Chapter 14: If they are eliminated, all the supplies will be theirs.
Ruan Mian smiled coldly and gave her only one word: "Get lost."
Liu was furious. She had someone behind her, so she immediately raised her voice, "Well, just wait, you bitch. You're so shameless! I want to see how long you can stay in peace!"
Just then, there was a noise from behind the team. They looked over and saw a pair of people appearing from the corner.
Mrs. Liu was overjoyed: "Nanfeng! Isn't that Nanfeng sitting on the horse?! He's my high-spirited young man!"
She ran over with great joy, and her legs, which usually had cold legs, became as brisk as ever.
But when she got closer, her expression changed slightly. The person on the horse was not Qi Nanfeng, but an official with a stern face.
The few people following behind him were also officers and soldiers. Looking around, the only people left were those in the prison van.
The man was wearing prison uniform, covered with scars, with messy hair covering most of his face. He lay powerless on the prison van, motionless, like a stray dog.
Liu had a bad feeling. She carefully pinched the corner of her clothes and called out, "Nan...Nanfeng?"
Everyone in the team rushed to look, only to see the prisoner slowly looking up.
Qi Nanfeng's familiar, but now embarrassed face suddenly appeared.
When Liu saw this, she simply closed her eyes and pretended to be dead! !
Oh, Heavenly Bodhisattva! This isn't about taking them back home, this is about destroying their hope of returning home!
The people around couldn't help but laugh at Qi Nanfeng when they saw him being held as a prisoner and beaten to a state of near death.
That Liu has such a big face!
Ruan Mian spread his hands and told his brother to relax.
"It seems the princess has no intention of saving him."
With Qi Nanfeng around, the days of exile wouldn't be so lonely and boring. After all... she had just come here to be divorced by him!
The original owner suffered so much injustice in the Qi Mansion and even remained a widow for three years for him, but in the end she ended up with nothing.
The other people in the Ruan Mansion finally felt relieved. Qi Nanfeng and other men in the Qi Mansion were thrown to the back of the team. The men were all tightly handcuffed and shackled.
For the officials, this was just a few more burdens, and they were unhappy just thinking about it.
While waiting for lunch, they didn't look for a good place and simply rested on the side of the road.
He didn't even cook any food, but simply made them a pot of vegetable leaf soup, which was bland and unsatisfying.
The crowd was so angry that they dared not say anything and could only go to the nearby area to find some fruits and vegetable leaves.
But the officer also said: "If anyone dares to escape, I will take the heads of his entire family!!"
They had no household registration, were shackled, and were surrounded by desolate mountains and wilderness. Escaping would be the same as death.
Those people don't have the courage.
Ruan Mian set up the stove and cooked some salty porridge with dried meat, and ate it with pickles brought from the kitchen of Qi Mansion. It tasted very good.
She specially brought a few bowls, called Cuizhu and her elder sister over, and delivered them to the officials together.
The eldest sister was a little reluctant: "Sister, it's not like they don't have food. Why send it to them? We don't even have enough to eat!"
"When we go out, we always have to be considerate. If you don't appease the officials, what will they do if they put you in shackles?"
Ruan Qing nodded quickly when he heard it: "I understand."
Cuizhu explained with a smile: "Miss, this trick is called winning people's hearts!"
Ruan Mian brought the salty porridge to Guo Yong. Guo Yong thought she was a considerate person and was polite.
Ruan Mian took the opportunity to ask, "Sir, all the men from the Qi Mansion have been sent to our team. Does that mean we won't be taking the official road anymore?"
In the original book, Ruan Mian vaguely remembered an exile plot. Because there were too many people in the prison car in the team, they were afraid of collisions if they took the official road, so they could only take small paths on certain specific roads.
So she became more careful.
The answer was exactly as she expected: "Mrs. Ruan is careful. From here to the next post station, the commercial road and the official road are together. Our exile team must avoid them.
When we set off later, we should head towards the eastern path."
Following Guo Yong's gaze, Ruan Mian glanced towards the east, where there were few traces of roads and mostly weeds.
After she had a clear idea in her mind, she returned to the team and took out some tools from the space under the pretext of going to the bathroom.
Most of them were some simple tools taken from the Qi Mansion's armory.
She put them in her luggage and distributed them to the people in Ruan's mansion. Almost everyone had a dagger for self-defense.
When she handed the dagger to her brother Ruan Qingsong, Ruan Qingsong frowned and looked at his sister in disbelief.
"Mian'er, I didn't expect you to be so thoughtful, even bringing all these. I didn't know you were such a considerate person before. It's all my fault. I should have been more careful back then, seeing through the Qi family's character earlier and stopping you from..."
"Brother, the road to exile is difficult and dangerous. Thanks to your care, we were able to bring these things with us. It's always a good idea to be prepared. As for those things in the past, they are all in the past now. The most important thing now is that our family is safe."
There are so many unknown factors on the trail, not to mention Qi Nanfeng who suddenly joined in. Ruan Mian always felt that he would cause trouble, so it would not be excessive to be on guard in advance.
At this moment, Liu was holding the bowl of soup and struggling to help Qi Nanfeng drink it with tears in her eyes.
He was beaten so badly that he couldn't move and both his legs were injured.
I was hungry for several days and ate several bowls of vegetable leaf soup.
Seeing him like this, Liu burst into tears. "Nanfeng, what should I do? Why didn't the princess plead for you? She just watched you fall into this state! Doesn't she like you?"
Qi Lin had had enough of Liu's sobbing and growled irritably, "Cry, cry, cry! All you do is cry! Can crying solve the problem? Can crying make my brother come out?!"
"I...I can't even cry?!"
Liu was always thinking about her daughter, but she was yelled at like that by her daughter. She felt even more aggrieved and wanted to just bang her head against a wall to die.
Qi Nanfeng was also crying until his head was dizzy. He had to suppress his discomfort and said hoarsely: "Don't cry. The people in the Ruan Mansion won't be proud for long."
Hearing this, Liu immediately fell silent: "Nanfeng, do you...do you have any solution?"
Qi Nanfeng took a deep breath, turned sideways, and lowered his voice.
"Wait until night, go under my prisoner wagon and open the secret compartment. There's some dry food and money inside. Also, there are my people on the trail to the east."
Liu's eyes widened and she covered her mouth.
She didn't dare let others see her expression at the moment: "Nanfeng, have you been prepared?!"
Qi Nanfeng snorted coldly and said weakly, "Only by getting rid of the Ruan family can I finally let out my anger."
Getting rid of Ruan is not only what Qi Nanfeng wants, but also what Liu's mother and daughter want most!
The Ruan family brought so many supplies with them. If they were eliminated, all the supplies would be theirs.
They will have good food, good clothes, and even the ox cart, so they won’t have to walk anymore!
Thinking of this, the gloom on Liu's face disappeared, and a smile appeared on her face. She was full of energy and even her legs didn't hurt anymore.
When they set out again, the ox cart had to be unloaded and there would be room to use it only when they reached the main road.
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