"This dress isn't for you......"

Listening to the back of the downstairs, in the old place, the girl is staring at the sky in a daze, looking depressed. The long skirt covered her long legs, her hair was pulled in a slanted bun, and her previous heroic aura was heavily concealed by a dull and weak aura.

Hearing the voice of the night's thoughts, the girl's body shook, but she didn't turn around.

"Hear that?"

Then Li Xi asked again, a familiar one, when she climbed the eaves of the building to eavesdrop, when Li Xi found her, he also asked so.

"Yes! I heard that! ”

Yan Sanniang turned around, her beautiful face was pale and dull, and although the scar on her cheek had faded, it still looked dazzling, making the girl's whole person immersed in a poignant color.

Li Xian's heart trembled, he really wanted to embrace the girl into his arms and soothe her devastated heart, but her gaze that was like a volcano stopped his attempt, and that gaze was full of questions, and from this doubt, the suspicion of him, the suspicion of herself, was the hot magma, which was about to erupt.

"When I returned to Fujian, the price of salt in my hometown rose sharply, and the villagers were miserable. I killed the chief inspector, not only for what I saw, but also because I didn't want to have anything to do with the Liang family who helped the abuse, and I was dead! I don't want to be tainted with such a sin! ”

The girl spoke with difficulty, and her discolored cherry lips kept trembling slightly.

"When I entered Guangdong, I saw men and women calling outside the rice shop, and the rice merchants pressed the full warehouse of rice and did not sell it, but let the vicious dogs whip people away. I know I can't control it, I can't reach out my hand, but I believe in you with all my heart, what you want to do is the opposite, this is the kind of thing, the world you want to bring to everyone is no longer such a world, so ...... I'm coming, I'm ...... I'm going to follow you. ”

The girl kept tears in her eyes, and she didn't let it roll down.

She shook her head, as if still wondering if what she had just heard upstairs was not true.

"But you...... What are you discussing? I'm deliberating how to continue hoarding rice, just to make money! Make hay! Don't you hear the call of a million people!? ”

At this point, she finally broke out.

"I must have misheard, or maybe you're playing something...... Gimmicks, right? That's not true, you tell me, that's not true! ”

Facing the girl's eyes, which were almost about to melt steel, Li Xi did not flinch in the slightest, and he nodded slowly and seriously.

"You heard me right, and I didn't play tricks, I ...... It is indeed a hoarding of rice, which is not fundamentally different from what those rice merchants do. ”

The thing is very simple, he collected rice in Hunan, and the rice merchants who went through the Huhuguan Pass were all recruited by him, and the rice entering Guangdong was naturally a little less, and he had a contribution to the rise in the price of rice in Guangdong, and he had to add fuel to the fire.

Hearing this, Yan Sanniang rushed up, grabbed his shirt and shook it, originally she could fall out with her fingers, but now her hands are extremely weak, more like climbing a straw to prevent herself from slumping to the ground.

Tears flowed down her face, and her words became muffled and choked.

"I did it, I did what you said! Just for me to believe in you, believe in your heavenly principles, but you ...... What about what you've said? Is it a joke, or a joke to confuse me? Didn't you say that? You rebelled in order to stop people from being bullied and let everyone live a good life!? ”

The girl still hasn't said anything, she just believes in Li Shi, and throws away everything, including her shame and her family. It seems that she also thinks of this, and her questioning is like fishing for her lost treasure in the river that will never return.

"What is the principle of heaven that you believe in!?"

Li Xian sighed, stretched out her arms and wanted to hug her, but Yan Sanniang retreated, her tearful face was full of misery, she seemed to have made up her mind, and her strength returned to her body, and her fists were clenched tightly.

"Even if you lie to me, let my previous thoughts ...... There can be a place to be. If you have to say something that you have to do, tell me what is a great cause and what is not informal, what is for the world, and sacrifice is inevitable, isn't this okay? Aren't these words the best things for those of you who do great things? ”

Li Shi shrugged: "I don't have to lie to you. ”

Yan Sanniang was stunned for a moment, then bit her lower lip tightly, and shook her head again and again, as if she wanted to shake off something that Li Xian was carrying in her words.

Then Li Xian smiled slightly and said softly: "What I want to say to you is only three words. ”

The girl's breath became short, and her head shook even more, this was obviously not the time to talk to each other, but her tears were more difficult to stop, along the way, she had saved too many things to say to him...... "Trust me." ”

Li Xian said lightly, looked at the girl who froze, and added.

"Believe in yourself, too."

Then he patted himself on the waist.

"I brought a musket with me today, but I didn't have any ammunition on it, and it's useless to take it, unless you're trying to smash your own head with the hilt."

He had long been aware that the girl's eyes had been aimed at his waist.

