My lady, I'm going to rebel.

Li Lian is missing?

Mu Zheng was so shocked by the news that he immediately jumped up from Li Zidu's bed.

"The young master said a few days ago that he had to go out for something. I wanted to go with him, but he wouldn't let me. He didn't come back the first night, and I thought he was delayed, but he still hadn't come back last night. I've searched everywhere today, so I wanted to ask you two if you have seen my young master."

Hearing this, Mu Zheng subconsciously looked at Li Zidu. During this period, these two people had indeed been doing something behind his back, but since no one mentioned it, he didn't ask.

It now seems that Li Lian’s disappearance is most likely related to what they are doing.

Sure enough, Mu Zheng looked at Li Zidu's expression, which was even uglier than his.

"What do you know?" Mu Zheng asked.

"I want to go back to Yan." Li Zidu did not respond to Mu Zheng's question.

Seeing Li Zidu's serious expression, Mu Zheng hurriedly said, "I'll go with you."

Li Zidu paused, then shook his head: "Brother Mu, this is very dangerous, I can't involve you in this."

Mu Zheng frowned and said, "Do you think I can stay here without getting involved? Li Lian is my brother. Even if you don't take me with you, I will go look for him alone."

Li Zidu turned around and looked at Mu Zheng for a long time: "What do you think of the current emperor?"

Uh.

Although Mu Zheng had long known that Li Zidu had rebellious intentions and had deduced that the forces behind Li Lian wanted to overthrow Wang Mang's new dynasty, he was still a little surprised to be asked this question by Li Zidu.

"I am a citizen of the Han Dynasty, and he is nothing but a traitor who stole my country." Mu Zheng said without hesitation. These few words exactly matched what Li Zidu was thinking.

Seeing Li Zidu's frown lifted, he heard him say, "Brother Mu is right. We are the people of the Han Dynasty. How can we let a foreign relative seize the world? After all, the royal family belongs to the Liu family, and it should belong to the Liu family!"

Mu Zheng's face looked like he'd found a kindred spirit, but he was secretly surprised. He had always known Li Zi was a traitor. To be more precise, he was one of the founders of the Red Eyebrow Army. He had assumed he was rebelling for his livelihood, but he had actually harbored grievances for the Liu family and was attempting to support the Han Dynasty.

Tsk tsk.

Mu Zheng thought to himself that he must win over Li Zidu to Liu Xiu's side, so as to save his life.

"Pengfei! Prepare the horse!" Li Zidu shouted.

"Huh?" Mu Zheng was speechless. He thought that after the two concluding sentences, Li Zi was willing to take him with her.

Seeing that Mu Zheng wanted to catch up again, Li Zidu said to him, "Don't worry, I need to go get some samples first."

Mu Zheng nodded, and when he saw Li Zidu riding away on his horse, he forced himself to calm down.

When Li Zhong broke away from himself to protect Li Lian, it meant that Li Lian was indeed being targeted by a certain force. But Li Lian never revealed who that force was.

Now, he already knew that there was a rebel force behind Li Lian, so the court should be the one that was hostile to the rebels.

But Li Lian had not yet started his rebellion, and the imperial court could not predict the future, so the people who assassinated and kidnapped Li Lian should not be government officials.

You are not from the government, but you want to kill the villains?

Who is it?

Just as he was thinking about it, a voice of "Brother Mu" was like a sound from nature, bringing him back to reality.

"Little Mosquito?" Mu Zheng was surprised to see Gong Wen appear before him. He hadn't seen him for several months, and he looked much darker. Looking behind him, Qi Yuxiu was not far away, a bright smile on her face. And beside her, there were a few familiar figures: Lu Di's five snipers.

"Why are you here?"

"I'll give you something good!"

Seeing Mu Zheng taking out a small jar from his arms with great care, Mu Zheng was delighted and asked, "Is it done?"

"Hmm!" Gong Wen opened the lid of the can and showed it to Mu Zheng: "White, thin, and shiny, we can eat as much as we want tonight!"

Uh.

This is not a tonic, so you can eat as much as you want without worrying about losing the moisture in your body.

"Brother Mu, why are you outside the door? Where is Sister Yun?" Qi Yuxiu looked into Li's house but did not see Yunniang.

"She should be picking wild vegetables with the victims." Mu Zheng explained why he was standing at the door of Li's house.

Upon hearing that Li Lian hadn't returned for two days, Gong Wen said nonchalantly, "You're worrying too much. I've seen Master Lian's skills. Apart from anything else, I'm more than capable of taking down ten of them."

"Haha. With your physique, wouldn't it be easy to kill you?" Qi Yuxiu laughed.

Gong Wen pursed his lips to express his dissatisfaction, then smiled at Mu Zheng and said, "Really, don't worry, Master Lian will be absolutely fine."

Mu Zheng smiled.

If Li Lian was really that safe, Li Zidu would not have reacted that way.

"General, do you need our help?" Lu Di and others stepped forward.

"This?" Mu Zheng thought about it and decided to give up. Besides, he didn't like the title of general. After all, this general represented the people of Kuishan, and the people of Kuishan would eventually stand against Liu Xiu.

Mu Zheng felt a headache when he thought of this. When he saw Lu Di and the others again, he felt sick. He had to find a way to drive Lu Di and the others out of Shandong, preferably never to come back.

He didn't want the sniper he had worked so hard to train to point the arrow at him one day.

After some greetings, Mu Zheng led them into the house.

In the evening, Li Zi had not returned yet, but Yun Niang had brought back a large bunch of wild vegetables. She was very happy to see Gong Wen and the others, and they chatted and laughed while picking the wild vegetables together.

"Oh, I told you there are benefits to going ashore. I eat all kinds of sea fish every day on the island, and it feels like I don't know what other flavors are except salty." The Rat happily grabbed a handful of green leaves and stuffed them into his mouth.

"You're a rat, why are you eating raw green grass like an old cow?" Lu Di snatched the wild vegetables from the rat's hand and said with disgust, "At least wash them."

Seeing that Lü Di was about to stuff some wild vegetables into his mouth, Gong Wen immediately rushed over and said, "You guys are bringing shame to the sniper. My sister-in-law hasn't even dug up much, and you've already ruined it all."

Seeing a group of people laughing and playing, Mu Zheng also smiled, "During this famine, you at least still have sea fish to eat. Look at how many people on this continent can even eat meat?"

"That's right, you're not satisfied." Qi Yuxiu also teased, but her hands didn't stop moving. "Huh? What is this?"

Qi Yuxiu picked up a weed from the pile of wild vegetables. Yunniang took a look at it, took it and threw it far away.

"and many more!"

Mu Zheng picked up the weed, took a closer look at it, then pinched off some tender leaves and put them in his mouth, chewing them slowly.

"Husband?" Yunniang tried to stop him. "That's just a weed. You can't eat it."

Mu Zheng's slightly furrowed brows gradually relaxed. "This isn't a weed. It's Artemisia annua."

Artemisia annua?

Everyone looked at each other, what the hell?

Is it fried and eaten?

"Lü Di." Mu Zheng handed the Artemisia annua to the five snipers, "Remember this. I have a mission for you."

"Brother Mu, you say." The five snipers came here this time just to follow Mu Zheng. After all, they had trained on Elephant Island for so long and wanted to go out and see the world.

"Go to Chu!" Mu Zheng said.