Chapter 1695 His Parents Did Not Teach Him This Way

Xiao Li decided to stay in Qingzhou for three days.

It was three days, but this was only a conservative estimate, because it was impossible to predict what happened in Qingzhou. Therefore, these three days were just time for him to verify. If he thought too much, they would set sail as usual in three days and head to Lingzhou. If he did not think too much, Xiao Li felt that he needed to return to Qingzhou immediately to see his parents in person.

There were assassins of unknown origin in the suburbs of Qingzhou. These people were in groups, with superb martial arts, wandering on the official roads and mountain roads in the suburbs. What did they want to do? Were they also the vanguard of the queen, planning to attack Qingzhou, which was close to Qingzhou, like the four states in the south of the Yangtze River?

Xiao Li was young, and his state of mind had not yet reached the road of saving the country and the people, and caring about the country, but he at least had good intentions and could distinguish right from wrong. He had seen a lot of the miserable conditions in the four states in the south of the Yangtze River along the way, including the strict defense of Qingzhou, the danger of his parents in the enemy camp, and the suffering of innocent people.

If Qingzhou is about to become the next Qingzhou, and he happens to encounter it before everything happens, can he intervene?

He may not be able to intervene too much, but at least he can contact his parents and ask them to take charge. Of course, the premise of all this is that he must first determine whether the killers in the suburbs are really rebels who intend to harm Qingzhou.

In the cabin, Xiao Li is talking with two elders.

Xiao Li's words are very clear. They must stay. They can't just leave when they know that Qingzhou is in trouble. His parents didn't teach him that way.

After a moment of silence, Ji Nanzheng agreed. Ji Nanzheng was a tutor. He is an official appointed by the court. In terms of serving the country and the people, his ideological awareness cannot be less than that of Xiao Li, a teenager. He is just old. After great sorrow and joy, he finally returned to his hometown. He misses his family too much. Now the ship is almost in Lingzhou. It is a torture for the old man to stop at this time.

Ji Xiaqiu, on the other hand, immediately grabbed Xiaoli's hand after hearing that they had to stay for a while.

"You want to go back to Qingzhou? I'll go with you!"

Xiaoli hurriedly held her grandmother's hand, knowing what she was thinking, and gently refused: "If I want to go back, I must go alone. I know that grandma is worried about Uncle Mo Yi, but you are in poor health and can't travel day and night. Besides, I said that as long as Uncle Mo Yi is still in Qingzhou, my mother will not let him get hurt."

Ji Xiaqiu said nothing more. As a mother, she couldn't let go of her worry without seeing her son safe and sound.

In any case, they decided to stay in Qingzhou. After the decision was made, Xiaoli took the boatman ashore to book an inn. He was busy until midnight before he settled everyone down. He slept in a daze all night, and he left early the next morning.

From the capital to Qingzhou, they temporarily changed their route and went to Qingzhou. Even if they traveled day and night, it would take five days and five nights.

Qin Bai's wounds became more and more serious in the bumpy carriage. He woke up twice, but could not maintain consciousness and fainted again soon.

From the second night, Qin Bai began to have a fever, and it was very hot when he had a fever. Xiao Niu took the trouble to change his cloth, wipe his sweat and body, but without a doctor, his wounds worsened, and everything he did was in vain.

No one could say for sure whether Qin Bai could still reach Qingzhou alive.

But they did not dare to stop the car. At this time, the pursuers were behind them, like wolves and tigers. Once they stopped the car, they might be wiped out.

Xiao Li stayed in Qingzhou City for three days. He went out of the city, north, east, and west. Except for the mountains in the west, there were no suspicious people outside the north gate and the east gate. Although there were no suspicious people, there were many iron cavalry footprints on the mountain road and the official road. A large number of cavalry passed through here, but according to the Qingzhou City Defense, no cavalry had entered the city in the past few days.

What happened? The horseshoe prints were near the outskirts of the city, but the convoy did not enter the city. Where did these people stay? What was their purpose?

After three days, Xiao Li did not get any effective information. He also observed the local government office. He heard from the rescued Haidong Army that the rebels' routine of occupying the state government was a "capture the head" operation. In short, it was to capture and kill local senior officials, and then quietly replace them. Xiao Li was afraid that Qingzhou had been infiltrated and officials had been killed, so he specifically inquired about the location of Qingzhou's local government offices and the names and appearances of the officials. He checked one by one and found that these officials were all fine, not missing or dead, and their mansions were also very normal, with no signs of invasion and killing.

Xiao Li was really unsure now. Was the iron cavalry print on the outskirts of the city really just a coincidence? Someone borrowed the road from Qingzhou, but it was really just borrowing the road, not entering the city, and not doing anything wrong?

