After Qin Zhiyang's death, the Northwest Trade Road was in chaos.

In fact, the merchants who came and went paid the toll in the name of paying the guards, and the money collected was used to deal with the horse bandits entrenched in the trade routes. When these horse bandits saw that there were Qin Zhiyang's people in the caravan, they naturally did not go to loot.

But as soon as he died, the horse bandits lost their income, and the merchants who passed by were out of luck.

"My name is Guo Shan, I used to work under Boss Qin, I have been working for a long time, and I have raised some brothers. A few months ago, Boss Qin was burned to death in a brothel, he had no children and no one could take his business. The brothers have no income, but they have to live, right? Originally, we wanted to find a place on the trade road, but there was no place for us in a turnip and a pit. We've been traveling all over the world for the past few months, and we've finally settled here."

Twilight listened quietly to Guo Shan.

When he finished speaking, Twilight asked, "It stands to reason that there should be no shortage of people to do Qin Zhiyang's business, and if he dies, someone will take over his business, right?"

Guo Shan smiled bitterly: "Take over? Boss, why don't you understand? His business is not something that anyone can do, it depends on face, and the horse bandits of the entire business line give him face, so that this business can be done."

Twilight Cloud was silent for a long time, and muttered, "Have I heard of Qin Zhiyang's name?"

Guo Shan explained: "Boss Qin is known to everyone in the west, and the Central Plains caravans will use his people, you have heard of him, it is not strange."

Twilight didn't plan to continue thinking about this man, and he rose from his throne. He already knew several leaders in the lobby, and he could understand through conversation: although this group of people is not a big woman who does great evil, they are definitely not good men and women. However, if he wants to secretly inquire about Li Fenglan's whereabouts, he must have manpower, and he can only rely on these people at present.

And he said to them, "Go back and watch over your men, and do not go down into the mountains and plunder...... You pick a few clever people to go around the mountains, find out the forces of the surrounding underworld, and then report to me."

"Yes! Your subordinates obey!"

Twilight nodded, realizing that she had a talent for management. When he returns to the idler's hall later, the position of the chief butler will have to be reserved for him.

Wait, Idler? What's that?

…

Li Fenglan placed a large bamboo bed under the shade of a tree in the courtyard, so big that she could roll on it and backflip.

At sunset, the weather was a little cool, Li Fenglan took advantage of the sun not going down, leaning on the back of the bamboo bed, reading a book.

As he was watching, the door was pushed open, and two figures flashed into the door and quickly closed the door. Look at the book

Li Fenglan didn't look at the direction of the gate, but said helplessly, "You don't have to be like a thief."

Chu Jiao'er whispered, "Didn't Sister Lan say that you want your identity to be kept secret? What if we come and be seen so often?"

"Seeing you two, there is no conflict with my identity, right?"

Chu Jiao'er took off her shoes and climbed onto the bamboo bed, and came to Li Fenglan's side: "What is Sister Lan reading?"

"The Jade Thief."

"I'll see." After speaking, he read it with Li Fenglan.

Chen Ziyang stood beside the bed and said dissatisfiedly, "Dumplings, let's come this time for business, and we'll play later."

Li Fenglan put down the script, looked at this cousin, who was a little more beautiful than a girl, and asked, "Serious business? What can you do with me?"

"Sister Lan, have you heard of it?"

"No, I don't go out of the door every day, what can I hear? I knew that yesterday there was another fight between the two of us next door, and the teapots flew into my yard."

Chen Ziyang shook his head: "Some time ago, a group of Xinshan bandits came from the northwest around Xiangyang. They are different from other mountain bandits, and their style of action is more ruthless. The first time we met outside the city, I went to investigate them, ran for a day and a night, and only came back the next morning."

Li Fenglan raised her eyebrows: "And then?"

"Their cottage is called Baiyun Village, but recently, Harrier Village was slaughtered."

"Wait a minute, do you want to explain the relationship between these two cottages to me first?

What's next?"

"Harrier Village has been here for more than ten years, and it is rumored that Baiyun Village slaughtered them. But the strange thing is that Baiyun Village only robbed the treasures of the Harrier Village, but released the women who were robbed by the Harrier Village."

Li Fenglan nodded: "And then?"

Chen Ziyang was a little anxious: "Sister Lan, don't you think it's strange? They are mountain bandits who do all kinds of evil, money, women, have always been the target of these people. What did they mean by letting those women go?"

