"Tell me, where is your stronghold?"
Lee Seung-cheol suppressed his anger, raised the long sword in his hand, and pointed it at the man's throat.
"We've been defeated today. Don't try to find out anything else. I'd rather die than tell you. Go ahead and kill me if you dare."
Perhaps knowing he was doomed, the thief became more defiant.
"You really aren't afraid of death. After all, you all dare to act like barbarian shepherds and treat yourselves like sheep. Death is too good for you. You should go to hell!"
After saying that, Lee Seung-cheol raised his hand and severed the tendons in his hand.
Ah~
"One more question, will you tell me or not?" Lee Seung-cheol asked again.
"How did you know?" The thief looked at Lee Seung-cheol in disbelief.
They had no intention of exposing themselves, so how did these people find out?
"Um?"
Fang Yuan looked at Li Chengzhe and wondered how this person knew that these people were feeding others.
"A shepherd for sheep?"
Wei Canglan was stunned when he heard this, and his face quickly darkened.
These people have some nerve; they actually dare to eat people?
“I recognized those of you who were mixed in with the crowd at a glance.”
The eyes of the herders were filled with numbness and despair.
"So they were the ones who were exposed. Damn it, we shouldn't have brought them out. We should have just killed them." The man said viciously.
"You deserve to die, your entire family and ancestors for eighteen generations deserve to die." A voice came from behind the tree.
A thin, ragged young woman emerged from behind the tree.
She picked up a bandit's large knife, her eyes seemingly fixed only on the man lying on the ground.
She walked straight up to him, then raised the knife and slashed at the man.
"Waaaaah~~~"
After she finished chopping, she slowly began to cry.
"My children, your mother has avenged you..."
“This…?” Fang Yuan looked at the others.
Although she wanted to kill the guy outright, she also wanted to find out where he was from.
"Forget it, we're outnumbered now, and there's nothing we can do to them," Lee Seung-cheol said, taking a deep breath.
There are only ten of them in total. Even if they know the location, what can they do?
“I know where their hideout is,” the woman suddenly said, stopping her sobbing.
She hid outside the mountain stronghold and watched as these beasts devoured her son and daughter; they all deserved to die a horrible death!
You know?
Lee Seung-cheol looked at her and asked with some doubt.
"That's right, their stronghold isn't far from here. I escaped from there."
They ate my son and daughter. I'm clinging to life because I want to see them get their comeuppance.
The woman then recounted her ordeal.
Her husband's family were well-known wealthy merchants in the Northwest, so they naturally received advance notice of the severe drought in the Northwest.
Unexpectedly, the whole family encountered this group of beasts during their eastward migration.
Only after being dragged up the mountain did I discover that this group of people were actually devils.
There was a great shaman in the mountain village who claimed that eating human flesh could cure diseases and prolong life.
They ate her son and daughter, they ate many people, many of whom were smuggled up from the foot of the mountain...
"We'll make a decision about this after we get to Ganzhou Prefecture," Wei Canglan said after a moment's thought.
He had no memory of bandits in his dreams or in his past life.
He naturally didn't know what was going on up the mountain, so the group of them certainly didn't dare to go up and check it out rashly.
The only option is to have the governor's office send troops to investigate once we reach the prefectural city.
"My benefactors are so powerful, I beg you, please kill them! This humble woman kowtows to you!"
As the woman spoke, she began to kowtow repeatedly to the group.
"Stop kowtowing. There are only a few of us left. How dare we go up the mountain to find bandits? Could it be that you're in cahoots with them and want us to go up there to our deaths?" Wei Canglan retorted.
The woman quickly shook her head: "I wish I could eat their flesh, how could we be in cahoots?"
"Then tell me, how are we supposed to suppress the bandits?" Wei Canglan smiled and continued to ask.
The woman quickly replied, "You killed so many people without any prior preparation. The number of bandits left on the mountain is not much greater than those who came down. As long as you take action, you can naturally wipe them out."
She then offered a generous gift: "My family's luggage on the mountain contains the seal of the Qingyu Trading Company. If you are willing to come up the mountain to suppress the bandits, I am willing to give you this as a token of my gratitude. Otherwise, I will die with regrets!"
After she managed to escape, she lived in hiding, subsisting on grass roots and tree bark.
At night, when I close my eyes, all I see is the image of my child being cooked.
Now his body is almost completely exhausted.
"Get up first. You will follow us today. Once we reach Ganzhou Prefecture, I will have the Ganzhou Military Governor's Office send troops to pacify them."
Upon hearing the words "Qingyu Trading Company," Wei Canglan extended an olive branch to her.
He now knew exactly whose people these bandits were working for.
In his previous life, the Qingyu Trading Company was under his second brother's control, and it earned him a lot of money.
I never expected it to be obtained in this way.
Wei Canglan turned to Fang Yuan: "Miss Fang, would you please treat this lady? I'll cover all the expenses."
Considering Fang Yuan's love of money, he added one last sentence.
"Huh? Oh, if the Fourth Young Master has spoken, then of course it's possible." Fang Yuan nodded blankly.
A trading company, huh?
It sounds valuable.
She originally had a chance to get it.
She has sleeping pills and can enter her spatial dimension, so those guys on the mountain are no match for her at all.
Now that damned Fourth Young Master has snatched it away, it really breaks her heart!
Upon hearing Wei Canglan's words, the young woman bowed to him.
Then, somewhat nervously, he asked, "May I ask who this young master is...?"
I wonder whose son he is, with such a big mouth, able to mobilize the government troops?
"Please rest assured, my lady, this is the fourth son of His Highness the Prince of Qin. He will naturally be able to make decisions for you," Cheng Hezhou hurriedly stepped forward and said.
"So it's the young prince! This humble woman, Liu Huilan, thanks you for saving my life." This time, Liu Huilan's thanks were sincere.
Surprisingly, she encountered a young prince.
"It's alright, let Miss Fang take a look at your body first. Don't let her young age fool you, she has the ability to bring the dead back to life."
Only if this woman lives well can he rightfully take over the Qingyu Trading Company.
We can't let his good second brother get away with this.
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