I'm the Farmgirl You Can't Mess With

Chapter 1300: Resting (2)

Qi Xiuyuan recalled the various strange things about Ah Ling whom he had known since she was nine years old. Other than being strong and having a mother who came from the Shu family, there was nothing special about this child. However, she always possessed some knowledge that she shouldn’t possess.

It wasn’t that Qi Xiuyuan hadn’t suspected it before, but he had watched Ah Ling grow up. As she and his brother were childhood sweethearts and had deep feelings for each other, he could only pretend that these abnormalities didn’t exist.

Qi Xiuyuan had never asked about Mu Yangling’s background. Not only had she saved his brother and him, but she now also had five children with Haoran. Besides, she had contributed to the country and the people. What difference would it make whether he knew her background or not?

He only recognized that she was Mu Yangling, his younger brother’s wife.

Seeing this, Yuan Hui smiled and said, “Your Majesty, this is what I love about you. You’re steady, magnanimous, and broad-minded.”

Qi Xiuyuan pursed his lips and remained silent.

“Mu Yangling is a darling of the Heavenly Dao. When I saw her, I thought that she was someone who borrowed a corpse to reincarnate, but that’s not the case seeing as she was born from Mu Shi and Shu Wanniang after ten months of pregnancy. It’s just that her soul is a little different from ordinary people.” Yuan Hui knew what Qi Xiuyuan was concerned about, so he openly said this.

Qi Xiuyuan heaved a sigh of relief.

“I’ve said before that humans’ choices and actions can change the Heavenly Dao. Therefore, we need to deduce from time to time. Mu Yangling came into existence as a result of Mu Shi and Shu Wanniang’s choices.” Yuan Hui said with a smile, “Shu Wanniang was destined to die young, and should have died at the hands of the mountain bandits. But because she met Mu Shi, she survived and the two of them became husband and wife. This was an accident, so Mu Yangling’s birth was also an accident. And the combination of millions of accidents in this world can change the original trajectory of the Heavenly Dao, but there’s always a main reason for these accidents.”

“First, she planted corn, allowing His Majesty’s prestige to gradually grow. Then, she unintentionally facilitated King Rong’s training of the troops, causing him to grow ambitious and take back Hanzhong Prefecture in advance. Also, she accidentally killed Great Jin’s Crown Prince. If her birth was a small water droplet that accidentally appeared in the celestial river, then the things she affected directly carved out a ditch within the celestial river. And the more things she affected, the wider and longer the ditch became. In the end, the Heavenly Dao naturally changed its trajectory.”

Qi Xiuyuan understood that Shu Wanniang should have died in the bandit’s hands the year she fled south with her family. However, Mu Shi, who should not have appeared there, appeared and saved her. Furthermore, the Shu family was unwilling to look for their daughter, so the two of them became husband and wife.

This accident resulted in Mu Yangling’s birth. Although she was born after ten months of pregnancy, her soul was different from ordinary people’s. If she was only a hunter’s daughter, this accident would at most be a drop of water accidentally dripped into the sea. Nothing would happen.

But as luck would have it, Qi Haoran and Fan Zijin ran away from home to seek refuge with him in the north. During which, they were accidentally saved by her in the forest.

He was the son of heaven. If not for Mu Yangling, he would have to wait until he was in his forties to become the Emperor. By accident, she got to know the Emperor and the people around him, and the accident expanded.

Moreover, Mu Shi’s family became drafted as a military household, leading him to become a subordinate under Qi Haoran which gave them plenty of opportunities to cross paths.

Seeing that he had understood, Yuan Hui immediately smiled and said, “Great Qi was founded 20 years in advance because of her, and what she did had long affected the power of every commoner in Great Qi and the world. That’s why I said that she was connected to the fate of Great Qi. If she died accidentally, these influences would slowly weaken, and the fate of Great Qi would also be slowly restored by the Heavenly Dao. As for you, King Rong, you direct beneficiaries naturally have to pay the corresponding price. Even if she’s a darling of the Heavenly Dao, the Heavenly Dao won’t let her be so blessed. That’s why spring lightning has struck South County. However, she’s lucky. The spring lightning didn’t strike her head, and the natural disaster didn’t kill her.”

