After Li Xuandu left, the palace official and Ning Yi were still standing on the deck and did not return to the shipbuilding.

The two were silent for a long time,

After a long time, the palace official said softly: "Mr. Ning doesn't have to care too much, Li Zifu has gone too far on this road, and he is destined to be unable to turn back." ”

Ning Yi shook his head: "He's right." ”

The tenth person of the Taixuan List let out a long sigh: "Don't forget, I also grew up reading the Book of Saints, and I was also a protégé of Saints, I know what he wants to say, and I know that he looks down on me a little." ”

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "We have also crossed paths before, I know that he is not a person who pretends to be high, and he does not feel that he is superior to others, there are so many people in the world, why does he look down on me alone? ”

The palace official unfolded the folding fan in his hand to cover his face below the nose: "In the final analysis, it is the righteousness of the family and the country." ”

Ning Yi looked at the river outside the boat, and at this moment he seemed to have changed back into the hot-blooded scholar with a bookcase on his back, and muttered: "The country will not exist, how can the family survive?"

On the other side, after Li Xuandu separated from the palace officials and others, he returned to the official road.

At this time, Li Xuandu changed out of the scribe's outfit and put on a neat dress of an ordinary Jianghu person, with his head turned into flat-toed boots, and Leng Meiren wrapped the scabbard and handle of the knife with coarse cloth, as long as he didn't pull the knife out of the sheath, he couldn't see the clue.

Li Xuandu considers himself a pragmatic person. Take the matter of "Heavenly Paradise" as an example, the women in it are not pitiful? There are indeed pitiful people, but there are more pitiful people in the world than them. In any case, these women have only lost their dignity and freedom, and outside Taoyuan, there are more people who not only have dignity and freedom, but also lost their lives, in order to survive, sell their wives, sell their children, and sell their daughters, abandon all their dignity to beg for a bite to eat, and even be coerced by the rebels, forced by knives and guns to fill the moat with human lives, consume the arrows and arrows of the city defenders, and even more appalling, treat the living as "two-legged sheep", no different from livestock?

Of course, it is bitter, but compared to those who are worse than death, it is much better. Li Xuan couldn't understand that some people felt sorry for these men and women because they had lost their lovers, but why did they turn a blind eye to the people who had lost their lives? Aren't those lives lives?

Or do some people think that they are superior to others, and think that those people are made of mud and turbidity, while these men and women are made of water, and they are refreshed when they see them, so all mercy and mercy are only used for the wind and snow? Because the elopement of an official lady and a scholar is not a crying dazzle, but they are indifferent to a corpse of a man who is lodging and starving to death outside the city?

Li Xuan has no father or mother, if he hadn't met his master, then he would be one of these starving people, so Li Xuan never thought highly of himself.

Zhang Suqing once said to Li Xuandu: "Being close to power makes some people mistakenly think that they have power." In other words, there are those who approach the powerful and mistakenly think that they are also powerful, and they look at everything from the position of the powerful, thinking that they are superior to the common people, and that they are not ashamed to be regarded as slaves, but they are proud of it, and they are complacent.

It is too difficult for Li Xuandu to change such a world by himself.

This is also the reason why Li Xuandu said this to Ning Yi, he doesn't want Ning Yi to continue to be immersed in his own world, and he doesn't turn a deaf ear to things outside the window. He didn't expect that his words today would be the thunder that woke up Ning Yi, let alone a knock on the door, whether he could get out of this cage or not depended on Ning Yi himself.

For the "Taiyin Thirteen Swords" that he just obtained, Li Xuan didn't have the idea of practicing immediately, with his current realm, if he wants to control the entire Thirteen Swords, he is still too strong, at least after he returns to the true realm, and if he wants to return to the true realm in a short time, it still has to fall on the "Five Qi True Pill".

At this time, Nan Kezi had already set off to return to Donghua Sect to prepare for alchemy in advance, and Li Xuandu was a complete layman for alchemy, and it was useless to go early, it was just a waste of time, so it was better to deal with other things first.

In addition to trading with the palace officials, he also has to go to Tingfeng Tower.

There are four major organizations in the rivers and lakes, namely: Wenxiangtang, Wandumen, Tingfenglou, and Bailianfang, although it is not a sect, but it is better than a sect, and it operates all kinds of transactions.

