Volume 2: A sudden change in the prison, a red-clothed man goes out to find a thief Chapter 149: Hey, where is the magnanimity to rule the world?
In the prison, the firelight reflected two figures on the wall, making it dark and quiet.
"Who are you?" Bai Yaoer broke the silence first and asked.
Her sword always hung at her side, and as long as the old man moved, the sword would follow and stab.
She didn't dare to be careless, because ever since her martial arts reached a bottleneck, it had been a long time since anything could approach her so silently.
But the old man didn't seem to have any intention of taking action. He just smiled and spoke with his hands behind his back.
"It doesn't matter who I am. What matters is that Li Si has left the prison ten years ago. Little girl, even if you don't care about worldly affairs, before you come to save people, you should at least ask around in the martial arts world, right?"
Although there is indeed very little news about Li Si in the world now.
Bai Yaoer didn't say anything, but just looked at the old man quietly. She was not sure whether what he said was true.
Perhaps seeing Bai Yaoer's doubts, the old man continued to smile and shook his head.
"Captain Yan, who was knocked unconscious by you just now, also knows about these things. You can wait for him to wake up and ask him yourself. This is all I have to say. You can do whatever you want with the rest, young lady."
As he spoke, the old man walked past Bai Yaoer and disappeared into the corridor of the sky prison.
Bai Yaoer looked at the sky prison deeper in the room in silence for a while. Then, as if she had made a decision, she silently put away her sword, turned around and left.
The old man who left walked straight into the depths of the palace.
In fact, he didn't want to fight with Bai Yao'er. Besides the fact that it was unnecessary, there was another reason. He had a feeling that he might not be able to take down Bai Yao'er. In fact, if the two of them started fighting, it would be out of control and completely disrupt the prison. So he gave up the idea of sending Bai Yao'er away.
He hadn't felt this way for a long time. It was hard to imagine that such a young girl could actually make him feel intimidated.
Where did she get such deep inner strength? The old man frowned slightly and thought, could it be that she encountered all the opportunities in the world?
What the old man didn't expect was that his casual thought was actually how Bai Yaoer got to where he is today.
Over the past ten years, Bai Yaoer has been traveling with her father through the deep mountains and valleys of various places. She has visited a total of eleven martial arts secret realms, read twenty-seven lost secret books, collected fifty-five kinds of natural treasures, and encountered ninety-eight opportunities in the world.
It can be said that Baiyaoer's father gave Baiyaoer everything he could.
But it was not so easy to get all this. She had experienced the excruciating pain of cultivating her mind in the cold pond, and the burning pain of tempering her body in the fire pool. Every time she ate the natural treasures, in addition to being able to transform her, it was often accompanied by torture that ordinary people could hardly endure.
Because of all these experiences, Bai Yaoer's temperament has become much calmer than before, which is why she listened to the old man's advice and left the Heavenly Prison first.
She is no longer the ignorant girl of the past. She is less spoiled and more capable. She knows how to judge the situation and how to restrain herself.
She understood that many things would be bad if they were done. Since the old man advised her in a kind way, she would just believe him for now and ask Yan Tingzhi tomorrow.
When the old man returned to the inner hall of the palace, Li Shizong was sitting at his desk handling official business. He must have noticed the old man coming in, so Li Shizong smiled and asked.
"How is the matter of the Heavenly Prison being handled?"
"Your Majesty." The old man bowed slightly and said, "I have let the girl go, but Your Majesty, do you really not need to punish her a little? Otherwise, people in the martial arts world might think that our palace is a place where people can come and go as they please."
"No need." Li Shizong waved his hand, still with a smile on his face, and looked at the old man and said.
“To govern the world, one needs magnanimity.”
And he has this bearing.
He should be strict when necessary and loose when necessary. There are only a handful of people in the world who can come and go in the palace by relying on their martial arts, and even fewer who have the leisure to do so. As long as there is no big trouble, he will pretend not to see it.
The balance between the underworld and the imperial court has never been so easy to grasp.
"You should suppress the news of this matter for now." Li Shizong looked at the old man and ordered.
"Especially don't let Chang'an know that Li Si is a thief with many romantic affairs..."
At this point, Li Shizong's eyes narrowed, and there was a rare hint of anger in his tone.
He really didn't know what was so good about this petty thief, but Chang'an took a fancy to him and caused trouble for him all day long.
He could suppress this matter for the time being and not let Chang'an know, but if he knew that Li Si had done something to let Chang'an down.
Humph, then don't blame him for turning against you.
…
When the next morning dawned, Yan Tingzhi woke up in his room. His neck was still aching and his head was still dizzy.
Yan Tingzhi supported himself with his hands and sat up on the bed, shaking his head.
At this moment, a voice .
"Captain Yan, you're awake."
He was very familiar with this voice. After all, he had just heard it yesterday. It was Bai Yaoer's voice.
Thinking that he was knocked unconscious by the other party yesterday, Yan Tingzhi quickly grabbed the knife beside him.
"Don't be nervous." At this time, Bai Yaoer was sitting at the table in the room, looking at Yan Tingzhi and said.
"You are now in your own house. I brought you back."
In the past, Bai Yaoer had also stayed in Yan Tingzhi's house for a few days, so she roughly remembered the location and brought Yan Tingzhi back in a roundabout way.
"You didn't break the prison?" Yan Tingzhi held his forehead and asked Bai Yaoer.
"Li Si is not there, what should I rob?" Bai Yaoer looked at him calmly and asked back.
Yan Tingzhi probably hadn't fully woken up yet. After listening to Bai Yaoer's words, he was stunned for a moment, then nodded heavily and spoke as if talking to himself.
"That's right, Li Si is not there."
Looking at Yan Tingzhi's reaction, Bai Yaoer believed what the old man said yesterday. It seemed that Li Si had really left the Heavenly Prison.
Then why didn't he come to see me? Humph, a guy who doesn't keep his word.
Bai Yaoer snorted in her heart, silently made a note of Li Si, and then continued to ask Yan Tingzhi.
"So where is he now?"
He raised his head and looked at Bai Yaoer, then Yan Tingzhi sighed deeply, put down the knife in his hand, lay down on the bed and said.
"This is already a long story."
Indeed, ten years is a very long story.
