After a while, I was filled with joy and joy.

When Li Li and Ma Yunluo woke up from their sleep, the night was already deep and the valley was pitch black.

The soft voice comforted Ma Yunluo and continued to rest. Li Li walked out of the tent with a bright look and stretched his waist long.

Seeing Li Xuan and others talking softly around the bonfire on the west bank of the stream, Li Li walked around the stone cliff and walked slowly towards the bonfire along the bank of the stream.

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The evening breeze blew across the valley, causing the bonfire to burn more vigorously, and the flames whistled with the wind and rushed several feet high.

"The lord is so brave! It took him an hour and a half. It didn't take so long when he and Zilong fought each other a few days ago. It really made me look beyond my reach. He is really a god!"

The person who said this deliberately lowered his voice when he spoke, as if he was afraid of being heard. However, he spoke louder than ordinary people when he spoke with his voice open. And who wouldn't hear this in front of Li Xuan, Guo Jia, Xu Chu, Chen Dao and others? Perhaps, in his opinion, as long as the lord Li Li couldn't hear this, others didn't have to avoid it, because everyone thought so, but they dared not say it, only he dared to say it in public.

The identity of this person is self-evident. In the Xiliang army, people who dared to discuss their lord Li Li privately, and there were not many people who rang their fingers, and Huan Fei next to the bonfire happened to be one of them.

Hearing Huan Fei's words, Li Xuan, Guo Jia and others looked at each other and smiled. Then they turned their eyes to Huan Fei and shook their head helplessly.

Li Xuan had a calm smile on his face and whispered to Huan Fei: "Feihu is careful about his words. Don't talk about his lord privately in the future. If you let the lord hear it one day, you are afraid that you will be in a disaster. What's more, as a minister, we are both rude and are not the duty of the lord, nor are we a minister's way of being a minister. I'll just say what I said, and don't discuss it again, otherwise I will ask the lord to punish you heavily!"

"Hehehe!" Huan Fei nodded slightly, then pretended to be stupid and smiled foolishly: "Thank you, Brother Yuanzhong, for reminding me. I understand. But I didn't say bad things about my lord, just discussing the matter, it's not a criticism!"

Guo Jia smiled and said, "General Feihu is such a bad word. Although you did not say bad things about your lord, what you said just now is related to your lord's reputation and private affairs involving your lord and your wife. This is something that our subordinates cannot discuss. The lord has long determined the status of Mrs. Yunluo. This time, when we go out for a trip, it is not a military camp and we will live in the same room with our family. What's more, the lord is our lord, and all our words and deeds are not something we can discuss. Therefore, even if we hear or see the secret matters of the lord, we should not talk nonsense. We should keep our mouths silent and keep silent. Doing this will benefit others and yourself; otherwise, disaster will come from our mouths and cause unnecessary troubles."

"That's how it's, the lord is not so stingy, right? He doesn't even say something?" Huan Fei murmured in a low voice.

"Hmph!" Before Huan Fei finished speaking, he heard a cold snorkeling from behind him, which scared him so much that he tilted his body and almost lay on the fire.

"Uh, lord is here!" Huan Fei, who was tilted on his body, didn't have to turn his head to see who was coming behind him. He knew that lord Li Li was here just by listening to the sound, and he must have heard what he said just now. So he stood up and smiled quietly: "Lord, you got up so early. Mo Jiang beat a few mountain rabbits and pheasants in the evening, and they were burning in the fire. He wanted to send it to his lord after the fire was finished, but I didn't expect you to come by myself. Please sit down, this is the one I just wiped, clean! Hehehe??????"

"Forget it, you can sit by yourself!" Li Li walked slowly to the campfire, signaling Guo Jia and others not to get up, and then sat down next to Li Xuan. Then he stared at Huan Fei, who was restless, and said in a deep voice: "Feihu, you kid are getting more and more bold. You dare to arrange bad things about you and me behind your back, and said I was stingy and narrow-minded. Do you want me to be stingy now and punish you not to eat at night?"

