The ring connects the past and present, the exiled prince worships me as a god

Qi Yu's hand paused while building the foundation, but soon returned to normal.

"I won't ask you what you did last night. You just need to tell me where the food came from."

"God-given."

"You're talking nonsense. Where is God in this world?"

Zhao Li became anxious, and his low growl alarmed the people around him, but he quickly calmed down.

He lowered his voice, "After you left yesterday, the magistrate's men came back to check your room. I went in and looked, but there was nothing. Yet, you and your servants conjured up so much rice and flour after you went in. Are you kidding me?"

"That's why they say it was a gift from the gods. If the officials don't believe in gods, then why do they let us build a temple here?" Qi Yu sneered.

"Don't tell me that you moved the heavens by building the temple."

"Otherwise, isn't it?"

Qi Yu raised his eyes, and his angular profile was full of profound meaning that was difficult to see through.

"you……"

Knowing that Qi Yu would not tell him the truth.

Knowing that Qi Yu was the only one who could get food now, Zhao Li did not confront him head-on.

"If you have the guts, get some more food, but don't blame me for not reminding you. The magistrate and the village chief are not easy to mess with. Since you've been harassed by them, you'll be on your own."

Zhao Li said this, but he didn't leave.

Qi Yu stared at his eyes carefully. This person... maybe, could he be useful?

"Huai Village Chief Yu Wenzheng, I wonder how much the yamen runner knows?"

Zhao Li was stunned, not understanding why Qi Yu suddenly asked this.

"If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have come to this poor place. How would I know him?"

Before leaving, I asked my superiors to give me a chance to replace them. It was only after my superiors kindly reminded me that I realized how difficult those two people were.

"Since you don't know, then it has nothing to do with you." Qi Yu believed Zhao Li. Perhaps he began to trust him from the moment he took the initiative to hand over all the silver to him as a gift to the gods.

"I have not insulted the Imperial Concubine, nor have I plotted rebellion. As for murdering my brother... I have a hidden agenda. One day I will prove my innocence and return to the Imperial Capital. For now, I will submit to exile, but as the head of Huai Village, I cannot sit idly by while they plot."

Qi Yu pulled Zhao Li aside and said, "Yu Wenzheng's family has water, and he lied that he had received divine power. Last night, I investigated his intelligence and found that he was doing something unscrupulous. Brother Zhao, are you willing to help?"

It’s not a yamen runner, it’s Brother Zhao.

If it is true as Qi Yu said, that he was wronged, he will return to the capital and resume his original identity in the future.

If he calls me "big brother" today and I help him, maybe he will be able to turn things around one day?

Zhao Li's face darkened. "What do you want me to do?"

"Come here, smash all their water tanks for me!"

Before Qi Yu could reply, a fierce sound came from behind, accompanied by the sound of many people's footsteps, like a pack of wolves, suddenly rushing into the flock of sheep.

A group of people dressed in official uniforms, holding knives in their hands, looked like bandits. They rushed to the large water vat as if they were in an empty place, and were about to smash it down with machetes.

"not good!"

Qi Yu reacted as soon as he heard the sound. He picked up the stones on the ground and shot them out with his internal strength. One, two, three stones landed accurately on the backs of the three men's hands. The officer felt pain and his machete fell to the ground.

Jiang Zhi was close by. He had been guarding the food in the room. When he saw the people coming, he flew over and kicked several people in the chest with his long leg like sweeping through thousands of troops.

Although Zhao Li was a little slower, he was stronger. He used the momentum to pounce on the fallen men and pressed them down. With red eyes, he angrily demanded, "Sun Xian, what are you doing!"

The magistrate's name was Sun Xian.

He said nothing when he saw that the water tank was not smashed at all. His men were knocked to the ground one by one. The flesh on their faces was wrinkled with anger, like a ball of cotton.

"Zhao Li, you are just a small escort, are you going to openly oppose me?"

"The magistrate's words are truly unfair. I am an escort officer, responsible for the safety of mortals, not only their safety, but also the safety of the entire exile area. Now there is famine and drought, and no one has drinking water. This water is our life. The magistrate brought people to smash the jar today, and I cannot sit idly by."

"Okay, I'll leave you with a spit. Smash those two jars for me."

The officers stood up, clutching their chests, ready to strike again with their machetes raised. Qi Yu had already slowly come up behind them. "This water was given by the gods. If you destroy it, wouldn't that be an offense to the gods? Don't you all want to die from now on?"

A light and airy word may not have much power, but the person who speaks it may make people feel extremely oppressed.

"That's right, the police are going to kill someone!"

The fugitives who had not reacted just now also surrounded them at this time.

Everyone's eyes were red and they were sharpening their knives, as if they would fight them if they dared to move.

The people holding machetes looked at each other, and none of them dared to put down their weapons.

The magistrate's intention didn't seem to be to really destroy the water. Seeing Qi Yu coming over, he jumped in front of him and grabbed his collar like an angry rabbit, "Was it you last night?"

Qi Yu glanced sideways.

No one had ever grabbed him by the collar.

This is extremely disrespectful. How should the punishment be judged?

He slowly raised his hand and gently grasped the magistrate's wrist, his expression calm, "What happened last night? What did the magistrate say?"

He spoke slowly and in a low voice, and his expression was calm, but the magistrate's face was getting redder and redder, and seemed to be swelling slowly.

"……pain!"

"You, you let me go!"

"Then I'd like to ask the magistrate to talk things over nicely."

Qi Yu loosened his grip, and the exhausted magistrate fell backwards, falling flat on his face. He let out a scream of pain, then almost instantly bounced up from the ground, clutching his buttocks as if pricked by a needle.

"It hurts so much, it hurts so much."

"It's you, it must be you!"

Even though he doesn't look abnormal at the moment, his clothes are already covered with bruises and there is not a single piece of intact skin.

He had been sleeping soundly last night when suddenly a dark shadow broke into his room and picked on the softest parts of his body.

The man was extremely strong and rode on him, leaving him unable to fight back.

He kept begging for mercy until he took out half a box of gold, and then the man gave up.

It's a robber.

But why didn’t the robber slap him in the face?

He was in pain all night and thought about it all night, he was really angry. He had offended many people, and there was no one in the neighborhood who had not suffered at his hands, but who could break into his government office? After thinking about it, he thought that it was only these few people who had been exiled here for the first time.

The moment Qi Yu grabbed his wrist and turned it outward, he was sure that it was him.

"Were you the one who broke into my county government office last night and stole a hundred taels of silver?"

The magistrate covered his lower back with one hand and pointed at Qi Yu's face with the other. It was not known whether it was because of the pain or anger, but his face was red and his neck was thick, and he was about to explode.

"Your Excellency, the County Magistrate is innocent. This criminal has never left his place of exile. What's going on? Has the county government office been robbed? How much did you just say? One hundred taels of silver?"

Bah, it’s clearly a thousand taels of gold.

When the famine first broke out, the wealthy businessmen bought it from him at high prices in order to eat it.

But can he tell others?

"If it's you, we'll know after searching."

Sun Xianyue realized that it was him. He had humiliated him yesterday, and it must be him who was taking revenge.

"Come on, go search his room for me."