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At this moment, Fan Liuer was lying in the box, and the carriage was bumping around so much that she almost fell asleep.

She was extremely tired after not sleeping all night.

But she couldn't sleep yet, as she hadn't left the city.

The convoy had just reached the city gate when it encountered the soldiers guarding the gate.

Since the rebel army marched south, the city defenses of Xingzhou have been strengthened, and people entering and leaving the city are checked very strictly. Even companies like Anda Escort Agency, which have been dealing with the city gate guards for many years, are subject to thorough checks.

In the past, Feng Ji would not have been nervous. He was already used to this process, and he had no guilty conscience and was not afraid of being investigated.

But today is different.

As he drew nearer to the city gate, his heart pounded.

The carriage stopped in front of the city gate, and several soldiers in charge of inspection came over and began to check the items on the carriage one by one, as well as question the employer about his personal information.

The leader of this escort team was the head镖师 (镖头, head镖师), who had known the head soldier guarding the city gate for many years. He took the initiative to go up to the head soldier and exchange pleasantries.

The soldier leader glanced at the employer on the carriage, then compared the man's name with the list in his hand. Seeing that the man was not on the list, he gave the镖头 (bodyguard/escort) face and waved his hand to indicate that they could leave.

Just then, the soldiers spotted Feng Ji's carriage and were about to open the box where Fan Liuer was hiding.

Following the leader's instructions, he opened the box, glanced at it briefly, and then closed it again.

Feng Ji secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and Fan Liuer, who was hiding in the box and heard the noise, also breathed a sigh of relief.

She felt the box being opened, and at that moment she was so nervous that she stopped breathing and dared not make a sound.

I didn't dare to exhale slowly until the box was closed.

If the convoy leaves the city gate in just a few more moments, she will be completely safe.

She listened carefully to the sounds outside, and only when she heard Feng Ji shout for the horses to set off, and heard the sound of the wheels turning and the bumpy ride, did her heart relax a little.

However, the carriage suddenly stopped halfway down.

The sudden stop caught Fan Liuer off guard, causing her head to hit the box. Fortunately, she reacted quickly and managed to hold on, otherwise she would have gotten a bump.

She had no time to pay attention to these things; she was focused on the commotion outside.

Feng Ji looked at the group of guards approaching from a distance and had a bad feeling.

This guard was the prefect's personal guard. Although everyone in Xingzhou Prefecture knew that the prefect was just a puppet with no real power, this personal guard was still more valuable than the other soldiers.

At this moment, the guard appeared here and suddenly demanded a careful inspection of the vehicles and pedestrians leaving the city. Feng Ji had already guessed the reason.

As expected, Li Chenbi was not as dejected as the public thought; otherwise, how could he have mobilized the prefect's personal guards?

His heart began to race at the thought of the person hidden in the box.

Upon seeing the personal guard, the head soldier guarding the city immediately stepped forward and respectfully asked, "What brings you here, sir?"

The leader of the guards glanced at the carriage in front of him and said coldly, "The governor has ordered that, effective immediately, all carriages and horses leaving the city gates must be strictly inspected." He emphasized the words "strictly inspected."

The soldiers were puzzled, as carriages entering and leaving the city gates had been subject to strict checks these days.

If it's going to be this strict, how strict will it be?

After the head of the guards finished speaking, he turned to the convoy and asked the head镖师 (bodyguard/escort) escorting the carriages, "Where is this convoy going?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the door of the middle carriage opened, and a well-off middle-aged man stepped down from the carriage with a smile on his face.

"Lord He." He walked up to the man, took out a bulging purse from his sleeve, and quietly stuffed it into the man's hand.

"This is my fleet of vehicles. You know the situation right now, so I was thinking of going back to my hometown to lay low for a while."

"Please, sir, make an exception."

The middle-aged man was the owner of a winery in Xingzhou City. He was quite familiar with these guards and was usually generous with his money, often treating them to drinks.

The guards glanced at him, then looked down at the purse in his hand.

He thought to himself that this person had absolutely nothing to do with the orders he had received, and that the person he was looking for could not possibly be related to the person in front of him.

Thinking about it, he glanced at the luggage in the convoy again; most of it consisted of boxes and cages.

He weighed the purse in his hand, walked to the carriage, and peered into the carriage.

The only people in the carriage were the owner of the distillery's wife and children, all familiar faces whom he had met at the distillery.

The soldier leader was afraid of being blamed by his personal guards; if they found anything out, it would be considered dereliction of duty on his part.

He quickly stepped forward and said to the head of the guards, "Sir, we have already thoroughly checked everything. Every box has been opened and inspected, and there are no problems."

The head of the guards nodded and waved to the distillery owner, "Let's go, let's go."

The distillery owner immediately thanked him and hurriedly climbed onto the carriage, afraid that if he was a step too slow, he would be left behind.

Feng Ji lowered his head, thinking to himself: After this ordeal, there shouldn't be any more accidents.

The caravan set off again, the carriages slowly driving out of the city gate.

Only after completely leaving Xingzhou city gate did Feng Ji glance back at the city gate. Seeing that no one was chasing after him, he was finally at ease.

Fan Liuer, inside the box, was also so nervous that she no longer felt cold.

I felt hot all over.

The sound of a heartbeat echoed inside the box, lasting for a very long time before slowly subsiding.

Without the crisis, my mind started wandering uncontrollably, thinking about all sorts of random things.

So it turns out that she doesn't feel cold in such tense moments. Maybe she can do something adventurous when she finds winter unbearable in the future?

Lost in their wildest fantasies, the convoy moved further and further away from Xingzhou City.

Fan Liuer couldn't hold on any longer and fell asleep while swaying.

At this moment, in Xingzhou City, Li Chenbi was sitting in a wheelchair in the prefect's mansion.

After Liu Qing dismissed the messenger, he looked up at the dark face in front of him and felt cold sweat trickling down his forehead.

"Well, Shenbi, um..." He hesitated, unsure how to begin.

This was the first time he had ever seen this side of the god of death.

Liu Qingru is over fifty years old now, and this is his tenth year serving as the prefect of Xingzhou.

It was also the tenth year since he met Li Chenbi.

When I first met the man in front of me, he was a young man who had not yet reached adulthood, but he had already shown amazing business acumen and shrewdness.

Although the Li family was considered a prominent family back then, it was nothing compared to the Li family of today. In just ten years, this young man grew into a man and multiplied the Li family's wealth several times over, becoming the richest man in Xingzhou.

Fortunately, Li Chenbi had no intention of pursuing an official career; otherwise, the capital city would have been a completely different place.

His ability to remain in this position for ten years is also inseparable from Li Chenbi's help.

Since he met Li Chenbi, whether in business, scheming against his own brother, or causing himself to be kicked out of the Li family in a sorry state, this man has always maintained a calm and composed demeanor.

It was as if doing such a thing was just a trivial matter, not worth his emotional investment.