A group of fifty or sixty people, all riding horses, wearing tight clothes and holding torches, lit up the evening sky a fiery red.
They came galloping, and Sumibao discovered that their main target of archery was men. Except for accidental killings, they did not shoot women.
There were chaos everywhere, including women screaming, children crying, and men wailing.
In the blink of an eye, the horse team drove into the woods. As they got closer, everyone could clearly feel the murderous aura from these people.
"Oh no, it's bandits."
Madam Su lowered her voice and said to everyone, "Their horses are too fast. We can't run away."
"Hurry up, get in here."
Su Chengyi had been standing behind everyone. No one paid attention to him since he entered the forest. Unexpectedly, after a short while, he actually dug out a grass hole on the haystack. He stuffed the children in first.
"Mom, Madam, please come in quickly. Everyone squeeze in. I'll cover you up outside. Hurry up before they find this place."
Su Mibao: [My father is first-rate at getting into trouble, and also first-rate at saving his life.]
"You all hide inside. I am an old man who can run fast. I will block you outside."
Before the ghost doctor finished speaking, Su Chengyi glanced at him and asked, "Can you be as fast as other people's arrows?"
The ghost doctor rolled his eyes inwardly: [An arrow only has one leg, how can it outrun my two legs! ]
"Well, a little faster than their arrows."
The ghost doctor's words almost made Su Chengyi laugh out loud. How could anyone brag like that? But when he saw the ghost doctor's serious look,
"Really? You can really run faster than an arrow? Then teach me. How did you train yourself to do that?"
Su Chengyi was ecstatic: [Oh my god, I must learn this skill, so that when I encounter danger, I can just run away. But, well, forget about this exile, my mother, my wife, my daughter, I can't carry three people by myself! ]
"The method is simple. Just practice every day and run more."
The ghost doctor complained in his heart: [Try being chased by arrows, darts, and all kinds of hidden weapons every day. If you don’t want to die, of course you have to run faster than those things.]
Everyone was speechless. If it wasn't for the wrong timing, they would have been laughed to death by this funny couple.
Su Mibao was also speechless. Her father was really stupid. He was so worried that he couldn't take her away even when he was trying to save his own life. Well, her father definitely loved her.
Su Mibao could feel a resentful gaze on her back. It was from her third brother Su Sinan.
Once again, Su Sinan entered a world where he was the only one hurt.
Whoosh! An arrow shot over.
The two funny guys were startled and fell silent. Su Chengyi quickly pushed everyone into the haystack.
But it was too late, the bandits on horseback had already entered the woods, wielding their knives and hacking at the men and children.
ah--
A scream startled the mountain birds and flew away.
A tall and thin young man in coarse cloth, holding a soft sword, killed seven or eight bandits in an instant. The men fell to the ground dead, and the ownerless horses were frightened, screaming and running away in all directions.
"There's some hard rock, surround this side, come on."
Dozens of bandits surrounded the young man in an instant, like flies seeing blood.
Sumibao: [Ryuji! ]
Su Mibao knew that as long as everyone was close to her, they could hear her thoughts without distinction.
She paid close attention to her inner thoughts.
Just like this time, she directly called out Long Er, and did not say Long Er who was protecting the Crown Prince.
When Mrs. Su heard Su Mibao's thoughts, she felt relieved.
Long Yi was sent out by the Wang family, and only Long Er stayed at the Wang family to protect the crown prince.
In order not to reveal his identity, Taifu Wang told Zhou Fu'an that Long Er was a servant of the Taifu Mansion. He heard that the Taifu Mansion was in trouble, so he followed all the way here. He just wanted to follow his master north and escort his master all the way.
Zhou Fuan turned a blind eye and didn't care about these things.
"Oh, no."
A woman's crying sound came from the haystack over at Wang's house.
Long Er was startled and jumped out of the crowd, covered in blood. He rushed over, picked up the crown prince, grabbed a horse, and galloped away.
"Take out all your belongings."
The leader, a fat bandit with a black face, rode on a horse and pointed a knife at everyone.
"With a team of more than a hundred people, I thought there would be a lot of money, but I didn't expect that they were all just ragtag bunch of rags!"
The bandits nearby began to dismount and search for everyone's belongings.
The cart, tattered clothes, bedding, pots and pans were all thrown roughly on the ground.
The food and some valuables were all taken away and tied to the horses.
Those who were not dead and those who did not have time to escape were driven to gather around several haystacks.
"Bring him here, and that one over there."
Wang Changling, Wang Changlin and others were arrested.
The black-faced bandit leader pointed a bloody knife at Wang Changlin.
"You are a high-ranking official, right? Hurry up and take out the good stuff you have hidden."
Su Mibao: [Hei Lian has a very sharp eye, and he is very accurate in his judgment, and he only arrests high-ranking officials.]
"Baby, don't talk. If someone finds out, Daddy won't be able to protect you."
Their haystack was bigger, and there were three haystacks piled together, so the bandits didn't find the place where the Su family was hiding. But they didn't dare to move, as any noise would be discovered.
Su Mibao turned his head and looked into the distance. It was so far away that he could only vaguely see that the war at the bridgehead at the entrance of the village was still going on.
The people over there also discovered that something happened here.
But I can't get away from it.
"I used to be an official, but now we are exiled prisoners."
"Bah, you dog officials, it's your extreme greed that has caused the people to suffer and the country to be in chaos. Take it out, if you keep hesitating, I'll chop it off."
"I am a criminal official. My property was confiscated and I was exiled. I was escorted by officials all the way. How could I have money?"
"I want to see whether you are tough with your words or I am faster with my knife."
At the glance from Hei Lian, a bandit nearby walked over and slashed at Wang Changlin with a knife.
"I'm the parent, don't—"
Wang Changling, who was standing next to him, saw that the bandits were going to kill his brother.
Just when he was about to speak up to protect his brother from disaster, he said that he was the parent and that if he needed money, he should come to him.
puff--
His words were not as fast as the bandit's knife. With a flash of the knife, Wang Changlin's arm was chopped off and blood sprayed directly onto Wang Changling's face.
"ah--"
Wang Changlin howled in pain and fainted.
"You're his brother, alright. Brothers love each other deeply. Come on, cut off one of his arms, too."
Wang Changling felt a chill in his heart, and Wang Yi rushed over.
"Don't touch my dad, I have some jewelry here."
Wang Yi took a small package, opened it and put it on the ground. There were several pieces of jewelry inside.
The gold, jade and precious stones almost blinded the bandits.
Although there are only a few pieces, anyone with a discerning eye can tell that each one is a fine product. Any one of them, if taken out, can be sold for thousands or even tens of thousands of taels of silver.
"I'll give you the things, but please let my family live. We are exiled criminals. Apart from our lives, there is nothing else you would value."
"Well, this young lady is quite sensible. In view of these good things of yours, I will spare the lives of all the old and young in your family. But you have to come with me."
The black-faced bandit pointed at Wang's team again.
"You, and you, you, take them all away."