Senior brother, how can you fall for such a beautiful junior brother!

A boy of Lian Li's age was not within the range of Lao Shuxu and the others.

After all, the temperament of a boy of this age is already determined. Those who are good-looking and have good skin will not come from a bad family. And since they are men, their personalities are generally not too weak.

They are much harder to control than women, and their personalities are much harder to change.

Although his stature has not yet fully grown, he has a certain amount of resistance.

If they resist and hurt the guests, we will be in big trouble.

But when Ma Tie called him over, he did not mention Lian Li's age.

When Lao Shuxu came, he didn't want to accept Lian Li because of his age. However, Lian Li's face was really good-looking, and no one in the entire Liufangyuan could compare to hers.

If it is accepted and trained well, it can definitely be sold at a sky-high price.

As a result, he unexpectedly overturned the car and was captured by Lian Li.

These girls were between eight and fourteen years old, and most of them were sold by their families.

The Qinghong Sword Sect made inquiries one by one.

Most of them are from towns or villages near Xianglai City.

The families of those who were abducted or kidnapped have been notified to come and pick them up.

Some of them were sold by their families unwillingly and cannot return home even if they have one.

After Zhao Rong took a rough look at their martial arts talents, he discussed it with his wife Shen Wanyun.

For those who have good aptitude for martial arts, Zhao Rong will bring them back to Qinghong Sword Sect as outer disciples and test them slowly.

For the others, Shen Wanyun arranged some work for them to give them a way to make a living.

If there are any smart ones among them, we will train them further.

Lian Li stayed in the leader's residence for a few days, and his complexion finally improved a lot, with a bit of rosiness.

He asked for some rice paper and wrote a short story of about ten thousand words on it about how he was captured and rescued himself.

Especially the process in which he subdued the four men was changed beyond recognition.

It emphasizes his courage and resourcefulness, as well as his spirit of tenacious resistance when faced with such things.

His writing is easy to understand, and he also forced a wave of value at the end.

Anyway, after he showed it to Yun Huizhou, Yun Huizhou's comment was.

“There’s no logic, but it’s fun to watch.”

Lian Li nodded. As long as it’s fun, people will like to watch it.

After all, elegant people in the world are still a minority.

He handed the manuscript to Yun Huizhou and said, "Please send it to Honglin Bookstore and ask Manager Hu if he will accept it. If he does, please publish it anonymously and do not use my previous pen name. As for the price, you can decide."

Yun Huizhou came back soon and brought back eight hundred coins.

Lian Li was shocked. The previous 30,000-word record of the martial arts competition only cost one or two taels of silver, but this short story of about 10,000 words actually cost 800 coins?

He thought about it for a while and felt that it might be a problem of the type of story.

After all, many people watched the martial arts competition live and basically knew what was going on.

But his short story was based on what happened that night, with many adaptations and dramatic conflicts added to it.

It looks more complete, so the price may be higher.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered that the one or two taels of silver he had earned from selling the martial arts record was still in the inn.

He hurriedly called out to Yun Huizhou who was about to leave the room.

"Yun Huizhou, on the day I was kidnapped, I sold the manuscript I wrote before for one or two taels of silver. I put it under my pillow at the time. Did you see it? Please help me put it away."

After all, several days have passed and they are no longer staying in the inn. If Yun Huizhou didn't take the silver, it might be impossible to get it back.

Fortunately, Yun Huizhou was reliable when it came to money. He said, "The disciples of the Qinghong Sword Sect saw it under my pillow. After they gave it to me, I put it in the bag containing the competition reward. It didn't get lost."

"That's good, that's good." Lian Li breathed a sigh of relief, and then continued to ask: "When are we leaving?"

Yun Huizhou paused for a moment and said, "Wait a few more days. I have something to do."

Lian Li was a little confused.

Yun Huizhou had said before that they would leave as soon as the things were delivered.

Why are there suddenly more things happening now?

However, seeing that Yun Huizhou had no intention of saying anything, he did not ask any further questions.

He just thought that he should shamelessly continue to live in the City Lord's Mansion for the next few days. At least it was safe here, and the wound on the bottom of his foot had not healed yet, so it would be better to rest for a few more days.

Qu Tingquan would often come to chat with him, and sometimes he would bring a few young disciples from the Qinghong Sword Sect.

The female disciples all had a good impression of him because he caught Ma Tie and that turtle man.

Although the pimp accepted both men and women, the majority of them were women, and the boys among them were mostly abducted or lost.

Many of the women were sold by their families.

In fact, although the villages near Xianglai City are poor, they are not so poor that they have to sell their children, so these female disciples are quite sympathetic to the plight of those girls.

They didn't come empty-handed either. Every time they came, they would bring some delicious food, and then they would pester Lian Li to tell them how he fought four people alone and captured Ma Tie and Gui Gong.

The wait that Yun Huizhou mentioned lasted for more than half a month.

Even the manuscript that Lian Li had submitted to Honglin Bookstore was published in the official gazette, and the number of copies sold on the first day was about the same as usual.

Normally, the sales volume of this kind of official bulletin would peak on the first day, but this time it was different.

From the second day, the third day to the fifth day, the number of units sold continued to increase.

There was even a brief out-of-stock situation on the third day.

Manager Hu of Honglin Bookstore was grinning from ear to ear. Seeing that Lian Li had not come out of the City Lord's Mansion, he asked Yun Huizhou to pass a message to him.

When Yun Huizhou came back in the evening, he looked at Lian Li in surprise and said, "Manager Hu said that their Honglin Bookstore has a branch in Jianggao City. If you have new manuscripts in the future, you can submit them to the branch in Jianggao City."

Lian Li didn't expect that Honglin Bookstore actually had branches in other cities, so he asked, "Jianggao City?"

"Well, Jianggao City is the closest city to Zuimeng Island. The most common route back to Zuimeng Island is to take a boat in Jianggao City." Yun Huizhou said.

Lian Li remembered that according to Yun Huizhou, Zuimeng Island was not close to Xianglai City. The branch of Honglin Bookstore was actually so far away. This was ancient times, and transportation was not that developed.

This Honglin Bookstore is really something.

The two chatted casually while packing their things.

Suddenly Lian Li thought of Lao Shuxu and the others. He asked Yun Huizhou, "What about Lao Shuxu, Little Eyes, and Strawberry Nose?"

"What? What a strange name." Yun Huizhou didn't understand what was going on.