Liu Xuande would never be a succubus of the Eastern Han Dynasty!

Master Lu said in a bad tone: "Who do you think would be jealous?"

"Oh, I made a mistake. But you're definitely more feminine than last year... hehe..."

"You're talking too much nonsense. I'm just worried that my foolish disciple will be fooled by you bad women. If we're just drinking tea, it's fine."

The white shadow's smile grew even more intense. "Then I'll take my leave."

Jiujiang County: Chapter 23: Self-pollution

After the teacher left, Liu Bei brought the little girl Zuo Ci to the bathroom.

Just as he pulled out the bench and was about to let the little girl sit down, she suddenly pointed to the corner and exclaimed: "...There's someone!"

Liu Bei almost laughed out loud when he heard this: "Qingying, how did you let a little girl find you?"

"……Feel sorry."

A slightly deep female voice came from the corner, and then a slender figure slowly emerged. She bowed her head and said:

"Master, do you want to help the child wash? I can do it for you."

"Of course, I would have asked you to help even if you hadn't asked," Liu Bei said, waving his hand. "You don't have to call yourself a slave. I, Liu Bei, am not your master, but your employer."

Qingying suddenly showed an unhappy expression: "Just the employer?"

Good guy.

From the sound of it, it seems like she actually wants me to call her master... But I don't feel anything when I call her that on a normal day, it's almost the same when we're in bed.

Liu Bei didn't respond. He patted the little girl's head and said softly, "Little Zuo Ci, this big sister will clean you up very well. After you're done, let's have something delicious together, okay?"

The little girl blinked her eyes: "Delicious?"

"Yes."

"Brother, you are so kind."

"Go."

When Liu Bei saw that the water temperature was about right, he smiled and left the bathroom.

When he first arrived at the corridor, a dark figure kneeling on the ground in front of him had obviously been waiting for a long time. He held up bamboo slips in both hands and said respectfully, "Master Bei..."

"Well, Seventh Brother," Liu Bei took the bamboo slips and frowned slightly, "You don't need to kneel on the ground to talk to me. Stand up."

"only."

The burly man immediately stood up, bowed his head, and clasped his fists, saying, "I have completed everything Master Bei instructed me to do. Lao Liu and I successfully killed the leader of the mountain stronghold and also released the 'Seven Steps Madness' inside."

Liu Bei's expression was extremely calm at first, but when he heard the three words "Seven Steps Madness", he was so frightened that his hands almost shook and he threw the bamboo slips away.

"No buddy, isn't that Tsubaki medicine?"

"correct."

The seventh brother seemed a little embarrassed as well. He rubbed his head and laughed awkwardly, "Hehe, this was the sixth brother's idea. You know, women are the most vicious... Oh, by the way, please don't tell my daughter that this is the case, otherwise someone might get killed."

Liu Bei squinted at him and asked, "You dare not admit what a real man has done?"

“…Hey, before I was a man, I was a father.”

"Yes, yes, you are right. Don't worry, your daughter won't know everything."

Liu Bei's mouth is still twitching.

Because he thought about it, these guys had drugged the entire village with the Chinese twelfth lunar month, and most of the people there were big men... So, the situation there at the moment might really be a riot of demons, with all the Manchus and Han people sitting in a group, stacked like a pyramid.

Just thinking about that scene makes one feel a chill down one's spine and a tightness somewhere.

But on second thought, once this happened, even if the barbarians knew that someone was interfering, they would vent their anger on a visible enemy.

For example...the Zheng family of Yangzhou.

As for where the Zheng family got the arrows, it just so happened that the county magistrate who died today was a member of the Zheng family.

Of course, if he wanted to divert the trouble to someone else, it was not enough to just provoke one person, so Liu Bei also sent the fifth brother to cause trouble at the Zheng family.

Well, speaking of which, Lao Wu has a more serious personality and specializes in poisons. She shouldn't also throw Chun medicine, right?

Liu Bei didn't dare to think further. He spread out the bamboo slips in his hand and began to read, and then a smile appeared on his face.

