Soldier:"……"
"You're dreaming. If you really go in, you might get a beating, but don't even dream about prison food. You won't even get a last meal before you're executed."
They've really angered the county magistrate to that extent.
Loxi's face immediately fell.
This amused the two soldiers greatly: "You're really going to great lengths for a bite to eat, but..."
The two looked Luo Xi up and down carefully and said, "The hair is wrong, the clothes are wrong, there's no big bag, the eyes are too small, the lips are too thick, and the face is too thin. It's not her!"
A conclusion was reached in just a few words.
Rosie: "..."
Are you two sure?
Is this referring to her, or to someone else?
This young lady must really want to go to jail! The soldier was speechless for a moment, then shoved her out: "Get out of here, don't get in our way."
When he stood a hundred meters away from the city gate once again, Luo Xi finally gained a new understanding of some things about this world.
She shook her head with amusement and spurred her horse to gallop away.
Unbeknownst to her, in a house hidden deep in the mountains, a young man dressed in black and wearing a mask was also looking at the same portrait.
"Is this what I look like?" His voice was cold and devoid of any emotion.
Qinglong looked up at the landlord in front of him, and his lips twitched.
The poster has a strong facial structure and sharp eyes. How did he come to the conclusion that he resembles the woman in the painting with an egg-shaped face and almond-shaped eyes?
“OP, that’s not you, someone is impersonating you,” he emphasized.
Jiuxian lowered her eyes and examined the portrait carefully once more.
"Do I look like a woman?" he asked again, rephrasing the question.
Azure Dragon: "..."
"Master, that's not you, someone is impersonating you." Qinglong's voice began to grow numb.
This time, Jiu Xian finally stopped looking at the portrait. He raised his eyes and gazed down the mountain: "Let's go take a look!"
Although he didn't say what he was looking at, Qinglong knew that the master was referring to this audacious woman who dared to impersonate their Red Mansion master.
"Yes, OP."
At this moment, the audacious fake owner of the Dream of the Red Chamber is now standing at the crossroads of two paths, so worried that he almost plucked all his hair out.
"Which way is the road to Tongning County? Has no one put up a road sign or anything? This is so frustrating."
She had hoped someone would pass by and ask, but two hours had passed and there was still no sign of her.
"Never mind, let's eat something first."
Luo Xi took out a pot from her spatial storage and cooked a braised rice dish with cured pork and dried vegetables. She had been craving this for a long time, but she had been too busy traveling to have the time.
Add some spiritual spring water, and it smells wonderful.
It tastes good and can also repair the cracks on the crystal core, so it's a win-win situation. After drinking a little spiritual spring water every day for so many days, the two cracks have now been repaired by one-third, and Luo Xi is in a very good mood.
What made her even happier was that just after she finished eating the steaming rice glistening with oil, several people walked by from one of the roads.
"Excuse me, sir, which road do I take to get to Tongning County?"
"...You, you?" The villagers were startled and their faces turned pale. They breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that it was a young woman. But when they realized that she was alone, worry resurfaced on their faces.
The old man who was questioned by Luo Xi shook his head repeatedly: "Young lady, you'd better not go to Tongning County, hurry back."
Luo Xi was taken aback: "Why is that?"
"Sigh..." The old man sighed deeply and began to confide in her, "You don't know, the only way to Tongning County is this road we just came from, but..."
"I don't know when it started, but a group of bandits came to the hill not far ahead. They not only robbed people of their property, but also kidnapped so-called 'wife's wife.' Any young woman who was decent-looking in the past was taken away by them."
“Yes, not only them, I heard there are quite a few bandits up ahead, they all do the same thing, so you see, we have no choice but to go back,” an auntie next to her added.
"Alas, the famine was already severe, which is why we were trying to escape with our families. Now there are so many bandits, what are we going to do?" She wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with a distressed expression.
"Grandma, don't cry." The baby in the aunt's arms, with a big head and skinny body, stretched out her tiny, chicken-claw-like hands and clumsily wiped away the tears on her face.
"Shall we go home? Gou Dan doesn't eat much. If we go home, Grandma will eat all the food. Gou Dan doesn't want to leave." His big eyes were full of fear of the unfamiliar environment.
"Snoring~" But then, a rumbling sound came from the child's stomach.
"My dear grandson!" The aunt couldn't hold back anymore, hugged the child tightly in her arms, and cried uncontrollably.
Other people stood by, silently shedding tears.
After a long while, the old man finally calmed down and gently advised, "So, little girl, you'd better not go that way, lest you be kidnapped by those bandits."
"After that, there will be endless suffering, and you might even lose your life."
“Yes, young lady,” the auntie said. “We are all from the same village, and there are many young ladies your age. If you don’t mind, you can come with us. It will be safer on the road.”
She pointed to the two or three young women beside her, who were looking at her timidly.
"Thank you for your kindness, Auntie and Uncle." Luo Xi cupped her hands in thanks to them, "However, I have a reason I must go, so..."
Seeing her resolute expression and the fact that she had managed to get here alone, the old man stopped trying to persuade her. He gritted his teeth, reached into his luggage, pulled out a wood-chopping knife, and stuffed it into her hand.
"Then you should be more careful."
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