Chapter 472: Hero

Li Miao said it lightly.

He didn't finish the words, didn't make them clear, he was taking care of Wu Mingxiao.

He was too young.

No one knew better than Li Miao, who had been an Embroidered Uniform Guard for over twenty years, that this world and human hearts were originally a piece of chaos. The so-called order and justice were man-made products, extremely fragile, needing careful care and guidance to grow and strengthen, until one day they could face those real filth.

Contacting such extreme human nature too early was no different from pouring poisonous water on a plant that hadn't fully grown. But if one didn't contact these at all, the so-called chivalrous heart would just be rootless duckweed, withering at any time.

So Li Miao just mentioned it shallowly, letting Wu Mingxiao guess and digest it himself, so as not to be unable to bear it when he saw the real master later.

As for why Li Miao was so painstaking... it could only be said that bringing up a child was already a skill engraved in the instinct for Lord Li, and he couldn't help it.

Let alone this bumpy road and the surging in Wu Mingxiao's heart.

The carriage shook for half an hour and stopped slowly.

There was noise outside the carriage.

"Just this much?"

"Damn it, the mountain is about to run out of food! Just this little bit of oil, not enough for us brothers to drink a meal of wine!"

Clearly, they had already entered the bandit stronghold.

Li Miao reached out and tapped Wu Mingxiao's shoulder.

"Time to get off the carriage."

Having said that, he pushed open the carriage door and walked down leisurely.

"Holy shit!"

"No, you didn't search the carriage?"

How could the bandits surrounding the carriage have expected that a living person would inexplicably run off the carriage?

However, after all, it was their own territory, so there was no other reaction after the surprise.

Li Miao looked around.

Speaking of which, ever since he started walking the Jianghu, he had played nothing but "high-end games." Like a bandit stronghold, the "newbie village" that a young hero who had just come out of the mountain must pass through, he was truly seeing it for the first time.

Dirty, chaotic, filthy, and foul-smelling.

Skin-wrapped bones, rust-wrapped iron.

Sewage flowed, and torn clothes and garbage were soaked in it. Not far away, several rotten carriages were piled up in an open space, and a dozen gaunt bandits with yellow teeth were shouting some dirty words at him.

Wu Mingxiao got off the carriage and was stunned for a moment.

"Big Brother Li, this..."

Li Miao smiled.

"Why, do you think a bandit stronghold should be the same as what's written in the storybooks, with some Gathering Hall, martial arts field, eating meat from a big bowl and drinking wine from a big cup?"

"Bandit strongholds are mostly like this; essentially, besides the fact that most of them are lazy rotten people, they are actually poor people."

"They took the step of becoming bandits, partly because their original hearts were broken, partly because they couldn't live on, it's actually hard to tell."

Wu Mingxiao choked.

This was not the picture he had expected.

If he were facing a group of fat and strong, fierce-looking villains, he could naturally kill them all. But if he were facing a group of gaunt, ragged people... he truly couldn't generate the intent to kill.

Li Miao raised an eyebrow.

"Why, can't you bring yourself to do it?"

Wu Mingxiao was silent.

Seeing him like this, Li Miao laughed.

"Your Assistant Minister truly taught you too little, but never mind, I will make up for your lesson today."

The two of them were talking to each other here, completely ignoring the bandits around them, watching their faces become uglier and uglier, more and more ferocious.

Then a roar was heard.

"Damn thief, eat your grandpa's sword!"

A rusted long sword whistled and slashed toward Li Miao's face. ===== CHAPTER 473 =====