The eldest princess is obsessed with rebellion, but there are six male protagonists

In a bandit den somewhere in Erhua Mountain, Bai Guo was processing today's account books. Several bandits nearby came to hand in today's accounts and discussed:

"Have you heard? The imperial court is going to suppress bandits again."

"What are you afraid of? We have people above us, so they can't come to us even if they try their best to suppress us."

"This time it's different. I heard that the court has offered a huge sum of money. The head of the second in command is worth 10,000 taels of silver. The head of the Jin in the next hill is worth 5,000 taels of silver. Even the head of our little leader Lao Pang is worth 50 taels of silver. Where did the court get so much information? They even know the name of our little leader. It feels like they're going to do something serious this time..."

"Lao Pang is worth fifty taels! Is that true? Why don't we tie him up and take him to the government? Oh, oh, Lao Pang, you are here. Don't look at me like that. I am just kidding, just kidding."

At this time, a little girl came running over:

"Miss Qian, the second in command is back and is looking for you!"

The little girl was actually the second in command's official maid, in charge of the daily cleaning of his room. Bai Guo was the accountant, so he shouldn't have gone.

But ignoring the ambiguous smiles of the accountants next to him, Bai Guo put down the account book, told the accountants to continue entering the accounts, and replied:

"Okay, I'll go now."

The second in command lives in a small building at the highest point. No one knows his real name, so everyone calls him the second in command.

Because the big boss has never appeared, everyone assumes that the second in command is the real leader, and the big boss was made up just to bluff.

Although the second in command is the leader of the bandits, he is also elusive. Sometimes he comes and sometimes he doesn't. Bai Guo has only seen him a few times.

On the way to find the second in command, Old Man Qian came back from shopping with everyone else. He was about to come to Bai Guo to settle the bill. When he saw Bai Guo walking up, he stopped her:

"My girl, is he looking for you again? If you don't want to go, I'll go and tell him that you don't have to go."

Although the second in command was a bandit, he did not act like a bandit and had never done anything like forcing women of good families into prostitution.

Bai Guo took the wine jar from Old Man Qian and smiled:

"I'm not unwilling to go. Give it to me."

The people around started to make a noise. Looking at Baiguo walking up with the jar of wine in his arms, Old Man Qian became very worried.

Bodhisattva, Miss Baiguo is the maid of the eldest princess. The eldest princess gave herself the task of sending Miss Baiguo back safely. What if Miss Baiguo gets involved with the bandits, what should I do? It’s so annoying!

Old Man Qian had followed the Ministry of Revenue's team to Yulin to check the grain warehouse. After settling Baiguo, he changed his route to meet up with Xiu Gu, and disguised himself as a hunter couple from the mountains to investigate the details of the bandit problem in Yulin.

As a result, his house was robbed right after he left, and the team from the Ministry of Revenue that was checking the grain warehouse was hijacked by bandits!

Old Man Qian and Xiu Gu went to investigate a bandit's lair, and they happened to see the bandits kidnapping people from the Ministry of Revenue and passing by on the mountain.

Although Old Man Qian's skill in using a flying rope to rescue people was great, he was no match for four hands and there were too many bandits. So he did not dare to act rashly and could only follow the bandits secretly to look for opportunities to rescue people.

It turned out that this gang of bandits were no ordinary bandits. Their lair was so deep that Old Man Qian and Xiu Gu followed them in the mountains for several days and almost lost them before they reached their lair.

At this time, the second in command appeared and brought people to surround Old Man Qian.

The second head of the family was quite polite and asked Old Man Qian:

"You are quite capable. You have been following us for so many days. Even the authorities couldn't stop you. Why are you following us? Are you from the imperial court?"

Old Man Qian immediately started yelling:

"What court? You captured my daughter. I will fight you to the death! Give my daughter back to me!"

The second in command asked his men to investigate, and sure enough, there was a woman among the people captured.

This must be a mistake. The official in charge of the imperial granary could not possibly be a woman. They really captured someone else's daughter in a confused manner.

Judging from Old Man Qian's appearance, the way he spoke, and the fact that he was accompanied by Xiu Gu, they did look like a hunter couple from the mountains, and not likely people from the imperial court.

