The envoys from the seven countries shouted in the back mountain for a long time, but did not get any response. Instead, they gathered together again unknowingly. They looked at each other warily, and their eyes were attracted by the old man walking in front.
"Meet Master Xunzi!" The envoys saluted Xunzi.
Xunzi returned the gift and said, "I understand your purpose of coming, but Ziyou cannot be born now. He still lacks many things. Please go back."
"May I ask, Master, what does Mr. Ziyou lack? I, the State of Chu, can help you." The special envoy of the State of Chu said hurriedly.
"No, he can only find what he lacks by himself. Everyone, please leave." Master Xun said softly.
"I wonder when Mr. Ziyou will be born?" Qin's special envoy asked.
"It all depends on him. He has read thousands of books and traveled thousands of miles. These are the words he left before leaving." Xunzi turned around and left after saying this.
Anyone who can become a special envoy is not a fool, and he immediately understood the meaning of this sentence.
"Reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles, Mr. Ziyou is truly a talented person." After saying this, the special envoy of the State of Qin left without looking back.
The special envoys from other countries stopped staying and left. As the special envoys left, what happened in the Little Sage Manor also spread. The whole world was shocked by it, and Ziyou became the talk of most people after dinner.
As the sun set and the moon rose, Ziyou sat cross-legged on the cliff with Zhan Lu on his lap. His eyes were slightly closed and he didn't know what he was thinking. Light footsteps sounded behind Ziyou.
"Actually, there's no need to send it off to me." Ziyou stood up and said softly.
"I'm here to give you something." Jing salamander threw the silk cloth in his hand to Ziyou.
Ziyou took it and looked at the silk cloth and asked
"What is this?"
"The most basic methods of surveillance, tracking and poisoning were used by Luowang. Master Xun was frightened away by hiding the sun's injuries, but he will definitely not give up." Jing Salamander said.
Ziyou looked at Jing Salad. Jing Salad was wearing a long emerald green dress, and his whole body was wrapped tightly, but this only added a touch of weakness, which made people feel a little affectionate.
"Thank you for your kindness. You can just stay in the Little Sage Manor during this period. It's safe here. You don't have to worry." Ziyou said softly. Jing Salamander seemed to have relaxed, but Ziyou knew that she had always done this. She had made plans to leave, as evidenced by the packages prepared in her room.
"I have already caused trouble to many people, and I can no longer cause trouble to you. I am very satisfied to be able to accompany Yan'er to grow up for a period of time. I dare not ask for more." Jing salamander looked at the sky full of stars and shook his head.
She didn't want to live a stable life, but she couldn't be this selfish person. Wu bought time for her to commit suicide, and Zi You almost died under the Sun Covering Sword because of her. Now that she has come to Little Saint Xian Manor, she still doesn't know what will happen to her. What kind of disaster will this peaceful place bring? Zhan Ri is right. She is a sword, a sword that will bring death and disaster.
Zi You watched Jing Salad step forward and come to Jing Sala. The distance between the two was somewhat ambiguous. Jing Salad did not avoid him, but looked at Zi You, wanting to see what he was doing.
"Don't worry, I said I would let you live a normal life, and I will do it. A child without a mother is destined to not be happy. Stay with her well, and when I come back again, that is When you are free again." Zi You looked into Jing Salamander's eyes and said every word seriously.
"I..." Jing Salamander looked at Ziyou with complicated eyes and nodded, "Okay."
Under the bright stars, a breeze blew the corners of Ziyou's clothes, and the two of them stood on the cliff.
............
The next day, a carriage drove out of Songhai.
Ziyou was holding a carriage. As for why he was not riding a horse, the matter of the special envoys from the seven countries coming to invite Ziyou had already become a hot topic. In order not to get into trouble, Ziyou naturally couldn't be so high-profile.
Ziyou held the carriage with one hand and looked at the bamboo slips in his hand with the other. However, when he was traveling, Fu Nian gave him the Analects of Confucius, hoping that he could study it well and pay attention to his words and deeds.
With Zhanlu in one hand, "The Analects of Confucius" in the other, and a carriage, the purpose is to travel around the country. Does Ziyou think he can pull up three thousand horses and start his own business?
