After walking for a while, the convoy arrived at a rocky forest. From the rocky forest, 20 or so men with tattered clothes, sallow skin, and ages stopped Li Yu's convoy.
A tall, square-faced man raised his machete and shouted, "We only want what's in the cart. Put them down and we'll let you go."
Li Yu put down the crossbow in her hand and frowned at Zhou Jia. "These people don't look like mountain bandits. They look like a group of hungry people."
Zhou Jia nodded and said to Xu Chun, "Show them our identities and scare them away."
Xu Chun shouted, "We are officials sent by the Imperial Court to Qingchuan. Hurry up and retreat."
When the two tall and square-faced bandits at the front heard this, they were stunned for a moment. They gripped the machetes in their hands tightly and shouted nervously, "I'm robbing you wretched officials. All the big guys, charge!"
