the village in the future, as the seven villages had all suffered food losses due to Li Mengyue's influence, and whether the other six villages would lend a helping hand.

He believed that it would not happen. It was absolutely impossible. After all, people are selfish. They would think that if it weren't for Li Mengyue, the food would not have been stolen and they would not starve.

When Zhu Lei thought about how he and his family would be very successful in the future, move to the capital, and work for the second young lady of the prime minister's mansion, he couldn't suppress his excitement and his face turned red.

The people in Xinghua Village across the street didn't know why Zhu Lei's face was blushing with excitement. They only knew that Zhu Lei brought people here to steal their food.

Although the grain was purchased from Li Mengyue by the village chief in the name of the village, it will not be distributed to every household.

But they knew that even if the grain was kept in the village warehouse, it would eventually end up in the hands of the villagers and would be no different from their own food, so they had to protect it at all costs.

Another point is that they also heard about what happened twenty years ago from the old man.

At that time, Zhu Lei led people to rob five wild boars from the village. When the villagers went to get them back, not only did they fail to get the wild boars back, they were also beaten.

Twenty years passed. When everyone in Xinghua Village heard about this, they were furious and wanted to fight with the people in Zhulin Village immediately to avenge what happened twenty years ago.

However, he was stopped by Village Chief Li. Village Chief Li knew very well what kind of people were in Zhulin Village. They were worse than bandits. Talking to them for reason was no more realistic than dreaming in the daytime.

In addition, Zhulin Village has never lacked food and drink over the years, and the villagers have grown very strong, while the people in their village are too thin and small. If a fight really breaks out, they will never be a match for Zhulin Village.

He was waiting, waiting for Wang Erniu to come and save him.

But not everything goes as one wishes. Village chief Li can stop the villagers from taking action immediately, but he cannot stop them from venting their dissatisfaction.

So the people of Xinghua Village started talking about Zhulin Village.

"Village chief, the people of Zhulin Village are shameless. We can't give them food."

"Yes, village chief, the food is life-saving food given to us by Li Mengyue. Although our village has paid for it, if it weren't for Li Mengyue, where would we get the food? We can't let Li Mengyue down."