He hurriedly grabbed Shen Yanqing beside him and raised his left hand with his palms together. This was the gesture he agreed to use when something happened.
"Brother Shen, someone is coming." Qi Yanxuan said softly.
A group of people were looking for a place to hide. Just as they were hiding, a group of people came from the end of the village.
The people who came were the bandits hiding in the mountains, about thirty of them.
The mountains behind Kaoshan Village stretch for hundreds of miles, with one peak upon another. I don’t know which mountain these bandits are hiding in, but judging from their clothes and weapons, they should be bandits composed of refugees. They are holding hoes, machetes, sticks and the like. Some of the clothes on some people don’t fit well, and they are probably robbed from Zhaojia Village.
After confirming that the newcomers were bandits, Gousheng, who was in charge of the alarm, immediately struck the gong, and the rest of the people surrounded them.
Soon, the village also encountered bandits and the sound of gongs was heard. There were about the same number of people on both sides. Then, everyone who heard it rang the gong to alert the neighbors. The elderly, women and children at home immediately hid. The men picked up their weapons and were on guard to prevent bandits from breaking into their homes. If there were many strong men in the family, one would be left at home, and the rest would take their weapons and go out. Unity is necessary in special times.
Murao
Qi Yanxuan, holding a dagger in his hand, went to meet the leading bandit.
The leading bandit had messy hair, a beard, a fierce look in his eyes, and held a hatchet in his hand.
Qi Yanxuan dodged the incoming hatchet, picked up his short knife and stabbed the leading bandit in the right shoulder, causing the hatchet in the bandit's hand to fall to the ground immediately.
Without giving him a chance to breathe, he pulled out his dagger and immediately slashed the leading bandit's neck. The bandit fell to the ground without a sound.
Qi Yanxuan killed people as he walked, the dagger in his hand was stained with blood. After killing the bandit in front of him, Qi Yanxuan looked up and saw a bandit behind Shen Yanqing raising a knife to chop him.
Qi Yanxuan hurriedly swung out the dagger in his hand and hit the bandit right in the heart.
Shen Yanqing had just dealt with a bandit opposite and turned around to see the dagger on the man's chest.
Knowing that it was Qi Yanxuan who saved him, he nodded to express his gratitude. The situation was critical, and he didn't have time to say anything before joining the battle again.
Qi Yanxuan stepped forward, drew out his dagger and continued to fight with the bandits.
Only a cup of tea had passed before the villagers arrived and quickly ended the fight with their advantage in numbers.
Qi Yanxuan also broke the jaw of the bandit in his hand and cut the tendons in his hands and feet.
Then the two villagers dragged the bandits towards the village entrance, where the fight ended.
The village chief’s eldest son, Shen Wenxiang, ran back and called the village chief over.
Everyone held torches and the villagers threw the bandits to the ground.
After a cup of tea
The village chief came to the entrance of the village and looked at the bandit lying on the ground.
"Which mountain are you bandits from? How many of you are there?" the village chief asked angrily.
The bandit looked at everyone in horror, his eyes pleading.
Qi Yanxuan stepped forward and fixed the bandit's chin.
Warning eyes: "Tell me everything you know, or else..."
Shen Yanqing looked at Qi Yanxuan with a fierce look in his eyes, and a smile flashed in his eyes. He didn't expect that the person who usually looked well-behaved could have such a cruel side.
"I told you, we fled from Pingcheng on the border. There was already a shortage of water there, and it hasn't rained for several months. The crops in the fields died of drought, so we had little to harvest. All the stored grain had been used to pay taxes, and there wasn't much left. So we fled here, but we didn't expect it to be drought-stricken here either. The soldiers guarding the city refused to let us in because we were refugees. We had no choice but to hide in the mountains. We didn't dare go into the deep mountains, so we took advantage of the night when everyone was asleep to rob nearby villages." The bandit burst into tears.
"Then how many of you are left? Where are you hiding?"
"We are gone. We were originally from the same village, more than 200 people. We encountered many refugees along the way and there was a lack of water. The old, weak and sick all died. Only more than 70 of us who are in good health are left. Please let me go." The bandit said while begging.
"We definitely can't release it. What do you think we should do?" The village chief looked at everyone inquiringly.
Shen Wenxuan stepped out of the crowd and said, "Dad, why don't we take them to the government office after daybreak? It just so happens that these people are the murderers who massacred Zhaojiazhuang, so the government won't pursue us."
Shen Fugui: "That's right. Let's find out if there are any other refugees. If there are too many refugees, the nearby villages will be in danger. If something happens and we can't get any information in the village, we can go to the county to inquire about the situation."
Qi Yanxuan just remembered that the beginning of the book wrote that the world was divided into four countries, Dongchen, Xiyuan, Nanli and Beiyuan. In the 28th year of Dongchen, there was a severe drought in the world. The drought lasted for two years, but it didn't say exactly how many months it had been. Could it have started a long time ago?
After half a year of severe drought, storms and earthquakes followed one after another. After the devastation, the entire world's landscape will change, rivers will be cut off, and the Huaijiang River, once the largest river in the southern part of Dongchen Kingdom, will become a small river. It is the only remaining water source for mankind.
After the earthquake, a large number of dead bodies were exposed to the air, causing the plague to spread and a large number of people to fall.
Afterwards, fire from the sky will come, burning the land covered with corpses, and the world will fall into eternal night.
After the first rain after the drought, plants and animals began to mutate.
The author stopped updating after reading this, and Qi Yanxuan was unable to know the final fate of mankind.
The memory is complete.
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Afterwards, the three brothers of the Shen family tied the bandit to a large camphor tree at the entrance of the village, and he could not escape no matter how hard he tried.
After the discussion, the village chief began to check the injuries of everyone. Team 3 included Qi Yanxuan and Shen Yanqing, who were hunters all year round. There were many injured but no one died.
Team Four was not as strong as Team Three, and one of their members died. The deceased was an old bachelor, who was the only one in his family.
The village chief said in a heavy heart, "Wenxiang, you three brothers should send Lai Fu home first. Go to the county tomorrow morning to buy a coffin and bury him. There's no one else in his family."
After that, everyone went back.
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