Harem Daily Life

Chapter 40: Encountering Bandits

Listening to Tao Cairen's words, Xianglan felt like laughing. But as she laughed, she realized that she was in trouble. Laughing made her body tremble, and her broken ribs hurt!

Tao Yanyan immediately advised: "Don't laugh, don't laugh, it hurts when you laugh."

But Xianglan still suffered torture. After the pain, she finally stopped laughing and tears started flowing instead.

Xianglan lay in the wilderness for six days before Imperial Physician Liu determined that she could be moved. This was the best news for everyone.

So, a group of people packed up and prepared to set off for Youzhou.

At this time, Eunuch Zhang listened to the emperor's words and arranged a team of people to come again with two carts of supplies.

"I am here to pay my respects to the talented lady Tao. Eunuch Zhang received the order from His Majesty, and ordered me to bring two carts of things to the talented lady Tao. His Majesty was concerned about the talented lady being cold at night, so he sent new bedding and a lot of food. We will stay to take care of the talented lady. We will follow the talented lady to Youzhou."

This eunuch was more eloquent than the last one, and his words clearly revealed the emperor's concern for Tao Yanyan.

Tao Yanyan looked at the carriage he brought and said, "Don't unload the things. Let's prepare to set off after dinner. Eat something first and rest for a while. We will leave later."

The eunuch was confused. Did he come at the wrong time? He hadn't even started serving her and was holding onto this golden thigh, but now he was going back the same way?

But looking at this remote place, it is really not suitable to stay for a long time. It is hard for a talented person of the emperor to stay for six days and still be calm about it. The eunuch couldn't help but look at the talented person Tao more.

Xianglan was able to move, and Tao Yanyan wanted to find a place to stay in a hotel as soon as possible. She needed to take a good hot bath.

The situation was urgent at the time and she had to live in the wilderness. Now that the situation has improved, she is not someone who would let herself suffer, so of course she evacuated as soon as possible.

The group of people, together with the team that came later to deliver supplies, formed a long line and finally set off.

Xianglan was carried onto the carriage, and the four girls lay in the carriage, staggering towards Youzhou.

The carriage drove on at night and passed a town. There were only two inns in the town. Since they were many people, they directly booked one of them and asked the waiter to boil a lot of hot water so that they could take a comfortable hot bath.

Qi Yizheng escorted them all the way, but he did not show up according to the emperor's order. When he and his men arrived at the town, they did not even stay in an inn and continued to guard the outskirts of the town.

In the middle of the night, the guard on duty suddenly came to report that a group of bandits appeared from nowhere and were sneaking towards the town.

Qi Yizheng immediately made arrangements: "Go find out how many people are on the other side, and try to stop them outside the town. Don't let them in and cause trouble for the talented people and the common people."

To be on the safe side, Qi Yizheng sent several guards with high martial arts skills to guard Tao Cairen and keep in touch with him at all times.

As for the bandits, their spies received a letter saying that a group of people had entered the town and had generously booked the entire inn. Seeing that it was a fat sheep, the leader was overjoyed. He counted the team overnight and led his men and weapons towards the town.

They would occasionally go down the mountain to rob, but they had never gathered on such a large scale. This time, almost the entire village came out together, hoping to make a big profit that would provide them with food for at least half a year.

Driven by huge profits, the boss became extremely excited, and relying on his large numbers, he did not take the team of more than 30 people seriously at all.

They came here excitedly, but unexpectedly they were blocked as soon as they arrived at the entrance of the town.

The big boss touched his bald head in annoyance and said, "Where did this group of people come from? Didn't our spies find out? There are only about thirty people in the group, and some of them are girls!"

The younger brother below didn't know the situation either, so he reported back: "They showed up without anyone noticing. There are dozens of them, and they are very skilled. Boss, are we still going to rob them?"

The big boss slapped his head and said, "I'm already here, and you want me to go back to the mountain empty-handed? We must gain something tonight, otherwise if someone finds our nest, we'll be finished!"

When the bandits heard that this was indeed the case, they gritted their teeth and fought with the guards brought by Qi Yizheng.

Meanwhile, Tao Yanyan took a nice hot bath to wash away his fatigue. Just as he was about to get into the warm bed, the head of the guards came over and said, "Mr. Tao, I am sorry to bother you so late at night because I have something urgent to tell you!"

Qingfeng brought people in, and the head guard said urgently: "General Qi sent people to guard outside, saying that bandits came down the mountain to rob, and nine out of ten are coming for us, so we are all on high alert and don't sleep tonight."

Tao Yanyan...

Do you want it to be so exciting?

Traveling through time, living in the wilderness, and being robbed by bandits, what a miserable life this is!

But what is even more strange is why Qi Yizheng is here?

"Um, when did General Qi come? How did he just happen to know that we were staying at the hotel and that the bandits were coming?"

The head guard said, "I asked the guards who were sent here, and they said that His Majesty was worried about the talented people, so he ordered General Qi to lead people to guard the periphery. They have been guarding five miles away from us for a while. I was wondering how come we didn't see any wild animals after living in the wild for so many days? It turns out that General Qi and his men were guarding the periphery."

Tao Yanyan's eyes widened after hearing this.

So, on the surface they make harsh words and punish themselves, but secretly they send supplies and people?

Is this bastard going to be given a slap in the face and then a sweet date as a reward?

However, now is not the time to think about why He Linzhang did that. Tao Yanyan immediately ordered Qingfeng to tell Mingyue, Xianglan, and Doctor Liu that everyone should be alert tonight and wait for news from General Qi.

The bandits were able to fight with the guards led by Qi Yizheng for a few rounds at the beginning, but the guards were well-trained regular troops after all, and they were no match for the mob of bandits. Soon, the boss could not hold on any longer.

"Damn it, this is a big mistake. I didn't realize they had so many people and were so good at fighting! Go tell the brothers, let's retreat. As long as we have the green mountains, we will never run out of firewood!"

At the command, the bandits fought and retreated, not caring about the lives of their wounded brothers, and those who could still run ran away as fast as possible.

Qi Yizheng did not ask anyone to chase him, mainly because he was unfamiliar with the area and wanted to avoid unnecessary casualties.

"Bury the dying ones in a vacant lot. Capture all the living ones and interrogate them tomorrow."

After camping outdoors for five or six days and engaging in another group fight, Qi Yizheng was exhausted. He and his men continued to guard the outskirts of the town and stayed there for one night. Even though their whereabouts had been exposed and Tao Cairen knew of their existence, he could no longer do anything about it.

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