Not long after Butler Jia left, Deng Yuan and Chen Feng also came back.
They were seen carrying baskets on their backs, with bamboo tubes hanging from their waists, and one of them carrying a shoulder pole. They looked like a walking Christmas tree. As soon as they left the city gate, they attracted the attention of the refugees.
Tian An hurriedly asked Liu Da, Wang Hui, Qiu Shan, Da Shu, Xiao Feng and others to go to the place where Chen Feng and the others had changed clothes before to prepare for the meeting while everyone's attention was on the two of them.
As soon as the two arrived at the place, they also started their journey. The dark group of people directly blocked the refugees' view.
When they passed by the place, Chen Feng and the others changed back into their dirty clothes, mixed into the crowd with the people who were supposed to pick them up, and everyone left quickly.
"Danniu! We are all starving. Why don't we find a place to eat something before we continue our journey!" The village chief looked at Zhao Yiming who was leading everyone on the journey again with no intention of stopping.
Zhao Yiming not only did not stop, but also asked everyone to speed up, "We can't stop now, we have to go further."
"Why?" asked the village chief's wife in confusion.
Tian An explained as he trotted along, "It's obvious that Steward Jia isn't a good person. We made him lose face today. He glanced at us when he returned to the city just now, and I'm afraid he won't let this go."
"No, that's impossible!" the village chief's wife said in disbelief. "It was just a quarrel. It can't be that serious!"
Tian Gang, the village chief's son, said, "Mom, people say that the King of Hell is easy to deal with, but the little ghosts are hard to deal with. The housekeepers of those wealthy families are the most petty. You may think it's nothing, but they will remember it in their hearts! Who can guarantee that they won't find an opportunity to retaliate."
"Ah! How can we compete with those rich people? Let's run faster!" The village chief's wife was startled, and her already sore legs ran even faster.
An hour later, Zhao Yiming figured they had walked so far that even if the man really came looking for them, he couldn't possibly chase them that far! So he asked everyone to stop, rest, and eat something before continuing.
But he didn't expect that he still underestimated the man's pettiness.
Just as they were about to distribute the steamed buns brought back by Chen Feng and Deng Yuan, they suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves coming from behind.
Zhao Yiming hurriedly asked everyone to put away their things, put the child and Grandma Qin on the ox cart, and run away quickly.
But they were riding horses, and just as they had put their things away, they were approached by twenty or thirty people who surrounded them.
A man with a scar on his face rode up, pointed at them and cursed, "What a filthy fellow! You've run so far! I've been chasing you for so long."
The burly man who had been following Housekeeper Jia rode up to the scarred man, pointed at Zhao Yiming, and said, "Brother, this is the guy. He was so arrogant just now! He wanted to bully me by relying on his numbers! What they did was a slap in your face! Everyone in Yuncheng knows that I'm your man!"
Everyone was really shocked by his shamelessness. The village chief's daughter-in-law Zhang retorted with a pale face:
"He lied. We didn't bully him at all. He was the one who forced us to sell the child to him. We all said we didn't want to sell it, but he still tried to force us."
The scarred man turned to look at the burly man with a half-smile, "What she said is true!"
The strong man was stunned, stammering and hesitating, unable to say a word for a long time.
Suddenly, the scarred man's face turned cold, and he stared at the strong man fiercely and asked, "Were you the one who forced him first?"
The burly man was startled and was about to speak when the scarred man looked at everyone with amusement on his face, "So what if he forced you first? Huh?"
The gang of thugs nearby also laughed and cheered, "Yeah! So what!"
The burly man immediately started to act arrogantly, "That's right, what can you do to me?"
“We just like to push people.”
Someone else looked at Zhang's blatant teasing with ill intentions and said, "Young lady, why don't we force you too?"
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Zhang's face turned pale with fear, and Tian Gang immediately pulled her behind him. "Don't go too far."
The hooligans burst into laughter again as if they heard a joke, "Hahahaha..."
"Brothers, he said we were going too far!"
"We just want to go too far, what can you do to us?"
"Ha ha ha ha……"
The scarred man raised his hand to silence himself. He pointed condescendingly at Xiaokang and Xiaoqi behind Zhao Yiming and said, "I won't make things difficult for you. If you're smart, leave those two little ones, the money, and the food behind them, and then you can get out of here."
A small thug ran up to the scarred man and pointed at Zhang and said, "Brother, let's keep that young lady too!"
The scarred man laughed and said, "You still miss women, okay? Then stay!"
Seeing that he had gotten the upper hand, the other hooligans also pointed at the young wives in the crowd and said, "Brother, there's that one too, the one with the nice butt."
"That one is beautiful too, stay here too, big brother."
A group of hooligans pointed at the women and commented on them as if they were their own property, allowing them to do whatever they wanted.
The women were so frightened that their faces turned pale and they trembled, while the men were so angry that their eyes were about to burst.
After a while, the scarred man seemed to be annoyed by the noise. He waved his hand and said firmly, "Alright, the women, children, food, and property will stay. The men can go now."
However, no one in the crowd moved.
"I said..."
Before the scarred man could finish his words, Zhao Yiming slowly raised his hand and suddenly pressed it down.
"Hit him..." The men instantly pulled out weapons from under backpacks, on ox carts, and on their belts and rushed forward.
The women also hurriedly pulled the ox carts and donkey carts, taking the children and the elderly with them and ran away first.
By the time the scarred man and the thugs reacted, Chen Feng and the others had already arrived in front of them. The scarred man immediately drew the big knife from his waist and held it across his body to block the long knife that Chen Feng was going to chop at him.
The other thugs who were slow to react were not so lucky. One of them was hit on the shoulder by a hoe by Dashan, and another was grazed on the leg by an axe swung by Uncle Tiande, the third uncle of Dashu.
If you think that country people don't fight, you are wrong. In the past, conflicts often occurred between villages. Sometimes, several villages fought each other for water in the fields, and blood was not uncommon.
The village chief's son Tian Gang even used a hatchet to cut off a gangster's finger. This gangster was the one who had just pointed at Zhang and wanted to keep her.
Suddenly, screams shook the sky.
Tian Gang was furious and used the gangster as a tool to vent his anger, slashing at him with his knife one after another.
The thug finally recovered and took the opportunity to raise his long knife to chop him, vowing to avenge the severed finger.
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