Chapter 145 Found the Village
"This is the medicine I gave to Jiang Wenjin. It's scattered here. It might be a mark made by my mother and the others. Let's go up this way. It should be this way."
"Yeah, okay."
"Do we need to wait for Bai Zhan to come back?"
Now Bai Zhan has gone to inquire about the news, and no one knows when he will be back. He knows that they left a signal, so they won't let him go.
"No, I'll leave a mark for him. When he comes back and sees it, he'll come up to find us."
Jiang Nanyuan nodded. It seemed that this was the only way.
So, Xiao Yuchen left a mark here for Bai Zhan, and the two of them walked up along this road. They didn't know how far they would go, so Xiao Yuchen didn't leave the horse behind. Instead, he let Jiang Nanyuan sit on the horse, and he pulled it slowly from below.
After walking up this road for about half an hour, they finally saw a village inside. There were even people guarding the gate. In order not to attract attention, Jiang Nanyuan got off the horse. The two tied the horses to a tree stump not far away and slowly approached the village together.
The two stopped just before the door.
"Achen, do you think the people in this village are the same group from last time?" Jiang Nanyuan immediately thought of the last time she stole other people's food, and she didn't know if it was this group of people.
Xiao Yuchen didn't know either, but he guessed that it was most likely them.
Jiang Nanyuan thought about it and the two of them decided to sneak in to see what was going on. They didn’t know if their mother and the others were there.
She took out the invisibility cloak she got from Lin Jingrui last time and asked Xiao Yuchen to put it on. Xiao Yuchen refused at first and wanted Jiang Nanyuan to put it on, but Jiang Nanyuan already had the ability to hide and didn't need it.
After talking to Xiao Yuchen, Xiao Yuchen put on the cloak. The moment he put it on, he became invisible.
Jiang Nanyuan also used the art of concealment. After they were ready, they swaggered towards the village gate together.
When they reached the door, they stopped. The gate of the village was closed. Jiang Nanyuan picked up a stone on the ground and threw it towards the woods beside him.
The two people guarding the door immediately went over to check the situation. When they left, Jiang Nanyuan and Xiao Yuchen took the opportunity to push open the door and walked in.
When the two gatekeepers came back and saw the door wide open, they looked at each other in confusion and asked in unison, "Did you open the door?"
After the two asked this question, they both realized that it was not the other who opened the car.
Strange, how could the door be opened if it wasn't opened by the other party? Could someone have gotten in?
The two of them thought of this possibility at the same time, and they immediately went inside to check the situation. They checked near the door and didn't find anything unusual. They both scratched their heads, wondering if they had remembered it wrong.
As for Jiang Nanyuan and Xiao Yuchen, they had already sneaked into the village. The village was very big, and when they walked in, they saw that there were many people inside. Jiang Nanyuan saw that there were not only men, but also many women and children.
They all had happy smiles on their faces. Some were drying clothes, some aunts were talking, and children were playing and fighting nearby. It was nothing like the villages they had seen before, which were basically all men and everyone had a sad face.
It feels exactly like being in a village, not like a bandit's stronghold at all.
Seeing this, Jiang Nanyuan and Xiao Yuchen looked at each other. Could it be that they had come to the wrong place?
Xiao Yuchen had the same question. They continued to walk inside to see what was going on. There were many rows of houses inside. Just when they wanted to go in, the man who was guarding the gate came running in hurriedly from outside. When he saw one of the aunts, he shouted loudly.
"Aunt Caihua, please help inform the Second Master that someone is coming from outside and wants to take refuge in our village."
"Okay, I get it. Shunzi, are there many people outside this time? There aren't many empty houses left in the village. If there are too many, we might need to build some more."
"Well, luckily there aren't too many, about a dozen or so. That should be enough for now."
Caihua nodded and ran quickly towards where the second in command was, while Shunzi went back to guard the door.
Jiang Nanyuan was curious about what kind of people would come to this village. She exchanged a glance with Xiao Yuchen, and the two of them headed towards the door together. Jiang Nanyuan saw more than a dozen people at the door, about five or six men, and the rest were women and children.
Those men all looked injured, with either missing arms or broken legs.
When Jiang Nanyuan and Xiao Yuchen came out, they were talking. Jiang Nanyuan and Xiao Yuchen listened carefully to their conversation not far away.
"Husband, is it really okay for us to seek refuge here? Will the people inside accept us? And do you really want to take refuge in the mountain stronghold?"
The man heard what his wife said and sighed helplessly, "Ah, there's nothing we can do. It's the court's fault for not doing anything. Not only did they ignore us injured veterans, but they also forced us to serve as soldiers. It's obvious that they don't want to give us a chance to live.
I've inquired, and anyone who has served in the military and comes to this village will be taken in and provided with food and drink."
He was also very helpless. If the imperial court had not been too excessive, he would have been injured and retired from the battlefield. Now he was dragged to the mine to dig. One of his arms was broken. How could he dig? Otherwise, he would not have brought his wife and children to seek refuge in the bandit's lair.
After hearing this, Jiang Nanyuan understood a little bit. It seemed that this village was quite good. They took in these disabled people and gave them food. It seemed that they were not bad people. She just didn't know if her mother and the others were here.
Jiang Nanyuan listened for a while and found that there was no other news. She and Xiao Yuchen went in again and took a quick look in every room, but did not see Lin Zhixue and the others.
Just at this moment, Jiang Nanyuan saw a teenage boy running towards him from not far away, sweating profusely.
He ran to the room where Jiang Nanyuan was, drank a sip of water, and then shouted inside, "Mom, have you prepared dinner? I'm starving."
"It's ready, silly boy, come and eat it. By the way, didn't the Second Master ask you to guard those exiled people? Why did you come back? Mom will bring it to you."
When Jiang Nanyuan heard the word "exile", she immediately pricked up her ears. She thought they might not be here, but it seemed that they were here and had been arrested.
The man wiped the water from his mouth and said, "Mom, it's okay. They've all been tied up. I'm really hungry, so I came back to eat something before going back to guard."
Since this person was guarding them, Jiang Nanyuan didn't plan to continue looking for him. Instead, she thought about waiting for the man to finish eating and then following him.
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