Xie Xuan sat in a simple and rustic wooden house, holding a big bowl of tea, with a thoughtful look on his face.

Through the small window above the wooden house, Xie Xuan could see the flowers outside the window full of greenery.

Xie Xuan smiled with a mouthful of herbal tea. Although Niutou Mountain is nicknamed by people in the city, the environment and atmosphere on this mountain is much better than in the city. At least this tranquility is beyond the same as those in the city.

Xie Xuan held a big bowl of tea and looked at the green scenery outside the window, but his mind was spinning rapidly.

As the representative of the negotiations between Xie’s mansion and Niutou Mountain, he has been to Niutou Mountain for three days. Unfortunately, he still hasn’t seen Han Li, who is nicknamed “Murderer”.

The minion of Niutou Mountain who was receiving himself said that the boss was busy training newcomers who had just added to Niutou Mountain to prepare for Mr. Xie's big business, but Xie Xuan knew that this was a clumsy lie.

Han Li was just dragging him until he had enough interests and bargaining chips, and he would condescend to meet the visitor of the Xie Mansion. For his noble life, Xie Xuan naturally would not come here in the name of the great prince of the Xie Mansion. His name is Xie Xi, and his identity is Xie Ling's aide.

Xie Xuan frowned slightly. It was not because of Han Li's tricks. Xie Xuan was a child among officials. Before Han Li started to learn martial arts, he began to plot against others in a deceitful way. The word "intrigue" was like breathing. Even if Han Li was tied to his dog-headed military advisor, he would definitely not be a match for Xie Xuan's finger.

What really makes Xie Xuan feel upset now is time.

In fact, now is not the best time to start the group of bandits in Niutou Mountain. Wait for a while, when the power of Niutou Mountain becomes larger and the power of the patrol battalion is weakened, and when Niutou Mountain enters the city again, the power will definitely move forward and be at its peak.

Even Han Li and other bandits understand this matter, so why would the Xie family not understand it?

The reason why Xie’s family is so anxious is ultimately due to time.

After the last time the goods that had been robbed by Yang Qi, Xie Ling had always vaguely felt something was wrong, especially recently, Yi Zhang, who was originally nicknamed "Stealing Prefect", suddenly stopped being addicted to Huang Lao's learning, and slowly began to extend his hand to some extremely chaotic small aspects in Luoyun City and even Daoping County. He also acted decisively and seriously rectified it. No matter who it is, as long as it violated the law and discipline, he would be punished severely and severely.

This is a good signal for the people in Luoyun City; but for the interest groups led by Xie’s Mansion, it is an extremely bad trend.

The interest groups under the Xie Mansion thought that Yi Zhang was getting frightened again, and if he didn't practice alchemy, he began to care about things in the world again.

But only Xie Ling vaguely felt that Yi Zhang's move this time was not aimless.

There is even a slight possibility that Yi Zhang has already mastered the clues of the jade seal, so this time he took action, it may be a test.

Even if the possibility of such a temptation is only one in ten thousand, Xie Ling had to be careful. With the preparations in the temple, Xie Ling had to do everything he should do. Now Yi Zhang is not only a hand-scattering prefect, but also a scattering prefect. Although the government orders can leave the prefect's mansion, they may not be able to leave Luoyun City.

The only thing that made Xie Ling feel unhappy was the force in Luo Yun City.

To be precise, it is the patrol battalion in Luoyun City.

The president of the Luo Yuncheng Patrol Battalion is Lu Sheng, a general who cultivates both civil and military affairs. Under his governance, although the patrol battalion is not very powerful, it has always been relatively law-abiding. Except for Lu Sheng himself, no one else can point fingers at the patrol battalion. Xie Ling is not good, and Yi Zhang is not good either.

What’s even more regrettable is that Lu Sheng is Yi Zhang’s disciple and Yi Zhang’s loyalty.

Therefore, Xie Ling had no guarantee of any force except his own private soldiers and horses in Luoyun City.

A few years ago, he had been interested in bringing the Ma family under his command, but the Ma family was used to being free in the West City, so naturally he didn't like to suddenly have one more person to press on them and point fingers at them. More importantly, the original interests of the Ma family would be divided by Xie Ling.

The Ma family cannot take over, and Xie Ling does not have much thought. After all, the Ma family and the Xie family have never been a family of the same level, and the Ma family does not have the qualifications to wrestle the Xie family. Since the Ma family cannot accept the kindness brought by the Xie family, the Xie family will create another Ma family, which will not take much effort.

Inducing the Niutou Mountain bandits into the city, for the Xie family, they finally had their own direct line in the field of force and had the qualification to compete with Yi Zhang. Even if they had a conflict with Yi Zhang in the future, then with the two thousand Niutou Mountain bandits here, at least they would be guaranteed that Yi Zhang would not be anxious to jump over the wall.

