Patrol camp.

Hu Ruilin, who was sleeping in the corner of the big bunk bed, reached out and touched the person sleeping next to him.

"Brother, I want to go to the toilet. It's so dark outside and I'm scared. Please go with me."

In the darkness, someone sneered, "The boy is afraid of the dark. Don't let him pee his pants when he encounters robbers."

There were dozens of people sleeping in this large bunk bed. Upon hearing this, they immediately burst into laughter.

The noise here alarmed Ma Xigui who stayed behind in the patrol camp.

He walked over with a lantern in his hand, looked at everyone, and shouted angrily: "After midnight, no noise is allowed in the patrol camp! Starting tomorrow, get up at dawn for training, and keep your skins tight. If you violate the camp rules, you will be beaten with sticks!"

Everyone was suddenly silent, and you could hear a pin drop.

Under the dim light, Hu Ruilin pulled Hu Ruiqi and stood up.

Ma Xigui glanced over with an unfriendly look.

Hu Ruilin said weakly: "Commander Ma, I, I want to go to the toilet. I'm afraid of the dark. My brother will go with me."

Ma Xigui fixed his eyes on their faces for a moment and said, "Go ahead. The toilet is at the end of the alley behind the right wing."

Hu Ruilin seemed a little embarrassed. He lowered his head and walked quickly with his brother. Soon, the two of them disappeared at the entrance of the alley.

The structure of the coffin shop was designed by the third in command of Wulongzhai. There is a hall at the entrance that can accommodate nearly a hundred people. Passing through the hall is a spacious courtyard. There are two rows of side rooms on the left and right sides, four rooms each, and the row in the front is the main room.

Hu Ruilin pulled Hu Ruiqi into the alley. When they reached a place covered by the shadow of the wall and without a trace of light, he looked back at the empty alley and quickly turned his head.

The shyness on his face had completely disappeared, replaced by a serious expression: "Brother, what do you say? Are we going to Chongzhou government office to find Prefect Qian?"

Hu Ruiqi glanced at the alley entrance, raised one corner of his mouth, lowered his eyelids, and said sarcastically: "When my brother and I were being hunted by the rebels, I did go to Qian Sanwen with a passion, hoping that he could protect us brothers and help avenge my father. After all, he and my father were classmates and colleagues, but Ruilin..."

He was shrouded in darkness, his face was gloomy and unclear: "You think that my father died tragically more than half a month ago, and the most remote prefectures have already received the news, how could Chongzhou, which is closest to Maozhou, not know?"

Hu Ruilin's eyes gradually turned red and he slammed his hands against the wall.

He said with hatred: "People leave and tea gets cold, it's nothing more than that. Father was devoted to the Jing Dynasty, but in the end he ended up like this. Instead, those mediocre officials who were just sitting in office and traitors with wolfish ambitions are sitting in the court. How unfair is the heaven! And it also hurt you, my brother..."

He reached out and touched Hu Ruiqi's empty sleeves, and tears of heartache flowed down his face.

Hu Ruiqi patted Hu Ruilin's head with his remaining right hand and comforted him: "It's okay, brother doesn't feel any pain anymore, and don't worry..."

He narrowed his eyes and gritted his teeth: "I will definitely avenge my father and my broken arm!"

Hu Ruilin stretched out his left hand and bumped fists with him, saying word by word: "I swear to avenge this!"

After opening his fists, he asked again, "Brother, are we going to stay in the patrol camp of small Yunlong County? Or do you have other plans?"

The wind blew the clouds away, and the moonlight cast its shadow on half of Hu Ruiqi's face.

His eyes reflected the moonlight, and he said seriously: "The reason why we fled to Yunlong County before was, firstly, it was the closest county to Maozhou in Chongzhou, and secondly, it was because Dong Xicheng of Yunlong County was incompetent and the management was lax, which made it convenient for you and me to hide. But I didn't expect that the new county lieutenant of Yunlong County was such a big shot."

Hu Ruilin thought of what happened during the day and frowned, asking, "Brother, does your chest still hurt? Who is that Li Yanqi? The people my father invited to teach you martial arts are all well-known, and he easily beat you away!"

He knew his brother's pride and felt bad: "It's all Han Guang's fault, otherwise you wouldn't have suffered this humiliation!"

Hu Ruiqi looked up at the gray-blue misty clouds, narrowed his eyes slightly, and let out a long sigh. He was proud, but no matter how much he didn't want to admit it, he had to tell the truth.

"Even if my left hand was still there, I wouldn't necessarily be a match for Li Yanqi. I've never seen his martial arts before, and they're very tricky. He's very powerful... more powerful than anyone I've ever seen."

Hu Ruilin fell into deep thought after hearing this. He looked up at his brother and said, "The wife of the county lieutenant is not like an ordinary woman. She is very disciplined. In just half a day, she classified and registered all the refugees in the relief hall. This not only facilitates governance, but also effectively solves the refugees' survival problems. And..."

"It also strengthened the power of her husband. I am sure that in the future, in Yunlong County, the people will only know Lieutenant Li, not Magistrate Dong."

Hu Ruiqi felt his face burning when he thought of his unreasonable behavior during the day and the girl's gentle and soft words of help.

"I, I take back what I said during the day. She...she is not putting on a show."

Hu Ruilin didn't notice his brother's abnormality, and asked tentatively with his head tilted: "Brother, what do you mean, we should work under Li Yanqi first?"

Hu Ruiqi nodded solemnly and said affirmatively: "I have a hunch... this Li Yanqi is far more than this, he... is stronger than Dong Xicheng and Qian Sanwen."

*

Li Yanqi originally thought that Lin Yanyu had been busy all day and had been busy with him in the bathroom, so she should be very tired.

After he finished telling her about the Hu Ruiqi brothers, he stopped bothering her and just held her in his arms, closed his eyes and prepared to go to bed.

Unexpectedly, the little girl in his arms turned around restlessly in his arms.

"Wait a moment!"

When he opened his eyes, he saw the girl with her eyes wide open, looking at him unkindly.

I only heard her say, "You keep saying you want to learn the Thousand Character Classic, but I haven't seen you read a single word. I can't ask you to delay any longer today."

As she spoke, Lin Yanyu took out a book with a blue cover from underneath the pillow embroidered with mandarin ducks playing in the water.

Li Yanqi was stunned for a moment, then his face became wooden, his eyes wandering: "Don't you want to? My dear, it's so late already?"

"No matter what you say to me today, it's useless! Not only today, but every night before going to bed, you have to follow me and practice calligraphy."

Li Yanqi's face suddenly fell to the ground, and he went forward with a shameless face, trying to get close to the girl and cheat on her.

"You forgot so quickly what you promised me before we got married. Now that we're married and you got it, it's...not as good as before, ah."

Lin Yanyu's eyelashes, which were as long as flying eaves, fell down, and her pink face was full of loss.

She turned around, with her back to Li Yanqi: "It's useless to force you, if you don't want to learn, forget it..."

boom--!

Li Yanqi felt like the sky was falling and was so scared that he didn't care about anything else.

He half-knelt behind Lin Yanyu, gently shaking her arm, and repeatedly said: "Madam, I was wrong, I want to learn! Madam! I want to learn!"

Lin Yanyu turned around and glanced at him, and asked coldly: "Oh? Do you really want to learn, or are you just trying to coax me?"

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