"Won't Madame go back to the cottage and have a look?" Wang Biao asked.

Li said: "No, it's too cold on the mountain in winter, and my leg hurts so much when I go up the mountain that I can't do it, so I'll go back to the cottage in the spring next year."

"Since Madame doesn't go back to the cottage, then I'll stay here and help take care of the business here, anyway, there are no passing merchants in winter, and most of the people on the mountain have borrowed to repair the river embankment, and there are only some family members left on the mountain, and there is no one to get to."

Li said: "Now that there is this girl to earn silver for us, you don't have to rely on robbery to make a living in the future, you give people to her, it can be regarded as earning silver, and when this side develops, there will be more businessmen in the past, and at that time, we will do a few more big votes, which is better than the current piecemeal fight."

Wang Biao frowned: "If you don't go to robbery, it's a trivial matter to have no income, but in this way, the world is peaceful, will the young master agree?"

Li Shi said in a low voice: "Delay him for a while, and when this girl helps us grow food, we will not be controlled by the young master, and now I listen to him because he can help us get food."

Wang Biao thought for a moment: "Why don't we match this girl with Xiao Ran?" In this way, everything about her will naturally become ours."

Li pondered for a moment; "No, the one you worship is indeed a talented person, if he helps, we don't have to worry about our great cause, but this person may not really defect to us, if you want him to really submit to us, you need to cut off his back road."

Wang Biao said, "How to cut off his back road?"

Li narrowed his eyes: "Let him be the niece and son-in-law of the cottage!" Give him another gimmick of being the second master, and let the brothers spread the news everywhere, so that the officials of the court know that the cottage has joined a traitor to the court, so that he has no way back but to cooperate with us."

Wang Biao doted on Li Shi into his arms and kissed her lightly on the forehead: "It's still Sister Wan's thoughtfulness, it's enough to have you for your husband in this life!"

Li's eyes instantly became extremely gentle, his hands wrapped around Wang Biao's neck, the lights in the house went out, and the black-clothed man on the roof clenched his fists with a complicated expression, turned around and jumped, and disappeared into the courtyard next door.

On the day Zhao Qianqian went to the cottage, Li gave three carriages, one for farm tools, one for food on the road, and the other for Zhao Qianqian to sit on.

Zhao Qianqian took dozens of people and set off from the south gate, and Wang Biao and his wife got into a luxury carriage with two horses and sent them to the south gate in a high-profile manner.

"Whose carriage is this?"

"The county master's, right?"

"No, the county magistrate wouldn't ride in such a luxurious carriage."

"Could it be Zhang Yuan's family?"

"I've also seen the carriage of Zhang Yuanwai's family, and there is only one horse."

"Don't guess, although Zhang Yuanwai's family is rich, they don't have such a luxurious carriage, this is the carriage of the bandit leader Wang Biao."

"It's really a snatched thing, and you don't feel distressed if you spend it casually, this kind of person won't be rewarded!"

"Did you see that girl, that person's surname is Zhao, she is the niece of the bandit leader's wife, I heard that she brought people back to the cottage, and the river embankment outside the city was also built by the bandit leader."

"The bandit's cultivation must not be for the sake of the people, it must be of some benefit to him."

"You don't care if he is a bandit or not, as long as he is willing to repair the river embankment, we won't have to worry about flooding along the river in the future."

"But being with bandits is like being with tigers and wolves, there will be danger at any time, so it's better to stay away from these people!"

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Everyone gossiped, no one said good things about the bandits, but this had no effect on Wang Biao, it didn't matter what others said was good or bad, the important thing was to achieve the goal they wanted.

But what the man said was right, this Qingyun City is surrounded by rivers, and every year during the flood season, many houses around Qingyun City will be washed away by floods, and Qingyun City is constantly shrinking, and in the long run, Qingyun City will be swallowed by floods.

If you want to build a river embankment, this cost is not a small amount, all county orders will be reported to the imperial court every year, but the treasury is empty, and there is no silver, and the official road to Qingyun County is always robbed by mountain bandits, and the official silver for disaster relief has been issued several times by mountain bandits

The robbery was gone, and the court was also powerless.

Now that someone has paid for the construction of the river embankment, no matter what his purpose is, at least Qingyun City will not be swallowed up by floods again, which is also a good thing for the people of Qingyun City.

Qingyun City is more than 150 miles away from the cottage, and the team led by Zhao Qianqian is all on foot, usually taking a carriage, and it will take a day at the earliest.

Zhao Qianqian walked with everyone most of the time, the carriage was too bumpy, and he could observe the terrain by the way.

This road is an official road, it is quite spacious, but the road is full of potholes, the carriage is very bumpy, Zhao Qianqian feels that his stomach is shaking out, it is better to walk, the carriage is also seriously damaged, and the wheels have been repaired three times in three days.

As the saying goes, if you want to get rich first build a road, if you repair this road, there will be no mountain bandit attack, will it attract more businessmen?

Zhao Qianqian was not idle along the way, when she was resting, she drew on the carriage, and when she arrived at the cottage, the topographic map from Qingyun City to the cottage had been completed, and when the crops in the cottage were planted, she could start to build the road.

The Li family sent someone to send a message to Li Xiaoran, and Li Xiaoran waited outside the cottage for two days, but he didn't see a person.

On the afternoon of the third day, at the moment of Shen Shi, I finally saw a team of dozens of people walking towards the cottage.

Li Xiaoran rushed forward, stopped in front of the carriage, and craned his neck to look into the carriage, but the group completely ignored his existence and went straight to the cottage.

The messenger said that Zhao Qianqian was a beauty, and Li Xiaoran and the others were so anxious that they had already slapped Li's words in the back of their heads, and the niece they recognized could not be nonsense, and they were not biological.