Li Fenglan thought for a while: "It's a little unreasonable, but I don't know about these things, and I can't think of anything if you tell me." What else have they done?"

Chen Ziyang nodded heavily: "Yes, there are other things, and this matter is even more strange. There is a Xiaoyao village thirty miles south of Baiyun Mountain, there are many people in this village, but most of them are desperate farmers, their fields are occupied by others, or they are bullied by village bandits and bullies. Xiaoyao Village was also attacked by Baiyun Village some time ago, but this time it was different, Baiyun Village did not kill anyone, but incorporated this group of mountain bandits. Some of them even gave severance pay to those who wanted to be good."

Li Fenglan became interested: "Maybe these people want to learn well, this is a good thing."

Chen Ziyang shook his head: "I don't believe it, dogs can't change eating, they must be planning some big moves."

Looking at the serious expression of her underage little cousin, Li Fenglan wanted to laugh a little: "What do you think they have to do?"

"Pretend to be righteous and expand the manpower. When the time comes, unify the Xiangyang underworld!"

Li Fenglan couldn't help but laugh: "Who is so boring? It's not a script, it's also a unified underworld. Do you know why the mountain bandits, water bandits, and horse bandits are not very powerful?"

"I don't know."

"Bai Dao can't tolerate too many underworld forces, and if they have a head, they will be defeated. The strength of the White Way has always been stronger than that of the Black Way, and it has allowed them to do evil for thousands of years, guess why?"

"Why?"

"There are no thieves in the world, do rich families still need someone to take care of their homes?"

"Of course you don't need to."

"Yes, the underworld is gone, and the white path is meaningless. This is such an awkward relationship between the two sides...... If the group of people in Baiyun Mountain just want to take the right path, then it's okay to say. If they want to become bigger and stronger, then the only thing that awaits them is destruction."

Chen Ziyang said: "If they can't think about it, they really become bigger and stronger, and only then do they go to exterminate them, how many people will die?"

Li Fenglan picked up the notebook again, waved her hand and said, "Leave them alone, others can't stop them if they die."

"But I can't watch innocent people die in vain."

Li Fenglan put down the script again: "What are you going to do with that plate?"

"How many times? Don't call me Panpan! I'm fifteen!"

"Okay, Ziyang, what are you going to do?"

Chen Ziyang squatted beside the bed and whispered, "They are recruiting more people, I want to break into them."

Li Fenglan rolled up the notebook and knocked it on his head, and said, "Are you crazy? Running undercover in the gangster village? Do you know how dangerous it is? Your family is such a lone seedling, what should I do if something happens? Your father's body is like that, you want him to send a white-haired person to a black-haired person?"

Chen Ziyang stiffened: "Our family motto says, as a martial artist, you must be righteous and brave, and you must not watch innocent people die!"

Li Fenglan turned her head to Chu Jiao'er and said, "Go back and tell your aunt, look at him these days, if he dares to go out of the city, you will tell the family."

Chu Jiao'er replied, "Sister Lan, I know."

Chen Ziyang stomped his feet angrily: "Sister Lan! I came to you to ask you to help me with advice! Why don't you support me?"

"Nonsense, support you to die? It's okay for your three-legged cat's swordsmanship to bully two or three ruffians, but something really happened in the bandit village, and you don't know how to die. Have you walked through the rivers and lakes? How many people have you come into contact with? What do you think rivers and lakes are? What is the underworld? Do you want to fall in love and have a meal? How dare you be so crazy without a little experience?"

"Didn't you just come out of Asarashi Valley last year and weren't afraid of anything? Just came out and provoked so much

Man, I can't even provoke a bandit?"

"You're better than Jade? Can you kill more than amber? You're smarter than I am?"

"What's wrong with me? Didn't the two of them also learn my family's swordsmanship? Where can I go?" After speaking, he turned his back to Li Fenglan and squatted on the ground angrily.

Li Fenglan patiently persuaded, "Your family's swordsmanship is not the same thing as that practiced by Jade and Amber for a long time, but it is just a little similar. Zhu Mingyu, you know, right? He is so powerful that he doesn't dare to have such a tiger idea as you. My sister knows that you want to hoe the strong and help the weak, but there is an old saying: if you are poor, you will be alone. You don't have the ability to change anything now, so it's better to settle down and polish your kung fu, and then talk about it when you have the strength in the future."

Chen Ziyang didn't speak.

Li Fenglan touched the top of his head: "Good brother, are you really angry?"

