Queen Idaman

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Princess Lie was still awake from her sleep even her eyes seemed to show no signs of wanting to be closed. He only continued to fidget in Prince Jun's arms which had closed his eyes.

"Something bothered your mind so sweety that you didn't fall asleep!" prince Jun opened his eyes slowly

"I'm sorry I interrupted your sleep" said Princess Lie sadly

"Tell me, what's causing my beautiful wife not to sleep?" asked Prince Jun stroking Princess Lie's cheek

"I'm just afraid that there will really be a lot of beautiful girls" Putti Lie said honestly.

"Where do you mean?, what's south!" guess Prince Jun, who got the nod of Princess Lie

"Geez so my beautiful wife can't sleep because she thinks of such an absurd thing" Prince Jun joked.

"That's not a trivial thing you know, there's not a single woman in the world who wants to share a husband, no wife who is not hurt to see her husband making out with others while the wife only gets one husband ration only" muttered Princess Lie quietly but still heard the husband.

Prince Jun laughed at the murmur from his wife.

"I've said it never was if my love was only for you and would never be divided again"

Princess Lie looked into Prince Jun's eyes fixedly looking for lies from her husband's eyes. But all he found was honesty and sincerity that calmed his heart.

The tight hug Princess Lie gave to Prince Jun seemed to hint at a fright.

"Tell me what's still bothering you, Sweetyy?"

Prince Jun stroked Princess Lie's hair and occasionally dyed it

"I'm afraid of losing again like I lost my mother from the moment I was born, I don't want to lose you either" Princess Lie said submerging her face in Prince Jun's chest field.

Prince Jun's moving hand raised Princess Lie's face towards her and looked at her warmly.

"Just one of my prayers to you, sweetyy, believe in my love"

A friendly kiss fell on Princess Lie's lips briefly but affectionately. Finally tonight they went through with the same great feeling and built each other a foundation of trust for the integrity of their households.

After two days on the way...

Prince Jun's entourage entered the Southern area precisely in the village of Ruhai. A very terrible situation became the first sight they saw.

For Prince Jun and his subordinates, such a scene was commonplace every summer. But for Princess Lie it was very surprising because he had never seen anything like this even though it was summer.

The ground cracked, trees and other plants dried and died. This situation looks like in the desert alone inner Princess Lie.

Seeing the royals coming, soon the villagers came out of the house and approached hoping to get water and food.

It is very sad about the state of this Ruhai village. The residents look thin and tattered due to lack of food.

Prince Jun's entourage entered the village hall where his officials were. Many residents are sprawled due to the disease and do not get enough medicine.

Princess Lie came out of the horse carriage with Prince Jun clasping his hands tightly.

The village chief came near to Prince Jun and Princess Lie to greet the other village officials

"Honor Your Highness the Prince, honor the Empress"

Prince Jun nodded his head while Princess Lie smiled.

"What's the situation?" ask Prince Jun.

"The situation is increasingly concerning His Highness the Prince, many residents are infected with hives and chapped lips. Even many children are weak from the heat"

Princess Lie was very sorry to see the children who were lying down just wrapped in seedy cloth. Princess Lie approached the children and touched their bodies.

"His body temperature is high, have you guys given him any medicine?"

The village healer approached Princess Lie and gave something.

"This is the Queen's medicine and this is all that's left because the medicinal ingredients are gone"

While holding the medicine spot, Princess Lie realized something strange about the medicine.

The aroma of the medicine made Princess Lie frown in confusion, what kind of medicine this was his inner strange smell.

"There's still no water? if you have it in a larger container and take a small cloth"

Yuhi village officials immediately went to fetch water at Princess Lie's request.

"Look at what I did and then do the same thing to people with high body temperatures"

Princess Lie compressed the extremely thin little boy, even her lips were dry and pale. Healthy people immediately do the same thing as Princess Lie even with the rest of the potable water.

"The Empress, the remaining water is only one jug and it will not last long" said village chief Mino

Prince Jun drew closer to Mino and Princess Lie who were still near the little boy.

"Is there no more water? where do you usually get your water?" ask Prince Jun.

All the villagers looked at each other for confused what to answer.

"Sorry Your Majesty, we always get water from the forest to the west of the village, where there are many springs just that…"

The turn of Prince Jun and Princess Lie who looked at each other in confusion.

"What is it?" prince Jun asked and nodded at Princess Lie.

"There was a horde of robbers who were very fierce, even we always sacrificed a girl and possessions to get some water jugs.

What a shocking bad news for Prince Jun and Princess Lie who just found out because the reports received by the royal side are not in accordance with what is on the ground.

"Is there no other place that is not drought?"

"No Empress is the only forest that is not drought and is closest to the village" Mino said

Princess Lie of all possibilities that are highly improbable does not exist in a village of this size.

"Does this village not have its own water source?"

Prince Jun's question was surprising to Princess Lie who was thinking about it, whether he was a genius or indeed that was what he was also thinking about inwardly.

"There is Your Majesty, but it has been controlled by the group in the Western forest by letting the tiger around it until we no one dared to approach" explained Mino.

Prince Jun felt that something was wrong with the system of government in this Ruhai village. Every village and area in the Xiao kingdom area already had their own guards, but Prince Jun did not even see those guards anywhere.

"Alright, use the water that is given enough there are citizens who need it, we will return first to take the Empress to rest later I return again".

Prince Jun led Princess Lie out of the village hall and into the pavilion his servant had prepared.