"Twenty-five? That's only ten days or so!" Li Ru glared at him. "I'm still angry."
Xie Xiao grinned and looked at her, "Why don't you beat me up to vent your anger, then you'll feel better?"
"That makes sense."
Xie Xiao shuddered. "Don't hit my face, not even my chin."
His warm breath brushed against her nose. "You stayed in my room for most of the night last night and even took off my clothes. Today everyone is saying that I'm no longer virgin. If you don't want me, I'll marry you. Ugh, if I can't find a wife, you have to take responsibility."
Seeing that he was clearly a big bad wolf but was pretending to be a kind big dog, Li Ruo stomped hard on his foot, saying, "I'll kick you."
"Ouch!" Xie Xiao winced in pain. "How could you be so cruel!"
"I can be even more ruthless." Seeing his discomfiture, Li Ruo smiled and walked out.
Although it was raining and snowing today, it didn't dampen everyone's enthusiasm for distributing porridge.
The steaming hot porridge dispelled the gloom of the sky and the chill of winter.
All the refugees on General Mountain can get a bowl of hot porridge.
Some of the newly arrived refugees were moved to tears.
They thought it was government relief, but it turned out to be a bandit organization, which they found very unbelievable.
However, having wandered the road for so long, they knew how difficult it was to do this, and they had no intention of resisting these bandits.
After some people inquired around, they wanted to join Ziyang Peak or Black Wind Stronghold.
This time, Li Ruo relaxed the requirements for recruiting soldiers a little more, because she knew that they would be needed soon.
Soldiers earn work points for fighting or doing manual labor, and these work points can support their families.
Xu Dafu clicked his tongue in amazement, "I've discovered many novel things about your Ziyang Peak, like work points, which I've never heard of before, and also—"
The bricks fired in the kiln, the sheds for growing vegetables.
What kind of septic tank?
Newly grown mushrooms.
A barbed wire fence carrying lightning...
Xu Dafu felt that he had wasted 25 years of his life.
Seeing his eagerness to learn, Li Ruo said, "You often travel on the water, with countless mountains on both sides. Haven't you noticed that there are mountains beyond mountains, and one mountain is always higher than another?"
"I found it!" Xu Dafu exclaimed, his mouth agape. "But what's the connection?"
"Think about it carefully. With your intelligence, you'll definitely be able to figure it out."
Xu Dafu scratched his head and thought for a long time, then suddenly yelled, "You're trying to fool me! You haven't kept your promise from last time. You said you'd return the boat to me, and you also told me the secret of how the boat disappeared."
Li Ruo: This guy is not easy to fool.
Before she could say anything, Liao Fusheng said, "It was I who performed the ritual."
"Perform a ritual?" Xu Dafu was stunned.
Li Ruo looked at Liao Fusheng. She had originally planned to perform a magic trick to get away with it, since it was just a smokescreen anyway. But Liao Fusheng shook his head at her, "It really was me."
Xu Dafu: "Then make one for me?"
After dark, Liao Fusheng put on Taoist robes, took a peach wood sword, and went to the water's edge with Li Ruo and Xu Dafu.
Seeing that no one was around, Liao Fusheng muttered something to himself, using technical jargon that no one could understand.
With a flick of his peach wood sword, a miraculous scene unfolded.
A boat appeared on the shore.
It was the very ship that Xu Dafu suddenly disappeared on!
Xu Dafu was stunned. "Amazing!"
He scratched his head, completely baffled. "I've lived for so many years, and I've actually encountered a living god."
Liao, the Living Immortal Taoist, revealed a smile more mysterious than the Mona Lisa. "Now you believe me, right? However, this is a secret of heaven that cannot be revealed. I hope you will not go around telling everyone."
At this moment, Xu Dafu looked at Liao Fusheng as if he were looking at gold and silver jewelry, feeling that he was shining with a charming light. The eight-foot-tall iron man instantly became a little fanboy, "I understand, I understand, of course I won't say such things carelessly."
No wonder Yang Huan was yelling at Li Ruo to return the statues in the Taoist temple to him that day. He thought it was impossible, since there were no statues on the ship.
It turns out the Taoist priest was secretly performing the ritual behind the scenes!
With a living deity like the Taoist priest around, what great things can't be accomplished?
Could it be that Miss Li is destined by fate?
When Xu Dafu saw the six white wolves in the yard, he became even more certain of his thoughts.
From that day on, Li Ruo noticed that Xu Dafu was much more energetic when training his troops, and that he always looked at Liao Fusheng with a lecherous—or rather, a smirking—glance at him.
Every night, I would find an excuse to go to the Taoist priest's tent and soak up some of his magical aura.
Liao Fusheng regretted moving out.
That's a story for another time.
At this moment, on Mount Qinghua.
The still-wounded Prince Jiangning looked at the empty space in front of him, the place where the Jade Emperor Hall and the Four Imperial Halls used to be, but now the bricks on the ground were gone.
He almost coughed up blood again.
"Your Highness, could they have used some kind of magic?" Yang Huan asked. "Otherwise, how could such a large hall just disappear like that?"
The Prince of Jiangning looked very solemn. “I have lived for nearly thirty years and have never heard of such magic. Even a highly accomplished master like Abbot Yuan of Qingfeng Temple probably couldn’t do it.”
"But didn't the head constable and the clerk's family, and that pawnshop, also disappear into thin air like this before?"
Yang Huan said, "Our scouts who went to General Mountain also said that one of Xu Dafu's boats disappeared during the fight with Li Ruo. At the time, Li Ruo was riding a strange boat, but it was dark and they were quite far away, so the scouts didn't see it clearly."
"That's how Xu Dafu was subdued by Li Ruo."
One of the advisors said, "Either this Li Ruo is strange, or there are some powerful people helping him behind the scenes."
The staff actually preferred the latter answer.
Just then, the scout returned and reported, "Your Highness, we have found out that the Taoist priest Liao who is with Li Ruo is indeed from Qingfeng Temple and is a disciple of Abbot Yuan."
A look of shock flashed across his deep, piercing eyes. "He's actually Master Yuan's disciple."
"If only we could capture Li Ruo and this Taoist priest," another advisor said. "Your Highness, our messenger who went to the Northern Army to report should be back soon."
Just then, a travel-worn man returned and handed Chu Yunji a letter.
Chu Yunji's brows relaxed after reading it. "Good, General Fu of the Northern Army will soon lead his troops to support me."
When the flood came, the Western Rong Kingdom, which was located on higher ground, prepared to attack the border of Dayin and fought with the Northern Army. Although the Western Rong Kingdom's iron hooves were powerful, they could not gain an advantage on the water for a while. General Fu stationed 100,000 troops on the border between the Western Rong and Dayin, leaving half of them in place, 30,000 to Qin Chuan to wait for orders, and another 20,000 to Yuzhou to provide reinforcements.
Because the Prince of Jiangning had once been kind to General Fu.
This time, let's see where Li Ruo can escape to.
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