Chapter 227: Unexpected
Wang Ruoyun cried and beat Li Xiaofei and Yuan Xin who were lying next to them.
Li Xiaofei only felt a headache. When he woke up and saw this scene, his head was buzzing.
It's not so much what to do with the one crying in front of me, but what to do with the two ladies over there in the South China Sea. Also, this time they have really become a bully. If they can't be handled properly, something big may happen.
Li Xiaofei simply stretched his waist and roared loudly, and Wang Ruoyun also stopped.
Li Xiaofei looked at Wang Ruoyun next to him and deliberately laughed, "Hey, Miss Wang, what's going on? You don't have to be so early to deliver breakfast to us!"
Wang Ruoyun became even more angry when he saw Li Xiaofei's playful smile. He reached out and grabbed Li Xiaofei and beat him, "I'll kill you! I'll kill you!"
Li Xiaofei did not evade, and hugged Wang Ruoyun: "Ms. Wang, are you still afraid that not many people know? Stop shouting, you can kill or beat me if you want!"
Wang Ruoyun bit Li Xiaofei hard on the arm, and Li Xiaofei couldn't help but scream.
At this moment, Hua Xiaoan, who was outside, kicked the door open and barged in. He originally had a knife in his hand, but when he saw the scene in front of him, he had to quickly pick up the knife and run out. "I didn't see anything, I've never been here, ah,
You continue, continue!"
Yuan Xin also fell under the bed at this time, touching his head and covering his waist, "Where am I? What's going on?"
Li Xiaofei coughed, and Wang Ruoyun shrank into the quilt. Yuan Xin quickly went out as soon as he saw it. Yuan Xin was sweating coldly and shaking constantly as he walked.
Two maids from the Wang family appeared out of nowhere and said, "Master Li, are you treating our young lady like this?"
"Our young lady has been bullied by you like this? Mr. Li, you have to give our young lady an explanation!"
Wang Ruoyun immediately came out again, "Xiaodie Xiaoli, what are you talking about!"
Xiaodie pointed at Wang Ruoyun's shoulders. Only then did Wang Ruoyun react and cover his shoulders.
Li Xiaofei was very calm and asked Xiaodie, "According to your wishes, how should I explain it?"
"You have to marry our young lady, and you have to pay a betrothal gift and let the matchmaker marry you!"
"Yes, our young lady will be your Mr. Li's wife!"
Wang Ruoyun's face turned red and she yelled, "Stop talking! Get out of here, both of you! Get out!"
Xiaodie and Xiaoli remained unmoved, "We won't go out even if we are beaten to death. We can't just let this matter go!"
Li Xiaofei looked at them, recalled what happened last night, and suddenly understood. The two maids had poisoned the teapot and set up this trap. Li Xiaofei wanted to expose it in person, but when he thought of exposing it so straightforwardly,
Wang Ruoyun most likely committed suicide.
"Miss Wang, forget it, they are right, I, Li Xiaofei, dare to take the responsibility! I will definitely marry you as a matchmaker!"
"Bah! I'm not going to marry. If I want to marry, I'm going to marry a handsome scholar. Why would I marry you? Don't think that just because you have a lot of people, you really think you are the number one person?"
Xiaodie and Xiaoli's mouths opened in astonishment. Could it be that Miss Wang is stupid? They both knelt down and kowtowed, "Master Li, what the lady said is angry. Don't take it to heart!"
"Bah, I'm telling the truth, you two go back!"
Li Xiaofei coughed twice, "Cough! Cough! I am going out to handle official business, so you can take care of yourself!"
After saying that, he stood up and walked out. Hua Xiaoan suddenly came up to him, "Master Li, last night?"
"Go, go, last night was nothing, don't make blind guesses"
Hua Xiaoan had a bad smile on his face, "Master Li really thought about the brothers. He wanted the most vicious one to help everyone solve their problems."
Li Xiaofei suddenly raised his hand and said, "No nonsense! Go and keep an eye on the three of them. Don't let anything happen again! By the way, where is Cai Guishan!"
