Chapter 267 Dealing with Traitors
A lean camel is bigger than a horse.
When Ye Xiaojie saw Liu Mengmeng coming back and settled everything, she asked Liu Mengmeng to stay there to take care of Sun Qing and Zhuzhu, and she took a dozen people she trusted with her.
Ye Xiaojie knew that the people she poached from the old Ye family and her husband's family were unreliable, and those who could be easily poached by her were not loyal. So when the Ye family fleet grew stronger, she and Sun Qing hid a lot of supplies in Yuancheng.
Now that we are in this critical moment, these supplies can just be used.
Ye Xiaojie led the team to a remote hillside in the rain. The hillside had collapsed a little due to the earthquake. She stepped on the ground and felt that there was nothing unusual, so she asked people to dig directly down.
After digging about two or three meters deep, someone dug out a piece of rainproof cloth. Ye Xiaojie asked them to continue digging, and soon they dug out all the rainproof cloth, and under the rainproof cloth was piled with various supplies. There were mainly compressed biscuits, various sealed dried fish, shrimps, kelp, dried vegetables, medicines, salt, sugar and other essential items.
Ye Xiaojie and her group hurried to the shed with the supplies they had just dug out, but they were stopped halfway.
The people who stopped them were Ye Xiaojie's former subordinates. At this moment, the other party had 20 to 30 people behind them, twice the number of Ye Xiaojie's group.
The man looked like a smug villain, raised the machete in his hand and said, "Boss Ye, how are you? Where did you find these supplies? My brothers have been looking for supplies for several days, but they don't have this much."
"Master Ye, we have followed you for a while after all. If you know where we can dig up supplies, shouldn't you share it with us?"
As soon as the voice fell, the middle-aged man standing next to Ye Xiaojie cursed angrily: "Wang Datou, you are a traitor! Ye Dangjia is so good to you. When your son is sick, she even gave you a box of antipyretic medicine for free. Has your conscience been eaten by a dog?"
"Bah! She's good to me? If she's good to me, she should give me the position of the second in command of the Ye family fleet! I left the old Ye family and worked with Ye Xiaojie for so long, why can that foreigner surnamed Sun be the second in command, while I can only be a small follower!"
Wang Datou said sarcastically, "Ye Xiaojie, I advise you to put down the supplies and go back to nurse your child. The brothers will spare your life for our past. If you don't listen, don't blame me, Wang Datou, for taking action!"
Ye Xiaojie stared at him without saying a word, her eyes were cold and creepy. Just when Wang Datou was about to order an attack on Ye Xiaojie, Ye Xiaojie suddenly pulled out a knife, turned her wrist, and stabbed the middle-aged man next to her in the heart.
The middle-aged man stared at her in disbelief with his eyes wide open, "Why...why..."
Ye Xiaojie said expressionlessly: "You've worked so hard spreading coal dust all the way. Have a good sleep, I'll send Wang Datou down to accompany you later."
As soon as she finished speaking, she drew out her dagger and threw it at Wang Datou. Wang Datou quickly dodged it and asked, "How do you know Lao Wan is my man?"
Ye Xiaojie did not answer him, but took out her pistol and shot Wang Datou dead.
The Sanda teacher told her that when facing an enemy, one must strike first to intimidate the enemy. After dealing with Wang Datou, the rest would be easy to deal with.
It was true that the other side had the advantage in numbers, but they had been frightened by Ye Xiaojie's shot and were thinking of retreating. They lost their ferocity when they attacked and were taken care of by Ye Xiaojie and her team in just a few moves.
After solving the obstacle, Ye Xiaojie led his men to continue their journey back.
A sturdy woman following her asked curiously, "Master Ye, how did you know that Lao Wan was not right? I didn't notice anything wrong with him along the way."
"I just discovered it too." Ye Xiaojie said.
When she saw Wang Datou and his group, she was actually a little surprised because she had tried to avoid the crowds along the way to prevent others from following her and snatching supplies.
Being stopped by Wang Datou, who seemed to be well prepared, Ye Xiaojie guessed that someone in her team had betrayed her.
Just at this moment, Lao Wan started to curse Wang Datou, and Ye Xiaojie subconsciously looked at Lao Wan. With just one glance, she found that Lao Wan was not right.
There was coal dust on Lao Wan's hands and trouser legs, and there was coal dust at Wang Datou's feet, and the coal dust formed a line that extended all the way to their side. Ye Xiaojie knew at a glance that someone had scattered coal dust as a mark on the way here.
On the way here, Lao Wan was walking at the back, and there was coal dust on his hands and trouser legs. With a little thought, one could guess who the traitor was.
Since she became pregnant, she had almost always stayed in the base camp to command and deploy, and seldom went out. To the point that Wang Datou and the others had forgotten that she, Ye Xiaojie, was once a ruthless and decisive person.
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It drizzled for three days in a row. Ye Xiaojie and her team moved back a batch of supplies. Their lives became much better and they began to plan how to rebuild their home.
At the same time, Xia Xiaoman, who was hiding in the mountains, was also considering whether to build a house.
Living in a tent is not a long-term solution. The tent is exposed to the sun 24 hours a day and will be aged in a few days. It is better to build a mud brick or wooden house.
Seeing that the rain had stopped, Xia Xiaoman took advantage of the wet clay to dig some clay and made mud bricks. Maodan saw her digging mud and followed her, digging all over her hair and getting covered in yellow mud, which Xia Xiaoman despised.
After the rain stopped, the weather became even hotter, and Xia Xiaoman had to take out the ice that he had stored during the winter to cool down.
Maodan was born in winter and was used to cold weather since childhood. When he saw an ice cube in the tent, he stopped going out and licked the ice cube every day. Half of the ice cube that Xia Xiaoman took out was melted naturally, and the other half was licked by Maodan.
The days in the mountains passed quickly, and a month passed in the blink of an eye. When Xia Xiaoman saw that the mud bricks were almost done, he put them all into the space and drove to find a suitable place to build a house.
The place where she lives now is not suitable for long-term residence. It is a low-lying area and may be flooded at any time if there is a heavy rain. If she wants to find a place to live permanently, it is best to find a high, flat and hidden place.
After packing up the tent, Xia Xiaoman took Maodan to find his future home.
It is easy to find a high and flat place, but it is hard to find a secluded place. Xia Xiaoman wandered around the mountains twice but couldn't find a suitable place to build a house.
"Ouch~" Maodan was sitting in the car and pulling at the door impatiently.
Xia Xiaoman glanced at it and asked, "Want to go to the toilet?"
Maodan called out again as if in response to her. Seeing this, Xia Xiaoman found a place to stop the car, opened the door and let Maodan get out.
As soon as Maodan got out of the car, he ran away. Xia Xiaoman didn't worry about it getting lost, so he climbed onto the roof of the car and took out a telescope to look at the nearby mountains.
Suddenly, she stood up from the roof of the car and looked at the telescope intently.
In front of him, wisps of smoke rose up. On the ground, there were military tents, ordinary tents, and many sheds made of wood and cloth. What concerned Xia Xiaoman the most was that there was a large shed in a small area, and he could vaguely see that there were people living in the shed.
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