Because of the urgency of the imperial edict, a group of people packed up and left the village early the next morning.

Sitting on a tall horse, Lou Xiao took a last look at the village where he had lived for several years in the morning light.

The simple neighbor secretly looks at her child in the corner and the bright and sunny boy with his big white teeth smiling.

They waved at her, "Miss Lou, have a safe journey!"

"Goodbye." She smiled and nodded, leading the convoy away.

Manager Liu sat in the carriage and thought to himself, this young lady is much better than I imagined...

She was twenty-nine years old, extremely beautiful, and kept herself clean. There was no one in the room.

The journey from Luzhou to the capital was long and urgent, but she never complained of being tired. She did not care much about the food and clothing at the inn, which was very worry-free.

Apart from loving to sleep and being too lazy to talk to them, she is really the best master.

This inevitably caused the few servants who followed him to look down on him, saying, "He is indeed a man who has never seen the world."

Although Manager Liu stopped this statement, he agreed in his heart that this young lady was too easy to serve and he was afraid that she would not be able to establish herself in the mansion.

But something happened soon after that slapped her in the face, and no one dared to say a word against her during the rest of the journey.

That day, the convoy was wandering in the woods. Lou Xiao was sleeping soundly in the carriage with her pillow in her arms. Suddenly, a sudden brake woke her up instantly. She asked lazily, "What happened?"

Jiubai got into the carriage, helped Lou Xiao up, took out the thermos from the secret compartment, and poured her a glass of water. "Miss, I'm afraid you've encountered bandits."

"Oh," Lou Xiao, who had just woken up, was still a little slow to react. He drank a sip of water before asking, "How many people are there?"

"There are about twenty people. They had already robbed a group of people ahead and we just happened to run into them." Jiubai put out the cakes he bought on the street last time, and Lou Xiao grabbed a big piece.

The other hand pressed on her shoulder, "Stay here and don't cause me any trouble. I'll go out and take a look."

Manager Liu was complaining in his heart. If he had gone out as he did in the past, with so many guards protecting the mansion, how could he have been stopped by bandits?

Now the enemy is in a desperate situation, with only about twenty bandits left. The few guards he brought with him are not even confident of fighting back.

Look at the blood on their swords. A small group of people on the road ahead have been subdued, and the servants are lying dead all over the ground. Several men with fat faces are dragging a struggling man out of the carriage with a grim smile on their faces, beating and kicking him, and tying him up until he curls up on the ground, his life or death unknown.

This group of people are not just looking for money, they are not easy to deal with!

Although he was worried, Manager Liu still took out the silver and said with a smile, "Please, hero, let us go..."

The guards and servants behind him carefully surrounded the carriage and could not help but retreat in the face of the vicious bandits.

The leader was a tall and strong man with a scar on his face. He picked up Manager Liu's purse with the tip of his knife, weighed it with one hand, and made a "tsk" sound, looking dissatisfied.

This group of men and women were all in a terrible state. They exchanged glances with each other as they surrounded them. Blood from the knives dripped onto their clothes, and they smelled fishy.

"How can this be enough?" They looked at the carriage. "What kind of person is this who is guarding it so closely?"

When Manager Xu was taking out the silver bills from his waist, he saw the little ancestor in the carriage lift up the door curtain and stand out with a "swish". His hair was slightly messy, his eyes were hazy, and he was holding a piece of cake with a corner missing in his hand. The corner of his mouth moved slightly, and there was some crumbs on his lips.

She glanced at the terrain around her, the corpses in the distance, the servants and guards surrounding her, and finally set her eyes on the bandits in front of her.

No one expected her to come out. Manager Liu was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and the bandits' eyes suddenly lit up and they stared at her greedily, almost drooling.

"Miss, are you willing to be with my brothers..." He didn't finish his words before he burst into laughter. They have been rampant here for many years, and this is the first time they have met such a woman. Even if they can spend one night with her, they will have no regrets even if they die!

The servants could not help but feel disgusted by the debauchery of this group of bandits.

Lou Xiao stuffed all the cakes in her hand into her mouth. The guard beside her, who had already drawn his sword angrily, only heard her mumble, "Lend me your sword."

Then his hands were empty, and his extremely handsome master swung his sword to chop off the head of the leading bandit!

She moved so fast that no one could react at all. The person who was laughing arrogantly just now had a frozen expression and his head and body were separated.

"Fuck you, boss!" The first person to speak was the bandit beside him who was also laughing, but as soon as he finished speaking, he was stabbed through the heart by the same knife.

This miraculous development confused Manager Liu, but her rich professional experience still allowed her to respond quickly, "Protect the lady!"

It was hard to tell who was protecting whom. In the chaos, Manager Liu watched her lazy future master slashing with his sword. His sword was quick, fierce and accurate, killing one bandit after another, but there was not a drop of blood on his body.

Except for a few guards and servants who were killed and survived, the rest died at her hands.

She was so careless that she even covered her mouth with her other hand and yawned when she pulled the knife out of the thief.

Her beautiful eyes were full of watery light. She chewed the cake in her mouth for a few times, then threw the knife she had just pulled out at the man who was tied up and was shaking his legs as he tried to escape.

A knife stabbed into the back, killing the last bandit in front of the man who had just woken up.

Jiubai climbed out of the carriage with a basin and a towel, and waited for Lou Xiao, who had turned around, to wash her hands. Manager Liu came forward tremblingly, with his head bowed very low, "Young lady, what should we do with the rest?"

She only cared about killing and not burying him, so she simply left the follow-up matters to her. "You decide. Is there a place to stay nearby? I want to take a shower."

"Yes, yes, yes." She also wanted to comfort her heart.

Lou Xiao let her arrange these things. She lay back in the carriage, holding the pillow in her arms, half closing her eyes, as if she was half asleep.

At night, everyone rested in the town's inn. They handed over the only remaining living bandit to the local authorities and settled the rescued man. Only then did Manager Liu have time to calm his frightened heart.

She gathered all the guards and servants who had followed her and said, "Don't tell anyone what happened today, and don't be disrespectful to the young lady in the future! Clear your mind!"

Everyone agreed, and Lou Xiao really lived the life of a young lady in the following trip...

When she arrived in the capital, the first thing she did, even though she was still half asleep, was to take the imperial edict to express her gratitude.

Lou Xiao was brought into the palace in a daze. She was taught a lot of etiquette, but she didn't remember any of it. She knelt in the study in a daze and shouted "Long live the dragon" to the person on the dragon throne.

Then the sudden silence in the air made her completely sober.

The emperor on the dragon throne ignored her. Lou Xiao looked at the ground and gradually became absent-minded.

"What's wrong? Didn't you sleep well again today?" The leader finally condescended to ask.

Lou Xiao felt the voice sounded familiar, hesitated for a moment and raised her eyes quietly, just in time to meet the Queen's teasing eyes.

"Senior Sister! Didn't you say you were going home to inherit the family business?!"

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