"Mom, go cook some wild vegetable porridge. Remember to put more wild vegetables and less porridge. Let them eat their fill first and let their stomachs adapt slowly." Lin Rui said. Cao'er and her two sons hurried on their way and ate up all the food they had stored. They survived the rest of the journey by digging grass roots and eating tree bark.
If they are suddenly asked to drink rice porridge, eat dry rice, or eat something with some oil, their stomachs will not be able to bear it. Vomiting and diarrhea are minor problems, and more serious problems will include pus and blood in the stool. These are the experiences Lin Rui gained from a movie he had watched before that specifically recorded the escape from famine. They call this situation "changing the stomach", which means changing the stomach that eats grass and tree bark to eat food that humans can eat.
"Oh, okay." Feng Zhenniang immediately started cooking after hearing this. She cut the wild vegetables into pieces and sprinkled a handful of rice on it. You couldn't even taste the rice.
"Chief, these damn bastards have been caught!" Lin Ziming, Lin Ziren and others brought over four or five people with strange expressions and red eyes. They looked more like beasts than wild animals.
After seeing Lin Rui and others by the fire, they immediately begged for mercy: "We won't dare to do it again!"
"We don't want to do it either. It was Lei Da! It was Zheng Si! They were the ones who proposed cannibalism and wanted to eat your children!"
Lin Rui asked the person begging for mercy, "Are Zheng Si and Lei Da in there?"
Those people shook their heads quickly: "No, no, Lei Da was just beaten to death, and Zheng Si escaped in the chaos. Don't kill us, we really don't dare!"
Those who had eaten the meat had a strange green-yellow color on their faces, and their eyes were red like a rabbit's. When he was the butcher and the fish, they shared the human flesh and enjoyed it very much. But when it was their turn to be the fish, they would not tolerate it even if they knelt in front of Lin Rui and begged for mercy.
Hungry people will do anything to survive. In such natural disasters and man-made calamities, eating the flesh of their own kind is not surprising, but capturing living people and snatching children to cook is unscrupulous.
Since they can't survive without eating human flesh, let's send them to hell as soon as possible.
Lin Zicheng looked at Lin Rui: "Chief, look at these people..." They are not officials, and have never seen how the judge judges a case. Even if they arrested so many people, they would not know what to do.
Lin Zijun looked at Lin Rui's hateful expression and suggested, "Chief, how about we beat them up?"
Those people's eyes lit up obviously. Even a fool would know the choice between beating them up and killing them. It was just some minor flesh wounds. As long as they didn't die, they would all make a profit.
Lin Rui said coldly: "No, kill them!"
"Kill...kill!" Lin Zijun, Lin Ziming and others were dumbfounded. They didn't expect such explosive words to come out of the patriarch's mouth. They could kill pigs and cows, but to kill people... they didn't have the courage!
"Chief, please let us go. We really don't dare to do it again. I swear to the Buddha that if I eat a bite of human flesh again, I will die a miserable death!"
Lin Rui laughed sarcastically: "From the moment you killed your first human and ate your first bite of human flesh, you've long since banished beliefs like Bodhisattva. Now you're bringing up Bodhisattva. Do you think your words have any credibility?"
He glanced around. "You don't dare to kill? Qingqing only escaped today thanks to Da Niu's intervention. If we let them go, they'll gather forces for revenge and come after our child. The next ones might be Dunzi, Douzi, Xiaozhan, Xiangxiang... Can you bear to see your child, the one you held dear, snatched away and eaten by these beasts you so easily let go?"
Lin Zicheng suddenly clenched the hatchet in his hand. Lin Rui continued, "There are more victims in this wilderness than wolves, vultures, and crows. Those who stole your things can easily get away without paying a price. Do you think our journey will be safe from now on?"
Killing is the last thing Lin Rui wants to see, but now the situation is critical, and these people deserve to die. He doesn't want to lose his heart when he can make a final move to solve the subsequent hidden dangers. The white bones, dried human skin, and hollow skeletons along the way tell Lin Rui that this is a chaotic world, if you don't kill people, people will kill you!
"San Liang, bring me the hatchet!" Lin Rui called out to San Liang, who immediately pulled out a hatchet from the ox cart and handed it to Lin Rui. He was a little worried that his frail master had never seen blood before, so he said, "Master, how about I do it?"
"No, I want to show the Lin family that if I, Lin Rui, can do it, you must do it too." He hit the neck of one of the victims with a hatchet, but his strength was not enough and the hatchet got stuck in the bone of his neck. Blood spurted out and the stench of blood filled the air.
The women covered their children's eyes, not wanting them to see this horrific scene.
"Ah!" The bandits in Zheng Si's group screamed miserably, followed by a "ho ho" sound, and then they lost their breath.
Seeing that Lin Rui was such a cruel and ruthless person, the other bandits were frightened and struggled, trying to escape from Lin Ziming and others and save their lives.
But Lin Ziming and others had already tied their hands and feet tightly with straw ropes, and it was simply a pipe dream to expect them to struggle by human power.
"Kill!" Lin Rui stepped on the corpse, pulled the hatchet out from his neck, and shouted an order.
He had a premonition that the journey ahead would not be peaceful. In order to protect himself, he could only train his men to be ruthless and merciless. Being too soft-hearted would only hurt others and himself.
Sanliang was the first to respond. He took the hatchet in Lin Rui's hand and chopped at the neck of another bandit with all his strength. He was much stronger than Lin Rui, and with his full strength, he chopped off the bandit's head five or six meters away. The head fell on the wasteland, and the bright red blood soaked the ground. The body on this side was spurting blood like a fountain.
Now even the women cried out in surprise and covered their eyes.
One man captured five bandits. Except for Lin Rui and San Liang, whose heads were chopped off, the remaining three bandits were killed by Zhao Qing, Lin Changtai and Lin Changfa with trembling hands using knives.
Even this was not enough. There were corpses lying there in all directions. Except for the children, every woman in the Lin family had to come forward to finish the job. They had to overcome the fear of killing. If they encountered bandits who robbed children and food next time, they would be so ruthless.
The Gao family and the young wife's family did not dare to move, and watched in horror as Lin Rui led his clansmen on a killing spree.
Lin Rui ordered Lin Ziming and Lin Ziren to throw away the bodies that were chopped to pieces after being attacked. He also ordered them to take the heads of the bandits back and hang them on trees to dry, to warn other bandits hiding among the disaster victims that this would be the fate of those who dared to target their ox carts.
After doing all this, everyone returned to the camp in silence to rest. The whole process tonight was thrilling. The flickering light of the fire shone on Lin Rui's face. Everyone realized that Lin Rui was different from everyone else. As for what was different, they couldn't tell. At this time, everyone had respect and awe for him.
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