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

"Ah."

King Kang was not so easily fooled, and said coldly: "After all, it is you who wants me to teach you, but why should I teach you?"

Little Qin Hao pondered for a few breaths, raised his head and asked in confusion: "Uncle Kang Wang, do you know the method of mental arithmetic? I can use this in exchange."

King Kang paused for a moment, then looked at the child in front of him with a puzzled look.

"Uncle King Kang can ask me about addition, subtraction and multiplication of two four-digit numbers, but not division because I often can't divide them exactly. I can answer them within three breaths." In fact, he could solve five-digit problems, but to be safe, little Qin Hao concealed his shortcomings.

King Kang was somewhat speechless. How did he end up competing with a child? He felt like he was being stage-frightened if he just ignored the situation, so he just randomly reported two chaotic strings of numbers.

"One, three, four, six, three, seven, eight, nine, multiply them."

Little Qin Hao blinked and answered affirmatively: "Five-zero-nine-nine-nine-nine-four."

When King Kang saw that he answered affirmatively, he also calculated silently. However, his mental arithmetic was obviously much slower. It took him a moment to confirm that it was correct!

"How do you calculate so quickly?" King Kang was really curious.

"Of course there is a trick. If Uncle King Kang is willing to teach me to read, I will teach you the method of mental arithmetic." Little Qin Hao smiled, revealing a row of baby teeth.

King Kang was immediately interested, but asked hesitantly, "How long will it take to learn this trick? I won't stay here for too long."

"You can tell from my age that the trick is easy to learn... but how to use it depends on each person's talent. The quicker the thinker, the easier it is to use it. A stupid person won't be able to use the trick." Little Qin Hao is very experienced in this. The trick was taught to him by his mother, and he also taught it to his two uncles, but their minds were always in a mess and they couldn't use it at all.

"But don't worry, uncle. You will be slower than me in calculating after you learn it, but the difference shouldn't be too big." Little Qin Hao smiled confidently. His mother, who taught him the trick, had long been unable to calculate better than him. Last month, she taught his adoptive father, who was still a little worse than him.

King Kang looked at the child in front of him with both laughter and tears. He used all kinds of coercion and inducement to study, and he dared to speak frankly about his arrogant heart. If he hadn't had Chu Shiyu's protection, he would have been hurt by his intelligence.

"Deal, but it has to start from tomorrow. The class will only be half an hour a day until either party leaves Xingzhou City." King Kang directly limited the scope and no longer gave little Qin Hao room for negotiation.

"Thank you, Uncle Kang Wang." Although little Qin Hao was a little dissatisfied, he quickly made a corresponding study plan. He studied on his own for an hour and a half every day, and left questions he didn't understand to ask in the other half hour.

The sixth morning in Hemiao Town.

Just as Liu Russi had planned, she quickly washed up and went directly to the epidemic area without eating breakfast!

Seeing Chu Shiyu's intention to stop her, she walked away and said, "Let's go over there and eat buns!"

"Yesterday, Prince Kang went to Xingzhou and had contact with Qin Hao. Don't you want to know?" Chu Shiyu asked from behind.

Liu Rusi stopped, turned around, and asked, "Did you not crush Qin Hao to death?"

She had tried her best to teach Qin Hao to be modest since he was young, but as he traveled to many places and met more and more people, he became more and more aware of how smart he was... As a mother, she was often stimulated by her son's sense of superiority! She was really afraid that he would be beaten to death one day!

"Of course it's fine." Chu Shiyu smiled. In his territory, King Kang could not touch his people easily.

Liu Rusi turned back and said with relief: "Let's talk about it later. I have to go to the epidemic area first. It would be best if I could arrive before the teachers gather."

After she finished speaking, she had already walked out more than ten steps. Chu Shiyu had no choice but to follow her. The mother and son were essentially exactly the same, except that the younger one lacked scheming.

However, when they arrived at the epidemic area, several doctors had already gathered, just because of another piece of bad news!

"If I had known he would die anyway, why torture him like this? Look at his face, it's all black! He used to be such a handsome son..."

A woman was lying on top of a little boy at the door, shouting angrily. The boy was motionless, with large patches of purple and black on his face and hands. I guess his body wasn't in much better condition either...

Liu Rusi's heart was immediately gripped. This was why the plague was called the Black Death... The boy's condition must have suddenly worsened and turned into secondary septicemic plague. The mortality rate of such symptoms could be said to be a coin toss with the King of Hell...

"Please invite the person in and take the body away for burial." Chu Shiyu said, pulling Liu Rusi away.

His voice was not loud, but the woman was like a frightened bird. She hugged the little boy tightly and shouted hysterically: "Either carry him in together! Or bury me too!"

"Your illness has just been cured, you will get infected again if you keep doing this..." Li Chunfu advised softly.

"I have lost my child, what's the point of living? You quacks! Why don't you cure my son?! Why cure me!" the woman screamed like a madman.

