Li Ru glared at him, "I'm serious."
“When have I ever not been serious?” He placed her hand on his left chest. “Look how seriously you’re dancing.”
Li Ruo touched a scar on it. "I wanted to ask you the day before yesterday, when did you get this scar?"
Someone even boasted, "We killed a group of passing bandits. Those bandits even tried to rob us; they were courting death."
He recounted each and every scar with great relish, each one a testament to his glorious past.
"This scar on my arm happened when I was buying grain in the south and traveling by waterway. I was almost robbed by the grain transport gangs who cooperated with the government. They accidentally cut me."
The wound on my abdomen was from killing a three-headed wolf once, and I was injured by its claws...
There was also a scratch on his back, from a bear.
Li Ruo looked at his back and said, "Wow, so that's what a bear's claws look like. Why didn't you play dead back then?"
"Do I need to play dead? I sold that bear to a wealthy merchant for five hundred taels of silver."
Li Ruo: "Isn't it that rich businessman who sent you several beautiful women?"
"Go away." Xie Xiao glared at her. "Is he the only wealthy businessman in the world?"
Li Ruo smiled and said, "Speaking of which, that rich businessman sent you several beautiful women, and you really didn't take them? How beautiful were they?"
Xie Xiao's eyes immediately darkened, and he pinched her ribs a few times. "You need a beating, don't you?"
Li Ruo giggled as she was tickled, begging for mercy, "Alright, alright, keep showing off your achievements. I remember this one, you were injured when you met Prince Jiangning on your way back from Zixia Mountain."
"But I didn't lose out by robbing him 100,000 catties of grain."
“Showing off.” Li Ruo glanced at him. “After you returned to the village, you found out that I went to Rushui to rob Song Zhijing’s grain, yet you still came to rescue me, even though I could have handled it myself.”
"How would I know you had that mustard seed? Otherwise, I wouldn't have gone."
"Really? You were so nervous about me that you almost lost control, but you just wouldn't admit it."
Xie Xiao's face suddenly turned red, and he licked his cheek with his tongue. "Want to settle old scores? Then I'll have to settle them with you properly."
"No! How long will that take?" Li Ruo stroked a wound on his shoulder blade. "I saved him from this one." She then stroked another arrow wound on his arm. "This one was to save me."
As she was talking, she buried her face in his and stopped moving.
Xie Xiao suddenly felt a warm spot on his chest, paused for a moment, and then laughed: "You didn't cry from being so moved, did you? You didn't cry back then."
Li Ruo said in a muffled voice, "Which eye of yours saw that I was moved?" She was clearly heartbroken that he had more than a dozen scars of varying sizes on his body.
"You were so disgusted by how ugly it was?"
"I told you I didn't cry, aren't you annoying me?"
Xie Xiao remained silent for a while before finally saying, "Hey, didn't you notice that you stripped my upper body completely naked?"
"Huh?" It seemed so. Li Ruo quickly got up and covered him with the blanket, but he turned over and hugged her. He kissed her lips again, gently and delicately sucking on them. Li Ruo felt a dense itch and numbness all over her body.
Like drinking fruit wine, with the sweetness of fruit and the slight intoxication of wine, Li Ruo was a little drunk, floating and dazed. In a daze, his hand pinched her in front of her and then withdrew it.
"Go find something else to eat," he said in a slightly hoarse voice.
Li Ruo blushed and smiled at him, "Let's invite Yang Huahua and Er Gou for hot pot, the kind we had at Ziyang Peak last time!"
Beishan's trip was very fruitful.
Besides a box of treasures, Li Ruo also recruited two thousand female soldiers.
Eight thousand male soldiers joined the Black Wind Army.
Therefore, the main force totaled 50,000 people.
Back at General Mountain, everyone was very excited. Fifty thousand people! With proper training, they will be a very powerful force.
Soon, the Fifth Master returned with his men, saying that they had found Commandant Liu and his group of soldiers, totaling more than 5,000 men, in a dense forest far from Qinghua Mountain, in a place completely different from the one Song Zhijing had described.
It seems that Song Zhijing didn't believe they would release Commandant Liu.
They also found the Prince of Runan and Zhang Shu'er, but they had already starved to death several days ago.
Most of the soldiers surrendered, but Captain Liu was stubborn and refused to surrender. He was captured and brought back, and Xie Xiao was personally interrogating him.
Apart from this, no other ambushes have been found on Qinghua Mountain so far, indicating that the King of Jiangning's men have indeed withdrawn.
Xu Dafu was overjoyed, "We've taken in the refugees from Qinghua Mountain too, another group of people."
Liao Fusheng said, "Many of those people come from prominent families and wealthy households, so it probably won't be that easy."
Xu Dafu looked at a woman whose eyes were shining and chuckled, "What are you afraid of? The female boss can handle any kind of dissent."
Li Ruo was indeed tempted. It was nice to live in a wealthy family; there might even be many treasures there.
"Let's talk about it after the New Year."
This day was Lunar New Year's Eve.
Li Ruo used the gift from Achang to exchange for over a million more points, bringing her total to 42 million. She only needs 18 million more points to unlock the ability to enter the space. Hahaha.
Overjoyed, she bought several thousand kilograms of pork from the mall to add dishes and make dumplings for everyone.
The brothers from Black Wind Village, Purple Sun Peak, and White Cloud Peak were filled with joy and laughter upon hearing that there would be dumplings to eat.
All key members were invited to Ziyang Peak for a "New Year's Eve dinner".
At this time, the only ones who could still celebrate the New Year, besides the Black Wind Army, were the powerful and wealthy people in the capital.
However, they started trembling early this morning.
The Emperor was discussing the allocation of supplies with Crown Prince Chu Yue and several ministers when Commander Cai of the Imperial Guards hurriedly requested an audience, "Your Majesty, General Li Qing has returned!"
"What!"
Like a thunderclap out of nowhere, the minister jumped up in surprise.
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