Traveling through famine: The space peasant girl

"Second brother, I don't care what you want to do. Except for your wife, all the people in your house were taken in by you. Even your concubine was personally selected by the queen. Are you doubting the princess I chose for you? Are you saying that I am old and my choice is not good, or are you doubting your mother's ability to choose people?"

"You should check your own house carefully. It's a mess like a sieve, with holes everywhere. How can you have the nerve to blame your brother? Today, I will not bother with you because of your damaged health. If it happens again, don't blame your father for being merciless."

After the emperor finished speaking, he left and returned to the imperial study, leaving the second prince dumbfounded. This was not the result he expected. He did not expect that the current emperor still believed in the prince. He was so angry that his teeth were itching. His mother was also the queen, and he was also the legitimate son.

Why can't I fight for that position? Why is my eldest brother the crown prince when he was born? Why? Is it because he is the legitimate son of the Empress?

The second prince didn’t understand why the emperor was so partial. It was obviously the crown prince who was the emperor, but he still favored the crown prince. Was it just because he was not the son of Empress Yuan?

The raging anger in the second prince's eyes burned away his reason. He no longer wanted to think about anything and let the emperor make the decision. He now wanted to be the emperor himself. Who doesn't want to hold the real power in his own hands?

Perhaps only by becoming the emperor can he force the prince to hand over the antidote to his poison. If he relies solely on that biased old man, he probably won't be able to get the antidote in this lifetime.

The second prince knew very well that even if the emperor hated the prince, he would not depose him. Even after the prince's three legitimate children were born, he severely punished the queen, but he did not let the prince know. But why? His mother was obviously the queen, but she was still oppressed by a dead person. If he became the emperor, he would definitely cut the body of the bitch, the Yuan Empress, into pieces and scatter her bones and ashes.

Although he was already dead, she still controlled all the emperor's thoughts. He should not have let him die so easily, and should not have tortured her and then killed him. Otherwise, the hatred in his heart would be difficult to dispel.

The prince began to read memorials in the imperial study. These local officials were really spoiled by the emperor. They did not write down the problems found in various places, but only cared about singing the praises of the current emperor. They wanted to compare the current emperor to a tyrant and the courtiers under him had become villains who fawned on the powerful.

Sometimes I want to laugh when reading some memorials. It is obvious that those natural disasters and man-made disasters can no longer be covered up, but they are still trying their best to whitewash it. I want the emperor to see a peaceful and prosperous era.

The prince picked out those memorials praising the emperor's merits one by one and put them aside. These were specifically for the emperor to read, as he really could not bear to read them. The prince specifically read those memorials that described the disaster situation and how the refugees were arranged, as well as those memorials to places where the court had clearly sent people to deliver disaster relief silver, but the local officials did not receive it and still submitted memorials to the court requesting disaster relief.

The prince actually knew that there were some tricks involved, but he did not expect that these people would be so bold and presumptuous that even the local officials did not receive any disaster relief money, and they just embezzled it all.

Even if the emperor saw these memorials, he would not take them seriously, so the prince did not even hand them to him and handled them himself.

The prince carefully looked at the imperial envoys sent for disaster relief. Most of them were students of the Prime Minister's Office, the second prince's wife's family, and the people working under the second prince.

Looking at these people, it seems that the Second Prince and the Prime Minister have joined forces, otherwise they would not have kept it secret so well. The prince closed his eyes, allowing his thoughts to calm down. Although he was gentle, he was not a good person. What he discovered today would definitely implicate him.

The Second Prince had calculated that he would not fail to save the Crown Princess, and would not let the people in the Prime Minister's Office fall, so he deliberately dragged the people in the Eastern Palace into the water.

The emperor glanced at the prince who was handling the case, the memorials he had selected, and the memorials he was approving. The emperor understood in his heart that the prince's idea now was that there were man-made disasters and natural disasters happening everywhere, so how much silver and food could the court send for disaster relief?

King Cheng said that huge stone balls with extremely high temperatures would fall every month and destroy all the newly built gatehouses and tile houses. The weather was even drier and the fields were barren. It was difficult to get water in the north now, as it was like a bottomless pit. Floods occurred in the south of the Yangtze River, and the rain kept falling, as if there was a hole in the sky. There was so much rain that people could not live a normal life. The fields and houses were also washed away, and now the people could only hide in the mountains to avoid the heavy rain.

Jiangnan is a place with singing birds and fragrant flowers, but now the people are living in misery because of the floods. People are dying everywhere, and refugees are running around, and it is impossible to stop them. Now there is no place that has not been affected by the disaster.

Even Qiongdao and Yazhou are experiencing constant riots. Ningguta and other places in the remote north are also suffering from terribly droughts. It is simply alarmist to say that the land has cracked due to the sun.

There is severe drought in the north, floods in the south, and even hail and light snow have fallen in the remote northwest and southeast areas. But it is already June, and normally the seedlings should have grown a lot taller by now. In those places where it is snowing and hail, crops cannot grow at all.

Although the emperor was unreliable, he did have information channels. He just didn't think the situation was serious. These people just wanted to cry poor to him.

Naturally, the prince was too disdainful to explain to the emperor, otherwise the emperor would try to unite the local people to set a trap for him.

The prince has now understood the entire situation and will not easily leave any handle for the emperor. The emperor's mind is no longer on the people, so why bother himself with this trouble?

Now that he is the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace, the only thing he has to do is to stabilize the court officials and be compassionate to the people. There is not much he can do, so he can only try his best. He only hopes that he can leave a record in history books in the future, rather than being licentious and immoral.

Although the prince was a bit eccentric, he was still supported by many people. The exiled Zhang family followed him unwaveringly. He believed that only the prince appointed by the emperor was qualified to inherit the throne, and no one else was. So he never took sides easily.

