Chapter 719
This is the first time I've encountered this situation.
Chapter 719 This is the first time I've encountered this situation.
Hong Xiaoduo reined in her horse and stopped, and Xiao Hei also stopped automatically. They looked at the two men who looked fierce and menacing, each holding a knife and blocking their way.
Tian Shu jumped off the carriage and looked back, where he could see two more horses behind the carriage.
"You, obediently dismount and make the people in the carriage get off obediently. Be sensible and don't try to resist, so you can suffer less."
"Don't blame the world for being bad and peaceful. Blame yourselves for your bad luck in running into us grandpas." The leader of the group said, pointing a knife at Hong Xiaoduo.
Hong Xiaoduo laughed and said, "You don't even bother to cover your faces, so it seems you have no intention of leaving us alive? With such confidence, I wonder how many innocent ghosts have died under your blades?"
"Oh ho, you look young, but you've got some nerve. Since you want to know, I'll tell you. I'm not exaggerating or bragging, but in all this time, I haven't killed that many, maybe three or five hundred people."
"It's not that we're not capable enough, it's just that we only target the fattest sheep, like you guys. We're too lazy to touch those who aren't fat enough, after all, it's a hassle to sharpen the knife after cutting it." The leader said with a laugh.
He had a scar on his left cheek, from his ear to the corner of his mouth. When he spoke, the scar twitched, which looked quite unsettling.
"Alright, enough nonsense. The sun is about to set. Let's finish this quickly and get your other two accomplices out too. After all, our robes are made of expensive material. It's not worth it to go in and catch wicked guys like you, only to have our robes torn by tree branches." Hong Xiaoduo urged impatiently.
After a few strange laughs, the man next to Scarface pointed his knife at Hong Xiaoduo and said to Scarface, "Brother, this little wench is really arrogant. Let's take her down and let her live a few more days. We brothers can take turns attacking her and see how long she can last."
However, when Scarface, the gang leader, heard Hong Xiaoduo accurately say that there were two more accomplices, his heart skipped a beat. How did she know? It couldn't possibly be a guess.
At that moment, looking at the largest carriage, the carriage door was open, and one child after another jumped off the carriage.
They all looked to both sides eagerly, and even the youngest girl showed no fear on her face; on the contrary, she seemed the most excited.
Another young woman got off the train, and the last one to disembark was a young man with a sword on his back, who looked over with a contemptuous smile.
A young woman, several pretty children—Scarface vaguely remembered something.
At this moment, the one next to him shouted into the woods, "Third brother, fifth brother, didn't you hear this little wench calling you? She's got sharp eyes, hurry up and come out."
Scarface's gaze fell on the man on horseback's waist: a sword and a soft whip.
Damn it, why am I so unlucky?
Fengliang Kingdom is so big, with so many roads, how could we possibly encounter this jinx?
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the third and fifth brothers leave the woods. He no longer had time to stop them. They had been brothers for many years and had sworn an oath when they started this business together to share both good times and bad.
Moreover, if the person on horseback opposite her is indeed the Deadly Rakshasa who has only appeared in the martial arts world in the last two years, then she already knows that there are two other people in the forest. Even if the two of them do not show themselves, they should not be able to escape their fate.
Rumors in the martial arts world say that this deadly Rakshasa is young but ruthless. In the past two years, not all those who have fallen at her hands are nameless soldiers, but many are bandits who are feared by the common people and whom the government is powerless to deal with.
"May I ask if you are the Deadly Rakshasa?" Scarface hesitated for a moment before asking.
"Deadly Rakshasa?" The three companions standing beside him looked at him in astonishment, then glanced at Hong Xiaoduo and the others. How could this be?
"Mother, I told you you're very famous now, and they actually guessed it!" Yao Guang said with a grin.
Tianji, who was standing beside Yaoguang and flexing his wrists, said upon hearing this, "So what if they guessed it? Mother won't spare their lives just because they're smart."
Yao Guang nodded seriously and said, "That's true, but who told them to give up being decent people and instead become such beasts who rob and kill for money?"
The two sides were not far apart, and it was a quiet wilderness, so even though the two children's voices were not deliberately loud, everyone present could hear them clearly.