"Miss Meng De has earned a reputation since arriving in Qiao County for her honesty, respect for the virtuous, and unfulfilled ambition... Haha, it seems the Cao family's public relations skills are truly formidable."

"Uh, Senior Sister Gongsun led the elite from the minority groups north to annihilate a Hu tribe, killing and beheading hundreds of enemies... She's so fierce?"

Liu Bei thought about his impression of Gongsun Zan.

When we first met, she was so cold and arrogant as if she was the best in the world, and she didn't take anyone else into consideration at all. If anyone dared to look down on her, she would immediately kill them.

But later, when Liu Bei became closer to her, he discovered that she was a very self-deprecating and timid little girl who loved to cry at the slightest provocation...

It was difficult for Liu Bei to regard Gongsun Zan in this image as the White Horse General in history. He also thought it was too ridiculous, so he initially deceived himself that they might have the same name and surname.

It was only after I discovered that Cao Mengde and Master Lu were both women that I became convinced that my senior sister was indeed the famous White Horse General in history.

After seeing the two's fierce fighting, Liu Bei also smiled slightly: "They started to exert their strength as soon as they landed... It seems that they are deliberately trying to compare themselves."

Liu Bei and his entourage came with an imperial edict to quell the rebellion. This was a forced march, but for Gongsun Zan and Cao Cao, time was not that urgent. They could rest at home for a month or two before taking any action.

Judging from the intelligence now, these two guys are also in a hurry to get home. As soon as they landed, they rushed to work with all their strength... They probably didn't want to fall behind.

Liu Bei shook his head and laughed, "They've already invited me so much. If I don't make a name for myself quickly, I'd be remiss in not understanding the ways of the world."

"Uh..." Old Seven blinked, "Aren't these all Mr. Bei's women? How can this be considered unromantic?"

"...Gongsun Zan is Bei's senior sister. You can be quite blunt sometimes."

"Sorry, my daughter often complains about this too."

"never mind."

Liu Bei glanced at Lao Qi and didn't bother with this honest man. He explained: "There are differences in strength between people, and the same is true between husband and wife."

"understood."

The seventh brother suddenly realized: "They all want to be pressed down by Master Bei..."

"pat-"

An arrow suddenly shot out from the bathroom. Lao Qi subconsciously turned his body to the side, and the arrow just grazed his scalp.

So, the whole middle was flattened.

Lao Qi was a little confused at first, and subconsciously touched his head. Then, facing Bei Ye's expression of trying not to laugh, he put his hand on his head... and then his face changed drastically.

"Oh my god!!! My hair!"

The seventh brother roared, "Sixth brother, come out here! If you don't explain yourself clearly today, I'll make you kneel down and beg you not to die!"

"All right."

Liu Bei raised the bamboo slips and patted Lao Qi on the shoulder, then said with a faint smile: "Qingying is not someone who cannot distinguish between the important and the trivial. She did this because of the dirty words you said."

"I used foul language?"

Old Seven made the classic subway old man phone emoji: "No, where did I say anything bad?"

“…If one is truly self-defiled, he is unaware of his own defilement.”

Liu Bei shook his head and was about to answer when several hostile shadows suddenly fell from the courtyard outside the door.

Jiujiang County: Chapter 24: Assassinated Late at Night

Shouchun County, Zheng family.

A black figure followed the cover of the night and walked away quickly. While the guard at the door was yawning, he instantly entered the courtyard.

The moonlight was bright, illuminating the figure.

He was wearing a nightgown that covered his entire body, with half of his face covered by a black mask, revealing only a pair of eagle-like eyes.

She was the fifth of Liu Bei's seven death warriors, also known as "Old Five".

This trip was carried out on Liu Bei's orders, specifically to "add some spice" to the Zheng family.

These seven death warriors grew up with Liu Bei and had different specialties. The sixth was proficient in lurking and shooting arrows, the seventh seemed honest and afraid of his daughter, but in fact he was an experienced hidden assassin, and the officials who died in Zhuo County were all killed by him.

