Abandoned Woman Busy Farming

Chapter 2535: Chapter 2536: Unmatched Valor

The subsequent matters were no longer a concern for the Astrologer; as long as there were people below to handle them, it was fine.

Bai Ruozhu and her group were worried about the situation in Kyoto and planned to return immediately after rescuing Gong Feng.

Just as they were preparing to implement their plan, the Astrologer’s people reported that the Crown Prince and his entourage were also setting out to return to the capital.

It’s heard that the people of the Fushan Family knew that Fushan killed the old Patriarch, which made them very disappointed. If the Fushan Family became chaotic, everyone would want to rise up and replace him, but none had a decisive advantage, so they turned their eyes to the Crown Prince.

Once the Crown Prince appoints someone, who would dare oppose?

The Crown Prince was embarrassed as Fushan had offended the Astrologer and pushed him to the forefront, so he didn’t want to wade into this mess.

Why support a third-rate family from a border city, especially one with a bad reputation?

”This is good too. We can snatch the Demon en route; it’ll be more convenient and won’t delay our return journey,” Bai Ruozhu said.

Everyone agreed and started disguising themselves; they were now going to pretend to be a group of mountain bandits. As for whether they could completely fool the Crown Prince was unknown; as long as they didn’t expose themselves on the surface, it was fine. After all, they were now envoys for Danliang Country, representing Danliang.

Bai Ruozhu looked at the disguised Astrologer and pointed at his collar, ”Master Astrologer, your fabric is too good; sharp-eyed people can tell you’re not a mountain bandit. If you can afford such good fabric, why pretend to be a bandit?”

The Astrologer pulled his collar, looked down, and said, ”I’ll go change.”

Zhitian felt a bit troubled, thinking their distinguished master couldn’t possibly wear those dirty clothes found outside.

He was about to speak but was stopped by the Astrologer: ”Check yourselves too; don’t show flaws, and in any case, don’t be too rigid.”

”Understood.”

Bai Ruozhu then distributed some pills to everyone, ”These can change your voice for three days if eaten.”

She had already taken one and now spoke in a rough male voice, coupled with her disguise as a male, startling the Astrologer and his group.

The Astrologer took the pill without checking and ate it, quite trusting Bai Ruozhu, which added a few points of fondness towards him from Bai Ruozhu.

Seeing their leader eat it, his subordinates did the same and swallowed the pills.

Once everyone was ready, they dispersed outside the City and gathered, then swiftly traveled until the next day, when they circled ahead of the Crown Prince’s entourage.

Subsequently, they picked a mountain top to ambush.

”I’m worried about not finding the thing hiding Gong Feng; that day I didn’t perceive what it was,” the Astrologer said worriedly.

Bai Ruozhu lifted the corners of her mouth, speaking in a rough voice: ”Since it’s a robbery, take the people and strip them clean; leave nothing behind!”

”Strip them?” The Astrologer’s mouth twitched; he felt the Crown Prince must have offended Bai Ruozhu somehow. A dignified prince being stripped bare? Wouldn’t this infuriate him?

At this moment, they could already see the Crown Prince’s motorcade in the distance, with his carriage in the middle and guards protecting both front and rear.

”Master, there’s an expert hidden in the rear,” Jianqi quietly reminded, especially alert in this regard.

Bai Ruozhu nodded, ”I’ll distract them later; Xiaoyuan, set up the formation; Lan Ying and Jianqi, keep an eye on that expert hidden in the dark. Unless it’s urgent, don’t use Yin Yang Techniques or Spells yet.”

She thought for a moment and added: ”Best to just random knife swinging; no strategy, but make it seem like we’re fearless and reckless bandits.”

It seemed that’s how mountain bandits robbed, generally living with their heads on the line, so every robbery was especially desperate; after all, not knowing when they’ll die, fighting might get them good loot and let them survive.

”Understood,” said the Astrologer.

”Now, prepare—attack!” The group yelled ’kill’ in Fusang Language, with the Astrologer’s subordinates shouting, ”Drop all the money, or die here!”

The Crown Prince’s guards immediately formed a formation to confront, with the lead guard sneering, ”Do you know whose entourage this is? Even daring to rob the Crown Prince? Got any lives to spare?”

”Who are you trying to fool, this isn’t even Kyoto, why would the Crown Prince be here?” Zhitian laughed intentionally, ”Brothers, no nonsense, everyone charge!”

The group surged forward, with Bai Ruozhu’s group speaking as little as possible, realizing pronunciation differences could easily reveal their identities.

Bai Ruozhu raised her knife with a loud shout, then swiftly charged towards the sedan like wielding a great hammer, her entire body rapidly spinning 360 degrees, spinning vigorously with the knife.

This sudden move was excessively fierce, scattering several guards, allowing her a breakthrough, getting quite close to the Crown Prince’s sedan.

Fo Lanying watched, mouth agape, as Ruozhu had said to appear courageous and valiant, and this move was indeed remarkably fierce. She decided not to fall behind.

With a loud shout, she wielded her knife like a turtle fist, slicing toward the front aggressively, directly repelling two guards.

Bai Ruozhu kept observing the situation in the field, seeing Fo Lanying like this, almost couldn’t suppress her laughter, the girl learned quickly; but wielding the knife like a turtle fist was something else she came up with.

With a ’whoosh,’ a concealed weapon shot towards Bai Ruozhu; she turned her body slightly to the side, continuing her routine-less chopping, seemingly having inadvertently dodged it, just a stroke of luck.

The one hidden in the shadows had moved, and quickly would reveal themselves. Fo Lanying and Jianqi quietly killed forward; once that person appeared, Jianqi would strike, while Fo Lanying would directly use Divine Sense Attack, ensuring he couldn’t defend.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, a mutation suddenly appeared, seemingly someone got too high, suddenly throwing out the knife in hand, and the direction happened to be towards the Crown Prince’s horse carriage.

At the critical moment, a guard flew forward, knocked the thrown knife aside, but because of this, his stance became unstable, falling on the ground, then got slashed.

Bai Ruozhu squinted, something wasn’t right!

There was danger, yet the expert hidden hadn’t directly appeared. Was he confident in the guard’s abilities, or was the one inside not the Crown Prince at all?

Thinking of this, she swiftly moved towards Fo Lanying, whispering, ”Send a small thing to lift the carriage curtain.”

Fo Lanying immediately understood, ”Small thing” referred to her delicate and inconspicuous Mechanical Puppet.

She immediately quietly released a pitch-black mechanical bird; the bird didn’t fly but was controlled by her to slowly move towards the horse carriage amid the chaos.

The curtain was suddenly lifted, revealing a panicked face; that person wore the Crown Prince’s clothes, but wasn’t the Crown Prince!

Well well, got fooled!