Although he didn't quite understand what Li Ping'an meant by living for thirteen more years, Dr. Zhu did not delve into it, but sighed: "You are still young and don't understand yet. From the moment that woman stopped us, we He has already been targeted. In the troubled times, there were many tricks like this. This is still holding a dead baby. If it is alive and crying like a little chicken, then it is called disturbing. Someone. If you don't want to hear your children cry, you will get into trouble if you become soft-hearted. Countless mobs will swamp them, burn, kill, rape, and loot them, and commit all kinds of evil.
I heard that your father and the others escaped from the south back then, and they should have seen a lot. You haven’t seen it, so you won’t think so badly, but your father and the others are never wrong. "
"Whatever, it's just a death anyway. I'll have a full meal later, and I'll die like a full-fledged ghost!" As he said that, Li Ping'an's expression became playful, and he whispered into Dr. Zhu's ear, "By the way, Doctor Zhu, you should still have a lot of money. If you die here, it will be easier for the mob."
"Oh, yes, you reminded me. If chaos breaks out, I will throw the money into the well."
"...will they come tonight?"
"Maybe, they will always take action. We are just a piece of fat in their eyes. They will not let us go. It is unlikely that they will follow us for several days before taking action. They cannot afford to wait and will not waste time. "
"Isn't it said that it's safer when there are more people?"
"No matter how many of us there are, can we still outnumber the refugees? The large number of people will certainly make many refugees wary of us, but it is also too eye-catching and too easy to be targeted. The mobs are all crazy, I think they are Are you afraid, and are you considering the cost?" Dr. Zhu glanced at the refugees not far away who were looking greedily at the smell of rice, "But compared with them, we have more people, and our self-protection ability has improved a lot. . These refugees don’t need to worry too much. They look like they have been hungry all the time and are very weak. If you half-year-old children are full, it won’t be a problem to beat two of them one by one.”
"No wonder my dad said don't worry about them."
"Didn't I say that your father and the others can never be wrong? Don't think that you are the only one who is smart. The fact that your father and the others were able to escape from such an environment and still survive is not something that ordinary people can do."
Li Ping'an touched his nose. He had never looked down on the ancients because of his knowledge of previous lives, even if they were not in the same time and space. In ancient times, knowledge was not circulated, and there was no modern science and technology that can spread all over the world. However, there was no shortage of wisdom. Even an illiterate and poor peasant had the cunning thoughts of a common man.
Before nightfall, under the greedy eyes of the refugees who wanted to eat people, Li Ping'an ate a large bowl of gruel as if no one else was around. It was much thicker than every meal he had eaten since he set out on the road to escape, and he could count the grains of rice. , at least he couldn’t count the grains of rice in this bowl.
But only men and their half-grown children can eat so well. Strictly speaking, the rice porridge eaten by adult men is thicker than what he eats, and most of the rice grains are eaten by them, while women and children are not. Or drink rice soup to satisfy your hunger. Although Li Ping'an felt sorry for his younger brothers and sisters, he also understood that if they were full now, if a mob really came to their door, they would be able to resist with greater intensity.
After eating, Li Ping'an came to the perimeter with a sharpened stick. He lit a lot of fires tonight and illuminated the surroundings brightly. He glanced around and sat down next to Li Erlin, watching and drinking. The refugees in Caogenshui said, "Dad, can you ask them to help us?"
Li Erlin smiled contemptuously and said: "When they saw us eating rice porridge, they didn't even have the courage to come up and ask for it. Do you expect them to help us resist the mob?"
Li Ping'an didn't ask any more questions, but although Li Erlin and the others seemed to despise the refugees, they would not really relax their vigilance against the refugees. Before the mob came, the refugees were the greatest danger.
As the night progressed, the wind picked up, causing the fire to sway.
Around midnight, Zhang Yu suddenly said: "Here we come."
Li Ping'an immediately clenched the stick in his hand, his whole body tensed, and his eyes looked around. He believed that Zhang Yu, an experienced hunter, had sensitive hearing. Every time he went hunting in the mountains, Zhang Yu could always hear the movements of some prey before others.
But what Li Ping'an didn't expect was that those uninvited guests showed up in his sight without any cover at all.
At a glance, there were twenty or thirty people, all men, holding various weapons in their hands, including knives, axes, hoes, and wooden sticks. As they approached, Li Ping'an could even see the red eyes of the man walking in the front through the firelight.
The man who was suspected to be the leader was about to speak when an arrow accurately hit his eyebrow. The man's eyes widened and he fell back proudly.
Before everyone could react, another man fell to the ground after being hit by an arrow. Li Pingan was stunned and subconsciously turned his head to look in the direction of Zhang Yu, but Zhang Yu was nowhere to be seen.
At the same time, a thought flashed through his mind, or a complaint: I, as an uncle, listened too much to my aunt. I told him not to mess around during the day, and then hid and took action when we met each other at night.
"Fuck you!"
There was another sound in his ears. Li Ping'an quickly turned around and saw that his father and the others had already rushed forward and started fighting with the uninvited guests who had reacted.
This was the first time he had seen such a scene. The blade cut open the flesh and the sharp stick penetrated the body. The scene was extremely bloody, and the sounds of wailing and screaming were endless.
His mind went blank, he could only feel the qi and blood surging, and he could not hear any sound in his ears. He was about to rush forward in a daze, but unexpectedly he was pulled back by a force, and when he saw the sharp Calling to his trembling younger brothers and sisters who huddled together in a ball, he finally regained some clarity.
Looking at Zhang Dashan holding his wrist again, he opened his mouth but couldn't say anything.
"Don't worry about the front. We don't know how many of them there are. We have to prevent any of them from hiding and attacking." Zhang Dashan is usually very calm, but now at the moment of fighting, there is no trace of panic on his face. .
Feeling infected, Li Ping'an forced himself to calm down. Isn't it the scene of the Young and the Dangerous fighting scenes that he had seen on the disc in his previous life? Hold on, don't panic, hold on...
"Li Ping'an, you are scared sometimes!" Zhang Xiaoshan's mocking voice came.
Li Ping'an immediately broke his defense, "I'm not afraid, I'm on top. If Brother Dashan hadn't held me back, I would have rushed up to fight with them."
"Stop arguing, don't be distracted!" Zhang Dashan shouted to stop the two of them from talking.
Although Zhang Xiaoshan stopped talking, he still kept winking at Li Ping'an. He thought that Li Ping'an was very capable. He would still panic and get angry when something happened. His elder brother was reliable and could be relied upon at critical moments.
Li Ping'an turned a blind eye, but it was impossible not to be distracted. Among the people fighting over there were his father and his relatives. It was impossible for him to hold back and not look at them.
There was a sudden and sharp pain on his head. He cried out in pain and touched it with his hand.
