How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

"Ouch! What's going on?!"

Seeing the sharp arrow, the middle-aged man was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground and shouted to the servant, "Help! Help! Someone is going to kill someone!"

The servant quickly drew the long sword from his waist and tremblingly stood in front of the middle-aged man, "Master, where did the arrow come from?! Are we being targeted by bandits?"

"What? Bandits? There are still bandits here?" The middle-aged man hid behind his servant and looked around in panic, only to see several masked men in animal skins suddenly sliding down from the surrounding mountains and walking towards them with a smile.

"Look at these two cowards!" A strong-looking bandit deliberately swung his knife at the middle-aged man, frightening him so much that he suddenly knelt on the ground and kept begging with both hands, "Master bandit, master bandit, don't kill me, don't kill me! You can take whatever you want, just don't take my life!"

"Hey, you're quite sensible!" The bandit leader pressed him to the ground, fumbled around, and took out five gold cakes. He couldn't help but say happily, "Oh, a rich man! What's your name? You said you used to be a craftsman?"

"Yes, yes, my name is Hu Lai, and I did work as a craftsman before..."

"Great! This is worth a lot of money." The bandit leader's eyes were bright and he waved his hand, "Come on, tie him up and take him back to the mountain!"

After saying that, he looked at the servant again and said, "Just kill him and throw him on the side of the road!"

"Please spare my life!" The servant hurriedly shook his head and said in panic, "Master Bandit, please don't kill me! I am willing to go up the mountain with you to become a bandit! As long as you don't kill me, and don't kill our master and his wife!"

"Second boss, let's not kill this guy, okay?" Another bandit came over and whispered to the bandit leader, "That guy surnamed Xie killed many of our brothers before, and we are in need of people right now. Besides, the first boss values ​​him. If we want to kill that guy surnamed Xie, we must have our own people!"

Hu Lai and Wu Ji exchanged glances secretly: Your surname is Xie?

The second in command stroked his chin and said, "You are right."

The servant seemed loyal and tall. He was holding a knife and should know some martial arts, but he was a little timid. However, the second in command was not picky and waved his hand, saying, "Tie up the two men. You, go and take a look at the lady in the car. If she looks good, take her back to warm the bed for the brothers in the village!"

"Yes!" The bandit who was called received the order, and hurriedly climbed onto the carriage and lifted the curtain. The next second, he was stunned where he stood.

Inside the carriage, there was a young woman in a white dress and a red fur coat. Even through the veil, one could still glimpse her stunning face. The ends of her phoenix eyes were lightly smeared with cinnabar, exuding infinite charm and seductiveness. When she heard the voice and cast a look at him, it seemed as if she could captivate people.

But that stunning face seemed a little pale, and had a bit of Daiyu's world-weary look. She was probably not feeling well. Her slight cough was as soft and delicate as a kitten's sneeze, which could tickle one's heart, liver and lungs.

The bandit was stunned for a long time before he stuttered to the second in command, "Second, second in command! The fairy, the fairy has descended to earth!"

"What do you mean by delicious? Good-looking and delicious?" The second in command didn't hear clearly, and walked over with a knife in hand. He kicked away the bandit who was blocking the way, and took a look through the curtain of the carriage. He was also stunned.

Good, so beautiful!

It turned out to be a fairy descending to earth!

"Is this your wife?" Rubbing his eyes hard, the second in command turned to look at Hu Lai's age and appearance, then looked at the age and appearance of the woman in the car, and was completely in disbelief.

It would be more accurate to say that this woman is the servant’s wife!

As if he understood what Second In Command meant, Hu Lai straightened his chest in dissatisfaction and said in a tough tone, "Second In Command! Don't be fooled by her beauty. She is a sickly woman who loves money! If I hadn't married into her family to bring good luck to her, and if I hadn't expanded my father-in-law's family business, and if I hadn't fed her ginseng every day, she might not have lived to this day!"

"Besides, she's hard to please! You'd better not take her up the mountain!" Hu Lai kindly reminded, "She has the finest food and clothing, and she will commit suicide if she's not satisfied. If it weren't for my kindness, she would have starved to death on the street!"

"Hey! You married into someone's family, took over their property, and yet you want to starve them to death on the street!" A bandit couldn't help but speak up for them, "What kind of man are you!"

"What do you know!" Hu Lai said, "If you really take her up the mountain, you will know! Don't blame me for not warning you then!"

The bandits looked at each other, then burst into laughter.

"Brother, you are afraid that we will take your wife away as our heir, so you said this on purpose, right?"

"What kind of storm can a woman stir up? We are bandits!"

"Take her back, take her back! I want to see what she can do to me in bed, hehe!"

The second in command took out a piece of cloth and walked towards the "woman" in the carriage, "Madam, I will take care of you from now on, be good and cover your mouth first."

"No, it's too dirty."

But the beautiful woman frowned slightly, and even her frown was so beautiful that people wanted to hold her in their hands and pamper her.

"She" opened her red lips slightly, her lips under the veil were rosy and attractive, but the words she spoke were cold and disdainful, just like the fluttering sword that seemed soft but was actually sharp, "What kind of rag is worthy of this lady's lips?"

The second in command was stunned, "What?"

The beautiful woman raised her head proudly, coughed a few times, and said arrogantly, "My husband knows where the best cloth is in the cargo. Ask him to find it. Only the softest and most expensive cloth in the world is worthy of being put into this lady's lips and blocking them."

Second Master: ...

The second in command suddenly burst into laughter. "Big sister, don't you understand your situation? We are bandits! Bandits who kill without blinking an eye!"

The beautiful woman seemed to despise his rudeness. She raised her delicate hand to touch the hair beside her ear and said disdainfully, "So what if he's a bandit? Even if the king of heaven comes, he has to do whatever I say!"

Hu Lai jumped over like a maggot standing upright, and warned, "Second Master, she's right, you'd better do as she says, or she'll crash into the car and die! I almost didn't keep an eye on her several times before!"

"Is it true?" The second in command was very suspicious.

"Hmph! Live as a heroine, and die as a heroic ghost. I still miss Peng E, who has become an immortal in the cave!" After saying this, the beautiful woman stood up, and with a look of willingness to die, she slammed into the wall of the car!

This frightened the second in command, and he quickly reached out to stop her, so as to prevent her from getting bloodstained in the carriage. He asked Hu Lai in confusion, "What Peng E? Who is Peng E?"

Hu Lai didn't know either, so he made up a story, "There was a chaste and heroic woman in Jiangzhou. Her family was attacked by bandits, and her parents were killed by them. So Peng E took a knife and went to kill the bandits. But how could a weak woman beat the bandits? In the end, she was chased into the mountains by the bandits. In order to save her reputation, Peng E planned to hit her head against the mountain, but the mountain suddenly split in half!"

Hu Lai's story became more and more fluent, and he said excitedly, "So Peng E went into the crack of the cave, and the bandits followed into the mountain. Unexpectedly, the crack in the mountain suddenly closed up, and all the bandits were cut into pieces! Later, someone went to the mountain and saw Peng E. They said that Peng E had turned into a mountain fairy, protecting the women on the mountain!"

"That's right!" The beautiful woman coughed a few more times, and then said proudly with a pale and sickly face, "We should be like Peng E Niang! We are not afraid of bandits and we are not afraid of death!"

Second Master: ...

Bandits:…