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At that time, the situation was urgent, so Ji Qianqing arranged for her to stay in the palace. Now that Jiugou was defeated, she had time to deal with the girl.
Even though Ji Xia tried his best to deny that he didn't move Jing Yu's finger, the way Ji Qianqing looked at him still made him feel cold.
The facts are exactly as Ji Xia said, the girl was just captured by the prince before she had time to do anything, the Tai Cangyu incident broke out, Ji Shang's lord collapsed, and the prince was kicked to death by Ji Qianqing.
Originally, Ji Xia had hoped that Jing Yu would tell the truth and save his face as the new ruler. Unexpectedly, after she was rescued, she remained silent and just stared at Ji Xia with foggy eyes all the time, letting him Quite uncomfortable.
So Ji Xia decided to take advantage of this trip to send Jing Yu back in person, so that the new Lord of the Kingdom would not endure the "embarrassment" torture all the time.
"This area is the main city of Taicheng." The street in front of him was very dilapidated, with only a dozen or so small stall owners feebly selling the things in front of them.
This is obviously abnormal. In Taicheng, there are 40 residents. In the era of cold weapons with extremely underdeveloped transportation, it is a very scary number. In theory, business should be prosperous and society should be prosperous. If you want to come to Taicheng Development is restricted by barren land and scarce production.
Relying on a small piece of land behind Taicheng, Tai Cang stumbled through more than two hundred years. The food was distributed by the royal court, the clothes were distributed by the royal court, and even the medicine after serious illness also needed to be distributed by the royal court.
Ji Xia knows that this is an extremely sick system, but he also understands that in such a difficult environment, the Taicang Royal Court can only do this - Jiugou, Zhou Qing and the two kingdoms are staring at each other, and the giant beasts in the Gobi and rainforest are waiting for Taicang. The Cang people sent them to their door to have a full meal. Under such circumstances, if the Taicang Royal Court did not take back the right to control food and let the society develop, then everyone would eventually face the embarrassing situation of having no food to eat.
As the former prince of Taicang and now the lord of the kingdom of Taicang, he naturally knows how clean the royal court and all officials of Taicang are. In Taicang, there has never been a saying of being filled with private pockets and eating vegetarian food for the corpse. All officials eat two meals a day. Even if it is a little better than ordinary people, it is still good.
Ji Qianqing looked at Ji Xia's silence all the way, thoughtfully, and couldn't help asking: "Now you are the Lord of Taicang, what are your plans?"
Ji Xia looked at a few young children who were lying on the street to kill time because of hunger, and said softly, "When the dove dog and the Crocodile Horn country further south reach an agreement for a temporary truce, they will make a comeback, and then it will be another time. In a war, let’s first completely solve the Dove Dog Kingdom.”
Ji Qianqing nodded, knowing that the reason why Jiugou was silent was more because of its defense against the Crocodile Kingdom, which was not weaker than them. Once Jiugou was willing to sacrifice something in exchange for a temporary truce from the Crocodile Kingdom, Tai Cang would face If it does, it will be a terrifying blow to the entire dove dog.
Ji Xia walked to a hut facing the street, an old man with a thin face and apathetic spirit, he closed his eyes and leaned on the stone pillar to rest.
"Old man, is there only one person in the family?" Ji Xia asked suddenly.
The sluggish old man turned his head with difficulty and turned towards the source of the sound. He opened his eyes, and his eyes were white. Looking at his groping movements, it was not difficult to see that this was a blind old man.
He answered loudly: "The two juniors went out to work before dawn. Now is the time to receive the goods, how can they stay at home idle?"
"Why can't you just stay at home? The food is provided by the royal court on a head-by-head basis. If you stay at home and work hard, you get the same food. Why do you have to work so hard?"
Hearing Ji Xia's words, the old man's face suddenly became gloomy, and he said unwaveringly, "Which family are you from? Why are you so ignorant? I have been working hard for hundreds of years to support my country. , if everyone had the same hateful thoughts as you, I would have been eaten alive by those dogs and monkeys long ago."
"The soldiers worked hard for Tai Cang, the daughters reproduced their descendants for Tai Cang, and continuously replenished the strength of Tai Cang's army. They lived at home, and young people who did not have outstanding cultivation talents naturally had to take care of the land that was related to their lifeline. What's wrong? "
"As for us old people, it is best to die quickly, so as not to drag down the king, the soldiers, or the sky. Unfortunately, I am free from illness and disaster, and the previous king explicitly prohibited the elderly from committing suicide..."
The old man talked about the former lord, and two tears flowed from his cloudy eyes: "The lord of Shang has worked hard for Tai Cang all his life. Now that he is gone, it is also a good thing. You don't have to worry about us old people."
Ji Xia listened to the old man's words silently, and an unspeakable feeling came to his heart. He asked, "Why are all Tai Cang people able to make such a degree of dedication to Tai Cang?"
"Tai Cang is our home country!" The old man muttered: "This land was opened up by the sages with swords and swords. We have lived here since we were young. There is no place in the world that can accept us except Tai Cang."
"And how can it be said that we are dedicated to the sky? Everything we do is not so noble, we are saving our lives! Just like the daughters of the family suffer from pregnancy in October, not because they want to, but because they can only this way!"
