northernbook Chapter 41 The spoiled princess ran away from home to seek refuge and was assigned to pick apples in
Chapter 41 The spoiled princess ran away from home to seek refuge and was assigned to pick apples in
Lin Xian looked down at the blonde girl who was clinging to his leg like an octopus.
Two tears welled up in the girl's emerald-like eyes, and her gorgeous skirt was covered in bits of grass.
"Let go first, or you'll tear my 9.9 yuan pants and you won't be able to afford to pay for them."
Lin Xian shook his leg in disgust, forcefully pulling his calf out of the girl's arms.
The girl's name is Alice. She is the most favored and most rebellious little princess in the royal family of a certain Western European country.
For the sake of a political marriage, the royal family forced her to marry a foreign nobleman duke who was almost balding.
In a fit of anger, she chartered a private plane to escape. Halfway there, she saw a beautiful place and jumped out with a parachute.
Alice sat on the haystack, rubbing her reddened wrists, her lips pouting.
"I am a legitimate princess. If you take me in, I'll have my father bestow upon you the title of Grand Duke!"
She had assumed that if she revealed her royal identity, the man in the floral shorts would immediately kneel down and fawn over her.
Lin Xian simply yawned and casually pulled a broken bamboo basket, bigger than a person, from beside the haystack.
"What duke or dame? In my territory, even a dog has to be a guard dog to make a living."
Lin Xian placed the crookedly woven bamboo basket directly on Alice's head.
"The manor doesn't employ idlers who just want to freeload. If you want to stay, you can work in the orchard behind the mountain."
Alice took the bamboo basket off her head and was completely dumbfounded.
She's had over a dozen maids serving her water since she was a child, and this man is making her do farm work?
Mu Qingxue walked over in high heels, looked at the little princess from Western Europe, and a sympathetic smile appeared on her lips.
Even she, a multi-billionaire tycoon, works here as a housekeeper; what is a mere princess compared to her?
"Boss, how about I have someone send her back to the embassy to avoid trouble from the royal family?"
Lin Xian waved his hand and turned to walk towards his beach chair.
"Why send anything? Sister-in-law Xiu Niang said that the apples in the orchard are ripe and she needs help. Let her go pick apples to pay for her meal."
Mu Qingxue turned around and took out the encrypted satellite phone, her fingers rapidly tapping on the screen.
"Block all the calls from those embassies in Western Europe and tell them that Princess Alice is now one of our employees."
"If they dare to send people to Qingshui County to cause trouble, I will short their royal bank."
The domineering aura of the chaebol queen was on full display at this moment; she would absolutely not allow anyone to disturb the boss's peaceful retreat.
Lin Xian lay on the holographic beach chair, listening to Mu Qingxue's report, and nodded in satisfaction.
"Well done, these meddlesome royals should be taught a lesson."
Ma Hualong, dressed in a security guard uniform, leaned over the fence, shaking his head as he watched this scene.
"The boss's composure is truly astounding. That's a foreign princess, you know. Anyone else would have been worshipping her like an ancestor."
Hearing the noise, Chen Xiuniang came out of the kitchen, wiped her hands on her apron, and gently took Alice's arm.
"Don't be afraid, girl. Picking apples isn't tiring. I'll take you to the orchard to familiarize yourself with the area."
Alice dragged the heavy bamboo basket, glancing back at Lin Xian lying on the chair every few steps.
She gritted her teeth, thinking to herself, "Once I finish this hard labor, I'll eat your manor into bankruptcy!"
In the ecological orchard on the back hill, the air is filled with a sweet, intoxicating aroma of fruit.
Fist-sized mutated apples hung from the branches, their skins shimmering with an alluring red glow like agate.
This is not an ordinary fruit tree, but a super plant that has undergone genetic optimization.
Alice lifted her gorgeous skirt, looked at the slightly damp mud at her feet, and frowned in disgust.
Her delicate, white hands, which she used to play the piano, were scratched red as soon as they touched the rough branches.
"This place doesn't even have a fully automated harvesting machine; it's clearly exploiting labor!"
