The three of them returned in the direction they came from. After walking for about an hour, the surroundings gradually began to seem to come alive.

"You two scumbags, I'll be a dog if I bring you two out again next time!" Li Xingyun was in a very bad mood after wasting a whole day, and couldn't help complaining.

"Hehe..." Yunxuzi didn't respond, just stood there grinning foolishly to himself.

"Some people are coming, and quite a few!" Hou Qing clapped the folding fan in his hand and said to the two of them.

"People?" Li Xingyun was stunned and glanced at the sky. It was already around three o'clock in the afternoon. There were only two possibilities for people still outside at this time. One was a businessman on the road, anxious to get to the next place to stay. The second possibility... was that Li Xingyun wanted to see him!

After carefully sensing for a moment, Li Xingyun's eyes became brighter. The noisy footsteps came from the mountains and forests on both sides. This obviously couldn't be a caravan. Only a caravan would be sick to ignore the good road and go around in the mountains and forests!

There was only one possibility! Li Xingyun and the other two stopped and stood there waiting quietly. They really didn't dare to move! They were afraid that the other party would not be able to find them again! The three of them had high cultivation and knew that it would take a while for the other party to come over.

A few minutes later, over a hundred ragged bandits suddenly emerged from both sides of the forest. They could be called bandits, if not for their aggressive demeanor and the weapons they held, Li Xingyun would have mistaken them for refugees fleeing from somewhere.

The main reason was that these bandits were too unprofessional. They didn't shout slogans and their weapons were not professional either. They had sickles, axes for chopping wood, hammers, shovels, and everything else. Only the leader was holding a spear, which made him look like a real bandit!

"Robbery...Robbery!" After more than a hundred people surrounded Li Xingyun and the other two, a middle-aged man shouted in a somewhat unfamiliar voice. It was obvious that he was very nervous and even a little embarrassed, as if what he was doing was very shameful.

"Robbery? What are you going to rob?" Li Xingyun asked with a smile, leaning over his horse. Now Li Xingyun was completely convinced that these bandits had definitely not done anything bad before. Even the bandits' signature skill, highway robbery, was so unfamiliar to them!

"You...hand over all the silver you have on you, and we won't hurt you!" said the middle-aged bandit very skillfully.

"That's quite skillful!" Li Xingyun commented to himself, then looked embarrassed.

"Brother! Please be kind and let us go. The money we have is for our mother's medical treatment at home! We can't give it to you!"

"This..." The middle-aged man couldn't help but hesitate when he heard Li Xingyun's difficulties. After thinking for a while, he shouted to Li Xingyun: "Wait, I'll go ask."

After saying that, he ran to the leading man holding a spear and whispered a few words.

"Hmph! You can fool others but you can't fool me!" The man with the spear snorted coldly, took a few steps forward and pointed the tip of the cold iron spear at Li Xingyun.

"What did I lie to you about?" Li Xingyun smiled. Sure enough, there are still smart people out there!

"The three horses you ride are worth thousands of gold. You must be from a wealthy family. How could you care about a few silver coins!" After the man with the spear said this, he slammed the spear into the ground fiercely. A hole immediately appeared on the loess road that had been crushed for many years!

"An eighth-grade warrior has some talent!" There are not many people with ordinary backgrounds who can have such strength in their early thirties!

"Which copycat are you from?" After being exposed, Li Xingyun simply stopped pretending and asked directly.

"We are not bandits! We are all villagers from Qinjia Village!" When asked by Li Xingyun, the man with the spear seemed to be humiliated and immediately retorted!

"Not bandits? Then what are you doing? I have never seen villagers from that village run to the mountain to rob passers-by!" Li Xingyun also responded without any politeness. He really looked up to the other party in his heart. If he didn't admit that he was a bandit, it meant that he still had shame and a bottom line!

Such people can still be called human beings, and they can abandon evil and do good, and reform themselves. On the contrary, most bandits have become addicted to the kind of unearned life of robbery and looting. Letting them live an honest life is more painful than killing them. Such people can no longer be called human beings. They are the parasites of society. Li Xingyun will not waste his time to influence them. He just needs to send them to reincarnate and be retrained!

"This...this...we have our reasons!" The man with the spear was stunned for a moment, a conflicted look on his face, but after looking at his relatives who were dressed in tattered clothes beside him, he still said it with a stiff upper lip.

"What are the difficulties? Official inaction, oppression from the aristocratic families, or looting by bandits?" Li Xingyun stated all the other party's difficulties with a half-smile.

"You...you already know everything, why are you asking?" The man with the spear glared at Li Xingyun and said unhappily. He felt that Li Xingyun was just making fun of him!

"The King of Qin has arrived in Southern Xinjiang. The four great families have already been dealt with, and officials at all levels will also be purged. As for the bandits, you don't have to worry. They will be cleared out in a few days."

"Now you can go back to your hometown and be ordinary people again! Why continue robbing?" Li Xingyun said with a smile.

"Your Highness!" Yunxuzi was anxious. Didn't they agree to recruit and build an army? Why were they being told to go back to farming? Wouldn't their efforts have been in vain?

Li Xingyun glared at Yun Xuzi, his eyes seeming to say, "Why are you so anxious? I know what's going on!"

"King Qin? The four great families have been dealt with? Officials and bandits will also be cleared out?" The man with the spear looked confused. It was obvious that he didn't know any of this news, and he was unable to react for a moment.

"Impossible! How could the four great families be dealt with so easily!" The man soon came to his senses, with a look of disbelief on his face!

"This place is not far from the city, you can go and ask around!" Li Xingyu remained calm.

"Qin Feng, what he said may be true. I went to the city yesterday and saw many children from aristocratic families being arrested. I don't know who destroyed the Ye family's branch!" The middle-aged man at the beginning seemed to have thought of something and said to the man with the spear.

"Qin Feng? That's a good name!" Li Xingyun also knew the name of the man with the spear at this time, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Are you the prince? Prince Qin?" Qin Feng suddenly remembered what Yun Xuzi had just said to Li Xingyun, and immediately thought of something, and asked in disbelief.

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