Yun Mo did not recognize the disheveled and unkempt woman. When she lunged at him, he nimbly moved aside.
The woman missed her target and fell heavily to the ground, taking a long time to recover from the pain.
Looking at her disheveled appearance, tears streamed down her face, and she said in a plaintive voice, "Brother Yun, don't you recognize me?"
The Lin siblings standing beside him looked on with amusement, which made Yun Mo frown and a flash of coldness in his eyes.
Who exactly are you?
Brushing her messy hair aside, the woman looked at Yun Mo with hopeful eyes and said, "Brother Yun, I am Huang Yinyin."
Upon hearing this, Yun Mo looked her up and down.
Huang Yinyin awkwardly pulled her open collar tighter.
"Didn't Huang Guichang's family go to Qingdao County? How come they're here?" Lin Yinan asked, puzzled.
Huang Yinyin looked up and saw the woman in black in front of her. It was the peasant girl she had looked down on before. Now the woman looked down at her like a goddess. Huang Yinyin thought of her parents who had been killed by bandits and was overcome with grief.
"When our carriage stopped to rest at noon that day, twenty or thirty bandits rushed out of the woods and killed the servants and guards."
“My father and eldest brother died under their hacking and slashing. My mother, in her grief, tried to fight back but was also killed by the bandits. Even my two younger brothers were brutally killed by the bandits.”
"I and several maids were captured by bandits and taken to the mountain."
Recalling the tragic scene of her death that day, Huang Yinyin couldn't help but burst into tears.
Suddenly, her crying stopped abruptly as a large knife pierced through her from behind.
Huang Yinyin turned her head with difficulty and saw a thin girl standing behind her.
"Xiao Xi, you..."
Her lips moved, and she had barely uttered a few words when Xiao Xi forcefully pulled out the large knife, and a large amount of blood gushed from her mouth.
Looking at the bloody hole in her stomach, you could vaguely see her intestines inside, as if they were about to spill out.
Huang Yinyin could no longer hold on and collapsed to the ground with a thud, her eyes fixed on Xiao Xi, who was holding the knife, unable to believe that Xiao Xi would actually kill her.
Xiao Xi staggered under her gaze, almost falling over. She tried to steady herself, but the other woman burst into laughter.
"Hahaha, Miss, does it hurt a lot? It hurts, doesn't it? It's right that it hurts. When you pushed Madam out to take the knife, it must have hurt just like this. When you let the bandits torture me time and time again, I felt the same pain. When Xiao Huan was tortured to death by the bandits, she felt the same pain."
Xiao Xi raised the knife and forcefully slit her own neck.
Hot blood splattered on Huang Yinyin's pale face. She could no longer feel the temperature of the blood, and the light in her eyes was gradually fading.
Finally, he was plunged into complete darkness.
Lin Yinan was somewhat taken aback; the deaths of Huang Yinyin and her servant were so sudden and unexpected.
I glanced at Yun Mo, and the show was over. I thought I was going to get some juicy gossip about him, but it was a bit of a shame.
Seeing the regret in her eyes, Yun Mo blurted out, "I'm not familiar with Huang Yinyin."
“Young Master Yun, we are just business partners. You don’t need to explain your private matters to me.”
The smell of blood was too strong here, so Lin Yinan turned and walked out after saying that.
At this moment, Yun Yi brought in a group of bandit families with their hands and feet bound.
The women and children stared at them with vicious eyes.
If it weren't for the women in the hall who had been rescued and were in such a terrible state, Lin Yinan would have thought they were the real innocent victims.
"Master, what should we do with these women and children?" Yun Yi asked.
Yun Mo frowned. Releasing them was not an option, but feeding them wasn't feasible due to insufficient food supplies.
Lin Yinan said bluntly, "Their eyes look like they want to devour people. They probably can't be tamed. It's better to kill them. Keeping them is just a waste of food."
Yun Mo had been taught since childhood to be loyal to the Great Yan and to protect its people. He hesitated for a moment when he thought about harming women and children.
After a long pause, he said, "Lock them in the dungeon we found earlier, give them one meal of porridge a day, just enough to keep them from starving."
Yun Yi immediately summoned several of his men and ordered them to take the man away.
"There's a cave up there where the bandits have stored a lot of food and treasures. Yun Er is guarding it. Yun Yi, take your men up there to take inventory and register them."
"Yes, I'll go right away."
The people in the council hall quickly left, and then the Yun family's guards and the men from Lin family village carried or helped the injured people in. Doctor Lin and Yun Wu followed closely behind with their medicine boxes on their backs. When they saw that their fellow villagers were injured, Lin Yiheng rushed over to help.
With the Yun family's secret guards present, Lin Yiheng didn't let his younger sister take action.
Lin Yinan walked out of the council hall, intending to wander around the bandit stronghold.
The bandit stronghold was in its final stages of preparation. The uninjured guards and men from Linjia Village were clearing away the corpses in the stronghold, and small teams of people were patrolling the road from time to time.
At close intervals, torches were placed to provide illumination.
As Lin Yinan passed a thorny thicket at a secluded bend, her hair stood on end. She keenly sensed a dangerous gaze fixed intently on her.
He quietly gripped the sword hilt, and a dark figure leaped up and suddenly darted out.
Lin Yinan immediately drew her sword to block, but it was too late. She barely managed to dodge the sword thrust at her, but a large tear was ripped in her clothes at the chest, exposing her fair skin.
"Tsk tsk, she's actually a beautiful woman." The man chuckled lewdly.
By the dim light of the fire, Lin Yinan could see that the man was tall and burly, with an extremely ugly scar running from his left brow bone across his right jaw.
The opponent was highly skilled, and his attacks were not slow at all. He quickly became entangled in a fierce battle with Lin Yinan.
Although Lin Yinan was agile and strong, she was no match for this person and quickly began to lose.
His body and hands were quickly covered in bruises.
Just when she was about to give up, Yun Mo rushed over from a distance, greatly reducing the pressure on her.
The two joined forces and drove the bandits into a series of defeats.
Seeing that the situation was unfavorable to him, the bandit made a feint to try to escape. Yun Mo saw through his intention and without hesitation threw his long sword forcefully. The sword pierced through the bandit's back, and he fell to the ground and quickly died.
Yun Mo drew his sword, kicked the bandit a few times, and then, fearing he might blow him up, slashed his neck.
Lin Yinan wiped the blood off the sword, sheathed it, and took out a handkerchief to bandage the wound on her arm.
Yun Mo stepped forward and asked with concern, "Miss Lin, are you injured?"
Lin Yinan didn't even frown. "It's nothing serious, just a minor scratch."
Only then did Yun Mo notice her torn collar, revealing large expanses of snow-white skin, dazzlingly bright in the night. A blurry image flashed through his mind, along with the soft, delicate touch…
He tried to shake off the images in his mind and turned his head away somewhat embarrassed.
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