Peach Blossom Land On Longyin Island Chapter 54
byUpgrade the Crown Princess
“No, no.” County Prince Qian Huaixiao trembled all over, and stumbled to his knees on the ground. His voice was shaking as if it was shaking out of a sieve, “Your Highness, the Crown Prince, I don’t know, I don’t know that this is His Highness’s person. Yes, someone reported them for selling illegal salt…”
“Master Qian,” the guard on An Xiaoyu’s left suddenly interrupted Qian Huaixiao with a loud voice. He stared at Qian Huaixiao and said in a deep voice, “Master Qian, please think clearly before speaking. Slandering the prince is a serious crime.”
As soon as the words came out, Qian Huaixiao’s already pale face became even more bloodless. He looked like a ghost in this dark dungeon. He immediately banged his head on the ground with a “bang” and cried with a horrified trembling voice: “I don’t dare. Please forgive me. I really didn’t know that this young master is your Highness. I beg your Highness to spare my life…”
Qian Huaixiao was crying and shouting on the ground, finally “waking up” An Ran.An Ran blinked, regained his composure, and regained his vision. He was the first to see the group of people behind An Xiaoyu and in front of him: An Linmian, An Mai, An Tu, and Anton, who were looking at him with smiles.He looked at his young guard; then at his feet: An Susu, who was kneeling next to his right leg, crying and choking with tears, wiping her tears with the hem of his clothes, and An Xiaojin, who was moaning and rubbing his leg 360 degrees.
“Hey, Su Su, stand up, the ground is dirty.” An Ran first spoke to the cute little sister, then raised his left leg and said to An Xiaojin: “An Xiaojin, stop rubbing it, these clothes have been worn for six days, and they are full of dirt.” Finally, he pushed An Xiaoyu away and said, “Get on and off, I haven’t showered in six days, and they all stink…” After saying that, An Ran lowered his head and smelled his clothes, and his brows instantly condensed into the Chinese character “Sichuan”.
Sure enough, they were all sour.
“I… was in a hurry on the road…” An Xiaoyu defended himself in a low voice, as if he thought An Ran was talking about him.
An Ran was speechless and said: “I’m not talking about you, I’m talking about me. I’ve been locked up for six days and everyone is stinking. Hey, who is that? Uncle, can you please stop crying?” Qian Huaixiao’s crying was really ugly. A middle-aged man lay on the ground howling and crying. The noise made An Ran upset, so An Ran couldn’t help but stop him.
But Qian Huaixiao seemed to be immersed in his own world and didn’t hear anything. He just buried his head in tears and begged for mercy.So, the young guard standing outside the prison kicked Qian Huaixiao and said impatiently: “Did you hear that? The princess told you to stop crying.”
“T-Crown Princess?” As soon as these three words came out, An Ran was stunned and looked at the guard with a blank expression.
“Yes, An Ran,” An Linmian stepped over, patted An Xiaoyu’s shoulder, raised an eyebrow at An Ran and said, “Your wife is amazing, but she is the crown prince of the Jin Kingdom, so aren’t you the crown prince?”
An Ran had a dark look on his face and said: “Don’t talk nonsense.” Then, he said to the young guard outside the prison: “Don’t listen to their nonsense. I have nothing to do with your prince.”
“Brother,” An Susu stood up and said with tears in her eyes, “What are you talking about? Sister-in-law Xiaoyu is my brother’s wife.”
An Ran looked like she had a headache, stretched out her hand to rub An Susu’s head, and said softly: “It’s not the same thing, Su Su, don’t talk yet.”
An Susu said “Oh” all over, holding An Ran’s dirty coarse cloth hem with one hand and An Xiaoyu’s gorgeous black brocade dress with the other, looking up at the two of them without saying anything.
An Xiaoyu looked gloomy, looked down at An Ran, and asked in a low voice: “You…remarried?”
“What remarriage?” An Ran blurted out in confusion.
“Xiao Mei.” An Xiaoyu whispered again.
“…” How long ago it happened, do you still remember it?An Ran held his forehead and closed his eyes deeply. He felt like he hated iron. When he opened his eyes again, he saw An Xiaoyu’s aggrieved face, as if he had been bullied. He became even more angry and said angrily: “I am a widow!”
