Chapter 36

After a long while, feeling no movement, Tang Rui carefully opened her eyes, only to see the thief in front of her holding the gold hairpin with a look of cherishing, even biting it, and only after seeing the mark did he put the hairpin into his bosom with peace of mind.

Jiang Jinshi put away the gold hairpin and continued to say to Tang Rui: "Whatever else is valuable, take it out quickly, don't make me search you myself."

Hearing this, Tang Rui was stunned in place for a moment, not knowing what she was thinking, but her face turned from blue to red, and this kind of change was truly magical.

The maid on the side had recovered her strength at this moment and hurriedly untied a purse from her waist, trembling as she handed it to Jiang Jinshi.

Jiang Jinshi took the purse and opened it; inside lay two silver ingots, which were standard cast silver from the government, one ingot being ten taels, and there were twenty taels here.

Reaching out to touch a silver ingot, Jiang Jinshi revealed an expression of "as expected."

Earlier, when he touched the hairpin, he had received a prompt from the system in his mind.

【Whether to exchange for 30 points】

The hairpin weighed about three taels, and one tael of gold equaled ten taels of silver; if converted into points, that would mean one tael of silver equaled one point.

After touching the silver, the system prompt sound indeed popped up in his mind.

【Whether to exchange for 20 points】

Jiang Jinshi chose "No" without hesitation; he was currently in need of money, and exchanging silver for points was truly a bit extravagant.

Silver could be exchanged for points at any time, but points could not be converted into silver.

The point problem that had troubled him for a long time was finally solved at this moment; as for why there was no prompt before.

Jiang Jinshi guessed that it was because the silver he had touched before was all rewarded by the system, and even if he went to the money shop to disperse the silver, it was essentially obtained from system rewards.

Silver rewarded by the system could not be exchanged for points, but silver from robbery could be; as for whether silver from other sources could be exchanged for points, he could only try later.

Looking at Tang Rui, this young lady, she was wearing a goose-yellow plain-faced four-happiness ruyi-pattern makeup jacket, paired with a goose-yellow embroidered white magnolia long skirt inside.

This kind of clothing shouldn't have inner pockets sewn, and he couldn't see the shadow of a purse by her side, but the harvest of this trip was good, converting to fifty taels of silver, and Jiang Jinshi was already very satisfied.

So Jiang Jinshi jumped off the carriage, carried the Ghost Head Knife, and ran toward the mountain on one side.

Tang Rui suddenly reached out to hold the carriage frame, poked her head out, and asked Jiang Jinshi: "Thief, do you dare to leave your name?"

"Head leader of Yangguangzhai, Old Ghost Yangguang!"

Jiang Jinshi didn't even look back, leaving only a dashing back view.

Tang Rui looked at the back of "Old Ghost Yangguang" and gritted her teeth; she must return the humiliation she suffered today.

Jiang Jinshi, who had stepped into the mountain forest, identified the direction and chased in the direction where the bandits had left earlier.

Just because the bandits were willing to avenge their boss showed that they were also a group with loyalty, just without brains.

It just so happened that Jiang Jinshi needed to understand the distribution of the surrounding strongholds, and they should be able to help.

Along the official road, every time he passed a section, he could see someone lying in a pool of blood; Jiang Jinshi went up to check and found that the person was already cold.

It wasn't until he passed five corpses that Jiang Jinshi discovered the few people who were entangled in a fight.

At this moment, the bandit team only had five people left in the field, and several of them were injured; in contrast, Fifteen had no injuries on his body, other than slow movements due to physical exhaustion.

Fifteen was panting heavily, the sword in his hand becoming exceptionally heavy, and there was some confusion in his eyes.

This group of people was different from ordinary bandits; every time he killed one, not only would they not feel fear, but they would act as if they had been injected with chicken blood, shouting things like "avenge," "if we die, we die together," and rushing up again.

Although it looked like he had no injuries on his body, if this continued, the battle situation would only become more complicated.

The five people stood in five positions, surrounding Fifteen in the middle, their clothes torn into strips, tightly wrapped around their palms and knife handles, looking as if they would not stop until they hacked the other party to death.

But the condition of the five was very bad, their lips pale and swaying, and the symptoms of excessive blood loss began to appear gradually.

Jiang Jinshi no longer hesitated, carrying the Ghost Head Knife and jumping out from the forest just like that.

The series of movements naturally attracted the attention of the six people, and Jiang Jinshi spoke first: "Let me introduce myself, I am the head leader of Yangguangzhai, my name is Old Ghost Yangguang."

Fifteen was ecstatic on the surface, unable to wait to say to Jiang Jinshi: "Good fellow, help me, I am a friend of the Centipede Stronghold."

Seeing this, the five bandits all looked at each other quietly, subconsciously turning their bodies to guard against Jiang Jinshi.

Jiang Jinshi pretended to be furious, heavily inserting the knife in front of him: "Centipede Stronghold? I haven't settled the account with them for the last time yet!"

The smile on Fifteen's face stiffened; did this count as lifting a rock only to drop it on his own feet?

The situation also changed again because of this sentence from Jiang Jinshi; Fifteen began to actively look for a breakthrough, and although Jiang Jinshi didn't look strong, that big knife proved that the other party was not comparable to these stinky fish and rotten shrimp.

After all, ordinary bandits didn't even have decent equipment; he wasn't afraid of this so-called Old Ghost Yangguang, but he was worried that the other party's troops were on their way.

Without wasting too much time, Fifteen rushed toward a bandit who couldn't even stand steadily; the bandit raised his firewood knife to resist with all his might, but the huge force coming from his arm knocked him down in an instant.

Without the heart to finish him off, he turned and ran in the direction he came from.

The remaining four people, even if they wanted to chase, were powerless, as their physical condition had reached the worst point at this moment.

Seeing the other party scared away, Jiang Jinshi also breathed a sigh of relief inwardly.

Although he had fused with the soul of Xiang Yu, the physical quality of the original body was too poor, and he couldn't exert much of his strength; this result was good for both sides.

"Xiao Niu!"

The four people didn't have time to thank Jiang Jinshi and rushed toward the fallen bandit.

Jiang Jinshi carried the big knife and followed to check; this bandit named Xiao Niu was still conscious, but the knife wounds on his body were of varying depths, and if not treated, death was only a matter of time.

The injury wasn't serious, not to mention in his past life, even in this era, but the problem was how much money could these few people take out to go to the medical clinic for treatment?

Xiao Niu's tears flowed like rain, tightly gripping the hands of the person in front of him: "Fourth Brother, Big Brother and Second Brother are both gone, and even Third Brother died blocking a knife for me, but I just didn't stop him."

Speaking of this, the four standing people all had red eyes, and Xiao Niu's Fourth Brother raised his hand to wipe away tears: "From the day we brothers decided to become bandits, we knew this day would come sooner or later; this is all fate!"

Xiao Niu squeezed out an ugly smile on his pale face: "If people want you to die, you can still fight, but if heaven wants you to die, you can't run; I'm afraid I won't make it through today."

Xiao Niu's Fourth Brother shouted at the sky: "Damn heaven, what did we do wrong? To be so ruthless! Ah ah ah!"

Seeing the few people in low spirits, Jiang Jinshi couldn't help but interrupt: "That... I think this brother can still be saved."