With this in mind, Li Lanzhen was no longer afraid.
She estimated the time; she had been inside the space for about ten minutes. Everything should be alright outside by now.
Li Lanzhen appeared in the bushes, parted the grass, and cautiously peered out.
Before I could even get a clear look at the scene on the mountain, I was startled by a hoarse shout.
“Mother~~~”
It turned out to be Han Mingjiang, who was anxious and worried, so he shouted loudly for her.
She stood up, dusted herself off, and glared at Han Mingjiang.
"What are you yelling about? Are you trying to scare someone to death with your ghostly howls?"
Han Mingjiang, hiding in the shadows, saw his mother roll into the bushes. The man in black was slashing and stabbing wildly in the bushes with a sword. Li Lanzhen hadn't come out for a long time, and he thought she was dead, so he anxiously shouted everywhere.
Seeing Li Lanzhen standing safely in front of him, Han Mingjiang chuckled.
"Mother, are you hurt?"
Li Lanzhen covered her arm and said, "It's nothing, just a superficial injury!"
She looked at Xue Laohu and Xue Bao and said, "Thank you, in-laws, otherwise I would have been in big trouble today. How did you find this place?"
Xue Laohu didn't say anything, but Xue Bao chuckled and said to her.
“Auntie, we were logging down the mountain when we realized you hadn’t come down for so long. We thought we’d come up to find you, but when we passed through a grove of trees, we found a lot of bloodstains. My dad said they were all left by the big guys, and he was worried you might be in danger, so we came up the mountain to find you.”
Han Mingjiang quickly chimed in, "Mother, we just got here and we heard several men talking."
My father-in-law said you were in danger.
We crept quietly into the vicinity and spotted these guys.
But we're relieved that we didn't find you.
We shot and killed two people with arrows, and then we saw you come down from the tree.
My heart was in my throat! Mom, don't scare me like that next time. Can't you just stay in the tree and behave yourself?
Li Lanzhen then understood; it turned out that they had seen her come down from the tree, so they unleashed a hail of arrows to cover her.
She smiled and said, "I'm fine now. Are you all okay? These guys are all dead, aren't they?"
Xue Laohu nodded and said, "They're dead. We need to get rid of them later, otherwise it will cause even bigger trouble!"
He looked up at Li Lanzhen and asked, "In-law, do you know why they went up the mountain?"
Li Lanzhen was unsure whether to reveal her suspicions or not. If she did, it might not be good for Su Chen and Linglong. If she didn't, things could get even more complicated if something happened later.
After thinking for a moment, he said, "They are looking for two children. They have been searching this mountain for three or four days."
Unable to find them, they discussed grabbing two children of similar age from the fleeing crowd to take back to the capital and report back.
I was thinking I couldn't let them go back, and I was just about to figure out a way to kill them when you arrived and killed Daqiang and Erqiang, those two men in black.
Xue Laohu, being perceptive, seized upon Li Lanzhen's comment about the two children.
Looking at Li Lanzhen, Xue Laohu asked, "In-law, are the two children they're looking for Su Chen and Linglong?"
Li Lanzhen nodded and said, "I guess it was these two children. When I met them in the mountain fire that day, their clothes were different from ours, and they looked like children from a wealthy family."
Moreover, although Su Chen is only six years old, his speech and actions are so composed that he doesn't seem like a child raised in an ordinary family like ours.
Xue Bao also said, "Yes, I discovered a long time ago that this little guy Su Chen knows martial arts!"
Li Lanzhen asked in surprise, "Oh, is it true?"
Xue Laohu nodded and said, "Yes, it was that day, the day we all gained strength. When we went up the mountain, we discovered that this little guy knew kung fu; perhaps it was because his strength had greatly increased." This was something that hadn't been noticed before.
Li Lanzhen was a little angry. This brat, I saved you, and you didn't say a word to me. You kept it a secret so well. If we hadn't run into these four black men today, they wouldn't even know we were in big trouble!
Looking at the furious Li Lanzhen, Xue Laohu comforted her.
"In-law, we four know this in our hearts. When you go back, don't get angry at Su Chen and Linglong. After all, we don't know if it's them or not."
Starting today, a few of us will patrol the mountain. If we spot any men in black coming up the mountain, we'll eliminate them quietly.
Then, looking at him, she said, "My dear in-law, you shouldn't go into the deep mountains and forests by yourself anymore."
Han Mingjiang nodded vigorously.
"Yes, yes, Mother, what's wrong? What are we going to do?"
Li Lanzhen glared at him, "You're such a grown man, yet you're so unsteady. Look at your brother-in-law, he wouldn't even flinch if a mountain collapsed right in front of him."
Xue Bao blushed after receiving the praise, scratched the back of his head, and chuckled smugly.
"Thank you for the compliment, Auntie!"
Xue Laohu lifted his foot and gave him a hard stomp on his bottom.
"Not humble at all!"
Li Lanzhen walked behind a big tree, took out two shovels, and handed them to them.
"Shall we use this to dig a hole and bury it?"
Xue Laohu said, "Burying them in the ground won't work. If their accomplices come up and find them, they'll know there are people in these mountains."
We just need to set up a scene where they encounter a wild beast and are torn apart and killed by it.
Several people dragged the man in black down to the area in front of them where Li Lanzhen had encountered wild boars and buffaloes.
Li Lanzhen suddenly remembered the wild boars and bison in the space.
She especially loved the six piglets and two calves, and wanted to raise them in the Valley of Forgetfulness.
Li Lanzhen said, "Okay, let's take them there. There we encountered wild boars and wild buffalo fighting, and I sat in a tree and watched the fight."
They fought fiercely, eventually crashing into a tree and becoming unconscious. Taking advantage of their weakened state, I knocked them out and hid them. Later, when we get down the mountain, we'll find them and carry them down together.
All three pairs of eyes were fixed on Li Lanzhen.
Xue Laohu and Han Mingjiang both had the same look in their eyes: "You're making this up! Go ahead and make it up, let's see if we believe you!"
Xue Bao looked utterly astonished!
"Aunt Lanzhen, you're such a lucky star! You actually encountered a wild buffalo and a wild boar fighting, and you even caught them both! How amazing!"
Xue Laohu looked at his simple-minded son, shook his head, grabbed the leader, and dragged him down with his foot.
Turning to Xue Bao, he said, "Clean up the tail!"
Han Mingjiang also grabbed the feet of the two people and followed them down.
Xue Xuebao was left behind to clean up their tracks.
When they arrived at the place where the wild boars and bison were fighting.
When Li Lanzhen saw this area, she was both surprised and frightened.
Not only was the big tree she was standing on broken, but the bushes and saplings around it were also ravaged beyond recognition by wild boars and buffalo.
Bloodstains were everywhere.
Perhaps I was too nervous to notice the way things were.
Xue Laohu said, "This is where these four men in black died; it's the best place to stage the scene."
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