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After finishing the business, the coroner didn't want to be seen as an old man without tact, so he took the initiative to ask Chu Huaiqing to leave first.

After he left, Chu Huaiqing sent the nearby yamen runners away. Then he looked at Xiao Li and asked the question that had been weighing on his mind for three years, "Xiao Xiucai, have we met before?"

Hearing this, Xiao Li was a little surprised, but he didn't show it on his face. He looked at him calmly and asked, "Why do you say that, Lord Chu?"

Lu Yuan also looked at Chu Huaiqing curiously, while also recalling whether her husband had ever left Liangzhou before.

After much thought, he could only think of the time when their family moved, and in his memory, her husband seemed to have never left Liangzhou.

Leaving Liangzhou requires a travel permit issued by the government. Except for that time, he has never heard his husband mention the same thing. Did Lord Chu ask that because he thought he had seen his husband before?

It was hard to tell from Xiao Li's reaction whether they had met before, but judging from Lu Yuan's reaction, Chu Huaiqing got the answer he wanted.

But it is still not completely certain. After all, even Xiao Li’s husband may not know all of Xiao Li’s whereabouts.

I think they probably haven't seen it before, but the possibility of having seen it is not ruled out.

After pondering for a moment, Chu Huaiqing stared at Xiao Li's cold eyes and said, "I just feel that Mr. Xiao looks familiar. I feel like we've met before."

In fact, he even felt that they had not only met before, but also had a good relationship. Otherwise, how could he feel such a close relationship? Could they be long-lost relatives?

Not to mention that he is the only son of his parents who died early. Even if they are really relatives who have been separated for many years, would relatives who have never met each other really feel close to each other?

He doesn't think so.

Originally, Xiao Li just suspected that Chu Huaiqing felt the same as he did, and they both felt that the other party was friendly.

After hearing his words at this moment, Xiao Li could be sure of this matter.

But how could he explain that they were half-brothers in another world? They had experienced many hardships together and supported each other in the end times?

Even if he told the truth at this time, the other party might not believe it, right?

After thinking it over again and again, Xiao Li still didn't mention the matter. He only said vaguely, "Maybe we were brothers in our previous lives."

Upon hearing this, Chu Huaiqing's heart was shocked, and suddenly a series of blurry and unfamiliar pictures appeared in front of his eyes.

It should have been unfamiliar, but he felt as if he had experienced it firsthand.

When he frowned and tried to see clearly, the images disappeared like a flash of light, making it impossible to find them.

In the moment he was stunned, Xiao Li stared at him thoughtfully for a while, and had a guess in his mind.

It should be said that good people don't live long. It seems that something must have happened to the cheap brother in the apocalypse, otherwise...

Xiao Li glanced at Chu Huaiqing, who had a frown on his face, and activated his healing ability to silently perform mental healing on him.

At the same time, Chu Huaiqing couldn't see those pictures clearly, but he saw them clearly.

Those were some scenes before the end of the world, scenes of him just arriving at the Xiao family, and scenes of him being bullied...

In his perspective, he was the one who was always fighting and scaring off all those who bullied him, which resulted in many years of peace.

However, in the images Chu Huaiqing saw, he saw another version——

When he first arrived at the Xiao family, he was mistreated by the servants, so his eldest brother arranged for the housekeeper to take good care of him.

When he was bullied at school, his cheap elder brother once went to warn those people, saying that he was the young master of the Xiao family and his... younger brother.

……

Xiao Li pursed his lips tightly. His mood couldn't be said to be bad, but it was definitely not good either.

I originally thought that even if the other party was just my cheap brother, I could just pretend that nothing happened. After all, that world is that world, and this world is this world.

Who would have thought that even across time and space, he still had a debt of gratitude to repay.

If anyone else came, Xiao Li would ignore him, but this person happened to be his cheap brother who had helped him a lot.

When Chu Huaiqing came back to his senses, he saw that his face was not friendly. He was stunned for a moment and frowned, "Did you feel wronged by being my brother?"

Xiao Li: "..." Don't feel wronged, you are the creditor and you have the final say.

Xiao Li lowered his head and gently rubbed his brows, then sighed, "With the tone you give me, someone who doesn't know me would think we are really brothers."

