Farewell to his reluctant wife and sister, the fellow villagers, Li Xiao rode a horse and set off with his own team.

Looking back three times, my eyes were full of reluctance.

However, those young teenagers were more like young birds with just plump wings, and they were eager to leave this small mountain village.

There is not much sadness in their faces of parting, but more excited.

For them, they have been staying in this small mountain village for more than ten years and have been tired of it. They don’t like to live a life of sunrise and resting at sunset. They face the loess all day long, and the hard days day after day are not worth looking forward to. They want to go out and see the big world outside.

Follow Li Sanlang to the east of the sea to do his division, and maybe you have the opportunity to make achievements.

Looking at their appearance, Li Xiao thought of his former self. He remembered that the first time he left his hometown, he went out to study. At that time, he was also at this age, at the age of seventeen, went to a strange city thousands of miles away, left his hometown for the first time, and stepped out of the radius of hundreds of miles.

At that time, I seemed to be more excited and expectant.

Only after wandering outside for a long time can you slowly begin to miss your hometown, full of homesickness.

Every boy wore a brand new set of clothes today. For many boys, they had never worn such good clothes in their lives. These new clothes and shoes were all given to them by Li Xiao, and each of them had two sets of new clothes.

The clothes were all dyed blue. Although they were made of linen, they were very energetic. With a large edge Fan Yang hat, she was carrying a blue cloth backpack, carrying a red tassel spear on her shoulders, and carrying a horizontal knife on her waist. She was no longer just a country house.

A blue stream.

On the bank of the stream opposite, Tamase stood there alone in red.

In the field, Li Ke, with his head naked, came over.

"Since you can't bear to leave him, why don't you go to Lizhuang to see him?"

Li Ke knew her sister. She was so casual in the past, she dared to love and hate. If she liked someone, she would never hide it secretly in her heart, she would definitely say it out and pursue it on her own initiative.

Now Gu Lianlian is standing here, seeing him off through the Lan River, which is not in line with her temperament.

Yuse's eyes kept staring at Li Xiao in the white shirt on the yellow horse.

"Stern brother, I like Li Xiao, but Li Xiao doesn't like me."

"Who in the world can refuse my seventeenth sister?" Li Ke asked.

"I confessed my love to Li Xiao, but he told me that she once loved me, and she used to be." The meaning of love before was that she no longer loved now. "The falling flowers are intentional, and the flowing water is ruthless. When he liked me, I didn't cherish it, but now, I can't go back to the past."

"That's because you have a fate but no destiny. After all, Li Xiao already has a wife, so it's actually good. Sometimes, you don't have to get it if you like it. It's good for you now. Being a couple is sometimes no worse than being lovers."

"But I want to be his lover. I feel that in this life, there is no other man who attracts me like him. I think that only he can know me in this world."

"It's a pity that you missed the best time to meet him, or that you once met at the right time, but you didn't grasp it. Now, luck makes people lose their lives and can't be lovers anymore."

"San brother, sometimes I really envy Zhao Wanniang, and even jealous of her. Sometimes I can't help but think viciously, how good it would be if Zhao Wanniang died of an accident one day, she died of illness or fell to death... But after this thought flashed, I hated myself again, hated me for viciousness, I was so conflicted...."

"What you can't get is always the most entangled and sad. Just think about it and let it go." Li Ke advised.

"San brother, do you think I should follow Baekje, regardless of it, leave everything here and follow his footsteps. Maybe when I arrive in Baekje, there is no longer Zhao Wanniang, and maybe we can be together?"

"Why do you have to?"

"What you forcefully will not be happy." Li Ke shook his head.

Li Yuse stood there foolishly, watching Li Xiao's figure getting farther and smaller, and two lines of tears flowed from the corners of his eyes.

Many times, feelings are not controlled by themselves. Li Xiaoyue is close to her, but she is attracted by him. Gradually, she even feels that she is fascinated by him.

No man has ever rejected her, but he just refused.

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On the Lan Wuguan Road, Zhao Chiman and two hundred mercenaries had already followed.

"The woman in red clothes over there just now was Princess Lantian?"

"Um."

"She seems to like you very much."

"It's a fate but no destiny." Li Xiao shook his head gently and said. He knew Yuse's feelings, but he couldn't be sure how sincere this feeling was. Even if it was sincere, so what? She is the eldest princess, and he has a wife. The biggest possibility is that they two became lovers, but Li Xiao felt that doing so wasn't the right thing to do.

"Sometimes, when we encounter a beautiful flower, we can just watch it from a distance, and we don't have to pick it up."

"Men must be free and easy, and it's okay to be romantic. The princess won't really want to marry you. Isn't it good to be the right lover?"

“It’s good now.”

Although the princess is beautiful, it is also a thorny rose. Sometimes, things will not always develop as beautiful as expected. No one knows which direction things will develop after taking that step and breaking that boundary.

