The cannon fodder heiress trembled with fear after being recognized as a member of her family.

They traveled for another half day before finally reaching the village.

This village is located on a mountaintop beside a canyon, making it extremely well-hidden.

The people who built the village must have considered its geographical advantages, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Eradicating them will not be easy.

It was midday, and some smoke was rising from the village.

"The First Boss and the Second Boss are back!"

Some children had fan-shaped leaves on their heads and ran around on their toes.

His calls drew people out to greet him.

"The two masters only brought this little bit of stuff with them on this trip? And why is there a dark-skinned girl with them?"

"That's right! Every time they go fishing in the Pinglian River, they reap much more than this. When our Changji Village does make a move, it's enough to feed us for half a year."

"With such a large operation this time, how come all you brought back was junk? These tonics and medicines are even worse than grain!"

......

The people of Changji Village were chatting amongst themselves, their earlier joy gone.

Han Cuiyin secretly glanced around; there wasn't a single good person in the bandit's den.

These people were all shrouded in dark energy, even the young children were no exception.

Some people do not directly harm others, but they enjoy ill-gotten gains, and thus they are entangled in karma.

"Boss, why did you bring back a black woman this time? None of the brothers can bring themselves to kiss her!"

"For the next two days, everyone in Changji Village must stay in their rooms and is not allowed to move around! If anyone disobeys and something happens to them, it's their own bad luck. No one is allowed to touch this girl!"

After the leader finished speaking, everyone fell silent, and no one dared to disobey.

Changji Village has existed for a hundred years, passed down from generation to generation. No one can take away the position of village chief; it is always held by a member of the local community.

Han Cuiyin had been listening to a lot, but this was the first time she had heard someone with the surname Lao. The chief of Changji Village was called Lao Da.

At this moment, she quickly recalled events from hundreds of years ago.

She only knew the general idea. When she first arrived in the capital, she was only concerned with attending banquets and appearing in front of various wealthy and noble ladies, hoping to marry into these high-class families.

When she was first confined to the Buddhist hall by Princess Mingxia, something spread throughout the capital.

The Empress's fourth son, born of the Empress, was in Pinglianjiang suppressing bandits.

Unfortunately, he slipped and fell into the river, where he was swept away by the current.

Three days later, his body was found in the canyon below Changjizhai.

Changji Village was also revealed to the public at that time.

Among those who came to collect the spoils again was a highly skilled man surnamed Mo, who slaughtered the entire Changji Village.

The canyon is filled with the people of Changjizhai, whose blood has stained the waters near the canyon red.

Once Han Cuiyin remembered these things, she stopped worrying.

Changjizhai will not have a good ending.

It was around that time that Changjizhai unveiled its mysterious veil.

For the next three years, many villages kept a low profile and dared not show their faces at all.

Because of these things, business interactions became more and more frequent.

Before her death, the emperor made the second prince the crown prince and enfeoffed the other two princes as princes in their respective fiefdoms.

Han Cuiyin connected these events and, with a little thought, sensed the conspiracy at play.

In her past life, she was a girl who only knew how to compete with her so-called sisters for pretty clothes and jewelry, without making any connection between the events.

She was locked in a separate room, which was large but somewhat rudimentary.

The ropes binding her hands burned to ashes.

After regaining her freedom, she peered through the crack in the window and surveyed her surroundings.

There is no summer heat here at the mountaintop.

Han Cuiyin felt cooler now than when she was on the boat.

"This Changji Village has a really good geographical advantage. It's not easy to get up here from this side of the canyon without someone familiar with the area."

Who would have thought that the first chieftain would settle his bandit den here?

Changji Village, surnamed Lao.

The eldest and second eldest on the ship are twin brothers, but they don't look alike at all.

They were martial arts geniuses who had studied their skills away from home in their early years.

Five years ago, some people in Changji Village, dissatisfied with their hometown, launched a power grab. If these two brothers hadn't returned from outside, Changji Village would probably have changed hands today.

When they took over the village, blood flowed like a river.

These masters today are all friends they made when they were in the martial arts world.

After sorting things out, Han Cuiyin began to think about what to do next.

She overheard some of the conversation between the two brothers from her hometown when she first came ashore.

That senior in black is now a key figure.

Han Cuiyin sat cross-legged on the ground, stroking a yellow ball-shaped wooden fish in her hands.

I wonder what the purpose of sending people to Yanjia Village was.

The main courtyard of Changji Village.

"Boss, we went to Yan Family Village but didn't find anything suspicious."

"Also, we searched the small courtyard next to the Yan family's house, but found nothing."

The eldest brother sat in the main seat, looking suspicious. "You went to that sycamore tree?"

“Yes! Only that sycamore tree in Yanjia Village is over a hundred years old. We searched all the courtyards around it.”

"Could it be that the information you gave me was wrong? That person's last stop was indeed Yan Family Village, but he didn't leave anything behind."

The boss is currently holding a skeptical attitude.

He felt a sharp pain in his back and fell off the chair.

Where he had been sitting, tiny black dots appeared, slowly coalescing until they formed a person.

"You're all incompetent, how could I make a mistake! If nothing suspicious is found, perhaps the item has been taken. Did any outsiders enter Yan Family Village before October?"

The man in black sat in the leader's seat, exuding a terrifying aura that forced everyone to kneel down.

"October ago, a Miss Xu stayed at our place for two days. However, we checked her background and found that she is the second young lady of the Ministry of Personnel, named Han Lingzhi, and her birth mother is Princess Mingxia of the Xu Prince's Mansion."

Upon hearing this, the man in black sneered, "So what if she's a princess? So what if she's from a royal palace? She'll have to pay the price for stealing my things."

"By the way, the dark-skinned girl we brought this time is Han Lingzhi's half-sister."

The eldest brother quickly shifted the blame to the Han family. He knew his own limitations; his Changji Village was no match for the people in front of him.

"Where are the people?"

"They're locked up in the neighboring yard."

Upon hearing this, the men in black turned into tiny black dots and disappeared from the room.

"Big brother, get up quickly!" The second brother stuffed a wound medicine pill into his mouth. "Let's go and see what's going on. This person's methods are extraordinary."

The others were still in shock, completely stunned by the way the man in black appeared and disappeared.

Han Cuiyin has decided to play the weak card and act as mindless as she did in her previous life. This tactic is the most effective way to lower other people's guard.

The smell is wrong!

She quickly stood up, pretended her feet were numb and stomped them a few times, pouting and complaining, "I'm starving! Why won't these bandits give us any food?"

A man in black appeared where she had been standing.

She concealed the shock in her eyes and forced a smile, "Wow, are you a deity?"

This person's entrance was quite spectacular; he's definitely the evil one she chose to perish with in the Immortal Realm.

Han Cuiyin grabbed the man in black's arm, "You...you're human?"

Just as she was about to use the wooden fish, a deafening sound echoed through the canyon and Changji Village:

"Those who hide in the shadows, do you dare to fight?"