"What did you say!"
Widow Song roared, her voice no louder than the crowing of a rooster. "Our Wanru is going to be an official's wife. You want to marry my Wanru? It's like a toad wanting to eat swan flesh. You're dreaming!"
Wang Yongchang laughed heartily. "Official wife? Aunt Song, you're so old, yet you're talking so nonsense. What family background do you have? Your husband is just a small vendor. Your son, the number one scholar you always talked about, is now disabled. It's a matter of whether your family can survive. And you still want to be an official's wife? Bah!"
Many people in the village had been wanting to say these things but were too embarrassed to speak them out loud. When Wang Yongchang pointed them out, they all covered their mouths and laughed.
Widow Song's dream was shattered, which was more painful than killing her. Her face flushed red and her voice was shrill and piercing, "Shut up! Wait until my Mo Sheng gets the top score in the high school entrance exam, and I'll teach you a lesson!"
"roll!"
"Get out!"
Widow Song grabbed a straw and threw it at Wang Yongchang. Wang Yongchang was annoyed by the straw hitting his head. "Okay, let me go now, right? You will beg me for mercy later."
"I'm just waiting for you to bring Qin Wanru to your knees and beg me to take her in!"
Wang Yongchang walked away in a huff, leaving Widow Song and Qin Wanru alone, hugging each other and crying bitterly.
...
As it got darker, the villagers hurried on their way while looking for a place to rest for the night.
Suddenly, Zhou Anan pointed to the road ahead and said, "Aunt, there seems to be a house ahead!"
Sure enough, they walked a little further and found a village.
But the village was deserted, and most of the villagers had fled the famine.
The villagers were very happy as they hadn't seen any houses with roofs for a long time and they all started looking for places to stay for the night.
"Here's rice!"
A cry of surprise attracted many people over.
There was a rice bag on the ground, filled with more than ten kilograms of rice.
Everyone's eyes turned red as they rushed forward to grab the items. "Quick, find something to put it in!"
“There are some here too!”
Some people also found rice and even noodles in the jar.
Unlike the empty villages they had passed by before, the villagers here seemed to have left without taking anything, not only food, but also a lot of clothes.
Seeing that everyone was looking for treasure, Zhou Pingping and Zhou Anan went into a nearby house.
"Auntie! Here is bacon and corn."
The two children were extremely happy, but Su Man felt uneasy.
Food is as valuable as gold in a famine year. Even if you are fleeing from the famine, how can you not bring food?
If they were not fleeing from famine, then some danger must have occurred that forced them to abandon these possessions.
Worse than famine...
bandit!
Su Man yelled, "Quick! The bandits are coming, let's run!"
No one paid any attention to Suman, as everyone was scrambling for food. Especially those villagers who were almost out of food, seeing the rice and flour at this moment was more precious than seeing their own mothers.
Not to mention the villagers, even Grandma Zhou, Zhou Pingping and Zhou Anan couldn't help but search.
Su Man was anxious. She went to grab Grandma Zhou and said, "Grandma, let's go quickly. The bandits are coming."
"What!"
Grandma Zhou was surprised, "How did you know?"
"There must be something fishy going on. The villagers here are running so fast, they must be in danger. Let's go quickly."
Grandma Zhou calmed down now and urged Zhou Anan and Zhou Pingping, "Hurry, listen to Auntie, let's go."
Zhou Anan was fine, although she was reluctant, she still got up. But Zhou Pingping refused to let go, as she was putting bacon into the backpack and couldn't let go.
"Where are the bandits? The bad woman is lying!"
Su Man said to Zhao Yuru, "Yuru, arrest her."
"Let me go! I want the clothes on top! Let me go!"
“…”
Su Man went out and yelled a few more times, "The bandits are coming! Let's run!"
Wang Xiuxiu was just coming out of the next room. She was a little confused. "Mrs. Zhou, where are the bandits? We haven't seen any bandits along the way."
Su Man patiently explained, "The food is left here, and those villagers disappeared without a trace. They must have gone to hide from the bandits. The bandits may come back at any time. If you want to survive, run quickly."
"this..."
After hearing Suman's analysis, the village chief also felt that this was a possibility and immediately organized the villagers to evacuate.
Hearing the village chief's call, Aunt Wang Liu, who was filling her pockets with dry food, said disdainfully, "Village chief, don't try to deceive us. Don't tell us that you have planned to trick us away so that all the food will go into your two families' pockets."
The village chief was furious. "If you want to live, run with me. If you don't want to live, stay here!"
The village chief had much more appeal than Suman, and more than half of the villagers came out and followed the village chief out, leaving only about twenty people who were reluctant to give up the food.
Wang Man’s family is one of them. Aunt Wang Liu usually likes to steal, so she naturally won’t let go of this good thing that has fallen from the sky.
What was strange was that Qin Mosheng didn't try to take advantage of Widow Song's family. He didn't even sit on the cart, but just ran after them when he got off the field.
As for the rest of the people, I can only say that good words cannot persuade the damned.
The village chief shouted one last time, but failed to move them, so he could only leave by himself.
I had run less than a mile when I ran into a man covered in blood.
The man was stabbed in the abdomen and was limping while holding his hand, as if he would collapse at any moment.
"Ouch! What are you doing..."
The village chief who was walking in front was startled and stepped forward to support the man, "How did you get hurt like this?"
The man's physical strength had reached its limit and he collapsed to the ground. "Bandits..."
Upon hearing that there really were bandits, the village chief was shocked, "Little brother, where are the bandits?"
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