"Are you the leader of these bandits?" Tao Wanniang asked, looking at the bearded man with red eyes.
"That's right, I'm the boss. If you're smart, you'll come up the mountain with me. Wait, is there another woman in your carriage?"
"What do you intend to do to the woman?" Tao Wanniang narrowed her eyes slightly. These bandits all looked vicious and cruel. Tao Wanniang asked in a calm tone.
"What are you doing, woman? Hehehe, come into grandpa's arms, grandpa will tell you!" the bearded man said lecherously, and even ordered his men to lift the carriage curtain.
"Bang!" Tao Wanniang raised her hand and shot a person in the head, then fired a series of shots at anyone trying to approach the carriage.
With a few loud bangs, four bandits fell to Tao Wanniang's spear in succession, either to the forehead or the chest, dying instantly, which shocked everyone.
"Burning, killing, humiliating, and abusing—they deserve to die," Tao Wanniang said coldly. "If you know what's good for you, get back to your mountain, or else..."
No one could see how Tao Wanniang made her move, and the way she killed him with a single blow truly intimidated the remaining bandits, and no one dared to take a step forward.
As Tao Wanniang raised her hand, the gun in her hand was revealed. The dark entrance to the cave seemed to terrify the bandits. No one knew who led the way, but they all scrambled away.
Tao Wanniang blew a breath of air onto the muzzle of the gun with a dashing air; she hadn't even drawn her hidden arrow yet!
"They've all left, what if the horses are injured?" Tao Wanniang said to Ling Feng and the others, who were equally shocked.
“Change the horse, this horse…” Ling Feng looked at it, stepped forward, drew his sword, and applied wound medicine to the horse, but the horse couldn’t stand up despite its efforts. “It’s ruined!”
There was no village or shop in sight, so naturally there was no way to treat the horse's injury. Tao Wan watched as Ling Feng removed the horse's equipment and put Chen Yan's horse on it. After all this was done, Ling Feng said, "Let's go!"
Chen Yan got into the carriage. The carriage wasn't crowded, but as soon as she got in, she stared at Tao Wanniang.
"Chen Yan, do you know that looking at me like that is offensive?" Tao Wanniang met Chen Yan's eyes and said directly.
"I..." Chen Yan bit her lip, she wanted to see Tao Wanniang's weapon.
"Don't even think about it. You need to know that there are some things you can't know," Tao Wanniang refused. She wouldn't let anyone else in the world touch what shouldn't be there.
Chen Yan still wanted to see Tao Wanniang's hidden weapons; she had never heard of anything that could kill so accurately with a single blow.
"Was it Sister Tao who made those banging sounds I heard?" Yun Pingting looked at Tao Wanniang in surprise, not daring to lift the curtain to look outside.
Tao Wanniang said solemnly, "I've been through a lot, and even if I have some means of self-protection, I don't need to explain them to anyone. Chen Yan, you've crossed the line!"
"I'm sorry, Manager Tao!" Chen Yan said apologetically, bowing her head, but she was still puzzled. What kind of hidden weapon was that?
“Someone will come and collect those corpses!” Chen Lian said leisurely. “There should be more than just one group of bandits on this mountain.”
"It's alright, we'll deal with whatever comes our way, or we can make an example of them!" Tao Wanniang hoped that those who knew what was good for them would not come to their deaths after seeing the dead bandits!
The dead bandits were naturally taken care of. This time, the bandit leader was shot in the head, and the other brothers all had similar wounds. This made the bandit's second-in-command very panicked.
"Who exactly have you offended?"
"It's just a carriage, and the guards accompanying it are all highly skilled, but nobody knows there's a ruthless woman inside!"
"What symptoms are in the carriage? How many guards are there? Quickly inform the various mountain strongholds, lest they die needlessly!" the second-in-command said, fearing for his life.
"Second-in-command, so many brothers have died, aren't you going to avenge them?"
"Revenge? You want to go? Look at this! Come and see for yourselves. Do you even know what weapon caused this hole?"
"Second-in-command, we found this." One of the bandits showed the second-in-command a bullet they had found at the scene.
"What is this?" The second-in-command stared at it for a long time, then finally opened his mouth and bit it with his teeth. Crack! His tooth broke! "Damn it, my tooth!"
The man's wails echoed across the mountain, and a rumor suddenly spread through the forest: caravans could be robbed, but if you encountered a single carriage with two men and a woman as attendants, don't go looking for trouble.
The rumors became increasingly outrageous, but there were also fearless bandits who tried to rob people. However, Tao Wanniang didn't need to take action; Ling Feng and his two companions were more than capable of handling the situation.
However, this group of bandits greatly displeased Tao Wanniang, because their robbery caused them to miss the appointed time, and they still hadn't found a place to stay by nightfall.
“It’s windy and cold at night. If we stay in the woods, we’ll easily catch a cold,” Tao Wanniang said with some concern.
"I can go ahead and scout around some more," Ling Feng said. "If there are any houses nearby, we can ask for lodging."
Tao Wanniang nodded. It was cold outside, so she told Xiao Qiao'er, Chen Lian, and Yun Pingting to stay inside the carriage while she got out and looked around.
If there's no place to stay, we'll have to find a flat spot to live, since there are probably wild animals roaming in these mountains.
Tao Wanniang looked around at the pitch blackness and thought to herself, "Let An Feng and Mr. Chen Yan start a fire."
"Sister Tao, it's cold outside, why don't you come into the carriage first?" Yun Pingting poked her head out of the carriage.
Tao Wanniang had already spotted a tent in the trading system. It had a retro, grass-green color. Since the carriage couldn't accommodate so many people, she would have to use the tent if they really needed to spend the night outdoors.
"It's alright, let me check the terrain first." Tao Wanniang held up a torch and looked around.
Yun Pingting was very curious, wondering what Tao Wanniang could see, so she jumped down from the carriage. She wrapped her coat tighter around herself and shivered as she felt the wind whistling through the forest. "Sister Tao, it's so cold!"
"If you're cold, go back to the carriage," Tao Wanniang said. "Don't get really sick."
"I...I'll go put on a cloak," Yun Pingting said. "Sister Tao, why don't you come in too?"
"No need, I guess Ling Feng can't find a place to stay." Tao Wanniang glanced in the direction Ling Feng had gone. "Chen Yan, bring down my trunk. I think we can arrange for him to camp out!"
Chen Yan didn't know what was in Tao Wan's mother's box, but she still went to carry it down as instructed.
While Tao Wanniang was rummaging through the box, she had already exchanged the tent in the trading system for twenty taels of silver!
“Found it. Come here, Chen Yan, An Feng, drag this out for me,” Tao Wanniang said, pointing to the tent.
Chen Ying found it strange. When she saw Tao Wanniang open the box, it didn't seem to be this full! Or was it because the torchlight made it hard to see clearly?
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