northernbook Chapter 75: Confiscation of property and exile, turning things around 8
Chapter 75: Confiscation of property and exile, turning things around 8
Xu Huizhen reached out and knocked over the bandit holding the bag, snatched the machete from the bandit's hand and chopped off the bandit's head. With a puff, the bandit fell facedown.
In a flash, Li Wenting took out a wooden stick as thick as his arm from the car and joined the battle. The bandits also became furious and started to chop anyone they saw. Someone in the crowd shouted, "Let's fight them to the death."
Everyone joined the battle in a hurry. The bandit leader saw the heavy casualties and blew a whistle hurriedly, "The wind is strong and the enemy is on the run!"
All the bandits rode away on their horses.
The bodies of six bandits lay on the ground, alongside several elderly, weak, women, and children who had been injured by the bandits, and a dead official.
The bailiffs didn't dare to delay as they didn't know when the bandits would come back, so they loaded the grain cart with the official's body and shouted at everyone to run away.
These people ran for almost fifty miles and only sat down on the ground when they saw the official inn.
Yang was so frightened that her legs and feet became uncontrollable. She didn't even eat dinner and just lay down on the kang to sleep.
The injured families were also counting their belongings. Although they were in pain, they had saved the money they needed to make a living, which was at least a comfort.
Late at night, when everyone was asleep, two men in black, one big and one small, emerged from the post station. Li Wenting and Li Yujin took out an off-road vehicle from the space, started the engine, stepped on the accelerator, and followed the information from the mutant dandelion, heading straight for Erdaogou in Yanshan.
The father and son remained silent throughout the journey, each sensing the other's anger. This gang of bandits was incredibly daring; robbing a little money wasn't a big deal for the Li family, but daring to go after Xu Huizhen was a real nuisance for both father and son.
On the ridge of Erdaogou, there lived more than 200 bandits from Qingyun Village. They robbed passing merchants, looted the surrounding villages, raped the women in the villages, and did all kinds of evil.
In the gathering hall of Qingyun Village, the eldest leader was scolding the third leader for today's robbery: "You lost six brothers and didn't get a single hair. The informant said that this group of exiled prisoners are very important. Li Xiaoru's relatives are among them. What a big fish they are. And you ran away without even getting a bite of meat. What else can you do?"
Before he could finish his words, the boss felt his eyelids grow heavy and he fell to the ground with a thud. A group of his minions also staggered and fell.
Li Wenting and Li Yujin swaggered into the gathering hall from the door.
Looking at this group of evil bandits, the father and son didn't show any mercy and knocked them down one by one and made them bleed.
In less than half an hour, all the bandits in Qingyun Village except Li's father and son met their end.
Li Yujin: Dad, let's go find these bandits. They must have looted a lot of money. Let's show my lazy wife where these grandsons hid the money.
The lazy lady shook the branches and leaves around her, making a rustling sound. In this kind of weather, the lazy lady was particularly reluctant to move, but since her master had given the order, she had to hurry and do it. The thought of the delicious spirit stone feast made her mouth water.
The lazy lady stretched out her vines and began to plunder the bandits. Soon, more than two hundred taels of loose silver were piled on the ground.
The lazy lady guided the Li father and son to a cave in the back mountain. The cave was naturally formed, and the one-meter-high entrance was tightly covered with dead grass.
Li Wenting and Li Yujin pushed aside the dry grass and walked into the cave. The further they went, the larger the cave became. At the end, there was a small cave of more than 300 square meters.
Li Wenting took out a large searchlight from the space, turned it on and found that the cave was full of boxes and sacks.
There were several carts of furs alone, with sheepskin, mink, raccoon skins, and other furs piled up into small mountains. The father and son were not polite and put everything they saw into their space. This group of bandits had no idea how many people they had robbed, and there must have been dozens of high-quality ginseng plants.
There were over 10,000 taels of gold in the chest on the ground, and two large cloth bags filled with over 2,000 taels of gold sand. There were also over 150,000 taels of snowflake-patterned silver, and all sorts of fabrics, silks, and mountain goods.
Why be polite? She took everything away. In this time, the lazy lady searched the village for everything that could be used, including firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, and even the firewood and axe in the woodshed and two piles of toilet paper.
Even Li Wenting was upset when he saw the straw paper. What the hell is this? Why is this lazy lady collecting everything?
Li Yujin took out a fire-proof talisman and pasted it in the woods, then took out two barrels of 95-degree alcohol and burned Qingyun Village to ashes.
Only when they saw the blazing fire did the father and son feel relieved.
Li Wenting sighed and said, "Son, don't tell your mother when you get home, so she won't worry about you."
Li Yujin rolled his eyes and said, "Do you really need to tell that old witch Zhang to give it to you? If the tiger doesn't show its might, you'll think we're a sick cat. It keeps coming out to cause trouble for us time and time again."
The father and son walked to the foot of the mountain, released the off-road vehicle and drove away.
At the post station, Yang had a fever, her teeth were chattering from the cold, and she had no strength in her body.
Xu Huizhen felt something moving around her. When she lit the oil lamp, she found her mother-in-law with a red face due to fever.
Xu Huizhen took out silver needles from the space and inserted more than 30 needles into Yang's body. Yang's forehead was slightly sweaty and she stopped shivering.
Xu Huizhen poked the stove, took out a packet of fever-reducing medicine and fed it to Yang.
At this time, Li Wenting and Li Yujin both came back. After changing their clothes, they looked at the oil lamp lit in Xu Huizhen's room. Li Wenting watched Xu Huizhen feeding Yang the medicine.
Li Wenting hurriedly asked Xu Huizhen, "What happened to Mom? She didn't eat dinner last night." Li Wenting touched Yang's head and found it was still a little hot. "Add some spiritual spring water. It will get better faster."
Li Wenting and Li Yujin supported Yang: "Xu Huizhen gave Yang a cup of spiritual spring water.
At this time, Yang opened her eyes dazedly, and looking at her son, daughter-in-law, and grandson, the old lady began to sob.
Mrs. Yang always felt like she was dreaming. Her son, daughter-in-law, and grandson were all safe and sound. This was real. The old lady was so excited that she bit the back of her hand and grimaced in pain.
"I always thought I was dreaming. Aren't you guys fine? As long as you are fine, I don't care about my life." Yang said while wiping her tears.
When she was in high spirits, Yang felt her stomach rumbling.
Huizhen, please cook me some rice porridge and cut me a plate of salty pickled cucumbers. I'm a little hungry.
Li Wenting hurriedly added firewood to the stove, and Xu Huizhen washed the rice and put it into the pot to cook porridge.
Soon the rice porridge was cooked. Smelling the fragrance, Li Boyan, Li Yuze and the other four servants woke up and walked into the inner room, pulling their shoes.
Li Boyan: "I was so scared today that my legs were shaking."
Yang rolled her eyes: "You are just a coward, so I didn't tremble."
Li Boyan swallowed a mouthful of porridge and said, "Don't brag, old woman. Whose face turned pale this afternoon? You made me dizzy from shaking."
Yang: "You old man, you are exposing my shortcomings, right? Tomorrow you have to work hard. I will not be a human being if I can't kill that bitch Zhang tomorrow!