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

The white-hoofed black horse is very human-like and can understand its owner's intentions just by the slightest movement of its owner.

Less than a moment after missing the carriage, the white-hoofed crow was side by side with the carriage as it entered the official road, but it did not attract anyone's attention.

Because there is an even larger team waiting for Prince Duan on the official road!

Hundreds of people on horseback lined up in the front, with thousands of infantry following behind. In the middle of the team, five horses pulled an extremely luxurious carriage, and people stood beside the carriage holding flags. This was the entourage of Prince Duan returning to the capital.

The main reason was that Chu Shiyu had learned from his last lesson. He used to think that riding a horse was faster and leading a walking team was slow, so he only brought a cavalry team when traveling.

Last time, it was because he was riding in front and running too fast that the inner traitor startled his horse and rushed out of the team and fell into an ambush alone. The hundreds of people behind him were too late to rescue him, and because the hundreds of people behind him were all riding horses, more than a dozen of them were able to escape from the encirclement and report to Jinyan City.

Caiyun and Xiao Qinhao stared at the scene outside the car window in amazement. Liu Rusi looked relatively calm on the outside, but she wasn't feeling much better on the inside... So many people were lined up in an orderly manner. The last time she saw them was at a school meeting, right?

Although there might be more people at the school meeting, as long as she thought about so many people and how they would have to travel thousands of miles for one person, it would be hard for her to regard it as normal...

Suddenly she began to understand why he was so imposing when he was Prince Duan. If she didn't focus on it, she would not be able to control the situation.

Chu Shiyu was on the other side of the car, unable to see her expression through the car curtain, and he was very nervous.

He was afraid that Liu Rusi would see this and feel that he and he were not from the same world, and would become disrespectful to him and lose closeness to him...

He had tried his best to balance her and let her adapt. There couldn't be a smaller number of people, so he told them in advance not to salute when they saw him, otherwise it might be more exaggerated if everyone knelt down and shouted.

In addition to this, Chu Shiyu was also trying his best to gradually show his normal state. On the day he was injured, he was wearing casual clothes that were convenient for cycling. She was prepared, so when he came back to see her, he was wearing similar casual clothes and still wore the everyday jade crown.

"Rusi, do you want to change that car? That one will be more stable." Chu Shiyu found an excuse to lift the car curtain.

Liu Rusi's eyes showed a little surprise, but she didn't show any excessive emotion. She smiled faintly and said, "I don't want to change buses all the time. Let's just take this one."

Chu Shiyu felt relieved, and then he had some small thoughts, "I don't want to keep changing." Although she might not have mentioned it, he wanted her to change it after hearing it.

"Well, let's talk about it during the lunch break." Chu Shiyu smiled gently and lowered the car curtain.

Liu Rusi made an inaudible sound, a rebellious problem youth.

The team of a thousand people was like a rolling stream on the official road. Pedestrians and horses that met on the road all retreated. Many of them waited in place for Prince Duan's team to pass by before sighing and going their own way.

There were also many people passing by who looked hard at the luxurious carriage pulled by five horses from a distance, perhaps hoping to catch a glimpse of what Prince Duan looked like.

However, no one expected that Prince Duan would ride past them on horseback.

The sun gradually rose higher.

There was a sudden commotion ahead; the team did not stop, but one could vaguely see someone being carried to the edge of the road.

Liu Rusi's carriage happened to pass by this edge. She lifted a corner of the curtain so that Chu Shiyu, who was riding side by side, could not see her, but she could see the situation outside.

After a while, she saw an old man with a skinny body and gray hair on the side of the road. He was walking in the same direction as them, bowing every three steps and kowtowing every nine steps. However, he bowed and kowtowed so slowly that he must be blocking the road. The people in front carried him to the side of the road.

Chu Shiyu didn't care about the worshippers, but Liu Rusi avoided him from seeing him! This made him uncontrollably irritated!

But he certainly couldn't get angry with her, so he asked gently, "It's almost noon, shall we rest in the wider area ahead?"

Even though I was not allowed to watch it, I insisted on watching it. I watched it openly during lunch!

"Okay." Liu Rusi didn't think so much. She just felt that it was almost noon, and gently woke up little Qin Hao who was sleeping in her arms.

Little Qinhao's novelty of traveling in a carriage soon wore off at first, and he wanted to read a book, but Liu Rusi thought that the carriage was shaking and reading would be bad for his eyes, so she didn't let him. So little Qinhao lay in her arms, humming and groaning, and eventually fell asleep.

The team stopped on a large round dirt platform with two sections of official roads in the middle, like a bead strung together on a rope.

On one side of the dirt floor, there are several sheds for people to take a break, which are porridge shops, noodle stalls and the like, and there are also some vendors selling incense and yellow paper.

Although the huge team occupied almost the entire ground, there were also many ordinary people here.

Of course, there was a chef in Prince Duan's entourage, and all kinds of ingredients and cooking tools were available, pulled all the way on the cargo carriage at the end of the team.

However, Caiyun and Xiao Qinhao both wanted to try that noodle stall because it smelled so delicious that they were drooling.

"Let's go eat noodles." Liu Rusi said to Chu Shiyu, and then took the two of them there.

She had to try her best to maintain her independence. First of all, she had to let him know that she didn't need his consent to do anything. Eating noodles was a small matter, but she had to start with small things.

Chu Shiyu glanced at the team, then followed her to the noodle stall. It was just to eat noodles, and he would follow her as much as possible in small matters.

The noodle stall was crowded with people, or rather, there were a lot of people in these stalls.

Liu Rusi walked closer and searched for an empty table.

