A kitchen knife had somehow gotten stuck in his chest, completely submerged, demonstrating the immense force the man had used.
Yin Lan stared blankly at this scene.
The bald man's body gradually went limp, and he was about to fall backward.
Chen Yourun grabbed him by the back of the neck. "Go back." His voice was stern and cold.
He didn't want her to see such a bloody scene, and he didn't know if she could bear it. He didn't even want her to see him when he made the move.
Yin Lan was truly stunned.
Whether in her past life or now, she has never witnessed the killing aspect.
Startled awake by Chen Yourun's voice calling "back to the room" again, she was about to slowly turn her head when suddenly she found her neck unable to move and her eyes wide open.
"Watch out...there's someone...behind me..." She wanted to make a sound, but it felt like someone was choking her.
Behind Chen Yourun, two men stood behind him. The moment they saw what was happening in front of them, they immediately raised their knives and chopped down on his head.
Chen Yourun was still looking at her, completely oblivious.
Voices outside began to shout, "Thief! Everyone get up!"
The knife had already fallen rapidly.
Yin Lan clenched the object in her hand. She was so anxious that she couldn't make a sound. She could only rely on instinct to press the object that she had been holding for a long time.
"Sizzle~" A sound of something burning rang out, followed by a smell similar to barbecue.
One of the men began to convulse rapidly.
Chen Yourun turned around quickly, alert.
Yin Lan seemed to finally come to her senses. She didn't know what she was thinking. She picked up a jar next to her and threw it directly at the source.
As Chen Yourun picked up the knife from the ground, preparing to retaliate, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck.
As the sound of shattered pottery jars hitting the ground rang out, Chen Yourun's knife had already pierced the other man's thigh.
"Aaaaaah!" A piercing scream rang out.
Yin Lan lowered her hands awkwardly. Chen Yourun looked around before turning back to look at Yin Lan, then touched his neck, where there was a little bit of blood.
Yin Lan: "..."
She was trying to save people, but who knew...
Then I saw the remote control on the ground, which didn't belong to this era, and I immediately squatted down.
Chen Yourun thought she was frightened, so he rushed over and immediately put his arm around her waist and hugged her.
Yin Lan had just picked up the item when someone picked her up. Luckily, she had managed to pick it up; she held it tightly in her hand. If someone had seen her, things would have been very complicated.
Yin Lan had just breathed a sigh of relief when she belatedly realized that she was in his arms, and right in front of her were his very outstanding pectoral muscles, right? Even in the dim light of the night, Yin Lan could feel that part of him was hard and firm.
Just as she was trying to see clearly, Chen Yourun raised his hand and covered her eyes.
"I told you to come in, why didn't you listen?" His voice was cold, and then he shoved the stunned Yin Lan into the inner room.
There was still a faint smell of blood on the tip of her nose. Thinking about the scenes just now and the blood left on the ground, Yin Lan was still a little scared.
"Mother?" The eldest child seemed to have been woken up, rubbing his eyes as he sat up.
"It's okay, keep sleeping. It sounds like there's a thief outside, but your dad's here, so don't worry."
Yin Lan doesn't lie to children; if she does, the children won't trust her much in the future. Besides, Da Wa feels he's grown up now, and as soon as he hears about a thief, he immediately perks up, saying, "I want to go help Dad!"
Yin Lan had to use all her persuasion to calm the child down.
Thinking back to the last time the wild boars came, Yin Lan could only rely on herself and was extremely scared at the time. But now, she realized that humans are a hundred times more terrifying than animals. Having a man in the house makes a difference; she can entrust things to him, and she feels much more at ease and secure.
Thinking this way, Yin Lan felt that Chen Yourun was still somewhat useful, not just for building houses and repairing bathrooms.
Even knowing how bloody it was outside and what kind of corpses there were, she was no longer so afraid.
She no longer needed to go out and face those dangers; she could just stay in the inner room and comfort the children.
People outside were dealing with the body. Yin Lan didn't go out, but she also didn't sleep. She listened carefully to the sounds outside. Suddenly, her ears twitched. There was a noise behind the house.
She quietly went out and took Chen Yourun's hand. His gaze fell on Yin Lan's soft hand, and before he could react, Yin Lan had already quietly pointed behind her.
Chen Yourun's expression immediately turned serious.
Just now, the other guards arrived. After interrogation, it was found that the two people who came to the small hut were the leaders of this group. The other twelve were divided into groups of four and went to the homes of four families. However, the sentries of Iron Sword Village had already discovered them when they entered the village.
They used birds to warn others, and then the guards watched as they entered those people's homes. Almost as soon as they entered, the guards rushed in, woke up the people in the homes, and then, together with the men in the homes, dealt with these people.
Therefore, no family suffered any losses.
Moreover, everyone had already been arrested, so when Chen Yourun heard Yin Lan say that there was more movement behind them, he felt strange and immediately became alert.
He told Yin Lan to stay put, but Yin Lan was worried and followed him around to the back of the supplies. She looked around and saw no one. Just when Yin Lan thought she had misheard him...
Suddenly, a "whoosh whoosh whoosh..." sound came from under a big tree not far away, and then a person who was tied up stretched out a foot and waved it vigorously.
Chen Yourun looked around cautiously, then approached alone, looked him over warily, and roughly dragged him out.
He was an old man wearing a long robe, with a long beard that was so dirty it was all tangled together. His clothes were tattered and torn. He was thin and bony, with drooping eyebrows. He looked pitiful, but there was nothing dangerous about him.
Yin Lan, however, took a liking to his clothes.
He doesn't look like a bandit; he looks more like a down-on-his-luck scholar.
Yin Lan removed the rag from his mouth.
The old man almost burst into tears, "Waaah... Report to the authorities quickly... I've been... Waaah..." He was so tormented that he could barely speak clearly.
Yin Lan looked at Chen Yourun, who simply nodded slightly. Unexpectedly, the two of them were quite in sync.
Yin Lan went back to prepare some rice porridge, and Chen Yourun took her back with him.
The old man gulped down the hot liquid, and then he seemed to regain a little strength to speak.
According to the old man, he originally intended to visit his relatives, but he was robbed by this group of people on the way. After they found out that he was from the prefecture, they forced him to lead the way in the mountains, where he was often hungry and cold.
The old man talked to his son for a while, then suddenly remembered something, "Quick, there's... there's another person who went into the mountains to deliver a message... go deliver a message..."
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