He slapped Li Fenglan's hand away: "I'm not angry."

Li Fenglan felt that the words just now were too shocking, Chen Ziyang was still young, and what he needed was encouragement, not blind denial.

"That's it," Li Fenglan said with a smile, "I'll give you an idea, you don't have to be an undercover agent, and you can investigate them."

Chen Ziyang's anger immediately disappeared when he heard this, and he turned around and asked, "Really? Say it!"

Li Fenglan thought for a moment, "Have you ever heard of visiting the camp?"

"Camping?"

"Go to Baiyun Mountain at night, stay away and see how they are deployed."

"That's it?"

Li Fenglan knocked him with the notebook again: "Stupid? Wouldn't it be possible to draw inferences? Find out what they're doing and then see who they're dealing with."

Chen Ziyang was a little aggrieved: "They are all mountain bandits, who can they have dealings with?"

"Didn't you just say that? They don't go down the mountain to rob now, what do the mountain bandits rely on to support themselves if they don't rob? The gold and silver treasures that plundered other cottages have to be exchanged for rice, flour, grain and oil, right? Will the mountain bandits swagger down the mountain to purchase? It must be sneaky, you go and find out this first."

Chen Ziyang stood up and said excitedly, "Sister Lan! I see!"

As he spoke, he was about to go out.

Li Fenglan asked loudly, "Why are you going!"

"Didn't you ask me to investigate?"

"I didn't let you go tonight! Are you ready? Did you bring dry food? Hose it? Have you brought the sober pill, the healing medicine, and the antidote herb?"

Chen Ziyang scratched the back of his head and said embarrassedly, "No ......."

Li Fenglan jumped off the bamboo bed, stepped on the stone slab barefoot, and asked, "How are you doing light work?"

Chu Jiao'er laughed and said, "He is very bad at light skills, when he was a child, his family taught him light skills, he didn't learn it, what kind of manly man, if he can't beat it, he just run."

Li Fenglan sneered: "It's really like your cousin...... I'll teach you two tricks, learn hard."

Li Fenglan taught Chen Ziyang the silent steps of the Tang Sect, and Chu Jiao'er on the side also learned. Chen Ziyang's comprehension in light skills is really not good, Li Fenglan feels that it is just right, if he can't learn this body method, he won't let him go up the mountain, and he can delay him for a few days. Kid, just a few quarters of an hour of heat, maybe he won't want to go up the mountain if the blood goes down.

After teaching for a long time, it was already dark, Li Fenglan stretched, looked at the sky, and said with a smile: "It's all like this, just finish eating here with me, let me tell you, sister, I just learned a dish recently, you have oral ...... What about people?"

When they turned around, the two children had already run away, and Sister Mulan was very nice, smart and interesting, and she spoke very funny...... It's just that the dishes are too top-notch, and the stamina is great, and you can't slow down after eating a meal for three or four days.

…

A few days later, Chen Ziyang, who was ready, decided to leave.

Of course, it was he himself who thought he was ready. Li Fenglan taught him a lot of light skills, and only prepared dry food and water, he thought that healing medicine or something was too troublesome, so he simply didn't bring it. It fully shows all the rough shortcomings that a fifteen or sixteen boy should have.

"Sister Lan! Sister Lan!"

Li Fenglan, who was resting on the bamboo bed after nightfall, was woken up by the girl's shouting, and she opened her eyes

opened his eyes, looked at Chu Jiao'er who was sweating in front of him, and asked, "Jiao'er, what's wrong?" Panicked."

"Plate...... Plates!"

"What's wrong with him?"

"The plate has gone to Baiyun Mountain! Sneaking out alone! Now uncles and aunts are looking for him! Lan! What should I do?"

Chu Jiao'er was about to cry out in a hurry, she and Chen Ziyang were childhood sweethearts, and she knew all about this kid's problems. Do things impulsively and don't talk about the consequences, after returning from the last time I tracked down the Baiyun Village, I was taught a lesson by the family, and this time I still didn't have a long memory.

Li Fenglan patted the bamboo bed angrily and said to Chu Jiao'er, "Wait for me for a while, I'll go change my clothes."

Li Fenglan returned to the room and changed into a neat dark dress, took out two square scarves, and threw them to Chu Jiao'er.

"Jiao'er, come with me, remember...... No matter what conflict you encounter, don't be impulsive even if you are beaten to death, listen to my command, understand?"

Chu Jiao'er nodded vigorously.