But immediately, she keenly felt that there were many strange eyes looking at her, some of them were even lustful. She immediately remembered that she forgot to wear a veil...

The more backward the society is, the worse it is for women to be overly beautiful, because more people will unleash the evil in their hearts without restraint.

Liu Rusi wouldn't be stupid enough to resist the secular world on her own. It was broad daylight and most of the people here were common people. So it didn't matter if they didn't wear it. No one could be fooled by her eyes.

Her thoughts raced, but on the surface she acted as if nothing was happening and pulled Xiao Qin Hao towards the empty table.

However, she suddenly felt that many gazes disappeared, and she subconsciously looked back.

Then she saw Chu Shiyu's tall figure looming behind her, even blocking out the scorching sun outside the shed.

Her eyes flashed, and she turned back and pulled Xiao Qin Hao to sit down.

How could Liu Rusi not understand? She had never worn a veil when she went out with Qin Lie before, because Qin Lie was tall and strong, and the scar on his face made him look ferocious.

For example, if a man looks at a woman he likes with lustful eyes, it is a provocation to him. Naturally, few men would be stupid enough to provoke someone who looks dangerous.

Men often act as guardians towards the women they like, not only to protect them but also to demonstrate that no one else is allowed to get close to them.

And Chu Shiyu seemed to take it for granted to play this role beside her.

Of course it feels good to be protected by others, but... she also feels uncomfortable with her own weakness, as an independent person she needs protection from others.

She couldn't figure it out for a moment, she just felt that she couldn't let Chu Shiyu stand behind her like she did when she accepted Qin Lie...

"Mom, what do you want to eat?" Little Qin Hao's voice rang out.

Liu Rusi then realized that Xiao Qinhao had gone to the opposite side and was sitting on one side with Chu Shiyu, and Chu Shiyu was actually facing her!

Xiao Qinhao usually wouldn't give up the seat closest to her, but now he's sitting in the farthest seat. Was it Chu Shiyu who did this? How did he do this?

After glancing at the wooden menu, she randomly chose one and said, "Yangchun noodles, with an egg."

A bowl of hot noodle soup was soon served to each person, and the table on the left had become occupied by Sun Zhizhao and a few guards, who were also eating enthusiastically as if they were just there to eat noodles.

However, when there was a slight commotion at the side of the shed, they immediately cast a vigilant and scrutinizing look, and when they saw that it was an elderly man asking for a bowl of water, they became indifferent again and only looked around vaguely.

Life is so tiring, Liu Rusi sighed, and then she realized that she didn't know who she was sighing for, the guard? Or the old man?

The old man was covered in mud, but you could tell he was the one on the road just now. Even though they had only walked less than a kilometer, the old man looked so pious that he didn't seem like he would skip any kneeling.

"Have a bowl of noodle soup!" The stall owner handed over a bowl of clear noodle soup.

"Thank you, shop owner, but I brought some cakes with me. Just give me a bowl of water." The old man's words were respectful but not humble, which made Liu Rusi look up and take a closer look.

Unlike his clothes, which seemed to have been humbled to the dust, the old man's back was straight when he stood, as if nothing could bend it... However, his kneeling on the roadside was also sincere.

After drinking the water, the old man handed over a penny. One penny was not much, but a bowl of water was not worth a penny either. However, the shopkeeper refused to accept it. So the old man put the coin directly on the stall, bowed slightly, and started from where he had been standing without moving an inch, kneeling every three steps, kowtowed nine times, and bowed once.

The people eating noodles looked at the old man from a distance and then began to discuss: "Is this old man here to pray to the heavens and make a wish, or is he here to fulfill a wish?"

The people at the other table smiled confidently and replied, "It's obvious you don't understand. Ninety percent of the people who come here to worship are here to make wishes, but very few of them fulfill their wishes."

Some people wondered: "Isn't this Baitian Temple very effective? Why are there so few people returning their vows?"

"Hey, don't you see how difficult it is to kneel every three steps? A wish is a request, and in order to show sincerity, one is willing to do it even if it is difficult. Most people who fulfill a wish return some money, and those who are more sincere do a few days of work in the temple. There may not be one person who can fulfill a wish by kneeling every three steps in a year!"

"So few... It seems like someone comes to beg every day, right?"

"Well... After all, Baitian Temple doesn't grant all your requests, and there are many cases where your requests are in vain."

At this time, someone looked at the stall owner and asked, "Shopkeeper, how old is your stall? Have you ever seen anyone kneeling to fulfill a vow?"

The stall owner also smiled and joined the conversation: "My stall has been around for nearly 18 years, and not many people come to kneel and pray. It's just like what the guest just said, only one or two a year."

"But I still remember clearly the young man who made a vow! It was also after that young man that the incense of the Baitian Temple became more and more prosperous!"

The stall owner stopped talking, whetting everyone's appetite.

Someone urged, "Shopkeeper, tell me something!"

The stall owner then continued with a chuckle: "This matter has to start from ten years ago! At that time, the young man was still a teenager, about fourteen or fifteen years old. There were not many people so young who worshipped the sky. Usually they were old or middle-aged people like the one just now. I remembered him immediately, and the young man was very eye-catching..."

"Here, three big scars!" The stall owner made a claw shape with his hand, gesturing from the left eyebrow to the jaw.

The small but rough hands immediately clenched the chopsticks tightly, with such force that the joints turned white, and the chopsticks seemed to be not so straight...

"Mom, it's..."

Liu Rusi interrupted Xiao Qinhao by making a gesture to keep quiet, looked absentmindedly at the road outside, and listened carefully to what the stall owner had to say.