Surprise! The downtrodden prince turned out to be a sinister villain

118 Chapter 118: Food shortage

Ye Li walked quickly to the kitchen, and slammed the door shut from inside. It took him a while to calm down before his heartbeat slowed down.

He tiptoed to the window and looked out, seeing Lin Xiao was washing his hands slowly, not at all looking to settle accounts with her after Qiuhou, Ye Li immediately felt relieved.

Humming in a happy mood, I found two potatoes and was about to shred them!He heard footsteps coming from the door.

Ye Li's movements froze, thinking inwardly that something was wrong.

Just as I was looking for a place to hide, I heard a "squeak", and the door was opened from the outside.

As soon as Lin Xiao entered the kitchen, he saw Ye Li walking towards the cabinet with a potato in his left hand and a knife in his right.

"Where are you going?" Lin Xiao asked casually.

Ye Li turned his head and smiled flatteringly at Lin Xiao, "I'll go find two plates."

"Why did you come in on such a hot day? Hurry up! Hurry up! Get out, I can handle it by myself."

Lin Xiao: "It's okay, I've been tossing around all afternoon, and I'm tired too! I'll help you." As he spoke, he stepped forward and slowly snatched the knife and potatoes from Ye Li's hand.

Ye Li felt guilty when his hands were empty, "Then...then you are here, I'll go out to wash the peppers." As he said that, he was about to walk around Lin Xiao and go out.

Lin Xiao stepped back a little and just blocked Ye Li's way, "Both children can't eat spicy food, so don't let the pepper go."

All the escape routes were blocked, Ye Li was so sad that he was about to cry, and said with a drooping face, "Okay! I know I was wrong~"

Lin Xiao replied blankly: "What's wrong."

Seeing that Lin Xiao knew that there was still room for negotiation, Ye Li hurriedly tugged on his sleeve and explained in a low voice, "I shouldn't have kept it from you."

Lin Xiao: "What else?"

Ye Li looked puzzled: "What else."

Except that she didn't tell him about this plan, she said everything else.

Lin Xiao glanced at the mud on Ye Li's legs and the grass on his head.

Ye Li immediately reacted and quickly explained: "I did this on purpose. I was afraid that Li Lei and the others would find out, so I rolled around on the ground by myself."

Lin Xiao: "No injury?"

Ye Li immediately replied with a smile on his face, "I'm so smart, how could I get hurt?"

Lin Xiao looked at her helplessly, "Why do you suddenly want to expose them?"

Ye Li: "The more I get along with Brother Li, the more I think he is a good person."

"I can't see the little army lady lying to him like that."

Lin Xiao stretched out his fingers and poked Ye Li's forehead, and said angrily, "I think it's the little army lady's actions that caused you to hide it!"

Ye Li held Lin Xiao's arm and smiled sweetly: "Don't tell me if you see it through."

As if thinking of something while speaking, he took out a silver bracelet from his sleeve and handed it to Lin Xiao: "How much do you think this can buy?"

Lin Xiao looked at the bracelet that Ye Li took out, and immediately showed disgust, "Hurry up and put it away, it's not a good thing."

Grandma Erya's bracelet has been worn for a long time, and the surface is oxidized, and the black and black looks really strange.

Ye Li deliberately showed off in front of Lin Xiao with the bracelet, "Why is it not a good thing, you didn't see their envious expressions when they saw this bracelet."

Lin Xiao: "They haven't seen anything good, and neither have you?"

Ye Li nodded sincerely, "I really haven't seen it before."

Lin Xiao choked at what she said, and only then remembered that her mind was broken.

Seeing him deflated, Ye Li smiled triumphantly, put the bracelet into his sleeve, and said casually, "Since you don't know the price, I'll go find Wu Huang." Then he walked out.

After handing the bracelet to Wu Huang, Wu Huang also looked disgusted, but still agreed to ask her for the price in a few days.

About ten days later, Wu Huang was going to the town, but Ye Lili pulled him back.

"Woo~"

Wu Huang turned his head to look at Ye Li with a puzzled expression.

Ye Li took out a silver ingot from his sleeve and stuffed it to Wu Huang, "Buy me some flour when I go to town."

"If there are pastries, I'm buying some pastries."

Wu Huang wanted to evade, but seeing Lin Xiao quietly nodding beside him, Wu Huang put it away and replied with a smile: "Madam, don't worry! I promise to buy everything you want."

After sending Wu Huang away, Ye Li went up the mountain again with a basket on his back. There was no way that the weather was getting more and more dry, so he had to take advantage of this time to store more vegetables.

At noon, Ye Li came back with Wu Huang, Ye Li looked depressed, and Wu Huang's expression was not much better.

Ye Li looked at the basket behind Wu Huang and asked in a low voice, "Didn't you buy it?"

Wu Ming shook his head, "I bought it."

Ye Li: "Then why do you have this expression?"

Wu Huang let out a long sigh, "Alas, ma'am, there are more and more refugees in this town."

He went to the town and couldn't buy anything like rice noodles, so he had no choice but to go to shopkeeper Zhang to get it.

Ye Li's face darkened. She went to the mountain today and didn't dig much. Some people even went into a frightening deep mountain.

"Is there no one in town?"

A trace of sarcasm appeared at the corner of Wu Huang's mouth, "There are people in charge."

Ye Li cursed angrily when he heard this: "This group of inaction should be exiled."

Wu Huang looked left and right, and hurriedly said: "Madam be careful."

Ye Li: "Be careful what you say, be careful what you say, I was originally exiled, where else can I be exiled?"

When Wu Huang heard it, he immediately felt that what his wife said made sense.

In the past few days, the houses in the village were almost built, and Lin Xiao and the others also stopped work and rested at home.

Originally, he was going back to the town to report, but because of the refugee incident, he didn't have to go now, so he taught his two children to read at home.

Ye Li asked the old doctor to borrow the book, there was no way he was too naughty, Ye Li was afraid that if he didn't pay attention, he would poke a hole in the sky.

As soon as the two arrived home, Lin Xiao looked at them, and Ye Li said with a bitter face, "From today onwards, we will start to save money on food and clothing." Then he went into the kitchen.

Wu Huang also quickly followed in, and took out the things from the shopkeeper Zhang from the back basket.

Seeing so many white noodles, Ye Li asked in surprise, "Where did you get it?"

Wu Huang hurriedly said: "I bought it from the black market, and bought as much as I had."

After finishing speaking, he touched his head with a simple and honest face, "I just spent all the money you gave me."

Ye Li, who has always kept his money, laughed and laughed, waved his hand and praised indifferently: "The flowers are good, the flowers are good, if you know, I will give you more."

It is not easy to know that it is not easy to buy so much grain in a famine year.

"You're tired from going there all day! Go back to your room and rest." For Ye Li, today's Wu Huang is at the same level as his ancestors.

It happened that Wu Huang had something to report to Lin Xiao, so he didn't refuse, and replied with a smile: "Madam, then I'll go to rest."

As soon as Wu Huang came out, he went to his own room, opened the door and saw that Lin Xiao was already waiting there.

Wu Huang hurriedly took out the letter from his chest and handed it over, saying respectfully: "Master, a letter from Beijing."

(End of this chapter)