vrcanaries Chapter 198 Setting up a stall
Chapter 198 Setting up a stall
If Luo Nanzhi wasn't lying, then he deserves credit for being able to grow this potato in barren and arid land!
Thinking about the upcoming rewards and promotion, his mood instantly improved.
What frustrated him was how to cure the prince's illness. He was waiting for the prince to quickly flatter him with potatoes so that he could be promoted.
While the prefect was thinking about these things, Luo Nanzhi suddenly boldly walked up to the prefect and tentatively asked him: What's wrong with the prince?
The governor did not hide anything from her, telling her that the persimmon had suddenly fallen off a cliff and disappeared, and then reappeared in a small village, where it was found and brought back by his men.
Then she told Prince Luo Nanzhi that he had previously suffered from amnesia, and that if it weren't for the doctor, he would probably still be suffering from amnesia.
However, now that he has regained his memory, he can't recall anything from before. He probably suffered some kind of shock just now, which is why he has a headache.
Upon hearing this, Luo Nanzhi felt as if a veil had been lifted from her heart. With a hint of disbelief, she asked the prefect, "Where did the young master fall?"
"Langya Mountain".
A single, casual remark plunged Luo Nanzhi into despair. Her blood turned ice-cold, as if she had fallen into an abyss. Her self-deceiving hope vanished, shattered like a mirror.
Because the prefect was still immersed in joy, he did not see the ashen and lifeless look on Luo Nanzhi's face.
Luo Nanzhi didn't remember how she left the courtyard in the end.
Later, back in her own courtyard, she sat there all night without being able to sleep.
After dawn, she returned to her former self, Luo Nanzhi. No one knew that her state of mind had changed overnight.
In small towns like theirs, some people may never see an official from Bianjing in their entire lives.
Moreover, he is a noble prince.
It's better this way. He regained his memories, but forgot what happened between them. She just pretends that none of that ever happened, and she's envious...
She should just consider herself dead from envy...
However, Luo's father really liked Xianyu, and now that she was going back, she didn't know what reason to give him to explain.
……
"Waaaaah, my Zhizhi, when will that wretched prince regain his memories?!"
"Don't even think about it. Even if the young master regains his memories, he can't go back to being the simple and devoted Xianyu who only loves Luo Nanzhi."
"I think so too, it's outrageous! Just thinking about it makes my heart ache unbearably! Xianyu, who loved Luo Nanzhi so much! He just 'died' like that, I can't accept it, give me back my Xianyu!!"
"Don't be so pessimistic! What if the prince regains his memories and gets back together with Luo Nanzhi?"
"Don't even think about it, it's impossible. Luo Nanzhi is just a commoner. She can't even read. All she knows is how to cook. She doesn't have the gentleness and tenderness of other women. Even if the prince likes her now, once he returns to the prince's mansion and returns to the prosperity and wealth of Bianjing, he will definitely not look at Luo Nanzhi's vulgarity again."
"As I said before, their social statuses are too disparate, and there's no way to change the fact that they're destined to separate."
"This is a dead end, an unsolvable dead end."
"I just don't understand why Mr. Wuming always likes to write about characters from vastly different backgrounds. What about the plot?"
What is the purpose of doing this? To fuel the unrealistic fantasies of ordinary women?
Or is the goal to teach common women how to achieve great things with little investment by seducing scions of wealthy families and thus changing their lives?
Isn't the purpose of doing this to ruin this dynasty? To make every woman think about climbing the social ladder? "Immediately, someone in the audience expressed their dissatisfaction and began to criticize.
“What you’re saying is ridiculous, brother. Throughout history, countless people have resorted to any means to climb the social ladder and change their fate.”
The stories written by Mr. Wuming merely amplify the darker aspects of this era. It's not that these things happened because he wrote them; rather, they happened, and that's why they were written down! In any case, these things will always happen! 'For every person who questions this, there is another who refutes it.'
At this moment, a woman opposite him also began to agree with him, "Brother, you're right! Why are you only saying that we women are vain and deliberately trying to climb the social ladder?!"
Aren't you men the same? Have you forgotten how many embarrassing stories have there been of top scholars who lied about being unmarried to win the hand of a princess, only to have their wives come knocking on their door afterward?!
Regardless, everyone has the right to pursue their own happiness, and we have no right to interfere unless it involves our own interests!
"Wow, Yang Zheng, when did you become so eloquent?"
"Then you should read more of Mr. Wuming's stories, and you will naturally be able to speak eloquently."
"Haha, I've learned a lot!"
Since that incident, the Crown Prince has never summoned her again, and she has never seen him again.
Her life seemed to have returned to normal, where all she had to do each day was research and prepare delicious dishes.
What she didn't know was the shock her discovery of the potato had caused to the imperial court.
Even though Luo Nanzhi stayed in the kitchen and focused on cooking, she could still occasionally sense something different from the front hall of the prefect's mansion.
It seems there are big events happening in the palace every day.
Luo Nanzhi heard from the servants that the prefect had recently been promoted and received a reward from the imperial court, all because of the heir apparent.
However, because she was in the kitchen and had no access to information, she did not know how the prefect had been promoted.
A few days later, Luo Nanzhi asked someone to write a letter and send it to her father.
The letter informed him that the fish had been found.
The group of people from last time were government officials. It was because Xianyu's family came to Yanzhou looking for him that the government found that his characteristics matched those described by the group of people from Canon, so they sent people to take him away.
Because Xianyu had been missing for many days and had finally reunited with his family, Luo Nanzhi and Xianyu planned to visit his hometown of Jinzhou together.
The journey is long and arduous, and it would take at least three or four months for her to come back. She told her father to stay home and not worry, and that she would bring him some local specialties from Jinzhou when she returned.
Perhaps Luo's father believed it, because he asked someone to write a letter, which was originally intended to be sent to Jinzhou, but it was intercepted by someone hired by Luo Nanzhi.
The letter only told her to stay in Jinzhou with Xianyu and visit her relatives, and not to rush back.
When Luo Nanzhi saw this letter, she couldn't help but shed tears.
Hopefully, when Luo's father learns the truth in a few months, he won't be too upset.
Luo Nanzhi was originally focused on the matter of envying fish and stayed in the prefect's mansion, only wanting to earn more money so that she could save money to support her father.
However, she had only been there for less than a month when the prefect's mansion suddenly collapsed.
It was an extremely peaceful afternoon when the prefect's residence was suddenly surrounded by a large force, and then the soldiers entered the residence and ransacked the house.
Upon receiving the news, the prefect's wife immediately fainted. Her health was already poor, and by the time she was found, she was already on the verge of death.
Such a large prefectural government office collapsed just like that.