Chapter 245_6

Old Man Xu, while talking, enthusiastically helped Cao Zhen onto the horse-drawn cart and then drove the cart towards the village, saying, "This past year, the world has really become too chaotic. Before, in Qili Country, although there were mountain bandits, they only occasionally robbed ordinary people or solitary traders. When did they start targeting scholars?

After all, people like you, who can read, usually come from well-to-do families, while children from our poor families can't afford to study.

When you scholars travel to take exams, you are accompanied by house servants, and besides, you all arrange it among your fellow townsmen to travel together in groups. With many of you together, those common bandits can't handle you.

But now, with the world in such chaos, bandits and robbers are increasing, and they've even started to strike at you scholars first."