The Ming Dynasty: Starting with the Somersault Cloud, Old Zhu was so envious he cried!

Old Master Li's face immediately darkened.

He turned his head, looked at the butler Li Fu beside him, and shouted angrily, "Li Fu, is this how you do the things I asked you to do?"

Li Fu was so frightened that he trembled all over and knelt down with a "thump".

"Master, spare me! Master, spare me!"

"It's not that I didn't do my job well, it's that someone else intercepted it!"

"Hijacked it?" Old Master Li frowned. "Who?"

Li Fu, with a mournful face, cautiously explained, "It's that imperial envoy from the capital. He set up a huge table several hundred meters long at the city gate and held a grand banquet, inviting everyone in the city to eat!"

"There's chicken, duck, fish, and meat—everything imaginable. As soon as the people heard there was meat to eat, they all rushed over, and there was nobody here!"

Old Master Li was still angry

But upon hearing what Li Fu said, he instantly calmed down.

The Sixth Prince held a grand banquet, inviting everyone in the city to eat.

Where did he get the food?

Old Master Li frowned and paced back and forth in the shed.

How many kilograms of grain are in this county town?

As the largest rice merchant in the area, how could he not know the consequences?

Wasn't all the official grain in the granary given by Qian Youde to his superiors to bribe officials?

Speaking of,

Zhu Ming had indeed misunderstood Old Master Li.

Zhu Ming always believed that the official grain in the granary was divided up by Old Master Li and the four major families.

Actually, no.

The vast majority of the grain there was used by Qian Youde to bribe his superiors.

It was delivered from top to bottom, level by level.

By the end, there wasn't much left in the granary.

The remaining small portion,

Qian Youde sold it to the Li family at an extremely low price.

So the granary was long empty, without a single grain of food left.

Because of this,

When Wang Defa ordered the granaries to be opened and the grain distributed,

That's why Qian Youde was so nervous.

The granary is empty; if we open it, wouldn't that expose the deception?

Qian Youde was worried that things would be exposed.

That's when they took the risk and hired someone to set fire to the warehouse.

The person who set the fire was arranged by the Li family.

Grandpa Li squinted, his fingers tapping his cane unconsciously.

He couldn't understand something.

The granary was empty, and no wealthy family in the county had ever been known to have stored so much grain.

Where exactly did that Sixth Prince get the grain from?

They also have chicken, duck, fish, and meat—everything you could want.

This doesn't make sense!

Old Master Li stopped and turned to look at Li Fu, asking in a deep voice, "Who provided this grain?"

"How many kilograms of grain did they prepare in total?"

Li Fu lowered his head and answered cautiously, "Reporting to you, sir, I don't know either."

"have no idea?!"

Old Master Li's voice suddenly rose eight octaves, and he slammed his cane heavily into the ground.

"How could you not know?!"

"Feeding the entire city of over 100,000 people requires a considerable amount of grain!"

"Even if we used trucks to haul it, it would take dozens of truckloads to get here. Can't you see that? Are all your men blind?"

Li Fu trembled with fright and quickly explained, "Sir, this is the strange place!"

"Our people were on-site the whole time, and from the beginning until they served the food, they didn't notice any food being brought in!"

"And I didn't see anyone cooking!"

Upon hearing this, Old Master Li turned to look at Li Fu, his face displaying an expression that said, "Are you kidding me?"

"No one's cooking?"

"Where do they get their food from?"

"It couldn't have just appeared out of thin air, could it?!"

Li Fu also felt that he was going too far, but he still gritted his teeth and said, "Sir, before that, they built a huge shed."

"The shed was covered with thick canvas on all four sides, making it airtight, so you couldn't see what was going on inside from the outside."

"And the food came out of that shed, bowl after bowl, plate after plate, endlessly, as if it were inexhaustible."

Upon hearing this, Old Master Li's pupils contracted sharply.

Next second,

He suddenly turned his head and looked at Hua An beside him.

He knew that Hua An could conjure up an unlimited amount of food.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so respectful to Hua An, treating him like an honored guest.

But now,

The Sixth Prince was also able to produce a continuous supply of food.

Could it be... that His Highness the Sixth Prince also has extraordinary individuals like Hua An?

Thinking of this, Old Master Li's expression became even more solemn.

Hua An clearly realized something as well.

A sealed shed.

A constant supply of food.

No food was brought in.

No one cooked.

These characteristics combined...

Hua An's heart skipped a beat.

The other person is very likely... just like me!

Maybe... he's a time traveler too!

Moreover, the other party's ability seems to be much more advanced than my "Infinite Congee and Pickled Vegetables"!

Chicken, duck, fish, and meat—you name it!

This setup looks exactly like a protagonist template!

Hua An's expression instantly became complicated.

There was excitement, nervousness, and a hint of jealousy.

He took a deep breath, quickly looked at Li Fu, and asked in a low voice, "Are those people over there the ones who detained Sister Yao?"

Old Master Li nodded, then explained to Hua An, "Mr. Hua, I haven't had a chance to explain to you yet."

"Those people are the imperial envoys who just arrived here yesterday."

"Moreover, he is a prince of the Ming Dynasty, and my daughter was detained by them."

Hua An: "..."

A prince of the Ming Dynasty?!

His eye twitched violently.

He originally thought that the other party was just an ordinary imperial envoy.

Even if there are time travelers,

He was nothing more than a strategist who depended on the powerful and wealthy.

But now you're telling me,

Is the other party a prince of the Ming Dynasty, or even a prince of the Ming Dynasty with the abilities of a time traveler?!

Damn, this is a disastrous start!

and many more……

Hua An suddenly frowned. This matter might not be all bad; it might even be an opportunity for him.

He had read quite a few novels featuring characters who revealed themselves as time travelers at the beginning.

So Hua An quickly asked:

"Which prince is he?"

"Is it Crown Prince Zhu Biao?"

"Or... Zhu Di, the Prince of Yan?"

He only knows these two princes of the Ming Dynasty.

One was the crown prince, and the other was the Yongle Emperor, who later successfully rebelled.

He really didn't have much of an impression of the other people.

Old Master Li shook his head:

"Neither."

"Let me think about it..."

Old Master Li squinted, thought for a moment, and then said:

"He seems to refer to himself as the Sixth Prince of the Great Ming Dynasty."

Hua An: "..."

The Sixth Prince of the Ming Dynasty?

Who is that?

Although he couldn't remember all of Zhu Yuanzhang's sons, he did know his eldest son Zhu Biao and his fourth son Zhu Di.

Who is this sixth brother...?

He searched his memory for all the historical information he had, but couldn't recall the name of Zhu Yuanzhang's sixth son.

Damn, I should have read more books when I was studying history.

However, before he could even ask a question...

Grandpa Li continued, "I remember his name was something like Zhu Ming."

Zhu Ming?!

Upon hearing this, Hua An's eyes widened in disbelief.

Zhu Yuanzhang's sixth son was named Zhu Ming?!

This isn't right!

Although he didn't study history well

But he remembered that when Zhu Yuanzhang named his son, he always included the radical for wood.

Zhu Ming? Is this kid an imposter?