And the fifth one...is responsible for researching poisons, and the medicines that the seven people brought were all prepared by her personally.

The fifth sister has a calm personality. Her parents died when she was young, so she is not interested in many things and will only obey the orders of Liu Bei.

As soon as she landed in the courtyard, she saw that the house in front of her was brightly lit, and there were faintly visible figures walking back and forth, seemingly talking about something.

Lao Wu didn't hesitate for too long. He walked slowly closer along the wall, then put his ear to the window, closed his eyes and eavesdropped on the conversation inside.

"…The head of the family has already sent his followers to summon the family's assassins and Ye Yin. The new governor is nothing more than a weak scholar, and he will definitely die tonight."

Ye Yin is not a loyal soldier of the Zheng family, but one of the rangers in Shouchun County, Yangzhou. He can be regarded as a "local tyrant" supported by the Zheng family, the so-called "street fighter".

This is a ruthless and taciturn swordsman, known as the number one of the three great swordsmen of Yangzhou. Countless souls have been killed by his swords. He has extremely rich experience in fighting and hiding, which is beyond the reach of ordinary people. It is said that he never shows his true face to others.

The Zheng family had no intention of activating him, but because the story of Liu Bei killing the county magistrate with a single sword in broad daylight spread, they mobilized this person just in case.

"I understand. But she was sent by the imperial court to suppress the rebellion... Well, how about this? After killing her, send a message to those Jiang Man and tell them to disappear in half a month."

"only."

Ok?

Upon hearing this, Lao Wu outside the door frowned slightly. He heard a piece of news from these few words - the Zheng family was planning to send someone to assassinate Lu Zhi and others.

But where did this 'unarmed scholar' get the information from?

The Zheng family of Yangzhou was not a very large family, but they rose to prominence in just a few decades. Almost all the officials in Shouchun County came from their family.

Logically speaking, such a force should be more than capable of investigating Lu Zhi's intelligence, and they should have known that she had just used her bare hands to destroy the warship in the sky a few days ago...

Could it be that someone blocked the news?

Lao Wu narrowed his eyes slightly, then took out a small bottle from his waist, unscrewed it and placed it by the window, then placed the barbarians' long knives and a letter on the ground.

She did not stay where she was, but turned around and retreated. However, she had only taken two steps when she heard a series of footsteps.

Lao Wu looked sideways and saw several figures in black night clothes walking straight towards the door.

"Um……"

Lao Wu lowered his head and thought for a moment, then took a step and blended in openly.

Perhaps it was because the aristocratic families were negligent in taking precautions, or perhaps no one could have expected this to happen. Even though the fifth brother suddenly blended into the crowd, no one else showed any strange expressions.

-

As for Liu Bei and Lao Qi, they just turned their heads to look at the source of the sound and found that the group of black shadows had only been standing there for less than a minute before a large group of them fell to the ground.

Moreover, each of them had a pale face, twitching all over, and looked like they were dying miserably.

Seeing this death, Lao Qi immediately came to his senses and asked, "... Lao Wu, was it you who did it?"

"Ah."

A cold voice came from the front. Liu Bei and Lao Qi raised their heads at the same time and found an enchanting figure sitting on the wall.

The pair of indifferent eyes that were exposed outside would only light up a little when they fell on Liu Bei.

She whispered, "Master Bei, the Zheng family has already made all the arrangements. Furthermore, these people are assassins sent by the Zheng family to eliminate the powerless Lu Scholar who broke the rules."

"Do they think the Master is a weak scholar?"

Liu Bei was amused by these six words: "It seems that the information here is relatively closed... Well, but these noble families seem to have bad intentions."

At this time, Lao Qi silently added: "Boss, it seems that we are the ones coming?"

“…You’re the only one who talks too much.”

Liu Bei shrugged and said, "Alright, Master is on his way back. Let's clean this place up quickly... Hmm? Who?"

Before he could finish his words, his expression suddenly changed, and almost instinctively he drew the long sword from his waist and blocked it in front of him.

"boom--"

The sound of iron clashing echoed in the night sky.

"Ok?"