Chapter 156 When there's no food, they eat people
The fighting had already broken out on the outskirts. Mu Chunping exchanged a few words with Zhao Juhua and then left with his weapons.
Mu Youcai was the only able-bodied man in the family, so he was bound to participate in this battle. Zhao Juhua pulled Mu Chengrong to call Mu Dachang and Mu Zhaodi and her daughter, and they squeezed towards the direction where the village chief was.
Zhao Juhua is a very smart person. When she encountered danger, her first thought was of Mu Dasheng's family, and then the village chief.
Mu Cheng'an and Shen Sijian, standing in the crowd, brandished their knives and slashed at the first person who attacked them. Although the attacker didn't die, the blood gushing from his wounds splattered all over their faces.
Mu Cheng'an wiped his face with his hand, and was stunned when he saw the bloodstains on his hand.
While he was still in a daze, the other person swung a stick directly at his face.
In the blink of an eye, just as the stick was only a fist's distance from Mu Cheng'an's face, Shen Sijian kicked him away with a spinning kick.
Mu Cheng'an broke out in a cold sweat when he came to his senses.
While dealing with the people around him, Shen Sijian shouted at Mu Cheng'an.
"Cheng'an, what's wrong with you? Why are you spacing out at a time like this?"
Do you know that if that blow had hit you, you would have been severely injured, if not killed?
Mu Cheng'an looked apologetically at Chen Sijian.
"I'm sorry, cousin. It was the first time I hurt someone, and I got a little distracted when I saw blood."
Shen Sijian glanced at Shen Junshan, who was not far away.
"My dad said that the first time you kill someone, you'll definitely have a trauma, and we need to overcome that on our own."
However, we were acting in self-defense; if we didn't fight back, we would be the ones getting beaten and killed.
Mu Cheng'an glanced at Shen Junshan, whose attacks were swift and deadly, his eyes filled with envy.
"Cousin, my uncle is so skilled and efficient, do you think he's been on the battlefield?"
He shook his head.
"No, my father said that due to a sudden change in the family, when he was 16 and his aunt was 12, they came to the frontier, so he never went to the battlefield."
However, before the family's misfortunes, they had hired a martial arts instructor for him, and his instructor was extremely skilled...
My father didn't say much about the past..."
Shen Sijian sighed. Although his father didn't say much, he could guess that something very, very big must have happened in their family. Otherwise, his father and aunt wouldn't have come to this unfamiliar place on the frontier at such a young age.
After hearing Shen Sijian's words, Mu Cheng'an suddenly understood. He used to think that his mother liked to sit there alone and daydream.
He thought his mother didn't like his father, but then one day his mother told him that she missed home.
He was puzzled at the time because his uncle lived in the next village, and his mother could just go there if she missed home. Now he realized that when his mother said she missed home, she wasn't referring to her uncle's house in the next village.
It was actually his mother's and uncle's childhood home...
At the same time, the village chief led the villagers out, protected by the village's able-bodied men.
Those on the perimeter were already starving and desperate. When they saw someone rushing out, they fought desperately to hold their ground and not give an inch.
A man who looked like a leader opposite him looked at the village chief.
"If I'm not mistaken, you should be their leader. It's not easy for anyone to escape famine. We're not trying to make things difficult for you. We're all just trying to survive."
"If you hand over all your food and water, I'll have them let you go."
The village chief calmly patted the hem of his clothes.
"Young man, I can tell you're a sensible person. We both come from the border region. Even if we're not relatives or friends, we're still fellow countrymen."
You know we ran out of food before we even came out, and we've been out for so long now that we don't have a single grain of food left."
The village chief then pointed to the villagers behind him.
"If you don't believe me, look, we really have nothing on us."
Standing next to the man from before, a burly man with a thick beard, upon hearing the village chief's words, widened his eyes and roared in fury.
"No food? How is that possible? Do you even believe that yourself?"
Look at the people in your village. Even though they've painted their faces black, you still look healthy and have plenty of flesh on your bodies.
But look at us! We're all sallow-faced, emaciated, and skin and bones.
"If you know what's good for you, leave your food here, or I'll starve you all and cook you all up."
Faced with the burly man's roar, the village chief was not intimidated; he chuckled lightly.
"Haha, young man, don't worry, we really don't have any food."
"We're all from the same hometown, so I won't lie to you. We were doing quite well for a while, weren't we? You've been traveling by official road, haven't you?"
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