Madam General, please run slower.

Soon, a fire was lit, driving away the chill of the winter night.

Wei Shiliu originally wanted to go hunting, but both of them were injured, so Li didn't let them go any further, and the three of them just shared some dry food. Fortunately, Shi Yaojue prepared a lot of food for them, enough for the three of them to eat for a while.

The three of them sat around the fire, speechless for a moment. After the chaos just now, their rapidly beating hearts were only now slowly calming down. Wei Wu and Wei Shiliu had many questions they wanted to ask but didn't know how to start. They could only lower their heads and eat their cakes in silence.

It was Li who spoke first and broke the silence.

"Why did you release the water just now?"

Li's tone was indifferent, without any confusion or doubt, just like a very ordinary question.

Wei Wu and Wei Shiliu didn't quite understand what she meant.

Li glanced at them, then turned his gaze to the fire in front of him, "Just now, you two killed people only when they threatened your own safety, and the rest of the time you mainly tried to stop them. Isn't this letting them go? Why didn't you kill them?"

Wei Wu pursed his lips, lowered his eyes and replied, "The master has instructed that no matter what, you must not kill innocent people."

Li seemed to have not expected that they had this rule. After a moment of silence, he smiled, but the smile was very faint. "So you think they are all innocent people. Then am I not innocent for attacking them? So should I die?"

"That's not what I meant." Wei Wu quickly denied.

"What about you, Xiao Shiliu? Do you also think they are innocent?" Li turned around and asked Wei Shiliu who was standing beside him.

Wei Shiliu nodded and shook his head again, "They weren't innocent in attacking us, but... I softened my heart."

Li paused for a moment and murmured in a low voice, "It turns out that the secret guards also have hearts."

Let alone them, wasn't she soft-hearted just now? She was clearly thinking of killing them all, but in the end, she only sealed their five senses and didn't really take their lives.

But being soft-hearted will lead to death!

Li looked at his miserable state and laughed at himself. After a moment, he looked up at the two people in front of him and said, "You are lucky to have a very good master."

He treated you as human beings, not puppets for killing.

Wei Shiliu didn't know why Li suddenly praised his master, but he nodded in approval.

"Madam, those people just now..." Wei Wu asked hesitantly.

"Don't worry, you won't die." Li lost his appetite after taking a few bites of the cake, and asked another question, "Why are there so many refugees gathered there?"

"I don't know. After the master came to Cuilan City, he also accepted some refugees. Logically, there shouldn't be so many." Wei Wu shook his head and expressed his confusion.

Li tapped his hands on his knees, "That's not common sense. This is the only way for Chaozhou to go to Cuilan City. What if someone knew we were going to pass by here and guided the refugees to gather here in advance?"

"That's unlikely." Wei Wu thought about the feasibility of this approach. "Looking at the situation of these refugees, they may have settled here a long time ago. But we only decided to go to Cuilan City in the past few days, and it was a secret message from the Dark Guard Camp, so it is impossible for outsiders to know."

Thinking of this, Wei Wu widened his eyes and stared at Li with an incredible expression, "Madam, you don't suspect that it was the master who did it, right?"

"It wasn't him." Li shook his head.

If Yu Xun wanted to kill her, he could just inform the secret guards. Why bother with all this trouble? But what if Yu Xun was just a pawn of the other party, an unwitting pawn? Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that she ran into this when she was out?

Seeing that Li did not doubt Yu Xun, the two secret guards breathed a sigh of relief.

Wei Shiliu also raised his own questions, "If it is true as the little princess said, that the refugees were artificially guided to gather here, then what is their purpose in doing so? Why would they do this even at the cost of human lives?"

No one could answer his question. If someone really did it on purpose, then that person would be terrible.

Li had a hunch that these people were coming for her. But she couldn't answer why they did this. Did they just want to force her to take action? It couldn't be that they just didn't like Qu Tangli and wanted her to spit out more blood.

"I'm just guessing. Maybe it's a coincidence. We just happened to run into each other unluckyly. Take a rest and set off early tomorrow." Li adjusted himself to a comfortable position and began to close his eyes to rest.

Wei Wu and Wei Shiliu took turns to keep watch, being alert to the surrounding situation while paying attention to the condition of the little princess. Fortunately, nothing happened that night.

The few people who lost their carriages could only use their Qinggong skills to go to the next town to buy horses. However, the situation in the next few towns was not optimistic. Not to mention horses, there were not even mules.

Li simply decided not to waste time and ran over directly using Qinggong. Wei Wu and Wei Shiliu had no objection. This level of strength was nothing to them, but they were very worried about Li's physical condition.

"Little princess, are you really okay? Do you really not need me to carry you?" Wei Shiliu had to ask Li this question every time he ran a distance. Even he felt a little tired. Is the little princess really okay? She wouldn't be trying not to tell you, right?

"It's okay." Li shook his head. Tanghulu had lost contact with him in the past few days. He was afraid that Qu Tangli had some health problems again. Instead of taking the risk and wasting time on the road, it would be better to go to Cuilan City early and have a good rest.

Li took a deep breath and increased the speed a little bit.

Wei Wu and Wei Shiliu looked at each other and resigned themselves to their fate as they chased after them. The little princess didn't feel tired, but they were tired.

Outside Cuilan City, soldiers wearing iron armor and holding spears stood in neat rows, guarding the city behind them.

Wei Wu had given Yu Xun the message in advance, so when Li just arrived at the city gate, a young general came to welcome them into the city and arranged accommodation for them.

"Where is your general?" Li looked at the courtyard in front of her. The layout was exactly the same as the west courtyard where she lived in the general's mansion before, which showed that Yu Xun really put in a lot of effort. However, there were soldiers guarding the gate of the courtyard, so Li couldn't tell whether this person really cared about her safety or had ulterior motives.

"The general led his troops out to sea the day before yesterday. Madam, please have a good rest in the yard. He will come to see you when he is done with his work." After the young general delivered the message, he went back to work.

Li looked at Wei Wu with amusement and pointed at several places in the courtyard, "Your master is worried about you too."

Wei Wu pursed his lips and ignored Li's words of discord, "It's because I'm not strong enough to protect the lady."

"Boring." Li muttered and sat down on a stone chair in the yard. "Little Sixteen, go move a recliner to the yard. Since your master wants to keep an eye on me, I will of course do as he wishes."

"Yes." Wei Shiliu responded softly with a calm expression on his face, but he kept complaining in his heart: Master, oh master, you really don't want your wife anymore. It's fine if you call someone from far away to look after her, but if you know she's injured, at least send a doctor to check on her. If you continue like this, your wife will really run away with another man.