Madam, protect me!

After sighing, Li Nuo accepted the reality.

Just be a worker, it's better to be tired than to die.

He picked up a copy of the "Legal Classics" and planned to study it carefully.

The practice of the Legalists is not that complicated. The first step is to carefully study the works of the Legalists, understand their ideas, and comprehend their thoughts. Of course, like Confucianism, it is not enough to practice the Legalists by just studying hard.

Confucianism wants to govern the country and the world, and Legalism wants to enforce laws. Both schools need to enter the government.

Li Nuo can skip this step. Thanks to his father's identity, he can try cases even as a civilian.

In this way, the practice process is very simple for him. He can try cases in the county government during the day and come back to study the Legalist classics at night. If it takes one or two years, or three to five years, he can truly step into the door of the Legalists.

For ordinary people, practicing Legalism is still a bit difficult.

Although the legalists can become stronger as long as they judge a case, the premise is that the judgment is correct. If the case is judged wrongly, the cultivation level will even regress instead of progress. This kind of feedback on cultivation level will not be immediately manifested, but will accumulate over time, and the qualitative change will be caused by the quantitative change.

Therefore, even if you are a member of the legal family, you cannot judge whether a case is judged correctly or not by the change of cultivation level.

Fortunately, Li Nuo is not an ordinary person.

Whether the judgment is wrong or not, the "Code" will tell him on the spot.

The legalists control the rules, and even if they have just entered the country, they can control some simple forces of heaven and earth.

For example, the art of confinement is an ability that only the fourth level of martial arts can have, but the art of confinement of the legalists is different from the control of objects in martial arts. Controlling objects is essentially to control objects with one's own true qi, while the art of confinement has touched the origin of heaven and earth, and the power of origin is the power that only the strong in the sixth level of martial arts can control.

Of course, the amount of power of heaven and earth that the two can control is very different.

At least the legalists must be cultivated to the sixth level to have the strength to compete with the strong in the sixth level of martial arts.

"Strictly enforce the rule of law, reform and strengthen the country, benefit the time, and make contributions for generations to come..." Li Nuo copied down the important parts while reading the book to deepen his memory, but after writing a few words, he found something wrong.

Although the words on the paper were not extremely ugly, they were not good-looking either.

Li Nuo was very familiar with this font, which was his own handwriting, but during the day, he could still write the same delicate hairpin flower small regular script as the female assassin, but at night it was back to the original.

Li Nuo thought of the "Code" at the first time.

After calling up the Code, Li Nuo immediately found something unusual.

The portrait of the female assassin became much darker than before, just like the difference between a color photo and a black and white photo. Not only the female assassin, but also the goatee thief on the second page, the portrait also became darker.

Among the four pages of portraits, only the concubine of Zheng Yuanwai has a bright portrait.

The portraits are three dark and one bright, but the difference is that the portrait of the businessman named Cui Ze on the fourth page has never been bright from beginning to end.

Li Nuo fell into thought. The portrait of the female assassin dimmed, and his handwriting was turned back to its original form. This shows that the ability he gained by capturing people is not permanent, but has a time limit. According to the time calculation, this time limit is most likely one day.

Originally thought it was a permanent skill, but unexpectedly it was a one-day experience card. Li Nuo was a little disappointed.

It should be said that her handwriting is very beautiful and pleasing to the eye. It would be great if my handwriting was so beautiful... Li Nuo just had this thought in his mind, and saw the portrait of the female assassin light up again.

After a slight pause, Li Nuo realized something and wrote a few words on the paper. As expected, the words he wrote turned into beautiful hairpin flower small regular script.

Although the ability was lost and regained, Li Nuo was not very happy.

There is no free lunch in this world, and everything has a price.

He immediately stood up and carefully checked his body. He found that he was not missing any parts and did not feel any discomfort.

Li Nuo was relieved and closed the code again.

His eyes casually swept across the cover of the Code, and then moved back the next moment.

"Name: Li Nuo."

"Lifespan: 25 days."

