Taking advantage of the early morning when there were few people around, the carriages and horses left. Lord Xu said he wanted to see them off, but Jiang Huai refused, saying that he might come back in a few days.

Huaiping County is very large and includes five towns. In the past two days, Jiang Huai and his companions have visited two towns and checked out all the towns that could be traveled that day. The remaining journey was a bit longer.

There was no need to rush this time. They just went down along the Heihe River. Along the way, Jiang Huai sat on the bicycle frame, writing and drawing with a pen and paper in his hand, and he would stop from time to time to observe closely.

Jiang Yuan and Qu Ying rode horses, and the remaining three maids rode in a separate carriage. They walked slowly and followed behind.

The team in front stopped, and they stopped too.

They passed several villages. The villagers were washing and scrubbing by the river. When they saw such a large group of people coming, they slowed down their work and looked at them curiously.

They had lunch on the way, eating while walking without stopping to rest. Jiang Yuan, who was bored and sleepy, was about to stop the carriage. She wanted to get in the car and take a nap when she heard a noisy sound.

There were cries and shouts, from women and children, and also shouting and cursing, which sounded like the voice of a young man.

Jiang Yuan immediately perked up and looked at Xie Yunxiao. It seemed that something had happened ahead.

"Changying, come with me to take a look." Without waiting for the male comrades to speak, Jiang Yuan looked at Changying excitedly. The two of them squeezed their legs together, threw the reins, the horses neighed, and ran quickly.

Jiang Huai said a few words, but it was of no use. In the blink of an eye, the two people were reduced to dust and their backs.

"Brother Xie?" Jiang Huai looked at Xie Yunxiao worriedly. Before Xie Yunxiao could speak, Qu Ying spoke first, "It's okay, both of them can handle it.

Fourth brother, you should stay here. We are the ones that should be protected the most right now."

Xie Yunxiao took a look and found that there were quite a few people here who didn't know kung fu. Compared with the two Valkyries before, what Qu Ying said was right.

But he couldn't help but speed up and walked towards the village ahead.

As we rode closer on horseback, we saw a village. From the village we could hear cries and screams, loud scolding and cursing, and barking dogs.

"Girl, it seems that bandits are robbing the village." Changying said.

Jiang Yuan also saw it, and the people in the village also heard the sound of horse hooves. The bandits stopped what they were doing and went in the direction of the sound of horse hooves, and saw two girls riding their horses and galloping towards them.

It seemed that the bandits didn't take them seriously. Instead, they looked at the two gorgeously dressed girls with bright eyes. One of them waved his hand, and the brothers around him surrounded them and said, "Stop those two women for me."

It was obvious that the two were rich men, and they were more worthy of being robbed than this poor village.

The man who was surrounded and giving orders had just finished speaking when a stone flew towards him on the forehead. The bandit leader who was hit felt dizzy and his eyes went dark.

Covering his head and pausing for a few seconds, the bandit leader got angry and swung the knife in his hand, "Come on, I'm here."

As soon as he finished speaking, the two girls on the horses flew up from their horses at the same time, used the speed of the horses to jump over the earth wall, rolled to the ground, stood up and attacked him with swords in hand.

The bandits' fighting power was far inferior to that of the well-trained killers. More than twenty bandits fell to the ground in the blink of an eye, groaning and curled up into a ball.

Jiang Yuan and Chang Ying didn't even draw their swords, they used them like sticks and knocked the man down without even taking a breath.

Jiang Yuan crossed his arms, looking somewhat unhappy. "If I had known, I would have come here by myself without bringing you with me." He said angrily to Chang Ying.

Chang Ying clasped his fists and said to Jiang Yuan, "Next time, I will not take action."

"That's pretty much it."

"Girl, girl, thank you so much for your kindness, thank you so much, thank you so much..." The villagers who had been hiding came out one after another, knelt down and kowtowed to the two of them.

"Hurry up, hurry up, Changying, help him up quickly."

The two men hurriedly helped the man up, and one of the older men said, "Thank you, young lady. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't be alive today.

The village was already poor, and the families had so little food to eat. They could not save a few cents after working hard for a year, but they took it all away. The children and the elderly could only starve to death."

The old man's skin was tanned and his face was full of wrinkles. He looked to be in his sixties or seventies, but later I found out that he was only in his forties.

Years of hard work made people look very old, and the burden of life also bent his back.

At this time, the convoy behind also arrived. The soldiers found ropes and tied up the more than 20 bandits.

Chunzhi and several others also got off the carriage. The bandits had just robbed the house and many people were injured. The child was so scared that he cried loudly and his arms were scratched.

Fortunately, several of them had been injured before and had prepared a lot of medicine and gauze. They moved these things from the carriage, fetched clean water, and cleaned the wounds of the children and the injured.

"You two, ride quickly to the town ahead and ask for a doctor." Xie Yunxiao instructed two people and took two food boxes from the carriage.

Jiang Yuan and Qu Ying brought a few girls to treat the villagers' wounds. Following Jiang Yuan's instructions, Lu Zhu took the purse and gave each person a few copper coins.

The villagers were so moved that they didn't know what to say and just kept bowing and expressing their gratitude.

Jiang Huai and Xie Yunxiao had been asking a few villagers about the situation.

After the doctor examined the villagers, he found that they only had minor skin injuries and nothing serious. He left some medicine and left with the convoy.

On the way back, Jiang Huai chatted with the doctor and inquired about the situation.

We arrived at the town in the evening. Yuan Mingyi was there. He had arranged the houses for the people in advance and prepared the meals.

"You are finally here. I can't handle it alone anymore. In these few days, someone has been looking for me every day. I have really met all the officials, big and small." Yuan Ming couldn't help but complain.

Although his official rank in the capital was not low, the capital was full of powerful people, and he was not that valuable.

But when they got here, oh my god, these were the important officials sent by the central government to the local government, and they were the ones who gave gifts to gain connections, and these people didn't even bother to be discreet.

"Where is Qi An?" Xie Yunxiao asked.

Yuan Ming rolled his eyes, speechless on his face, "He has been hiding for a long time. He is not an official. As soon as he heard someone was coming, he ran away faster than a debt collector."

"It's over. Qi An doesn't like being an official in the first place. I'm afraid he will refuse it even more when he returns. Lord Zhou will definitely blame us when he returns."

After a few jokes, in front of Jiang Yuan and Qu Ying, they did not ask Yuan Mingyi about the progress of his work, but instead talked about the bandits they encountered today.

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