Alice grumbled angrily and casually plucked a red apple from the branch.
Chen Xiuniang deftly packed the fruit into a basket beside her and handed her a clean towel with a smile.
"These mutated fruits are very delicate. Machine harvesting can easily damage the skin, causing the spiritual energy contained within to dissipate."
Alice didn't understand anything about spiritual energy; she only felt that after working for ten minutes, her stomach started to rumble.
She looked at the bright red apple in her hand, couldn't resist the temptation, and took a big bite.
With a crisp "crack," the abundant, sweet juice exploded in her mouth.
A warm current flowed down her throat and into her limbs, sweeping away all the fatigue from her parachute escape.
The red mark on my fingertip, caused by a twig, miraculously healed after I ate the apple.
The high-purity cell repair factors contained in apples are more effective than the private doctors hired by royalty at great expense.
This apple has a crisp, tender texture with no residue, and its sweetness is several levels higher than that of the top-grade cantaloupe specially supplied to the royal family.
Alice's emerald eyes lit up instantly, and she even paused for half a second.
She devoured the apple in just a few bites, leaving only the core, and even licked the juice off her fingers.
"My God, is this fruit grown by God? Why does it taste so good!"
All the Michelin-starred desserts she had ever eaten in her life were tasteless and unappetizing compared to this apple.
Chen Xiuniang couldn't help but cover her mouth and chuckle as she looked at the girl's gluttonous, unworldly appearance.
Alice casually tossed the fruit pit aside, rolled up the sleeves of her million-dollar princess dress, and plunged headfirst into the orchard.
She no longer had any of her spoiled attitude about being dirty or tired; her eyes were fixed on the biggest and reddest fruit on the tree.
"Sister-in-law, look! This one's huge! I'm going to pick it and save it for a midnight snack!"
This precious little princess has completely become the most enthusiastic fruit picker in the orchard.
She moved nimbly under the trees like a monkey, not even noticing the spiderwebs stuck to her blonde hair.
In less than half an hour, her bamboo basket, which was bigger than a person, was filled with bright red mutated apples.
Ye Xiu happened to be passing by with his tablet and his mouth watered at the sight of the wild harvesting scene.
If this were filmed and posted online, members of the Western European royal family would probably have a heart attack on the spot.
Zhou Bapi led his patrol team to stroll around the orchard, and the sight of them almost made their jaws drop.
"Master Lin's methods of training people are amazing. He can even train a foreign princess to become a model worker in our county."
The afterglow of the setting sun spilled onto the manor's temperature-controlled lawn, gilding everything with a golden edge.
Alice dragged a full basket of apples to the warehouse door and plopped down on the steps, exhausted.
She was still holding an apple she couldn't bear to finish, nibbling at it like a little squirrel.
The warehouse doors were wide open, and inside were tons of mutated fruits, vegetables, and all sorts of divine ingredients.
Even the usually aloof top female assassin Yan Guhong was taken aback by the girl's eagerness to eat.
Yan Guhong stood at the kitchen doorway for a long time, holding two boning knives, thinking to himself that this girl was probably a reincarnated starving ghost.
A robotic transport dog walked over, scanned the apples in her basket, and gave them a perfect score on the display screen.
Xia Anran, wearing a floral dress, walked over and handed her a glass of freshly squeezed, chilled lemonade.
Alice took the glass of water, took a big gulp, and let out a long, satisfying sigh.
Looking at the carefree scene in the manor, she suddenly felt that all those days of complicated rules and regulations in the royal family had been a waste.
Having an endless supply of heavenly fruits every day, and not having to wear tight-fitting corsets—this is the freedom she longs for.
Alice threw the clean apple core she was holding into the trash can, puffed out her cheeks, and looked in Lin Xian's direction.
She touched the black and gold limited edition bank card that was tucked into her inner pocket.
"Sister-in-law Xiu Niang, I still have 10 billion US dollars of pocket money in this card that I haven't touched."
Alice pouted her rosy lips, her tone carrying a hint of helpless complaint.
"But I looked around and this manor offers food and lodging, but I can't even find a place to buy snacks."