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

The second lady of the prime minister's mansion is the future princess consort of Prince Chen. Even if the grain is handed over to Prince Chen, I believe Zhu Lei would not dare to embezzle it.

But just because he was willing to have the grain taken away didn't mean he didn't want the money.

All these grains were bought by him from Li Mengyue on behalf of the village. Even if it was only two cents per pound, it still cost money.

What's more, the village is now building reservoirs and digging rivers, and money is needed everywhere. The key is that the money spent will not be less every day. He dare not even think about how much money it will cost to build the reservoir.

But now every penny spent in the village is borrowed from Li Mengyue.

Another point is that in addition to Xinghua Village borrowing money, the same thing happened to the six villages of Lianhua Village, Taohua Village, Shitou Village, Guihua Village, Meihua Village, and Zhoujia Village.

Since the other six villages caught locusts every day and sold them to Li's family, and later followed them to various counties to eliminate locusts, the relationship between the seven villages became closer and closer.

Even the construction of the reservoir and the digging of the canal were done by the joint efforts of the seven villages, so all the money spent by the seven villages was paid by Li Mengyue.

Although the money for building the reservoir and digging the canal was lent to everyone by Li Mengyue, it still needs to be repaid in the future.

None of them is stupid. The village is so poor that they have no idea when they can earn enough money to return to Li Mengyue.

Even though Li Mengyue said that the village’s income would increase after the market was built, there was no need to worry about not being able to pay back the money.

But the seven village heads all believed that Li Mengyue said this to comfort them. Even if the market built in the village was big, it would not make money if no one traded.

Besides, if the villagers want to make money from the market, the only way is to collect stall fees.

But which businessman would be willing to rent a stall in a village market? Even if he rents it for a month and can't sell the goods, how could he continue to rent it?

If no one renews the lease, there will naturally be no income. Without income, the village has no other way to make money.

After all, it is difficult for people to even have enough to eat, let alone earn extra money to pay off their debts.

In other words, Li Mengyue paid for the construction of the reservoir for everyone. He believed that Li Mengyue must have known about this, but she still did it without hesitation, which moved him beyond words.

But now the grain that Li Mengyue sold to the village at a low price will be taken away by the people of Zhulin Village. Although the grain is for the soldiers under King Chen, he has never thought of not asking for money.

Even if we can't protect the food, we can't let Li Mengyue lose more money.

"Village Chief Zhu, you took all the food away and said it was for the King of Chen. We accepted it, but you can't not pay."

"Here, who said we wouldn't give it to you? Here's fifty taels of silver. Take it."

Liu Quan took out a bag of silver from his arms and threw it directly at Village Chief Li.

However, Village Chief Li was caught off guard and failed to catch the silver, so it fell to the ground. Village Chief Li bent down, picked up the silver, and then spoke seriously.

"There are 20,000 catties of grain in the warehouse. One catty costs two cents, so 40 taels of silver will be enough."

After saying that, he took out ten taels of silver and handed it to Liu Quan, but Liu Quan did not take it.

He didn't care about the mere ten taels of silver. Since he got so much food from Xinghua Village, he would regard the ten taels of silver as a reward.

"Take it, it's a reward from Master Liu."

Village Chief Li insisted on not taking it, and the silver was grabbed by Zhu Lei.

"Master Liu, even though Village Chief Li doesn't want it, you don't have to give him face. You can give me these ten taels of silver."

"Okay, you can use it to hold your grandson's funeral."

"Okay, okay, thank you, Master Liu. If Si Jin knew about this, he would definitely thank you, Master Liu."

"No, don't thank me."

Liu Quan always liked to hear flattery, but he felt uncomfortable with Zhu Lei's flattery. He didn't want the thanks of a dead person.

Zhu Lei pretended not to understand and quickly put the silver in his arms.

He was still thinking in his mind that this trip was quite rewarding. Although he lost a grandson, he also got a lot of food.

Although he knew that it was impossible for all this food to remain in Zhulin Village, most of it would be taken away by Master Liu.

But what does that matter? Didn't Master Liu say before that the second young lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion is the future princess consort of Prince Chen? What he did was equivalent to doing things for Prince Chen.

He was just a small village chief. Without someone's introduction, he would never be able to meet the King of Chen in his lifetime, let alone work for him.

Now, he is about to board the King Chen's ship, and will be the King Chen's man from now on. He can have any woman he wants.

He had heard from others that many wealthy men could still have children when they were sixty years old.

But he is only in his fifties now, so he can continue to have sons. If he has a son, would he still be worried about not having grandchildren?

Anyway, Sijin has no special abilities, is lazy and likes to fight and cause trouble. Even if he dislikes him, he has to keep him around because Sijin is the root of the Zhu family.

Now, Si Jin’s death can bring him such great benefits, so it can be said that his death was not in vain.

Liu Quanke had no idea what Zhu Lei was thinking, he only knew that the 20,000 kilograms of grain from Xinghua Village was not enough, and they needed another 30,000 kilograms.

But it doesn’t matter, there is still food in the six villages of Lianhua Village, Taohua Village, Shitou Village, Guihua Village, Meihua Village, and Zhoujia Village.

"How much food is left in the warehouse?"

"To reply Master Liu, it's almost gone."

"Well, hurry up, we still have to go to other villages."

"Yes, Master Liu, please go to the side and take a rest first. It will take less than an incense stick to finish."

Zhu Lei finished speaking to Liu Quan in a flattering manner, then his face darkened. "Why are you doing so slowly? Hurry up, don't keep Master Liu waiting anxiously."

The people in Zhulin Village have always listened to Zhu Lei and did not have any strong feelings about his attitude. Instead, they invisibly sped up the pace of carrying food.

Soon, not a single grain of food was left in the warehouse.

Village chief Li looked at the empty granary, staggered and fell, spitting out blood.

"Dad, what's wrong with you? Why are you vomiting blood?"

"Doctor, quickly get Doctor Yang here to check on my father."

"Quick, quick, lift up the village chief."

"Don't scare me, old man. What's wrong with you?"

Zhou Juan was so frightened when she saw her old man fainted that she started to cry.

The people of Xinghua Village had no time to feel sad about the empty granary, as they all became anxious about the death of the village chief.

Everyone was panicking when they saw Village Chief Li fainting and vomiting blood.

Some people were howling for a doctor, while others were busy helping Village Chief Li.

As for the chaos in Xinghua Village, the people in Zhulin Village began to gloat over it and cursed Village Chief Li for what he deserved.

But it was in this chaos that a girl's voice rang out.

"what happened?"

Not only the villagers in Xinghua Village, but also the villagers in the other six villages felt very aggrieved when they saw the newcomers.

Some women with low tear points began to sob, and for a while the warehouse was filled with crying sounds.