After burying the bodies of Xiao Daquan and Xiao Er, the two of them were in a depressed mood and walked in silence, without saying a word.

Now all the lands in the southern part of Liao and southern part of Liao have been occupied by the Later Jin Dynasty, so it was impossible for Li Xiao to go to western Liaoning by land. Therefore, Li Xiao’s plan was to travel west through Panlong Mountain, and along the way, he only walked the remote path, then passed Shili Fort, and then passed Weijia Town to the western seaside of Jinzhou. The Ming Dynasty said that smuggling ships in the late Ming Dynasty had secretly picked up refugees here. Although it was expensive, it should be the most reliable way to leave at present.

"Li Xiao, do you think we can return to Jinzhou smoothly?" Zu Wan'er finally couldn't help expressing her worries.

Li Xiao thought to himself that there may be unpredictable risks everywhere along the way, but we can only leave our lives alone. Who can guarantee that no changes will happen?

However, in order to dispel Zu Wan'er's doubts, he still said calmly: "Don't worry, we have been walking on the mountain road now, so it should be safer."

Zu Wan'er stroked her hair that was blown by the mountain wind. She blinked and asked, "Li Xiao, you said, what are your plans after you send me back to Jinzhou?"

Li Xiao pondered speechlessly.

Now he is just taking one step at a time and doesn't know how to answer.

Zu Wan'er chuckled: "Li Xiao, then I will tell my father that he will help you to find a position in the Liaoxi official army, so that you can get a level of advancement."

Li Xiao's heart moved. It would be better if he could really enter the Ming army in western Liaoning with Zu Wan'er's introduction. It would be much better than wandering around without any goal.

But although Li Xiao thought so, he did not show any surprise on his face. He just smiled faintly and replied: "Wan'er's feelings, Li Xiao understands it. Let's talk about this later."

Seeing that Li Xiao was not right, Zu Wan'er seemed a little disappointed, but didn't say anything else.

When it was almost dark, Li Xiao and Zu Wan'er had already walked out of the Panlong Mountain area and took advantage of the moonlight to catch a journey. Seeing a deserted house passing by, Li Xiao took Wan'er over and prepared to temporarily move in tonight.

Li Xiao first lit a torch with a scythe, then tied the horses and came into the room. He saw that the house had been abandoned for a long time, with only a few tiles left on the sloping roof. The courtyard wall was tilted, the moss marks on the wall were dark green, and the dust on the ground was extremely thick. When he stepped on it, the dust splashed everywhere, and the whole house emitted a strong smell of mold.

Li Xiao looked around and sighed in his heart. Now in the midst of chaos, this house has been abandoned for a long time, and he does not know whether the original owner of this house is dead or alive.

When he entered the house, he found some mixed wood hay inside and outside the house, set a pile of fire, and started cooking rice porridge. While plucking a pheasant shot on the road, he used a wooden stick to grill it on the fire.

Zu Wan'er came to help immediately. Although she was not quick-witted and even a little clumsy, her active attitude made Li Xiao feel warm and she became more in love with her.

Both of them felt that the distance between them seemed to be closer.

Soon, the rice porridge was cooked and the pheasant was even more grilled, and the two of them immediately started to eat.

Soon, Li Xiao finished his supper quickly, and he asked Zu Wan'er to continue eating slowly in the house. He went out to put down his horse and let the horse eat some fodder.

Li Xiao went out to untie the reins and asked Taxue to find some grass on the spot. He felt a little sorry for the horse. He followed him and could only eat some grass. He couldn't even eat some essence beans, but he felt quite wronged.

After about twenty minutes, Li Xiao was about to return to the house when he suddenly heard Zu Wan'er screaming in horror from the house.

Li Xiao was shocked and hurriedly tied the horses on the spot, held the tiger's sword in his hand, and rushed into the house with big strides.

As soon as he entered the room, Li Xiao was stunned.

He could see clearly that a man wearing a tattered fat jacket was holding the remaining roasted pheasant snatched from Wan'er's hand in his left hand, but he held a feather knife with a cold light in his right hand, which was fiercely resting on Zu Wan'er's neck!

Next to this person, there were more than a dozen people with the same bad face, surrounding Zu Wan'er.

These people heard the sound of Li Xiao breaking in and quickly turned around. When everyone saw Li Xiao’s appearance, their faces changed drastically.

