Once the first one appeared, another followed. Seeing the crowd swarming forward, the eldest son began to panic. "Mother, what should we do?"
"Stop the car. Protect yourselves from now on, especially the carriage," An Shuyi said as she jumped down.
Seeing the refugees approaching the carriage, he kicked them away, and with a swift movement of his knife, he slashed several people in front of him.
Seeing how fierce the woman was, some refugees began to back down, but how could An Shuyi give them a chance? If she didn't scare them this time, there would be another time.
She wielded the knife with fierce power, and although she was hit by the refugees, most of them had already been cut down and were lying on the ground.
Xia Hua was even more formidable than her; with a single swing of her baseball bat, a person would fall. The tribespeople didn't just stand by and watch; when the refugees approached, both men and women picked up the knives and hoes at hand and fought with them.
Although there were many refugees, they had not been able to get enough to eat for a long time, and any woman could easily defeat them.
"Huahua, chop off that ringleader." An Shuyi felt her hands were going weak and looked at the ringleader who was in her direction, and said.
Xia Hua didn't answer her. She rushed past the refugees in front of her and struck the man in the head. With a thud, the man fell heavily to the ground, twitched a few times, and then lay still.
"Ah, murder!" the refugees screamed, starting to back away. "How could you kill people? We just wanted some food..."
bang*
Before the man could finish speaking, An Shuyi slashed him with her knife. His eyes widened, and he fell to the ground motionless.
An Shuyi stood there, pointing the knife at them, "If you still want to rob me, take one step forward, and I'll send you to heaven."
The others stared at the man on the ground, none daring to speak, fearing that if they opened their mouths, the woman would chop them up.
"Step back! Don't come any closer to us, or this man will be what you all suffer." After saying this, An Shuyi looked at her people. "Keep an eye on your own people. Let's go."
Seeing them about to leave, an old man knelt down and said, "Madam, please give us some food. We have been on the run for more than a month and have not had any food. We adults can survive, but the children cannot. Please, I beg you."
"Look at these children, they'll die if they don't get any food. Please give them just a little bit, please!" the old man said, kowtowing repeatedly.
An Shuyi sat in the carriage, looking at the tempted tribesmen, some of whom still wanted to go over, and said, "Wood, let's go. Anyone who dares to give us a little food will be exterminated from the tribe."
"Alright, sister-in-law!" Village Chief Lin roared at the other clansmen, "Why aren't you leaving yet? Do I have to invite you? Didn't you hear what my sister-in-law said? Get out of here."
When An Shuyi spoke, the others' pity vanished instantly. The old man was so pitiful, and the children were all so hungry they had their eyes closed. They had thought of giving them just a little, but when they saw An's icy demeanor, they were terrified.
If it were before, they wouldn't have believed her if she said she would be expelled from the clan, but looking at An Shi who seemed like a completely different person, they didn't dare.
Seeing them leave, the old man stood up angrily and said, "You vicious woman! I've begged you like this, and you won't even give me a little food. Aren't you afraid of retribution?"
"You have children too, aren't you afraid...!"
bang*
Before the old man could finish speaking, a stone was thrown from behind and hit him hard on the head.
Xia Hua looked at the refugees and said, "I'm not afraid of retribution. If you want retribution, come find me. To put it bluntly, all you want is food, right? Dream on."
"Trying to threaten us? Who do you think you are? If you're not afraid of death, then keep talking. If you dare take one step forward, that's just what I wanted—I haven't killed enough yet."
The refugees were already injured from the beating, and now the old man was hit by a stone and lay on the ground unable to move, so they dared not speak even more.
"Let's go. If you want to give them food, you can leave it; we don't care." Xia Hua finished speaking and got into the carriage.
The Lin clan members are too kind-hearted, which is not good. They want to help anyone who is pitiful, but they don't realize that these refugees are different from the villagers. People can be good or bad, but these are starving refugees.
"Let's go. Anyone who disobeys will be expelled from the clan by this village chief." After saying that, he jumped onto the oxcart, whipped the ox, and started moving forward. The clansmen also packed their things and drove the oxcart behind.
The refugees could only watch them leave, and finally lay helplessly on the ground.
An Shuyi and the others found a place to settle down after dark. The place was spacious and had a place for so many of them to rest.
After getting off the oxcart, Village Chief Lin looked at the villagers and said, "When you saw those refugees today, didn't you feel sorry for them?"
“But have you considered that maybe in less than a month, you'll end up like them? Or do you really think your food supply will last until we find a place to settle down? If so, then pretend I, the village chief, didn't say anything.”
“I know you feel sorry for those children and want to give them some food, but don’t you think that if you give them even a little, those refugees will swarm you and rob you of everything? You also have children; aren’t you afraid they will be taken away? When they are starving, they can eat not only food but also people. They won’t eat their own people, but they can eat you.”
“If it weren’t for Sister Xia and Sister An today, what would have happened to us? Maybe those refugees would only have been looting food, but what if there were other things? The county town was burned down, didn’t you see? If you continue to be so kind, then let’s go our separate ways!”
After finishing his speech, Village Chief Lin sat down on the ground, looking utterly dejected.
Seeing him like this, an aunt from the clan stepped forward and said, "Wood, get up quickly. We won't do this again. It was the first time we had seen those refugees, and we couldn't bear to see them like this."
“Yes, Uncle Mu, don’t worry, we won’t do that again. If those refugees try to rob us, we’ll fight them back like Aunt Xia and Aunt An did,” a young man added.
"Wooden head, get up. What kind of behavior is this, sitting on the ground?" Chief Lin walked out. "Let's consider this matter over for now. If you're going to be so kind in the future, then we'll go our separate ways."
"My Lin clan members are capable of helping others out of kindness, but that's only helping our own clansmen. If you still can't see your current situation clearly, then you'd better make some plans soon!"
Village Chief Lin got up from the ground. "Uncle said that this time it's over, so I won't say anything more. But if there is a next time, you should pick up your knives and fight against those refugees. Sister Xia and Sister An are still women. Look at them, and then look at you."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