"Hey, you two greenhorn brats, shut your mouths right now, or I might take pity on you and kill you with one stroke, saving you the pain."
"Otherwise, I'll break your arms and legs, then slowly bleed you dry, making you wish you were dead." One of the men next to Scarface angrily pointed in the direction of Yao Guang Tianquan and threatened.
Unfortunately, in the past two years, these children have experienced all sorts of dangerous situations and all sorts of vicious robbers.
So, after hearing the robber's threats, she showed no fear whatsoever, instead giving him a disdainful smile. "Alright, let's not waste time with them. Let's finish this quickly; we still need to set up tents and stoves for dinner. Big brother, how should we divide it?" Tianxuan urged, not wanting to delay dinner.
Later, when similar situations arose, Hong Xiaoduo became more hands-off, letting them assign the goals to be solved themselves.
As the eldest, Tian Shu looked back and said to Fei Yan, "Those two are for eldest sister, fifth sister, and second brother to handle. We four will take care of these two."
"Okay." Fei Yan replied, reaching behind the carriage wall to pull out her weapon, a staff with copper-bound ends.
Yuheng also held two swords in her hands. These were weapons she had recently chosen. She felt that two swords were more imposing than one, and today was a good day to test them out. Tianxuan was using a Mo Dao.
Quan Jinghuai exchanged a glance with Hong Xiaoduo with his hands behind his back, then followed Fei Yan and the other two to the back.
As he walked, he sighed helplessly to himself. Good, very good. None of the six kids knew how to use a sword.
As a master, he actually hoped that his seven disciples would inherit his mantle and use swords, as swordsmanship has a more chivalrous spirit.
Unfortunately, as the disciples grew up, their abilities increased, and their courage grew with experience, they also became more and more opinionated.
Everyone has a sword, and everyone practices with it regularly.
However, when it came to actually fighting the bandits, they all chose to use knives, saying that they were more practical, more powerful, and more satisfying to kill!
Their mother said nothing, so what could he, as their master, say? Fortunately, their swordsmanship was also taught to them by him, so that was the only thing he could use to comfort himself now.
Hong Xiaoduo had already taken out a handful of pebbles and was playing with them. The children were getting more and more skilled, and she had fewer and fewer opportunities to use the pebbles. Each time, she would rub them in her hands for a while before putting them back in her brocade bag. The pebbles were almost polished to a patina.
“Young lady, we have no past grievances. It was only because we didn’t understand the situation that we offended you all. It is said that it is better to resolve enmity than to make it happen. Please be magnanimous and let us go.”
"We are willing to offer a thousand taels of silver as an apology, and we promise never to appear before you again, is that alright?" Scarface gritted his teeth, clasped his hands in a fist and shouted to Hong Xiaoduo as the four children, their faces full of excitement and no fear, walked toward him.
"Brother, what are you doing? What deadly Rakshasa? Those are just rumors and hearsay. None of us brothers have ever seen her with our own eyes. Why are you begging for her mercy?"
"That's right. Besides, we can't just assume that a young woman with several children is the deadly demon. Brother, we can't scare ourselves or be fooled by them."
"If word gets out, how will we survive in the underworld?" Scarface's two brothers were shocked and disagreed.
"Shut up," Scarface hissed, still bowing to Hong Xiaoduo.
Upon hearing this, Hong Xiaoduo, who was on horseback, couldn't help but laugh. The leader of this gang of robbers was quite adaptable.
Tian Shu and the other three slowly stopped and turned to look at Hong Xiaoduo on horseback. It wasn't that they were afraid she would actually agree; given her righteous and incorruptible nature, if she encountered petty thieves, she might just teach them a lesson and let it go.
But for a robber who has slaughtered innocent people and has taken lives on his hands, there is no such thing as "laying down the butcher's knife and becoming a Buddha on the spot."
Besides, these robbers in front of us weren't exactly reformed and righteous people who had long ago turned over a new leaf.
They begged for mercy because they wanted to live; they intended to continue killing and robbing in the future.
However, this is the first time I've encountered such a situation...
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