Wei Yunlan raised his hand and wiped his face hard. The blood that dyed the back of his hand red was still a little warm.
Looking at the glaring red, a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes.
She actually... killed someone.
She couldn't afford to be distracted at this moment. The surrounding bandits became even more frantic when they saw their brothers being killed. They no longer showed any mercy to women and raised their weapons to join the battle.
Just when a bandit was about to stab Wei Yunlan in the chest with a long knife, he suddenly felt a pain in his arm, and the long knife he was holding tightly fell to the ground.
"Hiss... bitch, what did you do to me?"
What did Wei Yunlan do?
His sight passed the bandit who was kneeling in front of him and howling in pain, and fell on a few dense trees beside the road.
Wei Yunlan guessed that it must be the guards from Tianshu Pavilion hiding in the dark who took action.
It is not convenient for these guards to show up in public, but helping them secretly can help them avoid many life-and-death crises!
The Wei family didn't understand why the bandits who were besieging them suddenly lost one after another, but that didn't stop them from taking this opportunity to fight back.
Dong Da and Liu Quan struggled to push away the bandits who were blocking their way, picked up the machetes that fell on the ground, and with a few slashes, they chopped down the bandits who were about to sneak into the carriage.
Suihe also kicked hard, pushing away the bandits surrounding her and returning to Wei Yunlan.
"Damn it, this family is so difficult!"
"Ignore them, go grab those carriages in front first!"
Seeing that the Wei family was unable to be conquered after a long time, the bandits finally changed their target and more of them rushed towards the Liang family.
The Feng family members who had been hiding near the Liang family's carriage screamed and ran away. The Liang family's servants were pushed away by the Feng family members, and several bandits took advantage of the chaos to rush to the front of the carriage.
There were immediate exclamations in the carriage.
"Someone come quickly! Someone come!"
"Tsk, why are you shouting? It's no use even if you scream your throat out!" A bandit used the tip of his knife to pry open the curtain, and sitting on the carriage happened to be Lord Liang's wife and young son.
"She's a bit old, but she's pretty. The boss doesn't like her, so it's a good chance for us." The bandit grinned and reached out to grab Mrs. Liang's clothes.
Mrs. Liang was horrified and shouted urgently, "Stop!"
"I am the niece of the current Empress Dowager and the cousin of the current emperor! How dare you hurt me!"
The bandit was stunned for a moment and stopped moving.
Just when Mrs. Liang thought the bandits were scared, she heard a burst of laughter coming from their mouths.
"Haha, the Queen Mother's niece, the Emperor's cousin? Just you?"
"If we were really that close, would His Majesty be willing to exile you to the border? You dare to make up lies to scare me, you are really courting death!"
As early as when most of the bandits rushed towards the Wei family at the end of the team, Officer Jie saw that these bandits did not want to have a head-on conflict with the officials.
This way they don't have to risk their lives. Even if some things or even women are stolen, it can't be considered as dereliction of duty!
Unexpectedly, the Wei family fought desperately, and the group of bandits changed direction and rushed towards the Liang family.
Others are fine...
Lord Liang’s family must not be allowed to suffer any harm, especially Mrs. Liang!
Seeing that bandits had already broken into Madam Liang's carriage, the officials and servants, who had only tried their best to fight back the bandits beside them, rushed towards Madam Liang's carriage.
When they encountered the Feng family members who were causing trouble on the way, they ignored them and simply used them as scapegoats to slow down the offensive of the bandits.
For a moment, screams rang out one after another, and the scene was in chaos.
The bandits took advantage of the chaos to steal a lot of things, the most eye-catching of which were two boxes of gold ingots and a box of pearl hairpins and jewelry that were moved from the Liang family's carriage.
The bandits also lifted the oilcloth covering the car floor of the Wei family. When they saw the pots, pans, rice, flour and fodder under the oilcloth, the bandits all looked disappointed.
"Damn it, a bunch of poor bastards, wasting my time!"
"It would be better to follow the Third Master and rob those carriages ahead!"
These bandits did not have much martial arts skills to begin with, and they had only relied on their numbers before. But now they had lost their fighting spirit and were immediately caught in their weakness by Dong Da, Liu Quan and Sui He.
In an instant, three bandits were killed by the Wei family's knives.
The officers in front also killed a lot of bandits, and the remaining bandits couldn't help but panic.
"Why hasn't the boss sent anyone to help yet?"
In the distance, the sound of horse hooves could be heard coming from the direction of Liangzhou. The bandit leader who was fighting with Jie Guan became nervous and shouted, "Retreat!"
The surviving bandits waved away the officers and fled up the mountain in all directions.
The crisis was finally resolved. Wei Yunlan retreated back to the mule cart, covered the area with the oilcloth again, and put the herbs that had been stored in the space back to their original places.
The sound of horse hooves gradually approached, and it was a group of soldiers from Liangzhou.
They did not chase after the fleeing bandits. "It's not that we don't want to chase them, but the terrain on Yueheng Mountain is complicated. With just our team of horses, let alone going into the mountain to catch the bandits, I'm afraid we may not be able to come down alive if we really go up the mountain!"
Mrs. Liang looked unhappy and didn't say anything more after hearing this.
The officers and soldiers of Liangzhou counted the casualties together with Officer Jie.
Most of the bodies on the ground were from the bandits. Liangzhou immediately showed great respect for this team from the capital, "You guys are so skilled!"
Officer Jie accepted the compliment with a guilty conscience.
Many bandits died at their hands. In addition to the police officers, the Wei family, the Bai family and the Liang family's servants all contributed.
But there were also many casualties in the team...
Of Old Lady Feng's eight grandchildren, three died in this crisis, and her only unmarried youngest son also died at the hands of bandits.
Old Mrs. Feng cried so hard that she couldn't speak.
Tingxue retreated to Wei Yunlan's side and whispered, "Miss, I saw it all just now. In order to save Lord Liang's youngest son, Officer Jie pushed the Fourth Master of the Feng Family. Otherwise, the Fourth Master of the Feng Family would not have been chopped by the bandits at all."
The Feng family obviously also knows this.
Although under the suppression of Lord Feng, no one vented their anger on Officer Jie and the Liang family for the time being, but there was a hint of resentment in the eyes that looked over there from time to time.
Wei Yunlan felt a chill in his heart, and immediately had a clearer understanding of this exile team.
In times of crisis, all of them can be abandoned and become scapegoats for the Liang family.
Otherwise, how can we explain that when the bandits rushed over, the officials and the police kept dodging, but later when the bandits changed direction, they tried their best to resist?
The Liang family has ulterior motives, and the Jie official is biased, plus the anxious Lord Feng and the old lady Feng who stirs up trouble from time to time...
How can we reach Beiguan safely in such a team?
The idea that had occurred to Wei Yunlan several times became completely firm at this moment.
This absolutely cannot go on!
Their lives cannot be in the hands of these people.
The journey is not even halfway through, the real crisis has not yet begun, and they must not walk with these people on the rest of the journey!
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