Chapter 26 Does the young master's residence lack an accountant?
Most of the constables who accompanied him were Liu Laohu's brothers who had risked their lives for him. When he saw his brothers being killed, his eyes instantly turned fierce as he glared around and roared with hatred, "Who is it? If you have the guts, come out! Don't hide!"
The exiled prisoners screamed and scattered, while the constables drew their swords and gathered in a circle back to back.
"Master, there are twenty archers lying in ambush at the highest point of the mountain road!"
Shen Lanxi looked over, her phoenix eyes gleaming with a restrained sharpness, like the eyes of an eagle that has spotted its prey.
"Everyone, press yourselves against the mountainside!"
Upon hearing Shen Lanxi's shout, Liu Laohu led the constables to run towards the mountainside, shouting as they ran.
"Anyone who doesn't want to die, stick to the mountainside, quick!"
With Liu Laohu and the yamen runners setting an example, the clever exiled prisoners immediately turned around and ran towards them.
Nu Bai had already located the archers' positions. Shen Lanxi instructed Chunxue and Qiushuang: "Protect yourselves and don't let anyone find out I've left!"
The two nodded quickly.
Taking advantage of the chaos, she leaped up the mountainside using both her hands and feet!
The archers' arrows never stopped flying throughout the ordeal, but fortunately everyone scattered and ran away, resulting in only injuries and no deaths.
After Shen Lanxi climbed to the top of the mountain, she leaped several times, locked onto the nearest archers, and eliminated them one by one. The archers were knocked unconscious and thrown off the mountainside one after another.
The cliff face is about 20 meters high. If they rolled down, they would be half-dead, but without medical help, they would definitely die!
In the blink of an eye, she dealt with twenty archers. When throwing them down, she threw half of the bows and arrows down and collected the other half into her spatial storage.
Just as Liu Laohu stuck his head out to look at the mountain wall, he saw something rolling down from above.
At first, I thought it was a big rock, but when it fell to the ground and splattered blood, I realized it was a martial artist dressed in tight-fitting clothes!
Immediately afterwards, an arrow landed on the ground!
Has the martial artist stumbled?
How could that be!
Next, people and arrows rolled down one after another, further confirming Liu Laohu's guess.
There are definitely experts on the mountaintop. Are they enemies or friends?
Suddenly, a thought struck him, and he immediately turned to look at where Shen Lanxi was. He only saw two servants, but not Shen Lanxi herself.
Liu Laohu's pupils contracted, and he immediately pursed his lips!
Twenty people landed, and Liu Laohu waited a while longer, seeing that no one else was rolling down. He didn't rush to show himself until Shen Lanxi appeared, holding a stick and wiping it.
Liu Laohu's forehead veins throbbed twice before he emerged from the cliff face, walked to the archer's side, and kicked him hard, sending the archer flying more than a meter away!
"You killed my brother! Murderers will be killed, and you deserve it. My brother's life is worth twenty of yours!"
Liu Laohu kicked each of the archers in a fit of rage, and after he finished, he ordered the constables to search them.
Each archer was found to have a small bag of silver, and some also had silver notes and medicine.
Still seething with hatred for his dead brothers, Liu Laohu remembered the method Shen Lanxi had used before and immediately told the exiled prisoners, "Their wristbands are worth a lot of money, and their shoes are wearable too. Go ahead and take whatever you want; it's all yours!"
Having already experienced the exile of prisoners, upon hearing Liu Laohu's words, they instantly swarmed forward, grabbing the document to read it.
Some even got into fights because they couldn't get their hands on the leather wristbands!
The woman's previous outrageous behavior resurfaced; she stripped off all her clothes, inside and out, leaving nothing out.
"Pah! Clothes of a dead man! Don't you find them unlucky?"
The woman retorted, "I won't sell it! If I don't say anything, who will know it's something a dead person would wear? This cloth is so sturdy, it looks valuable!"
Several women's eyes lit up, and they immediately joined the stripping frenzy.
The archer, who wasn't quite dead yet, saw himself stripped naked by the women in the blink of an eye. With a "poof," he coughed up blood and died of rage!
Shen Lanxi, holding the stick, silently turned around.
Pfft~
Once the door to a new world is opened, it's hard to close it again.
Sometimes, all a person lacks is a new way of thinking. Once you open your mind, the paths to success broaden!
Liu Laohu also had his own thoughts. Once these people took it, they would all be in the same boat.
"The money I have is partly for my brother's family as resettlement funds, and partly for the journey. You also took things and got benefits, so keep your mouths shut. If others find out that you robbed the dead, it won't be as simple as exile!"
The exiled prisoners all kept their mouths shut and didn't say a word.
Liu Laohu shouted again, "Did you hear me?"
The prisoners quickly responded, "We heard you!"
The constable asked Liu Laohu, "Brother Liu, what should we do with these people?"
Liu Laohu picked up the bow and arrows and examined them. The bow and arrows looked high-quality, but they were unmarked, which seemed unusual.
He found Shen Lanxi with a bow and arrow.
"Young Master Lan, what should we do with these things?"
Shen Lanxi put the cleaned stick into the carriage.
"There's a big pit here. Let's bury the body and the arrows together!"
Upon hearing Shen Lanxi's nonchalant words, Liu Laohu's pupils trembled, and he quickly went to make arrangements!
The readily available labor force quickly buried everything.
This time it was her turn to go find Liu Laohu.
"Brother Liu, we've only just left the capital and we've already encountered several dangerous situations. If we continue along the normal route, I'm afraid everyone will die on the road!"
Liu Laohu understood and quickly asked, "Young Master Lan, do you have any ideas?"
Shen Lanxi told Liu Laohu about the route she had planned, and then added in a heavy tone, "This is the only way we have left to survive!"
Liu Laohu cursed his bad luck in his heart. Why did the higher-ups send him out on this trip? Now that he'd come this far, even cursing the heavens wouldn't help.
He and his fellow constables were waiting for him to return home. The officials in the capital didn't care about their lives, so they had to take care of their own.
"Alright, it just so happens that there's a severe drought right now, so the court probably won't send anyone to verify it. Let's just follow the route Young Master Lan suggested!" The routes for exiling prisoners are all uniformly stipulated by the court. Right now, it just so happens that there are many refugees. If anyone from above asks us questions, we can just say that we were separated by the refugees.
Liu Laohu only told the exiled prisoners that the route had been changed; he said nothing else. To speed up the journey, the male prisoners' shackles and leg irons were removed and replaced with handcuffs tied together!
Even though many people recognized the road back to Yongcheng, because they were no longer burdened with dozens of kilograms of weight, they guessed that Liu Laohu really wanted them to walk faster, so no one asked.
As expected, the number of refugees at the foot of Yongcheng was six or seven times that of before, and the silver required to enter the city had increased from two taels per person to five taels per person.
Using the excuse of saving money, Shen Lanxi sent Chunxue alone with Liu Laohu to the city to buy water.
We haven't consumed much food, but we've consumed a lot of water. We need to replenish enough water to continue our journey!
While she was resting, a young exiled prisoner came up to her and volunteered!
"Does your household need an accountant, young master?"
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