624: Chapter 52: Under the Sound of Iron Cavalry, Seeing Breaking Army Again_2 624: Chapter 52: Under the Sound of Iron Cavalry, Seeing Breaking Army Again_2 Xu Yunxia spoke softly, “You’ve had so at, right?”
The child nodded vigorously.
Xu Yunxia then said, “When you go to the table later, you won’t be able to eat at, understand?”
Although the child still wanted to eat at, he nodded and said, “Understood, grandpa.” At that ti, Xu Yunxia leaned on his cane and ca out.
The food on the table was simple, consisting of boiled large root vegetables, stead rice, a broth made of wild vegetables and okra, at, and vegetables that had been blanched and dipped in vinegar sauce, with cured at in the center.
For the laboring people of this era, this was already quite a feast.
There were two kinds of staple food, besides rice, there was also a pasty mixture of brown rice, millet, and radish.
The polished rice brought by Li Guanyi was passed to him and Shaking Light.
Li Guanyi lowered his eyes, and Xu Huilan said:
“We are poor and have nothing extra to offer you both.”
Li Guanyi replied softly, “This is already plenty.”
He used his chopsticks to cover his rice with at, layer by layer, then handed the rice to the small child across from him.
After several refusals, the child accepted it.
Li Guanyi said, “Yuan Zhi and I are close friends; aunty, you needn’t do this.”
Xu Huilan, with gratitude in her eyes, imdiately asked about Yuan Zhi’s condition.
Li Guanyi answered as he had when speaking to Xu Yunxia before.
Xu Huilan just sat there, nodding her head and listening intently without even eating.
It seed she wanted to make up for what she had missed over the years, her face carrying a serene smile.
Finally, she wiped away her tears and said, “I knew Yuan Zhi was talented; he’s busy now, and it’s natural for him not to co back.”
Xu Huilan said, “Please tell him that everything at ho is fine, he should take care of himself outside and need not co back.”
This woman in her forties, already graying, held her bowl and chopsticks and said:
“Just tell him I’m old now, can’t do much, and can’t help him with much.”
“Say everything is fine here…”
Just then, a burst of noisy voices ca from outside, the sound of horses neighing, and tal clashing against the walls, soone laughed loudly, “Oh?
I heard that Yuan Zhi’s friend has co back?!”
“Ha, he dared to touch my sworn brother before, now that he’s back, isn’t he here to apologize?!”
Li Guanyi stood up, but Xu Yunxia firmly grasped Li Guanyi’s hand, “I’ll handle this…”
His smile strained, he said, “These are local troublemakers, it’s complicated.
I hear it involves the magistrate’s secretary from the county this town belongs to; he’s also the deputy enforcing laws here, a man of the Court.”
“You ca to deliver a ssage for Yuan Zhi, don’t get involved in trouble.”
The youth spoke softly:
“Yuan Zhi’s letters were detained by them; they probably didn’t even look at them.”
Li Guanyi stood up, “Yuan Zhi, already a core disciple in the Academy, if they saw his letters and had any sense, wouldn’t dare trouble you, but unfortunately, without the Academy engaging in worldly affairs, they do not understand its influence.”
“Today, I ca to take all of you with ; Yuan Zhi also hopes for family reunion…”
Li Guanyi stood up, comforting Xu Huilan and the spouse Xu Yunxia.
The youth turned, opened the door, and outside were a dozen or so thugs, led by a man in official robes, riding a horse, who looked scornfully at Li Guanyi.
Seeing a sixteen-or-seventeen-year-old tall youth who carried no weapon, he turned to his companions and laughed, “Hahaha, oh Yuan Zhi, Yuan Zhi, aging backwards, huh?
Ten years have passed, and he’s still hanging out with teenagers?”
“Are you that friend of Yuan Zhi?”
“You don’t know, he offended my brother, Mr.
Zhao, who is my half-brother by a different mother.
I had to puncture and kill him.
If I do nothing, wouldn’t I lose face in front of my brothers in the Martial World?
Hahaha!”
“Today you’re here, not Yuan Zhi, Mr.
Zhao I’ll give you face, kneel down, knock your head seventeen or eighteen tis, and I’ll let you go, get out of here!”
“Otherwise, hmm, your Mr.
Zhao will tie you up and throw you out of this town!”
Li Guanyi hadn’t spoken yet.
Sitting on the bench, Shaking Light stretched out her hand, pressing both hands on the chair.
With a push.
The young lady dropped to the ground, ran to the doorway in a few quick steps, then reached out, grabbed the door, and pulled hard.
Bang!
She directly slamd the door shut.
Xu Yunxia was startled and anxiously said, “Ah, young girl, what are you doing?
Why did you lock Mr.
Li outside?” The silver-haired young lady rembered when they first t; she had dragged Li Guanyi and the assassin he had captured back to her cave.
Resulting in blood spilled all over!
She wiped and wiped, unable to clean it up completely.
In the end, the young lady decisively chose to give up.
And at this mont—
The Stargazing School would not make the sa mistake twice in the sa place!
The young lady slightly tilted her chin upward, her face expressionless.
She couldn’t let the blood spill inside.
Outside, the thugs were stunned, looking at each other: “Did you just see how the door closed?!”
“Is it the wind?”
“No, I’m watching, and there’s no wind.”
“Goodness, could it be a ghost?!”
Li Guanyi couldn’t help but smile wryly; with Shaking Light’s mystical skills, it would be a real miracle if these n could see her.
Mr.
Zhao seed unsatisfied, and said, “You dare to laugh, n, beat him!!”
So, a series of loud noises ca from outside.
In the courtyard, Xu Yunxia picked up a carrying pole ready to leap out, extrely anxious; the silver-haired young lady counted to three before moving aside, Xu Yunxia burst through the door, but froze, as outside, the troublemaking thugs the villagers would normally avoid, were lying all over the ground.
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