What Li Xiao was most worried about was that he would hurt Wanniang in the end. He was a gentle but weak woman, and he couldn't bear to hurt her.

Zhao Chiman smiled with admiration and stopped mentioning this matter.

"Our Mulan boat has already stopped at the Hanjiang Wharf in Xiangyang. Although there are Danshui boats available from Xiangyang to Shangzhou, they can only take small boats, and there are many dangerous shoals that have to be carried by the boatman. After our Mulan boat is transformed as you ask, it is suitable for sea navigation, so we did not drive to Shangzhou and only stopped in Xiangyang."

Xiangyang is a large wharf, with many rivers such as Danshui, Xishui, Yushui, Baishui, Zhushui, Hanshui, etc., forming a smooth water transportation channel. Xiangyang is also an important town in Shannan, connecting Henan, Shannan, and Guanzhong.

From here, we go down the Han River and reach the Yangtze River.

Li Xiao and his friends left Lantian Pass from Lantian Pass, crossed a short mountain road, and entered Shangzhou in the south of the mountain, and then took a small boat there, followed the Danshui River and went straight to Xiangyang, then boarded their big Mulan boat there, and sailed all the way to Yangzhou.

"The three boats are all in Xiangyang. The Cheng family and the Xue family have sent people to take over one boat, leaving one of our own."

The large Mulan boat designed and transformed by Li Xiao can carry six or seven hundred people, and has the ability to travel directly to North Korea and does not have to sail around the Bohai Bay coast.

"Where are the people from Changsun and other families who went to Baekje this time?"

"They have set out first and gathered in Xiangyang to wait for us. They have their own ships and follow us to form a fleet to go out to sea."

Zhao Chiman was very calm when he talked about Changsun Wuji. His current identity is still Li Xiao's slave. This was appointed by the emperor and cannot be changed for the time being. Although Changsun Wuji and Han Yuan were his relatives, he did not interact with them after the last incident.

"Let the team speed up, we have to hurry up."

Li Xiao did not plan to sail along the coast on the old route, so he wanted to travel directly to North Korea. It is summer and autumn now, and the wind blowing from the monsoon sea is suitable for sailing from the mainland to Baekje. Saving downwind can save a lot of time. When autumn passes, the wind blowing from winter and spring will blow from north to south, and then it will be more suitable for driving from Baekje to the mainland.

Although Li Xiao’s improved sailing technology can be used to take advantage of the wind, it is not convenient to sail with the wind after all.

"The Changsun family recruited a lot of people, each with hundreds of people, and they are still recruiting." Zhao Chiman provided another news.

This year, there was a severe drought in Guanlongshan South and other places, and many victims occurred. Changsun and other families took the opportunity to recruit people everywhere. They not only recruited ordinary victims, but also craftsmen, etc., and it is said that they also recruited a lot of those kinds of deaths.

It seems that I plan to go to Baekje to have a big fight.

Li Xiao knew that he had recruited 200 mercenaries and planned to go to Baekje to rob slaves. The generals of those aristocratic families were even worse. They had connections, ways, and money, and there was no taboo to act.

The Li family recruits 200 people, but they just use thousands of tricks.

Some of them recruited people to farm, some also recruited people to mine, and some recruited people to capture slaves and guards. In short, they invested a lot.

Li Xiao thought it was quite normal. He had to get some insurance if he invested tens of thousands of dollars there.

"You can arrive in Shangzhou in three days, and then arrive in Xiangyang in three days. It takes ten days from Xiangyang to Yangzhou. Yangzhou and then to Dengzhou will take ten days. Dengzhou will take three days from Dengzhou to Danluo, and Danluo will take one day from Wuzhenzhou port." Zhao Chiman planned the schedule for Li Xiao, which was exactly one month.

"It's a bit slow. One month is too long, so we'll shorten the time. We have to arrive in Xiangyang in three days. It's only seven days to go to Yangzhou from Xiangyang, and only five days to go to Dengzhou. Dengzhou will fly directly to Wuzhenzhou Port, but it's only two days." Li Xiao said.

In this way, the time is compressed to seventeen days.

“Time is a little tight.”

"It depends on you. You used to be a general in the army. I guess you have great experience in marching and traveling. You have set the time and you will make the itinerary. In short, I don't ask about the process. As long as the result, can it work?"

Zhao Chiman looked at the group of young men behind Li Xiao. He had only been out of ten miles and had already passed the initial excitement and was drooping.

"Of course it's OK if Sanlang wants to persist, but those little guys will have to suffer."

"It doesn't matter if you suffer a little. Since you come out with me, you must be prepared. From now on, they are no longer rural fields. They are my group and you will start to sharpen your skills on the road. Otherwise, when you arrive in Baekje, you will be confused and lose your head at any time."

"What a good thing, I like to deal with those new recruits the most. It's the most exciting thing to hear them screaming." Zhao Chi smiled with a grin, looking ready to have a big fight.
Chapter completed!