Bidding farewell to his reluctant wife and sisters, fathers and fellow villagers, Li Xiao rode a horse and set off with his team.

One step and three times to turn around, his eyes were full of reluctance.

But the young boys, who were more like fledgling chicks, were a little anxious to leave the small mountain village.

There was not much parting sadness on their faces, but more excitement.

For them, they have been in this small mountain village for more than ten years, and they are already a little tired, and they don't like the life of sunrise and sunset, facing 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 and do his subordinates, maybe you have the opportunity to make contributions.

Looking at their appearance, Li Xiao thought of his former self. I remember the first time he left his hometown to go far away, it was when he went out to study. At that time, he was also at this age, seventeen years old, went to a strange city thousands of miles away, left his hometown for the first time, and stepped out of that hundred miles radius.

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

Only after wandering outside for a long time will you slowly begin to miss your hometown and be full of nostalgia.

Every teenager has put on a new set of clothes today, for many teenagers, they have never worn such good clothes in their lives, these new clothes and new shoes were all issued to them by Li Xiao, and each person had two new clothes.

The clothes were all dyed blue, and although they were made of linen, they were very spiritual. With a big brim Fan Yangli, a blue cloth backpack on his back, a red tasseled spear on his shoulder, and a horizontal knife on his waist, he was no longer just a country house.

Across a blue stream.

On the opposite side of the stream, Tamase stood there lonely in red.

In the field, the bareheaded Li Ke came over.

"Since you can't bear him, why don't you go to Li Zhuang to see him off?"

Li Ke understands this sister of his, how a dashing person she used to be, dare to love and hate. If she likes someone, she will never hide it secretly in her heart, she will definitely say it, and she will take the initiative to pursue it.

Now standing here alone and pitiful, sending each other across the blue stream, this is not in line with her character.

Tamase's eyes kept staring at the white-shirted Li Xiao on the yellow horse.

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

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

"I confessed my heart to Li Xiao, but he told me that she once loved me, once." What you once loved means that you don't love now. "The falling flowers are intentional, and the flowing water is ruthless. Back then, when he liked me, I didn't cherish it, but now, I can't go back to the past. ”

"That's fate, Li Xiao already has a wife after all, so it's actually quite good. Sometimes, you don't have to get what you like. It's good for you to be like this now, being a pair of confidants, sometimes it's no worse than being a lover. ”

"But I want to be a lover with him, I think in this life, there is no man who attracts me as much as he does, I think that only he can know me and understand me in this world."

"It's a pity that you missed the best time to meet him, or that you met at the right time, but you didn't grasp it. Now, if you make people, you can't be a lover anymore. ”

"Third 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 in an accident one day, died of illness, fell to death, ·······, but after this thought flashed, I hated myself, hated me for being vicious, I was so conflicted········"

"What you can't get is always the most distressing. If you want to open some, go with the flow. Li Ke persuaded.

"Third brother, do you think I should follow him to Baekje, regardless of it, leave everything here behind, and follow in his footsteps. Maybe when we get to Baekje, where the Central Plains are far away, and there is no longer Zhao Wanniang, maybe we can be together? ”

"Why bother?"

"If you force something to come, you won't be happy." Li Ke shook his head.

Li Yuse stood there stupidly, watching Li Xiao's figure get farther and farther away, smaller and smaller, and two lines of tears couldn't help but shed from the corners of his eyes.

Many times, emotions are not under your control. Li Xiaoyue was lukewarm to her, but she was attracted to him, and gradually she even felt that she had become fascinated by him.

No man had ever rejected her, but he did.

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On the Lan Military Attache Road, Zhao Zhiman with two hundred mercenaries had already followed.

"The woman in red over there just now is the eldest princess of Lantian, right?"

"Hmm."

"She seems to like you."

"It's fateful." Li Xiao shook his head lightly and said. He knew Tamase's intentions, but he wasn't sure how sincere they were. Even if she is sincere, she is the eldest princess, and he has a wife. The biggest possibility is that the two of them will become a pair of lovers, but Li Xiao feels that this is not the right thing to do.

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

"Men have to be free and easy, and it's okay to be romantic. The princess doesn't really want to marry you, isn't it good to be the right lover? ”

"It's good now."

The princess is beautiful, but it is also a rose with thorns, and sometimes things don't always go as well as expected. No one knows which direction things will go after taking that step and breaking that boundary.

Li Xiao was most worried that he would hurt Wanniang in the end, that was a gentle but weak woman, and he was reluctant to hurt her.

Zhao Zhiman smiled with some admiration and didn't mention the matter anymore.

"Our Mulan boat has been parked at the Hanjiang Wharf in Xiangyang, although there are Danshui feasible boats from Xiangyang to Shangzhou, but only small boats can be used, and there are many dangerous shoals that have to rely on the back of the slender man, after our Mulan boat is transformed according to your requirements, after all, it is suitable for sea navigation, so it is not risky to drive to Shangzhou, only stopped in Xiangyang."

