Mu Yihan frowned and looked around at the terrain in all directions, and said after a long time: "This is not suitable for a head-to-head duel, since they are in a high place, they can't help us, and they don't dare to come down to fight with us." After all, they don't know us and don't know us deeply, so I'm afraid they will be frightened back by our methods. ”

After listening to Mu Yihan's assertion, Ye Yun'er relieved her heart a little, and patted her chest again and again; "It's okay, it's okay, otherwise I'm really worried about them coming down."

"What, you have times when you're scared?" Mu Yihan looked at her with a smile and joked.

Ye Yun'er pouted, "I'm not afraid, I'm just afraid that the other party is too powerful, and we don't have time to take care of the cicada, so that she will be born unexpected." ”

As she spoke, she glanced at the carriage where the cicada was, and the worry in her eyes could not be more obvious.

This tenderness followed her hand and also spread to Mu Yihan's side. He clenched her hand tighter and tighter, and didn't say anything, but the affection was really in their palms.

It was easy to walk out of the valley, and when the eyes suddenly opened up, everyone's hearts also opened and landed, and they breathed a sigh of relief.

After some further walking, they passed through a village and rested in their houses.

There was only an old couple in the house where Mu Yihan and Ye Yun'er stayed. The old couple was very enthusiastic, and took out the stock of sweet potatoes, taro, turnips and greens to entertain the guests, and insisted on refusing to ask for the money they gave.

Ye Yun'er came over to help the old woman choose vegetables and cook, but she never saw her children appear, so she asked curiously, "Auntie, what about your children, have they gone out to work?" ”

Hearing Ye Yun'er ask about this, the old woman immediately gloomy, lowered her head and wiped her tears, "Don't mention it, my wife and I gave birth to two boys before, and they were all raised to the age of twenty." It was only because of the chaos in the past two years that there were not enough frontier soldiers, and they were arrested by the government and sent to join the army. Unexpectedly, during a crackdown on bandits, both of them died tragically, and his daughter-in-law also remarried with her children, leaving only our old couple ......"

Seeing that the old woman turned out to be a poor person with a story, Ye Yun'er was sad, but she didn't know how to comfort her.

"Did those bandits come to this village to rob too?" In order to avoid the old woman's sentimentality, Ye Yuner had to change the topic.

The old woman wiped away her tears and sighed again, "They come often, they come and go as fast as they come, and when the officers and soldiers come, they will long have fled without a trace." We don't dare to provoke them when they come, and we can only save our lives by handing over some food obediently. ”

"These bandits are really hateful." Although this sentence is often on Ye Yun'er's lips, it still makes her itch with hatred when she says it at this time, and she can't wait to tear off the celery in her hand and kill them all in one go.

"To say that this bandit is hateful is hateful, but the head of the head is actually strange and pitiful." The old woman said this for no reason, but she mentioned Ye Yun'er's interest.

It is rare for a victim to intercede on behalf of the culprit who killed his son and robbed him of his own rations.

"How can he pity Fa?"

The old woman stopped chopping vegetables in her hand and said, "There are often two or three gangs of bandits in and out of this area, and the leader of one of them is from our village, named Qu San. ”

"This Qu San's original family background is actually good, his father once opened a military attache in the county, and tutored him to practice martial arts since he was a child. Although his father often beat and scolded him, his mother was a very kind and gentle person, and he also loved his mother very much. ”

"These good days came to an end five years ago. That's because one of his father's military attachés killed the son of a high-ranking official in the imperial court, and his father interceded for the instructor and injured the official who came to arrest the instructor. Not only did he arrest his father and sentence him to work as a coolie on the frontier, but he also took his mother to work as an official prostitute, but he committed suicide by throwing herself into the river on the way to his mother. ”

Only Qu San himself was left in this family, and he refused to obey discipline from then on, and because he hated the court, he accepted the bewitchment of a bandit and went into the mountains to become the second master. Later, somehow he became a big boss again, recruiting troops and buying horses to make the mountain more and more powerful, and he became the largest bandit in this radius of hundreds of miles. ”

When the old woman said this, she burst into tears again, and sighed even more: "We once saw him come from afar to worship his parents outside the village, and he cried so much that it was a miserable cry! We all know that he always hates the people who killed his parents and ruined his family, and it is said that he even thinks of overthrowing the entire court in one fell swoop. ”

Speaking of which, it turned out to be just an official, forcing the people to rebel, and the people had to rebel?

It is no wonder that these victimized people have pity on him.

Ye Yun'er was silent, and when Mu Yihan stayed together, she told him everything she had heard.

"There is no shortage of such things, and I have long been surprised by them." Mu Yihan sighed slightly, "If the legal system is not changed, the traitors in the DPRK and China are not eliminated, and even if the bandits are wiped out, there will still be no peace in this world after all." ”

Ye Yun'er thought thoughtfully, "I thought that now the emperor can govern the world enough to be peaceful enough, but that is just a peep in the tube, and when I came to this southwest, I realized that it was far from being as simple as I thought." ”

"Even in your Qingfeng County, why don't the officials protect each other, the officials and businessmen collude, and the taxes collected on the people are overwhelmed?" Mu Yihan said lightly, but there was an overflowing sarcasm in his eyes.

Ye Yun'er thought about it carefully, and suddenly felt that this was really the case.

It's just that the economy in the east is relatively prosperous, and the contradictions between the government and the people are relatively hidden, and the people have not been forced to the point where they are forced to do everything they can.

"If you can get a clear Lord, it will be a blessing for the people." Ye Yun'er muttered, lamenting that the people were born at the wrong time.

Mu Yihan's eyes flickered, noncommittal.

was chatting here, but Juan Er quietly slipped into the stove when there was no one in the courtyard.

She saw that the old woman had just gone out, and a pot of sweet potatoes and taro was still boiling in the stove room, and the aroma couldn't help but make people salivate.

Today, Juan Er and Princess Yanxi have not eaten anything along the way, and they are already hungry at this time.

Seeing that these things were almost ripe, she secretly fished out a few sweet potatoes, wrapped them in a package, and walked back to the west wing where Princess Yanxi was as if nothing happened.

She thought it was done seamlessly, and no one noticed it. But she didn't know that all this fell into the eyes of the cicada.

Cicada crawled out from under the table in the stove room, and watched Juan Er go back to the room where Princess Yanxi was resting, confused.

Later, the old woman will send these foods, along with other meals, to Princess Yanxi and her, so why should they "steal" them themselves?

And Juan Er must have been entrusted by Princess Yanxi to do this.

This kind of petty theft is unimaginable for her to be done by a princess.

Driven by this series of questions, the cicada simply came to the window of the West Wing, dipped her saliva and pierced the window paper, and secretly looked inside.

And when she saw clearly what Juan Er and Princess Yanxi were doing inside, she was stunned, and her heart almost stopped beating.

What they're doing is incredible!