Each of the four has its own strengths. Among them, Tingfeng Lou is good at finding out news, Wan Dumen is good at assassination, White Lotus Fang is similar to pawnshops and dart boards, and Wenxiangtang is good at forging documents and selling all kinds of things needed to walk the rivers and lakes, for example, the famous human skin masks are mostly from the hands of Wenxiangtang. At the beginning, Hu Liang used the Lu Citation Paper, which was also purchased from Wenxiangtang, which was almost unreal. However, the cost is also quite expensive, and a road citation requires a Taiping coin, which is enough to discourage ordinary people from waiting.

This time, Li Xuandu went to listen to Fenglou to inquire about the news about Qin Xiang.

Qin Xiang, as a general personally promoted by Zhang Suqing, naturally could not escape the fate of being dismissed and imprisoned, but after all, Qin Xiang was a hero who recovered Liangzhou and Qinzhou, and his contribution was great, especially in the army and the people.

Qin Xiang is a person from Yinyang Mansion in Zhongzhou, Yinyang Mansion is located in the northernmost part of Zhongzhou, just the junction of Zhongzhou, Jinzhou and Yanzhou, and now Qin Xiang is nowhere to be found, not only can the people in the court not find him, but Li Xuandu wants to find him, and it will take a lot of effort and feet, and even ask for help to listen to the wind building.

But then again, it is also a lot of money to go to Tingfeng Lou to find out the news, and the 1,000 Taiping money on him may not be enough, so before he goes to Tingfeng Lou, he has to go to Bailian Fang first.

White Lotus Fang is the same as Tingfeng Tower, all over the state capitals of the world, there is a nameless small lake located in the mountains sixty miles outside the city of Longmen Mansion, there is a courtyard built by the lake by the lake, this is the White Lotus Fang of Zhongzhou.

The scale of this annex is very large, and people come and go, but it looks like a restaurant with good business. However, the people who will come here are all people from the rivers and lakes, ordinary people will not come here in their lifetime, and they are destined to be difficult to approach, because at the various intersections leading to the courtyard, there will be the stewards of the White Lotus Fang, in addition to blocking some ordinary people who have strayed into this place, they are also responsible for screening guests, if they are regular customers, there will be someone to receive them, and if it is a first-time visitor, it is necessary to identify the identity.

Li Xuandu entered the mountain from a rugged path, and the guard here was a young woman who was not much older than Li Xuandu, dressed in a dignified manner, mainly white, with gold thread trim, and white embroidered shoes embroidered with white lotus flowers, all corresponding to the name "White Lotus Fang".

The woman asked directly in the official words of the Great Wei, "Is this guest official coming for the first time?"

Li Xuandu took out a white jade plaque from the "eighteenth floor" and handed it to the woman.

There was a strange color in the woman's eyes, after all, people who can have a Sumeru treasure and are not afraid to show it to others either have a big backer or have a unique skill.

Then she looked at the jade plate in her hand, the jade plate was made of white jade, the front was embossed with the word "A", and the back was embossed with a lotus flower in full bloom, and the woman's face suddenly became a little more respectful: "It turns out that the guest officer is a guest with the number A." ”

White Lotus Fang will divide all kinds of guests into four levels: A, B, C, and D, among which the T-shaped guests are the first-time customers who come here, the C-brand guests are the regular customers who have been here more than once and have transaction records, and the B-brand guests are the distinguished customers who have transaction records of more than 500 Taiping dollars. Five hundred Taiping money is 15,000 taels of silver, not to mention the scattered people in the rivers and lakes, even many high-rollers who have a face in the rivers and lakes can't take it out, after all, the difference between counting tens of thousands of taels of real estate and directly taking out tens of thousands of taels of silver is still very great.

As for the guests of the Jiazi, the transaction amount is more than 2,000 Taiping money, when Li Xuandu was still a Purple Mansion Sword Immortal, he would often come here to "sell the stolen goods", but he unknowingly became a guest of the Jiazi of the White Lotus Fang.

After the young woman explained a few words to the steward who came to replace her, she handed back the jade plaque with both hands and said softly, "Guest officer, please come with me." ”