Li Mao did not reply immediately, but was silent for a long time, until Yang Da felt completely desperate, Li Mao finally spoke: "Yang Da, do you have the determination to die when you rescue the lady this time?"

Yang Da suddenly straightened up, his eyes flashed with resolute gaze, he looked at Li Mao levelly, and hammered his right fist twice on his left chest and said: "Immortal, instead of living quietly, it is better to die vigorously! The villain has already decided, this time I can't save my mother, and the three of us will sprinkle this blood in front of the Huang family!"

Li Mao said: "I won't let you die, and you don't have to be so pessimistic, Xu Jiuye is a child of the Miluo Xu family, but he has been away from home for many years and has no relationship with the Xu family, and Jiu Ye also had some festivals with Huang Tianba when he was young, so I will help your father and son."

From now on, you father and son must obey my orders, if you can successfully rescue your mother and mother, your family of four must go with us, otherwise it will be very dangerous, and you will be free in ten years, are you willing?"

Yang Da's body shook, looked at Li Mao in disbelief and said, "Immortal, what you said is true, aren't you coaxing our father and son to be happy?"

Li Mao said: "I haven't had that leisure to tease you. Do you have to change me to a lifelong servant agreement before you can believe me?"

Yang Da hurriedly said: "Immortals, how can our father and son not believe your words, ten years is ten years, do you want to make a note?"

Li Mao said: "This time to rescue your lady from another immortal, the risk is very high, there is no document to back up, I can't trust you, you wait, I will go and get a note and come back." ”

Li Mao came out of the cabin again, and by this time the rain outside had begun to lighten, and the sky near the horizon had become brighter, except for a dark cloud overhead.

Li Mao quickly came to the cabin, briefly told Xu Jiuye and Xu Ai what happened to the ship's boss's family, and asked Xu Jiuye for advice on whether to sign a ten-year slave agreement with Yang Da's family.

Xu Ai listened on the sidelines and asked curiously: "Brother Li, you are a helpful person on weekdays, since you already plan to help their family, why do you have to sign a ten-year slave agreement with them this time?"

Before Xu Jiuye could speak, he raised his hand and touched his daughter's head and said, "Ai'er, you are wrong to blame your big brother Li." Regarding the matter of Yang Da's family, I completely listened to their dictation, and the truth is still unknown, and your brother Li is doing this to prevent them.

After all, we met them in Pingshui, and Li Xian's nephew could help them, but if things didn't go well, or they encountered difficulties, if there was no evidence to back them up, it was normal for ordinary mortals to defect at critical moments.

Remember, Ai'er, there is no such thing as a completely non-binding cooperation in today's world, and there should be no help that does not ask for anything in return, even if it is a word of thanks.

Otherwise, such cooperation will often put the helper in a difficult situation, so I support the signing of this agreement!"

Li Mao looked at Xu Ai and nodded and said: "Xiao Ai, what Uncle Nine said is reasonable, I also think so, we return to Miluo Province this time, there is a high probability of conflict with Huang Tianba, saving Yang Da's wife is just incidental, but if there is no binding force on them, I am very worried that they will do bad things."

If you think that I have the intention of taking them as servants to rob while the fire is hot, I can terminate the slave agreement with them after leaving Yuezhou, and then it will be complete?"

Xu Jiuye said again: "I'm afraid that the virtuous nephew is thinking about more than these, right?"

Xu Ai asked curiously, "Is there any other benefit to doing this?"

Xu Jiuye said: "Good daughter, you are already sixteen, you are still so naïve and ignorant of the world, you have to learn more from your brother Li in the future."

I think there are at least two advantages to this, one is that the father and son are all Miluo locals, so it is more convenient to find out the news, and second, after we withdraw from Miluo, most of us will have to go to Jinling Mansion by water, and with their family's passenger boat, we can go to Yunmengze, take the river, and go directly to Jinling Mansion by water. ”

Li Mao nodded and said: "Yes, after this is over, most of us will not be able to stay in Miluo County and Yuezhou City, and it is not appropriate to choose other nearby state capitals to settle down, why don't we go to Jinling Mansion together and take care of each other, wouldn't it be better?"

When Xu Ai heard that his family was going to Jinling Mansion with Li Mao, he immediately felt overjoyed. She didn't have any special feelings for Miluo, as long as she could be with her parents and Li Mao, it didn't matter where she went, and she agreed to this decision at the moment.

Now that the discussion has been completed, Xu Jiuye hurriedly ordered the small bolts and small pillars to grind ink and lay paper, and he and Li Mao discussed the content of the agreement, and began to draft a slave agreement.

Li Mao's calligraphy is far inferior to Xu Jiuye's decades-old pen, and he is very unfamiliar with the content of the slave agreement, so Xu Jiuye wrote it on his behalf.

Xu Jiuye finished writing it quickly, Li Mao picked it up and looked at it, and the meaning was probably right, but many of the contents were a little specious, and he couldn't help asking: "Uncle Jiu, there is nothing wrong with this agreement, but some of the words are more vague, do you want to revise it?"

