After the general's legitimate daughter was reborn, the ascetic prime minister pinched her wais

A fire burned the house to the ground.

"The Prime Minister really wants to come with me?"

"Why did I lie to the girl?"

Further out of Huiyuan County is the border of Qi State. Since then, Gao Wenyan plans to stop by Qi State to find a friend and ask about the white jade finger ring.

As a result, Chu Xu also wanted to follow.

Forget it about Gao Wenyan. Even if he is discovered, General Gao can still excuse himself by saying, "My little girl is naughty." It is no joke that Chu Xugui, the prime minister of a country, went to other countries privately.

"Prime Minister, you don't have to be like this. If I didn't believe you, I wouldn't have put down the sword in my hand."

She always felt that Chu Xu was trying to gain trust.

"Let's go."

Chu Xu even thought about the route. When he came back from Qi, he took the waterway and went straight to Wenzhou. He let Gao Wenyan witness the process of water control with his own eyes and encouraged General Gao to take a copy of Xie.

"Perhaps you can take care of Xue He as well?"

Glancing at her jokingly, Chu Xu said, "It's hard for you to say this."

Zhixing came over first, and Chu Xu briefly explained to him the follow-up matters, and asked him to send someone privately to report that the Gao family was safe.

In fact, when Gao Wenyan let Chu Xu go and chose to believe that he had no ill intentions, even he was shocked. Now she understood that it was Chu Xu's daily actions that made her choose to trust Chu Xu and her own intuition.

"The prime minister really doesn't need his subordinates to accompany him?"

Zhixing looked worried and asked Chu Xu if he had brought enough medicine. Then he handed him the prescription and asked him to take the medicine on time.

The bandits had been almost wiped out, so the two of them had a smooth journey down the mountain.

Gao Wenyan found it funny. It turned out that Zhixing acted like an old woman in private.

Chu Xu said that Zhixing didn't often act like this. It was just that his last trip caused an old injury to relapse, and now he had to drag his body to travel far away, which made Zhixing so worried.

"Zhixing is really loyal."

"He and Zhiyan have been following me since childhood, so they are different from others."

The two took their horses and headed east. They were about to reach Huiyuan County, but they met an unexpected person.

The bandit leader was injured, but he still rushed out and blocked Gao Wenyan's path.

He looked fierce, and his wolf-like eyes were locked on Gao Wenyan.

After whistling, he smiled very obscenely: "My dear wife, I have had such a hard time finding you. I miss you so much."

"Cut the nonsense."

Gao Wenyan immediately drew his sword and prepared to fight.

She looked back at Chu Xu and motioned for him to move aside to protect herself.

After only two short fights with Chu Xu, Gao Wenyan knew that he was really pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger. However, Chu Xu was injured after all, and he vomited blood after just two blows. That was not the solution.

The bandit leader was useless and fell behind in a few rounds.

"In the past, you really relied on the large number of people to bully the small people." Gao Wenyan mocked slightly.

"Shut up! You bitch, I'll fight you!"

He tried his best to fend off Gao Wenyan's sword, and swung it at her randomly without caring about the rules.

This man had an average brain but great strength. If he was hit by that knife, it would be very uncomfortable.

So Gao Wenxi hid lightly, hoping to wait until he was exhausted.

No one noticed that a sword suddenly broke through the air and inserted straight into the throat of the bandit leader.

As soon as the bandit's hand was loosened, the heavy knife came out and chopped down two nearby trees.

Disbelief was written on his face, and he rolled his eyes to see who it was.

Chu Xu rode over and looked at him condescendingly.

The ice in Chu Xu's eyes was not broken, so he drew out his sword and patted his face. The bandit felt that he heard a chuckle, but it seemed like it was just an illusion.

He stared at Chu Xu for a moment, and finally saw clearly what he was talking about.

"If your mouth is not clean, stop talking."

The bandit covered his neck, but he couldn't stop the blood from gurgling out.

"Let's go."

Gao Wenyan was dissatisfied: "He and I are fighting. It's not like we can't win. This is too weak to win."

He turned back and smiled slyly.

He said that it only matters if he can win, and the means are not important.

“We can bully the minority when we have more people, so why not?”

Gao Wenyan was somewhat unable to refute. In her previous life, she would have talked about martial arts with him, but now she also felt that as long as she could win and live, why not?

But she still wanted to find Chu Xu unhappy, so she looked Chu Xu up and down until Chu Xu couldn't help but ask: "What's the matter, girl?"

She raised her eyebrows and said, "Let's see if the Prime Minister has vomited blood."

Chu Xu was stunned for a moment and realized that she was making fun of him.

He smiled softly and said, "Thank you for your concern, Miss."

In this way, Gao Wenyan was happy.

I thought that the bandits in Lishan were enough to cause trouble, but after entering Huiyuan County, Gao Wenyan opened his eyes.

Huiyuan County is also considered a large county. How could it be so barren?

"It has been like this since the severe drought the year before last."

Gao Wenyan was confused: "Didn't a lot of silver be allocated from the treasury?"

"Yes." Chu Xu sighed slightly, "Guess where those silver coins went?"

You don't need to guess to know that it must have fallen into the pockets of those corrupt officials.

After Chu Xu became prime minister, he had been vigorously cracking down on corrupt officials. Once discovered, it would be a serious crime.

However, some things are rotten to the core and cannot be changed overnight.

Gao Wenyan was often in the capital in the past. Although he didn't really see the "people's livelihood" they talked about, he often saw high-ranking officials and nobles being extravagant and addicted to alcohol.

Things started to go bad in the capital.

She suddenly remembered something about Chu Xu.

Before Chu Xu, the position of prime minister had been vacant for a long time. It sounded good, but he did not have much power.

However, in the short three years since he was the Prime Minister, he actually took away a lot of power from the Holy Master, gradually restored the reputation of the Prime Minister, and became a truly powerful minister.

Although everyone said he was petty, no one said he was not a good prime minister.

Gao Wenyan tried his best to assist the king and fight against corrupt officials. Now he saw with his own eyes the scene of people's desperation. Gao Wenyan was curious: "Why isn't the Prime Minister surprised?"

A hint of sadness flashed in Chu Xu's eyes.

"I knew it would be devastated."

There were children begging, and they came all the way to them. The bowl in his hand was broken and empty until Chu Xu reached out and threw a copper coin into it.

"Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir!"

The children were so excited that they knelt down to thank him.

"Where is your family?" Gao Wenyan squatted down and asked him.

The child said: "Dead."

There was no sentimentality on his face. Perhaps he was too young to understand what death was. Therefore, when others said that his family members were dead, he only remembered that they were dead.

"Why did you die?"

"The whole village was burned down. It was such a big fire. I was the only one who escaped."

"Why are they all burned?"

"They say as long as it is burned, the plague will be gone."

Gao Wenyan's face darkened and he said angrily: "Who said that?"

Seeing her like this, the child was a little scared. He shrank his neck and said, "Master Guan. He is the one sitting in the sedan chair."

He was still young and didn't know that all the officials sat in sedan chairs.

"Go and play." Chu Xu patted his head, and the child ran away.

Before he ran away, Gao Wenyan quickly stuffed a piece of silver into his back belt.

Chu Xu looked at Gao Wenyan and said, "You are just making wedding clothes for others. He will be beaten when he goes back."

"Why?"

"The girl doesn't understand."

"Then why does the Prime Minister understand?"

"Because I, too, have been homeless."