Originated from mountains and seas, life never ends

Chapter 143 How do you know?

"Xiao, do you still remember me?"

The woman waved her hands and opened her arms towards Xiao, as if she wanted to hug him.

"I don't remember." Xiao dodged to the side, jumped out of the car, and stood three steps away looking at her.

"That's really sad." The woman frowned, but her eyes were full of smiles, and her moist eyes seemed to be shining, "You are still so indifferent."

The surrounding bandits looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

"Looking at the situation...our wife...is cheating on her?" Scar asked the leader tremblingly.

Leader: ...

The leader glanced at him unhappily and said nothing.

"Then, what should we do? Should we tell the king... But is this a betrayal of my wife? But does this count as a betrayal of my wife--"

Meng Liyun, who was still trying to understand, couldn't help but look at him.

"What happened--" The old lady was about to pull the curtain when Meng Liyun pushed her back.

"It's hard to say now, don't come out yet." Meng Liyun said while looking at Xiao.

Xiao was frowning and looking at the woman in front of him, as if he was trying hard to remember who she was.

"After so many years, you haven't changed at all." Seeing him like this, the woman couldn't help but sigh.

Xiao's brows relaxed slightly: "You..."

“How should I put it…” The woman shook her head and closed her eyes. “I’m not that surprised.”

"It's still my old lover..." Scar pulled the leader's arm in desperation, "Do you think we can persuade the lady to come back?"

Meng Liyun couldn't help but look at him again.

The leader finally couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Get lost."

Scar pouted in grievance and slowly loosened his hand.

Xiao was still thinking hard. Meng Liyun stared at the woman's gorgeous face, but she thought of something.

"Yu...Yuwei?"

Hearing her voice, the woman turned to look at her, her eyebrows slightly raised, as if a little surprised.

"Are you Sister Yuwei?" Meng Liyun's eyes lit up slightly, and she finally remembered, "I am Meng Liyun."

"Liyun?" The woman frowned at first, then suddenly realized, "Liyun! You've grown so big."

"Yes." Meng Liyun nodded repeatedly, her eyes shining, "Why are you here?"

"It's a long story." Yu Wei smiled brightly, glanced at Xiao who hadn't remembered yet, and finally couldn't help rolling her eyes and complaining to Meng Liyun, "You said he was... I'm also convinced. After all, he spent nearly a thousand taels of silver on me, redeemed me and gave me so much silver after my death, but it's only been more than ten years, and he has completely forgotten about it..."

Yu Wei said, as if she really felt that Xiao's reaction was incredible: "You said that even if you don't remember me, you should remember the silver, right? Ah? You forgot so much money just like that, let alone a thousand taels. Even if I spent a few dozen taels on someone, I would remember it clearly. But he forgot everything as soon as he turned around."

As he said this, he clapped his hands, then spread them out, feeling extremely helpless.

Finally, when Yu Wei's words couldn't be made any clearer, Xiao finally remembered.

"Oh, it's you." Xiao's eyes moved slightly, as if thinking about something.

Yu Wei held her forehead and raised her chin slightly: "Hey - did you remember it?"

Xiao nodded, looked around at the bandits who didn't know what was going on, and then looked at her: "What are you doing now--?"

Yu Wei laughed, put her arms around Meng Liyun's neck, and nodded at him: "Let's go to the village and talk."

"You're bringing people to the village!" Scar said angrily, "That's too much! This is a naked provocation!"

Leader: ...

Yu Wei suddenly turned her head and smiled: "Just because I ignore you doesn't mean I can't hear you."

Scar: ...

Scar laughed dryly twice and was about to say something when the leader slapped him on the back of the head.

"What are you yelling about all day? Shut up."

Scar pouted in grievance and wanted to say something, but the leader pointed at him and Yuwei looked at him with a deathly gaze, so he had to shut his mouth and swallow back the words that were about to come out of his throat.

Yu Wei rolled her eyes at him unhappily, waved her hand and told them to go home, and chatted with Xiao and the others while walking on the road.

Meng Liyun and Xiao sat on both sides of the carriage. Yu Wei led the horse and walked slowly and leisurely. The bandits surrounded them and followed them.

"How have you been these years?" Yu Wei looked at Meng Liyun and asked with a smile.

"Not bad." Meng Liyun thought of her adoptive parents and smiled with narrowed eyes, "It's quite interesting."

At this time, the curtain of the car was lifted and the old lady poked her head out.

"Where...where are we going?" the old lady asked, looking around in confusion.

"Oh, you want to go back to the village with us." Yu Wei said with a smile, "It's a good opportunity to catch up with the old times."

"...Reminiscing about the past?" The old lady seemed a little confused and looked at Meng Liyun.

"Oh, I've met her before." Meng Liyun nodded with a smile.

After hearing this, the old lady nodded thoughtfully and sat back down: "Then you guys chat, I won't disturb you anymore."

