Priceless: A widow with a baby asks the prince to marry again

“Your Highness, the people who ambushed you on your way back to the capital were ostensibly bandits, but many clues indicate that they were private soldiers kept by others. I just don’t know whether they were from Prince Kang or the Eighth Prince.” The man dressed as a scholar bowed and stated.

Prince Duan picked up the map at hand, his face was cold and emotionless, and he said indifferently: "There are always people who don't want me to return victorious, but they don't know that I don't want to go back like this. My father's suspicion is growing day by day, and he will definitely not let me keep this tiger talisman..."

"Of the 300,000 troops left at the border, I have ordered 50,000 to be transferred to the vicinity of Jinyan City. No matter whose troops they are, since they are clearly bandits, we will suppress them."

The scholar agreed immediately, "Your Highness is wise! You were attacked and disappeared on your way back to the capital, and it has caused a lot of uproar in the capital. Now you stay here to lead the troops to suppress the bandits, and no one can blame you. The person who set up the ambush backfired, which is really stupid!"

Prince Duan glanced at him and said coldly: "If this prince dies, that would be another matter."

The scholar was stunned for a moment, and then broke out in a cold sweat.

"Go and arrange to suppress the bandits. Before the news of my return spreads back, slowly suppress them..."

After sending the scholar away, a trace of confusion gradually appeared on Prince Duan's cold face. He was accustomed to the intrigues and struggles for power.

But now, I just feel bored...

Maybe he was already tired of it, maybe he didn't like it, but apart from these, he didn't want anything else. It was originally like this...

Feeling bored, he stood up and walked to the window to get some fresh air. This was the best inn in Jinyan City. Now the entire inn was occupied by his people, and he lived in the tallest and best room in the inn.

Looking outside, he could see the courtyard surrounding the inn. The rockery and flowing water in the courtyard were very elegant, but in his eyes, the scenery was nothing but ordinary.

He looked out at the street outside the yard again. The people coming and going seemed more human and he didn't feel so lonely.

Amid the hawking of peddlers, an oxcart passed slowly by, and he caught a glimpse of several almost invisible figures on the cart... He immediately leaned forward as far as he could, staring with wide eyes.

A man dressed like an ordinary farmer was walking with a cow. Two women and a child were sitting on the cart. The woman with the child leaning on her was wearing a veil and her face could not be seen...

It was her! She brought Xiao Qinhao, her uncle, and probably Huang Caiyun.

He turned around and ran a few steps towards the door, then stopped again. How should he get there? What should he say when he saw her?

He turned back to the window, trying to catch the ox cart with his eyes.

Judging from the direction they were heading, it should be the county government office… She was indeed smart. With a little guidance that day, she realized that taking Huang Caiyun as a maid would solve the problem of getting married. She was so kind-hearted. She was just a girl next door, but she was able to devote all her energy to her and help her out of trouble.

But why couldn't she feel his predicament? How could he get rid of his greed to stay in that farmyard and spend his life with her?

Liu Rusi and his group came to the household registration office in the county government. Relying on the indenture of Huang Caiyun signed with Huang Dashi, they successfully transferred Huang Caiyun's household registration and obtained Huang Caiyun's household registration deed.

From now on, it is no longer her father Huang Dashi who can decide Huang Caiyun's life. Liu Rusi looked at Huang Caiyun through the veil. "I will keep your indenture and deed for now, so that I can explain it to your father in the future. If you meet a suitable family in the future, I will release you and let you marry."

"I don't want to get married! I want to live with Sister Si for the rest of my life!" Huang Caiyun was so happy that she jumped up and down holding Liu Rusi's hand, as if today she was not selling herself into a slave, but was the master of her own destiny.

Liu Rusi couldn't help but find it funny. In her previous life, she didn't want to get married because she felt that marriage was like a gamble, and nine out of ten times she would lose, so she didn't want to gamble.

But as soon as she came into this world, she was forced to roll the dice, and she actually won the bet... But before she could hold on to the reward, it was taken away by God.

It's more sad than not winning the bet.

"Mom! I want to eat candy men!" Little Qin Hao pointed at the stall on the corner of the street, already drooling.

"You can only buy one snack today. Are you sure you want a candy man?" Liu Rusi confirmed.