Beauties are always pampered and arrogant, Li Xiaoran thought so, and didn't take it too seriously, and ran up after the carriage.

The gate of the cottage was about to stop for inspection, and Li Xiaoran finally caught up with the carriage.

"Beauty!"

Li Xiaoran opened the curtain full of joy, and when he saw the people in the carriage, his smile immediately froze on his face: "This is the beauty you said?"

"Yes, is the young master surprised? Isn't it a surprise?" The servant asked, rubbing his hands.

Li Xiaoran lowered the curtain, turned around and went back to the cottage, and said as he walked, "This beauty will have nightmares when she sees me, don't let her enter my yard if it's okay."

The inspector saw that Li Xiaoran didn't stop the carriage, so he let the group into the cottage.

Although Li Xiaoran is not satisfied with the beauty, she still has to do what her aunt explains.

He asked his subordinates to arrange everyone in a courtyard, and explained that except for farming, they could only walk around in the yard, and they could not move around at will in other places in the cottage.

Although he was not satisfied with Li's niece, he still arranged a small courtyard separately according to Li's wishes, and sent a maid to serve him.

After arranging everything, Li Xiaoran continued to immerse himself in Gentle Township and did not ask about the world.

The last rays of winter light on the horizon fell, and a delicate figure appeared in front of the gate of the cottage.

"What for?" The post stretched out his hand in front of the gate.

Someone came and showed the token.

"Holy Maiden! Please!"

Zhao Qianqian looked at the token in his hand: "It really works!"

entered the cottage and found someone to lead the way, and went to the other courtyard arranged by Li Xiaoran for her.

After dinner, it was not yet dark, Zhao Qianqian walked out of the yard and walked along the path towards the east.

As soon as she walked into the grove, the maid arranged by Li Xiaoran knocked on the door outside the room: "What's the matter?" A woman's cold voice in the room asked.

"The slave maid came to serve the young lady to wash."

"No, I'm already asleep." There was still a cold voice in the room.

The maid had to retreat with the lantern.

Zhao Qianqian's courtyard is on the west side of the cottage, and the courtyard of Wang Biao and his wife is on the east side of the cottage, which is a mile away.

There is also a luxurious mansion in the middle of the east and west courtyards, which is about the same size as the courtyard of Wang Biao and his wife from the outside.

Zhao Qianqian stopped outside the courtyard wall, and the singing and dancing in the courtyard were leveled, mixed with the sound of men and women playing.

You don't have to think about it

Dao, this is Li Xiaoran, who stayed in the village to guard the village, in order not to let the Li family know that he found a few women to come to the mountain, he deliberately transferred the sentry outside the courtyard to another place.

Within a few minutes, a maid carrying a lantern entered the courtyard: "Young master, Miss Zhao has already slept."

Li Xiaoran said impatiently: "I know, there is nothing to mention that woman, and I don't know what my aunt thinks, choose a fierce woman to be her niece." After saying that, he continued to frolic around.

Zhao Qian hooked the corners of his lips: Wang Biao and his wife really didn't worry about her, and let his nephew spy on her, but they seemed to look down on his straw bag nephew.

There is a rule in the cottage that there will be a curfew when it gets dark, there is a sentry on the avenue in the village, and people who travel at night must have a token to walk around in the village, otherwise they will be killed, so Zhao Qianqian walked all the way, except for the maid who entered Li Xiaoran's yard, he did not see anyone else.

Zhao Qianqian thanked Wang Biao and his wife from the bottom of his heart for these rules, which was beneficial to her.

There were two guards in front of the courtyard of Wang Biao and his wife, but I don't know if there were any guards in the courtyard.

Zhao Qianqian picked up a small pebble and threw it into the courtyard, the two guards heard the sound inside, looked at each other, one of them took out the key from his waist and opened the door, the two did not close the door after entering, searched around for a while, did not find anything unusual, and exited.

"Was there a sound in there just now?" One of the guards asked the other.

"It seems to be there, but I'm not sure if it's inside or outside, maybe I heard it wrong, the owner and the lady are not in the village, who will go in?"

Most of the people who came to Wang Biao in the middle of the night came to take revenge, since they were not in the village, no one would presumably go in, and the two guards comforted each other, then withdrew from the courtyard and locked the courtyard door.

After the two guards went out, Zhao Qianqian walked out of the corner, took out the computer from his backpack, and adjusted the light of the flashlight mode to low light.

She remembered the layout of this courtyard very clearly, and soon found the bedroom of Wang Biao and his wife, and on the wall directly opposite the bed, there was a painting of a beautiful woman in smoke and rain.

Zhao Qianqian admired the painter's painting workmanship, no wonder Li would say that Li Xiaoran had always wanted to get this painting.

On the painting, in the smoky tent, a plump woman with silky eyes, most of her breasts are outside, and anyone who sees it will think about it.

Zhao Qianqian didn't have time to appreciate it, lifted the painting, the ground was clean and smooth on the wall, and he didn't see that there was a mechanism on the wall, he reached out and touched the wall, but there was really no.

Zhao Qianqian muttered to himself, "Could it be that the mechanism is this painting?"

I looked at the painting carefully twice, but I didn't find anything suspicious.

It's weird, there's no on the wall, there's no painting, isn't it here?

She heard it clearly, Wang Biao and Li said that the switch of the secret room was in the place in this painting, but why didn't it be?

Zhao Qianqian groped on the wall for a while, still no gain, searched all corners of the room one by one, still no result, just when Zhao Qianqian gave up, there was a sound of two people talking outside the house.

"Let's look around again, there are many people here today, if someone steals, I won't be able to eat when the owner of the village comes back, so I'll go around!"

"Well, let's check every room."

The conversation outside the house grew closer, and two figures with torches stopped at the door.

"Let's go, go in and have a look."