Chapter 424 I'm really impressed, they changed the title again!
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Zhao Sanhe would naturally not abandon Wang Cuihua and her daughter Zhao Xier.
Even if Zhao Xier's younger brother hadn't been killed by the bandits, Zhao Sanhe wasn't the kind of irresponsible man who would abandon his wife and daughter.
For the past two days, Zhao Sanhe followed behind the two scouts, Chen Yong and Sun Xiaoliu, and searched the mountains near Zhao You's house three times day and night. They actually found a small path hidden behind a boulder.
"This! This... I've lived in this village for decades, and I truly had no idea there was such a road up in the mountains!"
Chen Yong used his knife to cut through the vines in front of him. He looked ahead and saw that the path was blocked by weeds, but he could still vaguely make out that it was a narrow path that one person could pass through.
He turned around and said to Zhao Sanhe, "There are no hunters in your village. At most, they go up the mountain to cut wood, gather firewood, and pick some wild vegetables. How can you find this hidden path if you don't go deep into the mountains?"
It's normal not to know.
Chen Yong and Sun Xiaoliu looked at each other, Chen Yong nodded to Sun Xiaoliu, and the two walked forward one after the other, each holding a knife.
However, as Chen Yong walked, he said to Zhao Sanhe behind them, "Don't move, just wait for us here!"
"We'll scout ahead. If we haven't returned in an hour, you go back and get reinforcements!"
Zhao Sanhe paced back and forth in this place, waiting anxiously for a long time, so long that he felt it had been more than an hour. Finally, he lifted his leg and took a few steps toward the boulder, but after taking only a few steps, he retreated and withdrew his foot.
After going back and forth like this for about fifteen minutes, Zhao Sanhe finally mustered up his courage, let out a sigh, turned around, gripped his wood-chopping knife, and resolutely walked down the mountain.
However, he had only walked a short distance when he heard a sound coming from behind him.
He turned around and indeed saw Chen Yong and Sun Xiaoliu, both with solemn expressions.
It took the three of them most of the hour to get down the mountain. Once they reached the foot of the mountain, they hurried to the only place with light in the entire village where Zhao You's family lived.
Li Shiyue sat in the courtyard of the Zhao clan chief's house. It was already getting dark. She looked at the two pages of paper in her hand by the light of the only oil lamp on the square table in front of her.
This paper contains the names of Zhao You's family members who were killed by bandits and the women who were kidnapped.
She never expected that this group of bandits would not even spare children as young as a few years old; they killed all the boys and kidnapped all the girls.
"They're a ruthless bunch!"
With this assessment in mind, Li Shiyue looked at the two pages again and pointed to the number she had written on them.
Thirty-one people died in Zhao Youjia's family this time, mostly the elderly, the weak, and children;
Thirty-six people were kidnapped, thirteen of whom were young girls, the oldest being Zhao Xier, who was already thirteen years old.
"General!"
Startled back to her senses by the shout, Li Shiyue put down the paper and looked at Chen Yong, Sun Xiaoliu, and Zhao Sanhe, who were covered in twigs and leaves.
"How was it? Did the three of you have any success today?"
"General! We've discovered their escape route through the mountains!"
As soon as Chen Yong said this, everyone in the courtyard, no matter what they were doing, started shouting "ee-ah ee-ah" at different times.
"Come here and tell me in detail."
"yes!
Today we're still climbing up that mountain from the east end, but halfway up, we chose a completely different route than the one we took yesterday when we explored it..."
"...Because of the time, Xiao Liu and I turned back before we had explored half of the area. We thought we should come back and inform the general first!"
"Chen Yong, gather ten men, lead the way, let's go!"
"Yes, General!"
On the seventh day after Wang Cuihua and Zhao Xier were abducted to this mountain village dugout, a cold wind suddenly blew through the long-drought-stricken forest at dusk.
Before nightfall, a light drizzle began to fall from the sky.
Wang Cuihua was arrested again in the past few days. When she was sent back the next day, Zhao Xier took advantage of the sunlight that shone into the dugout during the day and saw Wang Cuihua's swollen left eye.
"Mother..."
Zhao Xier called out to Wang Cuihua, but she didn't know what to say at that moment.
Wang Cuihua shook her head at Zhao Xier. Zhao Xier looked up and saw the dark figure standing at the entrance of the dugout, so she shut her mouth.
Yes, two more people have died in the dugout where Wang Cuihua and Zhao Xier were staying these past few days.
It wasn't the two women who had argued with the mother and daughter earlier.
She was a mother who, in the middle of the night, unbuckled her belt and strangled her seven- or eight-year-old daughter to death before banging her head against the wall.
Therefore, fearing that another one of them would commit suicide, the bandits sent people to guard them and prevent them from doing so.
Moreover, because someone else died, they went without food for another day.
Today, someone finally brought over a bucket of thin porridge.
At the same time, Zhao Xi'er also heard clearly that the bandit who delivered the porridge said, "Once the bosses have had their fun, these women can all be sold for money!"
Zhao Xier resisted fiercely when she was arrested a few days ago, and although she was eventually taken away, the wound on her head has started to fester over the past two days. She looks like she doesn't have many days left to live.
So, these past two days, the thieves haven't paid any attention to her while they're busy arresting people.
The bandits' intention was probably to carry her away as soon as she breathed her last.
Lying on Wang Cuihua's lap, Zhao Xier, who was staring at the sky with her eyes open, suddenly felt raindrops falling on her face.
She licked the cold raindrops from the corner of her lips, listened to the "pitter-patter" of the rain hitting the branches outside, and said, "Mother, the rain is getting heavier."
Wang Cuihua, whose left eye was swollen and could no longer see anything, could only look up and look outside with her still intact right eye.
Suddenly, a flash of lightning illuminated the mountain forest.
Wang Cuihua stared wide-eyed at the top of her head in disbelief.
She thinks she just saw someone else!
That person was standing right behind the bandits who were guarding them!
With a slight effort, Hei Zi snapped the bandit's neck, the "crack" of the neck breaking completely drowned out by the sound of the raging wind and rain.
As Hei Zi and the Xuanjia Army soldiers not far away once again illuminated the mountains and forests with flashlights, they exchanged hand signals.
After confirming that the guard at the other dugout had also been wrenched by the neck, Hei Zi crouched down and shouted into the dugout, "Hey! Are the people down there still alive?"
The thunder rumbled in her ears, but Wang Cuihua still looked up at the sky.
Meanwhile, Chen Yong and Sun Xiaoliu followed Li Shiyue.
Their group was standing outside a wooden house that looked fairly decent.
Li Shiyue raised her hand and wiped the rain off her face with her forearm. She looked at the wooden house with yellow light emanating from it and nodded a few times to the people next to her.
Chen Yong and the others naturally understood what that meant.
"You, you, go to the left;"
You, you, move to the right;
"You two go to the back and surround them. Don't let any of them escape!"
Chen Yong and Sun Xiaoliu went to the left, while the rest of the group naturally went in other directions as Li Shiyue had instructed, leaving only Li Shiyue and Qin Fen in the center.
Yes, Qin Fen, his brother-in-law, also came along.
Qin Fen volunteered to come along. In his words, "Autumn asked me to come with you, so I have to come with you."
Holding the knife in both hands, Li Shiyue walked step by step toward the wooden door, then kicked it open.
Her kick shattered the wooden door into pieces. She stormed inside, and on the conspicuous wooden bed, a naked man with his bare buttocks thrusting rhythmically was startled by Li Shiyue's sudden intrusion and immediately became aroused. (The title of this chapter is "Awful! Unbelievable!")
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