"How could it be a disturbance?" Meng Liyun said with a smile, and then looked at Xiao who was silent.

Xiao noticed that she was looking at him, glanced at her, and nodded: "Not bad."

"What's OK?" Yu Wei muttered, "Just now I heard you asked for money? Do you have no money left?"

Owl: “Yes.”

"What are you going to do if they don't give it to you?" Yu Wei asked with a smile, her eyes rolling.

The owl's pupils moved slightly, and he looked at her and told her the truth: "Kill people for money."

His answer... was not unexpected.

But Meng Liyun still couldn't help but hold her forehead and hissed.

"What? Just because of your small body?" Scar came closer again, looked at Xiao critically, obviously disdainful.

Xiao ignored him and continued to look at Yu Wei: "So, why are you here?"

Yu Wei was quite speechless at his honest words. She looked at him tiredly and sighed: "Let's talk about it when we get back."

Seeing that she didn't seem to want to talk on the way, Meng Liyun and Xiao didn't ask any more questions and followed her all the way back to the village.

This village was quite large, not only was there a fence as high as a person at the entrance, but there were also special guards. When entering the village, I ran into quite a few people along the way. When those rough-handed bandits saw Yu Wei, they would bow slightly and greet her.

Yu Wei responded with a smile. As soon as she entered the village, she asked those who followed her to go about their own business, and she led them along the flat dirt road to her house.

"come in."

Yuwei tied the horse to the pole outside the house. The wolfhound sitting in front of the house suddenly barked at them. Yuwei walked over and patted its head. The wolfhound wagged its tail and stopped barking.

Yuwei waved to them and led them into the house.

Meng Liyun helped the old lady out of the car, pushed the door open, and looked around the room.

Anyway, this house fits her stereotype of a mountain village. On the cabinet in the entrance hall is a skull of some unknown creature. Around the entrance hall, the floor is covered with the fur of some unknown animal. There are some weapons and a few pipes hanging on the wall. On the right side is a large bed against the wall, covered with a brown and gray blanket. The window is facing the door. At this time, the sun is about to set, and there is little light entering the house, making it dim.

Yuwei lit a few oil lamps, asked Meng Liyun to help the old lady sit on the bed, and she pulled a chair from the side, sat down with her legs crossed, and looked at them with a smile.

"How is it? This house."

"Very good." Meng Liyun nodded, looked around, and found a wooden frame next to the window, which should be used to raise birds. "It's warm and beautiful... From what they said before... Are you married to the owner of this village?"

Meng Liyun said this and looked at her tentatively.

"Yeah." Yu Wei nodded decisively and said with a smile, "Aren't you curious about why I'm here? It's a long story... How did you get here?"

Xiao: "I came here on foot."

Yu Wei: ...

Meng Liyun: ...

The two looked at him speechlessly, and after looking at each other, they chose to ignore him at the same time.

"I heard there were bandits here, so I came to take a look..." Meng Liyun's eyes dimmed and she smiled gently, "I met him on the road. He said he was going to Lishan with someone and passed by here."

"Huh?" Yu Wei was puzzled, "Aren't you together?"

"Ah..." Meng Liyun glanced at Xiao, "No."

Yuwei looked at her, then at Xiao, got up and lit the small coal stove next to her, then walked out the door and shouted something. When she came back, she had a teapot and a few teacups in her hands.

After handing them the steaming hot tea, Yu Wei sat down again.

"You redeemed me back then, and after we parted..." Yu Wei rubbed her hands and recalled.

"I followed your advice and went to the place where slaves were sold, thinking of buying two to protect myself." Yu Wei thought of something and her eyes darkened. "I saw a slave who was whipped and covered with wounds. I felt sorry for him, so I bought him and asked him to follow me... Although I didn't want him to protect me with his death, he didn't want to protect me at all."

Yu Wei got angry when she thought about it: "But that person is really good at pretending. He pretended to be so well-behaved in the first two days, but after two days in the mountains, he met Fu Zhu and ran away without caring whether I lived or died."

"If you said he was afraid of death, I can understand that, but he wanted me to die." Yu Wei pinched her waist and said angrily, "I don't know if he thinks he can be free as long as I die. After I got separated from him, I wanted to find a way out, so I thought about climbing up to have a look, and he followed me quietly. When I reached the top of the cliff to take a look, he pushed me down. Oh my God..."

Thinking about it now, Yu Wei couldn't help but shake her head and said, "What a beast."

"And then?" asked Xiao.

"Then... you should also know that Fuzhu is good at water. Although he didn't attack me when he saw me, it rained heavily for nearly two days. The roads were slippery and prone to landslides during rainy days. The river also swelled a lot. I didn't dare to go down the mountain, so I was trapped on the mountain."

"When the rain stopped, I wanted to find the way down and observe the changes in the river. Just as I got to the top of the cliff, he pushed me down." Yu Wei blew a breath of hot air, "Luckily the river below was swollen and I fell into the river. Fortunately, I am a good swimmer, so I survived by chance."

