Chapter 831 - 104 Gifts, Jiangnan, Trend, Martial World Sword Madman Drinking Together_2
Xue Shuangtao shook her head and said, "I don’t want it."
She raised her eyebrows and said, "I know you care about me, but what if I asked you to leave your Qilin Army, abandon the Jiangnan Eighteen States that are at the heart of the world, return to Jiangzhou City of Chen Country, Guan Yi City, and stay with me."
"Just like that day, enjoying the spring outing, picking flowers, and playing the zither and eating dates at the temple fair, would you be willing?"
She stared intently at Li Guanyi, then smiled and said:
"You wouldn’t be willing."
"Coincidentally, neither would I."
"I initially only wanted to help you, but later when managing Changfeng Building, I also saw some dark things that a woman from an aristocratic family would normally not see."
"Girls who went mad after being wantonly bought and humiliated six or seven times, boys whose eyes were gouged out and kneecaps removed, becoming beggar children, massacred cities after defeat, the barely surviving common people."
"Back then, we picked flowers and climbed trees, but..."
"Outside, the central part of Chen Country faced heavy taxes year after year, to the point that survival was impossible."
"People had to sell their daughters for porridge."