"Husband, what's wrong?" Zhou Jiaojiao quickly reached out her hand. Chu San was afraid she would fall, so he quickly ran over to support her and said, "No, it's nothing serious. I just heard from these refugees that some people have become bandits and often appear in the mountains."
"As for the county town, the gates are still closed, and there is no news of disaster relief grain at all."
Zhou Jiaojiao actually felt strange about the latter. Since she and Chu San had rescued the brother and sister before, the imperial court should have been able to get the news. How come so many months had passed without any news? Even if transportation was not convenient in that era, it shouldn't have been delayed for so long.
Chu's mother's attention was on the bandits.
She quickly said, "Lao San, you tow the car. I'll go talk to the village chief and explain this to him."
The village soon learned the news.
Everyone was a little panicked. It was okay to deal with the insignificant refugees, but those well-fed bandits had seen blood and were not something they could deal with.
You have to take a detour.
Chen Lin took the opportunity to find the village chief and said, "Village chief, we should go to the county town now. If we continue to move forward, we will definitely encounter those bandits. Chu San will definitely only protect his family. We are weak women who are powerless. What good can we do?"
She was still angry that Chu San didn't protect her and was trying to sow discord between them.
The villagers were indeed frightened by the bandits.
Many people were tempted.
Even the village chief was uneasy.
When Zhou Jiaojiao saw this scene, she was unwilling to give up. During lunch in the afternoon, she took the initiative to find the village chief and discussed it with him.
That day.
The village chief frowned and said, "We can't stay in the county for long. Why don't we follow the refugees and move forward? Those bandits will at most steal our food, not our lives. If all else fails, we can just raise our swords and resist. We have dozens of men in our village. Are we afraid we can't defeat them? Those people are just farmers who have turned bandit. When it comes to killing, Chu San has seen blood on the battlefield. How can we be afraid we can't beat them?"
"If we defeat the bandits, we might be able to get some food supplies. The refugees around the county town can't get in, so why would they run to the next provincial capital? Isn't it because that's a dead end? Compared to going to the county town, continuing forward might give us a glimmer of hope."
As soon as the village chief said this.
All the brave villagers wanted to fight the bandits.
Although women, children and young children were afraid, they were also afraid of starving to death. They had seen countless refugees starve to death while trying to get to the county town, and the impression that the government was useless was deeply engraved in their minds.
But both sides are dead ends.
Hunter Fang Guanghong thought that it would be better to find a forest near a mountain and live there temporarily. At least he could make a living by hunting prey and finding some grass roots.
But this suggestion was quickly rejected.
"No, not to mention that the prey nowadays are so hungry that they come down the mountain to eat humans. How many of them can survive? If we want to kill prey, we must at least go deep into the mountains, which is more dangerous than confronting bandits. Those prey are not afraid of death, but bandits are afraid of death and may be willing to let us go because we are in large numbers."
"Yes, it takes four or five people to kill a pig. If you encounter a wild boar, it may take more than a dozen people to deal with it. No matter how powerful the bandits are, it is impossible that more than a dozen people cannot kill one." The butcher also said.
Seeing that all their attempts failed, the villagers' morale instantly dropped.
Zhou Jiaojiao was also thinking about how to deal with the bandits ahead. Since they had become bandits and killed people, she would definitely not show mercy, so preparing medicine to deal with these people was a more useful method.
She had the recipe for the drug she had obtained when she signed in at Liu's house.
At the beginning, she thought of using it to protect herself on the road, so she asked Lin Tangqing for a lot of things. Anyway, they were all confiscated from the Liu Mansion.
Now it can be used to deal with bandits.
What's more, she also has Thunder.
It was precisely because of this that Zhou Jiaojiao was able to convince the village chief to move forward.
She asked the village chief to conceal the fact that there was a drug, just to provoke Shen Lin.
I just didn't expect it.
But something happened that night that caught everyone off guard.
Late at night.
Chu San suddenly opened his eyes and stood up. After asking his mother to come over and accompany Zhou Jiaojiao, he scratched his head and said to her, "Mom, I heard some noise not far away. I'll go and ask around. Please notify the villagers to wake up first so that they can run away if anything unexpected happens."
"good."
Chu's mother had poor hearing and didn't hear anything, but she still believed what Chu San said.
Chu San jumped on his horse and was about to go check it out when he was spotted by He Lincheng, the son of the village chief. He quickly called out to him, "Brother San, take me with you."
"You...don't call me Third Brother, I'm younger than you." Chu San felt a little embarrassed.
He Lincheng felt helpless when he saw his childish appearance. Everyone knew that Zhou Jiaojiao was a doctor and had treated Chu San so that his mind and memory were restored to that of a ten-year-old. He could only accept the fact that he had to emphasize that he was still young even though he was facing a man named Chu San.
"I know, I know, Third Brother, please help me."
He Lincheng has always been envious of his family's horses.
Now that I can sit here for a while, I don’t care what Chu San is going to do.
Chu San told him to sit still, then cracked his whip and ran towards the official road.
After running for a while, the two saw many people on the official road walking towards the outside of the city.
At first, they could only see one or two people walking in a hurry. The further they went, the more people they saw, some in groups, and some alone. What made the two of them feel most uneasy was that these people were not dressed badly. They did not look like ordinary refugees, but rather city people.
Chu Sangen and He Lincheng said, "Brother He, I'm going to go down and ask. Come with me."
"Okay." He Lincheng also felt a little uncomfortable.
The two men, leading their horses, stopped an old woman and asked, "Auntie, are you from the city? Why don't you stay here?"
"Young man, run! Conscription is coming! The officers are going crazy! I heard there's going to be a war."
After giving her kind reminder, the old woman continued on her hurried journey with her granddaughter.
"What? Recruiting? Fighting?" He Lincheng was confused. "We're neither north nor southwest, who are we going to fight?"
Chu San shook his head: "I don't know either."
He had no memory of serving in the army, and he couldn't figure it out. He simply stopped a carriage from a seemingly wealthy family and asked, "Excuse me, I just want to ask, what's going on at the court? Why are everyone leaving in such a hurry?"
The coachman from the wealthy family didn't want to bother with him at first.
Chu San held his hand like an iron clamp, as if he would keep chasing him if he didn't answer.
The driver saw that he was tall and strong, and had a horse, so he thought he was not someone to be trifled with. He quickly tried to please him and said, "Brave man, I don't know either. It was my master who told me to leave."
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