Xiao Li felt that he might have made a fuss. Qingzhou had just been occupied, and the rebels had not yet thoroughly understood Qingzhou. They should not set their targets on other state capitals so quickly.

Thinking of this, Xiao Li was relieved. Three days later, he decided to set sail again and continue to Lingzhou.

On the last night, Chouchou huddled in her brother's arms. She slept for two nights. When she woke up in the middle of the night, she could still hear her brother sighing.

Chouchou grabbed her brother's clothes and whispered, "What's wrong with my brother?"

Xiao Li lowered his voice and coaxed his sister, "Did I wake you up? Be good, go to sleep, brother is fine."

Chouchou was not so sleepy now. She propped herself up and sat up. Xiao Li hurriedly wrapped her in a quilt to prevent her from leaking air.

Chouchou pouted and said, "Why doesn't my brother sleep?"

Xiao Li tidied up her sister's messy hair and said, "I don't know if my brother should leave tomorrow."

"Why don't you know?" Chouchou fell back into her brother's arms and yawned lazily: "Brother, don't you want to leave?"

"It's not that I don't want to leave, I just feel that there is no answer." Xiao Li sighed: "Although those cavalrymen did not enter the city, I don't know their whereabouts and origins, and I am always uneasy. Chouchou, do you still remember what the little magpie said to you? Can you tell your brother everything again?"

Chouchou tried to recall it, but she couldn't remember it anymore. She sighed, rubbed her eyes, and got up from the quilt. Xiao Li hurriedly put clothes on her. Chouchou jumped off the bed, swayed crookedly to the bamboo basket in the corner, opened the basket, and took out the little green snake inside.

The little green snake was also sleeping and was awakened. Its winding body impatiently wrapped around Chouchou's wrist.

"Abi, Abi, my brother wants to find someone, can you help me find it?" Chouchou said to the little green snake.

The little green snake bent itself into a bracelet, hung on Chouchou's arm without moving, and hissed twice in its mouth.

Chouchou walked to the window, pulled A-Bi down, put it outside the window railing, touched its head and said, "A-Bi, go early and come back early." Then, with a "click", the window was closed.

Xiao Li followed and watched. Chouchou had turned around and raised her hand to ask her brother to hold her.

Xiao Li took her sister back to the bed and asked, "You don't know anything. Where do you want A-Bi to go?"

Chouchou looked down on her brother and muttered, "How could Chouchou not know? Chouchou knows everything. Brother is unhappy. Brother wants to find someone. Brother can't find anyone. A-Bi went to find someone. When A-Bi comes back, brother will find the person he wants to find."

Xiao Li laughed, "Then do you know who brother is looking for?"

"I don't know." Chouchou said irresponsibly, "It's not Chouchou who is looking for him, it's A-Bi who is looking for him. It's enough for A-Bi to know."

Xiao Li nodded her sister's head, "How could A-Bi know? It doesn't understand what brother says, and it doesn't know what brother does on weekdays."

Chouchou said nothing, froze for a moment, motionless, and didn't respond.

Xiao Li felt her stiffness and suddenly felt something was wrong. He turned her over and asked her to look at him: "Stinky girl, did you hide A-Bi in your sleeves again when I wasn't paying attention? Did you tell A-Bi everything that brother does on weekdays?"

Chouchou pouted and snorted boldly today: "Brother is stupid. Brother can't find anyone, but A-Bi can. A-Bi is better than brother!"

"You are really too strong." Xiao Li pinched Chouchou's face and stretched the little girl's cheeks.

Chouchou covered his face in pain and buried his head in the quilt, refusing to come out again.

The next morning, Chouchou woke up and opened the window. Outside the window, A-Bi was hanging there in a long strip.

Xiao Li was making the bed when he saw his sister bring A-Bi back. He asked casually, "What's up? Did you find her?"

Chouchou didn't say anything and whispered to A-Bi. After talking for a while, Chouchou looked up and looked at his brother, "Brother, what's Mom's name?"

Xiao Li glared at his sister, "You don't even remember Mom's name, you ungrateful bastard."

Chouchou asked, "Isn't Mom's name Liu Wei?"

Xiao Li nodded, "Yes."

Chouchou didn't say anything and lowered his head to talk to A-Bi. After a while, he raised his head again and asked his brother, "Where's Dad? Isn't Dad's name two characters?"

"Yes." Xiao Li was curious and walked to his sister and squatted down, "What are you talking about?"

Chouchou pouted, and his little face looked very troubled, "A-Bi said bad guys and mentioned the names of my parents, but they were wrong. My father's name is Rong Leng and my mother's name is Liu Wei. Their names are both two characters, not three characters." Chouchou explained to A-Bi seriously, "My father is not Rong Duwei, and my mother is not Liu Sizuo. They are not these two names. These two are not my parents."