“The good deeds Her Highness has done over the years and the merit accumulated saved her from death, so doing good deeds is still very useful,” Yuan Hui said meaningfully.

Only then did Qi Xiuyuan thought of what Mu Yangling had done all these years. The grain seeds provided by the Harvest Grain Store, the suppression of prices, and the cattle given out by her cattle farm had saved countless people by providing each family with two additional strong laborers, not to mention other sporadic things.

Haoran often said that Ah Ling was soft-hearted, and her heart was indeed soft. Qi Xiuyuan’s heart skipped a beat and he asked, “Could it be that she’s a fairy from the heavens who has descended to the mortal world to undergo a tribulation?”

The corners of Yuan Hui’s mouth twitched. Fairy?

She was clearly a soul from another world. Yuan Hui recalled the first time he saw her. Her soul was abnormally powerful, and it was obvious that she had lived another life. However, there was a faint golden light in her soul, indicating that she had been a good person with great merit in her previous life, or someone who had contributed to the country and the people. The Heavenly Dao especially doted on such people, and thus was always merciful towards her.

Unwilling to lie, Yuan Hui shook his head and said, “She’s someone with the Golden Light of Merit in her soul.”

That meant she was a good person.

Hearing this, Qi Xiuyuan felt much better. Since Ah Ling was favored by the Heavenly Dao, in order not to make her sad and miserable, the Heavenly Dao should be more tolerant of Haoran. Even if he was poisoned and his health was damaged, he should be fine.

After Qi Xiuyuan felt at peace, he began to guide Little Treasure in handling the government affairs while taking medicine to neutralize the poison in his body. Seeing as he only had three to five years to live, and Little Treasure was only 15 years old, he should seize what little time he had to groom this successor of his.

With a tight schedule to run, Qi Xiuyuan wished he had 72 hours a day. Meanwhile, the similarly-poisoned Qi Haoran got someone to spread a piece of animal skin on the rock and lay on it to bask in the sun.

On the other hand, Mu Yangling was teaching the two children how to read the ‘Three Character Classic’.

The guards had cut down trees on the neighboring mountain and barely made two small desks for the two young masters.

When the guard captain saw that his master’s family was treating this mountain like their home, he immediately frowned with bitterness. The guards said in confusion, “Boss, isn’t it better for His and Her Highness to live happily?” Surely it beats seeing them frown with worry every day.

The guard captain glared at them and said, “What do you know? I’m just afraid that His and Her Highness might refuse to leave in the end.”

“No way.” The guards were terrified. “There’s nothing on this mountain. Why would King Rong and Queen Consort Rong want to stay here?”

The guard captain said sadly, “That’s for us. Look at what’s on this mountain now. There’s a pot, firewood, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and tea. There’s also a lot of brushes, ink, paper, chess, calligraphy, and painting. Plus, there’s all kinds of clothes, fabrics, and shoes. If there’s anything they need, they can just send us to go out to buy it. Do you think His and Her Highness are still in a hurry to go out now?”

The guards were horrified. That’s right. Ever since the young Prince sent a pigeon to say that the Emperor had woken up after consuming the rock lotus and the poison within his body was slowly being neutralized, not only Queen Consort Rong, but even King Rong seemed to have relaxed. Every day, other than meditating and practicing martial arts, he would sunbathe. Then, he would watch the two children study and quarrel with Queen Consort Rong from time to time. His life was extremely leisurely, and he didn’t mention leaving at all. Instead, he kept ordering them around.

The guards turned to look at the low straw huts halfway up the mountain and wondered, ‘Are we going to live here for a long time?’

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