An Xiaoyu was startled and asked blankly: “She is dead?”
An Ran really feels like playing the piano to a cow.
At this moment, An Susu opened her big moist eyes and said, “Sister-in-law, what are you talking about? How could my brother get married again? Mother said, it’s okay even if you can’t give birth. My brother won’t marry anyone else – um -”
Before An Susu could finish speaking, An Ran covered An Susu’s mouth with one hand and said through gritted teeth: “Su, Su, don’t talk nonsense!”
As soon as An Susu said this, the expressions of the two guards who followed An Xiaoyu became even stranger.The two of them opened their eyes wide at the same time and looked at each other, as if they wanted to say a thousand words but could only bite their lips tightly due to the situation and lowered their heads, but their eyes were looking at An Ran and An Xiaoyu crazily.
An Ran felt tired, but An Linmian didn’t think it was messy enough, so he added another word, curled his lips and said: “That’s true, I remember clearly, Aunt Ye said, it doesn’t matter if you can’t give birth, as long as you are in good health.”
“An, Lin, Mian!” An Ran couldn’t cover An Linmian’s mouth and could only give An Linmian a wild wink to shut her up, but An Linmian obviously didn’t understand and asked: “What? Are you blinded? Let Xiaoyu blow it for you.”
“…” That’s it, that’s it.An Ran took a deep breath, decided to skip this topic, and said to Anton: “Brother Dong, why didn’t you leave? Didn’t I ask you to go back with Brother Xiaotong?”
Anton said: “It’s a long story, let’s talk about it in detail at the party.” One sentence ended the topic.
“So you didn’t marry again?” Suddenly, An Xiaoyu said something out of nowhere and brought the topic back.
An Ran just wanted to open An Xiaoyu’s head to see what he was thinking?
An Ran didn’t want to pay attention to him.
Antu replied smoothly: “Of course Lele is not married. Our village is not like you who have three wives and six concubines. It is written in the village rules that monogamy is monogamous. One husband and two wives will be drowned by spittle.”
An Xiaoyu said: “But I’m not…”
“I’m just going home to visit relatives.” An Mai took An Xiaoyu’s words with a smile, “By the way, where’s Ashun? Didn’t he accompany you back to visit relatives?”
An Xiaoyu was at a loss for a moment. After he came to his senses, a bright light suddenly appeared in his eyes. He nodded and said, “Well, he went home with me to visit relatives.”
“I know,” An Linmian suddenly became angry when he mentioned Anshun, “Where are the others? If I catch him, let’s see if I don’t cripple him!”
“Master Anshun? He left half a year ago.” The guard standing next to Anmai and the others replied.
“Gone? Where did he go?!” An Linmian became even more angry and shouted at the guard.
The guard seemed to be shocked, scratched his head, and said after a while: “I didn’t say anything, I just said I was looking for someone.”
“Bastard! Bastard! Egg!” An Linmian yelled out the three words one by one, with a ferocious expression like a ferocious devil.
Anshun, wish you good luck.An Ran silently prayed for Anshun in her heart, and before An Linmian roared again, she quickly changed the subject and said, “Hey, by the way, can I leave?”
“Of course.” The guard outside the door replied diligently.
“Phew – great, six days in jail is suffocating me.” An Ran breathed a long sigh of relief, holding An Susu’s hand with one hand, shaking his clothes in disgust with the other, and said, “An Xiaoyu, I want to take a bath, eat, and change clothes…”
An Xiaoyu followed An Ran and said softly, “Okay, what else do you want?”
“Sleep,” An Ran said, “I almost thought I was going to die here. I was so worried that I didn’t sleep well for six days…”
The two of them talked and walked together. An Xiaoyu’s two guards looked at Qian Huaixiao and Song Yu who were kneeling on the ground, and then at An Xiaoyu and An Ran who were walking in front. After looking at each other, one of them walked quickly to An Xiaoyu’s side and asked in a low voice: “Your Highness, Master Qian and the others…”
When he glanced back at the two people on the ground, An Xiaoyu’s expression suddenly became frighteningly cold, and he said coldly: “Lock them up.”