Yu Wei said, sighing, "But because it happened so suddenly, I was not prepared, and all my luggage was washed away in the river. Only the purse you gave me was left - it was only because someone reminded me to hang it around my neck that it was kept."

"Although I survived, you know that mountain roads are difficult to walk on, especially since it had just rained and the mountains were endless. After I climbed ashore, I couldn't tell the directions and I didn't know how to hunt. But I was lucky enough to meet my current husband - of course I didn't know he was a bandit at first. He was fighting with bandits from another mountain and was injured and passed out in the forest, and I happened to run into him."

Yu Wei thought about what happened before and scratched her head a little embarrassedly: "At that time, he looked like a weak scholar, although he was dressed a little boldly, but I just thought he was a hunter nearby, so I bandaged him. After he woke up, he was also very polite, so I thought I was right, so I followed him to his mountain stronghold at that time..."

Yu Wei seemed to be quite speechless when she said this. She couldn't help but hold her chin and said, "I didn't expect that he was such a pretentious bandit. I followed him into the mountain stronghold without knowing what was going on. I wanted to rest for two days and then leave... but he said he liked me and insisted that I be his wife..."

"That's about it..." Yu Wei blushed, a little embarrassed, "I learned some martial arts from him over the years, and then something happened, so we moved here. We basically rely on bribes to make a living... but to be honest, this bribe is what we deserve."

Yu Wei seemed to be afraid that Xiao would be disgusted when she said this, so she hurriedly said, "You may not know that when we first moved here, there was no road on this mountain. The whole mountain was overgrown with weeds and trees, and there was only one old road that was hundreds of years old. It was so dilapidated that I proposed to build a few mountain roads to make it convenient for both our people and those passing by... It took several years to build it."

Meng Liyun: ...

You really built this mountain...

Yu Wei looked at Xiao's expression, and seeing that he didn't seem to be disgusted, she breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "I have been here for these years, and I have taught them to read and write, and set rules for them. I don't let them do those murder and robbery businesses, and try not to kill people. If someone passes by and has urgent matters, then forget it. It's always good to leave a way out... It never hurts."

Xiao heard this and nodded gently: "Indeed."

Meng Liyun thought back and realized that although the bag she had didn't contain a lot of silver, it was still quite substantial. The most she had seemed to have been the two boxes of jewelry for the family of three.

Speaking of this, Meng Liyun suddenly remembered something and turned to ask, "Do you know what the man and woman who were traveling with us this afternoon did? When they were robbing today, they showed you something and let them go."

"I don't know about that... We always do a statistics at night and then make a summary every month. I haven't heard about what happened this afternoon." Yu Wei was stunned and said, "Did they rob you?"

As he said this, he looked at Xiao with an incredible look in his eyes.

Xiao didn't understand and looked at her.

Yu Wei slowly turned her head and said with some relief in her tone: "They really saved a few lives."

Xiao:......

Meng Liyun met Xiao Wuyu's eyes and couldn't help but chuckle: "I'm surprised too."

Xiao:......

Xiao glanced at the two of them calmly. Their necks suddenly tightened, and they quickly covered their coughs and looked away as if nothing had happened.

Yu Wei: "Look, these furs were obtained by my husband when he went hunting a few years ago."

Meng Liyun reached out and touched it: "Really? Wow..."

"... Stop pretending." Xiao said coldly, glancing at Meng Liyun, "You always ask Li Heng, do you think there is something wrong with him?"

Meng Liyun felt a chill on her back when he looked at her. She coughed twice and then said seriously, "It's like this. I think he is lying. Did he tell you what he does?"

Xiao frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "He said he was a doctor—"

"Then I think he is lying to you." Meng Liyun said firmly, "I'm telling you, I've seen it, he has calluses on the bases of his fingers, it's obvious that he often carries things, and he has a tomb-grabbing talisman hanging around his neck, it's very likely that he is a member of the imperial court."

"Wait, the imperial court?" Yu Wei interrupted, wondering, "How is this related to the imperial court?"

"The tomb-touching talisman is issued by the court." Meng Liyun blinked, "The Fa Qiu seal is also - well, let's not talk about this. They said they were going to Lishan. Recently, I heard that there might be a big tomb in Lishan. If they are going there, they must be going there. And I saw a diamond umbrella and a sand-washing shovel in his luggage before, but he has too few people. I guess he is just a pathfinder to confirm that there is a tomb over there. You people don't dare to touch him because you are afraid that touching him will attract the army... You can go and ask to confirm."

Meng Liyun spoke for a long time without listening to the other two people's words. She couldn't help feeling a little confused. When she looked up, she met Yu Wei's hesitant eyes.

Meng Liyun suddenly understood something and took a breath.

It’s over.

"How do you know? Why are you exposed to this?"

as predicted.

Xiao straightened up at some point, stared at her and asked.