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Chapter 89 A Real Mountain Bandit

Suddenly, a muffled "boom" came from the road ahead.

Three huge rocks rolled down the hillside and crashed heavily onto the road, raising a cloud of dust.

The horse was startled and reared up on its forelegs.

Gong Huo gripped the reins tightly, pulling the horse back and shouting as he did so:

"Miss! There's someone blocking the road ahead!"

Before he finished speaking, five or six whistling arrows shot out from the woods on both sides.

Yi Wu Yi Shi flashed to protect the side of the carriage, drawing their swords.

The incoming arrows had no sharp edges; they were bound with red cloth strips and whistled as they cut through the air.

It's a warning arrow, it won't hurt anyone.

Immediately afterwards, thirty or forty masked men emerged from behind the bushes and rocks.

They were all burly men, wielding broadswords and spears, and they surrounded them in a chaotic scramble.

The leader was a burly man with a thick beard and an old scar across his face.

He slung his broadsword over his shoulder and strode to the carriage.

He pointed the knife tip at the carriage, his booming voice making the leaves tremble.

"Those in the car! If you know what's good for you, just throw out your valuables!"

He paused, then added.

"I'll leave my life behind!"

Taozhi turned pale with fright and shrank back into the corner of the carriage, trembling.

Gong Huo had already gripped the hilt of the knife with one hand, his body tense.

Yi Wu and Yi Shi glanced at him indifferently, as if they were looking at a buzzing mosquito.

"Miss, shall we kill him?"

Yi Wu asked in a cold voice, as if it were commonplace.

The carriage curtain was suddenly lifted from the inside.

Gu Mingyue peeked out, her big, bright eyes scanning the sea of heads outside.

Her eyes suddenly lit up.

"Don't do it!"

Yi Wu turned and glanced at her, his tone icy: "Miss, have you not seen bandits before?"

"this……"

Gu Mingyue jumped down from the carriage and dusted off her clothes.

"I've never seen one alive before."

The bandits: "..."

Gu Mingyue stared intently at the burly man with the thick beard at the head of the group.

"You're robbing me, aren't you?"

"?"

The bearded man was bewildered by this reaction.

He'd been robbing people for so many years, and this was the first time he'd encountered someone who was more excited than the robbers themselves.

"Ah...right?"

Gu Mingyue pressed further, "How much wealth can your maximum combat strength rob?"

Bearded man: "...Huh?"

The mountain wind howled through the valley.

The leaves on the mountainside rustled softly.

Thirty or forty bandits, brandishing knives and guns, surrounded the carriage.

A tense, life-or-death situation.

Gu Mingyue's words left him completely bewildered.

A burly man with a thick beard carried a broadsword, his rugged face filled with confusion.

In all his years as a bandit, he had encountered caravans paralyzed with fear, mule caravans that fled at the first sign of trouble, and bodyguards from security companies who fought to the death.

The only exception is that I've never encountered anyone who's been robbed, and I have to ask them about their track record.

The bearded man frowned. "No, you... what do you mean? My poor track record doesn't qualify me to rob you?"

"almost."

Gu Mingyue put her hands on her hips and looked the bandits up and down.

The clothes were worn out, patched upon patched.

The broadsword in his hand was rusty, and several blades were chipped.

The spearheads of those spears were tied with hemp rope, clearly indicating that they had been temporarily modified from farm tools.

These aren't bandits; they're clearly a group of laborers struggling to make ends meet.

Gu Mingyue sighed inwardly.

That's not professional enough.

She beckoned to the side to several men who appeared to be the leader.

"Come here, you lot, let's have a chat."

Yi Wu's face darkened.

"Miss, they are bandits."

"I know," Gu Mingyue said without turning her head.

"Then why are you still going to get closer?"

"Get down to business."

Yi Wu remained silent for a moment, then gave the group of bandits a cold look.

He didn't sheathe his knife, but he also didn't continue to obstruct him.

Yi Shi stood close to Gu Mingli and whispered:

"Miss Gu is indeed kind-hearted; she doesn't even look down on bandits."

Gu Mingli twitched the corner of his mouth.

Leaning against the carriage, arms crossed, he watched with curiosity as his sister started causing trouble again.

The bearded man, accompanied by two brothers, approached with a mixture of disbelief and skepticism.

Three burly men stood in front of Gu Mingyue, like a row of disobedient students being scolded.

"What's your name?"

"Um...the brothers all call me Old Ma."

"Old Ma, how many people are in your village?"

"About a hundred, including the elderly, women and children."

"Are you the boss?"

Old Ma's expression darkened, and he scratched the back of his head.

"I'm the second-in-command. The first-in-command got sick last month and didn't make it... he's gone."

His voice was muffled, and his rough, large hands gripped the hilt of the knife.

"With the elder brother gone, the village is leaderless. The grain merchants down the mountain won't give us credit anymore, and the hunters don't dare to come into the mountains."

"The brothers had been starving for more than half a month, and they couldn't take it anymore, so they came down to block the main road."

A tall, thin man next to him chimed in, sounding very aggrieved.

"We didn't rob people before, we only collected protection money from passersby. But recently, for some reason, there are fewer caravans, and the village is almost starving."

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Another round-faced man joined in the shouting.

"We're legitimate mountain bandits! We rob you, we don't kill!"

Gu Mingyue's lips twitched slightly after hearing this.

After looking at the miserable state of these people, he had already made up his mind.

"Old Ma, you can rob me, but your method is too amateurish."

"……What?"

"How much can you rob on the road? My carriage, traveling alone, can only carry a hundred or eighty taels of silver at most. If you dozens of people divide it up, each person gets two or three taels. That's all you'll have for one meal."

Several bandit leaders gaped in astonishment upon hearing this.

They looked at each other in disbelief.

Old Ma scratched his head, a look of embarrassment appearing on his rugged face.

Gu Mingyue took a step forward, lowering her voice slightly.

"What if they kidnap me? What if they demand a ransom?"

Several bandit leaders blinked.

"What?"

"you see me."

Gu Mingyue pointed to her face.

"I am the daughter of an official. Take another look at the person in the car."

She then pointed at Gu Mingli.

"That figure, that look, and most importantly, she looks rich!"