When Li Xingzhao heard the report from the porter, he hurriedly held his big belly, greeted him dogleggingly, licked his smiling face and bowed down to invite: "Weichen said that there is a magpie calling today, it turns out that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is coming!" ”

Chu Jinrong followed behind the little servant, and nodded at him casually when he heard the words, looking full of joy, and his handsome facial features were radiant: "Lord Li, I... His Royal Highness is here this time to propose marriage, and I have had a marriage contract with the second lady of your mansion since I was a child, and it is time to ask for marriage. ”

Li Xingzhao's face was worried, he had just driven people away with his front foot, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince came to propose marriage with his back foot, how could this be good?

His eyes rolled twice in a row, patted his belly and turned his head, and asked the maid behind him with an ignorant look: "Where's Miss?" ”

The maid was stunned for a moment, and said in her heart: Didn't this just make you angry and leave?

But he still answered honestly: "Miss left, ran away from home, just walked less than half a cup of tea, if you go now, you should still be able to chase ......"

"Hey, look at Weichen's memory." Li Xingzhao's big fleshy palm slapped loudly, and he piled up his cheeks and crossed the flesh to reveal an ugly and somewhat funny smile: "His Royal Highness the Prince, please, my new West Lake Longjing has not been opened yet, just waiting for you~"

"Yes, yes, it's really hot today, Zhao Xiaotang, why don't we go to Lord Li's mansion to drink a glass of water and rest before returning to the palace."

Before the little maid's voice fell, Chu Jinrong and Li Xingzhao spoke at the same time, directly interrupting her words.

Looking at the long alley, the little girl pursed her lips, her eyes gradually changed from shock to pity, with a pitiful look, and said in her heart: I'm sorry Miss, I was really scared~

When Chu Jinrong sat in the main hall of the Fuyang Marquis Mansion and drank three cups of Longjing leisurely, he said in a leisurely manner: "The little maid said just now, where did the second lady go?" ”

Li Xingzhao smiled awkwardly, with the expression of a fellow practitioner: "This, I am not afraid of His Highness's jokes, my second daughter is stubborn, and she just had a little conflict with her family, it seems that she ...... Away from home ......"

"Great... No, I mean, what? Running away from home?! Chu Jinrong was so excited that he almost missed his mouth, but in fact, he was happy in his heart, when he got the news that the second lady of the Fuyang Hou Mansion was kicked out of the mansion, he really wanted to look up to the sky and let out a long roar, which could be regarded as giving him a chance to find the wrong prince!

Just because there is a natural barrier around Nanyue country, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the territory is rich in products, this nearly a hundred years, it can be said that it is a model of national peace and security, even his father is lazy with the government from time to time, raised a group of capable people, and directly became the shopkeeper, and pondered to pass the throne to his son early.

And made an unwritten rule that whoever marries the daughter of the Marquis of Fuyang will inherit the throne.

What's infuriating is that the second emperor of his family, who lacks virtue, actually set up a plan, not only pushed the marriage contract to him, but also gave him the position of the crown prince!

He just wants to be an idle prince who eats, drinks and has fun, and he doesn't want to be diligent in government and love the people!

He frowned, deliberately kept a straight face, and put on a worried look: "How can a girl run away from home without saying a word?" No way! I'm going to get her back! ”

After speaking, the gold-painted robe fell off his sleeves, and the two of them walked away quickly without looking back, but they were thinking in their hearts, the big drama he had just planned to find a wife, looking for a wife, it should not be possible to find it for a while, which city's snack street should he go to first and start eating along the way......

Li Xingzhao's face was the color of pig liver, and one hand was still stretched out in the air, so I heard him finish speaking, His Royal Highness the Prince?!

Forget it, looking at the appearance of His Royal Highness the Prince, he is very interested in that daughter who is not angry, and he doesn't have to worry about Li Qiuchi, Miss Jiao, who has never had a hard life, when the money is spent and she has suffered a little, she will know the hard work of the adult, and she will definitely come back to admit her mistake when the time comes.

In the inn, Li Qiuchi was a little entangled, the person came out, but he didn't know where to go.

In her previous life, she was an orphan, she grew up in an orphanage in the mountains, and her biggest dream was to open her own food shop, but who would have thought that she had just saved enough money, and she was actually stoned to death during the renovation of the store, and she crossed the ...... bloody

She touched the one hundred taels of silver tickets in her arms, and smiled happily, she didn't like the open and secret battles of wealthy families, she just wanted to find a square inch of land and realize her dreams, so she took the opportunity to take revenge on Li Haoran and proposed to sever relations with the Fuyang Marquis Mansion and leave the suffocating cage.

"Mother Wu, Xiao Cuicui, I want to buy a piece of land, where do you think the land is more fertile, the kind that can grow all kinds of crops?" She sat on the bed in the inn, propped her chin and asked Wu Ma and Cuiyu's opinion, after all, they were aborigines, and they knew a lot better than her, who came halfway.

Cuiyu shook her head apologetically: "I was sold to the Fuyang Marquis Mansion since I was a child, and I haven't been out of the house much, I don't know much about these things." ”

"Miss wants to buy land to grow food?" But Wu's mother, who was packing up her things, said with a smile: "If you want to talk about farming, Wu's mother was also a good hand back then, why don't you go to my hometown Longnan with Wu's mother?" The climate in Longnan is humid and hot, the land is fertile, and everything grows well. ”

Li Qiuchi immediately came to his senses when he heard this, and asked in detail about the customs and customs of Longnan, and clapped with satisfaction: "Cheng!" Let's go to Longnan! ”

So, after Li Qiuchi made a lot of purchases in the city, he rented a carriage and took Wu Ma and Xiaocui to the road to Longnan.

