Chapter Ninety-Seven: Running away in anger

"Sister Xiao Jiang." When a group of children saw her enter the village, they rushed over with happy screams and dragged her into the old village chief's house.

"Xiao Jiang, I heard that the general came back from a victory, shouldn't I blame you for that incident?" The old village chief saw that Jiang Xinyi's face was not very good, so he asked worriedly.

"No, don't worry about that, I'm fine. And I also asked clearly, it's not that the steward deliberately didn't come to your village to buy ingredients, but because the funds given by the imperial court are limited, and the food of those soldiers is really not very good, only the leaders occasionally go to hunt some game to give them a tooth sacrifice. Jiang Xinyi explained.

"So? If you don't come back in the future, we won't be so black-hearted to ask for three times the compensation, just according to the original price. The old village chief made Jiang Xinyi a cup of tea and said.

"It's okay, you don't have to feel guilty, anyway, the money didn't come out of the barracks." Jiang Xinyi said stupidly.

"Huh? It didn't come out of the barracks, where did it come from? The old village chief asked puzzled, because every time he went to get money, it was the silver given by an officer.

"This, you don't care, just take the silver if you have it, and those who don't have their turn tell them not to worry. And remember to explain it to the adults again, don't let the children know about it, I'm afraid it will affect them, then they will be guilty. Jiang Xinyi reassured again.

"This little old man understands." The old village chief nodded hurriedly and said.

Jiang Xinyi really wants to help these poor villagers, if she only helps a few, it is very simple, she can use her savings to give them away, but she doesn't have so much ability in the whole village.

Last time, she discussed with the old village chief, she would come to "steal" some things from time to time, and then the village chief came forward to go to the barracks to ask for compensation, and the first time she stole a dog to try it, Wen Yuxin really paid for it.

She knew that at this time, because of her special status, if she changed other soldiers or soldiers in the barracks, she would not pass the test so easily.

Anyway, Wen Yuxin is the emperor's son, and it is not an exaggeration to use his silver to help their people, besides, almost all of the things that have been "stolen" recently are eaten by the soldiers and the wounded and sick in front of them, Jiang Xinyi has no sense of guilt at all, and feels like a woman who robs the rich and helps the poor!

She doesn't know how long she can stay here, but she can help as much as she can help this village. Now she doesn't have the ability to think of a better way to lead this village out of poverty and become rich, she is not a strong woman, she doesn't have that courage, at most she will use her crooked brains to exploit some silver from that dead pervert.

Jiang Xinyi's stomach was grunting with hunger, and she was embarrassed to ask the old village chief for something to eat, and she was annoyed why she didn't go to the room to eat those dumplings and then come out. Presumably it all entered that guy's stomach at this time, knowing that he had such no conscience, he wouldn't make dumplings for him, hum!

Fortunately, the old village chief suddenly stood up and went to the next room to take out some dried fruits and put them beside Jiang Xinyi, "Xiao Jiang, this is the dried wild fruit on the mountain, you can taste it." ”

"Well, thank you." Jiang Xinyi hurriedly "touched" it unceremoniously and stuffed it into her mouth, it was sour and delicious, like hawthorn.

The children who had been kicked out by the village chief before poured in again, gathered around her, and talked to her in a chattering voice, Jiang Xinyi dragged the youngest little girl, let her sit in her arms, and handed her some dried fruits, but the child shook his head and didn't want to, and some other children were not interested in those dried fruits, presumably they were tired of eating them.

"Sister Xiao Jiang, why do you want to wear your brother's clothes, they don't look good at all." A slightly older boy next to him asked.

"Because in the barracks, my sister has to dress like this, my sister is already very ugly, and it doesn't matter what she wears." Jiang Xinyi teased the boy and said.

"No, Sister Xiao Jiang is the most beautiful, my mother said you are the best. Sister, don't be sad, I'll marry you when I grow up, and I'll cut a lot of firewood and sell it, and buy you beautiful clothes and flowers to wear. The ten-year-old boy patted his little chest and said.

One sentence amused Jiang Xinyi and the old village chief, and several other boys also said that they didn't think she was ugly and asked her to marry her when they grew up.

Jiang Xinyi was already in a good mood at this time, "Okay, then you have to grow up quickly, and you have to be filial to your father, and I will consider marrying the best one when the time comes." She forced a laugh and said.

"By the way, old village chief, is there a school master in the village?" Jiang Xinyi asked.

"No, nothing, there is Daling Village thirty miles away from here, but unfortunately only the children of rich families are accepted there, and even if the dolls of ordinary villagers have money to study, they will not be accepted." The old village chief said with a sigh.

Such? Jiang Xinyi looked at these children around her who were in tattered clothes and had a childlike face, and she couldn't help but feel a little heartache in her heart. In modern times, children in rural areas have also begun to go to kindergarten, and some children are even better dressed and fed than urban children.

But these children are so pitiful.

"In a few days I'll think of a way to find a gentleman for them, if it really doesn't work, I'll teach them first, and I have to let them know some words anyway." Jiang Xinyi thought + passionately for a moment, and said to the old village chief.

"Then the relationship is good, I'll let them clean up a place and make a school when I go back." The old village chief said excitedly, stood up and bowed to Jiang Xinyi.

