Adoption brings disaster

When I went to inspect the village, I found that people starved to death every year. As a modern person who has never suffered from hunger or cold since childhood, when I saw this, I naturally wanted to do something to ensure that the people could have enough food to eat and warm clothes to wear.

But I am not good at agronomy, so if I really want to do something, I don’t know how.

Therefore, they could only provide Li Er with the necessary material conditions, ideological basis and direction guidance. The rest of the things had to be solved by Li Er and his people themselves.

I know in my heart that in this world without high technology, the fermentation and results of many things require a long period of accumulation. This is not a fact that one person can change.

Besides, Li Er is a capable person. All the affairs of Zhuangzi are handled by Li Er, so I don’t have to worry too much.

Therefore, I rarely interfered with him. I only controlled the direction of the research when necessary. I didn't care about anything else. I just waited quietly for Li Er to give me a satisfactory result.

Having said that, I was enjoying my leisure time, doing nothing in the pavilion every day. Dada and Erjia accompanied me in walking birds, fighting dogs, playing cards and throwing dice. It was really a great time.

When there is nothing to talk about, people talk a lot; when there is something to talk about, people talk a lot. The days passed by comfortably like this, and in a blink of an eye, it was the beginning of summer.

As the saying goes, if it doesn’t rain before the beginning of summer, the hoes and plows will be hung high.

It is certainly a good thing to have rain at the beginning of summer, but this year is strange. The rain has been falling for a month and is still falling until the Grain in Ear season.

It rained that day, and a good rain turned into a disaster.

I watched the rain falling from morning to night, and my brows were furrowed with worry. If the rain continued to fall like this, I didn't know how many farmers would starve to death this winter.

The farmers in my village are fine, after all, the rent is low and the village is full of high-quality farmland.

Although such heavy rain will inevitably lead to a reduction in grain production, there will still be some harvest. If the farmers eat sparingly, not too many people will starve to death.

But the farmers in other villages had no idea what kind of tragedy they would suffer in winter.

It was raining for so many days, so I was naturally in a very bad mood. But on the second day of Grain in Ear, Li Er brought me some good news.

It is said that Li Er's friend studied day and night and finally figured out how to remove the toxicity of snake fruit quickly and easily on the day of Grain in Ear.

This method is simple to say, it only requires a very common medicinal ingredient to be cooked together.

Li Er asked me for instructions, and in a short period of time, he found and planted hundreds of snake fruit trees.

It is said that this tree does not eat anything from the sky or the earth, and is very easy to grow. It can produce a good harvest even in the worst years.

In autumn, tens of thousands of snake fruits can be harvested. Even if farmers eat them sparingly during the winter, it will be enough, and at least they won’t starve to death.

Now that I have found a solution to the farmers' problems, I naturally feel much better and am in the mood to take care of the Seventh Prince.

Because of the continuous rain, the Seventh Prince had a lot of free time. He would get up in the morning to practice martial arts, and then go to the professor to read and practice calligraphy. Although the martial arts, archery, horse riding and shooting training were not cancelled, he did not have to go every day.

The Seventh Prince has been coming back to Qianqiu Pavilion before lunch every day lately. In the afternoons, when he has nothing to do, he pesters me to tell him stories. Fortunately, I have a lot of stories in my mind, so this is not difficult for me.

The Imperial Concubine doted on the Seventh Prince very much. Seeing that it had been raining for days and the Seventh Prince had nowhere to play, she was afraid that the Seventh Prince would be lonely, so she asked the young men of the same age from the families of the generals to come into the palace to play with the Seventh Prince.

The Imperial Concubine has always been generous. She invited these children into the palace to accompany the Seventh Prince, so naturally she is not stingy.

As long as these people come, drinks and food are delivered to the pavilion every day like a buffet.

Not only that, singing girls who entertained these young men also came to Qianqiu Pavilion one after another.

The young men drank and boasted, and the singing girls sang and danced, making the Qianqiu Pavilion really bustling with noise and livelier.

It’s just that I don’t like this kind of hustle and bustle.

Every day I see more than ten young men listening to music and drinking in the pavilion, looking so chaotic, and I get so angry.

I feel like I am substituting for another teacher now. Even though I absolutely dislike them, I still have to be gentle and kind to these dozen or so naughty kids.

But I was just entertaining them and not playing with them, otherwise I would have scolded them a long time ago.

But I don’t know what’s wrong with this Seventh Prince. He always insists that I play with him.

Every time he invited me, I found an excuse to decline, but the Seventh Prince still invited me every time.

Seeing that the Seventh Prince was so persistent, I felt a little unhappy in my heart. He wasn't afraid that I wouldn't be able to hold back and make him reflect on his mistakes facing the wall in front of so many people.

Later on, the Seventh Prince separated a separate room from where they were drinking and having fun, and he didn't ask me to play with them, I just had to stay in the room.

Seeing that the Seventh Prince said so, I didn't want to offend him any more, so I ate there every day, endured for more than half an hour, and then secretly left when the Seventh Prince wasn't paying attention.