Full of self-confidence, the girl's resentment and sorrow were like waves crashing on the reef, turning into fine waves, and she suddenly remembered what Li Xi said earlier, "Some people are born to do things, some people are born to think about things, and Sanniang, you obviously belong to the former." ”

Could it be that the "substantially the same" thing he said was actually different? Are you too stupid and too simple to see things?

A stream of questions stirred in her mind, Yan Sanniang was speechless, and she didn't break free from her confusion for a while. Waiting for a warmth, the warmth of thinking about the night wrapped around his hand, and then the soul returned to its place. The heat of fire suddenly swept over the whole face, and Li Xi had already held her hand and pulled her close to the fusion of breath, and his figure was clearly visible in his eyes.

"But...... You ask a good question, and only someone like you deserves to ask such a question. What kind of Tianli do I believe in, this really needs to be answered seriously, Sanniang, thank you. ”

Yan Sanniang's brain was already confused, and then the whole person was wrapped in Li Shi's breath, she was hugged into Li Shi's arms, hugged so tightly, the two hearts seemed to be connected together, beating in a rhythm at the same time.

"I miss you very much, Sanniang, and I won't let you go again."

Li Xi whispered in her ear, Yan Sanniang was in a trance, only to feel that she had finally arrived on the other side, and the previous question seemed to be contained in this embrace. Although she didn't know what the answer was, she was at ease, and she believed that the man holding her would give her the answer.

At the bottom of his heart, he pulled out the shyness of his daughter's family with a sense of panic, and was thinking about what kind of force to push him away, but it would not hurt him, the strength had just been accumulated, but Li Shi let go of her, so the power subconsciously turned to thinking about holding him.

After this hesitation, Li Xi had already turned around and walked away, greeting as he walked: "Hu Hanshan, call everyone to gather in the dam!" ”

Holding her shoulder with her arm back, Yan Sanniang looked up at the sky, the sky was blue, the white clouds were long, and through the tears remaining in her eyelashes, she seemed to see a colorful rainbow light.

The crowd of people gathered towards the central dam of the inner fort of Li Zhuang, all with smiles on their faces.

"The fourth brother Xu wants to raise money, and it is said that he can get two taels or even three taels for one tael of silver!"

"The fourth brother is really the reincarnation of a good man and a bodhisattva, just to help the fourth brother do this career, he can't make money and there is nothing to complain about, but ...... It's naturally good to be able to make money. ”

Hundreds of people have gathered in the dam, and they are buzzing and discussing, most of the people who hold gold shares in Qingtian Company have come, and there are some peripheral personnel who are not gold shares, but who are in Qingtian Company and hold positions above the level, and they are only one step away from gold shares.

On one side of the dam is Zhuang Xuelou, Guan Tian, Lin Hewu, and the five directors are standing at the foot of the steps waiting for Li Shi to appear, Guan Fengsheng and He Gui are quietly arguing about who proposed the financing first, Lin Dashu is indifferent, Wu Yaluo is rolling his eyes, as if he is calculating how much silver he can come up with, and Tian Dayou ...... Tian Dayou's eyebrows were deeply locked, and his face was very ugly, but in this excited crowd, no one noticed his abnormality.

"Fourth brother!"

"Director-General!"

"Owner!"

Li Xi came out, the crowd greeted in unison, in the winter day, he has always worn a thin and brimmed short straight hat, wearing a knee-length middle jacket, a palm-wide belt around his waist, a shoulderless vest open outside, thin straight pants, and the lower half of the trousers are wrapped in the high top of thick leather boots, and the whole person looks very energetic. He crossed his hands on his waist, and there were two bulging marks on his waist, and everyone knew what it was.

"Fourth brother, you speak, let's take out all the rest of the family's money!"

The Zhuang man surnamed Zi Yan shouted first, and the others echoed noisily, Li Shi raised his hand and pressed it, and there was a sudden silence in the dam.

"Ladies and gentlemen...... Do you still remember what I said when I invited you to join the company? ”

The dealer who spoke first was ahead again.

"Let's have a good life!"

Hundreds of people shouted and shouted.

"That's right! The fourth brother did it! ”

"The chief secretary is a believer, let's listen to you!"

Waving his hand to silence everyone again, Li Xi continued to ask.

"That'...... Why am I doing this? ”

This question is a bit complicated, some say that it is the bodhisattva's heart, some say that it is the heart of the villagers, and some people simply say that it is necessary to ask why.

"Because I believe in something, believe in something that hasn't changed since ancient times......"

Li Xian's eyes fell into the blue sky, and his originally indescribable mood gradually took shape with these words.

Upstairs listening to the Tao, Duan Hongshi and Yiming Lao Dao leaned in front of the window, staring at Li Shi for a moment, as if his thoughts had been injected into another world.

"Listen carefully, the root of the Heavenly Dao we are looking for should be in his next words."

Duan Hongshi sighed softly.

(To be continued)