Chapter 7

The matter of becoming a teacher at the Willow Leaf Village school was decided so pleasantly.

Having just arrived, Li Yi was still unfamiliar with everything here and didn’t dare to raise any objections.

Of course, he had been secretly criticizing in his heart for a long time the fact that there was actually a school in a bandit village.

As a bandit, what they should learn is fighting and robbing, not attending school. What good could they learn there!

Learning these things, could they become qualified bandits in the future?

Do they expect them to become top scholars in the future?

It must be said that the ancient people's educational concepts were still very backward. Although education should indeed start from childhood, they were clearly on the wrong path...

Moreover... How did Li Yi know how to teach? What should he teach them?

A bandit's self-cultivation?

Basic etiquette for highway robbery?

Economic principles of distributing loot?

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He himself was almost illiterate!

Li Yi felt that he had no human rights here. The old man, who was almost half in the grave, pointed at him and said a lot, finalizing the decision to make him the teacher at the village school, and then walked away with his hands behind his back, leisurely. His nominal beautiful wife nodded slightly at him and also left.

The devilish girl, on the other hand, looked at Li Yi with a strange gaze for a long time before turning her head with a haughty twist, leaving only a cool and distant back view.

"Even a bandit husband... has dignity!" Li Yi stood there, his face full of sorrow.

After a long time...

"Um..." Li Yi turned to look at the young maid standing there demurely, scratched his head, and asked, "What's your name?"

"The young master can just call me Xiaohuan," the girl with two buns in her hair said softly, nervously rubbing the hem of her clothes.

"This little maid is so easily shy..." Li Yi looked at the girl with interest and then asked, "Um... Xiaohuan, where is the kitchen, and is there anything to eat?"

For someone who hadn't eaten for who knows how long, a bowl of thin porridge wasn't even enough to fill his stomach. In no time, Li Yi was hungry again.

The young maid was taken aback at first, then shook her head and said, "There isn't much food in the house. We usually have two meals a day. Miss said that the young master didn't eat anything all day yesterday and might be hungry, so she asked Xiaohuan to cook some thin porridge for the young master this morning..."

Li Yi sighed.

This was really a world where even bandits had no surplus grain. The situation... seemed to be more serious than he had imagined.

"What does Xiaohuan usually do?"

With nothing to do and finally having someone to talk to, Li Yi took two small stools and forcibly pulled Xiaohuan to sit outside and chat.

The young maid still seemed a bit restrained, sitting there with an uneasy expression, and said softly, "Xiaohuan usually serves Miss. Since the young master just arrived, Miss said to have Xiaohuan serve the young master for a while."

To be fair, apart from not being very enthusiastic, his nominal wife was actually quite nice to him, a fact that Li Yi had to admit.

Currently, he was basically clueless about everything here, and Xiaohuan became his only way to understand this village.

Seemingly finding that this young master was not only good-looking but also very approachable, the young maid gradually put down her guard. From her, Li Yi learned more.

Let's not talk about the outside world for now. The place he was in was called Willow Leaf Village.

According to common sense, a place called something like a ravine or a village was never a good place.

In the movies and TV shows Li Yi used to watch, whenever a bandit village was mentioned, there was always one called Black Wind...

This Willow Leaf Village, although not as imposing as Black Wind Village, had a similar nature. They were all bandits and outlaws. Those who liked a rough style called themselves Black Wind Village, while those who were a bit more refined and fresh called themselves Qingfeng Village or Willow Leaf Village, giving off a sense of cultural depth.

But the situation in Willow Leaf Village was a bit different.

It was said that in the early days when Jing State was still in turmoil, with warlords dividing the land and the people suffering, a descendant of the Liu family rose up, established his own territory, and became the ruler of Green Willow Mountain, gathering a group of followers to engage in the business of robbing and plundering under the guise of upholding justice.

After several decades, a powerful ruler finally unified Jing State, ending the turmoil and liberating the entire country, allowing the people to live and reproduce in peace.

After dozens of bandit forces that rose during the turmoil were suppressed, the Liu family, to preserve their lineage, had to find a new way to survive...

At this point, continuing to hold the banner of upholding justice as bandits would have been too shortsighted.

The extremely wise clan leader of the Liu family chose to lay low and, in a very short time, transformed from bandits to good citizens, settling in Willow Leaf Village. They tilled the fields and wove cloth, carried water and irrigated the garden, becoming ordinary, law-abiding citizens.

The followers who once followed orders were scattered or stayed, eventually forming the current scale of Willow Leaf Village.

However, even though the Liu family was still the true rulers of Willow Leaf Village, the Liu family itself had long been divided and could not unite.

The head of the main line of the Liu family had died early, leaving only the sisters Liu Ruyi and Liu Ruyi. Although Liu Ruyi was still the nominal leader of the village, the other branches of the Liu family had long been dissatisfied with her and were secretly plotting to seize the resources of the main line.

If it weren't for Liu Ruyi's strong methods and the loyalty of the old brothers to the main line of the Liu family, the main line would have been in name only long ago.

When the young maid talked about these things, her little mouth puffed up, and her pretty face was full of indignation.

Li Yi now understood that Liu Ruyi was his nominal wife, and Liu Ruyi was the devilish girl who had captured him the day before.

The reason he was brought up to be a bandit husband was that the main line had been pressuring Liu Ruyi to marry, and once she married, the resources of the main line would be divided among them.

So, Li Yi became their first business as bandits...

No wonder that young man looked at him that way... He really did take his fruit.

No, he was taken by the fruit!

The young maid chattered and left, and Li Yi looked up at the sky, feeling a bit gloomy.

The situation... was not optimistic!

Unconsciously, he had already taken on his current identity.

Before becoming the king of bandits and dominating the great mountain roads—before achieving his dream of retiring early, living without worry, and enjoying his old age, it seemed there was still a long way to go...