"A female bandit? A female bandit, interesting!" Rong Bai pondered the name Luo Xi for a long time before finally whispering to the small door to the side, "Come out!"
The small door creaked open from the inside, and a young man with a similar build and fair complexion, but much darker skin, stepped out.
Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be Gu Heizi, the guy who had come to Chaoyang Villa today looking for work and who was quite familiar with Zhou Cang and talked a lot with him.
He bowed respectfully to Rong Bai: "Master!"
Rong Bai hummed in agreement: "Tell me in detail about the people and events at Chaoyang Manor. Remember, the more detailed the better."
"This time is different from the past. I absolutely cannot let anyone know that I'm an imposter." His eyes were almost filled with the word "interest."
"I want to see what this Luo Xi is capable of, that he can make so many bandits in Tongning County run into chaos."
Gu Heizi's eyes showed worry as he advised, "Master, why don't we wait for this servant to go and investigate again?"
"Most of what we know about this Chief Luo is hearsay; we don't really know what kind of person she is. Besides, there are still those ruthless assassins from the Red Mansion in the manor. What if..."
Rong Bai immediately laughed: "What if it works? If there's no 'what if,' I wouldn't even bother going."
"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and tell me. Don't be so long-winded like Li Jin at such a young age."
Gu Heizi: "..."
Why does this master's troublesome nature sound so familiar?
Oh, right.
Legend has it that this is exactly what the leader of the Naluo gang looks like!
And the legendary Boss Luo is indeed preparing to stir up trouble once again.
Although Zhou Cang said not to pay attention to that scoundrel Zhou Fugui, how could Luo Xi let someone who had bullied her live a comfortable life?
After finding out that this person could be so arrogant even in a famine, it turned out that it was because he had swallowed up Zhou Cang's farmland and hoarded more grain than he could ever eat.
Rosie laughed: "It's my old job, that's easy."
She even took a leisurely nap, and only went out after everyone else had fallen asleep.
However, it seems that someone is even more enthusiastic than her.
Luo Xi stared at the cold-looking man dressed in black standing in front of the door, and paused for a moment: "Why are you standing here in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?"
Jiuxian lifted her eyelids slightly: "What do you think?"
Looking at the blatant words "Don't even think about leaving me to go play alone" on his face, Luo Xi couldn't help but narrow her eyes.
I understand you, I really understand you, and so on. But it's not always true that people like you.
"This is nothing, I can handle it by myself." So go back to where you came from.
“This time, everything is yours. I’ll just watch the show.” Jiuxian thought for a moment and then added, “Of course, you can go after we have a fight.”
"Your 100,000 taels of gold is not far off?"
Ha, who cares about ten or twenty thousand gold coins? Luo Xi turned and walked away: "It's settled then, everything this time is mine, you get nothing."
"Of course," Jiuxian said nonchalantly, but after walking for a while, her voice came again: "Come back and fight again. Counting this time, I only need eight more gold medals to be mine. Don't get it wrong."
Jiuxian's originally straight lip line slowly curved into an arc, eventually becoming a perfect crescent shape.
“No!” he said.
The next day, Zhou Fugui got out of bed full of pride. After getting dressed, he prepared to fix his hair before going to do his job for the county magistrate.
But when he reached out and touched it, he jumped up in surprise.
"Who, who was it? Which bastard shaved my head—"
His shrill and angry voice echoed throughout the Zhou family.
Old Zhou, who was already up early due to his age, was the first to rush in. The white-haired old man was surprisingly agile: "What's wrong? What's wrong?"
Could it be that the bandits from Chaoyang Manor have broken in? No, he can't let these bandits steal the grain, even if it kills him.
Old Zhou grabbed a wooden stick from the corner of the wall and rushed into the house, but hesitated once inside.
There was a person inside, but he looked a bit like his son, yet not quite, because his head was smoother and brighter than the egg his grandson had eaten yesterday.
Just then, a ray of morning sunlight shone on the "egg," and the reflected light was so bright that he couldn't open his eyes.
"Wealth and status?" Old Man Zhou asked tentatively.
"Father, it's me." Zhou Fugui was almost in tears.
It was truly his own son; a surge of anger instantly welled up in Old Man Zhou's mind.
"You unfilial son! Your body and hair are gifts from your parents, don't you know that? How dare you shave your head? You unfilial son, I raised you with so much painstaking effort, and this is how you repay me..."
He cursed as he swung the stick in his hand, beating Zhou Fugui until he was running around on the ground.
"Dad, stop! I didn't shave it..." Zhou Fugui explained as he ran out.
He thought he had escaped a disaster, but then he heard even louder laughter.
"Oh, Zhou Dalang, have you suddenly had a change of heart and are planning to return your brother's land to him and become a monk?"
"But if you're going to become a monk, why did you shave your beard? You look like a eunuch. I remember that monks don't have to shave their beards."
"Hey, you might have misunderstood. Perhaps Master Zhou isn't getting married, but rather wants to enter the palace to serve a noble lady."
"Hahaha—" The villagers who had been called idiots by Zhou Fugui yesterday finally got a chance to laugh at him.
Just as Zhou Fugui was about to retort, his mother came running from the granary, sobbing.
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