Chapter 118 Can You Really Sleep Peacefully?
Chapter 118 Can You Really Sleep Peacefully?
They traveled all the way from the southernmost part to the north and met many refugees and local people.
But there are only fifty or sixty people in their entire village, most of whom are young and middle-aged, and no one dares to mess with them when they walk on the street.
When they were extremely hungry, they took advantage of their numbers and robbed a lot of food from the locals.
More than a year of drought has caused people in the southernmost part of the Southern Region to live in a high temperature and water-scarce environment for a long time. The people tightened their belts, ate up their stored food, and ate up all the edible things in the mountains before starting to flee north.
Jiangnan, the place that people from the southwest and northwest of the Yuan Dynasty yearn for.
It is said that there is an endless supply of food and water there, that the people there wear silk and satin, and that they travel in horse-drawn carriages...
That's heaven.
Yunshui County is the southernmost port of the Jiangnan Canal, but it is the northernmost place in the Southern Region.
To reach the most prosperous Jiangnan rice-producing area in the entire Yuan Dynasty, one must pass through Yunshui County.
The village chief had already told them that they were almost in Yunshui County, and everyone should pack up and forget about what had happened along the way.
As long as they arrive in the south of the Yangtze River, the government will allocate them a piece of land. By then, they will have hands and feet, and their lives will definitely be better than in the small southwestern village full of poisonous miasma.
But looking at the two ox carts in front of them, their mouths of desire, which had long been opened, were not so easy to close.
It was not until they saw these shiny long swords and the obvious murderous aura from Sang Lin and others that everyone woke up from their dream.
They had come here with great effort, and no one wanted to die...
Once the fighting starts, some of them will either die or be maimed.
Sang Lin has seen many refugees in the northern border. All of them are trying to survive, and few of them are truly not afraid of death.
So he stood beside Zhou Laoer with a solemn expression and said to the group of people:
"We were just passing by. If you hadn't provoked us, we wouldn't have wanted to cause any trouble."
"If you leave now, we'll pretend we've never met. If you insist on clinging to us, then we brothers can let the long swords in our hands drink our blood!"
As they were talking, the people behind Sang Lin turned around with the long swords in their hands. Now it was their turn to stare at the group of people opposite with a fierce look.
After a short standoff, the leader on the other side stood up.
"Your Excellency is right, but since we only met by chance, harmony is the most important thing."
"Since we are blocking your way, we will just get out of the way."
The leader waved his hand, and the refugees obeyed him by putting down their sticks and stepping back a few steps.
Sang Lin asked Uncle Chen and Zhou Laoer to drive.
"Take your family and leave first. We'll come later."
The two of them didn't waste any time and let Aunt Chen and her two sons get on the ox carts, which then started moving slowly.
The four Sanglin brothers stood there staring at the group of refugees until the ox cart had gone two or three hundred meters, then they looked away.
"It's all about survival. Some things can be done, but some things can't be done."
"Can you really sleep peacefully in your dreams at midnight?"
He threw these words to the group of refugees, turned around and chased after the ox cart.
After hearing this, the refugees remained silent.
Until someone asked: "Village Chief, are we just going to let them go?"
The leader, who was also the village chief, kicked the man who spoke in annoyance.
"If you don't let them go, how many heads do you want to be chopped off?"
The leader looked at the backs of the four people leaving and saw a familiar aura from them.
He had a younger brother, who was killed by him two months ago.
Because the other party discovered what he had done, they insisted on taking him to the authorities to surrender.
How ridiculous these people are!
Even people can't survive, but they still stick to benevolence, righteousness, morality, family, country and people.
If his brother could be as sensible and flexible as these people, the two brothers wouldn't be separated by Yin and Yang now...
In the eyes of the refugees, the group gradually walked away and finally disappeared into a black dot.
Suddenly, another burst of crying broke out in the crowd.
"My wife is missing!"
"Woo woo woo, my son is missing too!"
"My wife..."
It’s Li Yong.
The man who seemed cowardly but was extremely cruel.
The village chief heard his voice and looked at the black spot in the distance again.
That woman must have sneaked away just now.
"Alright! Why are you crying?"
"It's just a woman! Once we settle down in Jiangnan, we can find any woman we want!"
After being scolded by the village chief, Li Yong's crying stopped.
Then, the refugees began to move along the official road towards the town...
**
Zhou Lingling met Chen and the others shortly after they had just escaped from those people.
"mother!"
It was getting dark and only a few dark shadows could be vaguely seen.
But when Zhou Lingling heard two "moo" sounds, she was delighted. It was the voices of their dogs Dahuang and Erhuang!
"Uncle Tie, my parents are just ahead."
After hearing this, Tie Yuan whipped the horse's butt, and the horse sped up.
Chen also heard her daughter's voice and thought she had misheard until Tie Yuan drove the carriage to a stop in front.
"father!"
"mother!"
Zhou Lingling and Zhou Yun jumped off the carriage and ran towards the ox cart.
The couple and the Chen family also looked delighted.
Chen pulled her daughter and touched her head: "Why are you here? It's almost dark now, how dangerous!"
Especially when thinking about what had just happened, Chen suddenly felt a chill.
She rarely looked angry and said to her daughter:
"Don't run around like that anymore! It's a mess out there, okay?"
Zhou Lingling laughed, "Mom, I'm with Uncle Tie and Big Brother Lu, so I definitely won't come out alone!"
Chen knew that her daughter was worried about them, so she poked her little forehead and said nothing.
Zhou Lingling ran over to check on her grandmother's family, and seeing that they were all alright, she said:
"Grandfather, grandmother, uncle and aunt, Master Wu, eldest and second cousins, it's getting dark, let's go home first and talk later..."
Old Mrs. Chen agreed repeatedly: "Yes, yes, let's go back first!"
She now really feels that the world outside is about to change!
Others nodded.
Zhou Lingling asked her second brother and eldest brother Lu to follow her father and the others first, and then she got on the carriage.
She didn't go in either, but sat on the shaft of the cart with Tie Yuan.
The carriage followed slowly behind, and Zhou Lingling then asked Sang Lin.
"Uncle Sang, what happened on the road?"
Sang Lin was about to speak, but Zhou Lingling frowned and raised her hand to ask Uncle Tie to stop.
Sang Lin also stopped talking and looked around vigilantly.
Zhou Lingling stared at the mound of earth on the side of the road and said coldly:
"come out!"
There was no movement behind the mound.
Zhou Lingling: "Come out! Don't make me say it a third time!"
After waiting for a while, I heard rustling sounds from behind the mound.
A woman came out trembling with a small bundle in her arms.
She staggered and knelt down towards Zhou Lingling.
"Please, please save my child..."
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