The mistress is not a cannon fodder, the cold prince falls in love with her every night

The people around were startled. They had originally wanted to move forward, but now they were so scared that they stepped back.

Li Ji waved his hand.

"Get out!"

"Your Highness! We are ordered to protect your safety and will not slack off in the slightest."

Li Ji frowned.

The Emperor had protected him extremely well, and even sent over a thousand guards to protect him during his trip south. However, he couldn't act too arrogantly right now, or else, instead of providing disaster relief, he might even cause a civil uprising.

He dismounted, pushed aside the guards and walked up to the old woman.

"Grandma, get up."

The old woman didn't expect that the Master Qingtian was actually a child, and said in surprise:

"Your Highness Prince Qin, can you really save us?"

"Grandma, yes!"

Facing the old man, Li Ji nodded guiltily.

"Your Highness, Prince of Qin, before the flood, I raised two pigs, ten chickens, and eight geese. They laid about ten eggs a day. I took them to the market and sold them for money, which fed my little granddaughter and me for the day."

"At the end of the year, I can sell the pig and get ten taels of silver. I can buy my Huahua a new dress made of colorful cloth and buy her a new pair of shoes. If we have another good year, I plan to use the remaining money to renovate the cottage."

"But... my pigs, chickens, and geese were all washed away by the flood. Woo, wow, wow..."

As the old woman spoke, she pulled Li Ji's sleeve and began to sob.

"My hut is gone, all gone. My flower was almost washed away. I put her in a basin of water, tied tightly to my waist, and let her float in the water for a whole day and night. I thought that even if we died, we would die together, and we would never be separated on the road to the underworld..."

When the suffering became concrete, Li Ji's heart, wrapped in iron thorns, began to ache.

Guilt, sin, regret!

For his own selfish desires and hatred, he plunged millions of people in Lin'an into dire straits.

What's the difference between him and Pei Yan, who is worse than pigs and dogs!

At this moment, he finally understood his father's anger.

It wasn't just anger towards him!

I am even more disappointed in him!

Thinking of this, Li Ji said to the old woman:

"Don't worry, grandma. Your pigs, chickens, and geese will all come back. And your hut and your flowered cloth will all come back."

He looked up at the dense crowd of people and shouted loudly:

"Fellow villagers, I, Li Ji, swear to heaven here that I will give you a peaceful and happy land, a thousand miles of fertile fields, a place to live and work in peace, and a bright and clear world."

The old woman sobbed and knelt down again, holding her granddaughter Huahua's head.

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

"Long live His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin! Long live a thousand years!"

One after another, the surrounding civilians also knelt down. The roaring shouts echoed outside the city wall.

Xie An sat in the carriage, looking at Li Ji who stood out from the crowd, gritted his teeth, and pulled Li Xun and Li Shou out of the carriage.

"Let's go, now."

……

The yamen door.

The guard lifted the curtain of the carriage and found that it was empty.

"Your Highness, this is bad. Young Master Xie and the two young princes are missing."

Li Ji walked into the government office without looking back.

"Don't panic, I know where they went."

As soon as Xie An sticks out his butt, he knows what kind of shit he is going to do.

Just now when there were crowds of people at the city gate, he caught a glimpse of Xie An taking Li Xun and Li Shou away.

However, he still asked a few people to follow secretly for protection.

The most urgent task is to provide disaster relief and then catch Pei Yan, the culprit.

He had no time for childish tantrums.

……

Let’s talk about Xie An.

After slipping out of the group, he felt his clothes were too conspicuous, so he grabbed three children of similar age from the shantytown outside the city and exchanged their tattered clothes and shoes for his.

Wearing coarse cloth clothes is not only suffocating, but even the smell is enough to make people cry.

"Master, it's itchy!"

Li Xun couldn't help scratching his body. He felt like there were many bugs crawling all over him.

Li Shou already had several scratches on his body.

Xie An also felt itchy, but he endured it.

"Why is it so troublesome! Don't you see the kids around here? They're all dressed like this, and they don't seem to be catching me! Just bear with it, it will be fine in two days. If it doesn't work anymore..."

He observed it carefully, squatted down, grabbed a handful of mud from the ground, and smeared it on his body and face while suppressing his nausea.

"If that doesn't work, grab some mud and smear it all over your body. See, the itching will go away."

He looked at those children and saw which one was not a mud monkey.

I think if you have thick skin, you won't be afraid of lice bites.

Sure enough, the itch was gone after wiping off the mud, but my body became even more smelly, with a rotten smell.

Seeing that Xie An could be so ruthless, Li Xun and Li Shou naturally did not want to be outdone. After the three of them finished applying the paint, they looked at each other. Now, even if their own mothers stood in front of them, they would not recognize them.

Xie An picked up three more sticks nearby and gave each of them a broken tile. When the three of them looked just like the children running around in the shantytown, he nodded with satisfaction and said,

"Great! Let's go! Go up the mountain and find that bastard!"

Not far away, the few secret guards who followed had to grit their teeth and swallow their anger, and could only silently change clothes. In the blink of an eye, they became men who were even more miserable than beggars.

……

"Duke,"

After Helan Yue and a few others checked the terrain, they jumped out from the darkness and gathered around Pei Heng.

"How about it?"

Pei Heng found a place sheltered from the wind, and a group of people squatted together in a circle.

Helan Yue picked up a few stones and moved them around, then drew with a branch, and a simple map appeared on the ground.

"Master, this is the terrain around the stronghold. That bastard Pei Yan really knows how to choose the terrain. This place is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It's like one man guarding the pass against ten thousand."

Hearing this, Pei Heng frowned.

Although Pei Yan was not as good as him, he had followed him on the battlefield for a year, and later he was exposed to the military affairs in the Ministry of War, so he knew a lot about marching and fighting.

The terrain of the Dragon Slaying Village in front of us is indeed well chosen.

"but!"

Helan Yue laughed,

"In front of our brothers, this is a piece of cake! Master, pull two cannons over and bombard the hilltop with ten rounds. Any difficult level will be reduced to rubble."

The people of Beimang were bombarded by artillery fire and were forced to submit letters of surrender and negotiate peace, let alone this small mountain stronghold.

"no!"

Pei Heng quickly rejected his suggestion.

"Don't even mention the huge amount of effort it would take to transport this cannon from the north. Even if we did get it here, I wouldn't use it."

"why?"

Not only Helan Yue was puzzled, but others also didn't understand.

Pei Heng said solemnly:

"Many people on the mountain were civilians before. They have no idea what war is, let alone what rebellion is. They were all tricked into coming up the mountain by Pei Yan."

"Once the artillery fires, they will have no way to retreat."

After hearing what Pei Heng said, Helan Yue became worried.

"Then... Master, I will lead a team to attack violently, and I will attack from the cliffs behind, attacking from both sides."

Pei Heng said:

"We've mapped the terrain and know he's on the mountain. For now, let's leave it like this. I'm going back to the city to mobilize troops and check on the progress of disaster relief. The rest of you, disguise yourself as disaster victims, sneak in, and wait for my signal to act accordingly."

When Helan Yue heard that they had to infiltrate the enemy, he immediately became interested.

"Okay! Don't worry, I'm the best at this!"