Yang Zijin stood up and walked to Magistrate He, "Do you think that you can kill people casually as an official?"

"This is an incident. I just kicked him lightly. I didn't expect him to be so feeble. I was afraid that he would get in the way." Magistrate He said to her with a casual smile.

Yang Zijin felt speechless, "Hey, you still think you are right!"

She rolled her sleeves up and wanted to hit him.

Shuo Ling was about to stop her when he saw Ghost Immortal moved to her.

Shuo Ling and Ghost Immortal looked at each other.

Ghost Immortal avoided Shuo Ling's eyes and shook his head at Yang Zijin. Yang Zijin stopped.

However, Shuo Ling was still in a bad mood.

Mo Li walked to Yang Zijin, "Your Highness, let's go."

"You... you are the infanta. I shouldn't be so impolite." Magistrate He heard Mo Li called her. He was shocked, and he hurried to say with a smile.

Yang Zijin glanced at him, then turned around and walked towards the carriage.

The victims also heard that Yang Zijin was the princess. It seemed that they saw the opportunity to survive. They knelt and begged, "Your Highness, give me some food! Help, help us!"

The reason why the victims would kneel to Yang Zijin was that Yang Zijin saved the man just now, which made them feel that there was a glimmer of hope.

She was a person of the royal family, but she still went to save the man.

Yang Zijin, who was walking towards the carriage, turned around when she heard these victims. She stopped, only to see these victims kneel and kowtow to her.

Seeing this, Yang Zijin hurried forward and said, "Get up, get up."

"Your Highness, the officials didn't care about us at all. Only you would like to save us. Please help us." An older man over fifty was crying, pointing at Magistrate He.

Victims in the distance heard the princess came to save them, and they all gathered here.

Seeing more and more victims gathered together, Magistrate He became anxious and shouted, "You bastards, do you want to be rebels? How dare you get in the way? Are you want to be killed? Go away. Otherwise, you'd better be ready for the consequence!"

However, the victims ignored him.

Yang Zijin didn't know what to do. She ran up to Shuo Ling, and said after thinking twice, "Em... how about we offer them some porridge here?"

"Please, please." Seeing Shuo Ling standing still, Yang Zijin said again.

Shuo Ling cast a glance at her, and then said to Mo Li, "Call Xiao Mu over."

"Okay, My Lord." Mo Li responded and went away.

After a while, Xiao Mu came over. He said, "My Lord, what's that matter?"

"Leave ten people and 150kg rice here, and put up some tents for frail and sick people." Shuo Ling told Xiao Mu.

"Okay."

Xiao Mu walked away and instructed people to unload the grain.

Shuo Ling looked at Yang Zijin and asked, "Are you satisfied?"

Yang Zijin smiled and nodded.

She then turned around and said to these victims, "Did you hear what he said. Get up quickly."

"Thank you, Your Highness! Thank you, Your Lordship! Thank you!" The victims said with tears in their eyes.

But these were tears of hope.

Magistrate He shouted again, "Okay. Now you can go away! Her Highness and His Lordship are very tired all along the way."

Yang Zijin rolled her eyes at Magistrate He. She went onto the carriage after seeing that the victims made way for them.

Magistrate He smiled and said to Shuo Ling, "Your Lordship, please."

After about an hour, the carriage stopped.

Yang Zijin asked the coachman, "Is it here?"

"Your Highness, the road is too bad. The carriage cannot move on it. You have to get off." The coachman said.

Yang Zijin, who was bored on the carriage, opened the curtain and jumped out of the carriage.

She looked at the road ahead. It was a narrow road. It's hard for the carriage to move.

She ran to Runyu, "Young Master, get off the horse. Let's go together."

Runyu nodded with a smile and then got off the horse.

Shuo Ling looked at them with a cold face, and then said to Mo Li, "Let people rest here and wait for my order."

"Yes, My Lord." Then Shuo Ling walked to the back of the team and ordered the people to deliver the grain.

After a moment, Mo Li ran over to Shuo Ling and said, "My Lord, it's okay."

"Hmm." Shuo Ling nodded.

Then he went to Yang Zijin and squatted down, "Come on."

"Um... my feet are almost recovered. I can walk by myself." Yang Zijin whispered to Shuo Ling, looking at the people around who were looking at them, too.

Shuo Ling said again, "Be quick."

