Hong Xiaoduo, who was standing still, put away the gold notes in her hand, looked at the person who was about to leave on horseback, sighed and shook her head. With a flick of her hand, a pebble flew out. The next moment, the person who had just settled on the horse and was about to urge the horse away froze, looked down at the bleeding hole in his chest, and fell off the horse.
Hong Xiaoduo walked over, and this time it was her turn to look down at the other person.
"You are despicable, shameless, and untrustworthy." Shen Qian's mouth was also bleeding as he looked at Hong Xiaoduo through gritted teeth.
"Tsk tsk, should I feel honored to be called despicable and shameless by a robber who likes to smash people's heads and kills without blinking an eye?" Hong Xiaoduo said as she reached out and pulled off the black mask from the other person's face.
After seeing the other person's appearance clearly, Hong Xiaoduo showed a look of disgust: "What kind of Soul-Locking Gentleman is he, Gentleman, Gentleman? I thought he was handsome, but it turns out he has such a long, narrow face."
"You, as a righteous person, are not afraid of being scorned by the martial arts world if this gets out?" Shen Qian asked with great indignation.
Hong Xiaoduo shrugged and said, "I never said I was a righteous person. I know the saying that a dying man's words are good. You don't need to worry about me. It's okay. This matter is known only to heaven, earth, you, and me. No one else will know about it, and naturally, it won't spread."
Upon hearing this, Shen Qian coughed up another mouthful of blood in his anxiety and anger. He didn't consider himself a good person and had seen all sorts of people, but he had never encountered anyone so wicked and despicable before.
He had thought that he might not end up well either, but he never expected to fall into the trap of such a scoundrel who looked like a decent person but was really not a decent person. The key point is that she was a woman, a young woman!
"Alright, I've agreed to let you go this time, but you still took the Mandarin Duck Hammers, which shows you don't intend to retire from this life. Besides, ask yourself honestly, aren't you planning to take revenge on me someday?"
So, put yourself in my shoes. How could I possibly tolerate such a thing happening? Of course, I'd kill you to eliminate any future trouble." Hong Xiaoduo continued to patiently explain her reasoning.
Shen Qian was unwilling, but he no longer had the strength to curse. As the smiling, innocent face in front of him gradually blurred, he felt himself getting colder and colder.
Seeing the person at her feet had died, Hong Xiaoduo didn't hesitate for a moment and began searching the person's body. In the purse, there were a few taels of loose silver, some copper coins, a few small porcelain bottles, and several travel permits with different addresses.
Seeing her start, Quan Jinghuai, who was not far away, also bent down and began searching, or as she put it, cleaning up the battlefield. This was something she always did after encountering robbers.
Even though they are very rich now, she still hasn't given up on this matter.
Lan Zechen and his two servants looked at the two slightly older children in front of them and followed their example, searching through the dying corpse. They wondered if it wasn't what they thought.
As a result, they saw Tian Shu and Tian Xuan putting away the purses and money bags they found, and Tian Ji even reminded them that there was a sleeve pocket that hadn't been turned over yet.
"Don't you think this is bad luck?" Lan Zechen asked Tianquan in a low voice.
"What's so unlucky about this? Pavilion Master, you've never gone hungry, have you? So, well, you wouldn't understand even if I told you," Tianquan said in a condescending tone, shaking his head.
This kid? This is the first time Lan Zechen has been looked down upon by a little brat. He really wants to teach him a lesson, but he doesn't dare.
On second thought, were they really in a bad situation before?
Seeing Quan Jinghuai dragging the robbers' bodies together, he quickly asked Liu, the bodyguard, and Jin Gui to help.
Liu, the guard, was alright; he went without saying a word.
However, Jin Gui was a bit resistant. It wasn't that he was being pretentious or lazy, but rather that he had worked at Duobaoge for many years and had never encountered or done anything like this before.
However, he didn't dare not go, so he could only complain in his heart, why did he have to follow these people? Did he think the road was too peaceful and boring?
There were thirteen robbers, but not thirteen corpses. Of the three children who were practicing, the one Yao Guang poked with the stick died. The other two were still breathing, but even if they didn't die, they wouldn't be able to do evil deeds in the future.
But only Guard Liu saw that the two robbers, who were still alive, were secretly killed by Quan Jinghuai while the children were busy fetching water for Hong Xiaoduo to wash her hands and clean the mud off her boots.
When Guard Liu returned and told him, Lan Zechen understood. He didn't want those children to have the experience of killing at such a young age, even if the other party was a damned robber.
They put a lot of thought into giving the children experience while also considering their mental well-being.
"Mother, why is that robber I dealt with not moving? My brothers said he's not dead, is he just unconscious?" Yao Guang asked, remembering the question.
The child's question reminded Hong Xiaoduo of something: she needed to quickly check what was going on with the stun gun she had given the girl, and how it had managed to kill her.
For the first time, Hong Xiaoduo regretted it. What was wrong with her that day? Why did she give that thing to the little girl?
"Yes, he's not dead. How could he die from just a touch of a stick? He's not made of tofu." Hong Xiaoduo lied without batting an eye.
At the same time, I feel even more gratified for Tian Shu and the others.
"All done?" Hong Xiaoduo asked Quan Jinghuai, who had also come over and washed his hands.
Quan Jinghuai glanced at Xiao Yaoguang, then his gaze swept over the stick that had been put back into the bag, and replied, "Okay, all done."
Seeing that Hong Xiaoduo and the others had gotten into the car and were about to leave, Lan Zechen reminded them, "Don't the robbers pick out a couple of good horses to take with them?"
There's no need to dispose of or bury the robbers' bodies; someone will report it to the authorities, and the yamen officials will come.
Since the money pouches on the corpses have been looted, selling the horses will be a bit of a hassle, but picking out two good horses to use as mounts shouldn't be a problem.
"We don't need it now. Taking it with us would mean feeding them, which is too much trouble," Hong Xiaoduo said honestly.
This isn't the first time I've encountered robbers along the way, and it won't be the last.
There will be other opportunities to add horses in the future; then the two interviewers, Little Gray and Little Black, can choose.
"Didn't we say we were going to capture that Soul-Locking Gentleman and get the reward from the government? Why don't we want it anymore?" After his master got into the carriage, Jin Gui put away the saddlebags, jumped onto the carriage shaft, and muttered to himself.
She had already dealt with that guy. A bounty of a thousand gold coins was much better than scavenging scraps from a corpse.
“Then naturally she has already received more than a thousand taels of reward,” Lan Zechen laughed from inside the carriage.
Although I was too far away to hear the conversation between her and the Soul-Locking Gentleman clearly, I could roughly guess what they were talking about by looking at their actions.
That Soul-Locking Gentleman died unjustly, and Xiao Duo's heart was truly black, but she really suited his temperament.
After Hong Xiaoduo boarded the carriage, she quickly retrieved Yao Guang's stun gun, intending to check her spatial dimension again. However, she felt as if she had forgotten something important...
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