This has been going on for several days, but I didn't expect that my actions would anger these teenagers.

One day, the Seventh Prince was chatting with me in the inner room while they were playing outside. Someone outside said loudly, "Seventh Prince, Yuan Qing has a stern face every day and doesn't drink. He's such a boring person. Why are you still accompanying him? Come and drink with us."

The person who was speaking was a fat, big-eared teenager, and he was also my least favorite among the group.

Not only did he speak in a very rude way, he also had a strange smell. He was very dissatisfied with the fact that the Seventh Prince was accompanying me in the inner room, and he would mutter a few words under his breath every time.

Of course, I couldn't bother with these naughty kids, so I took advantage of the sound of bean-sized raindrops hitting the eaves and pretended not to hear what the naughty kids said.

I ignored them and whispered a few words to the Seventh Prince, who laughed so hard that he fell backwards.

Seeing that we ignored him and were still chatting and laughing in the inner room, the man became a little annoyed. He picked up a jar of wine and walked into the inner room, shouting as he walked, "Today's wine is really exceptionally fragrant. Your Highness, come and have a drink."

Seeing his unsteady steps, I couldn't help but say worriedly, "Xiaolu seems to have had a bit too much to drink. Why don't we just go home today?"

When Xiaolu heard this, he became even more furious. He raised his head and took a big gulp of wine, then pointed at me and cursed, "Who the hell do you think you are? How dare you call me Xiaolu?"

I looked at the drunk Xiaolu. Although I was annoyed, I couldn't argue with a child. I suppressed my anger and said, "I was too arrogant in addressing you. Please calm down, Master Lu. However, drinking too much is harmful to your health. It's better to drink less."

Hearing my tone soften, he became even more aggressive and continued to curse: "You really don't know how long your face is. You, a coward like you, dare to meddle in my affairs."

I gritted my teeth and kept repeating to myself, this is someone else's child, this is someone else's child, don't meddle in other people's business, don't meddle in other people's business, let go of the desire to help others, let go of the desire to help others.

Just when I was about to prepare myself mentally, Xiaolu became even more arrogant and kept cursing when he saw that I didn't say anything.

Just at this moment, a young man next to him pulled Xiaolu and whispered something to him.

After hearing this, Xiaolu first became quiet, then seemed to remember something, and rushed over with gritted teeth, raising the jar in his hand to hit me.

I had never seen such a person committing a crime in public, and I didn't react for a moment. Just when the jar was about to hit my head, the Seventh Prince pulled me behind him and broke the jar with his foot. The wine in the jar spilled out and splashed all over the Seventh Prince.

When Xiaolu saw that he had spilled wine all over the Seventh Prince, he panicked for a moment. He looked at us helplessly, muttering to himself, "I don't want to hit the Seventh Prince. I just want to hit Yuan Qing, the soft one."

After hearing this, how could I bear it? I first gave Xiaolu a cold look, ignoring him and simply told Chunyu to quickly change the Seventh Prince's clothes and dry his hair to prevent him from catching a cold.

Then he said to the man, "Calling you Xiaolu is meant to be intimate, but you know yourself well enough. You don't deserve such intimacy with me."

Seeing that I was angry, Xiaolu was not afraid and was about to come over to hit me again, but the Seventh Prince, who had already gone downstairs, said coldly: "Have you forgotten what I said yesterday?"

Xiaolu was so frightened by the Seventh Prince's lecture that he was almost sober. Now he didn't dare to talk back. He just stood there like a quail, like a disobedient child being scolded by his teacher.

When I saw him like that, I was actually no longer angry, but teachers are born actors and are very good at changing their emotions.

I pretended to be very angry and continued, "I am the master of Qianqiu Pavilion. You are speaking rudely to me on my territory. This is disrespectful. You rely on your superior martial arts to humiliate me. This is immoral. You drank too much and messed up the reception that the Seventh Prince had carefully prepared. This is disloyal."

"Yuanqing's words were a bit harsh. Brother Lu just drank too much and lost his composure. I hope Yuanqing won't bother with him." When the people next to me saw that I had put such a big accusation on Xiao Lu, they hurried out to mediate.

I looked at them with disdain and continued, "You didn't speak up when he got into trouble, and when he made a mistake you asked me to forgive him, but you took sides. I just don't know if your martial arts skills are as good as your ability to take sides."

When everyone heard this, they were also indignant and criticized me.

But this group of people are all of the same kind. They don't strive for progress and just eat, drink and have fun every day. They just repeat the same few words over and over again, and I'm too lazy to pay attention to them.

I listened to their clamor, but I wasn't anxious. I just sat down slowly and said coldly, "Is it too much for me to scold this rude, immoral, and unrighteous person? The Seventh Prince and I are both nobles. Young Master Lu is committing an insubordination. If you really want to investigate, your parents and brothers will be implicated, and you will also be charged with the crime of unfilial piety."