Xiangyang is a big wharf, Danshui, Xishui, Yushui, Baishui, Zhushui, Hanshui and other rivers converge to form a smooth water transport channel, Xiangyang is an important town in Shannan, communicating Henan, Shannan, as well as Shannan and Guanzhong.

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

Li Xiao and the others went out of Lantian Pass from Lantian Pass, crossed a short mountain road, and after entering Shangzhou in Shannan, they could take a small boat there, go straight to Xiangyang along the Danshui River, and then board their big Mulan boat there, sailing all the way to Yangzhou.

"The three boats are in Xiangyang, and the Cheng family and the Xue family have already sent someone to take over one boat each, and there is only one of our own."

The big Mulan boat, which has been designed and transformed by Li Xiao, can carry six or seven hundred people, and has the ability to sail directly to North Korea, so there is no need to sail around the coast of Bohai Bay.

"What about the eldest grandson and the others who went to Baekje this time?"

"They have already set off first, gathered in Xiangyang and waited for us, they have their own boats, and they will follow us to form a fleet to go to sea at that time."

Zhao Zhiman was very calm when he talked about the eldest grandson Wuji, his current identity is still Li Xiao's slave, this is the emperor's appoint, and it cannot be changed for the time being. Although the eldest grandson Wuji and Han Ying are his relatives, after the last incident, he does not interact with them now.

"Let's get the team up a little bit faster, we need to hurry."

Li Xiao did not plan to sail along the coast according to the old route, he wanted to sail directly to North Korea. It's summer and autumn season, and the wind blowing over the sea during this monsoon is just right for sailing from the mainland to Baekje, so sailing downwind can save a lot of time. As soon as autumn passes, the wind blows from the north to the south in this winter and spring, and it is more suitable to drive from Baekje to the mainland.

Although Li Xiao's improved sail technology can borrow the wind from seven sides, it is not as convenient as sailing downwind after all.

"The eldest grandson's family has recruited a lot of people, and each family has hundreds of people, and they are still recruiting." Zhao Chiman provided another piece of news.

This year, there has been a severe drought in Guanlongshannan and other places, and many victims have appeared. The eldest grandson and other families took the opportunity to recruit people everywhere, and they recruited not only ordinary victims, but also craftsmen, and it is said that they also recruited many of those dead.

Looks like he's going to Baekje to do a big job.

Li Xiao knew that he had recruited 200 mercenaries and planned to go to Baekje to rob and capture slaves, and those family generals were not weak, they had connections, ways and money, and there were no taboos in their actions.

The Li family recruited 200 people, and they casually recruited thousands of people.

Some are recruited to farm, some are also recruited to open mines, and some are recruited to catch slaves and guards, in short, the investment is not small.

Li Xiao thinks it's quite normal, people have to get some insurance when they invest tens of thousands of dollars over there.

"After three days, you can arrive in Shangzhou, and then arrive in Xiangyang in three days, and from Xiangyang to Yangzhou, you will have ten days. It will take ten days to Yangzhou and then Dengzhou. Dengzhou to Tamna takes three days, and Tamna to Wuzhenzhou port takes one day. Zhao Zhiman planned the schedule for Li Xiao, which was just a whole month.

"It's a little slow, a month is too long, compress some time. We have to rush to Xiangyang three days later, Xiangyang to Yangzhou only give seven days, Yangzhou to Dengzhou only give five days, Dengzhou direct flight to Wuzhenzhou Port, but Tamluo, with two days. Li Xiao said.

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

"Time is a bit tight."

"It's up to you, you used to be a general in the army, you must be very experienced in marching, you set the time, you make the itinerary, in short, I don't ask about the process, as long as the result, can it work?"

Zhao Zhiman looked at the group of teenagers behind Li Xiao, who had just gone out for only ten miles, and they had already passed the initial excitement and were dazed.

"If Saburo wants to persevere, of course he can, but those little ones will have to suffer a little."

"It doesn't matter if you suffer a little, since you came out with me, you must have this preparation, from now on, they are no longer a farmer in the countryside, they are my subordinates, and they will start to sharpen on the way, otherwise when you get to Baekje, you may lose your head in a daze at any time."

"Okay, I like to clean up those recruits' eggs the most, and it's the most exciting to listen to them scream." Zhao Zhiman grinned, looking ready to do a big job.

Li Xiao mourned in his heart for the group of rural youths, but he knew that this was for their good, early sharpening, early maturity, and when they set foot on the land of Baekje, the situation over there would be even more severe, after all, it was a foreign country, a newly conquered land, and what was waiting for them would never be flowers and wine.