The two waited for a while before the five bandits arrived, panting.
Seeing the imposing Li Zhao and the burly attendants behind him, the bandits' legs began to tremble, and almost instantly, the five of them took off running.
Li Zhao's sharp eyes swept over the five bandits, and his voice was chilling as he said, "The emperor will not tolerate such criminals under his feet. They will be killed without mercy to serve as a warning to others."
The person in his arms was obviously frightened and shrank back.
Seeing this, Li Zhao changed his tone and said, "Hand him over to the authorities."
At this time, the attendant Jiang Feng handed the cloak to Li Zhao. Li Zhao glared at Jiang Feng, and Jiang Feng quickly said with concern: "But the wind and sand on the road are very strong, and the general's eyes are not feeling well."
Jiang Yi also raised his eyes to look into Li Zhao's eyes.
Their eyes met, and the man's extremely deep eyes were filled with an elusive light. He put the cloak on Jiang Yi, but did not take a step back.
He even moved closer and gently gathered Jiang Yi's loose hair.
Jiang Yi felt a little uncomfortable. She pretended to be shy and didn't dare to look up at Li Zhao even once. But in her heart she thought that none of the Li brothers were good.
Little did they know that Li Zhao was even more puzzled. He had a strange disease since he was a child. If a woman was within ten feet of him, he would vomit at the very least and develop a rash and a high fever at the worst.
Not only did this woman not make him feel uncomfortable at all today, but he also felt a strange feeling in his heart.
The feeling of his heart beating violently "thump, thump" made him unable to calm down.
Is it because this woman is too pretty?
He studied her face carefully.
She had an oval face, eyes like water apricots, lips like cherries, a waist like a slender willow, shoulders like a carved stone, and a beautiful and elegant face, worthy of being called the most beautiful woman in the country.
He had only seen such a face in one person, the former Queen Jiang, who was born with a beautiful face. She had a pair of nieces who looked 70% like Queen Jiang. Her eldest daughter, Jiang Yi, was once engaged to him.
Just a few years ago, Queen Jiang died in the Witchcraft Rebellion, and the entire Jiang family was confiscated and exterminated.
Ultimately, it was his father who felt that the Jiang family was a threat.
From then on, his marriage with Jiang Yi came to nothing.
He had met Jiang Yi, with whom he had been engaged. She was still young at that time, with a delicate and pretty face. When she saw him, she would sweetly call him "brother".
His mother asked him to get close to Jiang Yi at that time, and he also liked little Jiang Yi very much.
They were still young at that time, so there was naturally no love between men and women. It was just that the girl who was destined to be his wife and her family suddenly died due to the joint conspiracy of his father, the emperor, and his mother, the empress.
Li Zhao felt that his entire outlook on life had been overturned.
When the Jiang family was wiped out, he sent people to the Jiang family to rescue them, hoping to save as many people as possible. I wonder if Jiang Yi...
His aversion to women also developed from that time.
His father was absurd and promiscuous, and he felt that getting close to women would make him like his father.
He was twelve years old that year and asked to go to the border.
While he was studying Jiang Yi's appearance, he casually asked, "Why did you, a weak woman, come here alone?"
Jiang Yi lowered his head and replied, "I have a sister who was once favored by a very rich old man. My family couldn't bear to see her suffer, so they wanted me to marry him in her place. I was also very scared, so I came here to pray to the gods, hoping that the old man was not a bad person."
Jiang Yi knew that with the other person's identity, it would be too easy to find out the relationship between herself and King Heng, so she didn't want to hide it from the beginning.
She was to be naked, innocent, harmless before him.
Her eyes were filled with tears, and she looked like a fragile doll.
Her skin was as crystal clear as jade, with a hint of red, making her look particularly delicate and pretty, which made Li Zhao think of the young Jiang Yi.
He lifted her chin and looked into her eyes.
"Your family is so unfair to you. Aren't you their biological child?"
Being stared at like this, Jiang Yi looked hesitant, not knowing where to put his hands.
Li Zhao brought his people to sit on a stone bench nearby. He squatted in front of Jiang Yi and gently pinched the tears in front of Jiang Yi with his fingertips, which were very hot.
He felt depressed.
He thought that it must be because the parents of the girl in front of him were so hateful. As a human being, he had empathy, so it was right for him to stand up for her.
Jiang Yi lowered her head again and said, "My sister and I are twins. We look exactly alike. I am naturally my parents' biological daughter, but my sister has always been weak..."
Li Zhao said, "Look up and look at me."
Jiang Yi raised his eyes.
Li Zhao patiently coaxed, "Even so, your parents shouldn't have asked you to replace your sister."
"Parents have the duty to protect their children. You and your sister are both their children. They should protect each of you, not let one replace the other."
Jiang Yi didn't expect Li Zhao to say such a thing. No one had ever said this to Jiang Yi before.
She is older, she is Jiang Xue's older sister. Jiang Xue has been sick since she was young. Her mother said at that time that it was because when they were in the womb, she absorbed all the nutrients, and her younger sister could not absorb too many nutrients, so she was weak.
When her mother sent her and her younger sister out together, her mother also told her to take good care of her younger sister.
It is her duty to protect and care for Jiang Xue, and she has become accustomed to it over the years.
In fact, even if King Heng didn't say it, if she knew that Jiang Xue had encountered such a thing, she would take Jiang Xue's place without saying a word.
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