After rebirth, the Prime Minister's wife married the living devil

"Li Yanqi, why are you so good at fighting?"

In the end, Lin Yanyu couldn't help but ask the question in her heart.

"Do you know what it means when you're curious about a man?"

He tilted his head slightly, his thin lips curled slightly.

Before Lin Yanyu could get angry again, he immediately continued, "If someone else had asked me today, I wouldn't have answered. But if it's you who's asking, I'll tell you everything I know."

He took off his black robe and spread it on the dense grass under the pine tree. He carefully brushed away the grass leaves brought by the breeze and looked up at Lin Yanyu.

He chuckled and said, "Come, sit down and talk. Aren't you tired of standing?"

Lin Yanyu hesitated for a moment, stopped talking, and sat on the temporary chair with Snowball in her arms.

"Come to think of it, you have contributed a lot to my being able to stand here and talk to you."

Under Lin Yanyu's confused gaze, Li Yanqi lifted the corner of his robe and lay down beside her.

He crossed his legs, grabbed a blade of grass and held it in his mouth, looking as if he had no bones in his body.

"Do you also think that I am a scoundrel who bullies men and women and runs rampant in the city?"

"I didn't..." Lin Yanyu whispered guiltily.

"Tsk, isn't that what they all said? Do you think I don't know?"

Li Yanqi chewed the grass in his mouth and said "tsk" indifferently, "I don't care what they say about me."

The sunlight was broken into pieces by the pine leaves and sprinkled on Li Yanqi's handsome face, making his expression blurry and mysterious.

"As far as I can remember, I knew I was an orphan, with no origins and no parents. I wandered to Yunlong Town when I was about seven years old."

"At that time, I was just a skinny stray dog. I would kick anyone, whether they were dogs or humans. Joking, beating, scolding and bullying were commonplace. There was nothing to be afraid of."

“Hunger is terrible.”

"Every day my stomach feels empty, as if there is a fire burning inside. I can only keep drinking water to put out the fire, but it doesn't work."

"Later, I was so hungry that I couldn't stand it anymore, so I started stealing. At first, it was OK and I was able to get away with it, but there were only a few stores in town, and when they saw me, the shop assistants came out and chased me, and I couldn't steal anymore."

"Don't you want to ask the townspeople for some food?" Lin Yanyu looked reluctant.

Li Yanqi shook his head and laughed at her naivety.

"Do you think the beggars in this town are vegetarians? If I eat one more bite, they will eat one less bite. You have never tasted hunger, so you won't understand the feeling of fighting to the death for a rotten bun."

"I'm a homeless kid from outside. How could the local beggar gang let me go so easily? They beat me to death when they saw me. I'm too weak and too small. I can only hide here and there like a mouse. I live one day at a time."

"I sneaked around every day. In order to avoid starving to death, I even ate the grass on the ground. But I didn't know which grass was edible and which was not. Later, I accidentally ate poisonous grass and my whole body was rotten. Even the beggars in the town didn't dare to approach me when they saw me."

Lin Yanyu's eyes turned red, as if tears were falling.

"But I have met some good people before. At that time, I really thought I was going to die. I was so hungry that I didn't have any strength left. I collapsed in front of a breakfast shop. No one dared to approach me, but a girl who looked like a little bun came over and fed me a bun."

Li Yanqi closed his eyes in the flickering light and fragmented gold, his long black eyelashes trembled, and his lips curled slightly.

"That was the most delicious bun I have ever eaten. I still remember its taste."

"What does it taste like? Is it really that delicious?" Lin Yanyu's eyes were red, and her curiosity was aroused.

“The taste of being alive.”

"That little girl also looks like a little dumpling, with a red jacket, white cheeks, and two small buns on her head. She is round and plump, like a little dumpling."

Lin Yanyu complained in her heart, how could anyone describe a girl from a good family like that.

"That little girl..." Li Yanqi turned his head, with a warm light in his eyes, and looked at her and said, "It's you."

Lin Yanyu opened her eyes wide in shock and asked in surprise: "Me?"

"It's normal that you don't remember. After all, you were only five years old at that time. Your mother left you and your sister at the breakfast shop and went to buy grain and oil nearby. Your sister was so scared when she saw me that she kept crying, but you were brave. When your mother came to take you away, you stuffed the two cents in your purse into my pocket."

At this point, Li Yanqi seemed to recall that scene, his face softened, and he said in a hoarse voice: "How cute."

Lin Yanyu's face turned red as blood, her eyelashes fluttered, and she stammered and changed the subject: "What happened next? How did you become so good at kung fu?"

"Maybe I'm just lucky. I managed to get through it with the buns and two cents you gave me."

"After I recovered, I was caught by those beggars in the town. I knew it was the same either way, so I fought them to the death. But I was too weak to be their opponent at all. I was beaten up, my arm was broken, and they threw me into a mass grave outside the town."

"What happened next?" Lin Yanyu looked nervous and couldn't help asking.

"Later... a disabled person who was scavenging saw me and fixed my arm."

Li Yanqi said: "The crippled man was originally a bodyguard, and he had a bit of a reputation in the underworld. Later, when he was on a mission to the north, his legs were chopped off at the knees by horse bandits, and his tendons were also cut. His wife took the money and ran off with another bodyguard."

Lin Yanyu was delighted that someone had saved him, and asked Li Yanqi: "Did he adopt you?"

"How is that possible?" Li Yanqi laughed at himself. "Li Kuizi can't even support himself, and even has to come to a filthy place like a mass grave to scavenge. How could he possibly adopt me?"

"Since this old skinner found me and reattached my arm, there must have been a price for it. He said that I have strong muscles and bones and am a good candidate for martial arts training. It would be a pity if I didn't learn martial arts, so he taught me martial arts. The condition is that as long as I don't die, I must share half of my daily food with him, and I will also help him in his old age."

Lin Yanyu instantly thought of the hardship that seven-year-old Li Yanqi had to endure in order to support two elderly, weak and disabled people.

"At the beginning, I was young and couldn't beat anyone, so I practiced martial arts hard. If I couldn't beat anyone, I would run away. Because I wanted to have enough food, I practiced martial arts hard, in the coldest days of winter and the hottest days of summer. I practiced martial arts before others got up and when others were asleep."

"Gradually, the beggars started to take a detour when they saw me. Even the hooligans in the town bowed and called me 'Big Brother' when they saw me. Doesn't it feel dramatic?"

Lin Yanyu's expression was complicated, and she said with emotion: "So that's how it is. Then...what do you do for a living now?"

"A few years ago, Liu Yishou, the owner of Yongsheng Casino, approached me to help him collect his gambling debts. Then, those in the town and neighboring counties..."

Li Yanqi knew that Lin Yanyu would definitely disagree, so he changed the subject and said, "I also know that this is a life on the edge of a knife, and it is not a long-term solution. Before, I was alone and free, so it didn't matter, but now..."