"Get lost, who's happy with you?" Ning Zhongze's face turned red and her ears burned upon hearing Li Hao's lewd words, though a part of her felt a little expectant.
"I, I don't have time, I need to put Xiao Yun to sleep. Xiao Yun is still young, he won't sleep without me nearby." Lin Shiyin immediately jumped away, moving to the side, out of Li Hao's reach.
"Long Xiaoyun is with Feifei, it's fine. If he misbehaves, I'll have Li Hei hang him up until he behaves." Li Hao wrapped his arms around, only to embrace Ning Zhongze and Yi Lin.
"You two this afternoon..." Ning Zhongze's gaze swept back and forth between Lin Shiyin and Li Hao. There was definitely something going on between them.
"No, nothing happened between us." Lin Shiyin quickly jumped out to clear her name.
"The stars are so bright tonight, the moon is so white, and Shiyin's belly... hehe, I let it slip." Li Hao awkwardly scratched his head.
"You..." Lin Shiyin was stunned. Li Hao was definitely doing this on purpose.
"Sister Shiyin, we've all been through it, there's no need to be embarrassed," Ning Zhongze said with a smile.
As expected, older sisters are the best, they know how to care for people. Li Hao silently praised Ning Zhongze in his heart.
"No, Xiao Yun is shy around strangers..."
"Mom, I want to sleep." Lin Shiyin's words were cut short as Long Xiaoyun ran over. He had experienced too much today: being robbed, beaten, and brought to the brink of death.
If he weren't such a little brat, he would have collapsed long ago.
If he were an ordinary person, he wouldn't be able to eat, play, and sleep like this now. Truly remarkable.
"There are tents over there, find one and sleep by yourself," Li Hao said sternly.
This brat always causes trouble. One day, when Lin Shiyin isn't around, I'll have to teach him a lesson.
"No, I want to sleep with Mom. I want to go home, this wilderness is full of mosquitoes." Long Xiaoyun started to fuss.
"Are there mosquitoes?" Li Hao was curious, as he hadn't seen a single one.
"What are you looking at? Once martial artists reach the Houtian realm, they have internal energy protecting their bodies, so mosquitoes can't break their skin. Upon entering the Xiantian realm, their entire bodies are protected by qi, and mosquitoes are repelled on contact. How could there be mosquitoes around you?" Ning Zhongze said irritably.
She found Li Hao to be like a big child – willful, capricious, lustful, and even harder to manage than a brat.
"So that's why martial artists have these benefits. No wonder those Great Heroes like to live in the wilderness, in caves or on treetops. And Tian Boguang, who robbed girls, didn't stay in inns but specifically ran into the deep mountains and forests." Li Hao finally understood after hearing Ning Zhongze's words and immediately felt she made a lot of sense.
"Young Master, Xiao Yun is still young, please don't say these things in front of him." Lin Shiyin was a little embarrassed.
She wanted to take Long Xiaoyun to sleep in a tent, but it was pitch black all around, and the tents were surrounded by rough men. Simply put, she was afraid someone might sneak into her tent while she was asleep.
If it were Li Hao, she could barely accept it, but if it were someone else... she couldn't bear to think about it.
"It's fine, he's just a child, he needs proper guidance. You can't wander the jianghu without getting hurt. In the jianghu, you can endure anything but being taken advantage of. Only by teaching him well can I rest assured when he travels the jianghu later." Li Hao immediately went into "enlightenment teacher" mode.
"If you were to teach Long Xiaoyun, in ten years, the jianghu would have another menace." Ning Zhongze said irritably.
Lin Shiyin agreed wholeheartedly with Ning Zhongze's words. Li Hao's way of dealing with people was too unconventional; he acted entirely on impulse, without any regard for discretion.
Take the matter of the Four Evils before, giving Yue Laosan's corpse to Duan Yanqing was fine, but he insisted on taking money. Now he had thoroughly offended the remaining three Evils.
Speaking of the three Evils, would Yun Zhonghe come to sneak into her tent tonight! It seemed from Li Hao and Duan Yanqing's conversation that the great villain Duan Yanqing wasn't a good person either.
No, she definitely couldn't sleep in a tent tonight, it was too dangerous.
"I want to go home, I want my own big bed, I want my ice-silk quilt, I want my jade pillow, I..."
"Plop." Before he could finish speaking, Li Hao waved his hand. A cloud of white powder appeared around his nose, and Long Xiaoyun immediately tumbled to the ground.
"Xiao Yun, Xiao Yun, what's wrong?" Lin Shiyin was startled, quickly picking up Long Xiaoyun and shaking him while calling out.
"What did you do to him? He's still a child, don't go too far," Ning Zhongze said, rolling her eyes as a warning.
Li Hao was becoming more and more unreliable, even resorting to attacking a child.
"Li Hao." Lin Shiyin was truly angry this time. She didn't call him "Young Master" this time but "Li Hao," perhaps this was her last bit of defiance.
"Why the rush? I just gave him some Meng Han Yao. Don't worry, this is top-grade Meng Han Yao. Not only does it improve sleep quality, but it also has no toxic side effects. It's a must-have medicine for patients with depression and insomnia. In the jianghu, a portion of this Meng Han Yao is worth at least ten taels of gold," Li Hao said with pursed lips.
Do these women see me as an unforgivable demon king? They don't trust me at all.
"I know his Meng Han Yao, it is indeed top-quality stuff, and it shouldn't have any negative effects on a child's body," Ning Zhongze added in support.
In fact, Meng Han Yao is a powder made in Traditional Chinese Medicine using various herbs in a specific ratio of ruler, minister, assistant, and guide, possessing sedative and anesthetic effects.
Generally, besides causing rapid sleep and unconsciousness, it has no other major effects. Furthermore, sprinkling some clean water on the face of someone who has inhaled Meng Han Yao can wake them up.
"I..." Lin Shiyin wanted to curse, but being from a scholarly family, she didn't know how to curse. She had too few curse words in her memory.
"Alright, alright, put him in a tent and let Li Hei take care of him. The carriage is only so big, there's no room for so many people to sleep.
Besides, Yun Zhonghe is probably nearby, and I don't feel safe with you sleeping outside." After speaking, Li Hao called Li Hei over and had him carry Long Xiaoyun away.
"Ladies, the night is short, and an hour of spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold. Let's go back to the carriage and rest early!" After Long Xiaoyun was carried away by Li Hei, Li Hao showed the women a lewd smile.
"You, you all go rest! The night is beautiful tonight, the stars are lovely, I want to enjoy them for a while." Lin Shiyin's face turned red, and she directly refused.
Although Lin Shiyin had experienced everything with Li Hao, and they had done what needed to be done, leaving them with almost no privacy, she still felt resistant to doing such things as a young wife who had studied the "Women's Virtues."
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