Three months later.

On a small hillside outside Longnan City, Chu Jinrong was sitting cross-legged on the ground, wearing a black and reckless embroidered brocade robe rolled to the side, tying a big round knot with a very exaggerated technique, holding a lotus leaf bag with well-defined hands, and a roast duck with fresh skin and tender meat on it, biting a leg, eating deliciously.

A black-clothed guard next to him was grabbing a handful of roast chicken thighs made of bamboo skewers, touching the slightly raised circle of fat on his stomach with a sad face, and frowned: "Master, we have been out for three months, are you sure that the second lady of the Hou Mansion is going in this direction?" ”

"Of course...... Up in the air! Chu Jinrong slowly tore a duck leg and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing one bite at a time: "She ran away from home, most of the time she went to her grandfather's house in the northwest, let's come to the southeast, naturally we can't find her." ”

The black-clothed guard was full of depression: "Then shouldn't we change direction?" Why is there such a long delay in the cities of the south? ”

"I said Zhao Xiaotang, is the chicken leg not fragrant or what? How much nonsense! Chu Jinrong glanced at him, pulled his sleeve and wiped his hands, picked up a piece of mung bean cake and stuffed it into his mouth: "Isn't it very wonderful that this long journey to find a wife, eating and drinking all the way?" Look at you, you don't have your brother's cleverness, he is busy dealing with those people in Anseong, why don't you go and replace him? ”

Zhao Xiaotang looked at the pile of food in his arms, and decisively shook his head into a rattle: "No! It is my duty to protect my master's safety! ”

"That's it," Chu Jinrong didn't raise his head, took out a handkerchief and wiped his mouth carefully, and then directly raised his hand and pointed to the green watermelon field down the slope: "Then you go and pick a melon, your master and I am thirsty, remember to put two taels of silver in the melon field, you can't eat other people's for nothing." ”

Zhao Xiaotang almost wanted to shut himself up on the spot, but he still resigned himself to putting down the food, and quietly touched the melon field with the skills of the three-grade knife guard.

Just a moment later, a sound of "jingle bells" alarmed Chu Jinrong, who was eating, and as soon as he raised his handsome face stained with oil flowers, he heard the screams of his own relatives and guards like killing pigs.

"Help! Master, help—"

He looked shocked, and ran down the hill with the roast duck that had not yet been nibbled, and had just jumped over the ditch before he could take two steps, when suddenly there was a strange movement under his feet, and a large net bounced up from the ground and covered him in it.

"What is this? Who set up a mechanism here?! Zhao Xiaotang, come and save-" Chu Jinrong struggled with the roast duck for a while, and when he looked up, he saw that his own guard was buried in the pit and only half of his head was exposed, and there were two large rat traps in his hands that were climbing on the edge of the pit......

Whose the hell is this melon field?!

"Hmm...... Did you catch a wild boar? Li Qiuchi came from the small pergola not far away with his sleepy eyes, and he was carrying a hoe ready to hunt wild boars.

"What wild boar? Let Ben Gongzi go! Chu Jinrong pulled the net angrily, but the roast duck in his hand was not stained with a little dust.

"Yo, it's a human being, or two handsome boys, tsk...... I don't know what the two of you came to my melon field for? Li Qiuchi sobered up, grinning with a mouthful of small teeth, but the smile was not as good as the bottom of his eyes.

has been caught by someone and is still so horizontal, what a melon thief with his nostrils facing the sky!

Chu Jinrong's body stiffened, and he suddenly remembered that he had asked Zhao Xiaotang to pick melons, and his momentum couldn't help but weaken a little: "You, you are the owner of this melon field?" We passed by here, and we were thirsty and wanted to eat a melon, and we gave the money, and we put it over there, and you can go and see. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Zhao Xiaotang not far away pouting, and took out two taels of silver as if he were a god: "I, I was arrested before I could release it." ”

“……”

Chu Jinrong was full of black lines, and he hugged the roast duck and changed his smile to a smile: "This is all a misunderstanding, we don't mean not to give money......

I don't mean not to give money, I believe you are a ghost!

Li Qiuchi rolled his eyes, his little face was flat, and a hoe target poked at the heart of his footboard: "Sister, what I have is money, it's not rare for you to have a little bit of silver!" Steal my melons, either help me hoe the ground, or sister, I will send you to see the official! Take your pick! ”

"What? Sending the officer? Chu Jinrong felt that the roast duck in his hand was not fragrant.

Sending the official, isn't that the same as going home? Isn't that the same as regency? Isn't that the same as inheriting the throne?

No! He doesn't want to send the official!

"I choose to hoe!"

Zhao Xiaotang had already removed all the mousetraps on his body, and was about to jump out with his hands in his hands, and take down this stinky girl who was disrespectful and moved her hands and feet, when he heard his master's very firm words, he didn't collapse in one breath, and his handsome face slammed straight on the mud-smeared pit wall......

Li Qiuchi nodded with satisfaction, one melon for two free laborers, cost-effective!