"This, it's unfair!" Huan Fei looked at Li Li in shock and defended anxiously: "Lord, the conscience of heaven and earth, when did Mo Jiang say bad things about you? Just now, Mo Jiang was still saying that the lord is wise and powerful, with a unique talent, and a dragon and horse spirit. He is actually a god coming to the world, and is definitely not comparable to ordinary people like us. Is this also bad things?"

Before he finished speaking, Huan Fei added: "What the last general said was all the words from his heart. He admired his lord so much, like a surging river and endless streams!"

Li Li snorted coldly with an unhappy expression: "Hmph! It's all true, I don't think so, right? Forget it, I don't care about you a lot, and I won't punish you not to eat tonight. However, you have to take over Zicheng's guarding the valley and take care of the war horses. Remember to add some grass to the war horses in the middle of the night."

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Then he asked carefully and said, "Lord, we won't leave tonight, are we going to camp here?"

"Well, I won't leave anymore. Let's go tomorrow. Bypass the Yuan army's camp and walk the mountain downstairs into Zhongshan Country." Li Li nodded slightly and said.

After hearing this, Li Xuan nodded and said, "It's good. Just now, Zhongkang and Shuzhi came back from the road and found that Yuan Jun's guards were much tighter than during the day. It was obviously not feasible to walk on the official road. He could only bypass the official road and sneak into Zhongshan on the small road. In this way, we are not familiar with the terrain of this area, and it is extremely inconvenient to travel at night, and it is easy to walk forks, and the speed is not fast. It's better to get up early tomorrow morning."

Guo Jia echoed: "What Brother Yuanzhong said is reasonable. There is no time limit for us to go to Zhongshan this time, so it is not necessary to worry about it one day earlier or later, so there is no need to rush to travel."

After hearing what Li Xuan and Guo Jia said, Huan Fei was stunned.

When the sun sets in the evening, Li and Guo are still urging themselves to start their journey. Why are they all changed their words now? The speed of transformation is too fast! It was not until this time that Huan Fei realized that his time to flatter and slap was too poor, far from comparable to the two scholars in front of him.

While secretly slandering Li Xuan and Guo Jia in his heart, Huan Fei suddenly had a sense of enlightenment, knowing why the two of them agreed to stay here at night. Before this, he knew that although Ma Yunluo was named the lord's concubine, it was actually in name but not real. But this afternoon, it was obvious that the lord and Ma Yunluo had close contact, which meant that Ma Yunluo had just broken his body and naturally could not rush to the road overnight.

After understanding the whole story, Huan Fei suddenly felt that he was too stupid. He should have thought of it long ago, but he realized it later. It was really stupid.

To be stupid is to pay the price, and vigil at night is the punishment he deserves.

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On the morning of the third day, Li Li and his eight men sneaked into Wuji County, Zhongshan Country without any danger, contacted Duan Wei, He Man and others who had been waiting for a long time, and then successfully entered Zhen Mansion.

When Zhen learned that Li Li was finally here, he took his five daughters and two sons out of the house to greet him, showing his extremely high courtesy to Li Li and his group.

After settling down, the Zhen family held a grand banquet, and invited more than ten people from Li Li and his group to give thanks again for Li Li's previous rescue.

The banquet was not withdrawn until the evening. Generals such as Huan Fei, Xu Chu, Duan Wei, He Man and Chen Dao were drunk and left the banquet one after another. They were brought into the wing room to rest by maids.

After the banquet, under the guidance of Zhen and Zhen Yan, Li Li, Li Xuan and Guo Jia walked into the second hall to serve tea for a short break. Ma Yunluo was accompanied by five daughters of the Zhen family. The six girls left the table early and walked into the backyard intimately to tell private conversations.

