Chapter 42 The General Loves the Country Girl (12)
This creature, who knows what it is, has become a frequent visitor to the manor. It disappears after eating, and jumps onto the table when it wants to eat, squeaking.
Ning Shu guessed that this thing was a mutant mouse. Looking at it, she felt that it was enough, and it was heart-breaking. Such a small thing actually eats so much.
Unable to feed this little thing, Ning Shu continued to wander around in the jungle. If she couldn't find it again, she would have to go back home. According to the time, Duan Xinghui and Erya should be back.
There was a task to deal with this thing, Ning Shu sighed.
Ning Shu used a branch to push away the thorns and grass, and searched carefully. Logically speaking, sweet potatoes like shade, so this jungle should be the favorite environment for sweet potatoes.
"Squeak, squeak..." The gray fur ball kept following Ning Shu and chirping.
Ning Shu bent down to take a closer look, and said to the gray ball: "You are at least an indigenous resident. Do you know that there is a thing called sweet potato?"
"Squeak..."
"It's not called squeak, it's called sweet potato..."
Just when Ning Shu was about to give up, he finally saw a plant with leaves similar to sweet potatoes. Ning Shu carefully threw it out with the roots. The rhizome was carrying a carrot-sized sweet potato with a red skin.
Although it was not very big, Ning Shu was very excited. It seemed that he had seen that the mission was completed and he was about to leave this world.
In fact, Ning Shu still enjoyed this different life, but the longer he stayed in the world, the more his soul power was consumed, and finally it would dissipate in his soul.
Ning Shu put the sweet potato with roots and vines in his pocket, and used a branch to dig it out, and looked around. Since he found one, there should be others around.
Sure enough, he found a lot of sweet potatoes scattered around. Ning Shu didn't think about digging these things up to extinction, so he only took some back to experiment.
"Squeak..." The little gray ball followed Ning Shu out of the woods.
After returning to the manor, Ning Shu immediately found the manor's steward and tenants, and opened up a piece of land for the experiment. Plants like sweet potatoes reproduce asexually, and they can survive even if the vines are cut with scissors and then inserted into the soil.
The premise is that the soil must be soft. Ning Shu told the tenants what little knowledge he had and watched from the side.
After the sweet potato matter was settled and he stayed in the manor for a few days, Ning Shu saw that the sweet potatoes had no intention of withering, and repeatedly urged the steward to take good care of the land.
Ning Shu was still a little worried in his heart, and directly brought up Li Wen's name, saying: "This thing is what the emperor wants, you must take good care of it, and you will be rewarded if you take good care of it."
Hearing that it was for the emperor, the steward's face was obviously much more serious.
Then Ning Shu led a ceremonial guard. What made Ning Shu speechless was that the little gray ball actually followed her.
Ning Shu didn't think that the little thing followed her because it liked her. It was just because of the cakes. Let it follow, just treat it as a very greedy pet.
Ning Shu led a group of people to the princess's mansion. As soon as Ning Shu arrived at the city gate, she encountered an army. The two sides of the army were crowded at the city gate.
The army had a stern momentum, which weakened the momentum of Ning Shu's side.
"Princess, Princess, it's General Duan, it's General Duan..." Yuan Dong saw the person at the front of the team and hurriedly shouted to Ning Shu who was sitting in the gorgeous carriage. He looked very surprised, and even his eyes were red. Ning Shu had a faint expression. It was true that enemies often meet on a narrow road. Ning Shu looked outside and met the eyes of Duan Xinghui in front of him.
Ning Shu narrowed her eyes and looked at Duan Xinghui wearing armor. His eyes were bright, darker than the original owner remembered.
The most ridiculous thing was that he actually had a woman in his arms, and he actually rode with a woman on the march.
It is said that Duan Xinghui is calm and steady, but Ning Shu is not necessarily so. Ning Shu looked at Erya who was sitting on the same horse with Duan Xinghui. Erya had a healthy wheat skin color. Compared with the aesthetic of the noble ladies of the Yong Dynasty who regarded white as beauty, Erya was not really a beauty. Her facial features were somewhat dulled because of her skin color.
Any girl from a boudoir in the capital was prettier than Erya. No wonder the original owner was unwilling to accept it. Although she was a noble princess, it was too frustrating for her to lose to such a country girl.
Duan Xinghui and Ning Shu's eyes met. Her eyes were extremely cold. Duan Xinghui was the first to look away, pinched the horse's belly, and pulled the reins to walk towards the sedan chair.
Duan Xinghui bowed his hands to Ning Shu, "I kowtow to the princess and wish her good health."
Ning Shu looked Duan Xinghui up and down. Well, he was not missing any limbs, and his face was a little thinner. Ning Shu nodded, "General Duan is back. General Duan, you go first and go to the palace to meet the emperor."
Ning Shu's attitude towards Duan Xinghui was very cold and polite, with a sense of royal arrogance.
Duan Xinghui's face changed, and he was very depressed by Ning Shu's attitude. He had even thought about facing the princess's questioning and noise, but the other party's attitude made it impossible for him to use all the solutions he had thought of along the way.
Now that people don't care about him at all, Duan Xinghui feels that his self-esteem has been hurt. Duan Xinghui is a self-respecting and strong person, and he has received full worship and admiration from Erya.
But when facing Princess Jiahui, the distinction between the monarch and the minister is always between them.
Ning Shu just glanced at Erya lightly. From a distance, Erya was not pretty and a little dark. From a close look... she was really dark, which made her almond eyes stand out.
Well, it was probably Duan Xinghui who saw the beauty of Erya's heart.
"General Duan, aren't you going into the city?" Ning Shu said to Duan Xinghui coldly.
Duan Xinghui felt uneasy when facing the cold and indifferent Princess Jiahui. If it was a princess who made a lot of noise, or even blamed him, Duan Xinghui would have known it in his heart. Such a Princess Jiahui really made people feel uneasy.
Facing him as if she were a stranger, she was not happy about his survival. Such a princess posture really made Duan Xinghui feel choked up and felt that he was not feeling well.
Erya in Duan Xinghui's arms looked at Ning Shu curiously. Looking at the graceful and noble princess, her aura made Erya feel a little inferior, and she was so beautiful.
Erya couldn't find words to describe her beauty. She just felt that she was sitting in the gorgeous gilded carriage, which complemented the luxurious carriage. She was like a fairy who came down to earth, and people dared not look directly at her.
Ning Shu saw Erya looking at her without any scruples, with amazement in her eyes and a sense of inferiority. She was nervous, and her rough hands tightly grasped the saddle.
"How dare you, who are you, to look directly at someone from the royal family." Before Ning Shu could say anything, Yuan Dong shouted at her first, with a sharp tone. Yuan Dong's pretty face was full of majesty and momentum. After all, she was the princess's personal maid, so she also had some momentum.