The most powerful minister in the world

"Brother, I want to ask you something~"

The bandit looked at Jingxi with satisfaction, put the jade pendant in his pocket again and said with a smile, "Ask me."

"Brother, who is in charge of things in the mountains? If you tell me, I might even know him."

"You're the only one who knows me?" The bandit looked Jingxi up and down, "How would a rich kid like you know our first and second masters?"

"Then if we knew each other, wouldn't I be able to suffer less?"

The bandit pointed the spear in his hand and said: "Then listen carefully. Our leader is called Scarface, an eighth-level master, and wields a ring knife. He killed twelve villages in Qishan, big and small, and all surrendered with white flags. "

"Besides, our second-in-command, the Jade-faced Scholar, is truly a man of genius. He knows things like a god and knows the art of war. Did you see that all the defenses on Qishan Mountain were arranged by him?"

"Okay, okay, our eldest brother has been involved in many things recently. You will probably stay here for a while, and you may ask questions, but I have to make one thing clear to you, that is, don't even think about running away. "

"All the accessible intersections and mountain trails on this mountain have been guarded by our second master, three levels inside and three levels outside. Do you understand?"

Jingxi chuckled and said, "I won't do that stupid thing. I obediently asked my family to pay the ransom and continue to live my happy life."

"As long as you understand, come with me."

The bandits were walking in front, while Jingxi and Ananda walked side by side. They had no shackles on their bodies, only a hairy hemp rope that tied their hands tightly.

Jingxi murmured in a low voice: "Have you ever heard of the jade-faced scholar?"

"I've never heard of such a person. I've only heard of the Jade-faced Fox, but he's a female figure."

"Is that the unknown person?"

"That's not necessarily the case. After all, I haven't been walking around in the world for many years. There are many talented people in the new generation. I think..."

"Hey, what are you mumbling in the back? Have you seen this yard? You two should stay here and work honestly for now. You," the bandit pointed at Jingxi, "write down your family details today. I will come to get it tomorrow." , don’t play tricks!”

"How dare you."

Seeing that Jing Xi was behaving well, he didn't say anything more. Instead, he shouted towards the courtyard fenced in different thicknesses: "The mustache is out to pick up the newcomers!"

I saw a person running out of the backyard. He had thin arms and legs, and fair skin. The most eye-catching thing was the mustache on his upper lip, which was as thick as hair.

At this time, the mustached man was holding a dying black-bone chicken in his hand, still bleeding from his neck.

"Mustache, these two people will be left to you. Watch carefully. The eldest brother wants to get another ransom from him. If he runs away or dies, you are the only one to ask!"

The mustache's big eyes looked back and forth at Jingxi and Ananda for a long while and then said: "You two go to the back to pick vegetables. Brother Yan, please go back. I will keep an eye on them."

"Okay, what kind of hard food did you cook today?"

“Black-bone chicken stewed with mushrooms.”

After the bandits left, the mustached man untied the ropes from Jingxi and Ananda's hands and looked directly at Jingxi with his big eyes.

This made Jingxi look at him in confusion, always feeling that something was strange. He couldn't stand the age of this mustache. If it weren't for the eye-catching mustache, he would actually look quite handsome.

Wearing coarse linen clothes and a pair of cloth shoes covered in blood and dust, Jing Xi rubbed his wrists and cupped his fists and said, "Brother, what's your surname?"

The mustachioed man turned around and waved his hand somewhat proudly: "My surname is Li, just call me Li San."

"Brother Li was also kidnapped by this bandit?"

Li San sighed and said: "I traveled here and wanted to see the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River. I was arrested as soon as I arrived here. Fortunately, they lacked a cook and laundry, so I was spared."

"Are you the only one in this courtyard?"

"More than that, there are sixteen people in total. With you two here, there will be eighteen. There are two people mixed in among us. Please pay attention. I don't know who those two people are. Don't cause trouble. "

"Of course I won't cause trouble to Brother Li."

"Looking at you two with thin skin and tender flesh, you can't do any hard work, so you just go to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables. After eating at 3:30 noon every day, you can go wash your clothes."

"Ducheng."

