Traveling to Jiangnan with Beauties

"This morning, a martial arts world feud erupted at the Hengshan Sect's Liu Zhengfeng Golden Basin Hand-Washing Ceremony. The Five Peaks Sword Sect and the Sun Moon..."

"Stop with the nonsense, just give me the results." Damn it, he's taking forever to explain, Li Hao grumbled inwardly.

"Liu Zhengfeng's entire family, relatives, disciples, and servants, a total of 153 people, were all killed. Seven of the Song Shan Thirteen Protectors, Tianji Daoist, Ning Zhongze, and Abbess Dingjing all perished in battle."

"Yue Buqun, Zuo Lengchan, Abbess Dingyi, Abbess Dingxian, and Mr. Mo Da were all seriously injured. On the Sun Moon Holy Cult's side, four elders and one protector died. Invincible East was unharmed." As he spoke, the constable swallowed hard. Thank goodness these people usually don't cross the authorities, or our lives would be in danger.

"Here, take this. If anyone asks, you know what to say, right?" Li Hao handed the constable a silver ingot.

"Who... who are you? I've never seen you before." The constable quickly took the silver and turned his head away. When he looked back, the four people were already gone.

"Sister Ning, why don't you come to Jiangnan with us?" Seeing Ning Zhongze's silence all the way, Yi Lin knew she was upset and quickly invited her.

"But..."

"But what? Yue Buqun already thinks you're dead, so why would you go back? Besides, if my woman isn't coming with me, are you planning to go back and sleep with him again?" Li Hao was referring to Yue Buqun.

"I'm afraid Lingshan will be sad if she knows I'm dead," Ning Zhongze said with a troubled expression.

"How about we go pick up Yue Lingshan and have her come with us?" Li Hao's eyes lit up.

If the aging mother was already on the Gallery of Beauties, the sixteen-year-old daughter, Yue Lingshan, shouldn't be any less.

"You can't pick her up! She's my daughter, don't you think about her," Ning Zhongze reacted quickly, objecting.

A mother and daughter flower? You can forget about it.

"Sigh, since you're heartless enough to leave me and go back to live with Yue Buqun, then go! At worst, I'll just go find Lingshan to ease my longing," Li Hao said mischievously.

"You, you're shameless! I'm not going back, I have to keep an eye on you," Ning Zhongze said, her chest aching with anger.

"Then let's go. The three of us, off to Jiangnan," Li Hao said with a grin, putting an arm around each of them as he prepared to set off.

"Big Brother, what about me?" Qu Feifei was dumbfounded.

Her grandfather was dead, her parents were gone, and she had no money. Was she going to starve to death?

"We're going on a family trip, you should just go back home and find your own mother!" Li Hao had no habit of being a good Samaritan.

"But my parents are gone, can you take me in?" Qu Feifei's eyes welled up with tears.

"I can take you in, but you'll have to be Yi Lin's tongfang yatou. You know what a tongfang yatou does, right?" Li Hao said, looking up at the sky.

"Husband, aren't we being a bit much?" Yi Lin whispered.

The poor girl's parents were dead, and her grandfather had just died. Li Hao was taking advantage of her situation. Everyone knew what a tongfang yatou did; tongfang meant sharing a room.

Ning Zhongze stood by the side, saying nothing. Although she was a heroic woman, she wasn't soft-hearted when it came to killing. She wouldn't be a bleeding heart either.

Right now, she wished Li Hao would find more women so he wouldn't set his sights on Lingshan.

"I... I agree." In the end, Qu Feifei's psychological defenses crumbled under the weight of reality. After all, Li Hao had saved her before. Warming his bed wasn't that difficult to accept.

One day after Li Hao left Hengyang, Hengyang City exploded. A peerless great thief infiltrated Hengyang and visited all the wealthy families in the city.

The homes of the benevolent were spared, but those who preyed on the common people were completely ransacked, not a single copper coin left.

Finally, according to official statistics, over 500,000 taels of silver, over 87,000 taels of gold, and countless jade artifacts and jewels were stolen from Hengyang City in one night.

Furthermore, the 1.2 million taels of treasury silver in the government vault were also looted.

It was said that the prefect of Hengyang had already prepared a rope, intending to hang himself in front of the imperial envoy investigating the case to prove his innocence.

On the official road to Jiangnan, a luxurious carriage ambled along, escorted by dozens of knights.

"I say, we're just a few people, why did you get so much silver?" A gentle voice suddenly spoke from inside the carriage.

Judging by the voice, the speaker was definitely a top-tier beauty.

"Easy for you to say, it costs money to support you all! Raising your children, their education, buying houses, and their wedding dowries – all that costs money!" Inside the carriage, Li Hao rested his head on Ning Zhongze's lap, eating grapes she fed him.

His legs were resting on Yi Lin's lap, and both Yi Lin and Qu Feifei were continuously massaging him.

"Yan Shun, find a place to rest. Traveling is too tiring," Li Hao called out to the outside.

"Yes, Young Master. There's an inn not far ahead, we'll rest there," the coachman replied.

The one driving the carriage was a robust middle-aged man who also had a formidable reputation in the martial world: Yan Shun, the head of Qingfeng Stockade, the Brocade Tiger.

That day, Yan Shun was idle and looking for some work. Then, a carriage came by. Yan Shun, seeing the luxurious carriage, intended to make a big profit, but ended up getting himself involved and becoming a coachman.

There was no other way. When he was robbing the carriage, the original coachman had been scared away.

However, being a coachman wasn't bad. Compared to his second brother, the Short-legged Tiger Wang Ying, and White-faced Gentleman Zheng Tianshou, who had been dismembered, he considered himself lucky.

The carriage was stopped, and when the people inside emerged, his second and third brothers were instantly captivated by the women in the carriage and immediately wanted to drag them into the bushes to discuss life ideals.

The outcome was predictable. Were the women of Young Master Li ordinary people? With just one sword strike, two heroes who could have become leaders on Liangshan were dismembered.

Life is truly unpredictable. The silver he had earned from half a lifetime of robbery was taken away by them, and at the end, they even said: Killers and arsonists wear golden belts, while bridge builders and road menders are left with no corpses.

"Young Master, we've arrived at the inn," Yan Shun reported quickly as the carriage came to a halt. The dozens of knights also dismounted and came to guard them.

Ning Zhongze sighed at the sight. Even when she was the sect leader's wife, she hadn't had such a grand display.

Yan Shun and these knights were also helpless. They had all been acupunctured by Li Hao using the unique technique of Sunflower Acupuncture Hand. They had to have the points unblocked every month, or they would suffer a fate worse than death.

After experiencing such pain, everyone began to revere Li Hao. For people like them, who had committed many evil deeds, they could never muster the slightest thought of betrayal towards someone who was more wicked and stronger than them.

When it came to methods of dealing with people, Li Hao would rank second, and they hadn't met anyone who could rank first.