Chapter 55: You Are Not In Exile You Are Clearly Traveling!
Chapter 55: Bandits
In the end, they didn't get to eat rabbit hot pot. Mainly because it wasn't their past life, and many ingredients were missing.
Most importantly, they didn't have the hot pot base.
There was no other way but to first make the hot pot base and then gather all the ingredients to enjoy the hot pot.
However, it was fortunate that according to Xu Tian, they should be able to reach Wenzhen tomorrow without any accidents. Although the exiled convoy wouldn't enter the county, the bailiffs would return to buy supplies and submit documents to the county office.
They could take this opportunity to enter the city with Xu Tian and stock up on some supplies.
For example, they could buy some good quality grains, vegetable seeds, and even some food. Anyway, with the space's ability to preserve freshness, even if they bought fragrant beef noodles, it wouldn't go cold.
Then they could purchase a batch of delicious food to eat on the way.
Oh right, the most important thing was the seasonings, whether it was hot pot seasoning or barbecue seasoning, they had to try to gather them all.
This way, they could have hot pot on the road.
Anyway, it was a good time to make up for what they lacked.
Although they didn't get to eat rabbit hot pot, having braised rabbit meat was also good. Especially Xiao Die's cooking skills were really impeccable!
A night passed quietly.
The people were still awakened early by the bailiffs and set off on the road with drowsiness.
Since Chen Xue took her parents into the space last time, they would hide in the space whenever there was a strong smell of food. For snacks with less aroma, they would just eat them in the carriage.
Now that they had removed the shackles and other restraints, they sat in the carriage with a small table in the middle, a teapot on top, a plate of pastries beside it, and Chen Xue and Xiao Die playing chess.
If one didn't pull back the curtain and just looked at Chen Xue's family in the carriage, they would never guess that they were exiled.
"Dad, how about we play Gomoku!"
After losing ten games, Chen Xue didn't want to play with Xiao Die anymore and decided to tease her dad, which would be more interesting.
"Cough, cough, cough!" Chen Yuan immediately turned around and walked outside, "It seems like there's something going on outside, I'll go take a look."
Chen Xue: "..."
"Miss, do you want me to let you win again?" Xiao Die asked softly. Although she tried to play lightly, she still unintentionally won.
"No need." Chen Xue's mouth twitched. If she let her win again, it would be like her dad, wouldn't it? Three pieces in a row?
...
Several hundred miles away from Chen Xue and the others, in the woods, a group of people emerged. They were the bandits Chen Xue saw last night using Xiaoqing's body.
"Brother Hei, where are we going?" A bandit looked at a tall man, about 1.8 meters, who was their leader.
Brother Hei looked at another underling, who quickly handed over a scroll. When it was opened, the person on it turned out to be Chen Yuan.
"After we take care of this target, we won't need to hide anymore!"
"Can that person really help us solve our troubles?" Another bandit expressed concern, "We attacked an exiled convoy, and behind us is General Pingwei!"
In the Country, everyone had heard of General Pingwei, even though he was only twenty years old and had just completed his coming-of-age ceremony.
General Pingwei, Xie Yunshang by name.
The Xie family had been generals for generations. His father, General Pingyuan, had led the army to destroy the Xiongnu, deterring the northern barbarians and stabilizing the north.
This time, his father was called back to the capital, so it was up to his son, Xie Yunshang, to lead the troops stationed on the border.
However, when the Xiongnu heard that General Xie had left the border, they invaded the Great Moon Country on a large scale, sending fifty thousand troops to probe.
Although General Xie was not on the border, some of the guards were uneasy, but Xie Yunshang remained calm. He even led ten thousand troops to attack actively and defeated the Xiongnu with a record of one to five.
After that, he repeatedly repelled the Xiongnu's invasion. Even when the Xiongnu allied with the small neighboring country Xiaomo to attack, they were defeated by Xie Yunshang.
Xie Yunshang even led the army to attack Xiaomo and annihilated it, forcing the Xiongnu to withdraw from the border.
Xie Yunshang thus became famous overnight for defending the border, repelling the Xiongnu, and annihilating the invading Xiaomo, deterring the foreign tribes. As a result, he was appointed by the court as General Pingwei.
However, for some reason, General Pingwei left the border this time and even started to hunt down bandits.
Brother Hei, Liu Heiwu, and others were now targets of General Pingwei's pursuit. Although they were arrogant and ruthless, they were still afraid in the face of the famous General Pingwei.
However, someone came to them at this time, asking for their help with something. They would try to help them solve their trouble in return.
And this matter was to kill a person from the exiled convoy—Chen Yuan.
If there was a chance, they would kill all the members of the Chen family.
This was their task.
For them, killing was a simple task.
Even if they had to attack the exiled convoy, they didn't care. They had even attacked the county office before, and they were still lively and continued to rob on the road.
"We're worried that the person will go back on their word and even sell us out!" Another bandit expressed concern.
"Don't worry, I know who's behind them. If they dare to double-cross us, we'll pay them a visit." Brother Hei said arrogantly.
He actually guessed that the person behind them was a high-ranking official in the capital, but so what? Offending him, Liu Heiwu, no matter who he was, even if he was the King of Heaven, wouldn't work.
Besides, the exiled convoy had a lot of money, and they could rob a lot of money. They could also get rid of the target of the task and let others solve their problems for them. It was simply killing three birds with one stone.
"According to the information from that person, the exiled convoy is traveling on the official road. If nothing unexpected happens, they should arrive at Wenzhen. We'll ambush them here. After they leave Wenzhen, they'll pass by this location."
Brother Hei was obviously very familiar with the surroundings and drew a simple map on the ground with a twig.
The others naturally had no objections, as they bypassed this forest, they would be on the official road.
"Clatter clatter clatter!"
Just as they appeared not far from the official road, they saw a carriage coming. They all stared at it and revealed bloodthirsty expressions.
"Boss, it's just one carriage!"
Brother Hei licked his lips and grinned, "Let's go, let's give them some bad luck for running into us!"
Several bandits rushed onto the official road and stood in the middle of the road. The person driving the carriage saw this scene and subconsciously tightened the reins to avoid hitting them.
"You, who are you people? What do you want?" The carriage driver seemed to realize that the people blocking the road were not well-intentioned, and his voice trembled slightly.
The bandits chuckled and didn't answer. They rushed up directly, pulled the carriage driver down, and slashed him with a big knife.
The poor carriage driver didn't even have time to shout for help and died tragically under the bandit's knife.
"Zhang Bo, what's going on?"
The person in the carriage heard the commotion, pulled back the curtain, and revealed a middle-aged man lying beside a woman who was already lying in the carriage.
The middle-aged man's heart skipped a beat when he saw a group of people with knives surrounding the carriage. Then he saw a pool of blood on the ground, and the carriage driver lying motionless.
"Zhang Bo, you..."
How could he not understand? They had encountered bandits.
"Gentlemen, my wife is seriously ill and urgently needs to go to the capital to seek medical treatment. Please, gentlemen, please spare us."
The bandits looked at each other and tore off the curtain, revealing the woman inside. Although the woman's face was pale, her beauty could not be concealed.
The bandits' eyes lit up instantly, revealing a greedy look.
"Hehehe!"
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