Chu Xia was very lonely and almost shed tears. She was really soft-hearted and couldn't accept this kind of scene.

"Okay, it's okay."

Jing Yuan patted her shoulder and comforted her. Why wasn't he feeling sad?

When they arrived at the village entrance, they saw Xiao Tan and the troops he led.

"You are finally here. I am so anxious to wait."

As soon as he saw the two of them coming, Xiao Tan started to complain. He had been waiting here for a long time, and he really wasted a lot of time.

He got off the horse and helped Chu Xia and Jing Yuan put their luggage. Jing Yuan rode a horse and rode side by side with Xiao Tan, and Chu Xia sat in the carriage behind. The carriage started to move, and Chu Xia watched as it went slowly

The village is getting further away, and I feel very depressed.

But the car didn't move and stopped after a while. Chu Xia was very confused in the car and didn't know what was happening outside. She stuck her head out of the window and looked at the scene outside.

"What happened? Why did it stop?"

As soon as she asked Jing Yuan about the situation outside, she found that the scene in front of her shocked her.

All the farmers in the village gathered to bid them farewell. At the head of the group were the village chief and the peasant women, who blocked the direction of the carriage.

"Village chief, what are you doing?"

Jing Yuan got off his horse and walked up to the village chief to ask him. The village chief looked at the farmers behind him and asked them to take out something and handed it to Jing Yuan.

"You are leaving, and we don't have any gifts to give you. These are some local specialties in the village. You can take them. Remember to come back. Some villagers in the village welcome you at any time."

The village chief gave all these gifts to Jing Yuan, and his words moved him very much. Chu Xia saw it. Her tears couldn't stop flowing down, and she really wanted to rush down and hug the villagers.

"Also, this is what I gave to Miss Chu. Please hand it to her for me."

An aunt walked in front of Jing Yuan and gave him a package. She knew that Chu Xia was very emotional and would definitely not accept the gift in person, so she could only ask Jing Yuan to give it to her.

He took the gifts and thanked his aunt. The villagers got out of the way and opened a way for their carriage to leave. Jingyuan put all the gifts into the carriage where Chu Xia was, and then he rode on

Got the horse.

They went on the road again. Chu Xia didn't dare to look at what was going on outside. She was afraid that she would be reluctant to leave. Looking at the gift Jing Yuan had just put up, she opened it and took a look.

The gift that the aunt gave her was a dress that she made for Chu Xia with her own hands. The size and color of the dress were very suitable for Chu Xia, and her eyes were moist. Chu Xia held the dress tightly in her arms. She was really happy.

Thank you to this lady.

"Chu Xia, are you okay? There's nothing wrong with you. Do you think your body is okay?"

This village is very far away from the city, and the road is not smooth. The car was bumpy along the way. In addition, Chu Xia didn't eat much when she got up early this morning. Jing Yuan was afraid that Chu Xia's body would be affected.

No.

She is not a sickly person, so she can still bear this little tiredness.

"I'm fine, I'm fine."

Chu Xia replied to him, and Jing Yuan felt relieved. The journey was bumpy, and he didn't know when it would be time to return to the city.

There is food on the carriage that they carry at all times, and it is all in the carriage where Chu Xia is. If she is not feeling well, she can eat something and drink some water.

"No one cares about me!"

Xiaotan looked at Jingyuan with a jealous look on his face, and even pretended to be angry. This made Jingyuan find it very funny, and he didn't know that Xiaotan has become like this now?

Jing Yuan just pretended not to hear and rode his horse, ignoring what he said.

In fact, they were quite happy when they were together, and it didn't mean that they had a relationship like a master and a slave.

They were halfway through the journey, and Chu Xia fell asleep in the car.

Jingyuan and Xiaotan also stopped to rest. They tied their horses to a nearby tree, and then they fell asleep leaning against the tree. The fatigue of the day's boat and carriage made them fall into a deep sleep quickly. These three people

I fell asleep right away until dawn without waking up in the middle of the night.

"I slept really well last night. It would be even better if I had a bed."

Xiaotan stretched and kept saying this. Jingyuan glanced at him and went to the river to wash his face. He didn't know if Chu Xia was awake, and he didn't dare to look in the carriage.

.

"Chu Xia, are you awake?"

After Jing Yuan washed his face, he called her outside the carriage and gave her some water to wash her face with.

Not long after Chu Xia woke up, she popped her head out of the window and looked at Jing Yuan with a confused look on her face. It looked like she had just woken up.

The villagers followed Chu Xia and Jing Yuan's motorcade until they were some distance away from the village, and then they stopped amid Chu Xia's persuasion.

Chu Xia stuck her head out from the carriage and turned back to wave to them.

