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Li Chaoxiong groaned, and the expression on his face changed slightly, as if he was thinking about it with difficulty, how to tell the little girl in front of him what happened.

I saw Liu Shuangli blinking with a pair of big eyes and a puzzled face.

Li Chaoxiong sighed slightly, chose a straightforward method, and said, "Does Miss Liu know where the food and clothing of nearly 800,000 people in the capital come from?"

"This—" Liu Shuangli was taken aback, thought for a while, and replied, "I heard that they are all from the Jiangnan area." ”

"Yes," Li Chaoxiong nodded, "Almost all of the food and clothing in the capital come from the Jiangnan area, and the transportation of these food and clothing mainly depends on boats, and most of the routes are from the Yangtze River to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and then go north to Beijing." ”

"Well, what's going on?" Liu Shuangli still had wide, puzzled eyes.

Li Chaoxiong turned his head to look at the mountains behind the water park, and replied, "Miss Liu still can't see that all the ships that carry the materials needed to the capital start from the Yangtze River?" ”

"Ah, yes!" Liu Shuangli was startled and jumped up.

Looking up, on the top of the mountain, the flowing clouds that are so thin that they are difficult to make out with the naked eye are fluttering.

Li Chaoxiong's fingertips touched the vines that climbed in the corner of the wall, looked back at Liu Shuangli, and said word by word: "In other words, the shipping in the Yangtze River area is directly related to the lifeblood of the Great Zhou. ”

As soon as he heard this, Liu Shuangli involuntarily took a step back, his big eyes couldn't be bigger, and the words that came out of his mouth trembled: "That Han Fu, what are you doing with your control of the Yangtze River valley in the past few years......?

Seeing that Liu Shuangli was frightened like this, Li Chaoxiong's white and flawless face flashed a trace of incomprehension, his fingertips were withdrawn from among the vines, and after a pause, he immediately burst out laughing out loud, and said warmly: "Yongding Marquis Hanfu has won the emperor's favor for several generations, how can he do such a thing." ”

"Is there really nothing?" Seeing Li Chaoxiong smiling easily, Liu Shuangli calmed down a little, and said with a sigh of relief, "But didn't you say that you are in control of the Yangtze River? ”

Liu Shuangli said it bluntly, but he also said the truth.

Li Chaoxiong nodded, and said softly: "This is indeed not what a courtier should do, but ......"

Speaking of this, Li Chao paused abruptly.

Liu Shuangli asked, "But what?"

The sky was already bright, the sun rose above the peakless mountains, and from a distance, it was the golden dome that held a round of red sun, so dazzling.

Li Chaoxiong looked up at the red sun in the sky, and replied lightly: "But now the government is corrupt, resulting in official luck and smuggling prevailing. ”

"Smuggling ......" Liu Shuangli was taken aback.

"Exactly. Li Chaoxiong nodded.

"What do you mean by that?" Liu Shuang said bizarrely.

Li Chaoxiong sighed lightly: "It's the smuggling of official goods." ”

Liu Shuangli's eyes widened.

"Miss Liu still doesn't understand?" Li Chaoxiong smiled.

Liu Shuangli thought for a moment and said: "Brother Li said that official goods were smuggled and the government was corrupt, could it be that the court officials of the Yangtze River Shipping took advantage of the official transportation to transport smuggled goods for their own personal gains? However, no matter how much the officials use their power to enrich themselves, it is not appropriate for your Han government to privately monitor the behavior of officials." ”

Li Chaoxiong was stunned for a moment, his inky eyes looked at Liu Shuangli carefully, nodded after a while, and said with a warm smile: "The third prince said that Miss Liu is a sincere person, and not only is she honest, but also more realistic. But from Chaoxiong's point of view today, Miss Liu is not only honest, but also real. ”

"What kind of heart, truth, truth!?" Liu Shuang said bizarrely.

