Li Ruo glanced at Xie Xiao. "It's true that I moved out. But since I promised to give you 70%, I will keep my promise, which is about 40,000 jin."
"Forty thousand jin!" Achang and his friends were nearly scared to death. "So much!"
But Achang said, "Sister, we didn't do much, so we can't take so much. It's Xie the Boss who should get a share."
He chuckled, a hint of ingratiation in his voice, "Thank you, Chief Xie, please take us in. I'm willing to give you all this grain, as long as you lead us."
The brothers of Black Wind Stronghold were all taken aback.
But then again, it's understandable; these are just a bunch of little kids, even if we gave them food, we couldn't keep it.
Achang admired Xie Xiao, and of course, he understood this principle as well.
Seeing that Xie Xiao remained unmoved, Achang tugged at Li Ruo's sleeve again, "Sister, you have a good relationship with the Boss, right? Could you put in a good word for me?"
The head of the Xie family shielded her from an arrow! She must be his younger sister.
Sun Ergou chuckled, "Kid, you've come to the right person. She's our boss—"
"Joining our Black Wind Stronghold isn't easy," Xie Xiao said impatiently, seemingly to no one in particular.
Achang and the others were somewhat disappointed, looking at Li Ruo with longing eyes.
Li Ruo asked Achang, "Are you familiar with Beishan?"
Achang nodded, "We've been here for over a month, and there's no corner we haven't been to, otherwise we wouldn't have found such a secluded place."
"Okay, wait for me a moment." After Li Ruo finished speaking, she went back into the stone cave. After coming out, she said, "There is a thousand catties of grain inside. I haven't finished moving it yet. You can take it back and eat it first."
Giving them too much at once might make them unable to hold onto it.
"As for joining Black Wind Stronghold, I can try to put in a good word for you."
"Thank you so much!" Achang was overjoyed and told his friends to each carry a bag of millet back first.
Xie Xiao was directing the Black Wind Stronghold brothers to dig pits to bury the archers' corpses and clean up the scene, his face full of ferocity.
Seeing that he was angry, she didn't immediately go over to him, but instead called Sun Ergou over.
Why did you come to Beishan?
Sun Ergou was heartbroken. "Sister, I won't help you this time either. You were really in the wrong today."
Li Ruo showed a question mark on her face.
"You forgot?" Sun Ergou lowered his voice, "This morning, the boss went to deliver the betrothal gifts to you, but you weren't there, and you came to Beishan without saying a word!"
Li Ru blinked. "So early in the morning?" No wonder.
Seeing her like this, Sun Ergou assumed she had truly forgotten, and silently lit a candle for his boss in his heart.
“You only took one person to Beishan and did such a dangerous thing. How could the boss not be angry? Didn’t you see the terrifying look on his face when he came? It looked like he wanted to eat you up. He protected you like that just now, and you didn’t even appreciate it.”
Li Ruo's heart clenched suddenly.
She wasn't ungrateful, was she?
She was afraid he would get hurt while shielding her from arrows.
However, the way it was expressed was a bit off, and it overlooked his feelings.
"Thank you for telling me all this." Li Ruo then walked towards Xie Xiao, staring straight at him. "Hey, let me treat the wound on your arm."
Xie Xiao was standing with his hands on his hips watching people dig a hole, not even looking at her, and said lazily, "This little injury is nothing."
Li Ruo suddenly felt a pang of heartache.
They pulled him over, rolled up his sleeves, and thankfully the arrow only grazed him, without injuring him.
His eyes darkened slightly, and his tone was full of sarcasm, "What, you're giving me a sweet treat after a slap?"
Li Ruo lowered his sleeve. "Who hit you?"
Xie Xiao gritted his teeth, "Standing me up is like slapping me in the face, isn't it?"
Seeing that everyone was listening intently to gossip, Li Ruo felt a little embarrassed and quickly pulled him down the mountain, saying, "Chen He, come over when you're done with your work, and meet at Achang's shed."
"Yes," Chen He replied.
Li Ruo held Xie Xiao's hand. His hand was cold and his palm was a little rough. He twisted it, so she used a little more force, sliding her fingers between his fingers until they were interlocked. He squinted at her, snorted, and stopped twisting.
Li Ruo kept him in front of that tombstone.
Xu and Song Rong have been eliminated and their whereabouts are unknown.
Upon seeing the tombstone, Xie Xiao angrily demanded, "Who erected this!"
He raised his leg to kick.
Li Ruo grabbed him, "What are you doing? Don't you want your legs to get tired enough? This grave isn't wrong, the past me is already dead."
Xie Xiao frowned slightly as he looked at her.
“I haven’t forgotten about the betrothal gifts you mentioned. I came here today intending to kill Xu Shi and go back, so I could still attend your betrothal ceremony. But then I ran into Achang, who said that someone was transporting grain from that mountain valley. I suspected it was from the Prince of Jiangning, so I went to take a look, which delayed me a bit.”
"Hmph, take a look? You call taking someone's things a 'take a look'?" Xie Xiao's brows didn't relax at all. "You didn't even tell me you were coming here. Am I not important to you at all?"
Li Ruo was taken aback by his fierce shout. "How could it not be important? If it wasn't important, would I have saved you before? Oh dear, I think I saved you twice. You heartless bastard."
Xie Xiao: ...
His face stiffened. "How am I heartless? If I were heartless, would I have stayed up all night preparing betrothal gifts for you? When I heard you went to Beishan, I rushed over like a madman. When I saw you with an arrow stuck in your throat, my mind went blank, and I rushed over without thinking. And yet you still scolded me. Who's heartless here?"
As he spoke, he put his hands on his hips and looked down at her.
Li Ruo wasn't going to back down either, tilting her head back to retort, "So what if I called you stupid?"
"You're calling me stupid?"
"Yes, hitting is a sign of affection, scolding is a sign of love, don't you understand?"
Xie Xiao was taken aback, a slight smile playing on his lips, but he quickly pressed down again, "Say it again, what do you mean by 'I love you'?"
Li Ru blinked. When did she say she loved him? How did he punctuate that? Her face flushed. "You really came to bring betrothal gifts?"
"Of course, am I a man who doesn't keep his word?"
Li Ruo said, "Why don't you reconsider? You were so angry just now, wishing we could go our separate ways."
Xie Xiao: "Don't even think about it, I—"
Damn it, I've been tricked.
He snorted and looked at the tombstone. "What's going on with this thing?"
Li Ruo didn't know either, "Song Zhijing probably thought I was dead."
She suddenly laughed, half-jokingly, "Hey, I'm really dead."
Xie Xiao glared at her, "Don't talk nonsense."
"That blow from the Xu family really killed me. The Li Ruo I am now is not the same person I was when I married Song Zhijing. The Li Ruo standing in front of you is a completely new person."
Their eyes met.
There was shock in his eyes.
Her expression turned serious: "Didn't I tell you before? When I was unconscious, I dreamt of my father, who told me there would be a flood, remember?"
"Um."
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