When the villagers saw Chu Xia waving to them, they immediately responded to Chu Xia.

Chu Xia felt reluctant and finally retracted her head.

The villagers also looked at Chu Xia with a look of reluctance. Seeing her retracting into the carriage, the carriage went further and further away, and finally turned into a small dot. Then they decided to go back reluctantly.

"There's nothing to be unhappy about. They are not from us in the first place. They will leave here sooner or later." The village chief persuaded the villagers in front of him who were disappointed because Chu Xia and Jing Yuan left.

The villagers lowered their heads and said nothing.

"Oops! Okay, if you really can't bear to leave them, can we build a stone statue to commemorate them?" The village chief asked after scanning the villagers with his eyes.

The villagers looked at each other and then said to the village chief in unison: "Of course!"

Because of Chu Xia's status, he was not qualified to build stone statues. However, as Jing Yuan was a prince, he could be built by the common people.

The villagers were all very ingenious. They were afraid of forgetting what Jing Yuan looked like, so they first asked someone to draw a portrait of Jing Yuan, and then started carving stone statues based on Jing Yuan's portrait.

Jing Yuan's stone statue was built in the middle of the village, facing the entrance of the village. It is not particularly high. Due to limited workmanship conditions, it cannot be as gorgeous and exquisite as the stone statue built by the imperial court for Jing Yuan. However,

But it can be seen that the villagers are very attentive.

It took a long time to build Jingyuan's stone statue. Some people who had nothing to do in the village came to help build the stone statue. Even those who had something to do, as long as it was not a particularly urgent matter, would put down what they were doing and come to help build the statue.

Stone statue.

The villagers worked from dawn to dusk to build it, and it finally took an hour to build the statue.

The village chief stood in front of the stone statue, looking at the stone statue that was carved out to resemble Jing Yuan himself, and he was so excited that he almost cried.

"This is Prince Jing!" The village chief clasped his hands together, looking particularly excited. Then he knelt down and kowtowed to Jing Yuan.

The villagers looked at the actions of the village chief, so they followed suit and kowtowed to the stone statue of Jing Yuan. They looked as if they had met Jing Yuan in person, very serious and solemn.

"I've been thinking a lot these days, and I decided to call our village Jingsheng Village!" Because they couldn't offend Jingyuan's name, they could only use homophones to name the village. The village chief looked at everyone

The villagers asked, "Do any of you object to my decision?" Jingyuan was kind to all of their villages. If the name of the village was changed to Jingyuan's, no one would protest.

So, the name of the village was changed.

And these were things that Jing Yuan and his party didn't know before they left.

The food that Jing Yuan and others brought was prepared by the villagers, and they didn't know exactly what was in the packages.

After the carriage traveled for a while, they still could not find a place to stay. In the end, they could only solve their food and clothing problems on the carriage.

Chu Xia opened a bag that the villagers had prepared for them, and saw that it was full of dry food, as well as dried sweet potatoes and other things that the villagers had dried themselves.

She smiled slightly and distributed the dry food to everyone.

The craftsmanship of the villagers is quite good. The dry food is not unpalatable, not too dry, and not choking at all.

Chu Xia chewed it carefully, thinking about the time she spent with the villagers in the village.

"The villagers are very careful when making food." Jing Yuan noticed Chu Xia's expression and said.

Xiao Tan heard Jing Yuan commenting on the dry food, so he immediately became energetic, raised his head from the dry food, and said to Jing Yuan: "I think so too, this dry food is more delicious than what we brought from the capital before.

"

Jing Yuan just glanced at Xiao Tan gently and said nothing.

He was talking to Chu Xia, why did Xiao Tan join in the fun?

But Xiaotan couldn't see the disdain in Jing Yuan's heart. He said, "If I had known that the dry food they made was so delicious, I would have asked them to make more."

He was by the side when the villagers were making dry food. He was afraid that the villagers would make too much dry food and it would be wasted if they couldn't eat it, so he always asked them to make less dry food. If he had known that the dry food was so delicious, he would have

Don't tell them to do less, just ask them to do more.

Xiaotan ate the dry food very quickly. After finishing one piece, she looked at Chu Xia opening the untied dry food package in front of her, her eyes not moving away for a long time.

Chu Xia naturally understood what Xiao Tan's eyes meant. She smiled, then obeyed Xiao Tan's wishes and gave him another piece of food.

Xiaotan's eyes were like those of a wolf and a tiger. He quickly took the dry food and gnawed it down like a hungry tiger pouncing on food.

Chu Xia didn't expect that Xiao Tan would like to eat this dry food so much. Although she also felt that the dry food made by the villagers was more delicious than what they brought in the capital when they set out, the taste was just average. After all, dry food was just dry food, and it was different from normal food.
Chapter completed!