Chapter 380 The End of Bad Luck

Summer of the first year of Zhaoqing.

Lingnan was in chaos for years, famine and plague were rampant, and people's lives were in decline.

There is a butcher shop selling meat in the county market.

A pound of dog meat is worth five hundred coins, and a pound of human flesh is worth one hundred coins.

Human flesh is cheaper than all other meats, and many people eat human flesh.

In Heifei Mountain, which is even more remote than Lingnan County, there is not even a butcher shop.

All the game in the mountains had been caught, and all the edible wild vegetables and weeds had been dug up.

The bandits on Black Bandit Mountain were almost unable to hold on at that time and were almost at the end of their rope.

At this time, no matter how high your martial arts skills are, you cannot create a bag of rice out of thin air.

When they think back to those days, they still feel that they were so miserable, more miserable than all the days that followed combined.

Wu Yingniang and Pei Lingyun were also having a very difficult time at that time, but Pei Xuan escaped to the mountains and gave birth to a child.

When a newborn baby appears on a famine-stricken mountain, it is natural that some people will have evil intentions.

Among the bandits, some were once heroes of the martial arts world, and some had fought side by side with the Xue family army in the northwest.

But when hungry bugs crawl all over the internal organs, it will turn into another appearance.

Wu Yingniang is very powerful and Pei Lingyun is very smart, but the bandits in the mountains are not pushovers either.

Not long after Zhizhi was born, a bandit went to great lengths to steal the child away.

The bandit who stole the child was called "Feiying". He was extremely fast and was best at changing his steps and shadows.

Although some other bandits did not participate, they were waiting nearby. After Feiying stole the child, they competed with each other to snatch the child.

Feiying's reputation in the martial arts world was no less than that of the master thief Qiu Jinyu.

Qiu Jinyu and Ni Tianji are good at flying skills. They don’t need to fly, they can move instantly on the ground.

Old Man Qin and the others saw with their own eyes that Feiying's figure changed into a new shadow with every step, but he was tripped by a stone on the ground.

They are all martial arts masters.

Being an expert means making very few mistakes.

But that day was really strange, Feiying made a mistake.

Feiying shouldn't be tripped, and even if he is, he should be able to quickly steady himself.

But he couldn't keep his balance, and his body fell down. A dead branch stuck in the soil pierced his throat directly.

He bled profusely and died on the spot.

The child in his arms fell to the ground with him, and the swaddled child fell into the mud puddle beside him.

A few drops of blood splashed on the baby's face.

The child opened his mouth, but instead of crying, he smiled with his eyes narrowed.

The other bandits were all shocked. Something was wrong.

"Ah, ah! Ah!" Kong Wu picked up Zhizhi at this time.

He was only eight or nine years old at the time, but he was very tall, almost as big as an adult, and one of his punches was enough to overwhelm anyone.

So even though everyone was hungry at that time, no one set their sights on Kong Wu.

Kong Wu likes Zhizhi. He goes to Wu Yingniang's house every day to see Zhizhi. He thinks it is fun to have such a little child.

He didn't understand many things, but he knew exactly what these people were going to do to Zhizhi.

Kong Wu picked up Zhizhi and wanted to run away.

Unfortunately, the mud pit was wet and very slippery, and Kong Wu fell into the pit with his butt.

This pit is a dry little pond. There has been no water in it for a long time, and the soil was dry and cracked.

But after Zhizhi was born, it rained several times, and now the pit is wet.

"Ah, ah." The more anxious Kong Wu became, the more slippery his feet became, and he couldn't get up.

Seeing other people approaching, Kong Wu sat in the mud pit and kicked his feet hard a few times in anxiety.

Suddenly, Old Man Qin's eyes flashed and he pounced towards Kong Wu's feet.

He threw himself into the mud, but instead of trying to grab Kong Wu and Zhi Zhi, he stretched his hands into the patch of mud that Kong Wu had kicked open, and dug into the ground with all his might.

It looked like they were about to dig out some treasure.

Then, he really dug out a treasure——

A piece of broken lotus root.

Edible lotus root.

When the others saw this, they also dived into the mud pit and dug.

After the mud was cleared, they actually dug up a lot of lotus roots.

“Chuckle…”

At this time, Zhizhi in Kong Wu's arms was still laughing, and even laughed out loud.