The sky is blue and the clouds are white, the spring breeze is pleasant, it is March in spring, and the air is filled with the fragrance of flowers.After taking a flower petal bath and changing into soft and comfortable brocade clothes, An Ran took a deep breath of the smell of freedom.
Freedom is so good, spring is so good.The elated An Ran walked briskly into the backyard, where An Linmian and his group were joking.
An Susu, An Linmian, An Mai, An Tu, and Anton had also just changed their clothes. Like An Ran, they all took off their coarse linen clothes and put on colorful brocade and silk skirts.
An Susu wore a pink skirt and happily circled in front of An Linmian and An Mai. She said, “Sister Mianmian, sister Mai Mai, look, the skirt is just as beautiful and soft as the skirt we saw when we went to Jinyi Pavilion. Can we afford it?”
An Linmian patted An Susu’s head lovingly and said with a smile: “Susu, we can’t afford it, but your sister-in-law can afford it. Let’s take your sister-in-law with us when we go shopping next time, okay?”
An Susu nodded happily: “Okay, I want to go shopping with my sister-in-law and buy a lot of beautiful clothes.”
An Ran didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, so she came over and said softly: “Su Su, you can only wear it outside the village. You can’t wear it when you return to the village. Do you understand?”
An Susu wondered: “Why?”
An Ran said patiently: “All the children in the village wear coarse linen and cotton. Only Su Su wears beautiful clothes. The other children will be sad if they don’t have beautiful clothes.”
An Susu seemed to understand, nodded confusedly, and said, “I know, I won’t wear Susu if my brother doesn’t let me.”
“So good~” An Ran pinched An Susu’s chubby round face, “When my brother buys mulberry saplings and silkworms and brings them back to the village, the village will be able to raise silkworms and weave cloth. By then, Susu and other children can wear beautiful clothes.”
An Susu’s eyes lit up and she said, “Are you going to buy mulberry trees this time? When I brought back the tea saplings I bought last year, my father and uncles in the village were very happy.”
“What are you doing growing mulberry and raising silkworms?” A guard who was following An Xiaoyu earlier asked, not knowing what was going on, “How much silk does the princess want? I will order someone to buy it immediately.”
“…”
An Ran stood up, looked back at the guard, tried his best to maintain a friendly smile on his face, and said, “My name is An Ran, what’s yours?”
The guard touched his fist with his palm and bowed back: “Back to the Crown Princess, my subordinate Ling Feng. The other person who came with me is Jing Yu. The two of us are His Highness’s personal guards.”
“Ling Feng,” An Ran walked up to Ling Feng, patted Ling Feng on the shoulder, and said kindly, “I’m not your princess, don’t scream, just call me An Ran.”
Ling Feng raised his head in confusion and asked, “Isn’t the young master married to my highness?”
An Ran said seriously: “This matter is more complicated. You can ask your prince in the future. In short, for the sake of your prince, don’t scream. Where is An Xiaoyu?”
Ling Feng said: “Your Highness is cooking in the kitchen.”
An Ran was startled: “Huh? You have become a prince and you still have to cook for yourself? Are the princes in your dynasty treated so poorly? It shouldn’t be. Your culture is not much different from ours…”
An Ran studied the history and culture of this world as soon as he came out. Although the Kingdom of Jin did not exist in his world, the culture was similar in all aspects, and it was an imperial autocratic society.
“Of course not,” Ling Feng said superiorly, just when An Ran was wondering whether An Xiaoyu was an unpopular prince, “Our Highness was appointed as the Crown Prince at birth. He has been well-dressed and pampered since he was a child. He has thousands of servants serving His Highness. Why does His Highness need to do anything personally.”
An Ran wondered: “Then what is he going to cook?”
Ling Feng said: “Of course I’ll make it for the… Young Master. I’ve been with His Highness for fifteen years, and I’ve never seen Your Highness go to the kitchen, let alone cook. Does the Young Master really have anything to do with our Highness? His original name is Anle, right? I’ve seen His Highness and Young Master’s marriage certificate with my own eyes.”
“…….”
Could it be that he couldn’t find the marriage certificate!It turned out that An Xiaoyu was taken away!
An Ran: “Don’t ask me, ask your highness! Where is the kitchen?”