Chapter 029 Design to Kill Bandits

The wine was fine before, but the bandits had relaxed their guard after seeing the delicious food.

Yes, these are just peasants who have never seen the world. They have made full preparations for the looting after the summer harvest. There is no way they would notice any clues.

Everything is calm outside. If they noticed anything, they would not be so calm... So, eat their food and drink their wine first, and after you are full, steal their food and play with their women!

These bandits were indeed ruthless and even though they had let down their guard they still did not cause any chaos. Most of them were eating in the yard, while a small number of them were guarding outside.

They originally agreed to take turns eating. After those inside finished eating, those outside would go in and exchange meals.

Those who were guarding outside smelled the fragrance coming from the yard and became extremely anxious!

Damn, why haven't those guys finished eating yet...

After waiting for a while, the bandits outside suddenly noticed that there was no sound in the yard.

Wait, something's wrong!

The people outside realized that something was wrong and without caring about anything else, they banged open the boxes, pulled out the big knives inside and directly chopped open the wooden door of the headman's house. However, the yard that was bustling just now was now empty.

What happened?

In the woodshed, the unconscious bandits had been tied up tightly with ropes and tied to pillars.

The headman's daughter-in-law was so frightened that her face turned pale. Only then did she realize that her yard was full of bandits... At that moment, the bandits slammed open the gate.

The headman's daughter-in-law screamed in fright and then quickly covered her mouth. At this moment, she saw that Chen Ning, who was usually kind and never paid attention to people's occasional gossip, suddenly took out a bow and arrow from behind the firewood pile in their house, and the iron arrows in the quiver were shining coldly.

The next moment, she saw Shen Ning actually hunched over and walked out of the woodshed.

In the yard, the village head and his son who had been hiding had come out, holding farm tools and confronting the bandits at the door.

The bandits realized they had been set up, and they were filled with rage: "Hand over my brothers, or I will make sure you die without a complete corpse!"

As soon as he finished speaking, an arrow whizzed into his chest.

The bandit fell down with a scream. The others saw this, looked at each other and said immediately: "Go rob someone else and then meet up outside the village."

This company is well prepared and difficult to deal with, but there are other companies around, so I can't come here in vain.

The remaining three bandits rushed towards the village head and his son, brandishing their swords, while the rest turned and ran towards the village...

At this time, the villagers had followed the instructions of the headman and gathered together from several neighboring families to protect people and property to prevent the bandits from looting and killing them one by one.

Li Yushi had treated Zhao Tong before, and that was why when Li Yushi and Pei Yuanzhou, mother and son, went to Zhao Tong's house, Zhao Tong accepted the three people.

Hearing the exclamations coming from somewhere in the village, Pei Yuanzhou looked solemn.

Originally, he should have been at the county school today, but his mother was not feeling well and asked someone to tell him that he was worried, so he asked the teacher for leave to go home and take care of her... Fortunately, he came back, otherwise how would his mother and Li Yushi, two women who were so weak that they could not even tie a chicken, cope with it.

Zhao Tong squatted on the roof with a bow and arrow, while Pei Yuanzhou and the male from another neighboring family held hoes and stared at the direction of the courtyard gate.

Lian'er took her child, Li Yushi, Pei's mother, and two other women and children to hide in the main house, while Xiao Nanchen stayed in the west wing.

At this time, no one cared about the distinction between men and women. Lian'er wanted Zhao Nan to stay with them, but "Zhao Nan" said that Chen Ning told him not to leave the room, so he stayed in the same room, closed the door and refused to come out.

It would be fine as long as they stayed in the house, so Lian'er didn't force it. She stared at the gate through the window without blinking.

At the same time, in Dong Chunhua's yard, Zhao Shuan and the men from the other two families were guarding the yard. On the ground in the yard were the rations that they had secretly brought in, while Dong Chunhua's own food was hidden in the woodshed.

Dong Chunhua used the excuse that her yard wall was too high to have several neighbors gather in her yard, but of course she had other intentions.

