Chapter 194 - 183: Hero Defeated by a Penny 2
Hearing him mention medicine, Xie Lian looked back and turned his gaze towards the interior of the cottage where the king and the queen were resting. A moment later, he said, "I can think of other ways for the medicine, so just take this."
Xie Lian was determined to give and Feng Xin couldn't understand why, so he was both confused and felt it kind of funny, and he shrugged, picking up that ragged cattail leaf fan and continued to fan the flames to stew the medicine, "Fine then, I'll keep it for you for now. Whenever you want it back just let me know."
Xie Lian shook his head, "I won't ask for it back, you can do with it as you will."
After pawning HongJing, their pockets were a bit fuller, and they finally managed to have a few good meals. Since the queen's skills were so shocking, Xie Lian graciously asked mother to look after father and absolutely not enter the kitchen as he himself would take over and manage the cooking. Although he didn't have much experience, but even if he'd never had pig's feet he'd seen pigs walk, what he made was still somewhat edible, so the party was saved from mouth and stomach troubles.
That day after the fight with the king, Xie Lian was actually feeling regretful, but he didn't know how to apologize to his father, so he could only do his utmost in caring after him. A patient who coughed blood couldn't be chilled, so he added more blankets and small heaters for him.
The YongAn soldiers were coming down hard on catching all the escaped XianLe nobilities, and soon, this city also heightened security. They finally settled but now they must leave again.
Xie Lian had already lost count of how many cities he had passed while on the run with his parents in tow. To be honest, what he'd seen on the road, everything was much more peaceful than he imagined. The most tragic was only the royal capital of XianLe; everywhere else didn't seem to have been severely affected.
After all, to regular civilians, the king, the crown prince, the royal capital, the nobility, were all things that were extremely faraway. The change of a king didn't seem to have made much difference. Especially since the new king wasn't a tyrant, and once he ascended the throne there weren't any particularly strict decrees, so other than having a new topic for after dinner conversations, there weren't much more laments.
"When the king was named Xie I planted this plot of land; now the king is named Lang and I still plant the same plot of land!" Xie Lian heard people say.
They weren't wrong. But the strange thing was, in regards to the rumoured crown prince who went from invincible to losing every battle, everyone's attitude towards it were all amazingly unified, as if the moment they spoke of him everyone would suddenly transform into a patriotic citizen of XianLe. He really couldn't understand nor accept it.
However, he really didn't have much mind to worry over those things anymore. The money they made from pawning HongJing didn't last for a few months before it was all depleted.