Li Lanzhen felt a little flustered and silently followed behind the man in black.
She guessed whether this person was one of Jin Wang's men, or the county magistrate's men, or...
I can't guess, so I'll just have to play it by ear. I don't know if I can go into the space, but if I can, it would be good to go in and hide.
Tongzi probably doesn't know either, so you'll have to be well prepared. She quietly prepared the stun gun, but held the wooden splinter tightly in her hand.
Because she felt that this man in black must be highly skilled in martial arts. The appearance of a martial arts master in later generations was just like that, exuding a coldness that kept strangers at bay, and this person was as light as a swallow.
Lost in thought, they found themselves in a dead end. The man in black turned around and looked coldly at Li Lanzhen.
Why was that damn black guy staring at me like that? She decided to strike first.
"What are you staring at me for? You're not planning to quit porn, are you?"
Li Lanzhen appeared calm on the surface, but inside she was panicking terribly. She continued rambling, "Tsk tsk, you certainly have unique tastes. Look closely, I'm an old woman! I have a whole bunch of children and grandchildren."
Glancing at the guy who was still standing there motionless, she mustered her courage and moved her feet. "If you don't say anything, I'm leaving. Thank you for saving me."
After saying that, she turned and walked away without hesitation. She took three steps, and her back was covered in sweat. When she lifted her foot to take the fourth step, she heard a voice that was even colder than the system.
"Hand over your weapons. We'll let you go back and reunite with your family."
Li Lanzhen immediately understood. This guy probably already noticed the stun guns she and her two sons were holding, and he came today for the stun guns. However, she had no idea who he was.
The stun gun absolutely could not be handed over, otherwise the whole family would die, no, the entire Han family village might be wiped out. Thinking of this, she turned around, opened her innocent eyes, and looked at him.
"What weapons? We're fleeing famine, where would we get any weapons? Don't listen to that scoundrel old woman Wu's nonsense. She and I are mortal enemies. She knocked me unconscious with a stone and that's how we fled famine."
"I'll say it again, hand over your weapon." The cold voice rang out once more.
Seeing that the time was about right, Li Lanzhen figured that if she hesitated any longer, he would lose patience. So, she slowly pulled three wooden splinters from her bosom, placed them in her palm, and showed them to him. "Oh, is this the thing that kills bad guys when it's stuck in their bodies?"
With a "whoosh," Li Lanzhen's eyes flashed, and the three wooden splinters in her hand were now lying in the large hand of the man in black, a meter away from her.
This surprised and astonished Li Lanzhen. Could this be drifting? Teleportation? Lightness skill?
Haha, that's impressive! I've learned something new today.
The system's metal eyes are all rolled up like ping-pong balls, what an idiot!!!
He was teetering on the brink of death, yet he was still foolishly happy.
Hmph, this host is a stubborn fool, and a heartless one at that!! Once I graduate from the System Bureau, I can choose my own host.
The man in black looked at the wooden splinter in his palm. It was about the length of his own hand and as thick as his own finger, and it was reddish-brown. It looked exactly the same as the one he had seen from afar, but something just felt different.
Li Lanzhen: Of course it's different. This is the secret weapon I showed you, it looks like this. Luckily, what I took out was a small stun gun, hidden in my sleeve, so not much of it was showing.
"You think you can make someone faint by poking them with this?" The man in black seemed unconvinced, picking up a stick and preparing to poke it into his palm.
Li Lanzhen immediately cried out in alarm, stopping him, "Be careful! These splinters are soaked in poison. If they come into contact with broken skin, the poison will enter the body and the person will immediately faint."
The man in black paused, took out a piece of oiled paper, wrapped the three splinters in it, carefully put them in his pocket, and asked her.
"What kind of poison is on it? Where did these splinters come from?"
“The above is a potent sleeping potion. These wood thorns were obtained from the mountains. We didn’t get them; they were left by my husband’s ancestors. I don’t know exactly where they came from.”
Li Lanzhen thought to herself that she must not expose Xue Laohu, since he was thinking of her. After a moment's thought, she spoke up.
"Your husband? I don't see him."
Li Lanzhen was startled. Could this guy have been following her all along? She looked down at her feet with a sorrowful expression. "My husband is... he's passed away."
"Continue, hand over the secret weapon?"
