An Mo Shen Pan was actually a pretty good person. At least when Loulan City was under his rule, he did not engage in corruption or bribery, or bend the law for personal gain. He was a very honest official.
Otherwise, after he was sent to Chang'an by Li Hong, his wife and An Xiaohe would not have to open a teahouse to support themselves.
In the end, Li Hong still couldn't survive An Xiaohe, and had no choice but to slowly finish his tea under An Xiaohe's fierce eyes. Then he walked out of the teahouse and took An Xiaohe and Bai Qi, the two of them and the wolf, to the city gate.
The man was handsome and the woman was beautiful. The two of them walking on the street looked like a pair of golden boy and jade girl, attracting many people to turn their heads and glance at them, frequently saluting them.
But when someone saw the black wolf walking behind the golden boy and jade girl, with his head held high and his hair covered in black satin that shone in the sun, they immediately knew the identities of the two people in front.
Li Hong's identity has never been known to outsiders. Now when everyone sees Bai Qi, they know him as the Grand Protector of Anxi, but no one knows who the Grand Protector of Anxi is.
Loulan City also has two gates, one opening from east to west. Just after walking out of the inner city and stepping a few steps into the outer city, I saw a middle-aged couple in their forties or fifties, walking towards the inner city crying.
When she passed by Li Hong and others, she glanced and saw Bai Qi. She stopped crying immediately and just stared at Bai Qi.
"Uncle, aunt, did Bai Qi take away another sheep from your family?" An Xiaohe asked with a smile in her beautiful eyes.
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Bai Qi rolled his eyes. He didn't know if these people were the masters of today's family or not. He took sheep from several families every day, so how could he tell them apart? Besides, who knew if they were from today or yesterday?
"Yes, miss. The old man just went out today, and I heard frightened cries from the sheepfold in the house. When I came out, I saw a dark shadow dragging a sheep over the wall and running away. Woo woo... That was a ewe with a lamb in her belly." The middle-aged woman wiped her tears and said to An Xiaohe.
Li Hong could only curl his lips when he heard this, but he had no way to vent his anger because he was in the wrong.
But these people are so immoral. Every one who comes to the gate of the Governor's Mansion to cry and complain and ask for compensation for sheep says that Bai Qi took away their own ewes that were about to give birth. But Bai Qi always takes away rams, okay?
It is true that poor mountains and bad waters produce unruly people. These people now know that the Governor's Office is generous and that regardless of whether it is a ram or a ewe, compensation will be paid based on the loss of a ewe and a lamb.
"Oh, that wolf is his. You can ask him for money. He is Bai Qi's master." An Xiaohe said helpfully with a sly smile on her pretty face.
After An Xiaohe finished speaking, as expected, she immediately received a big roll of the eyes from Li Hong.
So An Xiaohe continued to say to the aunt obediently: "He is the Grand Protector of our Anxi Protectorate. He is a very good person and will definitely compensate you at double the price."
Li Hong turned his head and looked at the uncle and aunt, his eyes full of hope. He said helplessly, "Go to the Governor's Mansion to ask for it. I am penniless. This is definitely not the first time you have gone to the Governor's Mansion to ask for compensation. You naturally know that they will not pay you less. Go quickly."
The uncle and aunt were a little confused. Looking at this softly-spoken young man, they found it hard to believe that this young man, at such a young age, was already the Grand Protector of Anxi Protectorate.
But looking at the beautiful person next to them with a fairy-like smile, the two chose to believe what the beautiful fairy said.
Watching the uncle and aunt leave, Li Hong looked at Bai Qi, who showed no remorse, and said, "Can you not bite the ewe next time? Are there any females that are easy to mess with? Why don't you learn your lesson?"
"You are blaming someone else! Who is hard to mess with? Why am I not hard to mess with? If it weren't for you, would my mother and I have to work so hard, getting up early and going to bed late to open a teahouse to support ourselves? After all, all this is caused by you! You don't repent, and you still blame us?" An Xiaohe tilted her fair neck, and her beautiful chin was very charming.
"I don't want to bother with you. If you continue like this, you won't get your tea anymore." Li Hong shook his head and continued walking forward.
There was a man in the mansion who was filled with sorrow. After discovering that he was really the mastermind behind the gang of thieves, he was heartbroken and unable to go back.
Now outside, I met An Xiaohe, who looks like Bai Chun and has a face that makes people hate him. I am really facing internal and external troubles.
There is a special house at the city gate where the goods of suspicious merchants are stored. There are naturally people guarding here, but they are all local people from Loulan City.
But after Li Hong got here, he didn't know which way to go. This kind of place would not be visited even during the summer solstice or the light snow. Even the lawless would probably not come here.
