The peasant girl who escaped the desert: she cried when she found the cruel prince

Chapter 40
Everyone quickened their pace and hurried forward. The men pushing the cart didn't care if their hands had blood blisters. The women either carried their children on their backs or held them in their arms, covering their children's eyes for fear that they would have nightmares after seeing too much.
Jingli's legs were also weak from walking. Her family had a mule cart, but it was not a rush. She had to give it to the elderly and children in the village. Moreover, the mule was already suffocating with fatigue, so she had to walk by herself.

Widow Qin's family was very grateful. It was not easy for their family to be small, so they naturally had no money to buy bullock carts and so on. They relied on manpower for transportation. Jingli asked Widow Qin and several grandchildren to get on the cart. Women can then free up their hands to help men push carts.

"Ah Li, look at it. There are no dead bodies along the way. Are we out of the worst-hit area?" Mr. Jing asked, wiping the sweat from his forehead.

Everyone gritted their teeth and walked from the morning of the first day to the sunrise of the next day. They walked straight for a day and a night. Everyone was exhausted, and even the mules were lying on their stomachs.

Jing Li asked people to stop, walked quickly to the front, took out a telescope and took a closer look, and found that they were almost out of the worst-hit area, so he felt relieved to let people rest.

Everyone sat down on the ground tiredly and never wanted to get up again. Some of the casual ones simply lay down.

The tired men did not dare to rest, so they went to find clean water sources to fetch water, and asked the women to prepare hot food for the children. Otherwise, the children's intestines and stomach would not be able to bear the constant eating of dry food and cold water.

As soon as the women boiled the water, several bloody men came towards them, looking straight towards the place where the aroma of food was coming from.

Dalang quickly led people over: "Go away! If you don't go away, don't blame us for being rude!"

The young man is no longer the child he once was. He has grown up very quickly along the way, and now he has a bit of murderous aura in him.

Those people knelt down in front of the teenagers: "Please help me stutter!"

Uncle Tiesheng stepped forward and said hard-heartedly: "You go to the woods to find some wild vegetables. It's not that we don't give them food, we are all refugees. We depend on wild vegetables to satisfy our hunger all the way. I don't know if we can survive to the north." , where is there food for you?"

The older ones among those people said: "Do you want to escape to the North?"

"Yes!"

The man looked horrified: "You should find another way, this way is not easy!"

Jingli stepped forward and asked, "Why?"

The man said with a bitter face: "Our family is from this area. The river originally had abundant water resources, and the harvest was good every year. Our life was pretty good."

"But who would have thought that there would be a flood this year and most of the people in the village would drown. Those of us who escaped together fled to Wuzui Mountain dozens of miles away to hide and wait for the flood to recede before coming back."

"Who knew that a group of bandits would come to Wuzuishan at some point and robbed our food, money, wives, and even gave our children to..."

The man started crying as he spoke, and several people with him also had tears in their eyes: "Many women couldn't bear it, and they put their belts around their necks and left as soon as they were hung up. The rest were also crazy and delirious. How about a few of us?" It’s easy to escape. I want to go home and have a look. If I run away for days and nights, I won’t have the energy to find food.”

Jing Li looked at the few people and frowned slightly, then turned around and ordered Dalang: "Give them something to eat!"

Dalang has always been obedient, and he did whatever his sister said without asking, but Uncle Tiesheng looked at Jingli with some doubts.

It is a rule of Jingli not to give food to refugees. There are too many refugees on this road. If you give one, thousands of refugees will come around. The refugees who are so hungry that they lose their minds will tear people to pieces because of their stuttering. possible.Dalang gave him food, and those people ate it voraciously, eating so quickly that they almost choked.

Jingli handed the water to them: "Don't worry, eat slowly. Can some uncles tell me in detail about the Wuzuishan bandits?"

The leader stopped and looked up at the girl in front of him. He finally realized that a girl was in charge of this group of nearly two hundred people.

"The girl is asking this, but you want to pass by the foot of Wuzui Mountain?"

Jing Li nodded: "Yes, this road is easier to walk and is a little closer to the city ahead. We, the whole family, have been walking for many days and want to find a place to rest."

The man replied with some difficulty: "There are more than 50 strong men in the mountain, and the others are women they snatched. It is said that the bandit leader came from the battlefield, and he has strong martial arts skills and ruthless methods."

"Girl, you are a kind-hearted person. Let me advise you to take a detour. Even if you walk an extra hundred miles, it is better than losing your life!"

What the man didn't say in his heart was, not to mention that you have so many beautiful girls and wives here, isn't that just like a fat sheep leading a pack of wolves?

After hearing this, Jing Li raised her eyebrows and called over the team captains: "Uncles, do you dare to do something big?"

Mr. Jing Zhenghai clutched his chest after hearing this. He still underestimated this girl. She actually wanted to rob the bandits.

After all, Old Wangtou is a person who has experienced life and death several times. Although he is not as rude as Mr. Jing, he is still shocked in his heart. God, this girl is too brave!
Jing Dafu stuttered a little: "No. You. Haven't you seen what they are like? How dare you send them to the door without taking a detour?"

Wang Dalong was young and energetic, and after several killings, his blood surged when he heard Jing Li's words: "What a fright! The bandits are not human beings. Weren't we also killed the group by the stream?"

Uncle Tiesheng has always been cautious: "Since Ah Li said this, he must have something in mind. Why don't we all listen to Ah Li's plan!"

Jingli picked up a few stones and said to the crowd: "The goal of our group is too big. Even if we take a detour, the bandits will not let us go. After all, we now have livestock and cars. In their eyes, we are still a good group of fat people." sheep."

Everyone was shocked when they heard this. Yes, many people along the way even had their clothes torn to pieces, let alone food and drink.

Although their clothes were in tatters, they could still cover their bodies, but several oxcarts, mule carts, and a long row of handcarts were not what people regarded as fat sheep.

"Since taking a detour means death, and you can still have a chance to fight if you go up there, why do you have to wait for them to rob us? There are many young and middle-aged people in our team, and they have been killed several times. Those who have passed the blood, it is not certain who will be destroyed when the time comes!"

Fan Ershao, the second son of Chef Fan, held up a kitchen knife: "That's right, Ah Li is not afraid of even a girl. What are we guys afraid of? We all have two eyes and one mouth. How can we be bandits? We can cut with the knife without drawing any blood. ?”

He didn't catch up with the people who were being killed by the stream that time, and he felt unhappy all the time. Although there were a few fights later, they were all refugees, and they were not the same thing at all.

Mr. Jing shook his beard and said, "We have to ask everyone's opinion on this matter. After all, it is a matter of life and death!"

(End of this chapter)