My reborn husband and son are thinking about how to kill me every day.

Prince Duan suddenly stood up, grabbed the sword beside him, and pointed it at Li Zhao's neck, saying, "What did you just say? Say it again?"

The servants present were so frightened by Prince Duan's appearance that they dared not even breathe loudly. Li Zhao, however, calmly repeated what he had just said.

After saying that, he advised, "Although Your Highness has taken the medicine and the insects have temporarily entered a dormant state, you should still avoid getting angry so as not to overstimulate the insects."

Prince Duan was initially unwilling to believe what he said, but after his initial anger subsided, his head began to ache again.

At this point, he had to consider the veracity of what Li Zhao had said.

He sheathed his sword, pressed his temple, and asked, "Besides that, what else did he say?"

"Your Highness, is your headache acting up again?" Liu Yongfu asked with concern, looking at him. "Would you like to take another pill?"

He was asking both Prince Duan and Li Zhao this question. After all, he was the one who brought the medicine back, and the prince had just taken one pill; whether taking another now would be too much was something he needed to ask him.

Li Zhao took another pill from the porcelain bottle and offered it, saying, "Your Highness, please take this. However, two pills are the limit for one day. Your Highness must try to avoid getting angry in the future."

Prince Duan's gaze fell on the porcelain bottle in his hand.

The porcelain bottle was only the size of a fist, and there didn't seem to be many pills inside. He estimated that one pill a day would last him at most thirty days.

He endured his headache and did not take the medicine immediately. Instead, he asked Li Zhao, "If this medicine is finished and a solution is still not found, what will happen to me?"

Li Zhao hesitated for a moment, but Prince Duan said, "There's no need to hide anything from me, just tell the truth."

"The doctor means that this medicine can only temporarily paralyze the insects for a while, and it will lose its effectiveness if you take too much of it."

Therefore, if you cannot find the sorceress to cast the spell on the prince, there's no need to seek her prescription anymore. She said the prince's body will be completely taken over by insects, and he will gradually lose his self-awareness.

Prince Duan's face instantly turned ashen, veins bulging on his forehead, and he raised his hand to strike Li Zhao with his sword.

Liu Yongfu hurriedly stepped forward to dissuade him, saying, "Your Highness, you mustn't! You mustn't! You absolutely mustn't get angry again."

Under Liu Yongfu's persuasion, Prince Duan, for the sake of his health, managed to suppress his anger.

He said, panting, "Go on."

Liu Yongfu kept giving Li Zhao meaningful glances, signaling him to stop talking and not to provoke the prince.

But Li Zhao seemed not to notice his gaze and continued, "The doctor also said that if these insects are not completely eradicated, not only the prince, but the entire Ningcheng will also be overrun by insects."

Prince Duan suddenly burst into laughter, "Li Zhao, is it because you failed to catch the assassin who killed the insects and were afraid I would blame you, that you made up this lie to deceive me?"

Li Zhao touched his forehead to the ground and said, "I dare not!"

Prince Duan sneered and said to Liu Yongfu, "Go and summon doctors from all over the city to examine me."

As he spoke, he handed the medicine to Rui Bingtian, asking him to take a look at its ingredients.

As for Li Zhao, he had him imprisoned in a dungeon and kept under guard.

He was always suspicious, and before he was completely certain that his headache was caused by insects, he did not dare to fully trust Li Zhao.

Li Zhao was not surprised by his decision. He had already anticipated the scenarios he might encounter before returning.

To be honest, it was already a surprise to him that Prince Duan did not kill him directly, but only imprisoned him.

*

After Ji Yunshuang finished the surgery on Gou Dan, she kept him in the space for half an hour to observe him. Only after confirming that the surgery was successful did she move him out of the space.

To prevent Gou Dan from waking up midway, in addition to giving him anesthesia so that he could not feel the pain in his legs, she also put him into a deep sleep.

Gou Dan was still asleep when Ji Yunshuang left the room. After telling Jiang Liu's wife, who was waiting outside, some things to pay attention to next, she left the Jiang family with Xia Biao.

Next, she needs to visit each of the estates to select some livestock to bring back to Jiangzhou for raising.

The remaining portion was divided among the various villages to expand the scale of breeding.

Just thinking about those insects that seemed to exude an evil aura made Ji Yunshuang very uneasy.

If the insect problem isn't resolved, Ningxing Prefecture will soon fall. Once Ningxing Prefecture falls, neighboring prefectures will be affected.

She had to do her best to stop it, but also prepare for any eventuality. She needed to continue stockpiling all supplies.

As Ji Yunshuang was thinking, they arrived at the first village.

Xia Biao took out his notebook and said, "Master, there are 158 chickens, 90 ducks, 32 geese, 89 pigs, 3 cows and 15 sheep in this farm. It's good that you came back today, otherwise I really don't know what to do with these animals."

Although the estate was large, the existing pigsties could not accommodate all the livestock that had been purchased and brought in.

Therefore, Xia Biao asked people to cut wood and temporarily build a fence to keep all the livestock inside.

With everything mixed up in such a chaotic way, coupled with a shortage of manpower, many livestock were injured, and some even fell ill.

After inspecting the livestock in the enclosure, Ji Yunshuang said, "We can find a place to enclose several more of these enclosures, specifically for raising chickens, ducks, cattle, and sheep. We should also find someone to rebuild the pigsty."

As she spoke, she took out paper and pen and began to draw a construction plan for the pigsty, asking him to build it according to the plan.

Xia Biao's eyes, however, were fixed on the pencil in Ji Yunshuang's hand, and he asked with envy, "Master, what kind of pencil is that in your hand?"

Ji Yunshuang had already erased the brand mark from the pencil. Seeing his envy, she handed him the paper and pencil together, saying, "This is a pencil I made myself. Here you go."

Xia Biao quickly thanked him, "Master is really smart, this pen is really convenient and easy to use."

"Alright, stop flattering me and get the job done."

Ji Yunshuang thought to herself that in addition to improving the breeding site, scientific feeding was also necessary.

Thinking about the books in the library in the space, many of them are about agriculture and animal husbandry.

She needs to find some time to organize these books and then select some people to train.

With that in mind, she then brought up the issue of the breeding personnel with Xia Biao.

"How many people are there in the village now?"

Xia Biao said, "When the owner sold the estate before, he left a group of people on the estate."

However, after these people learned that I was just a servant and that the master had not shown up for a long time, they became even more cunning and deceitful.

I had previously hired them to build fences for livestock, but they all ran off to shirk their responsibilities, so I simply sold them all off.

The few workers in the estate now are new hires I've brought in, but time is tight and there are so many estates, so these are all new recruits..."

Ji Yunshuang thought to herself, no wonder there aren't many people in this manor.

So they were all sold off!

She nodded and said, "Well done. In the future, select more bright ones and I will have someone teach them some feeding methods. In the future, we will turn our entire estate into a large-scale breeding farm."

When you're selecting people, you don't need to keep the indenture to yourself. If there are residents nearby who want to work, you can hire them. They need to be of good character and hardworking.