Hearing the hidden meaning in his words, Chu Huaiqing was stunned, not understanding why he had just said that.

But since I had already said it, I couldn't take it back. Besides, the other party didn't seem angry, so I felt relieved for no reason.

Chu Huaiqing didn't feel much about his implicit suggestion that they were not brothers. "Xiao Xiucai is right."

Xiao Li was in a bad mood and didn't want to waste time talking to him. He said bluntly, "Master Chu, do you have anything else to say? If not, we'll take our leave."

"Where are you going? Liangzhou?" Chu Huaiqing didn't hear much of what they just said, he only vaguely heard the word "Liangzhou".

Although he suspected that the person who passed the message to him was Xiao Li, he had no real evidence after all. Fearing that something might happen to them, he couldn't help but remind them, "Liangzhou is currently experiencing the most severe drought. It's too dangerous to go to Liangzhou at this time."

Knowing that he was his adopted elder brother, Xiao Li was not surprised by his concern for him.

After all, in the past, the other party cared about people with a dead face, and now it’s not much better.

"I know." He nodded to show that he understood, took Lu Yuan's hand and stood up, revealing a little to him, "I am with the disciples of the National Master, so there will be no danger."

In recent years, the name of the National Master Qingxu Taoist has long been heard by officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

It’s not that no one has doubted that Taoist Qingxu’s reputation was in vain, but as facts have verified one after another, those voices of doubt have gradually disappeared.

When Chu Huaiqing heard that he was going to Liangzhou with Taoist Qingxu's disciple, he guessed that he might have other important things to do.

But what he didn't understand was, if she was going to do business, why did she have to bring her husband along?

"I see." He couldn't help but look at Lu Yuan as he spoke, "Then I wish you two a safe journey."

Xiao Li nodded without any politeness, "Yeah."

Lu Yuan was not as shameless as him. She nudged his waist with her elbow and said goodbye to Chu Huaiqing with a smile, "Thank you, sir."

"You're welcome." Chu Huaiqing glanced at him and then turned his gaze back to Xiao Li, obviously expecting him to say something.

As he turned around, Xiao Li couldn't help but sigh. Under Lu Yuan's puzzled gaze, he turned his head to look at Chu Huaiqing and reminded him, "Zhou Yucheng's people are going to harm you tonight. If you need help, come to me."

Chu Huaiqing already knew where they lived, so he didn't ask them where they lived, nor did he ask where he got the news. He nodded silently, followed them out of the court, and watched them leave.

After leaving the prefectural government office, Lu Yuan finally couldn't help but ask him, "Husband, did you and Lord Chu know each other before? And who is Zhou Yucheng? Why would he want to harm Lord Chu?"

Xiao Li led him along while answering his questions one by one. "His name is Chu Huaiqing. You can say I know him, or you can say I don't know him. If you really want an explanation, it's probably that we were brothers in our previous life, and in this life..."

Don't know yet.

Zhou Yucheng is a prince, the one Lu Youfu wants to marry, an ambitious bad man.

As for why he wanted to harm Chu Huaiqing, it was naturally because Chu Huaiqing was blocking his way. Only by getting rid of Chu Huaiqing could he do the bad things he wanted to do. "

"How could this person be so evil!" Lu Yuan had never experienced any darkness, and upon hearing this, she was filled with indignation. "Is Lu Youfu blind? How could he actually like such a bad person?"

"Maybe so?" Xiao Li felt that the heroine was indeed blind to choose such a scumbag as her husband, and the hero was black-hearted, there was no way to wash it away. "Don't worry, he won't succeed."

According to what Yu Qingshan said, we can know that after the end of the plot, Zhou Yucheng lost the halo of the protagonist and eventually became the king of a fallen country.

This time, the heroine died much earlier than in the plot, and the hero lost the support of his ex-husband.

In addition, he took the space back, and there were a lot of supplies in it, enough to even raise soldiers and buy horses. Now that Zhou Yucheng has lost these things, he must be in a state of panic, and he may not be able to spend too much energy to deal with Chu Huaiqing for a while.

However, the male protagonist of a romance novel cannot use normal thinking to make assumptions. Even a desperate dog will jump over the wall, let alone the male protagonist?

Perhaps after discovering that the space is gone, the male protagonist will focus on finding space.