Li Chaoxiong nodded with a light smile, and after a little silence, he said warmly: "Miss Liu also knows that the food and clothing of people in Hebei depend on Jiangnan. And it is precisely because of this shipping that the land south of the Yangtze River and Huai, I don't know how many people's livelihoods depend on it. ”

Speaking of this, Li Chaoxiong's inky eyes looked deeply at the south, as if through the layers of trees, he saw the vast and bottomless rolling Yangtze River.

"Brother Li?" Liu Shuangli called softly. Xindao, this Brother Li, I have been following Han Sangongzi for a long time, and I have also learned his set, and it is always difficult to guess when I speak.

Understanding Liu Shuangli's question, Li Chaoxiong explained modestly: "The Beijing-Hangzhou Canal of the Yangtze River has many official ships and more merchant ships. And the escort and transfer envoys along the way, the workers and fiber households, the boat gang, etc., these people all make a living from shipping. ”

"Oh. Liu Shuangli nodded a little understandingly.

Li Chaoxiong smiled again: "And Miss Liu knows that I am from Jiangyin." ”

"Ah, then Brother Li, your family also lives on the Yangtze River?"

"Almost. ”

Liu Shuangli nodded again. But I was also curious in my heart: Even so, why did your family make a living from the Yangtze River, but in the end they entered the Yongding Marquis Han Mansion and became a guard.

But strange and strange, Liu Shuangli didn't have much to ask.

I saw Li Chaoxiong say softly again: "It is precisely because of this that the shipping of the Yangtze River and Beijing-Hangzhou is the lifeblood of the country, and on this line, I don't know how many benefits can be made, and I don't know how many forces are lurking." ”

Liu Shuangli was stunned, a pair of large and bright pupils blinked and blinked vigorously, and only after a while did he have to close it slightly: "So, your Han Mansion is simply just one of these many forces, it's not surprising at all, isn't it?"

"Yes. ”

Liu Shuangli was stunned for a long time, and finally smiled bitterly: "It's really rare and strange for me." Brother Li is right, I am really too honest. ”

In this regard, Li Chaoxiong only smiled faintly and no longer made comments.

The sunlight faintly passed over the broken wall covered with vines and scattered on the two of them. Liu Shuangli rubbed his hands lightly to soothe the embarrassment in his heart.

"So, ...... you?"

Li Chaoxiong waved his hand suddenly, stopped Liu Shuangli's questioning, looked at her and said, "Miss Liu, do you know that you are now trapped in a force." ”

Liu Shuangli was stunned: "Brother Li is talking about Aunt Liu, I really didn't expect Aunt Liu to be...... Hey, what is this waterstop garden ......?"

"Yes. At this time, Li Chaoxiong didn't want to go around the bend, nodded and said, "I don't know the origin of the Water Stopping Garden, but I know that there is a secret passage in this garden, which leads directly to the river at the head of this village. ”

"Secret passage," Liu Shuangli was startled, "Could it be that this is the entrance to this person's passage that I saw last night?"

"Exactly. ”

"Brother Li?" Liu Shuangli glared at Li Chaoxiong with some displeasure, "You know." Have you been following me since last night?"

Li Chaoxiong shook his head: "Miss Liu is wrong, I didn't follow you last night." ”

"Ah, you're talking to ......"

"Yes, I'm following them. ”

"Who are they?"

At this point, he paused again. Li Chaoxiong seemed to be thinking about something again, Liu Shuangli looked at him, did not bother, leaned against the vines that had disappeared the morning dew under the sunlight, and waited quietly.

After a long time, Li Chaoxiong sighed slightly and replied: "They are just small feet. ”

"Huh?" Liu Shuangli half-puffed out, and a pair of big watery eyes stared directly at Li Chaoxiong.

She didn't believe it, if it was just a small foot, she would use Brother Li, you, the first-class guard of the Han Mansion, to follow her personally?

Seeing that Liu Shuangli didn't believe it, Li Chaoxiong lowered his eyebrows and smiled: "I will appear here, half of the reason is also for you, Miss Liu." Speaking of which, Miss Liu, you are much more important than these people. ”

"Ah!" Liu Shuangli was surprised again, this time her words seemed to be the same thing, she tilted her head and thought about it, and she didn't know whether to believe it or not.