"Sir, it's the Tartars." One of them screamed.

Li Xiao was stunned and then realized that these people must have regarded him as Tartars wearing white-paced armor.

"Li Xiao, save me!" Zu Wan'er screamed.

"Who are you? Let her go!"

Li Xiao put the tiger sword in his hand and shouted angrily.

A guy with a bare head, a chaotic beard, and a fierce scar on his face covered in flesh, wearing a tattered ordinary iron armor, shaking his shoulders and walked out of these people. He looked at Li Xiao with his eyes slanted and said coldly: "How can you, Tartar, speak so well in Chinese?"

Li Xiao lifted his helmet down and exposed his starting scarf: "Look clearly, grandpa is an authentic Han man, and this armor is obtained by my grandpa killing the Tartars."

The scar man suddenly showed a clear look of surprise on his face, and the accomplices next to him were also shocked and looked at each other.

A vicious guy came to the side of the scar man and whispered, "Sir, this person's origin is unknown, so don't believe it easily. We are a lot of people, so why bother talking nonsense to him? Just take this person down in one fell swoop."

The scar man refused to comment, but just stood with his mouth tense. The vicious guy squeezed into the crowd. Two tall and strong men each walked out with swords and followed the vicious guy, step by step towards Li Xiao.

Li Xiao's mouth showed a contemptuous look, and he hooked his hand at the guy in front: "You guys go together to save grandpa trouble."

The three of them were furious and each slashed at Li Xiao with swords.

Li Xiao's tiger sword slanted, shouted softly, and hit the horizontally. With a crisp "ding" sound, he knocked the guy in front of him away with the knife, then flew up and kicked the person in the chest, kicking the dumb guy to a few meters away.

Li Xiao then twisted his waist and dodged, dodged the horizontal slash of a straight iron sword, then turned his back and held the tiger sword back and swept it violently. The hilt of the tiger sword hit the calves on the person's calves, making a dull hitting sound. The guy who wanted to take the opportunity to attack immediately screamed and fell to the ground.

At this time, the vicious guy screamed and raised a feather knife to rush towards Li Xiao. Li Xiao said in his mind that it was good. The tiger sword in his right hand was pulled upwards, and the knife slashed quickly, and the feather knife in his hand flew far away with a "default". Li Xiao immediately rushed in, and the tiger horse in his hand pressed hard on the guy's neck. Although he did not use any force, the blood on the man's neck crawled out like a small snake, which looked quite scary. This vicious guy had a pale face at this time, for fear that Li Xiao would take his life with a ruthless heart, but stood tremblingly and did not dare to move.

All the onlookers were stunned. In just a moment, Li Xiao defeated the three of them immediately. With such excellent martial arts, how could they be the opponent?

"Hero! Please stop." The Scar Man, who had not spoken, quickly shouted.

"You let her go first!" Li Xiao shouted angrily.

The other two guys who struggled to get up from the ground wanted to raise their swords to attack Li Xiao, but were stopped by the scarred man.

The scar man turned around and slanted his mouth towards the guy who used the knife to hold Zu Wan'er's neck. The man snorted coldly and put the knife into the sheath.

Seeing Wan'er being let go, Li Xiao flew up and kicked the vicious guy in the stomach. The guy howled strangely and staggered towards the Scar Man.

This person was supported by his accomplices. He felt that he had been greatly humiliated. He gritted his teeth and shouted loudly, and wanted to rush towards Li Xiao, but the scar man held the right hand that raised the knife.

"Ba!Ba!"

After two clear slaps, the vicious guy appeared on his face, two huge palm prints on his left and right faces.

"Hu Laomai, do you think it's not embarrassing enough? If he hadn't kept his strength, you three would have seen the King of Hell!" The scar man who stopped slapping in the face roared like thunder. The guy he called Hu Laomai was immediately depressed.

Zu Wan'er stood up from the ground and ran towards Li Xiao, hugging Li Xiao tightly, and started crying.

Her two tightly clinging together made Li Xiao's heart tremble.

Li Xiao patted his back with his left hand, and said something comforting to her who was still trembling. When Zu Wan'er cried a little less, he pulled her behind him.

Seeing Li Xiao and Zu Wan'er separate, the scar man laughed loudly across the street and said, "This hero, you are so good at martial arts. You said you were killing the Tartars and got this armor. I believe it. Fuck, it's his mother's fault. Isn't it fate to meet a hero today? But I don't know the hero's name?"

