Chapter 358: Robbery
"My uncle and Yuan Qifeng had a fight at the gate of Yuan Mansion?" After hearing Chengying's report, Han Chi confirmed it again.
"My Lord!" Cheng Ying replied, "Yes, it's a big deal. Now the whole capital has spread the rumor that the Duan and Yuan families have a feud, but no one seems to understand the reason."
Han Chi smiled coldly when he heard this: "Go, have someone spread the news that Yuan Ziyu killed the lady, and don't let anyone catch him."
"Yes." Chengying responded. Seeing that Han Chi did not let him leave, he knew that Han Chi still had something to say, so he stood there respectfully waiting for Han Chi's instructions.
Han Chi thought for a full cup of tea before he said to Chengying, "Arrange someone to disguise themselves as bandits and kill my uncle and his men on their way back to the south."
"Remember." Han Chi emphasized, "My uncle and his men were killed by bandits on the way."
"Yes, my lord."
Chengying responded hurriedly and solemnly.
"Okay, go down and make the arrangements."
After Chengying left, Han Chi leaned back in his chair and squinted his eyes. Regardless of whether Master Duan Wu and the Yuan family had really become enemies, they could not return to the south.
Now that the news of the feud between the Duan and Yuan families has spread widely in the capital, it will naturally reach the Duan family sooner or later. Regardless of whether the feud is true or false, he will make it true.
Thinking of this, Han Chi raised the corner of his mouth slightly and sneered.
Yuan Qifeng, this is just an appetizer. I hope you enjoy it.
A few days later, Master Duan Wu said goodbye to Han Chi and left the capital with his men.
After walking for three or four days, the group arrived at a mountainous area. This place was sparsely populated and had always been a place where bandits were very likely to appear. Master Duan Wu and his group had specially come here early in the morning and quickened their pace, hoping to get out of this mountainous area as soon as possible. Once they passed this mountain, the road would be much easier to walk on.
However, things did not go as planned. When the group was halfway through their journey, they saw a huge rock lying across the middle of the road, blocking their way.
As soon as they saw the rock, everyone became nervous.
Master Duan Wu frowned upon seeing this. Just as he was about to order his men to retreat, he heard a voice coming from behind the rock: "Hahaha, looks like we've caught a fat sheep today!"
As he spoke, a large, bearded man emerged from behind the rocks. Behind him followed seven or eight other burly men, all fierce-looking and grinning as they stared at Master Duan Wu and his group.
Master Duan Wu frowned. The guard beside him rode forward and clasped his fists, saying, "Friends, we are just passing through. If you are in financial difficulty, we can certainly help you. Please let us go. Today's incident should be treated as if it had never happened."
"Haha, you want to leave?" One of the burly men spat out the grass stem in his mouth and said, "That's easy for you to say. How much gold and silver are you going to give us brothers?"
The guard secretly glanced at Master Duan Wu, and when he saw him nod slightly, he smiled and clasped his fists, saying, "We are traveling and don't have much silver on us, so I will give you 500 taels of silver. I hope you don't think it's too little."
"Only five hundred taels?" The bearded leader sneered, "Are you sending beggars away? Don't you see how many brothers we have? If you can't see clearly, just look up."
Everyone looked up upon hearing this, and they were so frightened that they broke out in cold sweats.
I saw a lot of people standing densely on the mountainside. A rough count showed that there were as many as one or two hundred of them. And behind them, several burly men surrounded them and were staring at them with a fierce look.
Young Master Duan Wu felt a little cold in his heart. Their group, including the master and servants, consisted of no more than forty or fifty people, but this group of bandits had actually come with one or two hundred people. It looked like they were determined to keep them here.
Although Mr. Duan Wu came from a scholarly family, he often traveled outside and had some understanding of these things. Generally, when bandits robbed people on the road, they would first find out the situation of the travelers, and then send people down according to the actual situation. At most, they would have some backups.
He had never heard of a group of bandits with a total of one or two hundred people.
unless……
"Excuse me, sir, what do you mean by this?" Young Master Duan Wu knew that if things went wrong today, the entire army would be wiped out. Now there was no way to retreat.
"What do you mean?" The bearded leader first pressed his hand towards the robbers on the mountainside, then said to Master Duan Wu, "Isn't it clear? We are bandits, so of course we want to rob people."
"Your Excellency has made such a big fuss. We are just common people passing by here. I didn't expect it would be worth such a big fuss." Young Master Duan Wu narrowed his eyes and gritted his teeth slightly.
"Hahahahaha..." The bearded man laughed heartily upon hearing this, looking at Master Duan Wu jokingly, "Master, please stop trying to hide it. With carriages and horses like yours, who could they be ordinary people? Who are you trying to fool?"
After saying that, he took another look at Master Duan Wu's convoy and sneered, "There's no cargo. It seems the cargo has already been sold. We brothers have really caught a fat sheep today."
After saying that, he called out, "Brothers, be quick and don't leave any of them alive, otherwise we'll be in trouble, okay?"
"Understood, big brother!" The bandits shouted in response, with bloodthirsty glints in their eyes as they looked at Master Duan Wu and his group.
After these words were spoken, Master Duan Wu and his group became even more panicked.
Master Duan Wu felt a chill in his heart. Was he going to kill to silence the witness?
"Wait!" Seeing these bandits about to take action, Master Duan Wu hurriedly shouted, "Can you please allow me to ask a question? Even if I have to die, I have to wait and see."
"Oh, you're a scholar indeed, your speech is so elegant." The bearded leader sneered, "Alright, sir, I'm in a good mood today, so feel free to ask anything you want to ask."
Hearing the bearded man say this, Master Duan Wu became even more certain of his guess, and couldn't help but secretly hate the other party for being so cruel.
"Are you real bandits?" Young Master Duan Wu asked after taking a deep breath.
"Of course!" The bearded man sneered, "I've been in this business for over ten years, and I'm quite famous in the underworld. Who wouldn't be respectful? How dare you question my identity?"
"Okay." Master Duan Wu nodded and asked, "Are you here to rob us today under the orders of someone else?"
The bearded man didn't answer immediately after hearing this. Instead, he looked at Master Duan Wu inquiringly and sneered after a while: "It seems that Master understands it!"
(End of this chapter)
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