On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, they quickly left with their people, taking the two children with them.
Ouyang Zhenyu and Lao Liu guarded the grain yard, and also found some weapons.
I could only find hoes, shovels and the like.
They collected many of these weapons from the adjacent yard and simply placed them there.
At the same time, some firewood was piled up against the wall in the yard.
Given the uncertainty, they can only make certain preparations.
As the fifth day of the lunar new year approached, Ouyang Zhenyu and Lao Liu sat on the roof of this room, which happened to have a flat roof.
This house is arguably the only one in the village with a flat roof.
You can roughly see all around from the rooftop.
It's probably because there's a tree in this house, and the tree is quite high up, so when the house was built, the roof was specially changed to a flat roof, because other roofs would easily be affected by the tree canopy.
The two of them were on a high vantage point on the roof, where they could at least see their surroundings.
It was noon soon, and the sun was shining brightly in the sky.
The two sat on the rooftop basking in the sun, feeling slightly sleepy.
There hasn't been a sound since this morning.
It made it seem as if those people hadn't noticed them at all.
Everything around them was so quiet that Ouyang Zhenyu had a strange feeling: could it be that the other party hadn't noticed them at all?
What puzzled Ouyang Zhenyu even more was why the other party needed so many people.
In general, how could anyone need manpower in this peaceful era?
Moreover, the fact that they managed to take away the entire village without anyone else noticing suggests that the village is extremely remote.
Ordinary people don't come to this village, which is why no one noticed the missing people in the village for more than a month.
It's no wonder that in villages like this, where transportation is extremely inconvenient and many people easily get lost once they enter the mountains.
Local officials simply cannot manage it.
As darkness began to fall, the two could no longer remain on the roof.
Based on the timeline, the people Chuwu led should have covered more than half the distance.
They should be able to get back to the village by midnight tonight.
It will take them another day and night to get here tomorrow.
Even if they don't rest when they get home at night and rush back with their people, they still won't be able to get back until late the next night.
The situation doesn't seem too bad so far.
The two of them simply cooked some rice porridge and drank two bowls of it, just like yesterday.
The two went up to the roof again.
It's very hot during the day, but it gets a bit chilly at night, since the temperature drops quickly in the mountains.
The two of them lay on the roof, wrapped in thin blankets that they had apparently looted from someone's house.
If they weren't careful, the two of them would doze off, mainly because the journey had been too arduous.
During the day, he was on high alert, constantly observing his surroundings, fearing he might encounter the enemy.
When Ouyang Zhenyu was woken up by the stick, he opened his eyes and saw seven or eight strange men standing next to him and Lao Liu.
It wasn't a stick that stabbed him, but the muzzle of a black hunting rifle.
The man with the gun saw the two open their eyes.
With a single blow from the butt of the rifle, Ouyang Zhenyu immediately lost consciousness.
In the instant he lost consciousness, Ouyang Zhenyu realized something was wrong. Why hadn't he noticed anything or heard a sound?
Ouyang Zhenyu woke up with a throbbing headache, not knowing how much time had passed.
At the same time, I heard voices talking beside me.
"Xiao Jiang, Xiao Jiang, wake up! You absolutely can't get hurt! How am I supposed to explain this to Fifth Brother if something happens to you?"
Despite his headache, Ouyang Zhenyu opened his eyes, only to see stars.
That bastard really went all out with that gun butt. If I hadn't been tough and physically strong, I probably would be meeting my maker right now.
He paused for a moment before opening his eyes, only to see that the sixth brother beside him looked both surprised and delighted when he opened his eyes.
"Xiao Jiang, you're finally awake! If you hadn't woken up, I would have fought them to the death."
Only then did Ouyang Zhenyu see that Lao Liu's hands and feet were tied with rope and he was thrown next to him.
Although he wasn't tied up, he touched the spot on his head that was hurting.
My hand was covered in blood.
Although there was no mirror, one could guess that he looked terrifying. He was probably on the verge of death when he was carried back, which is why these people didn't take him seriously.
Even though his hands and feet were tied, the sixth brother still managed to push Ouyang Zhenyu with his hand.
"Xiao Jiang, Xiao Jiang, please don't fall asleep again."
Ouyang Zhenyu said in a low voice,
"Stop shaking me! If you keep shaking me, I'll either die or I'll pass out."
The sixth brother was so frightened that he quickly let go.
"I won't shake you anymore. You, you, you must be alright. You should rest for a while."
Ouyang Zhenyu's head was throbbing as if he were being drilled inside.
A buzzing sound came from above, and I saw stars before my eyes. I felt so weak that I couldn't even sit up.
He could only lie there with his eyes closed to rest, while asking questions.
Where are we now?
"We were captured and brought back by these people."
I don't know how those people did it, they climbed onto the roof silently and knocked you unconscious.
They also gave me a rifle butt, but I was lucky; it hit my shoulder instead of my head.
I tried to resist, but they just tied me up. These guys were pretty good fighters.
The sixth brother said in a low voice, "Anyone would have been stunned in that situation."
"I guess they must have burned some kind of incense to soothe us. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to sleep so soundly."
Even now, Ouyang Zhenyu is still wondering if he was too tired to fall into a deep sleep.
How could a normal person possibly fall asleep in such a terrible and dangerous environment? They're not stupid.
It's only possible that they were set up by the other party.
"Wow, how did you know? Xiao Jiang, you're amazing!"
I overheard those people on the way that they had mixed some sleeping potion into our firewood.
The pine scent from the firewood we burned was the same as that intoxicating fragrance, which is why it bewitched us.
When Ouyang Zhenyu remembered cooking over a fire, he did smell the fragrance of pine wood, and the wood at that time was indeed pine.
It's hard to doubt the fragrance.
"So where are we now?"
They blindfolded me, and I didn't see anything along the way, but based on my usual intuition, we went up the mountain and into a cave.
There were only the two of us in this cave.
No one else came. You've been lying there unconscious the whole time. I was terrified.
You have to understand that Ouyang Zhenyu is someone the authorities specifically instructed them to protect.
If he really dies, Lao Liu feels he can't escape blame.
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