Li Xiao looked at him vigilantly and replied lightly: "I am Li Xiao, dare you ask..."

The scar man immediately interrupted him: "A certain family's surname is An, and the single name is Yi. Everyone calls me Monk An. Don't call me Daming, it's easier to call him Monk An."

Before Li Xiao could answer, Monk An pulled Hu Laoshi, who looked reluctant, over and said: "This famous name, Hu Rushu, is difficult to pronounce, and we all call him Hu Laoshi, who is my deputy."

Li Xiao's expression relaxed a little: "But I don't know where Brother An and everyone came from, why would he come here?"

Monk An couldn't wave his hand and sighed and said, "This matter is a long story. Come on, Brother Li, sit down and wait for the brother to tell you."

After Li Xiao searched for a rotten wooden bench and sat down, he patiently listened to Monk An sighing and pounding his chest and finishing his story.

It turned out that Monk An and his men were actually the remnants of the Ming army guarding Jinzhou. Monk An was the chief flag and led these people to station in a fort outside Lushun City.

Originally, they received an order to enter the city to guard Lushun, but the Later Jin army was very quick to move. They had just arrived outside Lushun City and saw that Lushun was surrounded by the Later Jin group. When they wanted to return to the original Dunbao, they found that Dunbao had been captured by the Later Jin. Monk An was helpless and retreated to the dense forest with his own small team to wait for the opportunity to see if there were any reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty, and then they would join in and fight against the Tartars.

As a result, they worked hard in the dense forest until the city of Lushun was broken, but they did not wait for any reinforcements to arrive. The Ming army's virtue of not saving his life made Monk An curse her in hatred.

After the army of Later Jin was withdrawn, Monk An saw that the Later Jin had omissions in the local defense, so he planned to take his subordinates away from Jinzhou and wanted to join the Ming army in other places. It was a coincidence that just when Li Xiaozu and Zu Wan'er and the others made fires here, Monk An and his remnants of the Ming army happened to pass by here. Seeing that there was a fire in this deserted house and smelling the fragrance of food, the group quietly climbed over the wall and prepared to do something. Seeing that Zu Wan'er was having supper, Monk An immediately controlled her. Before she could find her property, she was invaded by Li Xiao, who was sniffing the noise.

"Brothers, I'm so hungry in the forest, and my stomach is very empty. Only then... Brother Li, don't worry, we are an official army, not a bandit, at most we can grab some food, money and property, and we won't be able to live." Monk An said this, barely squeezed out a hint of embarrassing smile to Li Xiao.

Li Xiao's face was cold and he didn't say anything. He knew that in the late Ming Dynasty, the Ming army, who had shortage of food and salary, did not have much difference with the bandits, and there were even some evil deeds such as robbery and killing good people and taking credit. If he hadn't come in time, he really didn't know what a terrible ending would be Zu Wan'er.

"A misunderstanding, Brother Li, don't worry about it." Monk An laughed.

Li Xiao put away the tiger sword and said lightly: "Brother An, brother, there is still some food stored here, so let's give it to everyone now." After that, he got up and took out all the large bag of rice on the horse's back and started cooking porridge on the spot.

Seeing Li Xiao so generous, Monk An looked embarrassed. The men next to him were all ashamed, and only Hu Laofu had a tense face without expression.

Soon, the porridge was cooked and everyone started to eat.

"Brother Li, brother, I owe you a favor." Monk An said with emotion while sighing as he drank the hot rice porridge.

"There is nothing to owe or not, it's just a person who has fallen into the world." Li Xiao replied calmly.

"But I don't know why Brother Li has come here and where will he go?" Monk An asked as if he suddenly remembered it.

Li Xiao thought about it and told Monk An about his life experience. However, he did not tell Monk An about Zu Wan'er's true life experience, but said that she was his distant relative and his family was in Jinzhou. Now he wanted to escort her back to Jinzhou.

The reason why Li Xiao did this was because he didn't know these people after all. If he told Zu Wan'er's true situation, if one of these people had evil intentions and attracted the Later Jin Tartars, the situation would be bad.

Monk An sighed and expressed deep condolences for Li Xiao's miserable life experience. Then he asked, "What are your plans after Brother Li escorts this girl back?"

Li Xiao smiled and said half-truely: "I plan to join the army in western Liaoning."
Chapter completed!