The queen of the last days became a maid and just wanted to lie down

Pei Shuo handed the powder he was using to Xu Yao. Xu Yao tasted it and found nothing different.

That's a question of craftsmanship.

This thing is weird, same seasoning, same recipe, but there's always someone making it more delicious than yours. How can you reason with that?

Seeing that Xu Yao was enjoying the meal, Pei Shuo handed her another leg, but Xu Yao told him to eat it too.

"I saw you in the city dressed in black. What were you doing?"

Xu Yao suddenly asked. Pei Shuo raised his head calmly after hearing her say that.

"In the past few years, I have been doing business with Zhuang Mu, one in the open and the other in the dark. We have built our own network of contacts and expanded our business to Wanzhou City. I originally came here to look for someone, but Wanzhou City was suddenly attacked. I only had time to send the shopkeeper and his clerk out of the city, and ended up forgetting the important account book. I had no choice but to come back to get it."

"Is this account important?" Xu Yao asked him.

Pei Shuo nodded and said, "You know Zhuang Mu's business. He is good at dealing with officials. He will naturally have some transaction details in his hands. This kind of thing is like a sharp blade at a critical moment, and its value is extraordinary."

Xu Yao said "oh" and understood what he meant. She suddenly asked Pei Shuo, "Has Zhuang Mu ever helped General Zhao in Wanzhou City to sell weapons and military equipment?"

Pei Shuo shook his head. "We are engaged in the cloth business in Wanzhou City. This place is full of good and bad people, and business is not so easy to do. Therefore, our main purpose is to set up a sentry post here to pass on information. We do very routine business and have never dealt with the army. If we must say, we have purchased some cloth for the soldiers and servants of General Zhao's mansion. The military rations and equipment you mentioned are not something we can get involved in."

Xu Yao thought that this was fine. She felt that when doing business, there should be no fraud.

But after seeing the suffering of ordinary people due to collusion between officials and businessmen, Xu Yao felt that it was not so acceptable to do so.

Especially since there was an insider in Wanzhou City, who collaborated with outside forces, causing so many people to become homeless and their families to be broken up.

Xu Yao felt even more uncomfortable.

Of course she knew that all this was not caused by a mere merchant selling something.

The main reason is that those in power are not human.

But she just didn't want Pei Shuo to have ever been involved in such dirty things. This was probably a kind of beautiful expectation for the child she raised. She instinctively hoped that he would be clean and had never done anything dirty.

Although he had taught him to kill, it was for self-protection.

Pei Shuo looked at his master deeply, his eyes had a different light than usual. "Master, don't worry, I know what I do. Zhuang Mu is also very smart. He knows what can be touched and what cannot be touched. After all, we are not merchants from Dingnan. If we touch this kind of thing, there will only be endless troubles."

When he said this, Xu Yao believed it.

It was getting late, so Xu Yao prepared to rest.

She found a clean spot near the fire, spread out a cloth, and lay down.

Pei Shuo added some more firewood and stared at Xu Yao's face quietly without saying a word. The eyes under the firelight showed an expression that Xu Yao had never seen before.

After making sure Xu Yao had fallen asleep, Pei Shuo tiptoed towards Xu Yao and gently touched Xu Yao's face, his eyes full of affection and reluctance.

He murmured, "You finally came back, I knew you were still alive."

The Immortal of the South Sea originally wanted to talk to Xu Yao for a few words, but when he found that Xu Yao was asleep, he gave up the idea.

He saw Pei Shuo sleeping beside him, and seemed to be thinking about something. In the end, he said nothing and turned back to the cave.

The next day, at dawn, Xu Yao caught a few wild rabbits and asked Pei Shuo to help grill them.

Xu Sheng smelled the aroma of meat last night and wanted to eat it but didn't dare to come out. Now that he saw Xu Yao catching a few rabbits, his eyes were shining and he was drooling. He looked at Xu Yao expectantly, and it was obvious that he wanted to eat it.

Xu Yao didn't mind sharing some of the burden, so she asked Pei Shuo to help her with the barbecue. She caught four rabbits, enough for each of them to share.

Nanhai Xianweng called the man aside and whispered, "The appearance of your little disciple is a little abnormal."

Xu Yao smiled and asked him what was wrong.

Nanhai Xianweng rolled his eyes at her and said, "Why are you pretending to be so? I don't believe you can't see through it."

Xu Yao said he was overthinking it: "Besides, even if he is suspicious, so what? He is my disciple, I trained him, I know his character, even if he is suspicious, he will not harm me, and he is my man, my disciple, what's the problem with me trusting him a little?"

Nanhai Xianweng sighed and said, "Sometimes you can't trust blindly. This person is completely different from five years ago. Aren't you afraid that after five years, he will become completely different and no longer the person you knew back then?"

Xu Yao thought about the knife in Pei Shuo's hand, the moves he made last night, and the look in his eyes when he killed someone, and sneered: "Even if he has changed, so what? This world is not good, and his family has suffered such a disaster. Five years have passed, and he has been hunted down wherever he goes. If he becomes ruthless, it is just to seek a way to survive. The way to survive is unscrupulous, and there is nothing we can do about it. What's the problem?"

She could understand Pei Shuo's change, just like she understood that Liu Moyan had to betray her in order to survive.

We are just ordinary people who want to survive, what's wrong with that?

These people had similar experiences as she had, so Xu Yao could easily empathize with them, so she was more tolerant than others.

What's more, Pei Shuo was the disciple she taught personally, and he was her only disciple. Even if she listened to one side of the story and believed it, she would not think there was anything wrong with her.

Nanhai Xianweng sighed, thinking that she was blindly trusting her own child. "From the look of this man, I can see that he has a murderous aura and is wavering between good and evil. If he walks the right path, he will surely bless the people. If he walks the evil path, he will surely be a demon and bring disaster to the world."

Xu Yao immediately showed a horrified expression when he heard him say this. "Old Taoist priest, don't scare me. I only have this one disciple. If you consider him my master, then he is your disciple's grandson. Isn't it a bit immoral to say this about your own disciple's grandson?"

Nanhai Xianweng thought about it and it seemed to make sense. "This is my disciple's grandson, so I must advise you to keep an eye on him and don't let him make a big mistake. If he gets into trouble in the future, you will regret it."

Xu Yao had a headache. "He's already this big, do I still have to keep him with me? Is there any justice in this world?"

She doesn't want to take care of a child because it's too annoying.

Nanhai Xianweng sneered and said, "Once a teacher, always a father. Do you think the word master is for nothing? You have to take care of him for the rest of his life!"

Xu Yao was surprised that there was such a saying.

"If you really can't stand him, just expel him from your sect. Then you will have nothing to do with him, and you don't have to worry about his life or death."

Xu Yao hesitated. "I went through a lot of trouble to get this disciple. I can't expel him from the sect."