At lunchtime, Li Li met Zhen's two sons, Zhen Yan and Zhen Yao; and during the conversation, he learned that Zhen's original third son, the eldest son Zhen Yu, died early, and now there are only two fake sons born to his deceased concubine. The Zhen family is a well-known and prominent family in Jizhou, and the biological mother of Zhen Yan and Zhen Yao died early. In addition, the Zhen family's male son is not strong, and Zhen's ancestor Zhen Yi also died young, leaving several daughters and sons as mothers. In this way, they are the legitimate descendants of the Zhen family.

After all, the Zhen family is now the head of the Zhen family, so her children are considered to be the legitimate family of the family, and the rest are all from the villains. It is precisely because she is the head of the Zhen family that her mother's family's original surname is Zhang, but now she is regarded by outsiders as the "backbone" of the Zhen family, and is called the "Zhen family" in front of others.

This kind of thing that respects the official family as a mother will only cause such strange phenomena. Ordinary common people's families do not need such trouble, nor do they have these requirements. However, children born in the family of officials have undoubtedly important background, which is directly related to their future future and destiny, and also related to their status in the family, and are closely linked to their family property.

Zhen Yan is twenty years old, only eight years younger than Zhen. He looks like a gentle and gentle scholar. He looks a little thin, has a handsome appearance and is elegant. At the age of his prime, his eyes are deep, and there are circles of dark blue appearing around his eye sockets. He walks lightly and has a slightly hunched back on his back. It is obvious that he is too much, his essence is losing money, and he looks like he is a premature aging. Two months ago, when he was just twenty years old, he is now serving as a filial and honest official.

Zhen Yao is only fourteen years old, and is still half a young man, as old as Emperor Xian Liu Xie. He is white and tender and very elegant, and you can tell at a glance that he is a rich child. Fortunately, he is still young after all, not as sick as Zhen Yan, who is aging before he grows old and does not know how to control him.

After seeing Zhen Yan's listless appearance, Li Li deliberately observed and found that the Zhen Mansion was full of Yingying and Yanyan's young maids, and the figures of maids could be seen in any courtyard in the mansion. Roughly speaking, there were at least thousands of young maids. Moreover, most of these maids were pretty and graceful. They were wearing colorful and bright silk skirts, and their words and deeds were well-organized and well-like. They were obviously rigorously trained maids and slaves. In addition to maids, there were few male guards in the mansion. It must be that the Zhen Mansion prohibited the servants from entering; after all, the Zhen Mansion lived in the main courtyard, and they were both female relatives, and it was not suitable for IKEA to enter and exit at will.

After some observation, Li Li realized that the Zhen family was indeed a family with strong yin and weak yang. No wonder the male in the family lived for many years and died young. He was surrounded by so many young girls like flowers all day long. If he was a man with strong energy, he would not be able to sit in his arms and be self-disciplined. Over time, a man with iron can't stand it, and sooner or later he would be seriously injured and his energy would be exhausted.

In fact, Li Li also knew why the Zhen family wanted to collect so many beautiful girls and maids. It was precisely because the Zhen family's male members were not prosperous, so the mansion recruited a large number of girls, hoping that these women could import children for the Zhen family and prosper their children. It has to be said that the wishes are good, but too much is too much, and things are often counterproductive. The current situation of the thin male members of the Zhen family is a living example.

In addition, according to He Man and Duan Wei, the Zhen family mansion covers a large area. The mansion has twelve houses, six front yards, three middle yards, three back yards, six large gardens, four pools, more than twenty pavilions and water pavilions, and the east and west wing rooms stretch for miles, with thousands of rooms alone. One Zhen house accounts for almost one-third of the area of ​​Wuji County. If the other courtyards are added, most of the huge cities belong to the Zhen family.

At the same time, more than 70% of the shops in the city were also opened by the Zhen family, which extended to the entire Zhongshan Kingdom and even the counties and counties of Youzhou and Jizhou. The Zhen family shops occupy about 30% of the shops in each prefecture and county. This shows that the Zhen family's wealth, money and grain, and wide connections are really immeasurable. At least it was difficult for Li Li to imagine how rich the Zhen family was.

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Chapter completed!