Of course, the male protagonist may also vent his anger on others because he can't find the space for a long time. Chu Huaiqing, who is already on his death list, will definitely be the first to bear the brunt.

Lu Yuan had no idea how the prince named Zhou Yucheng was going to harm Chu Huaiqing, and he had never thought of killing people to silence them, so he was angry for a while. When he returned to the inn, he had already put this person out of his mind and went into the space to play with his two precious sons.

Xiao Li sat in the room for a while and then heard a knock on the door.

"Knock-"

"Young Master, it's me." Shen Congzhou's solemn voice came from outside the door.

Xiao Li raised his eyes and looked towards the door. "The door is not locked, come in."

As soon as he finished speaking, the door opened and Shen Congzhou walked in with a serious face. He stood in front of him and took out a letter from his arms, "Sir, this is a letter I just received from the Xiao residence in Nan'an County.

The letter said that there were a large number of disaster victims in Nan'an County, and that many surrounding villages had suffered disasters, including Yangliu Village. There were some injuries, but no deaths.

The letter was sent from Nan'an County at full speed, but even so, ten days had passed and the current situation was still unknown.

Shen Congzhou had never experienced a famine, but he had heard from his father and brothers that when people are extremely hungry, they can do anything extremely cruel.

When Ma Xiao wrote this letter, no one had died in Yangliu Village. However, as time passed, there was less and less food to eat in the mountains, and it was hard to say what the victims would do to survive.

Xiao Li was reading the letter, which said that Yangliu Village had made sufficient preparations because of his reminder, and the village chief had strictly forbidden everyone to go out and show off, and reminded everyone every day to keep a low profile and not attract other people's attention.

However, perhaps it was precisely because they were too low-key that they were eventually noticed by a small number of disaster victims who were alone and gathered together. After watching them for several days, they finally succeeded in stealing food and water from some people's homes one night by making a feint to the east and attacking in the west.

After that success, those people seemed to have set their sights on Yangliu Village. After robbing things, they would hide in the mountains. After eating and drinking, they would go down the mountain to continue robbing things from the people of Yangliu Village. They went back and forth several times, and that group of people were like robbers.

The village chief once tried to negotiate with the other party, giving them a piece of land and food and water so that everyone could live in peace.

But those people probably tasted the benefits of looting, so how could they be willing to work hard and be on guard against people who became bandits like them?

In short, the village chief did not get what he wanted in the end. His concession even made those people even more excessive. They even tried to kidnap the girls and boys in the village and take them up the mountain. This also led to the collective resistance of Yangliu Village.

Although there were a lot of people and they were able to steal things every time they came to rob, that was only because they were scattered and the villagers could not always be alert and on guard against them, so they were able to succeed again and again.

However, their behavior of snatching girls and boys completely angered the villagers.

Even if everyone still favors boys over girls at this time, you have to know that if there are fewer and fewer girls and boys, it will become increasingly difficult for their sons and grandsons to find wives and husbands.

Besides, if those people kidnapped all the girls and boys in the village, there was no guarantee that they would not kidnap the young wives and husbands next.

As a result, even families without daughters or sons could not tolerate them.

Those people were all fleeing famine, and they had already exchanged everything they could use for food and water along the way, otherwise they would not have become bandits in the end.

All of them together probably only had two or three kitchen knives and hatchets, and one or two hoes. In terms of weapons, they were no match for the villagers who were born and raised in Yangliu Village.

Therefore, during the fight, although several people from Yangliu Village were injured, no one died, and those people were more seriously injured than them.

The letter also said that because they were afraid that those people would retaliate against the villagers, several families now lived together in the village, and there were people patrolling around the village day and night.

At the end of the letter, Ma Xiao also greeted Xiao Li and talked about the recent situation of the bookstore and the house.

Putting the letter down, Xiao Li placed his hand on it, tapping it twice with his bony fingers. "Write back to Ma Xiao, telling him to act accordingly while ensuring his own safety. If necessary, lend a hand to Yangliu Village. Don't worry about it until they have the spare capacity."

It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. In times of famine, being too kind is never a good thing.

Shen Congzhou was not surprised by this, as he had walked beside the young master in this way.

So he just nodded slightly and replied, "Yes."