It was September 26, the twenty-third year of Zhaohua.

Starting from Kyoto, the bandit suppression team finally arrived at the foot of Shilipo Mountain in the evening of this day after walking for ten days.

There was nothing unusual along the way.

Ning Zhixing never said a word to Li Chenan again, so he must have really given up.

The girl riding the donkey would only chat with Li Chenan during meals. She didn't talk about Wanxi Zhai or the disciples in Wanxi Zhai, and she rarely even talked about Jianghu affairs.

What she was more curious about was Li Chenan's weird behavior as he walked slowly and slowly——

He would always go to those fields at noon or in the evening when the team was camping!

He even went to two popular villages with the two knives from Mushan Dao on two nights!

She didn't go the first night, but she went the second night.

Then I saw Li Chenan sitting on the threshold of a shabby house chatting with an old man dressed in rags!

This was beyond Xiao Baozi's expectation.

Because she knew that Li Chenan now had a very high status and was even rumored to be the eldest son of the emperor.

Even though she has been living in Wanxi Zhai, she has read the entire first floor of books left by her master, and she naturally knows what the secular world is from the books.

There are masters in the world, and the masters look down upon the inferiors.

There are hierarchies in the temple, and the lower ranks obey orders from the higher ranks.

There are so many people in this world that it is difficult to look at each other, let alone sit together and chat.

But Li Chenan actually chatted with the old man for a full hour!

At first, the old man was afraid.

But Li Chenan seemed to have forgotten his identity. He put himself very low and spoke casually. He did not have the aloofness of a scholar, nor the arrogance of the emperor's eldest son.

He is very good at inducing others to talk.

So unknowingly, the old man seemed to have ignored his dark, clean and expensive clothes, and gradually started talking.

The two of them actually talked about farming, exorbitant taxes, and sericulture to bad government.

In the end, the topic ended here, because the old farmer didn't dare to talk anymore, even though he seemed to want to.

Li Chenan naturally didn't force it, and then said goodbye and left.

From Xiao Baozi's point of view, Li Chenan's behavior was certainly not without purpose.

"I thought you would give that old man a few taels of silver..."

Xiao Baozi raised her eyes and looked at Li Chenan, sitting lazily on the stool. She seemed to feel a little uncomfortable, so she changed her posture and said:

"After all, the old man is really pitiful. He has to take care of more than ten acres of crops and take care of his two grandsons. The family can no longer open the pot, and the wild vegetables picked from the mountains are not enough to fill the stomachs of the three of them."

Li Chenan pondered for a moment, "This is not a problem that can be solved with a few taels of silver. If the root of the problem is not solved, their lives will never be sustainable."

Xiao Baozi's slender eyes widened, "Then what is the root of the problem?"

"If hard-working people like that old farmer don't have enough to eat, if all the people in the world will starve to the point of starvation with their own hard-working hands..."

Li Chenan poured a cup of tea for Xiao Baozi, "If a businessman can't get away with a few taels of silver even if he works hard for a year, if a handicraftsman gets sick from exhaustion and can't even get the money for treatment... then this country is in trouble.

question."

"The root is in the temple!"

Xiao Baozi took the tea cup and took a small sip with his mouth pouted, then raised his eyes and looked at Li Chenan, "Then how to treat it?"

Li Chenan did not answer, he smiled slightly: "Tell me your name first."

Xiao Baozi put down the tea cup and glanced at him, "Go and ask the Prime Minister!"

Li Chenan turned around and saw the little black donkey drinking water by the stream. It was lying on the ground with its butt sticking out.

"Who are those people over there?"

Xiao Baozi looked at the group of silver-armored soldiers in the distance and then asked.

"The second prince's personal guard."

"Second Prince? He also came with you to suppress the bandits?"

"No, he came here to kill me."

"...Then why don't you kill him?"

"Go to Shuangjiao Mountain to kill."

Xiao Baozi's mind suddenly shut down, and she looked at Li Chenan again. There was finally a trace of doubt in her eyes that had always been dull.

She found it difficult to understand the thoughts of the man in front of her.

"You still have to choose a place to kill?"

"There is no need to choose a location, but as you can see, he has so many soldiers after all. If we attack him at this time, my people will also be killed or injured."

Li Chenan also looked at the Silver Armor Army in the distance, "His life is not valuable, but the lives of my people are precious. The layout in Shuangjiao Mountain should be completed. Let him die without spending a single soldier.

It’s more cost-effective.”

Xiao Baozi pondered for a moment, "I think you are more like a shrewd businessman now. How about I kill him?"

"Wait, there's no rush."

As soon as Li Chenan finished speaking, Xiao Baozi suddenly turned his head and looked at the mountain behind the camp!

This mountain is the front mountain before entering Shuangjiao Mountain!

This mountain is not high, but there are many pines and cypresses on the mountain, so it is densely forested.

The sun has set, and the tired birds should have returned to their nests, but at this moment, a flock of birds flew up from the mountainside about twenty feet away.

Xiao Baozi's slender eyes suddenly narrowed into a line and turned into a slit.

Li Chenan saw Xiao Baozi's strange behavior, he turned around and said: "I am the bait. I want to lure one or two martial arts masters to show up. If it is Beiqiu Zuoqiu Buming, he can shoot at most one arrow."

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Xiao Baozi ignored his words. She kept looking at the mountainside. After a while, the flying birds fell back to the trees.

No arrow came.

But that place at least tried hard just now.

"It looks like he ran away."

Li Chenan was looking at Xiao Baozi's eyes at this time. He now felt that there seemed to be something wrong with Xiao Baozi's eyes.

Because she always likes to squint her eyes, especially when she wants to observe something.

Could it be myopia?

If this master of martial arts is short-sighted, he will probably suffer a lot in a fight.

Xiao Baozi withdrew his gaze and opened his slender eyes a little, "So you pushed away the two knives of the Mushan Sword? Just so that Zuoqiu Buming could shoot you?"

"Well, after all, they are here. Even if Zuoqiu Buming is a half-step grandmaster, he cannot be absolutely sure that one arrow will hit me."

"Can you block Zuoqiu Buming's arrow?"

Li Chenan picked up the teacup and shook his head, "I can't, don't you still have to do it?"

"...You are indeed a shrewd businessman."

"What state are you in?"

Xiao Baozi didn't answer. She stood up and swayed towards the little black donkey like a weak willow supporting the wind.

"Why should I block that arrow for you?"

She walked to the creek, sat on the back of the little black donkey, took off her shoes, and dipped Li Chenan's pair of white, jade-like feet into the stream.

She was about to wash her feet happily, but suddenly she turned her head to look at the mountain again.

Her eyes narrowed again, and in an instant, she turned her head slightly, frowning, and heard an extremely weak sound breaking through the air.

There is a sword cutting down in the mountain.

But she already knew that an arrow was really shot at Li Chenan.

She reached out and pulled out a handful of donkey hair from the little black donkey's butt.

The little black donkey made a miserable cry, expressing its strong dissatisfaction.

But it was still lying by the stream and didn't dare to get up.

Xiao Baozi waved his hand.

A tuft of donkey hair flew towards the arrow.

Almost at the same time, she also flew up from the donkey's back.

Because that tuft of donkey hair can't block a half-step Grandmaster's arrow.

Her body flew into the air, and her hands fell on her waist.

Li Chenan looked up and saw that her waistband suddenly loosened, and her long and wide skirt opened like a mushroom.

She flew above Li Chenan's head!

Li Chenan's eyes suddenly widened.

But it wasn't because of the flying arrow.

But...
Chapter completed!