After reading the whole family's minds, the eldest daughter awakened

Chapter 20 Arriving at Jade Village

"Why are you asking about him suddenly?"

Li Youwei learned what Li Dengyuan told her.

The eldest princess's expression became a little more serious, and she spoke after a long while.

"Zhou Yanting is the son of the concubine of the Minister of Hubu. Although he is a concubine, he is very capable and is very popular with Zhou Shangshu."

The Nanchen Kingdom values ​​concubines the most, and some concubines are even worse than slaves.

Zhou Yanting is quite good at it.

But Li Dengyuan asked Li Youwei to give the credit to Zhou Yanting. Obviously, he did not value Zhou Yanting's ability, but was giving Zhou Shangshu a favor.

In other words, Li Dengyuan wanted to curry favor with Zhou Shangshu.

But what he didn't know was that from the moment Zhou Yanting drove his carriage into Li Youwei, they had a life-or-death relationship.

The eldest princess obviously thought of this too.

"You Wei, Li Dengyuan should not only want to curry favor with Zhou Shangshu, but he also wants to curry favor with Prince Rui, because Zhou Shangshu is Prince Rui's man."

Prince Rui is the younger brother of the current Holy Emperor. It is said that this prince has extraordinary abilities. He can bring peace to the world with his pen and his horse with military ability to determine the world.

The late emperor was more optimistic about him, but due to the eldest son succession system, he was finally made a prince.

In the early years, he suffered many injuries on the battlefield, and spent nearly a year recovering from his injuries in Zhuangzi outside the capital.

Because he was so capable, many ministers silently stood by his side.

What Li Dengyuan did today seems to be that he planned to take sides.

"Mom, how is Prince Rui?"

If Prince Rui is really as powerful as the rumors say, he probably won't be willing to just be a prince.

Especially when the current Holy Emperor is so stupid and incompetent, he should take action.

"This man is quite deep in the city, and what I know about him is limited to what he wants the world to know."

"Yes, my daughter understands."

After a night of silence, Li Youwei and Nalan Ling set off directly from the academy the next day, and the soldiers prepared by the imperial court for them were already waiting at the city gate.

The four of them came outside the city gate and frowned at the same time when they saw the hundreds of old, weak, sick and disabled people.

Is this the intention of the Holy One, or has it been tampered with by the people below.

Li Youwei glanced at Zhou Yanting from the corner of his eye and saw that he was not surprised at all. It seemed that he had known about it for a long time.

Zhou Yanting felt the eyes on him and turned to look at Li Youwei.

"What does Miss Li think of me like this? But what do you think of me?"

He raised his eyebrows slightly, his tone was frivolous, and he had a wicked smile in his eyes.

If our young lady was teased like this, she would have run away in shame.

Li Youwei raised his hand to touch the sword hanging on the saddle, with an inviolable heroic spirit in his eyebrows.

"Master Zhou's veil fell off."

As he spoke, the sword in Li Youwei's hand drew a graceful arc in mid-air.

A fragrant handkerchief embroidered with lotus flowers was carried by Li Youwei with a knife to Zhou Yanting.

At first glance, this veil belongs to a woman. You don't need to guess to know what Zhou Yanting did last night.

Zhou Yanting's fair face turned dark immediately, and he took off the veil angrily.

"Thank you, Miss Li."

[Damn it, Li Youwei, you are dead this time. With the support of the imperial concubine, it doesn't matter if the eldest princess likes you. 】

At the moment of contact through the veil, Li Youwei heard Zhou Yanting's inner voice.

It turns out that all this was designed by the imperial concubine.

Because they are all old, weak, sick and disabled, in order to take care of them, we can only slow down our speed.

By the time we arrived at Jade Village, it was already five days later.

Because it was rich in jade, the village was named Jade Village.

The people here live a prosperous and peaceful life relying on their income from jade.

