Chapter Five: Mountain Bandits



Tian Guoguo was the youngest child in the Tian family, and because she walked too slowly, she was placed in Tian Laosi's stroller.

Wen and He each carried a shoulder pole.

Tian Lao Er was carrying his still unconscious third brother on his back.

Speaking of Tian Laosan...

In her previous life, Tian Guoguo's first lesson as a war goddess was medicine. She needed to be able to recite both Chinese and Western medical books fluently and be able to heal herself with medical skills.

Only in this way can one protect oneself and one's soldiers when wounded in battle.

Her medical skills need no further explanation.

She checked on her father last night, and his life was temporarily out of danger, but he had been in a coma for too long to be treated with fast-acting medication.

Given his ancient physique, he was unable to tolerate Western medicine at this time, so he could only be treated with traditional Chinese medicine for gentle nourishment and conditioning.

With the addition of acupuncture, he should wake up in about two days.

There were herbs and a medicine stove in the space.

Therefore, we waited until noon.

When the village chief told the villagers to stop and rest, and the old lady chased her children and grandchildren to dig wild vegetables, Tian Guoguo secretly began to brew medicine.

Although it was said to be done secretly, she didn't actually hide it from her own brother. She brewed the medicine right under Tian Yihong's nose and then handed it to him to feed their father.

Tian Yihong looked at the medicine in the bowl, and then recalled his sister's clumsy way of decocting the medicine. He pondered for a moment.

In the end, I didn't ask anything and silently agreed.

Tian Guoguo knew that her older brother was a man of composure, so she gave him a sweet smile and tried her best to utter a word.

"Goose"

To be honest, she wanted to call him "brother".

However, the original owner's dilapidated little car couldn't keep up with the demand.

Not only that, she also inhaled a cold draft from the "goose" sound and started hiccuping uncontrollably.

It was so embarrassing!

Fortunately, Tian Yihong realized that his sister was calling him "brother".

He paused as he was about to have his father feed him the medicine, then turned around and saw his little sister trembling and bursting into tears.

Tian Guoguo felt wronged.

The little broken car was hiccuping and crying uncontrollably.

They looked both pitiful and ridiculous.

Even Tian Yihong, who rarely shows any expression, couldn't help but curl the corners of his lips into a smile.

He reached out and patted his little sister's head, responding with an extremely gentle "Mmm."

Tian Yihong's face was pale due to his illness, but this did not affect the handsomeness of his delicate features; in fact, it gave him a unique kind of sickly beauty.

Coupled with his gentleness just now, Tian Guoguo was instantly stunned.

Oh my god, my brother is so handsome, what should I do?

The older brother continued to feed the father medicine, while Tian Guoguo would use her mind to enter the space whenever she had free time.

When she woke up this morning, she went into her spatial dimension to check the supplies and discovered that the guns and ammunition she had stored there in her previous life were gone.

All that's left are small, low-damage grenades.

Fortunately, rice, flour, and other grains were still available, and there were also some extra live livestock.

For example, chickens, ducks, geese, cattle, horses, donkeys, and sheep.

And a spring.

Tian Guoguo didn't know what was going on, but she thought about her father, who was still unconscious and needed to be carried by her second uncle, and herself, who needed to be pushed around by her fourth uncle.

If there were a donkey cart, wouldn't it be easier for my second uncle and fourth uncle?

Therefore, not long after, Tian Lao Er and the others, who should have been looking for wild vegetables in the woods, rushed back.

"Mother, Mother, look what this is!"

Grandma Tian was cooking when she suddenly heard her son calling her. She turned around and saw that her son was leading a donkey.

The old lady was so shocked that she didn't realize what was happening until Tian Guoguo appeared beside her and tugged at her grandmother's sleeve with her little hand.

Grandma Tian lowered her eyes subconsciously.

He was looking right at his granddaughter's sweet, gentle smile.

The old lady seemed to have a vague idea of ​​what was going on, and hurriedly told her son to keep his voice down. Then she picked up her granddaughter and came over to ask what was going on.

Tian Lao Er then told his mother about how he had discovered wild vegetables in the gully and had just gone down to dig them when he saw the donkey running towards him.

Upon hearing this, the old lady glanced at her granddaughter in her arms again.

He saw his granddaughter blinking her big, purple grape-like eyes and giggling at him.

What else doesn't she understand?

He quickly called his children and grandchildren back to their resting place and carefully reminded them, "This is all thanks to our Guoguo!"

"You'll only find this donkey in the forest gully if you do that, remember that?"

The last sentence is referring to Tian Lao Er.

Tian Lao Er was just an ordinary farmer. He didn't quite understand what his mother meant, but he also noticed that ever since Guo Guo could talk, the family had both sweet potatoes and donkeys!

It seems like my luck is really turning around!

He readily agreed!

The Tian family was overjoyed at the arrival of the donkey, except for Li, who curled her lip in disgust.

"I wonder which pile of corpses it stole from, and it's treating it like a treasure?"

"What do you mean by that little jinx's good fortune?"

"Pah! What a terrible way to label people!"

She only dared to mutter in a low voice, the kind of whispering that she didn't dare let anyone hear.

The news that the Tian family had found the donkey quickly spread to the ears of the villagers in Qingshan Village.

Everyone knew that the Tian family had always been unlucky, so when they heard that they had found a donkey, they were all very surprised and ran over to see what was going on.

Grandma Tian took the opportunity to label her granddaughter as a lucky charm.

“I always said my Guoguo is a lucky star. Look, as soon as she could talk, she brought us a strong donkey.”

The villagers didn't believe her at all.

Who doesn't know whose family it is?

Everyone knows what has happened to the Tian family since Tian Guoguo was born.

But no one refuted it; they just smiled.

Many families had donkeys on the way to escape famine, so the fact that the Tian family suddenly had an extra donkey was not particularly noticeable.

This greatly reduced the burden on my family.

While traveling in the afternoon.

The cart was tied to the donkey, and the third brother, Guoguo, and the family's grain bundles rode in the donkey cart, while the others walked.

We were about to reach the border between the two cities.

The village chief suddenly called a halt.

The villagers were all confused and asked the village chief what was wrong.

It's not even bedtime yet!

The village chief frowned as he looked at the long line of refugees not far away. He didn't respond to the others, but instead sent his son to check on them.

When the village chief's son returned, his face was grave.

It turned out that the long queue ahead was due to bandits blocking the road, and each person had to pay 30 coins to pass.

This is the only road that leads to Wangcheng.

The villagers all frowned.

Thirty coins might not seem like much, but in Yunshan County, it could buy more than two catties of pork.

Moreover, each household had at least seven or eight people, and some even more, which added up to several hundred coins.

In these days when people can't even get enough to eat, who would be willing to spend so much money?

Some villagers started to back out.

The village chief also looked worried, but they had already come this far, could they possibly turn back?

He took out the money needed for his own family first, saying, "We're already here, there's no way we can go back."

"Staying here means certain death."

"But if we go there, there's still a glimmer of hope!"

"I'll go first. Anyone who wants to cross the aisle, hurry up and follow me."

The village chief cannot force the villagers to do this.

We can only take the lead first.

There aren't many villagers in Qingshan Village, only about 30 households in total. Everyone lives frugally and barely has any money left in their pockets.

Originally, they planned to buy food and housing after reaching their destination, but now they can only try to get through the present!

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