Ziyou glanced at it twice before putting the bamboo slips into his arms, and concentrated on driving the carriage. His first stop was the State of Yan. The route Ziyou planned for himself was through Yan, Zhao, Qin, Wei, Han, and Chu. After returning to Qi State.
When Zi You was concentrating on driving the carriage, a rough voice suddenly sounded.
"I opened this mountain and planted this tree. If you want to live here, I will buy a road..." The bandit who was responsible for shouting saw Ziyou's appearance clearly before he finished shouting, and his voice suddenly became a few degrees higher. shouted
"Boss!! It's the thief in white!!!"
After saying that, he ran away without looking back. Ziyou was confused at first, and then heard the other party calling him a robber in white clothes. He looked at his clothes and saw that they were in white clothes, but he couldn't bear to say that he was a robber. He was obviously a robber. A scholar.
A quarter of an hour later.
Ziyou's face looked particularly gloomy when he saw him kneeling on the ground, trembling while talking, because these people just called him a bandit or a robber when they saw him.
"Tell me why you call me the thief in white clothes?" Ziyou said patiently.
"We never called you a bandit." The bandit boss said flatteringly.
"Do you think it's because I'm deaf?" Ziyou asked.
"Don't dare, don't dare."
"Then tell me quickly."
The bandit boss looked at Ziyou like this and knew that he couldn't do it if he didn't say anything, so he explained.
"In the past two years, there has been a young man dressed in white in the territory of Qi State. Others rob merchants, but he specializes in robbing bandits. Many of his colleagues have been fooled. Of course, this is what those bandits and robbers said. , in our opinion, you are simply a hero, a Confucian hero who robs the rich, gives to the poor, and saves the world from danger."
"Very good, where is your hometown?" Ziyou asked.
Everyone looked at me and I looked at you. No one said anything. They just took Ziyou back to their hometown with a look of mourning. An hour later, the bandits, who were shaking in the cold wind and naked, watched Ziyou leave. background shouts
“Welcome to your next visit, heroes!!!”
After seeing Ziyou walk away, the bandit boss spat on the ground.
"Little kids, we are unlucky today and have encountered this disaster. Pack your things, grab your weapons, and follow me."
"Boss, where are we going?"
"My family's fortune is gone. Of course I have to earn it back." The boss slapped the younger brother on the head.
"Okay, boss!!" a group of boys shouted.
Just when the younger brothers were excited, the sound of horse hooves sounded, and heavily armed soldiers surrounded them with spears raised.
"Capture all the people who came." The person who came was none other than Songhai's guard. He had received a letter from Ziyou's flying pigeon and came here to do some meritorious deeds.
He had also heard from Pao Ze before that there was a hero in Qi State who punished evil and promoted good. Every time he suppressed bandits, he would send a little white pigeon to deliver a message to the government. He used to be envious of Pao Ze who kept getting rewards for his efforts. , but I didn’t expect that I would encounter it today, so I didn’t waste any time and just led a team of people up the mountain to accept... Bah, the bandits are coming.
At the same time, in a dilapidated village in Qi State.
A group of strong farmers looked at the devastated land and villages and knelt down helplessly.
"Brothers, let's go. Since old-fashioned farming can't survive, we'll go another way." A man in the lead shouted loudly, his eyes full of tears.
"Okay!! The government is bullying people too much!" shouted a dozen farmers behind him.
"Li, are we going to go up the mountain to become robbers?" one person asked.
"No, there is no way to survive here in Qi State, even for bandits. Let's go to Zhao State. During the Battle of Changping, Zhao State is short of men. If we go, there is no chance of survival." The man named Li looked at the village and shouted
"We will come back, this is our home, we will come back sooner or later!"
If it wasn’t for the fact that they couldn’t survive, who would leave their hometown?
Ziyou, who originally thought that his journey would not be peaceful, arrived at the border of the Yan Kingdom smoothly. Ziyou originally thought that he would encounter some wealthy boys who planted mountains and trees on this trip, but after wandering half of the Qi Kingdom, Yue was not encountered even once, which made Ziyou feel that his teaching skills had no use.