Everyone stayed at her house. If anything happened, they would protect her house... Moreover, she deliberately let these people pile up the food in the yard, so that if bandits came in, they would rob it openly.

Perhaps the food her family hid under the firewood pile in the woodshed could escape the disaster!

Besides, maybe they won’t meet yet... But at this moment, there was a bang, and the gate was split open by a big knife.

Dong Chunhua screamed: "Ahhh, the bandits are coming! Quick, the bandits are coming in..."

Seeing three knife-wielding bandits rushing in from the opposite side, Zhao Shuan and the other two men greeted them with pale faces and waving hoes.

They were also afraid, but behind them were their own elderly, weak, women, and children, as well as food for the whole family. Moreover, not resisting at this time would be a dead end. Therefore, even though they were frightened by the bandits' big knives and ferocious expressions, they still gritted their teeth and went forward to meet them.

Zhao Shuan brandished his hoe and roared, "We are all human beings. Let's fight them!"

Just as the three men approached, Dong Chunhua trembled and pulled Shen Qingsong back: "My son, hide quickly, quickly."

Shen Qingsong was trembling. Seeing Shuanzi and the others rushing over, his hands trembled and clenched into fists... He knew that his father was weak and timid and had been hiding aside, but he was a young and strong man and should not have hidden, but he just couldn't take a step.

He was so scared!

Zhao Shuan and his two companions fought the bandits with all their might, but their farm tools were no match for the bandits' swords, and they soon fell into a disadvantage. However, the three of them still struggled to hold on.

As long as one more person attacks the bandits from the side, they can turn the defeat into victory.

Zhao Shuan turned around with difficulty and shouted, "Shen Qingsong, if you are a man, come on!"

Dong Chunhua hugged her son's arm tightly: "My son can't go, we can't go!"

The next moment, a long knife knocked Zhao Shuan to the ground, and blood gushed out of his shoulder in an instant.

Shen Qingsong retracted his steps and hid behind the pile of food trembling.

A bandit raised his long knife and shouted, "Whose family is that woman who cooks at the headman's house?"

Their brothers were drugged by the cook, and they want revenge!

Zhao Shuan was pointed at by a long knife and gritted his teeth: "I don't know!"

Dong Chunhua cried and begged for mercy: "I know, I know, please don't kill us, I'll tell you."

Ignoring Zhao Shuan's loud scolding to stop her, Dong Chunhua quickly said, "Further west, there's a brand new tile-roofed house with a big banyan tree in front of it. It's a widow named Chen Ning. Go find her and let us go, let us go."

The bandit sneered: "Let you go? Wishful thinking!"

After saying that, he raised his long sword and chopped down Zhao Shuan on the ground...

Zhao Shuan was knocked to the ground, his upper body immediately stained with blood. Looking at the long knife coming down on his head, he closed his eyes resignedly.

There will always be casualties when bandits invade the village, but he was one of them, and his life is over. His parents probably can't escape either.

However, the expected pain and death did not come. With a bang, the bandit fell heavily on Zhao Shuan.

When Zhao Shuan opened his eyes, he saw an arrow stuck out of the bandit's throat, and then he saw Chen Ning quickly putting a new arrow on the nock outside the courtyard gate.

Chen Ning saved Zhao Shuan's life with one arrow, and then shot another arrow at another bandit. Zhao Shuan roared in anger when he saw this, and actually stood up again covered in blood.

Chen Ning's second arrow missed, but the remaining two bandits had been surrounded by Zhao Shuan and his three companions, and two fists were no match for three hands.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the two bandits turned around and ran away. Before leaving, they turned back and fired two rockets, one of which hit the pile of food in the yard.

If you can't snatch it yourself, just burn it. You can't let your brothers die in vain!

The others hurriedly put out the flames on the grain pile. At this moment, Shen Ning saw the flames coming from the direction of her home and immediately turned around and rushed towards home...