Thief Emperor

Chapter 10 Two Letters

The next morning.

After waking up, Chief Li asked the bald man to find pen, ink and paper and put them in front of Miss Xue.

Xue Yun'er originally looked a little slovenly because she had been stranded in the mountain village. But after taking a hot bath last night and tying her hair, she looked even more beautiful. She took the paper from Li Yun and looked up at Li Yun.

Thinking of the embarrassment she experienced while taking a bath last night, she felt a little embarrassed.

Although this was an independent courtyard, the house was still very simple, the door was not tight, and there was no wooden barrel, so she could only stand in the room to wash herself, for fear that the bandit leader was lying at the door and watching.

She could only turn off the lights and wash herself little by little in the dark.

However, this thief actually had some gentlemanly demeanor. After boiling some hot water, he went back to the cabin to sleep, which made the anxious Miss Xue feel a little relieved.

As a result, I slept well last night.

After laying out the paper, she pondered over the wording and wrote a letter.

The content of the letter was roughly that she had been captured in the mountain village, but was safe for the time being, so her family could rest assured.

In the letter, Xue Yun'er specifically told her father that the bandits in the mountains were very powerful and asked him not to go up the mountain.

I will find a way to go back.

After writing the letter, Miss Xue shed a few sad tears.

She was still well-behaved. After blowing the ink off the letter paper, she handed it to Li Yun who was standing nearby.

"You...you take a look."

Li didn't hesitate to take the letter. After reading it over, he smiled and said, "Miss Xue, don't you want your family to rescue you?"

“䱱…”

Miss Xue gritted her teeth and said, "When you came back yesterday, I thought you were carrying two people. I was so scared."

"Then you went to boil water, and I saw..."

“Two sets of armor.”

She looked at Li Yun and said with her head down: "You must have killed several people yesterday. I'm afraid you... might harm my father, who is a scholar..."

Li Yun smiled dumbly: "I did bring back a few sets of armor, but I didn't kill anyone. I just stripped off their armor."

As he spoke, he lowered his head and read the letter again. After thinking for a while, he said, "Miss Xue."

"I have an idea."

Miss Xue looked up at him.

"What do you want to do..."

"The way you write this letter is not appropriate. After reporting it to Mr. Xue, I'm afraid my family will be even more worried. How about this, I will write it and you will write it, and we can handle this matter together."

Miss Xue was still a little afraid of him. Besides, whether the letter could be delivered depended entirely on the man in front of her, so she gritted her teeth and said, "You... tell me."

"Just write."

Li Yun stroked his chin and said, "After the bandits robbed you that day, they were about to take you to the mountain, when a knight suddenly passed by halfway."

"At that time, the bandit leader was injured. The bandits had to take care of their leader and were no match for the knight, so you were saved by the knight."

"But I got hurt in the fight and need to rest for a while. I'll be able to go back home in about a month."

"what?"

Miss Xue exclaimed and looked up at Li Yun: "How...how can this be possible? Isn't this cheating Daddy?"

"Nothing is impossible."

Li Dazhaizhu crossed his arms and said, "If you want to keep your reputation, this is the only way. I will personally send you back to Qingyang County."

"you?"

Miss Xue said without hesitation: "As soon as you come down the mountain, you will definitely be arrested by the government."

"That may not be the case."

Li Yun said lightly.

He had seen the wanted posters at the foot of the mountain.

The drawing is extremely sloppy and doesn't look like him at all.

It was obviously drawn based on the dictation of the yamen runner who met him that day.

As long as he tidies himself up, changes his clothes and changes his name, it will be extremely difficult to recognize him.

Except...the few yamen runners I met that day.

Especially the squad leader, an old hand who has been doing the job for decades. He can be recognized at a glance, so it is useless to change his appearance.

but…

Those yamen runners were escorting the young lady to her wedding, but ended up letting the young lady be kidnapped by bandits. Now they must have... No, they must have been punished by Magistrate Xue.

Those yamen runners were all unofficial. If the impoverished county magistrate got angry, he would expel them from the yamen at best, or even directly imprison them or exile them at worst.

It's hard to meet them.