He seemed to be unhappy through his cold voice.

"Um... okay." Yang Zijin hesitated, but she didn't want to refuse him. So she decided to yield to him this time.

She got onto his back and put her arms around his neck.

Shuo Ling smiled slightly.

Magistrate He and the soldiers surrounding them were shocked.

Although these soldiers who were responsible for delivering the grain felt that Shuo Ling favored Her Highness along the way, they didn't expect him to spoil her so much, let alone Magistrate He.

Magistrate He was still in shock. Was this the Marquis Shuo he knew?

He heard that Shuo Ling always kept himself away from girls. Why... why should he...

Magistrate knew that Shuo Ling always spoiled people who he liked. It was fortunate that he didn't say something inappropriate to the infanta, otherwise...

"What are you doing? Just go." Mo Li reminded Magistrate He.

Magistrate He came back to earth, "Ah... oh."

Mo Li was accustomed to these things a long time ago. At first, he was surprised, but later, he got used to it.

Runyu followed behind. He just smiled without saying anything.

It was when they walked to the hillside, they saw a house.

Judging from the appearance, it was a perfect and elegant place.

Shuo Ling put Yang Zijin down.

Magistrate He hurried to open the door, "Your Lordship, please."

Shuo Ling took Yang Zijin's hand and walked in.

Entering into the house, they found the furnishings inside are so luxurious. Compared with the depressed scenery outside, this house was a completely different place.

Yang Zijin couldn't help but snort. These officials were too extravagant. Victims outside were all in despair, but they enjoyed their lives here.

The money needed to build these houses must be embezzled from the people outside.

Magistrate He led them to a hall, and then said to Shuo Ling, "Your Lordship, you must have never eaten a good meal along the way. I will ask people to bring some food."

Then he instructed the servants outside, "His Lordship and Her Highness are here. Go and ask the chef to cook some special cuisines for them."

The servant left quickly after hearing this.

"Your Lordship, Your Highness, please have some tea." Magistrate He poured two cups of tea and brought them to Yang Zijin and Shuo Ling.

He turned around and said to Runyu, "Young Master, you can have some tea by yourself."

Runyu smiled slightly and nodded.

"Your Lordship, we all rely on you to deal with the post-disaster affairs. This house is not big, but it is clean and quiet. You can live here during this period. If you need help, please let me know." Magistrate He said to Shuo Ling with a smile.

Listening to this, Yang Zijin almost sprayed out the water from her mouth.

Wasn't this house big? How did he define big? A corrupt official!

Shuo Ling pushed the teacup inward and asked, "Where is the prefect?"

"Your Lordship, the prefect went to help the victims." Magistrate He looked at Shuo Ling and said.

Yang Zijin couldn't help but spray out the water in her mouth after listening to this.

Magistrate He hurriedly asked, "Your Highness, are you okay?"

"It's okay. I just choked. Don't worry about me." Yang Zijin wiped the water on her mouth with her sleeve.

Seeing this, Runyu chuckled.

Magistrate He said vividly at this time, "You don't know about it. Since the flood, the prefect was so worried that he couldn't eat and sleep well. He was worried all day long. He even brought grain from his family to these victims. His family now only have steamed buns and gruel to eat."

"Oh, is it?" Shuo Ling asked with a smile.

Magistrate He answered quickly, "It's true, My Lord."

"Could you go and call him to come here? I want to ask him something about the disaster." Shuo Ling said.

Magistrate He quickly responded, "Okay, My Lord. I'm going now."

He was going to leave, and when he walked to the door, he stopped and said to the servant at the door, "Take good care of His Lordship. You will know the consequence if you are negligent."

"Okay." The maid at the door quickly lowered her head and responded.

A while after Magistrate He left, the food was ready.

There were various delicious foods such as braised chicken, big pork elbows, braised fish with brown sauce, braised Dongpo pork.

This was not like the food that could be served after the disaster.

Yang Zijin stood up and cursed, "What a pack of lies. The victims outside are suffering, but these officials are eating and drinking cheerfully. This is nonsense. You shouldn't stop me on the road just now. If you didn't, I would let him suffer."

"It tastes good." Shuo Ling completely ignored Yang Zijin's curse.

When she turned around, she only saw that Shuo Ling and Runyu were eating.

Then she shouted, "These things are all robbed from ordinary people. How can you guys eat so happily?"