I will lead the whole village to occupy the land and become the king.

Wang Bo left quickly and came back quickly.

As soon as he came back, he gave Jiang Qinyu a thumbs up and said, "Mrs. Lu is really amazing. She can actually come up with something like a water pump."

Grandpa Jiang and his team had installed three water pumps on the other side of the valley a few days ago. Wang Bo went down and tried them out, and found that the water in the lake could really be pumped up.

"It's not what I thought," Jiang Qinyu looked at him with a faint smile, "I saw it in a book that my eldest brother had when I was young."

Anyway, the eldest brother of the Jiang family is no longer with us, and many of his belongings have been disposed of. No matter who investigates, they won’t find anything.

"I see." Wang Bo nodded, and his impression of Jiang Qinyu became even more strange.

Liu Ruyi said with a puzzled look on her face, "If there really were such a thing recorded in a book, wouldn't it have been widely promoted in Great Yue long ago?"

"I don't know about that. Anyway, I just saw it by accident. I don't remember everything. It was Grandpa Jiang and the others who filled in the gaps." Jiang Qinyu spread her hands, looking innocent.

No matter how others suspect her, as long as there is no evidence, she will insist she knows nothing.

Liu Ruyi didn't say anything more because Meng Tianze was already calling Wang Bo to set off.

"Sister Lu, please take good care of Miss Liu while I'm away." After Wang Bo instructed Liu Ruyi, he pleaded with Jiang Qinyu.

Jiang Qinyu was speechless. She wasn't familiar with Wang Bo, so why should she help him take care of someone?

Although she really wanted to reply, "I can take care of you, but that's a different price," Jiang Qinyu held back in front of so many villagers.

"Miss Liu, if you have anything to ask, you can come to me if it's within your ability." But you have to pay extra.

Jiang Qinyu added silently in her heart.

"Thank you, Mrs. Lu. I'll be leaving first." Wang Bo thanked her, said goodbye, and followed Meng Tianze.

Jiang Qinyu and others also began to cross the mountain and headed towards Tiger Valley.

She had just gone down from Liangzi to halfway down Tiger Valley when the system prompt sounded in her head again.

[Ding! Sufficient items have been detected to complete the task. Please collect them as soon as possible!]

Jiang Qinyu looked up and saw that it was difficult to unlock the fruit and vegetable area before, but now she realized that it could be done in a valley.

So, Liu Ruyi discovered that after arriving in the valley, Jiang Qinyu just looked at the condition of the water pump, and then continued to dig fruit tree seedlings everywhere.

What was even more bizarre was that she clearly saw Jiang Qinyu digging up so many saplings, but after a while there were not many left in her backpack.

"Mrs. Lu, did the saplings you dug fall off?" Liu Ruyi asked.

Jiang Qinyu always knew that she was observing her, but in order to distinguish the ten kinds of saplings she had collected, she took advantage of Liu Ruyi's inattention and stored those ten kinds into the system.

Hearing the question, Jiang Qinyu said calmly, "I dug up some of them, some were not suitable for planting on the reclaimed land, and some didn't taste good, so I threw them away."

Liu Ruyi looked back and indeed saw some seedlings thrown on the ground. She was relieved and said, "So that's how it is."

After that, she continued, "Mrs. Lu, I'm quite interested in life in your village. Can you teach me how to do farm work?"

"I'm sorry, I can't help you with this. Most of the farm work at home was done by my father-in-law before." Jiang Qinyu refused directly.

She didn't know how to farm at all, but she knew some common sense better than the average person, which she learned from them when she was doing an internship in the countryside.

As for the land that the Lu family allocated to her...she could just use some money to hire other people to help farm it. All she had to do was ask them.

Liu Ruyi immediately let out a disappointed "Oh" and then squatted on the ground, saying dejectedly, "Brother Wang's mother doesn't like me either. Although she seems to treat me well, I know she despises me."

"Wang Bo said before that you were from Beijing, so why don't you go home?" Jiang Qinyu asked while submitting the task items to the system in her mind.

Liu Ruyi looked up at her and asked, "Sister Lu, do you know the difference between legitimate and illegitimate children?"

"I've heard of it." Jiang Qinyu nodded.

Liu Ruyi said with a hint of self-mockery, "I'm a concubine's daughter, sent to the border town by my family. I originally wanted to win over Marshal Qin on behalf of my family, but I didn't expect that as soon as I arrived at the border town, Dayuan and Xiqiang formed an alliance to attack Dayue, and Marshal Qin was killed in the battle..."

The border town was briefly lost at that stop, and countless people in the city were killed or injured. She almost died and fainted. When she woke up, she saw Wang Bo.

"Dayuan and Xiqiang formed an alliance?" Jiang Qinyu's expression suddenly froze. "Why didn't the imperial court announce it?"

The border war is urgent, and the court will definitely recruit soldiers and collect grain, but there has been no movement so far, which is very abnormal.

Liu Ruyi shook her head. "I don't know either, but when I left the capital, there were many factions within the court. The current emperor was overwhelmed by them and is said to have taken refuge in the harem."

Jiang Qinyu: "..."

She didn't know what to say. Today, natural disasters are rampant, foreign tribes are eyeing the country covetously, and the court is still in internal strife. How on earth can the emperor stay in the harem with peace of mind?

No, this is not what she should consider now, but the alliance between Dayuan and Xiqiang. If the border town cannot hold on, Yongshan County will be the next line of defense for Dai Viet!

Did they just decide not to flee famine, but now they have to prepare to flee war?

Jiang Qinyu's brows were furrowed so tightly that she didn't care about the system's congratulations on unlocking the fruit and vegetable area in her mind, and she didn't care about the new tasks either.

Wang Bo definitely didn't ask any questions about Liu Ruyi, otherwise he would never have returned to the village.

So should she tell the villagers?

"Mrs. Lu," Liu Ruyi saw that her face looked grim, and quickly asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Jiang Qinyu calmed herself down and asked, "Then do you know who is guarding the border town now?"

She just said that the border town was lost briefly, which means it was recaptured later.

"I know," Liu Ruyi nodded. "He was Marshal Qin's former deputy general. After the Marshal's death, His Majesty personally appointed him as the Grand General Protector of the Nation. But I don't know his name."

Jiang Qinyu felt a chill in her heart. It was over. With an unknown general, it was a question whether the border town could be defended and for how long it could be held. In short, the situation was not optimistic and she had to make a decision quickly.

But she really didn't want to move! She finally had her own little home, and her two children were so obedient and sensible. If she fled now, her future would be uncertain.

"Don't worry, Sister Lu," Liu Ruyi said, noticing her troubled expression and thinking she was afraid, so she consoled her. "The Protector of the Nation is very capable. It was he who led the troops to recapture the lost border town."

Jiang Qinyu declined to comment. At this time, the title of General Protector of the Nation conferred by the emperor was just a nice-sounding title. It remained to be seen whether he had the real ability.

"Well, that has nothing to do with us ordinary people," Jiang Qinyu said, pretending to be indifferent. "But you, Miss Liu, should go back to the capital. It's not safe here."

Liu Ruyi smiled bitterly, "From the day I left the border town with Brother Wang, it was destined that I would never be able to return."

How could such a big family still want a concubine's daughter who could not bring any benefits to the family and was saved by a man from outside the family and had her reputation ruined?