A man with a sad face walked out of the room behind her and tried to pull the woman in, but the woman just shook her head and yelled, "Don't pull me! You got the disease from me! Why don't you just die! Why is it the child who died!"

Except for the woman, everyone was silent. Liu Rusi could persuade the young man last time with righteous words, but she couldn't say a word to this woman... She couldn't put herself in her shoes...

It is a cruel and common fact that most people have anticipated that their parents will pass away first, but most people have never imagined that their children will leave first, so it is usually more difficult to bear for the elderly to send off the young.

And the one who is most heartbroken is often the mother... There are mothers in the world who do not love their children, but those who love their children are always the majority.

The situation was at a stalemate and everyone didn't know what to do. Should they go up and forcibly take away the little boy's body?

Liu Rusi once again stopped Chu Shiyu's movements, even for the guards! This woman will definitely fight back with all her might!

just.

"boom!"

The woman hit her head against the door frame and blood gushed out instantly... She made a choice for herself.

Liu Rusi was about to run away reflexively, but Chu Shiyu also reflexively grabbed her tightly and wouldn't let her get close!

"Think about Qin Hao! What would he do if you got sick?!"

Li Chunfu went up to check immediately, first looked at the head and then checked the pulse.

"There is no pulse..." Li Chunfu stood up and hurried to the medical tent to get the acupuncture kit. He turned his head to look at Liu Rusi a few times, which meant to ask whether the first aid skills he learned that day would be useful, perhaps trying multiple methods.

"How many children does she have?" Liu Rusi asked in a hoarse voice.

"This is her only biological child." Doctor He answered. He saw these sick patients every day and was familiar with the situation of each family.

Liu Rusi felt depressed and said to Li Chunfu, "It can be used, but... if we save him, he may become stupid and crazy."

Li Chunfu also understood what she meant. In this situation, rescuing the woman was not what she wanted...

In fact, it is very difficult to die by hitting a pillar, because people's survival instinct will make them reduce their strength before hitting the pillar. If they are killed by a single hit, there is really no room for them to survive.

But with a saveable person in front of him, Li Chunfu found it difficult to decide whether to give up treatment, so he looked at the man standing in the room with tears in his eyes.

The man wept, "Just let her go. She won't be happy if she comes back to life like this."

A mother and son lost their lives.

Like the previous person who died of the disease, the guards will collect the body and carry it for burial first, and the funeral will be held after the epidemic is over.

In the medical tent, several doctors and medical doctors were still feeling aggrieved.

"The child's condition was almost getting better, so why did it suddenly get worse?!" Li Chunfu couldn't figure out what went wrong.

"Just to prevent recurrence, we have been using heavy medicines! We have never changed the prescription!" Doctor Ma found the residue of previously decocted medicine and looked through it, but did not find any problems. They would keep a copy of the medicines they prescribed to patients within three days.

God wants to take someone away, no matter how great the doctor is, he can’t save him…

Liu Rusi listened for a while, then stood up silently and left the epidemic area quietly.

She walked out aimlessly, her mind in a mess, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

"Are you going back to Xingzhou City?" Chu Shiyu's voice was soft and cautious.

But it still disturbed Liu Rusi's thoughts. She shouted angrily: "Can't you leave me alone for a while?"

Chu Shiyu followed her emotions silently, and after a while he continued softly, "If you want to go back, I can arrange a car."

Liu Rusi didn't have the energy to argue with him anymore, and instead realized that she had unknowingly walked out of Hemiao Town, heading north towards Xingzhou City.

She stopped where she was and looked down at the tip of her shoes, motionless for a long time.

The veil covered her face, and it was not until a drop of crystal fell on her shoe that Chu Shiyu realized that she was crying...

"I won't let anything happen to Qin Hao or you! Absolutely not!" Chu Shiyu took out the handkerchief he prepared every day and wanted to lift the veil to wipe her tears...

"Don't touch me," she said weakly, waving away his outstretched hand.

His heart ached, but he didn't think of giving up. Instead, he stuffed the handkerchief into her hand and said softly, "Don't think too much. Qin Hao will be fine. If you are worried, we will go back and guard him now."

Liu Rusi held the handkerchief tightly, and another tear fell. But she chuckled and said, "Now is the last time to go back. I don't know if I will be infected with the plague after walking out of the epidemic area."

Chu Shiyu frowned. What does this mean? So she always thought that she was very likely to be infected?

Liu Rusi looked around, walked lightly, found a big rock, propped up her legs and sat down without any image. There was no one around, so she casually lifted her veil and took off her mask and threw them on the ground.

Looking up, she saw dense shade on her side and an open, blue sky on the other.

Chu Shiyu sat down next to her, took out a handkerchief, and reached out to wipe away her tears.

This time she did not resist. She turned her head and looked at him with tearful eyes. As tears flowed, she raised the corners of her mouth and said, "Sometimes hard work is useless."