When everyone heard that their parents and brothers would be implicated, how could they dare to say anything more? Naturally, they stopped making noises, and for a moment, the place was eerily quiet.

Seeing that no one dared to speak, I calmly drank my tea and continued, "You say I'm going too far. Are all the things he's done these days fake? Did I force him to do these things? If a man can't even admit what he's done and doesn't want to take the responsibilities he should bear, then in my opinion, he's not a man."

Perhaps it was this remark about not being a man that irritated Xiaolu, and he suddenly became murderous, pointing at me viciously and saying, "Believe it or not, I will kill you today."

I treat Xiaolu as a student, and I know I can't give in now, otherwise he will become more aggressive.

So I sneered again, "If I were you, I would practice martial arts and read more military books, and then come back to humiliate me after achieving great things, instead of being so brave and aggressive here!"

"Are you scared?" Xiaolu was still shouting.

This kid only knows pain after being beaten, so I decided to teach him a lesson.

I looked at Ah Da and Ah Er, gave them a look, and then said, "You're such a weakling, how can I be afraid of you?"

After saying that, he took out the poisonous anaconda and fought with him.

Although Xiaolu didn't practice martial arts very hard and his natural physique wasn't very good, he came from a military family and had been practicing martial arts since he was a child, so he did have some real skills.

Although I have the magical poisonous anaconda and the off-field help of Ada and Aer, I have practiced martial arts for too short a time, and it is extremely difficult to fight him to a draw.

As time went on, I became less and less of a match for him and started to struggle.

When Xiaolu saw this, he felt quite proud and tried to seize my weakness and knock me to the ground.

Just when I was about to be defeated, a gust of wind suddenly blew in from the window, not only allowing me to dodge the attack, but the poisonous anaconda also hit Xiaolu and knocked him away.

Xiaolu was hit in the chest and rolled on the ground in pain. Raindrops hit him again, making him like a drowned rat.

When I saw him, I couldn't help but say to the Taoist priest, "Look, he looks like a dog."

The Taoist priest smiled and said, "It's a bit similar."

This poisonous anaconda is indeed a divine weapon. It just hit Xiaolu lightly, and a large bruise appeared on his chest. He was in great pain, but now he didn't scream anymore. He just looked at me pitifully and said it hurt.

I didn't really want to hit him. Seeing how pitiful he was, I didn't want to bother with the bad things he had done. I asked Chunyu to bring me some ointment and then I massaged his chest slowly.

But the wound from the divine weapon poisonous boa constrictor wasn't going to heal so easily. I rubbed it for a long time, but it didn't heal. I was anxious and worried, and couldn't help but scold it, "Look at you, you've practiced martial arts for so many years, but you can't even beat me. What are you so proud of? Don't slack off in your martial arts training in the future. Study hard and practice diligently."

After being beaten, Xiaolu didn't dare to talk back, he just whimpered and cried out in pain. Hearing him like this, I got into evil fun and pressed him hard, causing him so much pain that tears came out.

After I finished tossing around on the path, I raised the ointment in my hand and said, "You are lucky too. A few days ago, the King of Zhenbei gave me a few boxes of ointment specifically for these injuries. This is all I have left, and now I'm giving it to you."

When Xiaolu heard that it was the ointment given by the King of Zhenbei, he stopped whining and immediately became full of energy. He jumped up and said to the people around him: "The things in this palace are really good. I was in so much pain just now, but now the pain is gone. It's really a miracle drug."

Others thought this was a ridiculous thing and nodded in agreement. I looked at the bruises on his body that had not gone away at all, and thought that there were always star-chasers no matter what era.

"I'm still good to you. I gave you this expensive ointment. And you see, even the King of Zhenbei thinks I'm not bad and gave me the ointment. You say I'm a wimp, right?"

It's good to raise the banner of King Zhenbei. Those young men who originally had opinions about me now admire me very much and pester me to tell them the story of King Zhenbei.

By the time the Seventh Prince came back after finishing his work, I was already chatting, laughing, and drinking with them, just like brothers.

"Go away, you don't need to come tomorrow." The seventh prince said coldly.

"Why? I saw you drinking and eating meat with everyone else. Aren't you very happy?" I asked in confusion.

"The rain is about to stop. Besides, these people are the future backbone of the Northern Shang Kingdom. They should go back to practice martial arts and study hard, and waste less time on eating, drinking and having fun." The Seventh Prince looked at me and said, "Yuan Qing, isn't this what you often teach me?"

What the Seventh Prince said made sense. Seeing him so self-aware, I was particularly happy. However, looking at the gloomy sky outside, I was still a little skeptical, so I said, "How did Chongguang know the rain was going to stop? It looks like it's going to continue raining. But you can still study on rainy days. Let's disperse and go back to work hard."

After receiving the Seventh Prince's instruction, everyone decided to go back and study hard. I encouraged them and sent them out one by one. No more mentioning.

It’s hard to predict what kind of trouble will happen after it rains for so long. Let’s wait for the next episode to find out.