The second in command had already believed most of what Old Man Qian said, but even if he believed it, he couldn't let Old Man Qian go back. If he let him go back, what if he tipped off the others?

The second in command admired the old man Qian's tracking skills and thought it would be a pity to kill him, so he asked him:

"Are you willing to follow me? If you follow me, I will redeem your daughter with my own ability."

Old Man Qian did not agree on the spot:

"How much does that cost? I can afford it even if I don't go with you."

The second in command laughed:

"The rule in our mountain is that the minimum ransom per person is three hundred taels. For your family of three, I'll give you one thousand taels. Do you have any?"

Old Man Qian had some. Before he left, the princess gave him some funds for activities, so he could still come up with one thousand taels.

But a hunter's family should not have one thousand taels of silver.

And most importantly, the eldest princess asked him to investigate the details of the bandit problem. What better opportunity could there be than to sneak into the bandit's lair?

So Old Man Qian agreed reluctantly.

As a result, the second in command transferred the people from the Ministry of Revenue to several places, and even changed the escorting bandits several times, all the way from Yulin to Weinan, and Old Man Qian and others also followed them to Erhua Mountain in Weinan.

A cunning rabbit has three burrows. Along the way, Old Man Qian suspected that the second in command might have many properties. He might be called the second in command in this mountain and Long Aotian in the next mountain.

Although the second in command accepted Qian Laohan's family, he did not completely trust Qian Laohan and did not allow Baiguo and Xiu Gu to go down the mountain. However, sometimes he would let Qian Laohan go down the mountain to do business with others.

Old Man Qian was worried that the Second in Command was testing him, so apart from secretly placing ginkgo nuts on the wine counter, he did not take any other rash actions.

Baiguo, on the other hand, doesn't look like an ordinary hunter girl in terms of temperament. I heard that Baiguo worked as a maid in a wealthy family. After she was mistakenly captured when she went home to visit her relatives, the second in command would sometimes ask Baiguo to help make tea or something.

Later, the accountant on the mountain was killed by the second in command because he was greedy. The second in command couldn't find a suitable person for a while, so Bai Guo took the opportunity to say that he used to be in charge of the warehouse for his wife and asked for the accountant's job.

Bai Guo arrived at the second in command's room and saw him reading a book without drinking the tea. He knew that the little girl did not make the tea well, so the second in command looked down on her and called her here just to make tea, with no other intention.

Sure enough, when he saw Bai Guo coming, the second in command said:

"Make a pot of tea."

Baiguo put the wine jar down to make tea. While she was doing so, she was thinking, this second in command, she always felt like she had seen him somewhere before, as if she knew him, but why couldn't she remember him?

She used to stay in the Princess's Mansion and rarely went out. Could it be that she was seen in the Princess's Mansion?

The reason why Baiguo was so active in coming to make tea for the second in command was to take a few more glances at him and identify him a few more times to see if he could remember who he was.

Oh, if only Dangui were here, she would definitely recognize it at a glance.

Because of this thought, when Bai Guo served the tea, he stared at the Second Master for a while longer. The Second Master chuckled:

"What are you staring at me for?"

Bai Guo was originally a thin-skinned person, and when he was caught, his face immediately turned red. He thought that it was better to blush, so that he would not have to explain why he kept looking at him, so he hurriedly said:

"Second Master, do you want to drink?"

The second in command laughed even harder:

"I'm drinking tea, what kind of wine is this? Did your wife mix it like this before?"

Baiguo's face turned even redder, and he hurriedly opened the paper seal of the wine jar. There was actually a letter underneath the seal.

The second in command also saw it, reached out to take the letter, opened it and read it, then smiled and said:

"A letter of surrender? Let me see. With the head of Master Jin, I can get a reward of 5,000 taels of silver, and everyone in Erhua Mountain can be transferred to the imperial court. Let's not dwell on the past. The imperial court is really capable now. They can even come up with such a method. I wonder how much my head is worth to Master Jin..."

As he was speaking, the little girl came to report:

"Second Master, Master Jin is here and wants to discuss something with you."