In the private room of a luxury restaurant in Tianluo City, a gorgeously dressed young man played with two ruddy walnuts in his left hand, and the walnuts flipped flexibly in the young man's hands. Books Books Net There are plates of delicacies from the mountains and seas on the table, but I don't see the young man move his chopsticks. In addition to the young man in the entire private room, there was also a woman standing silently behind the young man. The woman's skin is white and her figure is slender, but she does not wear an ordinary woman's veil Bixialuo, but a purple robe, and her thin waist is restrained by a cloud belt. Although the woman has a pair of apricot eyes, she is very powerful, with a green silk combed into a Chinese bun, and a jasper hairpin inserted in her hair, which is quite good.

The young man didn't speak, didn't open his eyes, didn't move his chopsticks, just closed his eyes and took care of himself. The woman behind him bent down and leaned into the man's ear and whispered, "Your Highness, the wine is cold, I'll go warm it for you." ”

After the woman in purple finished speaking, she picked up the white jade wine jug on the table and walked out, and as soon as she walked to the door of the private room, she heard the young man behind her speak: "No need, cold wine has the taste of cold wine." ”

The woman in purple put down the wine jug in her hand without the slightest hesitation, and then stood respectfully behind the man, not daring to say anything.

The young man opened his eyes, which had been closed, and took the flask on the table and poured himself a glass of wine, but did not drink it, but put it in front of his nose and sniffed it. The smell of wine was fragrant, the man smiled and put down the wine cup, as if talking to himself: "My fourth brother, it's good anywhere, but I'm too eager for quick success, in order to show myself in front of my father, I dare to take over the affairs of Fengjin County." Alas, after all, he is still young and frivolous, unable to bear the heavy responsibility!"

The woman in purple hesitated for a moment, and said softly: "Your Highness, there is something I think should be reported to you, but you were bathing just now, so..."

The young man said indifferently: "Qiu Dong, you have been with me for so many years, can you see that I have said the three words 'I think'?"

The purple-clothed woman's face instantly turned pale, and she knelt in front of the young man with a frightened face, "Your Highness, your subordinates know your mistake, and please ask Your Highness.... Her Majesty please..."She was so frightened that she was incoherent, and it was clear that this illustrious young man had left a shadow on his heart.

The young man stretched out a finger and gently rubbed the cheek of the woman in purple, who trembled in fright and let the man caress her cheek.

The young man smiled slightly, and said softly, "Get up, tell me something." ”

The woman in purple exhaled, staggered to her feet, lowered her head and said, "Our people found that the Fourth Prince and Li Tian went straight to Ye Mansion early in the morning. ”

"What's so strange about that? The fourth brother married Ye Jingyi's granddaughter, and it is normal for him to go to Ye Mansion, so this matter is also worth telling you?"

The woman in purple gritted her teeth and continued: "After they came out of Ye Mansion, they got into Ye Jingyi's carriage together, and several of them went straight to Confucianism, and there has been no movement until now!"

When the man heard this, the walnuts in his hand stopped instantly, the green tendons in his left hand burst out, the walnuts in his hand shattered instantly, and the man's face was full of anger: "Confucianism, it's Confucianism again! It must be Ye Jingyi's old thing to dig people for the fourth child! It's tricky enough for the fourth child to have a talent by his side, if he digs up a few more wise and almost demonic evils, then how can we fight him!"

The woman in purple hurriedly comforted: "Your Highness, no matter how wise the fourth prince is, he only has scheming but no courage, and he doesn't even have a good officer, how can he fight for you? ”

After hearing the woman's words, the man became even more angry, and he pushed the woman away and shouted angrily: "Get out! Do you think Li Tian is an idiot like you! Will he not raise manpower for the fourth child? Maybe the fourth child's current power far exceeds mine, and you people can't even find out this bit of news! Check some trivial things all day long, and you will check for me from today! I want to know how much power the fourth child has in his hands!"

The woman hurriedly nodded and said respectfully, "Obey! I'll let them check!"

