Chapter 272 Black Bamboo Village
How can two legs outrun four legs?
The villagers wanted to escape separately, but Maodan was extremely fast. He leaped over and knocked down one of the fleeing villagers, then ran towards another villager.
The villagers had nowhere to escape and could only turn around and fight with Li Yu'e and the others.
Xia Xiaoman, who had followed, saw that the villagers stopped running away, so he called Maodan back and stood aside to watch the show.
There are twenty people including Li Yu'e. If they can't even take down these eight people, how can they establish the Lingxu Gang?
In about five minutes, all eight people were knocked down. Three of them were hacked to death. The remaining five were still alive because Li Yu'e instructed them to capture them alive.
After catching these five people, Li Yu'e ordered her men to beat them up first to avenge Xiao Zheyu and the others. After the beating, she brought out a villager.
"Hey, stop playing dead here. Let me ask you, what do you want to do by arresting my people?"
The man was beaten with blood all over his face. He took a long while to speak incoherently: "When did we arrest anyone? We just wanted to teach those guys a lesson."
Li Yu'e sneered, "He's still pretty tough. Chen Ya, smash his little finger into pieces, without leaving any bones or residue."
Chen Ya smiled and said softly, "Okay, Sister Yu'e."
She looked around, picked up a stone and placed it next to the man's hand. Then she took off the small hammer hanging from her waist and pried the man's hand apart and placed it on the stone.
Seeing that Chen Ya was serious, the man said in a panic, "You, what do you want to do? Let me tell you, our village is nearby. If you dare to touch us, be careful that our village chief will find out and bring the whole village to trouble you."
Chen Ya sneered, "Really? Then I'll clean the knife and wait for your village chief to come!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the hammer came down violently. The man instantly let out a scream like a pig being slaughtered and twitched his hands wildly, trying to pull them out.
Chen Ya remained calm, holding onto his hand and hitting him six or seven times in a row, four of which hit the wrong side of the target. It was unclear whether this was a deliberate revenge on the man for injuring Zhou Qiuyang.
The man’s little finger was smashed into a bloody mess, and he finally couldn’t hold it in any longer and cried out, “Ahhh!! I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you everything!!”
Upon hearing this, Chen Ya did not stop her actions. She smashed the other person's little finger on his right hand into pieces, then pulled out his left hand and continued smashing.
The man collapsed and shouted, "Stop smashing it! Ah! Stop smashing it, I'll tell you everything you want to know! Stop smashing it, ah ah!"
Chen Ya raised her lips and smiled, "That won't do. Our sister Yu'e said that she will smash your little finger into pieces. After smashing the little finger on your right hand, you have to smash the one on your left hand too, otherwise sister Yu'e will be angry."
The man was about to faint from the pain, his whole body was shaking, and there was a strong smell of urine coming from between his legs.
Only after smashing both of the opponent's little fingers did Chen Ya put away the hammer and stand back beside Li Yu'e.
The remaining four people were so frightened that their legs went limp and they knelt on the side trembling.
Upon seeing this, Li Yu'e said, "Interrogate these five people separately to prevent them from colluding with each other." Chen Ya responded in a low voice, and then asked people to take the five villagers away separately.
Xia Xiaoman witnessed the whole process and felt that everything and everyone had changed.
More than two years ago, Li Yu'e was just a rather aggressive woman. She took the initiative to pursue Wen Jianfeng and seek the protection of a man because she was worried about being targeted by criminals. Only two or three years later, Li Yu'e was able to stand on her own and protect herself without relying on any man.
Li Yu'e saw Xia Xiaoman staring at her and asked, "Why are you looking at me like that? Are you scared?"
Xia Xiaoman shook her head. "No, I'm just a little curious. Where did you learn how to hit someone's finger with a hammer?"
"I learned it from you! Xiao Zheyu said you hit someone's hand with an axe before."
After hearing what Li Yu'e said, Xia Xiaoman thought for a long time before she remembered that during the last locust plague, she went out to catch locusts and met a group of human traffickers. The traffickers refused to admit their identity, so she hit the traffickers' palms with an axe.
She mentioned this to Xiao Zheyu and others during the dinner, but she didn't expect Xiao Zheyu to remember it and use this method on others.
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The five villagers were frightened by Li Yu'e's thundering actions. They answered whatever Chen Ya asked and did not dare to lie at all.
The village halfway up the mountain is called Heizhu Village, named after the black bamboo that once grew on the mountain.
The original address of Heizhu Village was not on the mountain, but at the foot of the mountain. The villagers all had farmland, and the younger generation went out to work.
During the flood, all the villagers of Heizhu Village moved to the mountains to live. It rained a lot during that period, so in order to avoid getting wet, they cut bamboo to build bamboo houses.
There are abundant resources on the mountain. In addition to wild vegetables and bamboo shoots, there are also animals and fish. If you are lucky, you can also dig up yam and kudzu. Therefore, the villagers of Heizhu Village did not starve during the flood. At most, they felt sad that their property was flooded.
But because they had been staying in the mountains, they were isolated from the outside world and didn't know what was happening outside. When they saw that the rescue team had not arrived, they thought that the people above had forgotten about them or had given up on them, so from then on, they had a prejudice against the authorities.
After the floods ended, the silt cleared from the city was piled up at the foot of the mountain, and the villagers of Heizhu Village became resentful of the government. In addition, during the drought, the government did not send a well-drilling truck to Heizhu Village because it was located in a remote area, but instead persuaded the villagers to move to the city.
In short, due to a series of reasons, the Black Bamboo Village had a lot of opinions about the Fucheng officials. As a result, they did not go to the city if they could, and thus missed a lot of useful information.
During the extremely cold night, the Black Bamboo Village was isolated from the news and did not prepare winter clothes in advance. As a result, before the first snowstorm arrived, they were already so cold that they had to take all their supplies and go to the cave to avoid the cold.
But the supplies were limited, and soon the food they brought to the cave was eaten up. Without winter clothes, they didn't even have the courage to step out of the cave, and some elderly people and those in poor health were frozen to death one after another.
In order to survive, those extremely hungry people started to eat the corpses.
At first, some people couldn't eat it, but when they smelled the aroma of meat, they didn't care anymore. In the end, those villagers who couldn't bear to eat their own kind fought with other villagers for a skinny corpse and got bloodied...
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