For the bandits in Niutou Mountain, this is completely in line with the principle of "wanting to be an official, killing people and setting fires" that was previously circulated among the heroes of the Green Forest. The bandits in Niutou Mountain will definitely not have a low status when they enter the city. The savings they have saved over the years are enough to support them in making their first turnaround business in Luoyun City. And most importantly, their descendants can settle their hometowns normally, learn to read, study or even become officials, which is the most important thing for them.

After all, the glorious family and the continuation of incense are the top priority in this world.

Since the Niutou Mountain bandits entering the city is a good thing for both sides, the reason why the two sides have not reached a consensus yet is that this good thing is more favorable to which side.

The Xie family wanted to turn Niutou Mountain into its own private armed forces, and Niutou Mountain naturally wanted to make the Xie family less invaded by it. How to reach a consensus on this issue is the way of negotiations between the two sides.

The Xie family sent the eldest son of Xie Xuan to negotiate, which is enough to prove their importance to this matter.

Xie Xuan slowly pulled his thoughts out of his work through the review of this matter. He reached out and gently pinched his eyebrows, a little tired.

He has been wasting three days on Niutou Mountain, and there are still a lot of things waiting for him to deal with in the city. If Han Li doesn't see him today, he will have to show his identity and forcefully request a meeting.

But in this way, his own level of danger may increase a little, and the Xie family was in a disadvantaged position from the beginning in the negotiations with Niutoushan.

Xie Xuan forgot to glance outside the window again. At this time, the beautiful scenery outside the window was no longer there, and instead it was a dim color. The pots had already started cooking on the mountain, and one or two thick smoke from time to time rose.

Since Xie Xuan came to this mountain, he has never been restricted from traveling, but he has been staying in this cabin for the past three days and has never been out. One is that he does not want the bandits in Niutou Mountain to misunderstand, and the other is that he knows that going out and walking has no effect on the great cause he has planned, so he is too lazy to go out at this time. Apart from the necessary activities, he has been sitting in the cabin thinking about problems.

After another half an hour, a bandit who had been serving Xie Xuan's daily life came in, holding a huge tile jar in his hand and carrying a food basket in his left hand.

The tile jar contains steaming pheasant and deer meat soup. The pheasant is fat and tender, and the tile meat is delicious. The soup is also decorated with wild onions, garlic seedlings and other flavor-enhancing ingredients. The huge tile jar soup is 4 or 5 kilograms, which is not only delicious, but also full of weight.

As for the food basket, under the snow-white cage, there was more than one pound of dough cakes. Although they were made of coarse grains, they tasted extremely first-class.

Xie Xuan put away the thoughts in his mind, greeted the bandit with a smile on his face, picked up a corner of the cake with his left hand, picked up bamboo chopsticks with his right hand, and started to feast on his feast.

Xie Xuan is a young master of the Xie family who is usually pampered and has been frugal since he was a child. However, after coming to Niutou Mountain, he also ate coarse grain bread and rich wild game with sweet food. Especially the attitude of eating, in just one day, he changed from being polite as before to a bandit who ate meat and drank wine in big mouthfuls.

This bandit who came to deliver food to Xie Xuan was the only channel for Xie Xuan to contact the outside world, but Xie Xuan had never had any in-depth communication with the bandit in the past three days. Until now, Xie Xuan was still calm and ate the noodles and drank the broth.

When Xie Xuan was halfway through, the bandits who delivered the meal brought Xie Xuan a cup of hot tea.

Xie Xuan nodded and thanked him, took the teacup and pecked him with a sip, praising the deliciousness of the tea.

The bandits who delivered the meal sat down opposite Xie Xuan and said with a smile: "Mr. Xie, let's talk?"

Xie Xuan chewed slightly, slowly took off the dough cake beside him, looked at the bandits opposite him with meaningful smile: "Okay, that's all I can talk about."

The bandit nodded slightly and chuckled, "It's a sin to not meet Mr. Xie in the past few days. Please don't be surprised by Mr. Xie."

Xie Xuan chuckled and shook his head: "What did Brother Bo Ren say? Xie did not meet Brother Bo Ren before. Since we have spoken out today, we will let it go."

Liu Boren, Han Li's confidant think tank, and the Dog-Tou Military Advisor of Niutou Mountain, was said to be a teacher before going up the mountain. A wealthy family fell in love with his wife because of wealth. On a dark and windy night, they ordered their subordinates to tie his wife up. After the spoils, they were afraid of being identified by this fierce woman. They wanted to knock him out and send him out, but after the servant failed, they beat him to death and threw the woman into Daoshahe.

Later, things were very simple. Liu Boren took the initiative to go up the mountain to come to Han Li's hands to help the evil, but at the same time he also gained Han Li's trust and reuse.

Six months later, Liu Boren directly brought people to smash the rich kiln, and cut all his heads from top to bottom, threw them into Daoshahe. As for the gentry who insulted his wife, Liu Boren personally took the blade and made a whole table of dishes.
Chapter completed!