Li San was about to lead the two of them to the vegetable garden while carrying the black-bone chicken. At this moment, Jing Xi came over and said, "Brother Li, we haven't eaten yet. I wonder if..."

Li San took a step back, with a somewhat panicked look on his face, coughed twice and said, "You two go straight for two hundred steps, and go ahead. I'll find some dry food for you two."

"Thank you very much, Brother Li."

After Li San left, Ananda couldn't help but smile and said, "Second Young Master, do you think this person is weird?"

"It's a bit strange. Looking at his body and hearing his feminine voice, there is a high probability that he is suffering from some disease."

Jingxi and Ananda were walking to the vegetable garden. Jingxi suddenly asked, "Can I trust you who is coming with me into the mountains this time?"

Hearing this, Ananda clasped his fists and said, "Although Second Young Master, you have asked Sister Lian to take care of you, you are still a little worried in your heart. However, Xiang'er's turnaround depends entirely on Young Master's elixir."

"Now that the young master has entered Qishan, which is full of dangers, if I don't follow him, I will really be an ungrateful person!"

Jing Xi nodded and said, "Don't worry. Not long ago, I wrote a letter to my brother asking him to use the black cavalry to help find out the whereabouts of the old thief. I will tell you as soon as I get a reply."

"I will never thank you for your great kindness. Ananda will bear in mind the kindness and righteousness of the second young master."

Jingxi waved his hand, and the two of them walked forward for more than a hundred steps. When they turned a corner, their vision suddenly opened up, and Jingxi was stunned to see the unforgettable vegetable fields at the end.

"They don't have many vegetable fields like this. If they had implemented the strategy of closing the mountains and sieging them that day, I'm afraid they wouldn't be harmed at all."

Just as he was sighing, he saw several people emerging from the vegetable field from a distance. One of them looked more and more familiar to him, and finally he exclaimed: "Liu Laizi?!"

That Liu Laizi was the person Jingxi met in a restaurant when he first entered Jiangnan. He was called a madman and demented.

Later, for some reason, she always slept at the gate of the courtyard in Dancheng, Jingxi, and refused to leave despite being driven away. After returning to West Lake for the second time, she disappeared when she returned to Dancheng, and her feelings were abducted by bandits up the mountain.

At this time, Liu Laizi picked his nose, flicked the boogers, and said nonchalantly: "Who are you?"

Jing Xi said hey and walked into the vegetable field. Seeing that he was still in a defeated state with a dirty look on his face, he said, "I also treated you to dinner, have you forgotten?"

The guy replied shamelessly: "I've had too much to eat, sir, so I can't remember you."

"Then you always sleep at the door of my Dancheng courtyard. Have you forgotten that?"

"Uncle, I slept a lot at the entrance of the courtyard and didn't remember it."

Jingxi swallowed, helpless, and was wondering what the bandits were doing to capture such a person, when he heard Li San's voice coming from the trail.

"Feng Xi, Han Nan, come over for dinner."

Feng Xi and Han Nan were the pseudonyms of Jingxi and Ananda. The reason why Jingxi changed his surname to Feng was to present himself as a relative of Feng Zhuoyi's family, so that the bandits' interrogation and investigation would be justified.

"Wow, there's also braised pork. Brother Li, you take such good care of us."

"Not only that, but there's also wine." Ananda opened the wine cork and smelled it.

Li San coughed twice and said: "I'm not a few years older than you, but I look a little older. You two don't need to be so polite. We are both in trouble. Just call me Lao Li."

Jingxi was not polite, Hu Chihaise said vaguely: "Old Li, how many vegetable gardens are there on the mountain?"

"Well... I'm almost twenty years old. This vegetable garden is only responsible for the surrounding food. There are countless rice fields, so I can be self-sufficient."

"Hey, give me a few bites," Liu Laizi threw down his hoe and ran over, reaching out for the braised pork. "I want the fat and thin piece."

Jingxi didn't want to get too entangled with him, so he held it to him and asked Li San, "Can we go out for a walk on weekdays?"

Li San looked around and lowered his voice: "I know you two are definitely not human, and you must have some agenda when you come here. If you want to go out for a walk, finish your work early in the future, and I can take you walking."