Xu Jiuye patted Li Mao on the shoulder and said, "Virtuous nephew, this is the rule in the tooth shop, some of the contents of the contract of sale must be vague, otherwise it will violate some current laws."

Don't worry, although Uncle Nine has not bought a few servants, he has been running in the northwest for so many years, and he has seen a lot of deeds of sale, and only with this form of deed of sale, the government will not trouble the master's family. ”

Li Mao was not familiar with Yaxing, and he also knew that Xu Jiuye was not a bad person, so he dried this contract, folded it and put it in his arms, and said to Xu Jiuye: "Jiuye, I will go and sign an agreement with them, and then arrange the follow-up things, and then I will tell you the details of my plan when I come back." ”

Xu Jiuye asked Li Mao to get busy quickly, and the Xu family would fully cooperate with them.

When Li Mao came out of the cabin, the rain basically turned into a drizzle, and it should stop soon.

Li Mao handed the slave contract to Yang Da's father and son, only Yang Nian was more literate, and he read the content of the contract to his father and brother seriously.

In fact, the father and son didn't quite understand whether the content of the agreement was reasonable, and after reading it, they felt that there was no big trap in it, so they signed and drew it.

Yang Da was illiterate, biting his finger and pressing his fingerprints, Yang Si wrote his name crookedly, Yang Nian wrote his name one by one, it seems that he has been in school for a few years, and his handwriting is not very ugly.

Li Mao picked up the contract and carefully dried the place where the painting was signed, and then carefully folded the contract into his arms.

With this contract being taken into Li Mao's arms, Yang Da's father and son felt as if their backbones had been removed, and they also had a sense of relief.

The father and son knelt side by side beside Li Mao, bowing their heads together, and Yang Da said, "Immortal, since you are now our master, show me what you have to say." ”

Li Mao said indifferently: "The rain hasn't stopped yet, and when it stops for a while, we will rush immediately, and the sooner we arrive in Miluo, the better we can be prepared."

When Xu Jiuye returned to Miluo County, on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, everyone's eyes should be on Xu Jiuye, and his old man personally went out to attract the attention of the Xu family and the Huang family, so that we would have the opportunity to do some secret things.

While the rain has not stopped, your father and son will tell me everything about the Huang family and the Xu family. It's all the information, whether you think it's useful or not, tell me!"

After the rain stopped, Yang Da and his son quickly drove the boat forward again, this time without Li Mao's urging, the speed of the passenger boat was much faster than before, and the father and son felt like arrows.

There is the hatred of taking his wife (mother), and the shackles of the deed of sale, Li Mao is not worried about the motivation and enthusiasm of Yang Da's father and son, what he has to do now is to improve his plan of action, so that the purpose of going to Miluo this time can be fully realized, and finally he can get out of the way.

Li Mao spent the next half a day and a night thinking non-stop and communicating with Xu Jiuye, and every action plan had to be repeatedly scrutinized.

After all, this time they had to deal with a monk with unknown strength and a big family in the county town, and if they didn't make a plan seamlessly, it was really possible for the nine of them to let the other party swallow even the bones left.

Only Li Mao and Xu Jiuye knew the details of the plan, and the other seven people on the ship only knew the part of the plan related to themselves, and everyone was instructed to do something, so that they could think about and prepare repeatedly, and before arriving in Miluo County, everyone had to be proficient in their own part of the plan.

This arrangement made the boring journey much more interesting, and there was no boredom of taking a boat, and even Mrs. Xu's body was much better, and she gradually began to adapt to the feeling of taking a boat.

After Yang Da and his son accepted their task, they saw a glimmer of hope for success, and they also became full of energy, and they hurried to the direction of Miluo County at all costs, hoping to get ashore as soon as possible, so as to prepare for relevant matters.

Just after noon the next day, Miluo County could already be seen in the distance, which was two hours faster than the expected voyage, which was equivalent to two more hours of preparation time, and Yang Da and his son felt that they were one step closer to the hope of success.

Miluo County is an upper county, although the scale of the city is not as large as Yuezhou City, and it is not as prosperous as Yuezhou City, but it is definitely the top county in the same level.

The living scale of 420,000 people, six city gates, four dry gates and two water gates, the transportation is extremely convenient, the merchants come and go in an endless stream, the water system outside the city is vertical and horizontal, the fields are level, the rice and other economic crops are full of fields, a rare pastoral scenery, it is definitely a rare rich place.

Li Mao's passenger ship turned from the Miluo River to the diversion canal outside the Beicheng Water Gate, the waterway began to flatten down, the number of boats in the waterway was very large, and all the ships entered and sailed out of the Beicheng Water Gate in an orderly manner according to the rules of entering and exiting the east from the west, which was a prosperous scene.

Because the Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, there are many dragon boats docked in the rivers on both sides of the waterway that are ready to participate in the dragon boat competition tomorrow, and the embankments on both sides of the waterway are full of lights, and various sacrificial decorations have long been out of place.

As the place where the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival took place and originated, Miluo County attaches much more importance to the Dragon Boat Festival than other states and counties.