Becoming the Villain's Discarded Wife
Chapter 465: Scheming

Chapter 465: Chapter 465: Scheming

"Hmm, they came back with General Shen."

The second elder brushed his hair, sighed again as he saw him still lost in thought.

"You should go and see her. Ming Qin might have her own difficulties."

Chi Sheng glanced at the second elder, peered at his slightly dirty clothes, and remained still.

"Or perhaps you should go back and change your clothes first?"

The second elder noticed his hesitation and suggested.

Looking down at his dirty robe, then at his brothers who were busy moving goods, Chi Sheng only shook his head.

"Forget it, I won’t go."

There were still many things they had brought back, he should attend to the pressing matters first.

After a five-year separation, he didn’t know how to face her.

Yuanbao cried in Ming Qin’s arms for a while, and when she was exhausted and dozed off, Ming Qin put her on the bed.

Seeing the tear-streaked face, Ming Qin gently wiped her eyes, covered her with a blanket, then quietly left the room.

Outside, Nanzhi was directing Shen Wenchen to build a snowman. Hearing the door open, Shen Wenchen quickly hid his smile.

"Senior."

Nanzhi felt awkward, her cheeks flushing.

"I’ve heard from Yuanbao about your care for her and Qing Fenghan. Thank you."

Ming Qin began to bow, but Nanzhi quickly caught her.

"Senior, you’re being too formal. If it weren’t for Yuanbao, my family and I might not have survived that disaster."

Nanzhi spoke sincerely. They had enough food back then, but if it hadn’t been for Chi Sheng’s shortcut, they would most likely have died from the flood.

"When I left Qing Fenghan, Yuanbao was just a baby. Now, she is all grown."

Ming Qin sighed. The thought of many years of separation from her daughter and the injustice Yuanbao had suffered made her feel terrible.

She had left to save the people, yet her own daughter was scorned as an unwanted child.

"Senior, don’t be sad. You’re back now, you can spend more time with Yuanbao."

Having experienced the same things, Nanzhi naturally understood Ming Qin’s feelings.

"I just don’t know if I can keep it."

Ming Qin forced a smile.

Her words made Shen Wenchen and Nanzhi look at each other, but no matter how they thought, they couldn’t fully understand her meaning.

"I was forced to leave Qing Fenghan because I was suddenly bound to a system." Ming Qin smirked.

"In my previous life, I studied agriculture. After travelling to this world, I’ve been wandering around, until I accidentally entered Qing Fenghan, and decided to stay. That’s when I was bound to a livelihood system.

The system told me that its responsibility is to bind a host in each world where the agriculture is backward and the people are starving, and then with the help of the host, save all the people.

At first I didn’t believe it. Also, back then, the Emperor of Xia Country was not an incompetent tyrant, so Xia Country had no civil wars, nor many natural or man-made calamities.

Later, I had Yuanbao with Chi Sheng. I thought we would have led a peaceful life in the village. But disasters suddenly occurred in Xia Country, and from time to time, refugees would flee up the mountain.

Yuanbao was still so small back then, but when I went down to town, I saw children who had to gnaw at tree bark and eat clumps of dirt because they couldn’t afford food.

The system told me it could ensure that the people of Xia Country had enough to eat, and such things would never happen again.

I went home and thought for a long time before finally deciding to leave."

Hearing her story, Nanzhi felt extremely uncomfortable. Was this a choice between the greater good and her own family?

If she chose for the great cause, she had to separate from her family; if she chose her family, she would have to watch the people starve to death.

"Senior, you didn’t have to do that."

Shen Wenchen hesitated to speak.

If there were really good things, they could be sent to the county government office, and there would be people who would deliver them to Kyoto.

Why did she have to enter the palace alone...

"I’ve tried."

Ming Qin forced another smile.

The year she came to Qing Fenghan, the crop yield in the village increased by 20%.

She joyfully went down the mountain.

But her letter was torn up in front of her, trampled and dissolved in the mud.

The system then said that this world had begun to self-destruct. To save this place, you have to go to the highest place.

The Emperor back then was still discerning.

He could still see clearly.

She entered the palace with the help of the system.

And made an agreement with him.

She started with the people’s diet and living conditions.

She introduced high-yield crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes, and set up academies in all counties.

If a country is to last a long time, new people need to come up.

But nowadays, those who can read and write are mostly from well-off families. Those who are from poor families and want to learn can’t even write their own names in their lifetimes.

She strived for five years.

But this world has become more and more broken.

The Emperor grew old, his vision remained clear, but the root underneath had rotted.

The spiritual energy in the world became thinner and thinner, and although the Heavenly Path was born, it was destined not to stay here for long. This world will eventually be abandoned by the Heavenly Path.

The system said that this world was on the verge of collapse, and even it couldn’t help.

The system chose to leave.

She left the palace and chose to return to Qing Fenghan.

But on the way back, she saw the true state of the world.

Under the protection of the system, she didn’t suffer any harm on the way. But the brutal scenes she saw, she couldn’t forget for a long time.

"This world is destined to be abandoned, unless another Heavenly Path is born, and it voluntarily stays in this world to sustain its operation."

Nanzhi’s heart skipped a beat.

Subconsciously, she thought of Xiaohe.

The big river clam who had helped her a lot.

Could he possibly be the Heavenly Path?

Or that mysterious elderly?

Shen Wenchen was aware of Xiaohe’s identity, and seeing Nanzhi’s puzzled expression, he simply squeezed her shoulder.

"Nannan, don’t worry, it will be okay."

If that senior understood all these things so well, as long as they found him, they might be able to solve this problem.

"Mm."

Nanzhi nodded, but her mind was focused on what Xiaohe had left behind.

Zhiyu once said, when she died in the carriage during the journey, it was Xiaohe who fed her a pearl that saved her life.

Although the idea that a pearl can save a life sounds absurd, she knew Zhiyu wasn’t lying.

Moreover, during the journey of their escape, only they were hardly sick.

Even Miaomiao’s family had been ill on the road a few times. The food of the two families was similar throughout the journey, the only difference was the water they drank.

If she remembered correctly, the water they brought was pumped from the well in which Xiaohe soaked.

If Xiaohe was so amazing, would the water it soaked in also have effects?

In the pitch-black environment, Xiaohe suddenly felt a chill down his back, and shuttered for no reason.

How strange, who was thinking about him?

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