The little village girl dressed as a disaster star led the whole village astray

"What? Are you feeling guilty?" Gu Jingzhi raised his eyebrows.

Li Xi naturally denied it, "Guilty? What nonsense are you talking about? Why should I feel guilty?"

She turned and walked toward the yard, "Come in and talk."

Gu Jingzhi followed her into the yard, and when he turned around to close the door, he glanced towards the northwest.

The man sent by Wang Qiliang to watch frowned slightly. Did he just glance over here? Did he discover him?

To be on the safe side, he left his original position and moved to a surveillance position a little further away.

Li Xi walked to the small pavilion in the yard and sat down, and Gu Jingzhi walked over and sat opposite her.

"Uncle Wu has relayed to me what happened to you today. I'm sorry, it was my negligence that put you in danger."

Logically speaking, they shouldn't make such a simple mistake. After all, they are not newbies.

"Indeed." Li Xi readily accepted Gu Jingzhi's apology. "Do you seriously doubt whether the people under your command have ever learned military books? Have they never learned how to lure the tiger away from the mountain?"

This time, I was lucky and had a good eloquence, so I was able to defeat the enemy without fighting. I used my eloquence to fool them, but I am not sure if I will have such good luck in the future.

She definitely won't be able to fulfill what she promised them today, and who knows what kind of crazy things they will do when the time comes.

The problem has not been solved, it has only been temporarily diverted. The danger is still there, even more dangerous than before.

Before, they just regarded themselves as Dr. Wu's medicine boy, someone who might know the prescription, but now in their eyes, they have become Gu Jingzhi's stain and evidence of guilt.

It was also difficult for her to guess whether the former or the latter was more valuable in their hearts.

Li Xi poured herself a cup of tea and pushed the teapot towards him, "Pour it yourself."

Gu Jingzhi glanced at her, picked up a cup of tea for himself, and took a sip. "You seem to be living a comfortable life, but it's a pity that I am now a bully who robs women of their homes."

"Cough, cough, cough!" Li Xi, who was drinking tea, choked and coughed non-stop when he heard Gu Jingzhi's words.

"Don't be so nervous. I'm not here to settle accounts with you." Gu Jingzhi knew that Li Xi said that in order to escape, so he would not blame her for it.

"Ahem..." Li Xi patted his chest and finally calmed down. He glared at him unhappily. He didn't mind that he didn't say it earlier. This self-pitying tone was really scary and had a bad taste.

In fact, Gu Jingzhi has always been polite, wise and intelligent in front of outsiders, but when facing Li Xi, he always subconsciously wants to tease her.

Seeing the look in Li Xi's eyes, Gu Jingzhi smiled, "You have ruined my image like that, and I'm not even angry yet, but you are dissatisfied first."

Hearing what Gu Jingzhi said, Li Xi's face froze, and he had to admit that he was right.

"I didn't want to say that, but the situation was special at that time, so I could only talk nonsense." Li Xi felt weird facing Gu Jingzhi now, because this was clearly not the case before he came.

There’s always a feeling of being caught talking bad about someone behind their back.

(Gu Jingzhi: Isn’t there?)

Gu Jingzhi had already learned from Doctor Wu that Li Xi had discovered someone following him in the market long before he met the second group of people.

"The fault today lies with Hong Jiang. I will give you an explanation." Gu Jingzhi's eyes darkened when he mentioned Hong Jiang. He would also seek justice for himself.

"Hong Jiang?" Li Xi raised an eyebrow. "The person you sent to protect me?"

Gu Jingzhi nodded. "He led a team to capture the first group of people who followed you in the market, and sent people to the military camp to report to me. The relevant people were also brought to the military camp."

Li Xi had never seen the Hong Jiang that Gu Jingzhi mentioned, but she knew that this man was definitely not a person of low ability. After all, her status was there. She was not bragging. If nothing else, the hemostatic drugs were enough for her to walk around Jiayuguan freely. What's more, she had more than just hemostatic drugs.

Gu Jingzhi knew the value of Jiayuguan to their Zhenbei Army, so he would never allow himself to encounter any accidents. However, this was obviously not the case with Hong Jiang. He was also able to succeed in such a simple trick to lure the tiger away from the mountain. This was obviously not very good.

Yes, in Li Xi's opinion, the two times of being followed should have been done by a group of people. The former was to attract attention so as to transfer the people who were secretly protecting her away, thereby lowering her guard and allowing the second person to hit the target with one shot.

