Rebirth: Pampered by the Lord-Chapter 1716: Children of the Itinerant World

In gratitude for the help from Long Rui and Xuexue, the villagers voluntarily began to dig, burying a few bodies, then left with profuse gratitude.

Xuexue sighed and said, "I’ve heard of disasters in Tunkou Town before. I didn’t expect it to be this severe. It’s truly pitiful."

Long Rui frowned, "There must be corrupt officials within the Imperial court."

"Why do you say that?"

"The disaster in Tunkou Town was something I also heard about last year. I even heard The Emperor say that the Fourth Prince was to come down and supervise the distribution of relief grain. Yet, the villagers just said they haven’t received a single grain. Isn’t that a sign of corrupt officials? I think this has something to do with the Fourth Prince."

Upon hearing this, Xuexue’s eyes lit up, thinking, perfect, she’s been worried about not catching any leverage on the Fourth Prince. Now, if he doesn’t die, he’ll also lose a layer of skin: "This is great, we’ve caught leverage on the Fourth Prince. Let’s see how he tries to defend himself in the future."

Long Rui frowned and asked, "Madam, you don’t like the Fourth Prince?"

"Who would like him?" Xuexue gritted her teeth with a hint of resentment, thinking about how this scoundrel had made her suffer in her past life.

Long Rui could clearly see the hatred in Xuexue’s eyes and asked, "You hate him?"

"Yes." Xuexue didn’t bother to hide it.

"Why?"

"No reason, just hate." The events of her past life were too bizarre, and Xuexue didn’t know how to explain it to Long Rui, so she simply said nothing.

Long Rui warmly said, "That’s enough for me. My wife’s enemies are my enemies."

The Prince and the noble lady were whispering sweet nothings nearby. Zi Xia pulled Long Yi along, saying as they walked, "Let’s go over there to see if there’s a water source. Bring some water back for the young lady to wash her face."

Xuexue had wiped her face with a handkerchief, but the blood was too sticky and couldn’t be cleaned completely, leaving her whole face dirty.

"Alright then!"

The Prince never liked others interrupting his time with Madam Situ, and Long Yi was wise enough to prevent any grudges from the Master one day, avoiding bad luck for himself.

Just a few steps away, they were stopped by Long Rui: "Don’t go, just watch over the things here!"

With that, he swiftly scooped Xuexue up in his arms...

"Hey! What are you doing?" Xuexue was startled by his actions.

"Taking you to a nice place."

Regarding Xuexue’s playful punches, Long Rui didn’t even frown, using his Qinggong to whisk them to the mountain stream, vanishing in the blink of an eye before Long Yi and Zi Xia...

Zi Xia stood there dumbfounded. In this desolate wilderness, where were the Prince and the noble lady going?

"Where... where did they go?"

Long Yi calmly walked to the front of the carriage and sat down, saying, "We’ll just wait for them to return."

Long Yi glanced at the carriage driver and said, "Brother, aren’t you a bit too timid?"

The carriage driver was somewhat embarrassed. Seeing bandits made his legs go weak; he couldn’t help it: "Sorry for making a fool of myself in front of you two."

Zi Xia, a native of the Itinerant World and not one to fuss over details, stepped forward and said, "Guard Long, the carriage driver uncle is just a regular person and hasn’t seen such scenes before. It’s normal to be scared, so don’t laugh at him."

"Did I laugh?"

"You didn’t laugh, but that’s mockery, which is worse than laughing."

Seeing this, the carriage driver immediately said, "Alright, you two nobles don’t argue over me. I’m just a coward, greedy for life and afraid of death."

Zi Xia: "Seeing a situation like this, who’s not afraid? It’s perfectly normal, so don’t feel too guilty."

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