Li Lanzhen thought she could leave, but the man in black said something else, which stunned her. At this point, she was also a little angry and asked him angrily.
"What did you say? Didn't I already give it to you? Where would there be any secret weapon? What secret weapon could an old woman from a village like me have?"
The man in black remained unmoved. "Let me help you recall: a loud bang. A flash of light, an explosion."
Li Lanzhen was truly dumbfounded this time.
It's confirmed. This guy really saw it. He saw me the day Ye Daye led the Golden King's soldiers to capture soldiers, right? This is really troublesome.
"Explosion? Oh, hahaha, what you saw were firecrackers given to my third son by his classmates at the academy. Thanks to these firecrackers, otherwise, our whole family would have been buried in the mountains."
"Firecrackers?" The man in black was a little skeptical, but he hadn't seen them with his own eyes. It was just something a terrified soldier had told him, and maybe he was exaggerating because he was scared out of his wits.
The man in black looked up at the sky, thinking to himself that he still had to arrest everyone in this village. The men would be sent to serve in the army for King Jin, and the women would be sold into brothels to make some money.
That way, King Jin shouldn't be too disappointed or angry with me. But it's not possible now. I'll wait until tonight; the sleeping potion should work then.
Thinking of this, he looked at Li Lanzhen and said, "You should leave."
"Huh? Oh, okay, I'm leaving, don't see me off." She immediately walked out of the alley, and only when the wind blew did she realize that she was covered in sweat.
Startled, she shivered and quickly walked out to blend into the crowd on the street.
Old Mrs. Wu must disappear, but we just don't know where she is. Keeping such a vicious person around is the greatest evil to myself and my family.
Li Lanzhen cursed Old Lady Wu a thousand times in her heart, gritting her teeth.
Unwilling to continue browsing, she decided to look for the dog hole that Gou Dan had mentioned, hoping to use it to retrieve some of the food she had redeemed in the shop.
As I was walking with my head down, I bumped into a woman who was holding a child who looked to be about one year old.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." Li Lanzhen reached out to support her and saw that the child in her arms had a flushed face, bluish lips, and limp limbs hanging down.
The woman's cheeks were streaked with tears, and her eyes were as red as a rabbit's.
"It's nothing." She was about to leave when Li Lanzhen stopped her. "Did the child choke on something? Give it to me."
After saying that, she picked up the child and placed him on her chest, then knelt down on the ground, picked up the child, and let him lie face down with his body resting on her knees.
Then, Li Lanzhen patted the baby's shoulder blades with one hand, patting them five times with moderate force. She then turned the child over so that his face was up and pressed his chest five times with her index and middle fingers on the lower half of his sternum.
Caught off guard, the woman saw Li Lanzhen patting and hitting her child, turning him over and over, and she was furious.
She immediately stepped forward, grabbed the child's arm, and tried to pull him away. A crowd of onlookers surrounded them, pointing and cursing Li Lanzhen.
She glanced coldly at the woman and said, "If you don't care about your child's life, then keep raising him."
Upon hearing the words "my son's life," the woman collapsed to the ground, covering her mouth and sobbing uncontrollably.
Li Lanzhen repeated the above actions, and the shouts and curses around her grew louder. Suddenly, "Waaah, cough cough cough," the child spat out a big red date and then began to cry loudly.
The woman went up and hugged the child tightly, and she also started to sob.
Li Lanzhen stood up, clapped her hands, and tidied her sweaty hair. She didn't move; she didn't want to do good deeds anonymously. Right now, she desperately needed a wealthy person to take the blame for her supplies.
At this moment, several maids, servants, and other family members rushed in from behind, helped the woman up from the ground, and asked her about the child with anxious expressions.
"Madam, how is the young master? Why are you sitting on the ground? We need to go to the clinic to find a doctor quickly."
"Alright, young master is alright, hahaha, look, young master can breathe now."
"Smack."
The lady holding the young master slapped the old woman who said the young master could still breathe hard.
Only then did they see Li Lanzhen standing there. Seeing her drab clothes, clearly indicating she was a refugee, they didn't look down on her at all, and instead smiled and said, "Thank you, you are a great benefactor of our Zhou family."
"The Zhou family? My God, this is Jin Fulai, who just returned. She's the eldest young mistress of the Zhou family."
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