Just when Li Hong and An Xiaohe were both hesitating, the pervert started to show off again. He took the two of them around the rows of rammed earth bungalows like a regular customer, as if he was familiar with the place.
Bai Qi is a real foodie, but for some reason, he can accurately find which house contains An Xiaohe’s goods.
The two men and the wolf had just stopped at the door and looked inside through the gap in the wooden window when they heard hurried footsteps behind them.
The two men looked back, and Bai Qi also looked at the dozen people who were running towards them with his two wolf eyes with the same vigilance.
"Who are you?" the leader shouted.
Seeing more than a dozen people running over here, An Xiaohe was a little nervous and said in an uneasy tone: "His name is Wei Tuqi. He used to be my father's subordinate, and now he is in charge of most of the warehouses here."
"What's in your warehouse? Why was it seized?" Li Hong ignored the dozen people who had run to more than thirty steps away from him, because Bai Qi was already standing in front of them, hunched over, baring his fangs and confronting the dozen people.
"There are no contraband items, just some glass objects. You ordered Xiaoxue to give me a warrant." An Xiaohe looked at Wei Tuqi who walked out from behind a dozen people and stood still, hid behind Li Hong, and said in a low voice.
"Then why did he confiscate your tea?" Although Li Hong didn't understand why Wei Tuqi confiscated her tea, he understood why An Xiaohe insisted on making him come here today. Damn it, he was being used as a gun by the little girl behind him.
She was trying to pull me in as a shield, and she even hoped that I could help her resolve the grudge between her and Wei Tuqi.
"How do I know he wants to confiscate my tea? He has no good intentions anyway." An Xiaohe was very afraid of Wei Tuqi, but he did not look good to Li Hong, and said arrogantly.
"Hey...is this your attitude of asking me for help?" Li Hong couldn't help but take a breath and questioned.
"So what? If it weren't for you, would my mother and I have ended up in this situation? If not you, who else can I blame?" An Xiaohe hid himself behind Li Hong, his straight nose slightly wrinkled, and counterattacked coldly.
"Are you two done yet? Why are you here? Do you want to steal the goods privately?" Wei Tuqi's voice smelled like mutton skewers, unlike An Xiaohe, who spoke standard Chinese.
"Call your manager." Li Hong looked at Wei Tuqi, who was about thirty years old, tall and strong, as strong as a yak.
"I am the one in charge here. No one can take anything here without my permission." Wei Tuqi looked at Bai Qi, then at Li Hong, feeling a little guilty.
Bai Qi naturally knew that it was the wolf of the Grand Protector of Anxi Protectorate, but who was this young man? Could he really be the Grand Protector?
When he thought of this, he felt it was impossible. The Grand Protector had imprisoned his father in Chang'an, so how could he have any contact with An Xiaohe? An Xiaohe was just a small citizen in Loulan City now, and the Grand Protector would never pay attention to her.
"Since you are the one in charge here, then tell me which of An Xiaohe's things are prohibited." Li Hong turned his head to look at An Xiaohe who was gradually calming down, and asked Wei Tuqi.
"You don't need to know this. You just need to know that her things are contraband and you can't take them away." Wei Tuqi couldn't figure out Li Hong's identity, and his aura was not as tough as before.
"Then how can we get these things back?" Li Hong asked.
“I can’t take it back…”
"As long as An Xiaohe marries him, you can take it back." A person behind Wei Tuqi interrupted Wei Tuqi and joked with a grin.
Li Hong looked at Wei Tuqi and smiled. He understood. No wonder An Xiaohe was in a bad mood when he asked her just now. It turned out that someone had proposed to her.
"You don't want to?" Li Hong ignored the embarrassed Wei Tuqi and turned to ask An Xiaohe who had a cold look on his face behind him.
"I want my tea." An Xiaohe said with emphasis. She was too lazy to answer Li Hong's questions.
But this Wei Tuqi actually went to his mother again and again, hoping that his mother would marry him.
His mother also disagreed, so after a few rounds, Wei Tuqi confiscated his tea, and this was not the first time.
The first two times, An Xiaohe came with his mother. As long as Wei Tuqi saw him, he would give the goods to him.
But last time he went even further and told his mother that she could take the goods as long as she agreed to marry An Xiaohe to him. The mother and daughter had no choice but to give up on getting the goods back and went home.
If she hadn't met Li Hong today, An Xiaohe would have planned to let Bai Qi take her to find Li Hong. Anyway, she was already very familiar with Li Hong, and her home and his Governor's Mansion were neighbors.
Li Hong looked at An Xiaohe with a teasing smile in his eyes, until An Xiaohe puffed out his white cheeks and reached out from behind to pinch his waist. Only then did Li Hong turn around and look at Wei Tuqi.
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