Chapter 21 Ten taels of silver, hurry up, not a single coin less!
As for the fact that it ended quickly, it doesn't mean that all of these people were killed.
They simply knelt.
Li Shiyue and Li Qiutian only killed one person together. Because the machete was not as light as the tree branch, Li Shiyue was a little weak and was a bit slow in pulling the machete out of the person's head.
So the remaining seven people knelt down, and knelt down very quickly, which is why it all ended so quickly.
After all, she was clearly not as tall as an adult, and judging from her hair and clothes, she was still a young girl. If she could cooperate in killing people, and was surrounded and blocked by more than twenty strong men with knives, who wouldn't be afraid?
Moreover, because they had just killed someone outside, Li Shiyue and his group all had some blood on them.
Not to mention Li Shiyang and Li Wangshui, whose clothes had large patches of fresh, pungent blood on the front.
Already panicked and wanting to escape, how could the refugees not kneel down now?
Li Shiyang directed the villagers to use whatever materials were available, such as hemp rope, to tie up the remaining seven refugee men.
These refugees probably thought that being tied up would prevent them from dying, and they all obediently stretched out their hands.
Li Shiyue and Li Qiutian also used hemp ropes to tie up the women and children. Li Shiyue counted them carefully and found that there were five young women and five children. The oldest child looked to be about seven or eight years old, about the size of a lamb.
The women were very cooperative, readily offering their help. Li Shiyue noticed that they had many injuries, and after thinking about it, she realized what kind of life they had been living among the group of refugees led by Dazhuzi.
Meanwhile, Li Shiyang's family had finished counting the grain on the donkey cart, and some villagers had already started tidying up the other things scattered on the ground, as if they were all their own.
After Li Shiyue told Li Shiyang about the situation of the women and children, she kept quiet. She stood aside with Li Qiutian, holding knives and staring at the women and children who had their heads down and necks shrunken, not daring to move.
Half an hour passed, and the sky was beginning to brighten. The torches were taken down, and the villagers gradually piled the items on the ground onto the two donkey carts.
Okay, now there's a problem, what should we do?
Yes, what should we do?
What to do with the seven surviving refugee men, the five women, and the five children?
Leaving four men to watch over the group, Li Shiyang gathered the rest of them together. He first looked around before whispering to the others, "These seven men may have killed people before, or they may not have, but it's certain that they're going to kill us and steal our food tonight."
We outnumbered them, and we were all men of courage, so we fought back, but we still lost twenty-one men.
But we still have to fight for our lives on the road ahead; we can't let these people live.
No one spoke; they looked at each other. Li Shiyue had guessed Li Shiyang's thoughts from the very beginning.
After all, he was going to kill the three refugees who gave him directions, so how could he possibly leave these seven people alive?
Every survivor increases the danger for the villagers of Lijia Village on their journey to escape famine.
So Li Shiyue spoke up: "Then kill them all! It will also be revenge for the people who died in our Li Family Village tonight."
Not to mention Li Qiutian, who was standing with Li Shiyue, even Li Shiyang didn't expect that Li Shiyue would be the first to respond to him.
The other villagers around looked at Li Shiyue in disbelief, but when they saw the dried bloodstains on her face and thought about how swiftly she and Li Qiutian had cooperated in killing someone, they didn't know what to say.
"Kill them! Kill them all! If they don't die, are we supposed to feed them with our own food on the road ahead?"
If they eat one more bite, won't our wives and children have to eat one less bite?
"Then let's kill them all."
Li Wangshui's words, which touched on the grain, resonated deeply with the villagers.
Seeing that everyone had no objection to killing the refugee men, Li Shiyang continued, "Those women and children are also pitiful people. They haven't done anything wrong, so we can't just kill them all, but we can't let them go either."
I think we should keep them for now, give them two sacks of grain from the donkey cart, and we'll talk about it later, what do you say?
No one objected to this. After all, they could bring themselves to kill strong, displaced men, but they probably wouldn't dare to kill helpless women and children.
Therefore, the rest is much simpler.
Seven migrant men, who thought they wouldn't die with their hands tied, had their throats slit by Li Wangshui and another villager whose wife and child had died.
The women and children who witnessed this scene were so frightened that they knelt down and begged for mercy. In the end, Li Shiyue forced them to stand up with a wood-chopping knife.
After the last refugee man breathed his last, Li Shiyue finally heard a ringing sound in his mind.
"Congratulations, host! You have completed Beginner's Mission Two! You have been awarded one chance to draw a prize!"
"It seems that if we don't kill these refugees and let them lead the group into Li Family Village, they will still pose a threat to the safety of the female lead, Li Chunli, and may even directly harm her."
Now that they're all dead, the threat is zero, and the mission is complete.
Thinking this, Li Shiyue kept walking, and she and Li Qiutian urged the five terrified women and several children to walk back.
They came with only a machete, and when they left, they were driving two donkey carts loaded with more than a dozen bags of grain, along with a group of people. They could be said to have returned fully loaded.
More than an hour later, they finally returned to the place where Lijia Village had camped the night before.
Li Youfu, the village elders, and all the families who contributed members stood together waiting. Li's mother, holding Shitou's hand, stood with Li Wangming. As soon as they saw Li Shiyue and Li Qiutian, they quickly called out to them.
When Li's mother saw the new bloodstains on Li Shiyue and Li Qiutian, her heart skipped a beat. But she didn't know what to say, so she only asked, "Are you injured?"
Seeing Li Shiyue shake her head, and then looking at Li Qiutian, who also shook her head in denial, Li's mother finally felt relieved.
Finally, Li Shiyang recounted what the twenty-odd men had done on their way out, and even took it upon himself to distribute a considerable amount of the grain from the donkey cart to those who had contributed to the effort. However, he did leave two bags for the women and children who had been brought back.
Because Li Shiyue and Li Qiutian had put in a lot of effort this time, and even killed someone together, they were given a whole bag of grain as a special reward.
Back at her own donkey cart, Li Shiyue saw her scumbag father and Qin Tao's family. It was unbelievable that her scumbag father had actually driven the donkey cart over. It seemed that from now on, he would be following behind their and the Zheng family's donkey carts.
Li's mother noticed the displeasure on Li Shiyue's face. She took Li Shiyue's hand and said to her, "Your grandmother agreed. After all, he is your father."
Li Shiyue had no choice but to nod. However, she went straight to Qin Tao. When she got close, Li Shiyue stared at Qin Tao and said, word by word, "Qin Tao, ten taels of silver, hurry up, not a penny less!"
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