The village head's wife was shaking all over. "He married me in the hope of having more children. Unexpectedly, I became infertile. He turned cold to me. His eldest son was infertile because of a disease. He sneaked into his room many times when he was not at home. But your eldest sister-in-law was in poor health and never got pregnant. So he set his sights on Muxiang."

When talking about these ugly things, the village head's wife felt very regretful.

In the past, she thought it was a family scandal that could not be known to outsiders. In addition, Liu Quande was the village chief. If she told anyone, she would be killed by this man. She was afraid of harming her son. Unexpectedly, after enduring it to the end, Liu Quande became so bold that he killed her son.

"Mom, what you said is not true?"

Xiao Liu's heart was about to break. "Dad, tell me. What my mother said was not about leaving, right?"

"Muxiang, Muxiang..."

Xiao Liu looked at his father's face and saw that he no longer opposed his mother's words. His heart felt as if a ball of snow was stuffed in it, cold and icy.

He kept calling his wife's name.

"Now that you've said this, I have nothing more to say."

The village chief looked at the mother and son coldly.

At that time, he was not the village chief yet. His wife had died and his family was poor. He married this beautiful woman because she was pretty. But deep down, the village chief still despised his wife, a widow with a burden. Since he became the village chief, the more he looked at this mother and son, the more annoyed he became.

"If you still want to follow us from Da Liuzhuang to escape the famine, shut up. I will support you until the day you die. If you don't want to follow me, you and your son can stay here when we set off tomorrow."

The village chief said this without even looking at the mother and son. He held Muxiang’s hand and said gently, “Come on, Muxiang, let’s go to the shack over there.”

Village chief Liu also decided that now they were on the road to escape famine, and the whole village was counting on him to lead them to a way out, so no one would make things difficult for him because of his family affairs.

The eldest daughter-in-law was bitten to death by a wolf.

From then on, there were only him, his eldest son and Muxiang left in their family.

There was no need for him to hide the fact that Muxiang was pregnant anymore.

Looking at the village chief supporting Muxiang's back, the village chief's wife's eyes turned red.

"Liu Quande, you killed my son. I want you to pay for my son's life."

If an honest person is severely bullied and starts to fight back, it can be quite terrifying.

When the village head's wife saw that her son had no chance to survive, Liu Quande, the evil man, stopped pretending.

He reached out, picked up a stone that was pressing down on the shack, and smashed it on the back of Liu Quande's head.

"You damned woman, you are such a rebel. How dare you kill me."

Liu Quande turned around and kicked his wife.

The village chief's wife fell to the ground and the stone in her hand fell out.

Village chief Liu picked up a stone and threw it at his wife on the ground.

After a few hits, the wife was hit so hard that she stretched out her legs and stared with her eyes wide open. She died.

"mother--"

Xiao Liu watched helplessly as Village Chief Liu smashed his mother to death.

Thinking about what his mother said, Liu Quande was not his biological father at all.

While Liu Quande was smashing his mother to death, Muxiang just stood at the door of the shack and watched coldly, as if she was looking at a stranger.

Xiao Liu felt very sad.

He suddenly jumped up and threw himself at Liu Quande. The two men wrestled with each other.

After all, Xiao Liu was seriously injured and weak. Liu Quande viciously pinched the wound on his shoulder with his hand.

He convulsed in pain and fell to the ground.

Liu Quande sat on Xiao Liu and beat him while cursing at him.

Blood was oozing from Xiao Liu's lips, and all the wounds on his body had burst open, leaving him covered in blood.

He reached out his hand and groped on the ground, finally picked up the stone that killed his mother, and smashed it hard on the back of Village Chief Liu's head.

thump--

Liu Quande's chattering voice disappeared, and he leaned to one side and died.

"Muxiang, Muxiang..."

Xiao Liu fell to the ground, breathing out but not in. He stared at the wood fragrance at the door of the shack.

Muxiang watched the three men beat each other and then die, without even a wave of emotion in her eyes.

Turning around, Muxiang left.

Until his death, Xiao Liu's eyes were filled with the image of Muxiang.

However, the last scene is Muxiang’s departing back.

For more than ten days,

The exile team, prisoners, and the people from Da Liuzhuang were all traveling through the mountains and forests.

Because of the earth dragon turning over, landslides, and mountain roads collapsing in many places, blocking them, everyone took a lot of detours.

Until this day, I walked out of a dense forest and saw the endless plain under the mountains in the distance.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

They finally came out of the mountains.

Over the past ten days, they had eaten up all the wolf meat and wild boar meat they had saved. All the food supplies of the three groups of people were almost gone. There was not much water left. Especially the prisoners, who had been eating dry bran for three or four days.

Ji Tai: Damn it, we are finally reaching Yangcheng. After we pass Hulin Town and reach Xiangqiao, I will kill Su Zhenbei first after getting the tiger talisman. It is too much suffering to follow these exiles on the road.

Lu Zan: General Gu asked me to find the person who contacted Su Zhenbei at Xiangqiao, get the tiger talisman, and then kill the whole family of the Duke of Zhenguo. General Gu must have deployed people in advance and waited for us at Xiangqiao. What should I do?

Zhou Fuan: After we get down the mountain, we will reach Hulin Town after walking for another ten miles. If we go further, we will reach Yangcheng. There are no old friends outside Yangcheng to the north. Once we leave Yangcheng, we will head north all the way to the exile area in the northern border. Will Chu Mingyang be in Hulin Town? Or in Yangcheng? Or did something happen on the way? Looking at the small village looming in the plain below the mountain, the three of them had their own thoughts. They didn't talk to each other, but urged their teams to move faster and seize the time to see if they could get down the mountain before dark. Even if they couldn't make it to Hulin Town, they could still go to that small village to spend the night. By the way, get some food and water.

"Mom, let's go down the mountain and ask someone in the village if we can buy a cart first."

Song Jinhe held Su Mibao in her arms and looked at the disheveled appearance of the whole family.

Without the cart, the donkey was eaten by wolves. During the ten days in the mountains, the Su family, like all the exiled prisoners, could only walk on their own two legs.

The women were so tired from walking that the children could not even walk in the mountains. They had to be carried on their backs from time to time.

The Su family was in a very miserable state, but they had Su Mibao who secretly subsidized their food. They looked haggard, but compared to the prisoners who were so skinny that their bodies were just skin and bones, they were much better off.

"First, pay someone to boil water for you so you can wash yourself clean. Then have a good meal and a good sleep. Tomorrow, buy a cart and take grandma and the kids. It's a plain and official road, so it will be much easier to travel."

Gu Yueyan looked at the village in the distance with a happy expression on her face.

[Brother, we didn't find a chance to get rid of Ji Tai in the mountains. Now that we're down the mountain, Ji Tai won't let our family make it to Yangcheng alive, right?]

A familiar baby voice suddenly sounded.

Su Zhenbei frowned.

[Well, he is so depressed that he will kill us when he reaches Xiangqiao.]

Su Zhenbei's attitude remained as calm as before.