The ecstatic bandits, covered in mud, looked at Su Zhizhi while holding a few pieces of lotus root.

In the sunlight, the child's eyes were big and bright, his eyelashes were very long, and the few drops of blood on his face were bright red and clear.

Old man Qin suddenly shuddered.

He is good at digging things.

The famine had lasted so long that he had long thought of digging for food from the soil.

He tried digging in the dried-up mud pond, but he had never found any lotus roots before.

Now, we have actually dug it up, and there are so many, more than enough for everyone to eat.

Old man Qin had fought so many battles and dug so many graves at night, but he had never been afraid.

But he was a little scared at this moment.

This child is different, not like other babies.

Old Man Qin even felt that if he had acted faster and snatched the child before Feiying fell, he would probably be the one to die.

After they dug out the lotus roots, they wiped them casually and ate them raw, which made their hunger disappear.

Seeing that no one was fighting over Zhizhi, Kong Wu held Zhizhi in one hand and dug lotus roots with the other.

He is hungry too.

After digging up a piece of lotus root, he climbed out of the pit, put Su Zhizhi on the ground next to him, and started to eat the lotus root himself.

At this time, Old Xu noticed that there were a few clumps of wild vegetables next to where Su Zhizhi was lying.

So he went to dig wild vegetables again.

Finally, that day everyone ate lotus roots and wild vegetables, changed Zhizhi's swaddling clothes and diapers, and asked Kong Wu to send the child back.

Wu Yingniang and Pei Lingyun were also anxious when they found that Zhizhi was missing.

Just as he was about to go look for him, he saw Kong Wu bringing the child back.

Everyone just said to move the child out to bask in the sun. Such a young child cannot be kept indoors and needs to be exposed to the sun more.

Wu Yingniang and Pei Lingyun didn't know how to take care of children at that time. They didn't know whether children really needed more sun exposure. Since Pei Xuan's death, they had never taken the child out of the house.

But they suspected that the bandits had ulterior motives in taking the child away.

But they also felt that it didn't make sense, because with the abilities of these bandits, if they really wanted to take action, the child would have been dead long ago. How could they let Kong Wu send the child back?

Moreover, Kong Wu is a simple and honest child and will not hurt Zhizhi.

Since this incident, Wu Yingniang and Pei Lingyun have been more strict with Zhizhi.

Later, Zhizhi grew up gradually, and the people in the mountains treated Zhizhi very well, so they gradually let down their guard.

During that period, the bandits discovered other wild fruits and vegetables in the mountains, and dug out lotus roots from other dried-up mud ponds.

After a few more rains, the stream in the back mountain had more water and even fish in the water.

The bandits now realized that all this might be related to Zhizhi.

In times of despair, there is a little life thriving around them, which gives them hope.

As they protected her, their lives gradually became better and better.

In this way, everyone survived until the autumn harvest.

That autumn, every village in Lingnan had a bumper harvest, and the rice, fruits and vegetables in the fields seemed to have grown themselves.

They no longer have to suffer from hunger or eat human flesh.

After that, order gradually returned to Lingnan. The government re-registered the people's household registration, and the bandits in Heifei Mountain became villagers of Liangmin Village.

Later, more and more people came to the mountain.

Doctor Yu, Hua Erniang, Bai Xun and others went up the mountain one after another, and the power of their village became stronger and stronger.

When Bai Xun, with his broken arm, was dejected and wandering to Black Bandit Mountain, Old Man Qin said to Bai Xun:

"I only have one ear, and Kong Wu has no tongue, but we're doing fine here. You may have lost a hand, but now that you've come to our village, your bad luck is over."

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The cold wind was blowing.

The wind made Old Man Qin and Murong Di's hair a little messy.

Murong Di listened in silence.

Old Man Qin looked at the Kuzi people who were queuing up for food after a hard day's work:

"Now that they have met us, their bad luck has come to an end."

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[Some readers did not understand why the villagers wanted to eat Zhizhi. After all, Zhizhi's birth meant the end of the disaster, so why would they want to eat people?

Because the disaster will not end immediately. It is not like when Zhizhi is born, it rains and the next day there will be a bumper harvest. It takes time.

Zhizhi was born on the 20th day of the sixth lunar month, which is summer. Autumn is the time when a bad year turns to a good year, so there will still be a period of chaos in between.

I hope this explanation will be clearer (*▽*)]