Li Nuo's body was shocked, his face full of disbelief. No, he had 26 days of life just now, how come one day was suddenly reduced?

It's not even midnight yet, and it's not dark outside yet!

Wait, is it his lifespan that is the price of lighting up the portrait of the female assassin and regaining her calligraphy ability?

Although his lifespan was only reduced by one day, it was still a major blow to Li Nuo, who had less than a month left. What's the use of writing well? And it's very likely that what he got in exchange for one day of life is just a one-day calligraphy experience card, which is a pure waste of life.

A quarter of an hour later, Li Nuo recovered from his heartache.

He could only comfort himself that the experience card also had its advantages. At least, he didn't have to worry about always accidentally stealing things, and being caught by someone one day, which would be a big shame.

However, the portrait of the concubine's adulterer has always been dark, does it mean that he has no outstanding abilities or specialties?

As for Zheng Yuanwai's concubine, although her portrait is also bright, Li Nuo has no idea what abilities he has obtained from her. The code does not have any hints about these, so he can only discover them by himself.

Li Nuo shook his head, took a long breath, and stopped thinking about these things for the time being, and continued to bury his head in reading.

Butler Wu stood outside the window, watching Li Nuo reading seriously, with a smile of relief and joy on his face.

He knew that the master's son, how could he be a fool?

Compared with the previous young master, the current young master is more like the son of Li Xuanjing, the Dali Temple Minister.

He watched the old master and the young master grow up. In the past two days, he finally saw the shadow of the young master in his youth from the young master. They are equally smart and clever, equally diligent and studious, and even their appearance is equally handsome.

People say that the young master is not worthy of the young lady. Now it seems that the two of them, one literary and one martial, are simply a natural match.

When thinking this in his heart, a figure walked in from outside the courtyard. Butler Wu saw it and saluted quickly: "Young Lady..."

Li Nuo was reading in the room, and there was a knock on the door outside.

He opened the door and saw Song Jiaren standing outside the door. He felt a little uneasy. Would she steal the purse for him?

Seeing the woman raised her hand, Li Nuo subconsciously stretched out his hand to protect his head.

Song Jiaren gathered up a strand of messy hair on her forehead and said, "Pack up and follow me..."

The sky gradually darkened, and a luxurious carriage drove out of the Li Mansion.

Li Nuo sat in the carriage. It turned out that his wife was not looking for him to settle accounts just now. Today was the 60th birthday of the old lady of the Song family. As a grandchild, Song Jiaren needed to go back to the mansion to celebrate her birthday. As her husband, Li Nuo had to accompany her. Li Nuo was supposed to go there during the day, but he stayed in the county government all day. It was actually a bit late to go now.

Li Nuo heard from housekeeper Wu that the Song family was a general of Daxia. When Daxia was founded, they followed Emperor Gaozu and made great contributions. Although they are not as strong as they were at the peak, they are still a noble family in Chang'an.

The Li family was born in the lower class. It was only since his father's generation that they entered the official career. Li Nuo was a veritable second-generation official of the old Li family.

It is said that Li Nuo's father and Song Jiaren's father were close friends when they were young. At that time, the wives of the two families were both pregnant, so they agreed that if they gave birth to both boys or girls, they would become sworn brothers, and if they gave birth to one boy and one girl, they would become husband and wife, so today's event happened.

This made Li Nuo sigh. For the promise made more than ten years ago, the Song family was willing to marry such an excellent daughter to a fool. The ancients really kept their promises.

However, the Song family was not completely at a disadvantage.

From a personal point of view, the wife married him, which was like a toad eating swan meat and the best cabbage feeding pigs.

But from the perspective of the family, the marriage between the Song family and the Li family was completely climbing up the high branch.

Even Song Jiaren's uncle, the contemporary helmsman of the Song family, was only a fifth-rank military general.

And his father was a third-rank official of the court. The official positions of the two were four levels apart, and the power and resources they controlled were even more different.

In this way, he was actually the cabbage...