In the silent night, amidst the bloody scene, she suddenly stood up and shouted again.
Even the two grown men were startled.
Quickly prepare for defense.
When he saw that it was her, Han Mingjiang patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Mom! You're so scary! You suddenly stood up and yelled without making a sound, you scared the soul out of me!!"
Xue Laohu chuckled twice, "Oh, so you're my in-laws. Are you and the child alright?"
Li Lanzhen said, "It's okay. The two children were crawling over there. I noticed the fighting here, so I hid in the woods with the two children and didn't move."
Han Mingjiang said, "Mother, you are so smart. Luckily you didn't come over. If you had, you would have died, and I would have lost my mother!"
When Li Lanzhen heard him repeatedly say he was going to die, she got so angry that she walked up to him and slapped him on the back.
"You idiot! Cursing your mother in the middle of the night?"
After saying that, he lifted his foot and walked towards the woods on the other side of the official road.
“Wait here, there are so many horses with them. I think they are the ones we hid in the mountains, and they somehow ended up here.”
Pointing to a pile of things on the ground, he added, "And these are the things I've collected. We'll see how to haul them away later. We need to get back to the valley tonight and leave this blood-stained, ghostly place!"
The father-in-law and son-in-law exchanged a glance, understood each other, raised the corners of their mouths, and remained silent, waiting for Li Lanzhen to conjure up those horses so they could quickly pack their things and return to the valley.
Li Lanzhen turned down into the forest on the other side and soon came out leading seven horses.
She handed the horses and the pile of supplies over to Xue Laohu and Han Mingjiang, leaving them to their own devices and see how they would use them.
Li Lanzhen was very happy to have such a respectable excuse to take out the necessary supplies, especially winter supplies and seeds.
With these, the people in the valley no longer have a hard time getting through the winter.
It was only then that she remembered there were two children in the woods.
Standing by the roadside, facing the place where Gou Dan and Han Yinan were hiding, it meowed twice, imitating a cat.
Immediately, the two children ran to her as fast as cats.
She asked in a low voice, "Grandma, are there any living people here?"
Li Lanzhen shook her head and said again, "No, they're all dead."
Then, remembering something, she said, "Oh, your Grandpa Xue and Second Uncle have come down the mountain to find us."
Upon hearing this, the two children happily ran to the two people who were busy working.
They greeted each other quietly and quickly handed over things.
When Li Lanzhen led the horse over, she took out many baskets and ropes from her spatial storage.
I figured it would be easier if they tied the baskets to both sides of the horse's back and then loaded the supplies.
In no time, all the supplies were loaded into baskets on the horse.
Han Yinan felt very sad looking at the person lying on the ground.
He tugged at her hand. "Grandma, it must be an enemy. They were so ruthless, killing more than a dozen people!"
Gou Dan looked at each person one by one, then took all the useful items off them, put them in a cloth, and brought them to Li Lanzhen.
“Grandma Lanzhen, this is what I found on them. And I even tested their noses with my finger, they were all dead. How pitiful!”
Li Lanzhen looked down and saw that there was still silver, banknotes, and some jade pendants on her body.
Seeing that he was grieving for the dead, I patted him and comforted him.
"Dog Egg, don't be sad. You can keep these things yourself."
Dog Egg shook his head. "No! You can have them all."
Li Lanzhen thought that putting it in her spatial storage was the safest option, so she accepted it.
"I'll keep it safe for now, and give it to your grandmother when we get back to the valley."
"Have your grandma save it for you, so you can use it when you grow up and get married."
Gou Dan scratched his head and chuckled, "Grandma Lan Zhen, Gou Dan is still little."
Xue Laohu and Han Mingjiang came over with shovels in their hands.
"Mother, my father said to bury these people."
Li Lanzhen nodded and said, "Yes, we made them take such a big blame, and we even got their horses and cattle in return."
Let's bury them too. It's best for the dead to be laid to rest. Whether they were wicked or virtuous, they are now ghosts. Let their souls be reborn elsewhere.
In the time it takes to drink two cups of tea, they buried everyone here in the nearby woods.
Xue Laohu taught Han Mingjiang how to clean up the traces they left behind.
Then they prepared to return to the valley.
Xue Laohu picked up the two children, placed one on each of their horses, and said to Li Lanzhen.
“My dear in-law, why don’t you ride this chestnut horse? It’s a gentler one.”
Han Mingjiang helped her onto the chestnut horse, handed her the reins, and told her to hold on tight.
He himself was also riding a horse.
Xue Laohu walked at the front, followed by three horses.
Because the horses were carrying baskets, it was difficult for Li Lanzhen to put her legs down while sitting on them.
But there was nothing she could do now, so she had to hold on tightly to the reins. Fortunately, the horse was quite docile.
Around noon, they had reached the foot of the mountain that led into the valley.
Han Mingjiang's horse tail was tied to a tree as thick as an arm and with lush branches by Xue Laohu.
As the horses moved, the tree branches swept away their footprints.
After entering the mountains, Xue Laohu led them along the stream. The horses walked back and forth in the shallow stream and disappeared without a trace.
Moreover, Li Lanzhen discovered that they had taken a long, roundabout route on horseback.
In many places, it was difficult to walk on horseback, so they dismounted and led their horses forward.
Li Lanzhen gave each of them a sesame seed cake and some tea from their water pouches.
They ate breakfast and lunch while riding on horseback.
When they arrived at the foot of the mountain leading to the valley.
Xue Laohu dismounted, wiped the sweat from his brow, and said to Li Lanzhen, "My dear in-law, let's rest here for a while."
I'll go down and clean up our tracks.
I'm afraid that if we bury those people's bodies, their enemies might find their way back to the valley, and that would be troublesome.
The two children and Han Mingjiang wanted to go along, but Xue Laohu stopped them.
"Too many people will only cause trouble. Second brother, you just stay with me. Gou Dan and Han Yinan, you two stay here with your grandma and rest."
Li Lanzhen nodded, gave them four wild vegetable cakes, and a water bag filled with water.
After they left, Li Lanzhen took out a straw mat from the horse's back, spread it on the ground, and invited the two children to come and sit down.
The three of them sat on a straw mat, ate some dry food, and waited for the two people who were doing cleaning to return.
Li Lanzhen lay down on the straw mat, closed her eyes to rest, but in reality, her consciousness had already entered the space.
She wanted to see how the unconscious horse, ox, and two donkeys she had placed in her spatial dimension on the official road were doing.
To my surprise, when I came in, I saw the horse leading a cow and two donkeys, grazing leisurely at the foot of the mountain in the distance.
And on the more than ten acres of wasteland in her space, a lush green field had actually sprouted crops!
She was extremely surprised. Could it be that a fairy godmother lived in her own space?!
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