Chapter 257
She didn't seem to realize she was crying, and she smiled awkwardly, frowning while doing so.
She asked Shen Jiao: "My son, is he still alive?"
"He's fine."
"That's good, that's good. He's a fool. It doesn't matter if he's alive. It doesn't bother anyone."
She nervously clutched the wide sleeves of her clothes.
Shen Jiao said, "You look great in pink. Is this your wedding dress? Tell me about the men you're with now, and about those bad guys."
"...Okay." She was silent for a moment before responding.
Her clothes were given to her by those men. They were stained with blood, but now she has washed them.
Shen Jiao thought this was her wedding dress, but that was not true.
Her wedding night to those men was the day she delivered the sugar jar to the mountain.
Bu'e said that she got married yesterday because when those men came back last night, one of them posted a "囍" character on the window.
I also gave Bu E a lot of candy.
He knew that as long as there was sugar and happiness, the marriage would be successful.
Now the candy is gone, having been snatched away by the kids.
"Buhé said it was taken away by his brother."
"Yes, they are brothers. There are few women in their village, and they value loyalty, so they share the women and raise the children together. It's hard to tell who belongs to whom. We are all brothers, and we call everyone dad and mom."
They are bandits who usually live in the nearby mountains.
They come out to rob because they are short of money.
After the city was broken, most of the young and strong people who stayed behind became bandits. Some joined one gang, some went out to another, or just escaped.
The remaining people in the city were the elderly, the weak, women and children. They could not escape and had nowhere to escape, so they stayed.
Even when those people are gone, they still live their own lives here.
Plant in spring and harvest in autumn, half of the rice is sold for oil and salt, half is given to bandits, and the other half is kept for seeds and eaten by themselves.
"There's one good thing about these people," Ku'er said, "they only steal things, not people."
But people will bring it to your door...
People have to live, whether they are poor or not.
"Just a few days before you came, I went to the fields to check on the rice and chase away the birds that were eating it. Suddenly, I couldn't see anything. I knew I was going blind. I've cried so much over the years that sometimes I can't even see what it means to not be hungry.
I crawled back home and somehow vomited a lot of blood. I knew that people who vomited blood would not live long. It would not matter if I died, as I had lived through such a hard life. But what should I do if I wasn't hungry?
He had never had a full meal since he was born. I asked him if he was willing to die with his mother, but he didn't understand what I meant. He gave me the candy in the jar to eat. I asked him where it came from and he had bad intentions because he knew there were people coming to the dock.
I took him with me to marry, and he stayed in the bandit camp. When I died, maybe he would still have a bite to eat...
This has nothing to do with him, girl, if you want revenge, just kill me."
She spoke weakly.
"I won't kill you. I'm not familiar with those people at the dock."
Shen Jiao put away the hairpin and walked up to her.
"I have a request of yours. They've closed the city gates, and I can't get out. Either kill them all, or give me some advice on how I can escape."
"Ah?" She was a little dazed and looked in one direction with some surprise.
Shen Jiao was not there at all.
"Are you blind?"
"Ah? No, not yet. I'll be fine. I'll give you an idea... I have an idea. You, you just hide for now. They won't stay for long. After they kill people and steal things, they'll leave."
"So what do I eat and drink?"
"I have food at home. I have hidden a bag of food in the cellar. Go and get it. I'll give it all to you."
"That's quite generous of you, thank you very much," Shen Jiao said. "Actually, I would rather kill them all, but your method is better."
What Shen Jiao said...was half true and half false.
Damn it if those people get their eyes on the treasure and start looking for her.
It would be better to use some rat poison and pick some poisonous weeds to feed them now.
So she said this to test whether the woman was willing to help.
The result was naturally disappointing.
Ku'er didn't want anything to happen to these people, and she was counting on the bandits to help her raise her son.
Shen Jiao didn't know what to say.
Just look forward to it. It’s good to look forward to something in your heart.
Shen Jiao grinned at her: "It's up to you, I'm leaving now. Don't talk nonsense, oh! If those bandits knew you weren't going to live long and you were lying to them, wouldn't they be very angry?"
Shen Jiao left this sentence and ran away.
Before running away, he threw the leftover bones into a house that looked like it was home to many children.
It doesn't matter whether it's useful or not, just frame him first.
However, Shen Jiao didn't expect Ku'er to keep the secret. She would run away if she had the chance.
While the bandits were still here, Shen Jiao went to do something. He divided the bag of grain that Ku'er had hidden into many portions and threw one portion into each house where there was smoke from cooking. He also left a message through the window and the wall:
"Cook an extra spoonful of porridge for the gods to take. I will send you more food tomorrow."
She can't fire, so what's the use of having food?
With so many people, there must be one with a conscience, right?
Or none at all... then she would kill them all.
The world was so bad that Shen Jiao was really sad. She took two bags of food and hid herself.
She didn't hide far away, so later she heard the bandits singing.
He seems quite happy.
Shen Jiao moved closer and heard the two bandits who were rushing back from their shift change on the city wall talking.
"Why are you drinking now? Didn't you say a few people ran away?"
"Well, a few people running away is nothing. Once the city gates are closed, there are people at the docks. Unless they can fly, they will be out sooner or later."
"That's true. Are these people fat?"
"You're stupid! You're singing like this, and you're not getting fat! Go back quickly! You won't be able to get any wine if you're late."
"You are stupid. What's so good about the wine now? If you make a fortune and return to the village, the village chief will definitely send people to buy wine and meat. You will be worried that you will have nothing to eat then."
"That's right. You said the village chief is the same. He only robs people of their money. I heard that many beautiful girls were hacked to death this time. If they were left here... hehe."
"Hehe," the other one couldn't help laughing and said, "Beautiful you, you know that our village chief hates these things the most. Her mother was robbed and raped to death by bandits."
"She's not my biological mother. Wasn't she abducted by a kidnapper?"
The sound gradually faded away.
Shen Jiao hadn't come to her senses yet, and her mood was extremely complicated: It can't be such a coincidence, right?
Is their village leader a man or a woman?
If this is really the daughter that the Seventh Master lost, this would be... too ridiculous.
A father and daughter met, and the father got stabbed. This is so outrageous that it would be written in a storybook.
Regardless of them, Shen Jiao had to find a quilt.
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