In Li Xi's opinion, no matter how capable Hong Jiang was, it was obvious that he didn't have a good brain, otherwise he wouldn't have failed to see such an obvious trick to lure the tiger away from the mountain.

"The identities of the first group of people who followed you have been found out. They were sent by your stepfather."

Li Xi was a little confused by Gu Jingzhi's three light words.

"My stepfather?"

"What do you mean by stepfather?"

How could she not remember? Wait, Li Xi suddenly paused and remembered the familiar figure she saw in the inn not long ago.

Li Xi's face looked a little ugly. "I have never met him before. What is he trying to do?"

When Madam Liu remarried, she had said that she would never see him again, regardless of life or death, and would completely cut off all ties with him. But not long after that, she brought Mr. Wang to disturb her.

"I don't even have a mother, so where did my stepfather come from?" It was obvious that it was not a good thing for someone to come all the way to follow me.

"The family that Madam Liu remarried is surnamed Wang, and his name is Wang Junqing. He is fifty-three years old this year and has been doing border trade between the Xiongnu and Dayan."

As soon as Li Xi heard Gu Jingzhi mention the border trade merchant, she realized that her cheap stepfather was a smuggler.

You must know that the relationship between the Xiongnu and Dayan has always been tense. The imperial court naturally did not allow the opening of trade, but there were always some people who were greedy for money and wanted to do business with the Xiongnu.

As it says in Capital: If there is a 20% profit, capital will be ready to move; if there is a 50% profit, capital will take risks; if there is a 100% profit, capital will dare to risk being hanged; if there is a 300% profit, capital will dare to trample on all human laws.

There has always been no shortage of people like Mr. Wang who secretly engage in smuggling business with foreign ethnic groups in every dynasty, and this is still the case in modern times, which shows that this business can really make money.

Li Xi thought back to the jeweled woman she saw through the window. It seemed that she was very satisfied with her current life.

"According to the answer from the captured servant, Mr. Wang is a playboy. Each time he takes a concubine, it's only for a few months. But he is pretty good to Madam Liu. It's been almost half a year since she entered the Wang family, but Mr. Wang still treats her well." Gu Jingzhi was not sure whether Li Xi wanted to hear about Madam Liu's recent situation, but he said it anyway.

After listening to this, Li Xi was silent for a moment, "There are only two siblings in our Li family. The others have long been cut off from the family."

Gu Jingzhi knew what she meant by that. Despite her usual laziness and lack of seriousness, he knew that she was actually a determined and stubborn person, and would never change her mind once she had made up her mind.

"I don't mean anything else, I just want to remind you to be careful recently.

Mr. Wang’s family is in the countryside outside Jiangning City. They have come all the way here, so their purpose must be great.”

Li Xi picked up the teacup and drank it all in one gulp. They hadn't had any dealings with each other for such a long time, and suddenly she came to his house and sent someone to follow him. Li Xi didn't believe that it was Madam Liu who suddenly had a surge of maternal love and thought of their two children who were wandering outside.

There must be something else going on here.

"It's useless to think too much. If the enemy comes, we will fight him with our soldiers. If the water comes, we will block it with earth. Anyway, I'm not afraid of them." She had all the equipment, and she felt a little regretful that she didn't use it.

Seeing her calm and optimistic attitude, Gu Jingzhi secretly decided to replace Hong Jiang's group with a more experienced team. At least next time when someone is following them, everyone will not rush to catch people and put Li Xi in danger.

Apparently Li Xi was thinking the same thing. "If Hong Jiang doesn't know much about how to protect people, why not change him?"

Gu Jingzhi: "I might come to your place more often these days."

"Why?" Li Xi was puzzled.

"Didn't you tell everyone that I fell in love with you and wanted to force you to be my concubine? Now that the words have been spoken, they must be confirmed." Gu Jingzhi did not look embarrassed at all.

Li Xi felt as if she was choked, as if a boomerang had been thrown and stabbed her.

"You don't have to do that. You're busy with all kinds of things every day. There's really no need for you to do such a small thing. I think your visit today is enough."

Li Xi probably guessed what Gu Jingzhi wanted to do, and he was planning to take advantage of the situation.

"Things in the military camp have come to an end. The next few days will not be busy. I can just perform a big show with them." Gu Jingzhi's mouth curled up.

The corner of Li Xi's mouth twitched. He never expected that he would shoot himself in the foot.

Gu Jingzhi is not as easy to fool as Doctor Wu. She is always worried that she will reveal something in front of him. Of course, more importantly, she doesn't want any rumors to spread. It is said that rumors stop at wise people, but there are no wise people in this world. There are more gossip spreaders.

