Dress up as a sickly person to capture the villain princess!

Smoke rises from the mountains and forests.

The man raised his foot, patted the dirty snow on his boots, and knocked off the mud on his feet bit by bit.

He was holding a roll of dry tobacco in his hand, with wisps of white smoke coming out. He put his fingers together, pinched the cigarette holder, and bit it between his lips and teeth.

"Boss, is what that woman said true or false?"

"On our way down...will we meet that Lord Laozi?"

"If this continues, the dry food that the brothers and sisters brought won't be enough to eat."

Fortunately, there are many wild animals hibernating in the mountains and forests. As long as you follow the traces and observe carefully, you can find the wild animals hiding in the caves and have a good meal.

But this is not a long-term solution after all. There is no food to eat and people are so hungry that they feel dizzy.

The woman sitting nearby, peeling bark, looked up at him and shook off the brown crumbs on her gloves.

"Why are you in such a hurry? You want to do something big, but don't you have the stomach to do this?"

"According to the instructions of the young lady from the imperial court... Don't you find anything wrong with this terrain?"

After hearing the village chief's reminder, the man raised his eyes and saw the narrow mountain opposite through the mottled shadows of the trees. He became incoherent for a moment.

"This... is a dangerous place, but it has nothing to do with us. Walking on this rugged mountain road will only increase the burden on our brothers and sisters."

There is a plain path between the mountains. The terrain is flat and the road condition is good, while the two sides are like knife-cut cliffs, stretching for thousands of miles.

From the beginning he couldn't understand why the village chief chose not to take the flat path but to settle down on this steep cliff. Was he crazy?

"To call you a fool is a compliment to you."

"You are such a lazy guy. The village chief has made it so clear, why don't you understand the deep meaning behind it?"

The mink hat on his head was hit hard by a punch. The man frowned and looked a little unhappy. He didn't need to look back, just by listening to the official tone, he knew who was standing behind him.

He turned around, gritted his teeth, and kicked down, trying to step on the boots of the feminine man, but the other party seemed to have anticipated such a move.

He retracted his foot faster than anyone else and took a light step back. The man stepped on the snow that had not yet melted. His ankle twisted and his buttocks sat on the rugged muddy ground, and he fell flat on his face.

He was groaning, his palm was scratched, a large piece of skin was scraped, and scarlet blood was flowing out and dripping into the snow.

With hatred in her eyes, she looked up at the feminine man standing behind her.

He almost spat out saliva in his mouth to relieve the hatred in his heart.

"This dangerous place is the best trap."

"As long as the enemy rides forward from that flat path, we can set up a killing move and it will be easy for us to kill them, right?"

The feminine man squatted down, a smile on his lips, patted his shoulder with his palm, and straightened the crooked mink hat on his head.

"You--didn't you say that you wanted to buy a house in Lincang City? Now that wealth and glory are right in front of you, how can you treat it as a joke?"

The tempting conditions made the man feel like a cat scratching his heart. He was about to say "You bastard, you'll give birth to a son without an asshole!" but he swallowed it back.

"Oh, what you said does make some sense, but in this cold winter, what idiot would lead an army through here?"

"The imperial army can just take the official road, why should they suffer this hardship?"

His doubt was not without reason. This was also the common worry of everyone in Longya Village. If the loyal and brave young marquis did not ride his horse through here, all their efforts would be in vain.

However, as the saying goes, nothing ventured, nothing gained, which means that they have to take risky measures to get what they want.

As bandits, they had long been living a life of uncertainty, and gambling was what they needed most.

"Wait a minute... stop arguing, something's going on."

The woman dressed in wolf skin stood up, holding a sharpened pole in her hand, her eyebrows slightly frowned, and the sharpened pole sank into the mud, splashing some mud spots.

"The bird is flying... there's someone in the woods ahead!"

Everyone focused their eyes on the woods in the distance, and saw an emerald green ocean. A few large black birds flapped their wings as if they had seen some evil spirit, flew forward, and re-entered the woods.

"Such a big scene, could it be..."

The words were not spoken, but they already knew the idea in their hearts. The feminine man continued to smile, nodded, and adjusted his cloak.

"How about it? That lady from the imperial court didn't deceive you or lie to you."

……

Lu Boshan was riding a horse with dark circles under his eyes. He had eaten and slept well in the Mansion of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery in Jinzhou City for most of the past six months. Suddenly, after a long journey, he was a little dizzy.

Lu Boshan had almost vomited out all the dried meat he had eaten last night. His face was pale, and he didn't know what kind of insects had bitten him, and his arms were covered with ulcers.

But he still gritted his teeth and persevered. As long as he could pass this mountain pass, he would be able to get out of the mountains and reach the plains.

He had considered passing through Xizhou City before, but his subordinates strongly opposed his arbitrary behavior, saying that he was willful and complacent.

If it were in the past, if he dared to say the third sentence, he would have been slapped out by Lu Boshan. At the very least, he would be stripped of his official position, and at the worst, he would be crippled.

But now, he must establish good relations with these military officers who follow him and win their hearts.

Even though he felt extremely disgusted in his heart, he had to smile at these people, clink glasses with them, and talk about life, philosophy, poetry and songs.

"My Lord, how about we set up camp here first and send a team of men to explore and see if there is any danger ahead?"

Xia Zhisong's face was paler than Lu Boshan's. He pursed his lips tightly, biting his lower lip almost to the point of drawing blood, and he was barely able to hold on.

The whole person was staggering on the horse, but he was too proud to dismount.

"Okay, even though this is a narrow path, we still need to have someone explore it first to see if there is any danger."

"We've been walking all day, and we're all tired. It's time to rest and eat some dry food before we continue on our journey."

Loosening the reins, Lu Boshan jumped off the horse, stepped on the soft soil, and gestured to the exhausted soldiers behind him.

When the soldiers saw that the marquis had told them to rest, they all found a place and sat down, feeling sleepy, cold, and tired, and shivering all over.

The cooks quickly took out the big pots they were carrying, intending to make some hot soup for the soldiers to warm them up.

There were so many of them that when they set up the pot, naturally smoke rose up. However, it was foggy in winter, so if you didn't look carefully, you really couldn't tell the difference.