"That fall just now, even as a man, I felt the pain."
"Hiss~ Little sister, don't rush... that looks so painful."
In the live stream, as Jiang Xiaoyue gathered herbs, her viewers also learned a bit about herbal knowledge.
At this moment,
Seeing her anxious expression, they couldn't help but feel a bit worried.
"Could it really be what I'm thinking? The one who was pinned to the horse was Mr. Qi...?"
"Holy crap, dude upstairs, don't scare me. Things were just starting to get better!"
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However, sometimes, the more you fear something, the more likely it is to happen.
Jiang Xiaoyue took a few steps into the village.
At a glance, she saw the women sitting on the ground, crying.
They cried and cursed, "Oh, those damned souls—"
"How could they have snatched Mr. Qi away... This is a disaster!"
"Those scoundrels, they deserve to be struck by lightning, to die a terrible death!"
The children stood by, not knowing what to do.
The younger ones also started to cry, wailing towards the sky.
The elders squatted by the roadside, their brows furrowed, looking like they were deep in thought.
They remained silent.
Jiang Xiaoyue's gaze swept across, her heart pounding, her breathing quickening.
For a moment, she felt a sense of daze.
She ran into Mr. Qi's house.
The room was very simple, with various containers filled with herbs placed everywhere.
Some were already ground into powder, while others were finished products, just dried.
At this moment, the books on the desk were scattered messily on the floor.
Several containers for storing medicine had also spilled.
There was no sign of Mr. Qi anywhere.
She came out of the house and grabbed a child, asking,
"Where is Mr. Qi? Where is Mr. Qi?"
The child, tears streaming down his face and snot dripping, sobbed,
"Teacher... Teacher... was taken by the bandits, sob sob sob... Teacher, sob sob..."
Jiang Xiaoyue stumbled, her head buzzing.
"Why did they capture Mr. Qi? Why only Mr. Qi? What exactly happened?"
The child shook his head, "Don't, don't know... Grandpa told Brother Zhuang Zhuang to go call Daddy back..."
In the village, men and women had their own divisions of labor.
The women did laundry, cooked, and picked wild vegetables in the village.
The men went out to farm, chop wood, and do carpentry.
When the bandits arrived, the men were still working outside and had no idea what had happened.
The bandits robbed the person and fled on horseback. The village was filled with the old, weak, sick, and disabled, who were unable to resist.
By the time they reacted, the bandits had already ridden far away.
"How could this happen... How could this happen..."
Jiang Xiaoyue murmured, then thought of something.
She went into the houses, rummaging through everything usable.
Sticks, cleavers, axes...
She even dug out hoes.
Clang clang clang— Da Feng Novel Network
Weapons that could be used as such were brought out and placed in the middle of the road.
The villagers, whether crying or not, suddenly fell silent.
They all looked over.
"Yue Yatou, what are you doing?" asked Aunt Li, who lived next door to Jiang Xiaoyue.
Jiang Xiaoyue continued her actions, kicking doors.
There were originally very few people in this village. It was only after Mr. Qi's arrival
that people gradually gathered and found houses to live in.
Because it hadn't been long, most of the things in the houses were unchanged.
The door locks were also mostly half-broken.
With her kick, the door burst open with a 'crash'.
Seeing her unusual expression, a group of people crowded around her.
Two aunts grabbed her, "Yue Yatou, what are you going crazy about?"
"What are you doing, what are you doing?"
"Don't tell me you're scared silly, let us feel your forehead, see if you have a fever."
The child who had been asked earlier also froze, then sobbed again with a smack.
"Sister Xiaoyue, don't scare me, sob sob sob..."
Jiang Xiaoyue was held by a group of people, still trying to force her way into the houses to find weapons, "Let go of me, let go of me!"
"What are you trying to do! Yue Yatou!" Aunt Li, who was holding her, shouted.
What am I trying to do?
Jiang Xiaoyue raised a cleaver and swung it to the side, her expression appearing possessed, muttering,
"Rescue, I'm going to rescue someone!"
"Find weapons, more and more weapons!"
"Mr. Qi can't be harmed! He can't be harmed!"
As she spoke, she rushed into the next house.
The two aunts holding her, due to her recent swing of the cleaver, were hesitant to get too close.
And because of what she had said, they became hesitant.
Aunt Li advised, "Silly girl, who are those bandits, and who are you? How can a weak woman like you fight them?"
Those bandits, each armed and tall,
How could they be dealt with by their old, weak, sick, and disabled?
"Wait for those men to come back and see what they say."
As soon as the aunt finished speaking, Jiang Xiaoyue suddenly turned her head.
Her eyes were red, still holding the cleaver, with a fierce look in her expression.
"So what if I'm a weak woman? One more person is one more strength!"
She took a breath, calming down slightly, "I know we have to wait for them to return, so I'm finding weapons first."
"When they come back, we can prepare to set off."
No one knew if those bandits had a screw loose, always robbing people on a whim.
If they didn't go soon, who knew what would happen to Mr. Qi.
She had heard that some bandit dens would eat human flesh.
No, it wasn't just bandit dens...
In recent years, there had been continuous natural disasters.
Not a small number of people ate human flesh.
Back then, her mother often told her these stories to prevent her from running around outside.
She was afraid that she would be caught and eaten at any moment.
Hearing this,
The people gathered around the house looked at each other.
What she said was true, but what could they, a group of old, weak, sick, and disabled people, do to help?
Wouldn't that be sending themselves to their deaths?
...
"Yue Yatou is right, one more person is one more strength."
At this moment, an old man walked in from outside the door.
The old man's surname was Sun, and his name was Sun Youfu.
He was the elder who had spoken to the young man in the neighboring village.
After learning that the illness in Xiangshui Village had been cured by the young man, he also came to this village.
"I'm already old, and if it weren't for Mr. Qi, I wouldn't have lived much longer."
"If this life can still be of some use, then it won't have been lived in vain."
Sun Youfu was thin and gaunt, almost skin and bones.
This was after coming to Xiangshui Village; his mental state was much better than when he was sitting and waiting to die before.
After speaking, he also began to search the house for usable weapons.
He picked up a stick used for firewood.
He walked to Jiang Xiaoyue's side and asked, "Is this okay?"
Jiang Xiaoyue glanced at it and nodded, "It should be."
Then she continued to search in the house.
Sun Youfu weighed the stick in his hand, it had some weight.
Then he raised it and struck Jiang Xiaoyue on the back of the head.
Bang!
Jiang Xiaoyue felt a sharp pain in the back of her head, and then her vision went black.
Her body felt light, and she fell.
Unconscious.
After delivering the blow, Sun Youfu caught her and placed her on the ground nearby.
"Old Sun, what are you doing?!"
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