The man leaned on the back of the chair and said to himself: "Talent, talent, talent, you are a capable person, but not a person with vision, a good bird chooses a tree to perch, but you choose a rotten wood!"

The woman in purple leaned into the man's ear and said with a chill: "Your Highness, since you think that the talent is so in the way, then you don't need me..."

The man glared at the woman and said coldly: "I warn you, don't act rashly! The throne has been established since ancient times, and as the eldest prince, as long as I keep to myself, the throne will be mine sooner or later! It's not something they can take away if they want to! What I have to do is to deal with them, as for the risky things, I still hand them over to my younger brothers, if anyone dares to spoil my good deeds, be careful that I let him survive and not die!"

The woman in purple immediately knelt on the ground and said in horror: "Don't dare in Qiu Dong!

The man slowly stood up and said lightly: "You leave for Fengjin County tomorrow and tell Jia Xingde that the problem of the famine in Fengjin County has been handed over to my fourth brother, my fourth brother is weak by nature, and it won't be long before he can collect a windfall again." You tell him not to forget the rules, every windfall of his money, I want seventy percent! By the way, by the way, you can see who my fourth brother sent to deal with this matter, I estimate that he only dares to send a calendar talent to deal with such a big matter, but I don't know if this calendar talent likes silver or not. ”

"What does Your Highness mean...

Buying the talents?" asked the woman in purple cautiously.

"As long as he is willing to ask for it, I will give as much silver as I want! If I have a talent, the second, fourth, and sixth children together will not be my opponent!" the man said through gritted teeth.

"This Heavenly Empire, sooner or later, it will be mine!"

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Fengjin County, with a population of more than 153,600 people, is located in a mountain recess, surrounded by no lakes and rivers, no streams and no pools, and the people only rely on the rain given by the heavens for farming, and cannot drain and dig ditches. However, this year, the weather is not beautiful, not a drop of water has been seen, and there is no harvest in the ground! Fengjin County has always been self-sufficient, but now all the crops are dying, and more than 150,000 people, what will they eat?

The four princes looked at the piles of victims on both sides of the road with dull eyes, he couldn't imagine that there would be such a scene in the Tongtian Empire when he came out of Tianluo City! They collapsed to the ground, skinny, all of them had their eyes closed, some of them were starving to death, and some of them were closing their eyes in order to save some strength. If you want to distinguish who lives and who dies, you can only look at the ups and downs of their chests, and those who have ups and downs are the living, and those who do not have ups and downs are those who have starved to death.

"It's... Is this the victim?" Litian muttered in disbelief.

"Why, haven't you seen it?" asked Li Yichou lightly.

Li Tiantian glanced at Li Yichou, swallowed his saliva and didn't dare to speak.

"Well, look, is this a tree or a wood? Li Tian said, pointing to a bare and blue thing beside them.

Li Yichou glanced at what Li Tiantian said, then turned his head and sighed and said, "It was originally a tree, but... The bark and leaves were eaten, and it seemed that they were really hungry. ”

"Tree?!this... How can this eat everything! Can this person still live after eating the tree?" shouted in horror.

Who knew that Li Yichou actually showed a look of nostalgia in his eyes, he reached out and touched the gnawed bald half of the tree trunk, and said in a strange tone: "They don't want to eat the bark either!" But if they don't eat it, they will die, and if people are hungry, they are animals. Here, who treats whom as a human being? Evil fathers cook children, loving mothers cut meat, do you think it's a joke?"

"How do you know this?" asked Li Tiantian, frowning.

Li Yichou smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "Because, I have also eaten tree bark! bitter and astringent, but it can keep me alive!"

Li Tiantian and the four princes glanced at each other, and the two of them had a tacit understanding and did not open their mouths to continue. The four of them continued to walk forward, and the four princes looked at the messy scene in front of them, and at the extremely weak people on both sides of the road who were about to starve to death, and his heart was mixed. No one noticed that the corners of the four princes' eyes were already wet with tears.