"Without heirs, the number of people born cannot keep up with the number of people who died, so what is waiting for the sky is that everyone will be eaten alive, or be cut into human beings for those beasts to play with! Compared with these, the pain of fighting for life, the pain of labor, What is the pain of pregnancy?"
Ji Xia took a deep breath, silently saluted the old man's chest, straightened his waist, and continued to walk forward.
Jing Yu looked at Ji Xia without saying a word. As an ordinary low-level citizen of the Taicang Kingdom, she could clearly see some strange emotions in the eyes of the new head of the country whom she hated deeply.
He is shaking, he is moving, he is pity, he is making up his mind.
Ji Qianqing looked at this scene, her eyes seemed to be full of hope, and the long skirt on her body supported her more and more beautifully. She walked behind Ji Xia in a few steps and said softly: "Master, Nanqing Street is in front of you. home is coming."
Chapter 13 Supernatural Powers
Nanqing Street is located in the west of Taicheng City. It is one of the main roads. There are many military homes. Ji Qianqing and Ji Xia's faces are covered by a hood. More or less sensational.
They were standing in front of an exceptionally clean wooden door that had been wiped down, and Ji Xia asked Jing Yu with her hands on her back, "This is your home?"
Jing Yu kept silent, just nodded slightly, thinking of Ji Xia's eyes after she was rescued by Ji Qianqing that day, she couldn't help feeling very uncomfortable: "I have to pay back the bad debts of the useless prince, it's really helpless."
He pretended to be nonchalant and said: "Since that's the case, you can go in first. General Ji and I need to walk a little longer to see the people's livelihood in Taicheng."
Jing Yu looked at Ji Qianqing with bright eyes, and finally said, "Jing Yu thanked General Ji for his rescue, why don't you go into the house and drink a glass of water before making plans?"
"no need……"
"Alright."
Just as Ji Xia was about to refuse, Ji Qianqing nodded in response: "Master, I'm going to drink a glass of water first, and you wait here for me."
Ji Xia's face froze, and he looked at Jing Yu, but Jing Yu didn't notice, raised his hand to Ji Qianqing, opened the door first, stepped into the door, and Ji Qianqing followed him in.
"After all, I am also the lord of the country, why do I have no sense of existence?" He muttered to himself, and was about to find a big tree to enjoy the shade, when a staggering young man with a sword came from the end of the long street.
The young man looked quite strong, and Ji Xia suddenly felt very familiar. When the figure got closer, he realized that this young man was exactly the one who fought side by side with him on the battlefield earlier.
The young man also saw Ji Xia. He walked past Ji Xia and seemed to have found something. He turned around and came back with a rather excited face.
"Your Majesty?" the young man said, with a very surprised tone.
Ji Xia also felt very pleasantly surprised. He didn't expect that the injured boy was still alive. He took off his hood and said with a smile: "Meet again?"
Seeing Ji Xia's face, the young man hurriedly knelt down on one knee and stroked his chest with his right hand, "See the king."
Ji Xia shook her head and lifted him up: "I'm wearing a hood, how can you recognize me?"
The young man's body is strong and standing in front of Ji Xia, who is of normal body, brings a huge sense of difference, but he half-bents down and answers: "Reporting to the king, Jing Ye's five senses are different from ordinary people, I just smelled the country the smell of the Lord."
Ji Xia heard the boy say his name, looked at the wooden door where Ji Qianqing and Jing Yu had just entered, and asked, "Your surname is Jing..."
Before he finished his question, a figure suddenly rushed out from the wooden door. Jing Yu burst into tears, rushed out of the wooden door, and rushed into the arms of the burly young man Jing Ye in three steps at a time, and said in a trembling tone: " Brother..."
Jing Ye was also very excited, touched the girl's hair, and said softly, "Sister Yu, don't cry, eldest brother is back."
It's okay if he doesn't speak, but when he speaks, Jing Yu seems to have been wronged by the sky, and suddenly sees the person closest to him.
Ji Xia touched her nose and smiled awkwardly.
While comforting his sister, Jing Ye smiled towards Ji Xia and said, "I haven't been home for more than a month. In addition, this battle is too dangerous, my sister may be too worried about me."
Ji Qianqing walked behind Ji Xia at some point, and gave Ji Xia a sideways glance.
Seeing Ji Qianqing, Jing Ye quickly wiped away his tears for Jing Yu, bowed and saluted, "See General Ji."
After Ji Qianqing nodded, with a smile on his face, he whispered to Jing Yu: "Don't cry anymore, brother is fine, come on, hurry up and salute with brother, you probably don't know, these two are my grandsons. The lord and the general, I can have such a great victory, it is all due to the lord and the general, and if the lord did not save me, I would have died on the battlefield."
Jing Yu blinked his eyes, and under Ji Xia's sneer, he actually bowed profusely and saluted Ji Xia: "Join the Lord, General Ji, the Lord's kindness in saving my elder brother's life, Jing Yu will never forget it."
Her tone was sincere, as if she had forgotten that Ji Xia had forced her away.
Ji Xia coughed lightly, nodded and said, "No gift."