This also attracted many bad guys to focus on this place. Not long ago, a group of people came and they occupied the top of Jade Mountain opposite the village. Not only did they occupy the jade on the mountain, but they also often came down from the mountain to burn, kill and loot.

The local magistrate once brought people to kill him, but he was killed by the bandits.

Since then, no one dared to take care of it anymore. The county magistrate who took office not long ago sent a letter to the court to ask for help.

Li Youwei and others did not go directly to the county government, but came to Yushi Village first.

For this reason, Zhou Yanting was very dissatisfied, but this time Wang Boyan was leading the team, and he had to obey even if he was unwilling.

The entire Jade Village was silent. Traces of being burned by the fire could be seen everywhere, and there was still smoke. It was obvious that it had just been looted.

Li Youwei clenched the knife in his hand. If they could arrive earlier, the people here would suffer less.

All this was caused by the imperial concubine. She must chop off the imperial concubine’s beautiful head as quickly as possible.

Every house closed its doors and windows, and knocked on door to door, but no one opened the door.

Zhou Yanting sneered directly.

"The people here have been scared out of their wits for a long time. Even if we say we are here to rescue them, they won't believe it. They are somewhat ignorant.

You better listen to me and go to the county government office now to find out the situation from the county magistrate. "

"Young master Zhou is right. Why don't we divide our troops into two groups? You take half of the soldiers to the county government office, and we stay here to understand the situation."

After listening to Li Youwei's suggestion, Nalan Ling had no objection.

Wang Boyan also agreed. Zhou Yanting thought about it and took most of the soldiers to the county government office.

Those soldiers didn't have much combat power, but Li Youwei wanted him to take them all away.

Without Zhou Yanting around, the three of them didn't have so many worries about talking.

"Youwei, have you come up with any good ideas?"

"Little General Wang, Sister Ling, you continue to knock on the door here to find someone to understand the situation. I will go to the Jade Mountain opposite to have a look."

The countryside where Li Youwei lives is surrounded by mountains, and she knows the mountains very well.

"You Wei, the people living in that mountain are vicious bandits. It's too dangerous for you to go alone.

General Wang, you have high martial arts skills and rich experience, so it would be safer for you to go. "

Even if Nalan Ling hadn't said anything, Wang Boyan wouldn't have let Li You, the only ten-year-old girl, take risks.

"Youwei, Ling'er is right, you stay, I can go by myself."

"General Wang, I know the mountains better. Don't worry, I'm just looking at the foot of the mountain, not going up the mountain."

Although Li Youwei is young, her eyes are firm and irresistible.

Nalan Ling and Wang Boyan looked at each other and finally agreed to Li Youwei's plan.

"Okay, then you must be careful."

"Don't worry, I'll be fine."

Li Youwei is not a reckless person. She has always understood that if her life is gone, everything will be gone.

Li Youwei rode his horse to the front of Jade Mountain.

The whole mountain is very steep and very high. As long as you guard the important checkpoints, you can defeat them all with one man, making it easy to defend but not easy to attack.

No wonder the former county magistrate would be wiped out. This bandit leader has some tricks up his sleeve.

Li Youwei didn't stay too long, so as not to offend the enemy.

When Li Youwei rushed back to join Nalan Ling and Wang Boyan, they also had something to gain.

Nalan Ling was bandaging a wound on the head of a five-year-old girl.

Because of the pain, there were still crystal tears hanging on the long eyelashes.

Wang Boyan smiled and coaxed, peeled off a candy and put it into the little girl's mouth.

I was crying just now, but after eating the sweet candy, my tears immediately turned into laughter. The happiness of a child is so simple.

Seeing this, the little girl's parents finally had smiles on their tense faces.

"Thank you all my benefactors. If it hadn't been for your rescue, my Erya would have lost her life just like Daya."

The woman couldn't help but shed tears when she mentioned Daya.

　Baby, please feed me in various ways!
  　　
  　
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