"snort"
"No one in this world has been born yet who can take advantage of me, Lin Xue. You think you can cause me trouble with such paltry tricks?"
Seeing that she had scared the people away, Ling Linxue gave them a disdainful look.
"Sister-in-law, would you really eat a child?"
Just then, Zhou Xiaomei, who had been sitting next to her, asked curiously.
"Hehehe, what do you think?"
Lin Xue glanced at Zhou Xiaomei, then calmly continued eating.
"ah?"
Zhou Xiaomei was stunned by this question and stood there, not knowing how to answer.
"Little sister, you're so stupid! If our sister-in-law eats people, how would we be alive?"
Zhou Xiaohai, standing to the side, mercilessly mocked his younger sister, saying that she always clung to her sister-in-law, yet now she was asking such a foolish question.
"Yes!"
"Sister-in-law, you're so mean! You actually scared me!"
Zhou Xiaomei pouted slightly in dissatisfaction, but did not stop eating the rabbit leg.
This rabbit's hind leg was torn off along with the foot and thigh, so the whole leg has quite a bit of meat on it.
After finishing the rabbit leg, Zhou Xiaomei found even the steamed buns hard to swallow.
I'm so full!
"After you finish eating, wash your hands with the water in the kettle. Don't go looking for a water source nearby!"
"After you wash your hands, I'll go get a few more kettles of water. Don't move around before I get back!"
"If anyone dares to come up and bully you, just chop them with your knife. My big cleaver hasn't seen blood in a long time. It would be nice to drink some blood here!"
Lin Xue spoke the last sentence very loudly, precisely to intimidate those around her.
Then she grabbed a few water bottles and left quickly. Xue was fast; she returned with the water in just a few minutes.
Fearing for the children's safety, she even used her spiritual powers.
Fortunately, everything was alright. When she returned, the children were chatting around the fire.
"Alright, you guys go to sleep now. Xiaocang, you'll relieve me in the middle of the night!"
After saying that, Lin Xue had the children move to the side of the big tree and start sleeping.
With a big tree to lean on and her watching over them, the children are basically safe.
As the night deepened, Lin Xue sat cross-legged in front of the campfire, unable to fall asleep.
It wasn't until late at night that another group of burly men sitting around Lin Xue and the others' campfire couldn't sit still any longer.
The old woman who had asked them for food earlier gave the group of burly men a wink.
They thought they were being discreet, but in reality, everything they did fell into Lin Xue's consciousness.
Just as these men suddenly attacked Lin Xue, she struck one of the burly men in the chest with the back of her blade.
Then he kicked another burly man away, spun around, grabbed the black hand that reached out from behind, pulled it in front of him, and kicked it upwards, sending the man flying.
The commotion quickly attracted the attention of those nearby. Everyone stopped sleeping, got up, packed their things, and moved away from the area.
The battle ended quickly. Lin Xue tied up all the men in black and threw them not far from the campfire.
Then he glanced at his little ones who had been startled awake.
"You guys go back to sleep, it's nothing serious!"
Lin Xue calmly took a sip of water, then searched the man in black and found a few taels of silver.
I glanced again at the old woman and her granddaughter as they walked away.
"If it weren't for the fact that you have a child with you, I would have killed you today!"
The reason Lin Xue didn't lay a hand on the old woman was because she realized that the old woman was actually nearing the end of her life.
Although she looked rosy-cheeked, Lin Xue could see a faint dark spot between her eyebrows.
The old woman is severely poisoned and probably won't live more than two days.
The little girl also had toxins in her body, and judging from her appearance, she should be the old woman's granddaughter.
They're all a bunch of scoundrels who traffic in women and children; they're all going to die sooner or later.
Anyway, there are only two days left, and there's nothing they can do about it.
Moreover, the other party is always hiding in the shadows. Even if we capture these two people, we can't really kill them, can we?
She had no evidence that the two people were related to the group of burly men in black.
"Sister-in-law, what do you plan to do with these people?"
Zhou Xiaocang was genuinely worried that his sister-in-law would kill someone at this moment. After all, this was the entrance to the county town, and killing someone here would be considered disrespecting the government.
His sister-in-law will definitely be arrested by the authorities, and they can't afford to lose her.
"Let's send them to the yamen for a thorough interrogation when it gets light. They might just be a group of criminals who traffic in women and children!"
Lin Xue reached out and patted Zhou Xiaocang's shoulder. Now that the child was older, she didn't dare to touch the boy's head casually, so she could only pat his shoulder to comfort him.
"call……"
Hearing Lin Xue's words, Zhou Xiaocang finally breathed a sigh of relief.
However, another worry welled up in his heart. He peeked at the group of burly men in black who were tied up, and then looked at his own side.
"Sister-in-law, I heard that anyone who goes to the yamen to file a complaint will first be given ten strokes of the cane!"
"If we send these people over, will we also get ten strokes of the cane from the county magistrate?"
Lin Xue was completely stunned when she heard Zhou Xiaocang's words.
She's giving the magistrate a boost in his performance record, right? Not only will the magistrate not punish her, he'll even reward her.
However, Lin Xue also knew that these children had been corrupted by the villagers and had no understanding of the laws and regulations outside the village.
The county government office has become a place where people can eat people. Let alone reporting a crime, even if a family member is killed, people probably wouldn't dare to come to the county government office to ask the magistrate for justice.
"Don't worry, the magistrate won't hit us!"
“You’ve been living in the mountains for too long and have been fooled by the villagers. The county magistrate is the head of this region. He thinks about how to improve the lives of the people every day. How could he let the wronged people be beaten?”
"Alright, you'll understand these things once you've seen more of them. I can't explain them to you in a short time!"
After sending the younger ones back to sleep, Lin Xue kept an eye on the men in black to prevent them from escaping during the night.
The city gates were opened at dawn the next day.
"Lin Xue was also worried about leaving the children to watch over this group of people, so she directly led these burly men in black toward the city gate!"
"What happened? Why did you tie these people up?"
The guards at the city gate were startled by Lin Xue's demeanor and rushed over to inquire about the reason.
"Yes, sir, this group of people attacked me and my younger siblings last night. I suspected they were trying to abduct women and children, so I arrested them!"
"These are the weapons they were carrying, and we also found sleeping pills on them!"
Lin Xue instructed Zhou Xiaocang to hand over all the weapons and medicines that had been taken from the men in black to the soldiers guarding the city.
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