Gu Jingzhi could naturally see Li Xi's reluctance, but this matter was not caused by him, "Li Xi, I hope you can understand that this matter was caused by you, and you made up the story.

You can't just put the blame on me and not do anything about it.

I think you should also understand that those people will definitely have follow-up, but I don’t know what kind of story you will tell to impress them when the time comes.”

Li Xi gave her an unpleasant look. He was a talkative man.

"It's up to you." Li Xi still felt a little guilty, and finally agreed to his request.

Gu Jingzhi stayed at Li Xi's house for an hour before leaving. During this hour, at Gu Jingzhi's strong request, Li Xi recalled the person who followed him again, but did not recall anything valuable.

After an hour, Gu Jingzhi left Li's house. The spy who was waiting at the new location found that Gu Jingzhi did not discover him.

He watched Gu Jingzhi tidying up his messy clothes as he walked towards the Zhenbei General's Mansion, and he believed Li Xi's words even more. He had thought it was a bit outrageous before, but he didn't expect it to be true.

After an hour, I found out that Gu Jingzhi, who looked weak, was actually quite powerful.

He stood up and cleaned up the traces on the spot, quickly disappeared into the crowd, and planned to go back and report what he observed to the boss.

After he left, he turned around in an unknown alley and entered an inconspicuous little house. After knocking on the door three or four times, he opened it from the inside.

Wang Qiliang glanced behind him and saw that there was no tail behind him, so he let him into the house.

After entering the house, he saw his eldest brother (Gong Yikun) and second brother (Wang Qiliang) were there, so he told them that he had seen Gu Jingzhi staying in Li Xi's house for an hour and his clothes were in disarray when he left.

Gong Yikun: "It seems that the girl is telling the truth."

"She wouldn't dare to deceive us." Wang Qiliang laughed, "Brother, what should we do next?"

"Li Xi doesn't know the prescription, and the spies in the military camp have all been eliminated by Gu's father and son. Now the Zhenbei Army is surrounded by Gu's father and son like an iron barrel, and it is almost impossible to start from the military camp.

So now we can only focus on Dr. Wu."

"But Dr. Wu has a lot of people secretly protecting him, so it may not be that easy to take action."

"Who said we are going to take action? Hasn't someone already agreed to do it for us?" Gong Yikun said with a smile.

Wang Qiliang's eyes lit up and he clapped his hands. "Oh, if you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten that Li Xi agreed to steal the prescription for us, but can she do it?"

"For freedom, she will." Gong Yikun said mysteriously.

Little did they know that Li Xi didn't want freedom at all.

It's fine to pursue freedom in modern times, but in ancient times, where you need a pass to travel and there were mountains, rivers, and bandits, she would have to be desperate to go out and venture.

……

It took the Wang family servants who were thrown out of the military camp by Gu Jingzhi an hour to walk back to the city from outside the military camp. When they returned to the inn, it was completely dark.

The housekeeper knew something had happened when he saw their dusty clothes, messy hair, and bruised faces and noses. He did not care that the master had already gone to rest and hurried upstairs to call for help.

After sleeping for most of the day, Mr. Wang, who was not sleepy at all, was about to do something inappropriate for children with Ms. Liu when there was a knock on the door. "Master?"

Mr. Wang glanced at Miss Liu, whose face was flushed, and stood up, put on his clothes and walked out.

The housekeeper must have called me at this time because something must have happened. "Baby, go to sleep first. You don't have to wait for me."

Hearing him call her baby, Madam Liu's face turned even redder and she nodded, "I know."

Wang Yuanwai opened the door and went out. He looked at the housekeeper standing in front of the door and asked, "What happened?"

"Master, the people we sent out have returned, but..."

"But what? Where are the people? Let's go and take a look." Wang Yuanwai guessed from the butler's expression that something might have happened, but he never expected that the people he sent out were actually captured by the Zhenbei Army.

The servants who returned were arranged by the housekeeper to sleep in a separate bunk bed. Because the housekeeper had told them that the master would be brought over, they all stood in an orderly manner in the room.

Wang Yuanwai looked at the wounds on their faces and asked, "What happened?"

Hearing his question, everyone subconsciously recalled and shuddered, waiting for them to finish telling what happened this afternoon while trembling.

Especially after hearing the warning from the Zhenbei Major General that they relayed to him, Wang Yuanwai felt a little troubled. He came here just to establish a relationship between Li Xi and the Zhenbei Army in order to consolidate his own trade route, but he didn't expect to be warned before he even started.