Chapter 25: Bandits

Six soldiers were killed in an instant. Gu Du was dragged out of the car by a burly man, thrown on the ground, and then stepped on the back. Gu Du screamed in tears.

The big man cursed: "Your mother! What are you calling?"

Gu Du shouted: "I have a knife wound on my back! I went back to the imperial city to recuperate!"

A familiar voice said, "His name is Gu Du, and he is the soul master with me. He is also a child of a poor family who was selected only a few years ago."

Gu Du looked over in his voice and saw Jin Lan wearing coarse cloth clothes and pants. He held a hatchet in his hand, and his face was as dirty as if it had fallen into a mud pit.

The big man ignored Jin Lan, but picked up Gu Du, then inserted the machete in his hand to the ground, split his hands, pulled Gu Du's robe open, then turned Gu Du over, and saw the blood on his back and said, "I'm really hurt, why did I hurt?"

Gu Du replied: "A deputy general in the pass has offended the Soul Lord. The Soul Lord asked me to kill him. I was plotted against me the day before yesterday and almost died."

The big man laughed and said, "So it's a dog biting a dog."

Everyone laughed, and the big man said, "Okay, boy, since he is also from a hard-working family, let's follow me, would you like?"

Gu Du put his robe on, turned around and replied, "I'm willing, I'm willing to follow the king."

The big man laughed and scolded: "What a fucking king, call me brother!"

Gu Du hurriedly called out: "Brother."

The big man laughed again and said, "Okay, I'm calling you brother, you're brother. If you have any injuries, get in the car! That person, please clean up for him."

Jin Lan immediately walked over and said, "Brother, I'll clean it up for him."

The big man said, "Okay, you two get in the car, both do it, take off the dead man's clothes, and take away all the things!"

After getting in the car, Gu Du looked at Jin Lan and Jin Lan whispered: "They are bandits. I was intercepted by them soon after I came out of seclusion. If I don't follow them, I will die miserably."

Gu Du asked softly: "Didn't you think about running?"

Jin Lan replied softly: "Where am I running alone? If I don't run away and get caught, it's better to die than to live."

Gu Du asked softly: "You guys? Aren't there many people you steal the camp together?"

Jin Lan replied softly: "Everyone is dead, escaped from the army's search and did not hide from the local defenders. If it weren't for you that night, I would have died in that straw shed."

Gu Du asked softly again: "Then why did you go so far south after you leave the customs? Shouldn't you go north?"

Jin Lan said softly: "I have to surround the mountain. Can I fly over? If I can fly, will I still be caught?"

Gu Du stopped talking, Jin Lan said, "Take off your clothes and I'll see your injuries."

Gu Du said: "It's okay."

Jin Lan said softly: "Let me see! Are you still afraid that I will see?"

"No." Gu Du grabbed the bag, took out the smoked chicken, handed it to Jin Lan, and whispered: "Eat quickly, if you don't eat it, you'll be gone."

Jin Lan was stunned, then burst into laughter, tearing off a chicken leg and taking a big bite.

The two of them finished eating the smoked chicken voraciously, and Gu Du wrapped the chicken bones in paper again, and then stuffed them back into the bag.

Jin Lan asked, "Why are you still keeping this?"

"Shh!" Gu Du made a ban on voice gesture, then threw the bag under his feet, and said softly: "Don't worry."

Jin Lan said, "Take off your clothes and I'll see your injuries."

Gu Du took off his clothes and turned around. Jin Lan stroked his back and asked softly, "Why are you so seriously injured? How did you do it?"

Gu Du replied softly: "What I told my elder brother is the truth. I was the deputy general who killed at the celebration banquet. I was plotted against him two days ago. However, this matter is very strange. The Soul Lord openly sent me back to the imperial city to recuperate, but in fact he asked me to go back and deliver a letter to the high priest."

Jin Lan asked softly: "I believe it?"

Gu Du replied softly: "Before you rushed up, I felt a chill in my heart, so I ate the chicken with my letter."

Jin Lan smiled and said softly: "I am worthy of being a Tong Shi, Lingjue is so strong."

Gu Du said softly: "What's the use? You've been arrested."

Jin Lan asked, "Did you bring the wounded medicine?"

Gu Du replied: "In the baggage."

Jin Lan picked up the bag, found the wounded medicine, then untie the bandaged cloth for him, applied the medicine again, and wrapped it around.

Gu Du said softly: "Repay for one reward, you don't owe me anymore."

Jin Lan said softly: "Who has settled the score with you?"

Gu Du asked softly: "What should we do? Will you be bandits in the future?"

Jin Lan replied softly: "If you want to run, you have to recover from the injury first."

When I got to the bandits' camp, when I got off the bus, someone took out Gu Du's bag, opened it and saw the chicken bones, cursing: "Damn it! Big brother! These two bastards eat alone!"

The eldest brother walked over with his eyes wide open, and Gu Du hurriedly said, "Misunderstanding, brother, I just brought a chicken bone, so I could make some soup on the way. I am just a child servant. Only the soul master can eat chicken. I just picked up bones and cooked soup, that one, and four chicken claws. The soul master doesn't like it, it's meat at least."

Everyone was stunned. Jin Lan looked at Gu Du with an almost admiring look. No wonder he left the chicken bones, it turned out that he had even calculated this step.

The eldest brother suddenly laughed, threw the chicken bones, and said loudly: "Damn it! I thought I could eat delicious food and drink spicy food by following the government. It turned out that it was not as good as us? The only thing he was dressed in a grand manner, and the donkey dung eggs looked shiny?"

Everyone laughed together, and the elder brother said again: "Kill pigs! Kill sheep! Have a big banquet tonight! Let this kid also see what it means to eat meat with a large piece! Drink a big bowl!"

"Oh..." Everyone screamed together.

Gu Du smiled and thought that it was just that. He probably couldn't eat meat normally, otherwise he wouldn't be so happy to hear that he had meat. Moreover, Jin Lan is such a gentle girl, and eating a chicken is just a few days ago, eating a chicken is like robbing.

The eldest brother said again: "Who, take this kid to rest."

Jin Lan quickly said, "Brother, he is my junior brother and has injuries on his body. I'll take care of him."

The eldest brother replied readily: "Okay!"

Jin Lan said again: "Brother, give me the bag, there is medicine in it."

The eldest brother said, "Give it to her!"

Jin Lan helped Gu Du back to his house, asked Gu Du to sit on the couch, then went out to get a few pieces of wood, put it in the stove and burn it on it, and then put the kettle on it.

Gu Du glanced at it and found that the house was quite big, with a table, a stool, and a wardrobe. He whispered: "They treat you very well."

Jin Lan replied softly: "I dare to kill people and can kill people, which is useful to them, so I was asked to live in this room. Moreover, my elder brother did not allow anyone to touch me. Last time, Ma Liuzi was not honest, so he was knocked out by his elder brother two teeth."
Chapter completed!