Jiang Xinyi was so frightened that she hurriedly put down the child in her arms to stop him from doing that, the old village elder burst into tears, and his gray beard stabbed Jiang Xinyi's eyes painfully.

"Old village chief, don't be like this, I won't have a lot, I will teach them before I find a suitable gentleman, and I will still know how to teach them those words." Jiang Xinyi said with confidence.

The old village chief wiped away his tears with his sleeve and didn't say anything, just looked at the children around Jiang Xinyi, and smiled kindly, these dolls are really blessed.

"By the way, old village chief, I fell into the water not long ago and had some amnesia, and I forgot a lot of things, can you tell me what is going on with Xiliangguo? Why do I think that these two countries should not be enemies, but should be friendly brothers? Jiang Xinyi suddenly remembered to ask clearly.

"Alas, the two countries have been at war for as long as I can remember. I heard my grandfather say, just as you said, he Xiliang and our Dongliang country were originally the same country, I don't know when it began, it was divided into two, it is said that the two lords were still brothers, at that time the two countries were still very friendly, and then I don't know why suddenly the sword soldiers met, probably want to annex each other. Now our lords are still hereditary, and they have changed hands many times. However, now they are all provoking trouble, if it weren't for the kindness of the emperor today, I am afraid that they would have entered their country and destroyed them. The old village chief said with his beard twisted.

So that's the case? That is, the ambition of that Xiliang country is too great. Jiang Xinyi no longer has a good impression of the king of that country in her heart, no matter who wins the battle between the two countries, the most pitiful people are those people.

"Niuniu's father just sneaked to sell mountain goods there, but never came back, and later found that he was gouged out of his eyes on the border, hollowed out his heart and liver and hung it to show the public, saying that it was a 'traitor', and the body was stolen back by the villagers at the risk of death, and Niuniu was still in her mother's belly that year, and the poor child didn't even see her father's face." The old village chief looked at the girl who had been hugged by Jiang Xinyi just now and said.

"Niu Niu? How old are you? Jiang Xinyi picked up the girl again with pity and asked gently.

"Niu Niu is six years old." The girl blinked her eyes and said with tears in her eyes, she could already understand what the village chief said.

"Is it okay for my sister to tell you a story?" Jiang Xinyi felt that she had to do something for these children.

"Okay." The children clapped their hands excitedly and shouted, and then squatted beside Jiang Xinyi, the old village chief walked out with a smile, and after a while, he came in with a brazier, put it next to Jiang Xinyi, and brought in a few small chairs and stuffed them under the buttocks of several children, and walked out again, he wanted to discuss with the villagers where to make a school suitable.

The pangolin told an old man that only by planting a gourd with seven 'colors' could he destroy the two monsters. The old man knocked down the big stone, rescued the pangolin pressed below, and got the magical treasure gourd seeds, at this time, the cave collapsed, thanks to the gourd seeds and the protection of the mountain god, the old man returned to his home safely, and the old man quickly planted the gourd seeds in his yard.

The gourd seeds germinated quickly, and the old man didn't need to help it build a shelf, so he grew up along the small stone pile next to him, and built a shelf by himself, and then bloomed seven small flowers of different colors, and produced red, orange, yellow, green, green, blue, and purple seven gourds, the old man was happy, thinking that it wouldn't take long to destroy the two monsters, but the old man didn't know that the monster had a baby, called Ruyi Mirror, and the old man planted seven "color" gourds They all looked through the mirror. ”

Jiang Xinyi was hungry and told the story of the gourd baby to the children, but she didn't know that the person who choked her was on the way to Xiaoling Village at this time.

"Master, the princess is not so bold, is she, this is broad daylight, and she dares to go to that village to steal? Ziqi let his horse speed up and ran to Wen Yuxin's side and said.

"Hehe, who knows, what dare she dare to do with her 'sex', I'll just go out for a month, and she will give me a bill of more than 100 taels of silver, fortunately, there is such a poor village nearby, if it is in the capital, I estimate that I will go bankrupt." Wen Yuxin said with a smile.

"Brother Liu, do you see it, how happy is the master, General Huang is still waiting for him to punish the princess, don't you say it's funny?" Lian Cheng whispered to Liu Jun beside him.

"Master, are you sure the princess is in this village?" Ziqi asked again, anyway, it's not in the barracks, so you don't have to call Xiao Jiang.

"Well, Qiao Er said she should be here." Wen Yuxin said affirmatively, but she remembered in her heart, that gluttonous cat was still hungry because he was angry, so he wouldn't really run to others to steal something to eat in broad daylight! Then he grabbed the horse's belly and hastened towards the village. Liu Jun and the others hurriedly followed.

When they rode their horses to the village, dismounted and walked to find someone, they saw a group of villagers coming towards them, and the old man who led the way saw Wen Yuxin and them, and immediately whispered something to a person next to him, who looked at them in a panic and ran away.

"I said, master, we are not enemy soldiers, we are not bandits, why are they so nervous?" Lian Cheng asked Wen Yuxin incomprehensibly.

"Could it be that they arrested the princess and would be scared when they saw us coming?" Iron Heart smirked evilly. He saw Liu Jun and Wen Yuxin go out, and knew that they were going to find the princess and wanted to see the excitement, so he caught up, because Wen Yuxin didn't call him at all.