Xiao Qinhao hesitated for a moment, then nodded solemnly as if he had made up his mind and said, "I'll eat something else next time!"

"Okay then." Liu Rusi rubbed his head, then looked at Huang Caiyun and asked, "You can also buy a snack, do you want a candy man?"

"Me? I'm not a child... I..." Huang Caiyun looked at the sugar man and the look in her eyes didn't look like she didn't want to eat it.

Thirteen years old is still a child, but Liu Rusi has no intention of fighting against the whole world. "No matter how old you are, you can eat snacks, especially girls."

Walking to the candy stall, Caiyun and Xiao Qinhao chose the patterns they wanted. Xiao Qinhao looked at Liu Rusi and asked, "Mom is also a woman, do you want to eat a candy man?"

She really wanted to, so Liu Rusi chose a rabbit pattern for herself.

After paying nine copper coins, the three of them stood in the street, eating candy figures while waiting for their uncle to come and pick them up after delivering the goods.

Caiyun and Xiao Qinhao were eating happily, but Liu Rusi was in trouble. She could only lift the gauze of her veil to her mouth with one hand and eat the candy figure carefully with the other hand.

Some people passed by and saw a graceful woman wearing a veil, her face could not be seen clearly, only her white neck and delicate chin were exposed, and her beautiful red lips were filled with honey from time to time.

Even if most people are amazed, they just take a quick look and then pass by quickly, busy with their own lives. There are a few who are tempted, but they just stop and watch from a distance.

But there was a young man who was dressed in rich clothes. He became distracted at the sight of those red lips. He walked straight towards her without hesitation and reached out to lift her veil!

A hand reached out, and Liu Rusi subconsciously pulled her son back.

As soon as she dodged it, Liu Rusi realized what kind of trouble she had caused.

She immediately bent down and picked up her son, and said in a hoarse voice, "Sir, you scared me and the child!"

This voice was extremely inconsistent with the image of a beauty. The young man frowned immediately. Looking at the big baby in her hand, he asked in some confusion: "Is this your child?"

"She's my own child after ten months of pregnancy! My elders are coming here soon, can you please go first? Don't let my elders misunderstand me, or they will gossip about the man in my family and I will give you a beating!" Liu Rusi maintained a hoarse voice and spoke like a vulgar peasant woman.

The young man suddenly felt bored, shook his sleeves and left.

Only after the young master walked away did Liu Rusi put little Qin Hao down. She was also nervous just now.

Men are not scary, what is scary is rich and powerful men, who can use their power to oppress a poor and powerless woman like her. If this man is a little more arrogant, he will definitely have to look at her face, and she is afraid that she will be in big trouble.

Xiao Qinhao and Caiyun were both silent, their innocent minds still trying to comprehend what had just happened... Liu Rusi understood that they were shocked, but for a moment she didn't know what to say.

After a long while, little Qin Hao pointed to the ground and said, "Mom, your sugar man fell down."

"It's okay. Mom just happens to be feeling a little fed up too." Liu Rusi comforted.

It was a false alarm, and the two women and the child got on the ox cart that had finished shopping and went back out of the city.

Meanwhile, several guards at the street corner were secretly wondering what their gloomy-faced master was doing.

Not long ago, the master suddenly left the inn in civilian clothes. They hurried to follow him. The master waited near the county government office until two women and a child came out. He followed them from a distance, but did not go up to talk to them, and signaled them not to expose themselves.

"Jia Liu, do you remember the man who reached out his hand before?"

The guard who was named immediately stepped forward and said, "Remember!"

"Chop off his outstretched hand."

"Yes!"

As a qualified guard, you can have a lot of imagination in your mind, but you have to do what your master says and you cannot ask questions.

The remaining guards saw their master walk to where the woman had stood before, bend down and pick up a dusty sugar figure.

The guards looked at each other, each with their own shock in their eyes. The most shocked one was worried, would the master want to eat? Then he had to persuade him!

Fortunately, the master just frowned as he held the sugar man, and then took them back to the inn.

Liu Rusi and her companions returned home and quickly forgot about what happened in the city. They were arguing about other things.

"Mom, Sister Caiyun lives in my room, I will go and live with you!" Little Qin Hao insisted on his proposal and felt it made sense.

