"We are short of manpower, so we let prisoners with good performance be team leaders."

As he spoke, he kicked the team leader in prison clothes and asked, "Why does Xiao Yuetong have blood bubbles in her mouth?"

"Are you still covered in wounds?" Zi Sangyu asked sternly, stepping on his kneeling back.

The team leader replied with a trembling voice: "She...she...she always fails to complete the tasks and never finishes the work given to her. And...and...she still wants to drink water, so I gave her some...boiled...water that day."

"Drink boiled water?" Zi Sangyu ordered the warden: "Go, prepare a cup of boiled water for him to drink!"

The warden ordered someone to bring a glass of boiling water.

Zi Sangyu said, "Give him the drink."

Two jailers, one was prying open his mouth while the other was pouring liquid into his mouth. The team leader's screams were more unpleasant than a pig being slaughtered.

Zi Sangyu then asked him, "Did you break her arm too?"

The team leader's mouth was so burned that he couldn't speak.

The warden slapped him in the face and said, "The prince is asking you a question. He asked you to be the team leader. Is this how you act?"

"A ten-year-old girl couldn't complete the task, how dare you say that. Tell me! How did your arm break?" Zi Sangyu scolded harshly.

The team leader was so scared that he lay on the ground, not daring to raise his head, and said vaguely: "Yes... I broke it with my foot... Your Majesty, please spare my life... spare my life..."

Zi Sangyu stepped on one of his arms, and with a "crack" sound, he fainted with a scream.

On the way back, Xiao Yueyue was arranged by Xiao Yuehan to ride in Zi Sangyu's big carriage.

She was very sensible and cooperated with Xiao Yuehan's treatment and care.

That little look in her eyes was full of gratitude, and it felt like she had really grown up.

The more sensible she became, the sadder Xiao Yuehan became. She thought of herself, who was sent to the farm at a younger age.

This is a past that is too painful to look back on.

Of course, she knew very well that Xiao Yueyue had suffered much more in Yazhou than she had.

It must be this endless suffering that made her sensible and grow up.

That day, Xiao Yuehan applied the medicine on her arm, and after she drank the medicine soup, he shook the medicine powder into her mouth.

After applying medicine for several days, most of the blood blisters in her mouth have disappeared.

She can already speak. After applying the medicine that day, she said to Xiao Yuehan: "Sister, are you really the fairy sister?"

Xiao Yuehan looked at her lovingly and said, "Why?"

"Because you knew I was sick, and you came to save me."

Xiao Yuehan looked into her watery eyes and said, "It was your father who sent me a letter that made me realize that you were seriously ill."

"Did Daddy ask you to save me? It's hard for me to see them in there. I'm always alone in one place, with the adults."

She said as she stared blankly at the roof of the carriage.

"Oh, you haven't been with your family all this time?"

"No, I haven't seen them since I came here, nor have I seen Dad."

Xiao Yuehan helped her up and leaned her against the snow-white and soft fox fur.

Said: "It's all in the past, let's not think about those unhappy days anymore, okay?

After you go back, you will live with your sister and she will take care of you, okay?"

"Okay. Thank you, sister." She looked at Xiao Yuehan gratefully, her cute little face full of gratitude.

She paused and continued, "It's fine for me to live with my sister. I don't need her care. I can do things."

Seeing that she had spoken, Xiao Yuehan wanted to talk to her more, so he said:

"So, tell me, what can you do?"

"I can cook. I worked in the canteen in prison. I peeled a lot of potatoes every day and fetched a lot of water from the well."

"anything else?"

"I can also empty the toilet. I am the one who empties the toilets in many of our rooms.

In fact, my favorite place to stay is the kitchen.

Although I start peeling potatoes before dawn every day and continue until nightfall.

But during that time I was able to eat my fill, and if I wasn't, I could secretly eat some rotten beans and corn.

Sometimes I would get caught and beaten, but I still wanted to be there.

Later on, I don’t know why they didn’t want me to work in the canteen anymore, and asked me to go to the construction site to quarry stones.

If I couldn’t finish the ten frames of stones I was required to break every day, I would be beaten, and I was beaten almost every day.”

When she said this, her eyes became dim.

Xiao Yuehan didn't know that a child had to do so many things, so she hugged her in her arms with heartache.

She said, "It's all over now. You won't have to live such a hard life anymore. I didn't visit you in time, and you suffered so much."

Having said this, she choked up and couldn't continue.

The noise coming from outside the carriage caused it to stop.

Xiao Yuehan and Zi Sangyu got out of the car together to see what was going on.

As a result, we have now arrived at the place where the road is blocked by Wang Laosi's big rock.

Zi Sangyu saw at a glance that Wang Laosi was leading a group of people blocking the road, but this time there were no big stones, but several large baskets placed in the middle of the road.

Ye Chun brought some people with him and was talking to him.

As soon as he saw Zi Sangyu, he ran over and said, "Your Majesty, I am waiting for you to come back."

Then he pointed at the large baskets and said, "There's nothing valuable in this big mountain.

I cannot offer the things I found here as gifts to Your Majesty, so I caught some wild animals from the forests and mountains. Please accept them, Your Majesty."

While listening to him, Zi Sangyu walked towards the basket and took a look. It was full of dried goods such as wild boars and other wild animals.

He said, "I am an official appointed by the imperial court. How can I ask you, a bandit, to pay me tribute? How is that different from colluding with bandits? Are you harming me? Or are you paying me tribute?"

Having said this, without even looking at him, he turned around and continued, "Just save your breath and get out of my way." He was very arrogant.

Wang Laosi followed Zi Sangyu with his head bowed and said, "Your Majesty, please try some of our mountain products.

It's that simple, how can it be connected with collusion with bandits? Besides, if you don't tell me and I don't tell you, how can the court know?

I just want to show my respect to the prince, nothing else."

Zi Sangyu thought this guy was really annoying and didn't want to say more to him. He looked at Ye Chun.

Ye Chun immediately understood what the prince meant, and took a few people with him to carry his baskets aside.

The large group of people continued to move forward with a clatter of foot, raising a cloud of dust.

Wang Laosi looked at the team that was getting farther and farther away, and made a clicking sound: "Hey~ Look at this team, how majestic..."

Then he turned around to look at his own team and said with disdain: "Look at us, look at us, what do we look like? We don't even have clothes on."

He walked up to one of his men and sniffed his clothes.

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