Early in the morning, while Chen Ruixue was still asleep, Ouyang Zhenyu had already left.
A week later, two people arrived at the remote mountain village.
The oxcart saw two people walking towards it from the side of the road.
The driver jumped up quickly, tapped his pipe, and went to meet him.
"Brother Chuwu, you're finally back! You have no idea how long Grandpa has made me wait here for you."
The two men, the one who was dark-skinned and muscular, grinned widely when he saw the newcomer.
"Water buffalo, it's you!"
I didn't expect you to send someone to pick me up, sir. Come, let me introduce you.
This is Jiangcheng, and this is one of my good buddies.
"If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have been able to escape this time. He's my savior."
Ouyang Zhenyu walked out from behind Chu Wu. He had changed his clothes.
He wore ordinary coarse cloth clothes, patched up, a straw hat on his head, and a pair of dusty cloth shoes on his feet.
Although his complexion wasn't dark, it still looked weathered and worn.
His current name is Jiang Cheng, which is only one character different from his original name. To be precise, it was a pleasant surprise.
He never expected that Ouyang Lao Er would choose such a name.
It seems that twins do indeed have a certain telepathic connection.
The man called Water Buffalo had a pair of eyes that shone brightly.
He scrutinized Jiang Cheng carefully, his eyes filled with a hint of scrutiny and caution.
"So it was Brother Jiang who saved my Fifth Brother. Then you are the benefactor of our Shuiwang Village. Come on, let's go back to the village. The old man has been waiting for us for a long time."
On the fifth day of the lunar new year, he pulled Jiang Cheng onto the oxcart.
The oxcart was piled with a thick stack of straw, and sitting on the straw was not bumpy at all.
"Jiang Cheng, let's go hide in the village for a while and come out again after this storm has passed."
Don't worry, my uncle is a good person.
"And if you get to our village, they will have virtually no chance of finding us."
On the fifth day of the lunar month, he raised his eyebrows smugly.
"That doesn't matter. Let's lay low for now. I'm planning to go out and pull off something big later."
I have to earn some money; my old mother is waiting for the money to go home for medical treatment.
Jiang Cheng said with a smile.
He pulled the straw hat over his face, then collapsed onto the oxcart and fell asleep.
Soon, snoring began, and the water buffalo driving the cart ahead turned around to look.
Then he greeted the fifth day of the lunar month with gestures.
When Ouyang Zhenyu opened his eyes, he realized that they had arrived at the village entrance.
The road at the village entrance is very bumpy, and the stones and dust fly everywhere.
Ouyang Zhenyu sat up, put his straw hat on his head, and then realized that the road was a mountain road.
Although it's a mountain road at the village entrance, the road is difficult to walk on, and it's obvious that the village is located on a mountain.
The path from this point is just wide enough for one oxcart to pass.
One side of the road is a cliff, and the other side is a steep mountain wall.
Climbing up this mountain road, it's all uphill.
This mountain is extremely steep; to be precise, the road sometimes cuts into the mountain peaks and sometimes twists and turns.
Ouyang Zhenyu carefully examined both sides.
"Your village has to go into the mountains?"
I smiled on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.
"Yes, our village has been in the mountains for hundreds of years."
That's because the Japanese invaders couldn't harm us when we were in the mountains.
We've lived here since our ancestors passed down our traditions, and we rarely communicate with outsiders.
The main problem is that outsiders can't get in. If I hadn't led you this way, you could have walked yourself to death and still wouldn't have made it into our village.
Chu Wu was somewhat smug, completely unconcerned about Ouyang Zhenyu's scrutinizing gaze, and clearly not worried that Ouyang Zhenyu would remember this road.
"Since the village doesn't interact with outsiders, why did you run off on the fifth day of the lunar new year?"
"It's not that the village is poor. The poorest people in the village can't find wives. There are more men than women in our village."
There are fewer and fewer women these days. If they don't go out and find wives soon, their entire clan will be wiped out.
"Originally, there were 50 of us, including me and 15 others, who went out to find a way to survive. But after we got out, we found that we didn't have any letters of introduction or anything."
There are basically no capable people left outside!
They almost starved to death in the city. Finally, having no other choice, the group discussed it and, gritting their teeth, decided to resort to robbery.
"I was unlucky and this was my first time robbing someone, and I ended up accidentally hurting that person."
"Honestly, I didn't want to kill him, I just wanted some money, and he insisted on fighting me."
"When I got to the police station, I heard they were going to execute me, so I had no choice but to run. I'm so grateful for my brothers' help, otherwise I really wouldn't have made it out."
"Jiangcheng owes a great debt to you this time. If it weren't for your help, I probably would have died from that bullet."
"Don't even mention it, I was also desperate at the time."
I originally wanted to start a small business to earn money for my mother's eye treatment, but I ended up being scammed by a woman.
In a fit of rage, I killed that woman's entire family, and in the end, I still got shot.
Ouyang Zhenyu had no idea what had happened before; all he could say was that the Jiangcheng mentioned earlier was Ouyang Lao Er.
Several leaders helped him review the events, explaining them in detail so he could recite them from memory.
That is to say, the two look exactly alike; otherwise, he doubted he could have fooled Chu Wu.
"It's all my fault. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have hurt your voice. You used to have such a beautiful voice."
Your voice has changed completely. If you didn't look exactly the same, I would have thought you were a completely different person.
On the fifth day of the lunar month, these words made the water buffalo in front of them turn around warily.
Ouyang Zhenyu touched his throat; there was a scar there, and it was quite noticeable.
"I was just unlucky; I almost died."
If the police officer had cut any deeper, I think I would have been dead.
Now, in other words, my voice sounds a little different, but it doesn't really matter. It'll be harder for them to arrest me now.
"You're lucky you survived. When I saw you get stabbed, I was almost scared out of my wits."
"And yet you managed to kidnap a doctor and heal your injuries. I was completely terrified when I saw you."
"Your injury is terrifying! How could you be so reckless?"
I'm still a little scared from the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. The scar on Ouyang Zhenyu's throat is real; he really had an incision and stitches.
Now that the stitches have been removed, the scar looks very gruesome.
"This cut wasn't very deep. If it had been any deeper, even the doctor wouldn't have been able to save him."
But I was lucky. The doctor happened to be a surgeon, and he was also a bit timid. Luckily, he had the necessary tools at home. Otherwise, I would have really been done for. I guess I was just destined to survive.
Ouyang Zhenyu touched his throat.
Having surgery here is definitely a bit uncomfortable.
In order to make it flawless, he actually took the knife himself.
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