"I am Sister Si's maid now, and a maid is supposed to serve her all the time, so I just need to go to Sister Si's room and make a small bed!" Caiyun also felt that I was right.

Liu Rusi thought for a moment and said to Caiyun, "Sleep with me first..."

"Great!" Caiyun immediately clapped her hands in agreement.

Little Qin Hao couldn't believe it. His mother actually chose Caiyun. Isn't Haohao his mother's little baby?

"When we have time, let's clear out that room full of junk, and then Caiyun can move in there." Liu Rusi added with a smile.

Caiyun was disappointed. "Is that so?"

"Oh." Little Qin Hao, he can live with his mother for several days, he is still envious.

With the addition of a little girl, the Qin family's courtyard became much more lively, and with her helping to share light work such as washing, drying, and sweeping the floor, Liu Rusi also felt a lot more relaxed.

Farmers' lives will not change for a long time. Even if there are occasional changes, they will return to normal between sunrise and sunset.

But the situation was different in the high and mighty court far away in the capital.

"Your humble servant makes a statement!" The old man wearing a scarlet crane pattern stepped forward and bowed.

The middle-aged emperor in a bright yellow dragon robe raised his hand. "Permission granted. Prime Minister, please speak."

"Prince Duan who disappeared after encountering bandits has been found, but I heard that he was seriously injured. I think that we should immediately send a famous doctor to escort Prince Duan back to the capital, and we dare not let him work any more." The prime minister spoke earnestly, his face full of worry for Prince Duan.

The emperor's face also showed the distress and worry that a father should have, and he nodded in agreement...

"I also have something to say!" The mighty man in scarlet peacock clothing stepped forward.

The emperor narrowed his eyes, but his face remained warm. He raised his hand to signal him to speak.

"Prince Duan defeated the enemy army from Myanmar more than a month ago. Now he has returned in triumph, but he was injured by a mere bandit in the territory of our Great Xia Dynasty! It seems that only Prince Duan was injured, but in fact it is the national prestige that was hurt! We must wipe out the bandits with the force of thunder and restore our glory!" The mighty man said this with his thick eyebrows raised, as if he was about to swing his sword and kill the bandits in the next moment.

The emperor sighed in his heart, the most troublesome ones are the people in the Ministry of War, and Lu Daqing is the most troublesome. He is young and full of ambition, and is a talent for leading troops to fight, but he doesn't understand those twists and turns.

The Prime Minister had already returned to the head of the court, and the Left Vice-Inspector, who was also wearing a peacock scarlet robe, stepped forward and said, "What the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of War said is very true. I think we should send a military general to lead the troops to suppress the bandits as soon as possible, and at the same time send a famous doctor to bring back Prince Duan."

At this time, the Minister of Personnel also stood up and said: "If we need to dispatch troops to suppress the bandits, the nearest army is at the southwest border where Prince Duan led his troops before, and it is only three days away from Jinyan City where Prince Duan was attacked."

Prince Duan was on his way back to Beijing from the border and was attacked on the way. The southwest border troops he led were naturally the closest, and everyone in the court knew this. The problem was who would lead these troops, and everyone had their own calculations in mind.

"Report!" At this time, a summons officer hurried into the hall and knelt down.

The emperor nodded. "Speak."

"Prince Duan sent a message. He felt humiliated when he was attacked that day, and has dispatched 50,000 border troops to Jinyan City. He vows to avenge this personally. He is sending this message to Your Majesty!"

Many people were stunned for a moment. A general is not bound by the orders of the emperor when he is away from home. Prince Duan has the tiger talisman in his hand. As a prince, he feels that being humiliated is no small matter, so it is reasonable for him to personally dispatch troops to suppress the bandits.

The emperor pondered for a while. Fifty thousand soldiers were not many. He had his own news and knew that Prince Duan was seriously injured in the attack and it was not fake. So he nodded and asked with concern: "How is Yu'er's injury?"

"Your Majesty, Prince Duan said in his letter that he was seriously injured and nearly died. Fortunately, he was saved by a good doctor. His life is now safe, but he still needs time to recuperate. This time, he will be able to command the soldiers from a safe place to fight the bandits."

"That's it, my dear ministers, do you have anything else to do?"