"General Cai and several other generals are waiting in the front hall!"
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Alright, go and do what I told you!"
Li Xiaofei came to the front hall, and the generals told him everything about last night's battle.
Li Xiaofei clapped his hands and shouted, "Thank you for your hard work, brothers. How are the casualties among our brothers in the army?"
"Eighty-nine people were killed and 317 were injured!" Chen Jingyi returned
Li Xiaofei frowned, "We have lost more than half of our army, which is not good. If the enemy forces encircle us again, what are your strategies for retreating from them?"
Cai Guishan smacked his lips, "The biggest problem in Yuzhang City at present is not the enemy troops outside the city, but within the city!"
"We agree with what General Cai said. If the city is not stable, this accident will happen at any time!"
"I think it's better to kill all the big households in the city to avoid future troubles!" Deng Liang's men suffered the most casualties, and many of them were injured while fighting the fire.
Li Xiaofei shook his head, "This will only make the people here think that we are a group of bandits, don't do it!"
"It's late, Master Li. After the Wen brothers died last night, their property was immediately robbed. Although it was not us who did it, word spread during the day that we were the ones who took Wen first in order to reward the brothers who guarded the city.
The government has performed an operation."
Li Xiaofei touched the bridge of his nose, "The Wen brothers are still evil. They are indeed worthy of their death. Why didn't you go to the Wen Mansion after annihilating them? Others have robbed the things, and we will bear the blame! What a terrible thing we did!"
Cai Guishan looked at Li Xiaofei, "Mr. Li, we are waiting for your order, but you last night..."
Halfway through Cai Guishan's words, Li Xiaofei knew what he meant and waved his hand, "It's my fault. I suddenly felt unwell last night. Well, yes, you go to Wen Mansion again and send someone to invite Wang Yuanhua.
Other big and wealthy businessmen are invited."
"Master Li, are you going to treat us to dinner? Or are we going to have a Hongmen banquet?" Chen Jingyi asked.
"I just want to talk to them, not as much as you think. By the way, have you chosen the people to get married with?"
Everyone shook their heads, "People here look down on us soldiers. I'm afraid Mr. Li will take the lead in this matter!"
"Yes, yes, sir, why don't you sacrifice yourself for your brothers and marry that unruly Miss Wang?"
"Cough cough cough cough! You guys!" Li Xiaofei coughed violently.
Everyone laughed and left, leaving only Li Xiaofei beating his chest.
Cai Guishan took people to invite Wang Yuanhua, but Wang Yuanhua fainted.
When Wang Yuanhua woke up, he had been carried to the government office. After looking at the people around him, he realized that he was not meant to be killed.
It turned out that after Wang Yuanhua heard about the Wen brothers' accident last night, he also took people to the Wen Mansion, not for money, but to search for some letters between Wen Wanwan and Cui Ju's men.
When Cai Guishan came to invite him, he thought that the matter had been exposed, so he fainted.
Li Xiaofei set up a banquet to entertain everyone, and everyone was shaking with wine glasses. Because Li Xiaofei didn't drink, everyone became more suspicious that Li Xiaofei wanted to harm them.
As soon as Li Xiaofei got up, several people fainted on the spot. Li Xiaofei laughed, "You guys think of us as monsters. I, Mr. Li, opened the skylight today to speak frankly. After today's banquet, I will open the four doors. You can't trust me.
Then you can take your family and property and go out to escape. I, Mr. Li, will never stop you!"
Someone had the courage to ask, "You have killed the Wen brothers and divided the family property. Can we get out alive with our property? Mr. Li wants to kill us, please give us some pleasure, don't make fun of us!"
"Okay, it's very good. To be honest, this wine is poisoned. If you want to be happy, just drink it! If you don't want to be happy, I have plenty of solutions!"
When even five people drank it all in one gulp, "Okay, thank you Mr. Li for giving me a good drink!"
The rest of the people were crying, no, Wang Yuanhua and a few timid ones had already started crying.
The five people who finished their glasses of wine clasped their fists at Li Xiaofei and said,
Please also ask Mr. Li to let our family go!"
