Jiang Qinyu saw the small, dark-skinned figure and didn't react for a moment.

"Auntie, hurry! If we don't go soon, Pan'er will be taken away by the slave traders!" Jiang Shufan's eyes were red with anxiety, and tears were about to slide down his cheeks, but he stubbornly wiped them away quickly with the back of his hand.

Jiang Qinyu snapped out of her daze, scooped the little one up in her arms, and hurriedly said to the crowd, "Think it over carefully. Fleeing the famine will only lead to death. Staying means you can still fight for your lives!"

Then she squeezed through the crowd and ran quickly in the direction Jiang Shufan had indicated.

"Didn't I lock you inside?" Jiang Qinyu asked as she ran.

Jiang Shufan said, his voice choked with emotion, "Uncle Lu used an axe to chop the lock off!"

Jiang Shufan and Jiang Pan'er are the children of the original owner's eldest brother. They are twins. After the original owner's sister-in-law gave birth to the children, she ran away with someone. When Jiang's eldest brother went to chase after her, he encountered a mudslide and was buried alive. The two children became orphans.

Less than half a year after marrying into the Lu family, Jiang's eldest brother had an accident. Faced with this devastating blow from her family, the original owner of this body endured immense pressure and brought her two children back to the Lu family to raise them, a commitment that lasted for six years.

At first, the Lu family naturally felt great pity for the two children, but as time went on, Lu Yanzheng's younger brother, Lu Yancai, and his wife, Ma, began to act strangely and sarcastically.

Especially after the birth of Ma's eldest son, Lu Tianbao, the lives of the original three became increasingly difficult in the Lu family.

Under these circumstances, Lu Yancai and Ma had considered sending the two Jiang children away several times, but the original owner of the body insisted on keeping the children.

The Lu family elders were kind-hearted. Their eldest son had just gotten married when he was conscripted into the army, leaving the original owner of this body to live a life of widowhood. They felt guilty towards the original owner, so even in a year of famine like this, they never took the initiative to suggest sending the two children away.

On the same day in her previous life, Lu Yancai and Madam Ma sold Jiang Pan'er to a human trafficker while the original owner of the body and the Lu family elders were not at home, and there was no news of Jiang Pan'er after that.

"Auntie, they've taken Pan'er away! What should we do? What should we do..." Jiang Shufan was so anxious that she couldn't hold back her tears any longer, and large tears streamed down her face.

Jiang Qinyu, her face pale, comforted him, "Xiao Fan, don't be afraid, Auntie has a way."

Because the aunt and niece ran away suddenly, and there was no one else around, Jiang Qinyu took a deep breath and muttered "open the system" in her mind. Then, the cashier of her family's supermarket flagship store appeared in her mind.

Apart from the cashier area, which looked very realistic, the rest of the area appeared foggy, as if it were covered by something.

Before Jiang Qinyu could think too much, the mountain bike that had been displayed on the open ground outside the cashier appeared in front of the aunt and niece.

Jiang Shufan stared blankly at the strange thing that had suddenly appeared, and the next moment Jiang Qinyu lifted him onto the roof of the car. "This is a treasure given to Auntie by a fairy. Xiaofan, you have to keep it a secret."

Jiang Shufan nodded blankly, then became anxious again, "Pan'er..."

The two are twins, a boy and a girl, and they can sense each other's emotions when they are sad. At this moment, Jiang Shufan can feel Jiang Pan'er's heart-wrenching screams.

Jiang Qinyu lifted her leg onto the bike and sped off on her mountain bike.

The road conditions around Dingshui Village were poor, but fortunately, Jiang Qinyu used to be an avid cyclist. She was now driving Jiang Shufan at full speed, and in less than fifteen minutes they heard Jiang Pan'er crying.

"It's Pan'er!" Jiang Shufan's eyes lit up as he looked down at the bicycle.

This is truly a treasure bestowed by the gods!

Jiang Qinyu didn't say anything, rode for another two minutes, and only got off the bike when she saw a figure and put it away.

"Xiao Fan, stay here and don't move. I'm going to save Pan'er," Jiang Qinyu instructed.

Then they quickly circled around a small hill and stopped in front of two thin middle-aged men and Jiang Pan'er.

"Auntie! Save me! Waaah..." Jiang Pan'er's voice was hoarse from crying, and she could hardly hear Jiang Qinyu's shouts.

Jiang Qinyu held a long knife in her hand, staring fiercely at the man opposite her, and said coldly, "Put the child down!"

The knife in her hand was a toy knife placed next to the cashier. It was very well made and could be mistaken for a real knife if you didn't handle it.

Dai Viet had extremely strict control over weapons and copper and iron ore. Ordinary people had to register with the government even to buy a kitchen knife, and they generally had no opportunity to come into contact with weapons.

Under the sunlight, the blade gleamed with a cold, silvery light. Jiang Qinyu deliberately adjusted the angle so that the light from the blade would shine into the eyes of the two people opposite her.

The two men exchanged a glance, and one of them spoke in a harsh voice, "We bought this child, why should we put him down?"

"I don't care who you bought it from, but this child is mine, and we're not selling him! If you don't put the child down, my knife won't discriminate!" Jiang Qinyu said fiercely.

At this moment, we absolutely cannot lose our momentum.

The two men exchanged glances, and one of them, holding Jiang Pan'er, tried to back away, but he had only taken two steps when a rock hit him on the back of the head.

"Who the hell dares to hit me?" The man scratched the back of his head and turned around, only to find that it was a child.

Jiang Shufan clutched several stones in his hands, glaring at the two men in front of him with a mixture of tension and stubbornness. "Let my sister go!"

The two men looked at each other and then whispered to each other.

"That woman in front has a knife, it's not worth it for us to fight her head-on. And that kid behind us is really fierce, we didn't take him with us earlier, so how about we just let it go for today?"

"What bad luck! I finally managed to buy a young girl, and I'm so unwilling to accept it!"

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