"Your Highness, Ai Yun and I know that you have a kind heart, but not everyone is as kind-hearted as you and will do all they can to protect others. What's more, the shelter cannot provide them with safe haven for long. These women lack a sense of belonging, and once they leave, they will have nowhere to go; and if those who have hurt them come to make trouble or beg for mercy again, the guards may be bribed or let them go out of courtesy. In this way, they may be forced to return to the clutches of evil. Even if such shelters are set up across the country, they may eventually become a formality and fail to be effective." Zhu Yu said with a serious face as he stood in front of Prince Jing.

Prince Jing fell into deep thought. He knew in his heart that this plan was not the best one. Otherwise, why would he have thought hard about several alternative plans and wanted to discuss them with him?

At this time, Ai Yun said softly: "Your Highness, you care about the people, but your personal power is limited after all. Let's focus on the present and save these suffering women from the dire straits. As for the future, I am willing to do my best to realize it step by step with Mr. Xiaoyao."

After hearing this, Zhu Yu nodded repeatedly to show his agreement: "Count me in! I own many farms and we need a great need for female workers. I hope that Your Majesty can give us some other assistance when we need it." No one spoke for a while and the whole scene fell into silence.

After a long time, Prince Jing finally sighed deeply, nodded slowly and said: "Then let's do as you say."

As soon as she finished speaking, Zhu Yu was so excited that she almost jumped up. She quickly jumped up from her chair and ran to Prince Jing's side in two steps. She filled a cup of hot tea for him with a flattering look on her face and said with a smile: "Your Highness is wise! To express my gratitude, after meeting Mr. Xiaoyao tomorrow, I will cook for you a dish of deep-fried river shrimp, a bowl of Maoxuewang, and a piece of exquisite and delicious cake."

Recently, Prince Jing often came to Zhu Yu for meals. After a while, Zhu Yu gradually understood Prince Jing's taste. It turned out that this unique prince had a special liking for spicy food and especially liked sweets. So Zhu Yu specially recommended a few dishes that suited Prince Jing's taste, thinking that this time he would be able to satisfy his unique taste buds.

In fact, Zhu Yu knew very well that the two of them were acting without authorization. After returning to the capital, Prince Jing would face enormous pressure from the emperor. As of now, although Prince Jing didn't pay much attention to him and was even a little in love, he was generally a good person, at least far from those crazy and irrational lunatics.

However, at this moment, as Prince Jing looked at Zhu Yu's fawning face, a strange and twisted thought suddenly emerged in his heart: he really wanted to send Zhu Yu into this world of mortals himself to experience the sufferings and tortures of the world, so that she would never be able to smile as brilliantly as she does now, and she would completely lose the protection of her father and Zhu Wenyun and would no longer be this beautiful and noble woman in the world.

"I also want to eat goose stewed in an iron pot."

When Zhu Yu heard this, he responded immediately, "Okay, okay, I'll go back and tell the servants to buy it. I promise to clean the goose tomorrow morning and wait for us to come back and stew it."

These were just trivial matters to Zhu Yu. At this moment, as long as Prince Jing was happy, it would not matter even if she had to kill her beloved pet clown Jijiu that she had just bought a few days ago.

The clown was a little duckling she had spotted by chance when she went out a few days ago. It was furry and yellow, very adorable, especially the tuft of slightly stubborn hair on its head, which made Zhu Yu fall in love with it at first sight when she passed by a stall selling ducklings. There was no special reason why she chose to buy it, but when she was a child, she heard from her elders that ducklings of this appearance would lay a lot of eggs when they grow up, and this excellent trait is often hereditary. So, with such expectations, Zhu Yu bought it without hesitation.

However, if Yu Wen, who was in charge of taking care of the clown, knew that Zhu Yu bought the clown for this reason, he would be furious. After all, the poultry-raising woman in the mansion once told him that the so-called clown was actually a drake! A drake! How does it lay eggs? What kind of eggs does it lay? A bastard?

In the courtyard where the servants rested, Yu Wen was sitting quietly on a stone in the courtyard, staring at the clown who was catching insects to eat, and fell into deep thought. It had been a while since he was reborn. During this time, he had been following Zhu Yu and Ai Yun and had been with them for some time.

His view of Zhu Yu and Ai Yun has changed subtly. At first, he was suspicious of them and thought they had ulterior motives, but as time went on, this view gradually changed. Now, he feels that although their origins are mysterious, they do not seem to have any ill intentions towards Prince Jing.

Apart from the cases, these two people usually spend their time either exploring delicious food or going shopping. In contrast, Ai Yun is a little different. She occasionally studies Chinese herbs and various bottles and jars alone in her house. Even insects have to take a detour when passing by her room.

If these two people intended to murder Prince Jing, it would be easy to do.

Now that it was clear that they had no bad intentions, Yu Wen was no longer willing to stay by their side. Who would want a grown man to stay with two women and play around like a duck after his rebirth?

He has been looking for the right time recently to go to Prince Jing and follow him to protect him. If he really can't get what he wants, then he will confess the truth to Prince Jing and return to his family to become a free and easy prince.

In this life, he had no intention of fighting for the power and status that belonged to his nephew again.

After all, he had already experienced the supreme throne and found it boring. Instead of doing this, it would be more interesting to devote himself to something he is truly passionate about.

What exactly was it that made him yearn for it? In fact, since he was a child, he had an idea buried deep in his heart - to improve all kinds of existing weapons.

In his long military career in his previous life, he had personally come into contact with countless weapons, but he always felt that they were not satisfactory when used. Countless more sophisticated ideas and concepts emerged in his mind, but unfortunately, the heavy and trivial government affairs and the continuous struggles after seizing power made him too busy to take care of this matter. Now, he decided to give it a try.

I heard that Zhu Yu would cook for Prince Jing himself tomorrow. And at that time, Zhang Ling, who was punished beside Prince Jing, would also return to work. In this way, he could take the opportunity to pretend to help, chat with Zhang Ling and test whether there was an opportunity. Thinking of this, Yu Wen's mood improved a little, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

The clown in the distance seemed to sense something, twisting its round body and running towards Yu Wen. Yu Wen stared at its yellow and naive appearance, and couldn't help but feel a little pity for it. He thought to himself: "This little guy is quite lovable. When he grows up, maybe he can cook it into a delicious braised dish."

The clown was completely unaware of this. He ran up to him, pecked at the tip of Yu Wen's shoe a few times, then found it boring and walked away again, twisting his waist.

The next morning, just as the sun rose, Prince Jing, Zhu Yu and Ai Yun appeared near the tea stall again. The carriage slowly stopped, Ai Yun got off the horse briskly, waved to the two of them, and then walked nimbly towards the tea stall.

It was still early, and the tea stall was located in a remote area, outside the city. There were only a few people sitting at the neatly arranged tables. The morning sun was soft and bright, shining on the tea stall, casting a light golden glow on the people. The breeze blew gently, bringing a hint of fresh grass fragrance and a faint tea aroma. All the scenes in front of me made people feel unreal.

Ai Yun squinted her eyes slightly and looked over. She could roughly make out from the figures that Mr. Xiaoyao was sitting with another person at the table closest to her. The two of them seemed to be drinking tea very leisurely.

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