Traveling through troubled times, he fled with his stepson

Chapter 198 Potential dangers

As for this invisible protection tax, in fact, most farmers are not aware of it, and it is complicated.

Wei Qiqi learned from several people that the protection tax paid belonged to everyone.

None of the four major families in Yizhou City can be missing.

When Wei Qiqi learned of this result, he even felt a little absurd. When people were eating each other, how could these wealthy families continue to make money from taxes by dipping their hands in human blood?

After going back and forth for a while, it was already dark.

Wei Qiqi's stomach was a little empty, so she took everyone back with her hungry stomach.

When he returned home, he ran into Li Yuan.

"you……"

"Qiniang, it's getting very late." Li Yuan interrupted her, his face slightly gloomy, and he looked rarely angry.

"Yeah, it's quite late and there are too many things to deal with, so it's delayed a bit." Wei Qiqi said. She was still in the carriage when she was questioned. Yi Xi and Yi Liu beside her wanted to support her.

Li Yuan took a few steps forward. His voice was a little deep, but he stretched out his hand without hesitation for her to touch.

"You've been busy dealing with things all day, can you take care of your health?"

"There is prepared food in the room. You should wash up and get ready before eating." His face did not look good, but his words were normal.

Wei Qiqi looked at him for a while, and could only nod and leave with Ye Yuanxin.

After she entered the room, Yi Xi behind her knelt down immediately, and Yi Liu, who didn't react in time, also knelt down.

Huo Xiuwen, who got off the horse behind the carriage, felt puzzled.

"What happened for no reason?"

Li Yuan said, "Take the punishment yourself."

Yixi lowered her head and replied in a low voice, "Yes."

"Push it back for a few days so that Qinnan won't have anyone to use her hands." Yi Xi and Yi Liu nodded again.

Huo Xiuwen was still confused: "Why did he get punished right after he came back from going out?"

Li Yuan glanced at him and said, "Come in and eat together."

After saying that, the man went into the house.

Seeing him enter the room, Huo Xiuwen quickly asked Yi Xi and Yi Liu: "What did you do wrong that they treated you so harshly?"

Yixi and Yiliu stood up and dusted themselves off: "Master Huo, these are just some minor mistakes."

"Small mistakes shouldn't happen..."

"When we went out today, we didn't pay attention to our master's diet, nor did we bring any medicinal herbs..." Yi Liu explained, but was stopped by Yi Xi.

"Yes, now that we know it, we haven't had anything to eat all day. Medicine? What medicine?"

Yixi explained in a gentle voice: "It's just to regulate the body. Spring and summer are about to turn around, and I'm afraid of a late spring cold."

Huo Xiuwen didn't think much about it.

But before leaving, I once again sighed at Li Yuan's perversion.

Inside the house, Wei Qiqi washed her hands and tidied herself up before sitting at the table to eat. Li Yuan sat down next to her.

"Yizhou City looks like a city that is working together, but it is completely rotten from the inside. If we can't deal with the termites now, I'm afraid Yizhou City will face internal and external troubles."

Wei Qiqi brought up the topic.

Then she ate while slowly talking about what happened today, and Huo Xiuwen, who joined in later, would add a sentence from time to time.

Li Yuan listened from beginning to end. After everything was said, he spoke up when he had almost finished eating: "Qiniang, you just need to prepare to do what you want to do. I'll take care of the rest."

"The aristocratic families are intertwined and complicated. Under the heavy taxes, the people will surely cry out in grief. If you don't handle it well, the aristocratic families will rebel against you and the people will rebel against the government. It may lead to unpredictable situations. You are getting busier and busier, and it will be the same if I take Huo Xiuwen with me to handle it."

Li Yuan took a deep breath, he looked at Wei Qiqi, and asked her in a slightly light tone: "Leave these to me, you just do what you want. But Qi Niang, you should consider your body before doing anything. You are weak inside and it is easy to catch a cold if you are exposed to the wind and rain.

Remember to take your tonic medicine and don’t skip meals.”

Wei Qiqi, who had never understood where Li Yuan's low mood came from, finally realized that he was worried that her body couldn't bear it. When she met Li Yuan's gaze, Wei Qiqi withdrew her gaze and had to agree.

"Okay, then you take care of these. I'll go to Master Zhu to prepare the things we need next." Wei Qiqi said.

Li Yuan took the handkerchief handed over by the servant and gave it to Wei Qiqi, "If you have any policy decisions, just find Huang Manchang who is in charge of the tenants. He is one of us and will cooperate with you."

"If you want to do anything else, I will take care of the consequences and other impacts."

Huo Xiuwen watched from the side, muttering to himself.

Good boy, how come you still have so many tricks and are a master at chasing women without any instruction? If he keeps doing this, not to mention Madam Wei, he will have to admit defeat.

Since that day, Wei Qiqi went to the camp where the brothers from Jiguanshan were accommodated.

This camp is close to the military camp and far away from the people. Setting it up here will not disturb the civilians and will not cause resentment among the people in Yizhou City.

When she arrived, Ye Yuanxin was walking with Jianfeng, while Jianyu and Jana were busy working on something.

"Master, why are you here?"

Ye Yuanxin noticed Wei Qiqi first, and subconsciously let go of Jianfeng and ran towards Wei Qiqi. Jianfeng, who was behind him, didn't stand firmly and fell flat on his face.

“Ahhhhhhhh——”

He ran a few steps and then ran back, rushing to support the sword that had fallen to the ground.

Wei Qiqi was also startled, and quickly stepped forward to look at the fallen sword. Ye Yuanxin blamed himself very much, "It's all my fault, otherwise you wouldn't have fallen."

"It's okay, you see I'm fine."

Jianfeng doesn't know how to comfort people, but he still manages to squeeze out a few words to comfort them.

"Master, are you here to see us?"

Jianfeng saw that the little girl was still unhappy, so he quickly changed the subject. Wei Qiqi understood what he meant, "Well, I came to see you guys, to see how you are doing?"

"I'm almost recovered, except for my sword-edge leg which hasn't recovered well yet." Jian Yu replied.

After a few people chatted for a while, Wei Qiqi finally stated his purpose.

"Jana is with Master Zhu. She is learning from him very well."

Ye Yuanxin said on the side, and Wei Qiqi found it very interesting.

After saying that, they stood up and went to see Master Zhu and Gana, taking Ye Yuanxin and Jian Feng, who were about to mold, with them.

Master Zhu's location was some distance away from Jianfeng and the others, and was right in the center of the encirclement. As soon as they passed by, half of the brothers in Jiguanshan were alarmed.

"Madam Wei!"

Someone greeted him, Wei Qiqi turned around and waved, and the others also spoke enthusiastically. The people here were all injured or elderly, weak, women and children, and there were no soldiers. There was no discipline and it seemed a bit noisy.

Everyone was asking if Wei Qiqi was injured that day.

Wei Qiqi greeted them with a smile, but before she could say a few words, Janna rushed over from a distance and hugged her tightly.

"You, you...how did you get here?"

Cana spoke with a bit of a choke, which surprised Wei Qiqi, "You can speak now?"

Janna nodded and hugged her again before letting her go.

"She is very good now. She can understand what we say and speak a few simple sentences. She has also learned the true skills from Master Zhu.

I heard that Master Zhu wants to accept her as his last disciple!"