"Hahaha, how about that? I told you, your whole family will never escape my grasp! Today, I'm going to kill your whole family."
Li Lanzhen looked in the direction of the vicious voice, and it was none other than Ye Daye!
Ye Daye also looked over, his eyes darting around, and he said with a wicked smile to a soldier beside him, "Second cousin, it's that woman. She has a mysterious weapon. I was knocked unconscious by that damned woman with her mysterious weapon."
If you obtain that weapon and hand it over to the prince, you'll rise to great heights.
The soldier looked them over and shouted menacingly, "Hand over all your grain! All men over 13 years old, step forward! And hand over all your silver and jewelry. If you don't hand them over voluntarily, my soldiers won't mind searching your bodies to see how fat or thin you are. Hahaha."
Li Lanzhen was anxious. There were children, the elderly, pregnant women, and her younger brother who were still unconscious. What should she do? She decided to light the firecrackers and blow these bastards to death, especially that Ye Daye!
However, such chaos will inevitably harm our own people, and in this dry weather, if firecrackers are lit, it could cause a wildfire, which would be a terrible mistake.
However, there are priorities, and if there's no other choice, then we have to do something.
Having made up her mind, she quietly took out a lighter and two firecrackers, put them in her sleeve pocket, and got ready.
Ye Daye looked around as if searching for something, and finally, she saw Li Xishui lying on a straw mat at the foot of the mountain.
He strode over and said, "Heh heh, I was wondering why I hadn't seen you, you cowardly dog. Turns out you were enjoying yourself here. Today I'll send you to meet the King of Hell. As for your wife, I'll take her back and hand her over to Niu Yan. Let my brother take good care of her. Hahaha."
As he spoke, he walked over to Li Xishui, who was lying motionless on the straw mat, and pulled over Li Erhan and Ye Shi, who were blocking Li Xishui.
Ye pleaded, "Big Eyes, even if we're related, you should call me 'Aunt.' Xishui is your brother; you can't hurt him!"
"Get out of my way!" With that, she grabbed Ye by the collar and threw her away. Tonghua quickly caught her to prevent Ye from falling and tumbling down the mountain.
As for Li Erhan, he was also pushed aside by Ye Daye.
He grinned maliciously, raised one foot high, and was about to stomp down hard on Li Xishui's head when Han Mingjiang rushed over and stunned him again with an electric baton.
Seeing Ye Daye collapse to the ground and faint, his body still convulsing, Ye Daye's soldier cousin's eyes lit up, and he waved his hand with a determined look.
"Tie them all up and bring me the secret weapon."
Seeing the soldiers rushing forward upon hearing the order, Xue Laohu shouted, "Fight to the death!"
Li Lanzhen shouted, "Boss, gather the children and elderly by the stream, and you protect them so they don't come up."
He took out a firecracker and a lighter, lit them, and threw them at his soldier cousin. The firecracker landed right in his arms and exploded with a loud bang.
Immediately, howls and wailing echoed through the valley.
Taking advantage of the moment when both sides were stunned, Li Lanzhen shouted, "Our people retreat to the foot of the mountain, quickly!"
As they retreated, Li Lanzhen threw out three firecrackers in quick succession.
Han Mingjiang quickly ran over and stood in front of her: "Mom, let me help you throw it, I'm strong."
So, the mother and daughter worked together seamlessly, one lighting the torch and the other immediately throwing it out. Each torch accurately blew up several people, and Xue Laohu and his men immediately pounced on them to finish them off without hesitation.
Three soldiers took advantage of the chaos to snatch the body of the soldier's cousin and dragged it down the mountain. Xue Bao was about to chase after them with his broadsword, but was stopped by Xue Laohu.
Ye Daye, who had been stunned by the electric shock, had already been killed by Tonghua with a few hoe blows.
“My dear in-law, we must leave immediately. Those three soldiers will call for reinforcements,” Xue Laohu shouted to Li Lanzhen.
"Go! We have to go! Pack your things and leave quickly. We can't go into the mountains, there's a risk of fire. Hurry!" Li Lanzhen shouted, looking at the tiny, flickering flames.
Amidst the chaos of war, everyone managed to tidy up and, being familiar with the roads, they were able to escape relatively quickly.
They left the mountains and continued running along the main road. This time, the road was flatter, and the ride was faster and less bumpy.
The children were all carried into the car, and the children running on their legs were Gou Dan, Han Yinan, Han Yuemei, Li Guangyang, and Li Lingdang.
Fortunately, as they ran, they only encountered waves of refugees along the way, and did not encounter soldiers who were conscripting people.
The refugees watched as these nearly thirty people ran without stopping, as if some ferocious beast was behind them, and they too ran in fear.
And so, the road became lively, with cars rumbling, adults shouting, children crying, and large numbers of people, donkeys, mules, and cows passing by, raising clouds of dust.
They ran for more than six miles without seeing any soldiers, so Xue Laohu called for Xue Bao, who was driving the donkey cart at the front, to slow down.
Unbeknownst to them, the fact that Li Lanzhen possessed a mysterious weapon, and that they had been seriously injured by artillery fire that day, had already been reported up the chain of command to King Jin, Li Guchun. Furthermore, they learned from Ye Daye that Li Lanzhen and her group were fleeing famine to the south.
King Jin took this very seriously and sent scouts to find Li Lanzhen. In order not to alert Li Lanzhen, he withdrew the soldiers who had been capturing soldiers along the way.
Therefore, Li Lanzhen and her group would no longer encounter soldiers forcibly conscripting them on their journey to escape the famine. However, the danger was not over.
As the sun set once again, they arrived at a grove of trees not far from the city. Of course, the trees in the grove were bare, with yellow leaves and even the bark stripped off.
Once everyone had entered the woods, they unloaded the trucks and moved their belongings, set up stoves to boil water and cook porridge, cleaned up a few areas, laid out straw mats, and lit a campfire.
Li Lanzhen instructed Xue Nizi to cook some porridge, while carrying a small cloth bag filled with soybeans. She wanted to give the three donkeys and mules pulling the cart a good meal; they were a great help today, and she wanted to treat them well.
When feeding soybeans to the donkeys and mules, Li Lanzhen discovered that of the three, her own big blue mule was the strongest, Xue Bao's big black donkey was second, and Zhang Deshui's chestnut brown donkey was the weakest, but fortunately it was large.
Li Lanzhen gave it an extra handful of beans, which made the big blue mule snort and bray, as it fed them soybeans and water.
By the time they ate, it was already dark. They ate over the campfire, and the children were so tired that they squinted their eyes and had to let their mothers feed them.
The night passed peacefully until dawn, when Li Lanzhen was awakened by the noisy shouts around her.
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