The handkerchief paused, then gently fell on her face, wiping away the tears that had just fallen.

There was no emotion in her almond-shaped eyes, which were still filled with a sadness as dead as ashes. She let him wipe her tears and turned her head to look up at the empty sky.

"What's the point? No matter what the goal is, no matter how hard you try, even if it's just life, or even more important than life... as long as God plays a joke, sneezes, or an accident happens, everything will be gone."

She once wanted to use her excellent grades to make her parents realize how good she was, but later she faced the reality. They hated her and it was useless no matter how good she was.

She once had a dream that she wanted to work hard for her whole life, but her dream was cut short by an unexpected fortune... in the physical sense.

The only colleague who knew that she had won 10 million was also in financial difficulty, and she helped him to go to work and study... Liu Rusi was not a naive person. She had long suspected that the car accident was not a coincidence, but she had already left that world, and there was nothing she could do about the truth...

In fact, after coming to this world and realizing that Qin Lie could be relied on, she had already decided to lie down...

Then she once again witnessed the fickleness of God. God gives and God takes away...

Her past life shaped her soul. Studying hard and acquiring more skills are her subconscious thoughts. Until now, she still thinks that these are right. There is no harm in learning if there are conditions to do so.

However, she shouldn't strive so hard for a certain ambition anymore. It's good enough to just do it roughly... What's the point if God takes her away again?

"Will you give up protecting and raising Qin Hao just because it's meaningless?" Chu Shiyu asked softly.

Liu Rusi immediately turned around and glared at him, angrily saying: "Are you kidding me! His existence itself is meaningful! There is no way I will give up!"

Seeing her expression, Chu Shiyu breathed a sigh of relief and said with a faint smile: "Me too, there is no way I'll give up."

Liu Rusi's disbelief and doubt were all in her red eyes. This time she chose to ask directly: "Why? It's really inexplicable!"

"I don't know either, but that's how it is." Chu Shiyu's eyes were full of certainty.

Liu Rusi stood up speechlessly, picked up the mask and veil, and walked back, saying calmly: "Then let's wait and see who can outlast the other."

Chu Shiyu followed with a smile, thinking that wasting time was also a gain for him.

Liu Rusi did not go back to the epidemic area directly, but returned to the base first, took a shower, changed clothes, and then took a nap.

When she got up for lunch, her pretty face no longer showed any signs of having cried, and she ate calmly and quietly as usual.

Almost at the same time, Chu Shiyu put down his chopsticks and asked softly, "What do you want to do this afternoon?"

"If we go to the epidemic area, there should be some people who will go for medical treatment." Liu Rusi drank a sip of warm water, wiped her mouth, then stood up and walked out.

Chu Shiyu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he kept complaining but didn't change anything? He was really stubborn...

After this ups and downs, the epidemic in Hemiao Town gradually calmed down.

But Xingzhou City was in a bustle!

"The Zhang family of Xingzhou is reckless in their disregard for human life! They executed thirteen servants for no reason and dumped their bodies in the wilderness!"

"My son's indenture was only signed for ten years! Why do you want to execute him so arbitrarily? Even if he committed a grave offense, he should have been tried in court!"

"According to the laws of Daxia, domestic slaves can be punished or sold, but they cannot be beaten or killed at will! The Zhang family is lawless, and we must seek justice!"

The Zhang family’s house in Xingzhou City was surrounded by many indignant people!

Thirteen rotten corpses were lying on straw mats and placed on the street in front of the Zhang family's house. The relatives of the deceased were shouting their complaints nearby!

There were some people gathered around. They were not family members of the executed servants. They had other grudges against the Zhang family and were now adding fuel to the fire!

Outside there were even more people who were there to watch the fun and make a fuss. Anyway, Zhang Zhizhou hadn't done much to win the hearts of the people, so he didn't mind being pushed down by the people when his wall fell!

"Mom, what should we do?" Zhang Dizi was dressed in mourning.

"Send someone to guard the door first and don't let anyone in!" Madam Zhang was also worried. Those bodies were obviously buried deep, so how could they be dug out?

The servant who was executed had previously come into contact with Zhang Shiliang's body. When Mrs. Zhang heard that there was an outbreak of plague in the nearby Hemiao Town, she immediately thought of the black rats crawling on Zhang Shiliang's body.

No one knew how much money and effort it would take to cure the disease, and who knew the disease would be passed on to several masters. After discussing it with the old lady, she had the servants knocked unconscious with sticks and buried alive. Apparently this method was effective, and up to now no one in Zhang's farm had fallen ill.

The laws of Daxia forbid the arbitrary execution of servants, but which wealthy family has not killed a few servants? After all, those lowly people are dead, so who cares?

Many of those who would sell themselves into slavery were lonely and helpless. Even if they had family members, they were poor and could not cause any trouble. They could be sent away with just some change at most.

Madam Zhang never thought that things would turn out like this...