Chapter 48 Here Comes Part 2
The agonizing quiet time passed very slowly, so slowly that those who were lying in front of the door had sore backs, and they just didn't know when the desert soldiers would arrive.
Gradually, everyone relaxed their vigilance.
Wang Dafeng whispered, "Isn't he coming?"
Ding Xiaodie replied: "This is the calm before the storm."
"Hey, Xiaodie, you used to be timid and didn't know anything. What happened now? You've suddenly become so smart, and what you say makes sense. Sometimes I suddenly feel that you're not the same Xiaodie as before."
"Who do I look like then? Isn't it good that I've become smarter? When I was in the village, I was often bullied and you beat me up a lot. Now we are a family and we depend on each other for survival. If I don't become smarter, I won't get the dishes that the Lu family rewarded me with during the day."
Ding Xiaodie knew that if she spoke evasively at this time, it would arouse Wang Dafeng's suspicion.
After all, she spends the most time with them, and it would be of no benefit if her suspicion deepened, so it would be better to play defense instead of offense.
Hearing her bring up the past and talking about how she had hit her, Wang Dafeng laughed awkwardly and said, "Grandma admits that I did have a bad temper in the past, but I won't do that anymore. Our little Die is pretty and smart, and I couldn't be happier!"
Zhang Xiu whispered again, "Mom, after fleeing the famine, I suddenly understood a lot. Ding Gui and I can no longer be as cowardly as before. Otherwise, when we go out, we won't even be able to get food. In order to survive, we must learn to be tough."
Wang Dafeng nodded repeatedly after hearing this. Now she finally understood that the three members of her third son's family had suddenly changed in character and temperament because they wanted to have a place on the road to escape famine.
"That's a good idea. If we just retreat when we go out, we will all starve to death. Listen to me. Keep acting like you have done in the past few days and be brave. If you really encounter someone who is difficult to deal with, like your elder sister-in-law and second sister-in-law, come back and tell me. I will scold them to death." Wang Dafeng encouraged them.
"I heard you, mother."
Zhang Xiu and Ding Xiaodie both breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, they used this excuse to lead the old woman into trouble, otherwise she would become suspicious and cause trouble.
At this moment...
“Here I come!”
Ding Xiaodie saw torches lit up at the other end of the city gate, followed by shouts and cries of killing, flashes of swords and sabers, and countless black shadows running around in the streets.
At the same time, everyone who stayed at home took out something that could make noise and banged it hard, yelling out the window: "Catch them, catch them!"
Some people were knocking and shouting, while others quickly lit the oil lamp.
The originally silent streets suddenly became bustling with noise, bright lights and shouts!
Lu Yan's plan was correct. This gave the desert soldiers the feeling of falling into a trap.
Ding Xiaodie was knocking on the copper basin while looking out through the crack of the windowsill. She saw several soldiers dressed in desert clothes running towards them quickly on the street under the moonlight.
In their hands, they each held a crescent-shaped knife, which shone with a cold luster and looked extremely terrifying.
After running to the middle of the street, these soldiers suddenly stopped, as if they had discovered something.
Then, the leader of the team raised his hand and gestured. They discovered a problem. These people were just shouting but none of them dared to show up. It seemed that there was no trap at all. They were just ordinary people.
The tie immediately mumbled something, then threw his head back and laughed.
Those people also laughed loudly with him, and after laughing, they did not leave. Instead, they spoke a language that no one could understand.
At this moment, Wang Dafeng, who was so frightened that he wanted to hide under the bed, suddenly turned around and whispered, "They said there are no government soldiers here at all, they are all civilians and can be killed."
Ding Xiaodie was surprised: "How do you know?"
"I understand a little bit. I learned it when I was young." Wang Dafeng didn't have time to say anything else, so he just said it casually.
At this time, the sound of killing was still coming from the city gate tower. These desert soldiers were probably here to fight in the front line. If there were still a lot of pursuers behind them, they would be completely finished.
what to do?
Ding Xiaodie hurriedly asked: "Grandma, can you speak the desert dialect? If so, we can negotiate with them."
Wang Dafeng was so scared that her hands trembled and shook: "No, I couldn't speak it very well when I was a child, but I could understand it. Your great-grandfather forced me to learn it."
"Think about it carefully."
Ding Xiaodie knew that things would not be easy, so she hurriedly encouraged the old woman: "There's one person among them wearing a different color uniform than the others. He's probably the leader. We can lure him in and hold him hostage. That way, we'll have the conditions to negotiate."
"But how can we deceive them? And there are so many of them."
Zhang Xiu counted along the cracks in the wooden board and found there were five in total.
"I can't worry about that anymore. If we take care of a few more people, the burden on Dad and the others will be lighter, and the danger will be reduced."
Hearing her daughter's words, Zhang Xiu immediately turned around and advised the old woman: "Mom, think about it carefully, quickly!"
Ding Xiaodie said, "Just tell them we're from the desert. We were detained here because we were doing business with the people of Yangliu Town. We hope they can take the three of us back to the desert."
After she finished speaking, Xiaodie patted Wang Dafeng's shoulder encouragingly and said, "Thank you, grandma. Mom and I will go downstairs to prepare to welcome them. If these people come in, you can say that we have been detained in the local government office since the beginning of the war, and that Mom and I are both mute and cannot speak."
At this moment, the frightened Wang Dafeng grabbed her hand and said, "Xiaodie, they are talking again. They said they are thirsty and hungry."
"That's perfect. Ask them to come in and have a drink of water and rest for a while."
After saying that, Ding Xiaodie immediately ran downstairs to the kitchen with her mother.
As Zhang Xiu ran, she thought about how to control these five people. The three of them definitely couldn't do it, so she decided to control the leader. Then she thought, "Knife, there's a kitchen knife in the room."
Ding Xiaodie silently prayed in her heart: "Space, oh space, the safety of our family of three is at its most critical moment. If you can hear me, please pack me some poison. Otherwise, the three of us will be killed by the desert soldiers, and your space will disappear forever. Please, please, if you don't think about me, think about yourself at least."
Bang!
Ding Xiaodie, who had just walked down the stairs, was suddenly slapped.
It seemed like someone patted her on the back of the head from behind, but her mother was clearly walking in front. She thought to herself, could there be a joke? She covered her head, turned around and looked carefully, and sure enough, she found something wrapped in A4 paper on the ground.
It was obvious at a glance that it was from the future. Ding Xiaodie quickly picked it up and squeezed it. It felt like flour, so it looked like she had found the poison.
"Thank you, Space bro, thank you!"
Ding Xiaodie was so happy that she almost jumped up, completely forgetting that this terrible space had hit her head just now.
(End of this chapter)
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