Seeing that Liu Shuangli was still hesitant, Li Chaoxiong smiled again and said, "Although these people are just a few small feet, they should not be underestimated. Superhero thought it would be better for Miss Liu to avoid them. As for the things that Miss Liu left in the house, you don't care about it for the time being, Chaoxiong will definitely try to help you get it back. ”

Although it was a begging statement, Li Chaoxiong spoke gently and lightly, but the eyes that looked at her were extremely firm and did not allow her to refuse. Liu Shuangli shook his head, and he guessed in his heart that these must be Qin Sibai Yang and Han Qihai, who had made a request in advance, and Li Chaoxiong was just carrying out the orders above.

Liu Shuangli thought about it, sighed again in his heart, and asked out loud: "Brother Li, can I ask you a question?"

"Miss Liu, please speak. ”

"Are you here because my composition is bigger, or is it because these people are bigger?"

"This ......" Li Chaoxiong was stunned, "because Miss Liu is more important." ”

"Really?"

Li Chaoxiong nodded affirmatively, and looked at Liu Shuangli with some doubts: "Why did Miss Liu ask this?"

Liu Shuangli shook his head, his eyes as bright as dust looked at the far north, and he muttered for a long time before he said: "It was Siyang's thirteenth birthday before that, but I shirked the clay figurine he asked me to pinch and didn't pinch it for him." Hey, I don't know if he was happy on this birthday, and whether he was embarrassed for my second senior brother for this. ”

Li Chaoxiong was stunned for a moment, and Wen Yan replied: "Your Highness and Brother Weihua have always been very good in Beijing, and Miss Liu doesn't have to worry about it." ”

After a while, Liu Shuangli withdrew his gaze from looking at the north, smiled at Li Chaoxiong, and said, "Thank you very much, Brother Li." ”

Li Chaoxiong lowered his eyebrows and smiled: "Miss Liu is polite, this is what Chaoxiong should do." ”

"Then where am I going down?" Liu Shuangli raised his eyebrows and sighed again.

"How to go down, Chaoxiong can't decide. Li Chaoxiong hugged his fist again, "But in the past two days, please be sure to stay here and don't move around too much." ”

"Stay here?" Liu Shuangli looked around in a daze, this was the most dilapidated place in the water garden she had seen. Elsewhere, the broken house may still have half a roof, but here, there is not even that half of the roof.

It's a very remote place, so that the walls are all occupied by vines, and the ground is overturned by broken bricks and tiles, and there is no way to find it. If you don't have light skills, you won't be able to jump here half a step at all.

Do you really want her to stay in such a place for two days?

"I'm really sorry, Miss Liu, because in this place of Wu Village, I really can't find another safer place besides the high mountain opposite. ”

Saying this, Li Chaoxiong lowered his head embarrassedly.

He said it carefully, thinking that Liu Shuangli would be unhappy when he heard this, and he would unhappily accuse them of poor care from the Han Mansion. No, after the air stopped for a while, what he heard was a 'flutter' and a laugh.

"Miss Liu?" Li Chaoxiong's face was full of doubts.

Liu Shuangli covered her mouth tightly with her hands, but her face was still twitching up and down, obviously she was snickering.

"What's wrong?" Li Chaoxiong was inexplicable, looking around, but he couldn't see anything funny.

"No, it's not, I'm sorry, Brother Li," Liu Shuangli couldn't help but laugh, and kept apologizing, and it took a long time before he gasped and explained, "I'm sorry, I, I didn't mean to laugh at you, Brother Li." But when you appeared today, you were really serious and energetic, talking like that, and you looked like that. I thought you, I thought you had learned to be like Han Gongzi, calm, handsome, and elegant, haha, at the last glance, it turns out that you are still, still the same. ”

"Miss Liu. "I was laughing at him. Li Chaoxiong was embarrassed, and when he saw Liu Shuangli laughing jubilantly, he couldn't be annoyed, so he could only shake his head and smile bitterly.

The atmosphere between the two of them relaxed for a while. (To be continued.) )