Chapter 33 Assassination
Hearing the crying and begging outside, several children looked frustrated.
"Mom! They are so pitiful!" Lu Tiantian said with reluctance.
Jiang Tangtang was silent for a moment, then served a bowl of sweet soup to each person and said, "Can I give the rest to the refugees?"
The brothers and sisters all nodded.
Jiang Tangtang smiled, put the remaining sweet soup in a large bowl, and walked out of the car.
"This is a sweet soup I made from wild fruits I picked in the mountains. I originally wanted to make it for my children, but they heard there were many other children starving like them, so they wanted to share some. Families with children, please come forward!"
The refugees in the temple immediately became agitated. Jiang Tangtang said, "Don't worry. You should all be familiar with this wild fruit. If you didn't get the sweet soup, you can go pick it in the mountains."
As she spoke, Jiang Tangtang showed the remaining sea buckthorns in the cloth bag to the refugees.
Sea buckthorn is very common in the countryside. Some farm children who have no food will go up the mountain to pick it as a snack.
However, the sea buckthorn has thorns on the surface and seeds inside, and only a thin layer of skin is edible. Although some sweetness can be chewed out, the texture is hard and not good for satisfying hunger.
When the refugees saw that the sweet soup was made with this thing, they all looked disappointed.
How can I get enough to eat like this?
Moreover, at this time of year, the sea buckthorns on the mountain are almost ripe, so how many can be picked?
The refugees all looked at the tightly covered donkey cart with burning eyes. Seeing that the refugees were planning to take Dafang's donkey cart, Lu Yingxun's eyes flashed with a vicious and evil smile.
The eldest wife doesn't care about family affection and doesn't share her food with him, so you can't blame him for being cruel.
He quickly finished the dry food in his hand, limped to a group of refugees, and started chatting with a few men.
Jiang Tangtang didn't notice Lu Yingxun's abnormality. She distributed the sweet soup in the big bowl to the young children and the sick elderly.
But there wasn’t much sweet soup to begin with, not enough to share!
Jiang Tangtang felt very upset when she saw the children who had drunk the sweet soup thanking her obediently, and the children who had not drunk it looking at her eagerly.
She decided to help these refugees without exposing herself.
But how can I help?
Jiang Tangtang was a little worried.
Rice and grains definitely cannot be taken out. However, some of the crops grown in the space can be taken out and placed in the mountains as wild crops.
It was pitch black outside and raining, so this plan couldn't be implemented for the time being. Jiang Tangtang decided to get some sleep, recuperate, and wait until tomorrow to make plans.
Lu Shiyan and Lu Shili were guarding the donkey cart on either side, while Jiang Tangtang, Su Shi and others were huddled inside the cart.
There were too many people and it was a bit crowded. Jiang Tangtang slept very uncomfortably, but she was too tired during the day, so she fell asleep soon.
I don’t know how long I slept when I was suddenly awakened by the noise outside.
Jiang Tangtang was startled and sat up suddenly in the car. When she opened the door, she saw Lu Shiyan fighting with several men with a stick.
However, those men did not look like ordinary refugees at all. Not only did they hold soft swords that did not match their refugee status, they were also very skilled and surrounded Lu Shiyan.
The officers and soldiers led by Liang Jiamin wanted to come over to help, but they could not get close to the few people.
Seeing the wooden stick in Lu Shiyan's hand being cut off, Jiang Tangtang was extremely anxious. Just as she was about to get off, she was stopped by Lu Shiyan, "Guard the doors and windows. Stay in the car with the children and don't come down to cause trouble."
At this time, some refugees took advantage of the chaos to pull the donkey cart and tried to climb onto it.
Jiang Tangtang couldn't care less about that and just took out a kitchen knife and started to chop anyone he saw. Lu Zhixi, Su Shi and others also woke up one after another.
Old Madam Lu held the children tightly in her arms. Su and Lu Zhixi, like Jiang Tangtang, each held a weapon in their hands. When they saw someone trying to climb up through the window, they would hit them viciously.
Su was holding a small hoe, while Lu Zhixi was holding a machete.
The two men had never even killed a chicken before, but in order to protect the things in the car, they now didn't care about anything else and just started hacking and hitting indiscriminately with their weapons.
Su was a weak person. When she saw the hoe injuring a refugee, she was scared, but she didn't dare to stop. In the end, she kept on chopping while crying.
It wasn't until Lu Shiyan dealt with the big men and came over with a bloody sword that the refugees besieging the donkey cart were frightened and knelt down to beg for mercy, "Please spare my life, sir!"
Someone else immediately accused Lu Yingxun of something, pointing at him and shouting, "He was the one who said there was a lot of food in your car, that you were rich but cruel, and that you were harming the people, and that's why we came to rob you. It has nothing to do with us!"
Lu Shiyan was covered in blood, looking like a demon crawling out of hell. He ignored the refugees' mutual shirking of responsibility and pointed at the bodies on the ground, saying, "Do you recognize these people? Tell me clearly who they are, and I'll spare you."
"They are not from our village. I don't know them!"
"I don't know them either. I don't know when they joined us. I thought they were fleeing from other villages."
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The refugees chattered incessantly, but no one could recognize any of the men.
Liang Jiamin looked at the several male corpses on the ground with a serious expression.
Although his kung fu skills are not very good, he has been working for many years and still has the necessary vision and insight.
These men were obviously masters disguised as refugees.
They hid among the refugees just to assassinate Lu Shiyan?
Could it be that the emperor appears to be kind and magnanimous, saying that he will let the Lu family go, but in fact he secretly sends people to kill them all?
This speculation made him feel cold.
He had just handed the sword to Lu Shiyan and even helped him with a few more blows. If the emperor knew about this...
"It could be robbers hiding among the refugees." Liang Jiamin quickly went downstairs. "Since the robbers have received the punishment they deserved, let's just forget about it and bury the bodies first!"
Jiang Tangtang looked at Lu Shiyan in surprise and doubt. Lu Shiyan squatted down and carefully examined the bodies of several men. Then, following Liang Jiamin's words, he said, "They must be robbers."
As for why the robbers did not rob wealthy businessmen, but instead mixed in with the exile group and robbed a penniless exile, no one asked.
After simply burying a few men, a grayish-white light gradually appeared outside.
That morning, the officers did not let Jiang Tangtang cook. Instead, like the exiled prisoners, they ate some dry food and then shouted as they set off.
Those refugees who took advantage of the chaos to try to steal donkey carts were driven away by Lu Shiyan and the officials.
Only a few refugees who did not participate in the looting were not driven away, which was considered as tacit consent to their following.
When the refugees attacked the donkey cart last night, Jiang Tangtang regretted her kindness very much.
Later, she felt a little comforted when she found out that the women and children she had sent food to had not participated in robbing the donkey cart.
Also, her kindness was wasted!
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