Zhou Xi smiled and said, "It is precisely because we haven't had a direct confrontation with the Crown Prince and his men yet that I want to leave now and catch up with the eldest lady of the Su family."

"The prince asked you to go with him to suppress the bandits, so go ahead. He told us they're in the mountains over there by the post station, so we should go there instead of going to Changzhou."

"The post station is empty. The prince will definitely come back to interrogate the people he captured. As long as we deal with these people, the prince can't suddenly say he wants to go to Changzhou to suppress bandits!"

"The Crown Prince is still the Crown Prince. He can ask you for help and borrow your military power to get your cooperation, but he can't just ask you to follow him around and order you around without any reason. The Emperor is still young."

"The other princes are also slowly recovering. I heard that the second prince is quite resourceful."

"Even if the Crown Prince forces you to go to Changzhou to suppress the bandits, as long as you can hold out for a few days, all my people will withdraw, and the Crown Prince will only see an empty mountain. If I marry into the Su family, you and I will have a brighter future together."

Before coming here, Zhou Xi had never thought about leaving his old nest.

These bandits are all desperate criminals, so they will naturally not run away just because they are discovered by the court.

But after coming to Liaocheng, he wanted something more, and he found that he had been too narrow-minded before.

When General Mao heard Zhou Xi say this, although his heart was moved, he was not completely dizzy: "If the prince finds that there are no bandits, he will definitely come back to interrogate them."

According to their speculation yesterday, if the captured people could sell them once, they would definitely sell them a second time, and might even rush to sell them.

A cold light flashed in Zhou Xi's eyes, and he whispered a few words to General Mao.

General Mao found that he was still not cruel enough, and if anyone was to be cruel, these bandits were still crueler.

Seeing that General Mao agreed, Zhou Xi said, "I'll leave first. I'll leave this to the general."

General Mao smiled and said, "Don't worry, Miss Su is in a carriage. You still have time to leave after the matter is done."

There was a flash of impatience in Zhou Xi's eyes, but he still agreed.

If he leaves right after Su Rui leaves, it will cause Su Cheng and the others to be wary and suspicious of him. It would be okay to say goodbye and then leave tomorrow.

After Zhou Xi left, General Mao called the people around him and whispered, "Go and ask the young master to make friends with Miss Su."

He had thought wrongly before, letting a bandit seduce Miss Su and gaining benefits for nothing.

The Su family is an in-law family. If his son can marry a young lady from the Su family, even if his affair is exposed, he can cry bitterly to the prince and say that he was forced to do so. The prince will probably not do anything for the sake of the Su family.

Moreover, it was Zhou Xi who poisoned the prince, not him.

He never had the idea of ​​killing the prince!

The prince and the others didn't know that the two had already started fighting openly and secretly, and each had their own calculations.

After Su Cheng left, Wei Fu looked at the pale and frail prince and pushed him hard into the bed: "Big brother, sleep, sleep."

"You have to be obedient. You are a patient now. You should rest well. The sky won't fall."

Why do adults always have to think so much? Wei Fu doesn’t quite understand this yet.

She only knew that she had to sleep when she was tired and eat when she was hungry.

The prince saw her little face full of concern and was very touched by his sister's care. He thought carefully and realized that everything that needed to be arranged had actually been made before. He just didn't expect that they would reach out to Su Rui, so he lay down very "obediently".

Wei Fu considerately covered the prince with the quilt, patted the four corners and pressed it down for the prince.

The prince felt warm in his heart but also found her worrying look a little funny.

"It's getting late now. Fu'er, go have dinner with Young Master Long first. Big brother knows how to sleep."

Wei Fu: Shocking!!!

She actually forgot something as important as eating. She quickly said, "Big brother, don't rush to sleep. Eat your fill first and then go to sleep."

She asked someone to bring lunch into the room, had lunch with the prince, and only left after watching him fall asleep.

After leaving the Crown Prince's side, Wei Fu clenched his fists and angrily said to Long Yin, "Little brother, Fu'er is very angry!"

"If it weren't for Fu'er's strength, big brother would have died."

Long Yin: “…”

You are so angry, shouldn't you use a more serious word?

That's not dying, that's dying.

"Then what……"

Wei Fu said: "I'm going to beat Zhou Xi's head off."

The corners of Long Yin's mouth twitched wildly: "You are a girl, you shouldn't be so violent."

"Zhou Xi has your brother, the Crown Prince, and your cousin to deal with. Besides, if you deal with Zhou Xi, Su Rui won't have to suffer any retribution. Su Rui is also a nuisance. Who do you think is more harmful, Su Rui or Zhou Xi?"

Wei Fu's face was full of confusion and anger.

The dilemma was that she wanted to beat Zhou Xi, but she also wanted Zhou Xi to harm Su Rui. Moreover, she couldn't tell who was more harmful, Zhou Xi or Su Rui.

What made her angry was that she had to answer multiple-choice questions.

She is only six years old!

You have to make a choice. It’s not just adults who make choices, children also have to make choices o(╥﹏╥)o

After Wei Fu had been struggling for a while, he decided to keep Zhou Xi and let him harm Su Rui.

If two troublemakers harm each other, she won't have to do it herself, and won't be involved in any cause and effect.

Master said that it is not good to be too involved in karma.

Because the prince was poisoned, Wei Fu and Su Cheng did not go out to investigate the case. The prefect was also frightened when he knew that the prince was poisoned, but he felt relieved when he saw that Wei Fu did not go out.

I was afraid that Wei Fu would find it boring to stay in the house and would insist on going out, and thus encounter some danger.

Worried that Wei Fu would be bored, he called out the opera troupe his mother had raised during her lifetime and asked them to play with Wei Fu, sing opera for him, or perform magic tricks.

Wei Fu and Long Yin were both very happy to hear the opera singers at first because they were dressed very beautifully and sang very interestingly. But as they listened, they began to feel sleepy. Neither the man nor the dragon wanted to let themselves be wronged, so they fell into a deep sleep as soon as they felt sleepy.

Tingyu looked like an aunt and carefully carried Wei Fu back.

Long Xi had a stern face and took Long Yin back with him without a smile.

…

In the middle of the night, the government office, which had just been severely damaged, caught fire again. Wei Fu was awakened by Tingyu, who anxiously put clothes and shoes on her, carried her to an open area, and said, "Princess, the place where those bandits are being held is on fire."