Flying Clouds in Another World

The big man rode his horse around the crowd and laughed triumphantly, "I want the fat sheep, and I want the skinny sheep too! Hahahaha! Take them all back to the village! Anyone who disobeys will be killed without mercy!"

After hearing this, the bandits began to shout and drive the people towards a hill in the distance.

When Liu Shihu saw a few bandits coming to drive the carriage, he wanted to attack, but was stopped by Liu Feiyun with his eyes.

As soon as Liu Feiyun saw these bandits surrounding him, he had already begun to secretly consider the pros and cons of fighting with them. After some consideration, he finally decided to obey these bandits first.

There are many powerful enemies looking for his whereabouts. Compared with the powerful enemies who want to kill him, these bandits are much less dangerous. Maybe it will be safer to hide in the mountain village for a while.

So he just pretended to be panic-stricken, and then tried to talk to those bandits about some moral principles. But then he had to follow them obediently under the threat of weapons in their hands.

His actions instead caused the bandits to burst into laughter, and they all said that he was a nerd who knew nothing about the world.

The bandits led the others on a journey of more than ten miles, and finally arrived at a mountain stronghold. The stronghold was located on the sunny slope of a small hill, not too big, with dozens of simple thatched houses of different sizes surrounding a few brick houses in the middle.

These bandits drove everyone to an open space of more than ten meters in radius, waiting for the leader's decision.

Not long after, the man on horseback walked to a wooden platform in front of the open space and shouted, "Welcome to Qi Wang Village! I am Qi Weiwu, the leader of Qi Wang Village! You don't have to be afraid! I, Qi Weiwu, also come from a poor family and will not make things difficult for poor people like you! Of course, the premise is that you all obey me!"

After hearing this, the refugees gradually quieted down their cries, but they could still hear low sobs from time to time.

Qi Weiwu continued, "I know that you are all refugees. You left your hometown just for a bite to eat and a way to survive! Now the benevolent emperor is weak and can hardly manage the government. The treacherous villains took the opportunity to manipulate the court, making the empire a mess and the people miserable! No matter where you go, it's the same! I heard that many people have gone to the bitter and cold Jinzhou. I guess many of you are going there too! Bah! I think you think too highly of that damn Zhenyuan Marquis! All crows are the same! That damn Zhenyuan Marquis really treats you as human beings! I think it's better for you to stay in my mountain stronghold and become bandits! The mountains are high and the emperor is far away. There are no evil officials to oppress you. Isn't it better!"

After he said this, many refugees' eyes regained some light and the fear disappeared.

"Alright! I, Qi Weiwu, am a rough man, I don't know how to talk about big principles. In a word, those who are willing to follow me, Qi Weiwu, will be my brothers in the future. You can eat and drink delicious food with me. Your family is also my family, and I will naturally treat them well. If you don't want to work with me, I'm sorry, then you have to be an obedient laborer for me. If you don't obey, don't blame me for killing you without blinking an eye! Now you can choose for yourselves. Those who are willing to stand on the left, and those who are not willing to stand there honestly and don't move."

After Qi Weiwu finished speaking, he stared at everyone coldly.

Soon, more than half of the refugees stood on the left, leaving only a small number of them. Qi Weiwu saw this, and his cold eyes gradually showed joy. Finally, he ordered his men to arrange and guard the two groups of people separately, but left Liu Feiyun and his servant alone.

"You two, follow me!" Qi Weiwu said, and walked into a brick house.

Liu Feiyun and the other person followed him into the room and saw Qi Weiwu sitting on a chair covered with some kind of fur, drinking from a jar of wine.

After Qi Weiwu drank a few sips, he reluctantly put down the wine jar and said with a lingering feeling: "What a good wine! The cold water drink from Liu the Butcher's house is really good! Hmm! Little scholar, what's your name? Where are you from? What are you doing in Anya Border County? You don't look very old! Are you twenty?"

Liu Feiyun looked uneasy and replied in a trembling voice: "My name is Liu Yun, and I am from Luzhou. I am not here specifically to come to Anya County, but to travel around Liang, Yun, and Jinzhou to experience the customs and people of the northern border and broaden my horizons! The sage said that reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles!"

Qi Weiwu couldn't help laughing after hearing this and said, "Traveling around the northern borders and experiencing the local customs and people! You are such a nerd with nothing better to do! Your family must be very rich! You actually carry around hundreds of taels of silver worth of gold and silver!"

"No, no, my family only has some land and gold and silver. Although I cannot say that I have a thousand taels of gold, I still have a thousand taels of silver. But for the purpose of studying this time, I have brought most of the cash in my family! I hope Your Majesty can leave me a few dozen taels of money and let me go! I will be very grateful!" As he said this, Liu Feiyun performed a standard Confucian scholar's etiquette.

Qi Weiwu laughed even louder, and after laughing for a long time, he said, "You are such a naive nerd! Alas! If your family was near Qi Wangzhai, I might have let your servant go back to send a letter and let your family redeem you. But Luzhou is nearly a thousand miles away from here, and it would be too troublesome to go back and forth! How about this, you stay here and work for me, after all, you are also a scholar, I have no shortage of people who can chop people with knives or farm with hoes, but I really need scholars like you! What do you think?"

"Ah! Your Majesty, I study the books of sages in order to get a place on the imperial examination one day and bring honor to my family. How can I be a thief here? This! This! This is unacceptable. Please let me go! I... I... am willing to give all my money and property to Your Majesty!" Liu Feiyun pleaded repeatedly!

"Hmph! What a nerd! If you don't obey! Then go to hell! We don't keep idle people in Qiwang Village! With your small body, you can't lift a knife, hoe the ground, or cut down trees! What's the point of keeping you! It's your choice whether to live or die!" Qi Weiwu snorted coldly and threatened.

Liu Feiyun looked extremely frightened, his face was pale, and he saluted repeatedly, saying, "I wish to live! I wish to live! I will obey your orders, Your Majesty!"

Qi Weiwu then smiled and said, "That's right! Take your servants with you and go down. I will send someone to arrange your accommodation in a while! Don't worry, it's not bad to stay in my Qiwang Village, hahahaha!"

Not long after Liu Feiyun led Liu Shihu to retreat, a bandit arranged a small thatched hut for them.

Just like that, Liu Feiyun and his companion settled down in Qi Wang Village and became two small bandits.