Tang Dynasty: Starting at Xuanwu Gate, this prince is better off not being one.

Li Yu brought over the pork leg that he had specially reserved for Wenren An, and sprinkled a pinch of fine salt evenly on it right in front of him.

"Fine salt? You have fine salt?" Wenren An's attention was completely drawn to the pig's leg, and he exclaimed incredulously.

He almost bit his tongue after eating that piece of roasted meat, and he couldn't imagine how delicious this pork leg sprinkled with fine salt would be...

Li Yu tore off a strip, put it in his mouth, and chewed slowly, nodding in satisfaction.

I deliberately didn't put much salt in that piece of meat just now, because I wanted to use this pork leg to completely whet Wenren An's appetite.

Sure enough, seeing Li Yu chewing on the sweet treat, Wenren An, though verbally refusing, found his stomach rumbling with malice.

Hearing this, Li Yu's true colors finally came out. "How about this, you take this pig's leg, and then do me a favor as a way of repaying the favor?"

Li Yu's words were sincere, which made the ten-year-old boy's thoughts waver.

Seeing that he was still hesitant, Li Yu added fuel to the fire, saying, "Really? With your skills, there shouldn't be anything that can stump you!"

Despite his exceptional skills, Wenren An was still a young man and was ultimately defeated by Li Yu's provocation.

"That's natural!"

After saying that, he snatched the pig's leg and began to tear into it impatiently.

"Huh? I haven't told you what to do yet?"

"Let's eat first and then talk!"

Having achieved his goal, Li Yu was very pleased and patiently waited for Wenren An to devour the entire pig leg...

"Why haven't you left yet?" After eating and drinking his fill, Wenren An wiped the grease from his mouth and suddenly noticed that Li Yu was still squatting next to him.

"I haven't even asked you for any help yet!" Li Yu feigned surprise. "You're the son of a governor, with unparalleled martial arts skills. You wouldn't go back on your word, would you?"

Wenren An then realized he might have been a bit rash, and could only say, "Of course not! You...you tell me!"

Li Yu chuckled, revealing a disgusting, smug look, and slowly said, "I want you to be my bodyguard for three years."

"What!?" Wenren An jumped up from the ground in surprise, drawing the attention of everyone.

"You'll only be my bodyguard for three years, and you'll even get a salary!" Li Yu said with a smile, but in Wenren An's eyes, that smile concealed a sharp knife.

He flung the cleanly gnawed bone far away, glared at Li Yu, and said fiercely, "Impossible!"

"Huh? But you said you'd do me a favor to repay it. They say a true hero's word is as good as gold. Are you really going to be that kind of person who goes back on his word, betrays his promise, and is worse than a pig or a dog?"

A barrage of insults left Wenren An utterly ashamed and humiliated, prompting him to retort in embarrassment and anger, "You did it on purpose! You deliberately tricked me into finishing the meal before discussing the terms!"

"Heaven and earth bear witness! I was just about to state my terms when you snatched the pig's leg away, not giving me a chance to speak at all!"

After saying this, Li Yu deliberately feigned a heartbroken expression and lamented, "What a damned world! Where are those men who kept their promises?"

The method worked very well; Wenren An's face turned bright red, and he was instantly speechless.

Seeing the boy's appearance, Li Yu tried hard to suppress the smile that welled up inside him. With a determined heart, he bit his tongue hard, and tears instantly filled his eyes.

"you……"

Wenren'an felt as if he had been slapped, his cheek burning hot. "One year! At most one year! After one year, I'll go back to Changzhou and never come out again!"

"It's a deal!" With tears still welling in his eyes, Li Yu's face was full of smiles, making him look extremely eerie.

Kid, I don’t believe you’ll still be thinking of leaving a year from now!

Wenren An felt like he had been tricked! What was worse, he didn't seem to be in the right! So he angrily kicked the package lying on the ground and hid in a corner to sulk.

Li Yu tried to comfort him many times, but for some reason, he always managed to coax him away with a red face and a loud voice.

All I did was smile a little more cheerfully when I was comforting people, why make such a fuss!

.........

Instead of the usual gentle drizzle of spring, a torrential downpour struck.

So the group started repairing the dilapidated temple when the wind picked up, and they barely finished just before the downpour, thus avoiding getting soaked.

"Looks like I'll be staying here for a few days."

Sun Simiao, who had spent most of his life collecting medicinal herbs in the mountains, knew all too well that the mountain roads were difficult to traverse after a heavy rain.

Fortunately, the group had planned to rest here for two days, so several hours earlier, Cheng Chumo and Wenren An had brought them enough food for two days.

The sky was eerily gloomy, and the atmosphere inside the house became oppressive as well.

When suppression reaches its extreme, it's time for it to explode.

So when Li Tai said to Li Yu dejectedly, "Little Fish, I want to go home..." Li Yu was not surprised at all.

Because he also wanted to go home, back to that home where the sky was always gray and at night you could smell all sorts of complicated smells.

"Qingque, just bear with it for a few more days. We're not far from Baoxie Road now."

After comforting Li Tai, and seeing that the room was still very somber, Li Yu spoke up again, "How about I tell you a story?"

"What story?" Hearing that there was a story to hear, the oppressive atmosphere in the room instantly eased, and everyone perked up their ears.

"A story of a wandering monk traveling with three demons..."

"It is said that in the beginning, heaven and earth were in chaos. It was only after Pangu separated heaven and earth that beasts and humans came into being. After the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the world was divided into four major continents: East Sheng Shen Continent, West Niu He Continent, South Zhan Bu Continent, and North Ju Lu Continent..."

"In the Eastern Continent of Divine Victory, there is a country called Aolai, which is located right next to the sea. In the sea, there is a mountain called Flower and Fruit Mountain..."

.........

Li Yu had never understood why the protagonists of time-travel novels always clung to "Journey to the West." Now that it had happened to him, he finally understood: for most people, "Journey to the West" was probably the only novel whose entire plot they could recall in their entirety...

Unfortunately, the unfortunate thing is that it is currently the Wude era, and Li Er is only the King of Qin.

If the original storyline were followed, even if he were the emperor's own father, let alone the emperor's grandson, his head would probably be chopped off and used as a football...

So Li Yu could only revise as he went, completely altering the original "Journey to the West." And so, the first person to question this flawed plot emerged.

"Little Fish, 500 years before the reign of Emperor Gaozu of Han, that was the Spring and Autumn Period! Does that mean they already had noodles back then?"

"Shut up! Don't worry about such details!" Now you seem quite meticulous!

After scolding Li Chengqian into silence, Li Yu continued, "So the next day, Emperor Gaozu summoned Xiao He to the palace for a long game of chess, intending to delay it until after noon. But who knew that at the crucial moment of the game, Xiao He actually fell asleep at his desk. So Emperor Gaozu couldn't bear to disturb him and could only wait for him to slowly wake up on his own..."

.........

The story went on for a long time, making everyone drowsy, and even Li Yu himself was exhausted.

I yawned widely and peeked through the crack in the door. Outside, the thunder and lightning continued, and the wind and rain raged.

"A torrential downpour in spring; it seems this year is destined to be anything but peaceful..."

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