Miss Xue lowered her head and asked through gritted teeth, "Why...why a month later? After my father receives this letter, he will definitely come to look for me..."

"It will take a month for the storm to pass and for me to go down the mountain." "Why...why are you going down the mountain?"

Miss Xue looked up at Li Yun, and suddenly thought of something, and her face turned red.

"Are you...are you trying to pretend to be a knight, want to..."

Li Yun didn't understand what she meant, but just looked outside.

This village is his base.

But if he wants to become bigger and stronger, he can't be trapped in the mountain forever. He must go down the mountain to walk around and take a look, to understand what the outside world is like.

While developing the village, it is also necessary to establish communication between the village and the outside world.

Otherwise, even if no one could ever capture the Cangshan Stronghold, it would ultimately be a small world of self-entertainment, with only about thirty people always being there.

"I'm not pretending to be a knight."

Li Dazhaizhu corrected him, "I am the chivalrous knight who saved you. Both Miss Xue and Master Xue must admit this, otherwise you will never be able to get married in the future."

Miss Xue lowered her head, thought for a long time, and then gritted her teeth gently.

"Okay, I…I agree."

She looked up at Li Yun and said boldly, "This month...you can't bully me."

Li smiled and said, "I never bully women."

It is hard to say whether the word "bullying" mentioned by the two people means the same thing.

Miss Xue wrote very quickly. After a while, she finished writing another letter. After blowing the ink dry, she handed it to Li Yun. Li Yun took it and after reading it, he asked, "Does Mr. Xue recognize the young lady's handwriting?"

Xue Yuner nodded: "I recognize it."

"That's good."

He put the letter into his arms and said, "I will find a way to get this letter to you, Master Xue, as soon as possible."

Xue Yuner looked at Li Yun, still a little puzzled: "If you want to let me go down the mountain, why did you rob me in the first place..."

Li Yun shook his head and sighed: "My brain wasn't working very well at the time."

“It works now.”

Miss Xue couldn't help laughing at this. She was actually a relatively lively person, but she had been frightened these past few days. Upon hearing this, she immediately said, "So you don't want to get married?"

Chief Li smiled confidently.

"There are plenty of fish in the sea, I'll just marry someone else."

"When the time comes, marry someone better looking."

Although she was eager to leave this bandit den every day, Xue Yun'er still felt a little angry for no reason when she heard the words "better looking".

Most girls cannot bear to hear others say these three words.

Although she was angry, she didn't dare to lose her temper with Li Yun, so she could only reach out and push Li Yun out of the room, urging him to go out and do his work.

Miss Xue herself stayed in the bedroom, sitting on the edge of the bed and sulking for a long time.

After a long time, she calmed down a little and suddenly remembered something.

"broken…"

Miss Xue stood up and bit her lip. "My first letter is still with Mr. Li. He...he..."

"Will he... use that letter as a handle to blackmail me in the future?"

The letter was also written by her herself, stating that she was stranded in the mountain village, which was ironclad evidence.

With this thought in mind, Miss Xue stayed in her bedroom, feeling uneasy all day long. It was not until the evening when the village leader Li, who had taken care of the village affairs, came back that she opened the door and looked up at Li Yun.

"Li... Village Master Li."

She mustered up the courage to ask, "Can you give me back the first letter I wrote this morning?"

Li Yun had no evil intentions. After returning to his small room, he took out the letter and handed it to Xue Yuner.

"What does Miss Xue want to do with this?"

Xue Yuner hurriedly shook her head: "Nothing... nothing..."

Li Yun seemed to be thinking about something, and then he realized something and said with a smile, "Is it going to be burned?"

Xue Yun'er nodded, reached out to take it, turned back to the bedroom and closed the door.

In the bedroom, she sat on the edge of the bed, unfolded the letter, and only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that it was intact.

"I... missed him so much..."

Miss Xue looked up at the oil lamp in the room and was about to burn the "evidence". After thinking about it, she carefully folded it and put it away.

"He may not keep his word..."

Miss Xue was thinking about it.

"If he breaks his promise, this letter..."

"It's still useful."

(End of this chapter)