"It'll only be a few days, you've worked so hard." Xie Xiao squinted at the people on his boat. "Where are you planning to go?"

Commander Zhao said, "My brothers and I were originally in the North Mountain, but—well, let's not talk about it."

Xie Xiao looked knowing. "We're doing alright for now. Do you want to come?"

Commander Zhao laughed again, "Thank you. I'll save a few people for now, and I'll come to see Brother Xie again when I have the chance."

"Okay." Xie Xiao even had five bags of grain brought out from inside, "A small token of my appreciation for your sister-in-law and the children."

Li Ruo glanced at him, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.

Looking at Old Zhao again, he seemed to be stunned for a moment, something flickering in his eyes. Finally, he clasped his hands tightly and said, "I, Zhao, thank you very much, Chief."

Looking at the hull, I thought, "Hey, your boat looks a bit like those used for canal transport."

Xie Xiao laughed, "An honest man doesn't do things in secret. It was a canal transport ship; I robbed one of theirs."

"Oh." Old Zhao nodded. "It's better to take it; those people would only be a menace..."

His voice trailed off, and Xie Xiao didn't hear it clearly, "Until we meet again."

"Until we meet again."

General Zhao swung the bow of the boat and continued to search for people in the water.

“Old Zhao is a good man, but good men usually don’t live long.” Xie Xiao looked at the water, his squinting eyes trembling, his expression hazy.

Li Ruo was right next to him. "You were afraid that he would get into trouble if he went back to Beishan, so you deliberately gave him food. This sack is for government use only, and this boat. He must have guessed something, but he had no choice but to accept it for the sake of the people on the boat. Once he accepted it, he would definitely not go back to Beishan to avoid suspicion. You wanted to save his life this way."

The book mentions that Commander Zhao was made an example of by Song Zhijing in Beishan for disrupting military discipline.

Perhaps Xie Xiao had this part of a precognitive dream, and he wanted to change Commander Zhao's fate.

Xie Xiao raised an eyebrow and looked at her. "It's rare to see you so long-winded."

Li Ruo narrowed her eyes: "What did you say?"

"I didn't say anything." Xie Xiao felt a dull pain in his jaw and quickly turned around and went back to the cabin.

Thanks to the hard work of the brothers from Black Wind Village, we returned to the mountainside of General Mountain by noon.

The flood has reached this point; it should stop here by now.

The fifth leader had already led his men to wait and support the eldest brother, and Xie Ying, worried about her brother's health, was also eagerly awaiting their arrival.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that Xie Xiao could walk back.

Looking at the boat full of grain and arrows, everyone cast admiring glances at Li Ruo.

"Sister Li!" Xie Ying ran over happily, "I wish I had gone with you. Don't leave me out of any missions in the future."

Li Ruoxin thought, "You should stay in the village."

It's rare to have everyone here, so let's do it.

Li Ruo pulled out a pair of whistles, giving one to each person, "Remember to whistle when you come to my Ziyang Peak in the future, so as not to accidentally kill anyone."

Sun Ergou immediately started blowing, "Beep beep beep... This thing is fun, sis, the boss doesn't have it yet, right?"

Xie Xiao, who came up after him: ...

Can't we still be friends?

One for each person?

Sun Ergou thought his boss didn't have any, "Boss, how about you have this? I'll go ask my sister for another one; she has plenty."

Xie Xiao: ...“Rare!”

Head held high, chest out, I strode over.

A brother ran over and said, "Boss, those refugees know you're back and want to talk to you."

"Oh? What are we talking about?" Xie Xiao chuckled.

"I don't know. There's also a pretty girl who said she could give us some kind of jade. She'd like to talk to you about it too."

Xie Ying pouted, "Brother, you're injured, go back and lie down. We're here."

Xie Xiao said, "Let's unload the goods first."

He looked at Li Ruo and asked, "Is your other half going to move to your place?"

Li Ruo said, "I'll move five bags over there first, and you can keep the rest."

"You trust me that much?"

Li Ruo: "No, one target is enough."

It would be troublesome if people knew in public that she had so much food in her house.

Xie Xiao smiled and gritted his teeth, "Fine, I'll remember this debt."

"Oh, keep four of those nineteen soft armors, and remember to return the rest to me," Li Ruo said, because they were too expensive.

Xie Xiao: ... "Tch, fine, I'll pay you back then."

At this moment, it was still raining, though less so than yesterday. Xie Xiao and the people in front of him were wearing raincoats, while those behind him wore straw raincoats. They carried bows and arrows, swords and spears, forming a dark and imposing mass.

The number of people on the mountain has doubled since yesterday.

There are people everywhere, and it's impossible to hide the large ships and grain being moved up the mountain, so Xie Xiao never thought of trying to conceal it.

Seeing the Black Wind Village brothers unloading grain from the large ship, the disaster victims drooled profusely.

But the three thousand brothers of Black Wind Stronghold, armed with knives and arrows, stood guard on both sides of the road. They were unarmed and could not get close, let alone rob.

"Boss Xie is here! He's here!" As Xie Xiao walked down the road, crowds surged on both sides of the road.

Their attitude at this moment is completely opposite to their calls to kill him and bring him to justice a few days ago.

"Boss Xie, we were wrong. There are so many dogs in your village, you can't possibly be any different from Aunt Liu's dog."

"Yes, Xie Da Biao is so handsome, there's no way he could scare Chen Dalang's youngest son so much that he cries all night. It must be that Chen Dalang himself is too ugly and that's what scared him."

"That's right, with so many pigs in Black Wind Stronghold, they definitely wouldn't even look at Aunt Zhou's sow and her ten piglets that just gave birth!"

"We were blind and wronged Boss Xie."

Although most of the people were thinking: Damn it, Black Wind Village has so many pigs and dogs, they must have been stolen from all over the country.

But the truth is no longer important; to save their lives, they are willing to call black white.

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