Quick Transmigration: Underdog Turns out to be Untouchable-Chapter 1073 - 983: Hidden Guard 6
In fact, the guards of the Duan Family were originally sufficient in strength, but because a batch of goods needed to be transported to the Northern Land earlier, all the guards of the Duan Family went over there. Unexpectedly, the goods in the Capital City were urgently needed, and the family guards were not available, so they had to find an escort agency outside.
Actually, hiring escort masters to rely entirely on them for the safety of goods and the people transporting them is mainly done by some medium and small-sized merchants, while real big merchants rely more on their home guards. Hiring an escort agency primarily serves to reduce trouble.
Every escort agency has some connections with the Green Forest Road. The escort agency regularly gives some benefits to these friends in the Green Forest, and after receiving the benefits, the Green Forest warriors won’t rob the convoys escorted by that agency.
Besides money paving the way, the escort agency’s reputation also requires solid skills; being able to fight is necessary. If one’s own strength isn’t strong enough, just using money can easily lead to being robbed again, after all, many of the so-called Green Forest warriors don’t have much of a moral compass.
Wei Shuangshuang naturally didn’t have any friends in the Green Forest. To put it accurately, she never even thought about giving any benefits to those who were politely called Green Forest heroes but bluntly speaking, were nothing more than bandits.
The Duan Family took this shipment seriously, and accompanying the journey was Duan Pengfei, the eldest young master of the Duan Family. Because time was pressing, Wei Shuangshuang departed with a dozen former bandits who had turned guards and then transitioned into escort masters.
The journey from Yang City to the Capital City takes at least half a month. Along the way, they passed by numerous mountains and great rivers, needing to guard against both bandits and river pirates, especially since Wei Shuangshuang hadn’t smoothed relations with those so-called Green Forest heroes.
Not far from leaving Yang City is the Wanli Da Shan, a place long plagued by bandits, the area most densely populated with Green Forest heroes. According to custom, an escort agency reaching this place would pay respects to the local powers, offer gifts, and then leave with their escorted goods.
But when it came to Wei Shuangshuang, she didn’t know anything about paying such respects and directly led her people through. Initially, Duan Pengfei thought Wei Shuangshuang had already handled everything in advance.
Just as he thought this, not a quarter of an hour passed when two dozen or so strong bandit men had already lined up ahead, each one robust, wielding swords, axes, and other weapons, and riding horses, blocking their path imposingly.
The leader was a burly man with a beard, broad shoulders and a round waist, carrying a large knife, looking at Wei Shuangshuang and her group with a malicious smile, and arrogantly said, "This road is built by me, this tree is planted by me. If you want to cross this place, leave the toll, don’t even hint at a no, we kill but don’t bury, leave all valuable yellow and white to me."
Duan Pengfei frowned, secretly perplexed, what is going on? He had never been robbed when transporting goods on this road before, because the escort agency accompanying him would handle everything, basically besides small-time thieves not being bribed, any notable local power would be appeased not to rob them. Could it be this newly opened escort agency by this lady dart head didn’t manage? 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖
Unlike Duan Pengfei’s complicated thoughts, the thoughts of these escort masters, formerly bandits, beside Wei Shuangshuang were much simpler. They all looked at these road-blocking former colleagues with sympathetic eyes.
Poor kids were really unlucky, picking the wrong target to rob; those escort masters beside Wei Shuangshuang thought sympathetically.
Being looked at with sympathetic eyes by the escort masters beside Wei Shuangshuang, those bandits opposite were still scratching their heads, thinking these people might have a problem with their brains.
But quickly the road-blocking bandits couldn’t afford to think too much about this problem, because seeing the robbers, Wei Shuangshuang’s eyes had brightened already. After their boss finished his must-have lines before every robbery, Wei Shuangshuang made her move!
In the bandit lair, the more than twenty bandits who were so arrogant in robbing Wei Shuangshuang before were now all bruised, shrinking in the corner, afraid that the female fiend turning over their stockpiles might notice them again, just in case she might silence them for good.
Wei Shuangshuang had turned the bandits’ lair upside down, looking at the pathetic amount of gold and silver in front of her, she looked dissatisfiedly at the bandit leader and said, "You guys are really useless. With just this bit of wealth, how do you even dare to call yourselves bandits? Isn’t it embarrassing?"
The bandit leader was full of tears, regretting his move today to lead his brothers down the mountain to rob fat sheep. Where is the fat sheep here? This is a wolf in sheep’s clothing!
Seeing Wei Shuangshuang’s dissatisfied and disdainful manner, the bandit leader didn’t dare to contradict too much, only dared to complain in a small, aggrieved voice.
"We are all good bandits, rob money not lives. In this place, only a few people come throughout the year, and even when we do encounter people, nine times out of ten they’re poor. Occasionally when we run into someone rich, they’re not that wealthy. Our village rule is not to rob the poor, nor to kill without mercy. Even when robbing, we leave enough for them to go back home."
Wei Shuangshuang raised her eyebrows, feeling that these were a group of principled bandits, who didn’t have blood on their hands. Wei Shuangshuang’s mind spun around; it seems her escort agency was short on escort masters. These bandits were tall, imposing, and incredibly intimidating, weren’t they the perfect candidates?
After setting out again, the number of escort masters had more than doubled. Duan Pengfei cast a curious glance at the newly turned bandit escort masters under Wei Shuangshuang, feeling extremely complicated.
This was the first time he witnessed such an operation; after subduing the highway robbing bandits, they were recruited into her escort agency to serve as escort masters. Duan Pengfei suspiciously looked at the escort masters under Wei Shuangshuang, wondering if all those escort masters weren’t transformed bandits.
Of course, not every bandit Wei Shuangshuang encountered would become one of her subordinates. Later, when meeting a group of violent river pirates who immediately aimed to kill, Wei Shuangshuang showed no mercy, leading her bandit-turned-escort masters to destroy their lair.
First absorbing the river pirates’ privately affluent stash into their cache, then binding all the river pirates and handing them over to the government for bounty, bringing in another huge sum of Silver. This wave of river pirates had directly made Wei Shuangshuang a fortune. To celebrate, Wei Shuangshuang even bought eight lambs to roast a feast of whole lamb.
Along the way, there were a few more highway robbery incidents, but whether they were bandits or river pirates, they all ended up adding to Wei Shuangshuang’s external wealth, even giving their heads to contribute.
Not all bandits only rob money without harming people. The two groups of bandits Wei Shuangshuang encountered were anomalies among bandits. In fact, for those who fall into banditry, even if they had a good heart initially, over time, even that little ethical baseline would be gone.
Now is a time of peace, the Emperor of Nandu is considered wise; as long as the common people are willing to work hard, they can make a living. In such circumstances, those who still resort to banditry, except for a small part truly forced by circumstances, are mostly either lazy or naturally inclined toward evil.