Li Xiaofei shook his head, "You should take care of your family by yourself! I can't control so much!"
The five of them were stunned for a while and found nothing unusual. Li Xiaofei nodded, "Yes, I lied to you. This wine is not poisonous. You five are good and open-minded! You can go home!"
The others also quickly raised their glasses and drank it down, asking to go home. Li Xiaofei all agreed, except Wang Yuanhua.
Wang Yuanhua roughly guessed what was going on, so he deliberately asked Li Xiaofei, "Master Li, is my daughter still making trouble in the house?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Ruoyun appeared, "Dad, let's go back, don't be angry and scared here!"
Li Xiaofei stood up and shouted, "In a few days, I will prepare a betrothal gift to marry Miss Wang!"
Wang Yuanhua knew it well and nodded repeatedly, "Okay, okay, as long as Mr. Li"
"I object, I don't want to marry him!"
"Nonsense! I'll make the decision as long as your father!"
The father and daughter argued in the carriage all the way back home.
After returning home, Wang Yuanhua urged his wife and maids to take a look at Wang Ruoyun, "Miss, the sand guarding the palace has been broken!"
Wang Yuanhua punched the table, "Ruoyun! Don't be willful! Just marry him as if it's for the lives of the whole family! If you piss them off, they will do anything!"
"I think they are not as scary as you say! Haven't you always said that you want me to marry the eldest son of a noble family? Why did you change your mind today? If you don't marry him, he will kill my whole family? I'm going to argue with him now!
"
Wang Yuanhua slapped Wang Ruoyun on the face and then knelt in front of her: "Yun'er, stop making trouble! Dad is kneeling down for you! Dad has never hit you in his life, you must listen to him this time!"
Wang Ruoyun covered her face and ran out and went straight to the government office.
"Twenty miles ahead is Chenzhou City. This is Cui Ju's home base. If we capture this place and then control the territory of three thousand miles southwest, Cui Ju's financial resources will be cut off! By then, his army will not be able to sustain much.
It’s been a long time!” Lin Changsheng pointed to the Chenjiang River in front of him and introduced the situation in Chenzhou to Zhou Dapeng.
Zhou Dapeng raised his head and looked at the sky, "This trip went so smoothly, I think it's so fake! Our nearly 8,000 troops didn't show up in Yuzhang. Don't they have any news at all?"
"I also find it strange. There is something sinister about this matter! The closer we get to the target, the more uneasy I feel!"
"It's better to send people along the road to investigate first. Maybe they have already assembled heavy troops and are waiting for us!" Zhou Dapeng looked at the dense forest in the distance and seemed to have an ominous premonition in his heart.
Just at this time, a gust of wind blew and broke the flag of the Southern Navy. Everyone stopped. Zhou Dapeng dismounted and picked up the flag himself. "Is this a warning from God?"
Wu Feng came over first, "Commander Zhou! I think the color of the river is muddy yellow! Maybe there will be floods upstream, so we'd better camp on the high ground and rest for the night!"
Zhou Dapeng leaned over and looked at the muddy yellow Chenjiang River water, "Okay, the flagpole was broken for no reason, and the color of the river water is abnormal. This is a celestial warning. Everyone goes up to the mountain to camp, and remember to prevent insects and smoke!"
Eight thousand men and horses marched towards the mountains on the roadside, encountering many woodcutters along the way. The woodcutters looked at the soldiers passing by them in surprise.
An old woodcutter asked garrulously, "Have you suffered a defeat at the front?"
Zhou Dapeng quickly answered, "Old man, you have good eyesight! We encountered the enemy's army halfway and couldn't defeat it. We have to retreat and defend this base camp!"
"Oh, you can't go back. Chenzhou has been raining day and night for several days. The city walls have collapsed! The bridge has also been washed away! If you want to go back to the city, you have to go around hundreds of miles!"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Dapeng had an idea. Before sending the woodcutter down the mountain, he bought all the firewood, herbs, wild fruits, saws, axes, sickles and all the woodcutters had in their hands.
Chapter completed!