Volume 1: A stone strikes a thousand waves, the world surrounds Li Daosheng Chapter 44: A lifetime of fame ruined in an instant
The next morning, when Bai Yaoer woke up, she found that Li Si had also gotten up.
This was a rare situation, because she usually woke up earlier than Li Si, so she usually prepared the breakfast and then woke Li Si up.
But today Li Si got up much earlier, which was unusual for him.
He squatted beside the campfire, burying the burnt charcoal with mud, and lazily muttered something like "What a trouble."
Bai Yaoer has gotten used to this. On average, Li Si says similar words in the same tone twice a day.
It seems that for him, apart from eating, drinking and having fun, everything else is troublesome.
Breakfast was the same as usual, with wild fruits picked from the woods.
But for some reason, after breakfast, Li Si did not take her to Wudang Mountain along the original route.
Instead, he spent the whole morning finding a post station in a small town, wrote a letter and asked someone to take it to Wudang Mountain.
Bai Yaoer didn't know what the content of the letter was. She only knew that when Li Si was writing the letter, he kept tapping the pen, as if he was thinking about how to express his meaning.
Li Si looked very helpless, and Bai Yaoer was very familiar with this look. Every time he encountered trouble, he would have this expression.
Did something happen again, Bai Yaoer couldn't help but think.
Is there another gangster chasing us, or are we encountering problems along the way?
Bai Yaoer couldn't figure it out, so she waited until Li Si finished sending the letter and came out of the post station before she asked.
"Why don't we go to Wudang Mountain?"
Li Si glanced at her and answered as he walked down the steps outside the door.
"Not for now."
"Why?" Bai Yaoer continued to ask with some confusion.
This time Li Si stopped, turned around and looked at Bai Yaoer.
After a long while, he curled his lips and spoke in a depressed tone.
"Remember you owe me ten thousand taels of gold."
"ah?"
Bai Yaoer didn't understand, but the next moment, she felt a pain in her neck, her eyes went dark, and she fainted.
Li Si sighed as he supported Bai Yaoer's limp body.
Originally, he wouldn't have meddled in other people's business to this extent, but he had already acknowledged Bai Yaoer as his friend yesterday, and after thinking about it all night, he decided to help her.
Besides, even the palace’s prison can’t hold him, right?
The only bad thing is that he was caught by such a little girl, and his reputation would be really bad if people spread the news.
You owe me a big favor.
When he thought about how people in the underworld , Li Si glared at Bai Yaoer in his arms with a dark face.
After glaring, he gave another bitter smile, leaped into the air, and rode towards the north.
Never mind. It's a human life after all. I'll be fine if it's a little troublesome.
When the pedestrians on the street saw the two people suddenly flying up, they stopped and watched curiously.
At this time, one of the warriors seemed to recognize Li Si's identity. He widened his eyes and shouted loudly to the people around him.
"It's the Thief Saint Li Si. Oh no! The Thief Saint is robbing a common woman!"
The pedestrians suddenly became a mess.
When the men heard the thief's words, they all held their wallets tightly.
But when the women heard that he was raping them, they did not hide. Some even quietly took a few steps forward, as if they couldn't wait to be seen by Li Si.
All in all, the small town was very lively that day.
…
In this life, the road from Wudang Mountain to the capital Chang'an is not far. If Li Si seizes the time, it will only take about a day. During this time, Bai Yaoer will not be able to wake up.
In the capital city at this time.
Yan Tingzhi was sitting in his house drinking.
Some time ago, he was summoned back to the capital by the emperor and severely reprimanded.
They said he was not doing his job well, as there had been no progress after arresting Li Si for such a long time.
Yan Tingzhi had no objection to this, because he indeed failed to bring Li Si back.
But next time, I will definitely catch him.
Sitting at the table, Yan Tingzhi drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, staring at the candlelight in front of him with a firm gaze and thought.
Before that, he knew that Li Si would not be caught by anyone.
Not based on anything else, just based on his understanding of Li Si over the past four years.
It is impossible to capture Li Si by relying on those vagrants and scattered warriors.
To capture Li Si, more careful arrangements must be made.
Yan Tingzhi drank some wine, calmed down, and began to think about what method he would use to capture Li Si next time.
Suddenly, a slight sound came from the roof.
Yan Tingzhi, who was sitting in the hall, moved his ears. He frowned and sat in silence for a while. Then he narrowed his eyes, held the knife beside him and said.
"Now that you're here, don't stay up there. Come down and chat."
The next moment, a man in white appeared in front of his door holding a young girl.
"Li Si..."
Seeing the person coming, Yan Tingzhi didn't seem surprised. He stood up from the table with a knife in his hand and asked.
"What are you doing here?"
It's not like Li Si hasn't visited his house over the years. In fact, he would come to his house several times every year, just like visiting an old friend.
And every time she came, she would deliberately make some noise so that he could hear it.
Yan Tingzhi was already very familiar with that sound.
So as soon as he heard the noise just now, he guessed that Li Si had come.
"Let's make it clear first." Li Si glanced at the knife in Yan Tingzhi's hand, drooped his eyes and waved his hand.
"I'm not here to do anything."
After looking at Li Si for a while, Yan Tingzhi, knowing that he could not catch him, finally put down the knife in his hand and replied in a muffled voice.
"Then just speak frankly."
Li Si was obviously used to Yan Tingzhi's seriousness, and he smiled while hugging Bai Yaoer.
"Well, can't you give me a glass of wine first?"
Yan Tingzhi crossed his sharp eyes and stared at Li Si for a long while with a gaze like a knife.
Seeing that Li Si didn't react at all, he snorted coldly and turned to go to the back room.
After a moment, he took out a cup, poured a glass of wine, placed it heavily on the table, and waited for Li Si to drink it himself.
Li Si placed Bai Yaoer on a chair in the hall, sat down at the table with a smile, picked up the wine glass and drank it all.
After drinking the wine, he looked at Yan Tingzhi, and there was finally some seriousness on his face.
"Brother Tingzhi, I want to ask you for help with something this time."
Yan Tingzhi's brows furrowed even deeper, but looking at Li Si's rare serious expression, he let out a breath and uttered a word in a deep voice.
"explain."
Considering that it was a rare opportunity for Li Si to ask him for help, he decided to just listen first.