But he was still implicated and exiled because of his previous military power. However, the Zhang family was not in a hurry. Their daughter was in the Eastern Palace and was the concubine of the Eastern Palace prince. She gave birth to the third son. After the prince ascended the throne, even if he could not become the emperor, he could be an idle prince.

Therefore, they were not worried about their daughter's safety. Instead, when they were just convicted and imprisoned, they directly severed ties with their granddaughter who was in the Eastern Palace.

Zhang Tao did not want to implicate his granddaughter, and his parents were even more so. They would rather take all the underage children in the family and leave the capital and go to Qiongdao Island than let their daughter follow them to suffer.

At this time, the Zhang family did not know that after they arrived at Qiong Island, their daughter gave them a gift, but they were not the first to receive the gift.

Wang Shiyu and the Wang family were hurrying along, because they were now in the middle of a dense forest, and it was not easy to walk, so they picked up some firewood while walking and asked Wang Shiyu to put it away.

Wang Shiyu also saved a lot of firewood along the way. If the weather suddenly dropped in temperature and it rained, they would not be helpless and could use it directly.

The sun was still very hot this morning. Wang Shiyu looked up at the sky through the branches. The cloudless, blue sky was very beautiful. If it wasn't so dry and hot, Wang Shiyu would probably have wanted to take out her cell phone to take a picture of it. It was so beautiful.

She had never seen such a beautiful sky before. Only in the ancient times without pollution could one see such a beautiful sky, so blue.

At this time, the adults had all woken up and started preparing breakfast. Wang Shiyu roughly calculated that the time was between three and four in the morning. She didn't expect that the sky was already so bright. It would have been a little cool in the morning when she just got up, but since they left Luojia Village, it has not been cool in the morning. Now lying on the tree, she could feel a stickiness on her body and it was very hot and uncomfortable.

After climbing down the tree, this morning's meal was millet porridge with eggs and steamed buns. This breakfast was really delicious. It was only because they were far away from human habitation that they dared to eat it like this. Otherwise, they would have just had a black pancake.

Because the millet porridge was cooked by the person who was on guard last night, it was just the right temperature to drink now, neither too cold nor too hot. Wang Shiyu held the millet porridge in her hand and drank it slowly, looking at the weeds around her. For some reason, she felt very nervous and could sense the danger coming.

But looking around, there was nothing that made her so nervous, so Wang Shiyu just kept looking around. Even other people in the family noticed that Wang Shiyu was absent-minded.

"Xiaoyu, what happened?"

The old man was peeling an egg in his hand and asked casually, his granddaughter seemed to be a little strange, as if she was nervous and frightened by something.

Wang Shiyu frowned, and looked around nervously with his tanned face. The feeling of fear that made him feel had not gone away.

"Grandpa, I don't know why, but I feel a little cold, and I have the illusion that something is staring at me."

The old man's hand that was peeling the egg paused for a moment, and he looked around with his sharp eyes, but didn't find anything. However, it was indeed a little eerie how quiet it was. He peeled the egg in a few seconds and stuffed it directly into his mouth.

Before, there were always some howling sounds of wild animals, but since they got up, they haven't heard any of them. It's as if there are no wild animals nearby. It's really a bit unusual.

"Pack up and let's go now. We are deep in the mountains now and it is really a little scary how quiet it is."

When the family heard this, they quickly started to clean up and put out the fire. After making sure that the fire was completely out, they carried their children and luggage on their backs and walked forward quickly.

They did not stop to rest the whole day and kept walking quickly. Even when their feet were exhausted, they did not stop, as if something was chasing them.

After walking for a day, the feeling of being spied on gradually disappeared, as if someone was watching them in the dark.

In the morning, the family members did not notice this feeling, but as they walked, the feeling became stronger and stronger. It seemed that they were coveting something, so they did not attack them and let them leave this area.

When they slightly reached the edge of the deep mountains, they lost this feeling.

Wang Shiyu looked back curiously a few times, but didn't find anything else. She just felt as if she had escaped death.

In fact, Wang Shiyu didn't know that she had escaped a disaster. When they were having breakfast in the morning, two snakes nearly 30 meters long were looking at the family of eight with their dark eyes.

They originally wanted to swallow them directly, but they discovered that their natural enemies were circling in the sky, waiting for them to hunt with all their strength, so as to give them a fatal blow. This allowed Wang Shiyu and the others to escape.

Otherwise, this more than 30-meter-long snake would have swept them away at random, and they would probably have died immediately. Even if the old man and the Wang brothers had high martial arts skills, they could not save so many weak women and children.

The name of this mountain is Shili Mountain. Although it is called Shili Mountain, the forest here is far more than ten miles, and there are many legends about ghosts and monsters. It is said that there are snakes hundreds of meters long, tigers thousands of meters long, and eagles that can cover an entire city with their wings spread.

These were spread by people who had mistakenly entered the mountains in the past. In addition, many people formed teams to go into the mountains to hunt, but they all stayed in the mountains, causing these rumors to become more and more serious and more and more numerous.

The locals also dare not enter the mountains at all, and they basically move around on the periphery. The team escorting prisoners now also dares not to enter the mountains to look for water easily for this reason, and only dares to move around on the periphery.

Wang Shiyu and his friends are not locals, so they don’t know the legend of this mountain. “Ignorance is bliss” is referring to their family. It is also for this reason that they have avoided many ogres who were looking for them because their family is missing.

After leaving the mountains, they walked slowly along the edge of the mountains. They didn't dare to go directly into the mountains. They were also unwilling to leave the edge of the mountains and go to the outskirts. After all, the outskirts were more scary than the mountains.

After the old man left the mountains, he was so scared that he broke out in cold sweats. If it weren't for his granddaughter's sharp intuition, the whole family might have been killed.