A row of people knelt on the ground, cried bitterly, and kowtowed to the bandits.
"Please, gentlemen, spare our lives! It's not easy for us to struggle to get here..."
"Master, please! Let us go!"
"Let us go..."
"ah--"
The bandits stepped forward and kicked down the refugees in the front row. They looked ferocious and cruel, "Don't talk about these useless nonsense, we only want money or food! If we give it to you, we can leave!"
Someone shouted, “We have no money!”
Whose family didn’t have to flee because they were short of money and food? You only become a refugee when you have nothing to eat and are full?
The bandit squinted his eyes, put the knife on his chest, and started to act aggressively, "Don't cross the road if you don't have money! Just wait here to die!"
Dozens of refugees were filled with resentment and cursed in low voices, but they did not dare to let the bandits on the opposite side hear them.
The Fang family trembled among the refugees.
Mrs. Wu hugged her youngest daughter and son, tears streaming down her face, her voice trembling, "Master, how about we pay the toll?"
Butcher Fang's face was livid, and he gritted his teeth and said, "They are bandits! They took advantage of the situation and robbed them. They only have 10 taels of silver each. Do you have any money?"
Mrs. Wu opened her mouth to say something, but was interrupted by Butcher Fang, "If you give them the money now, what will you do when the next city asks us for entry fees? Do you still want to enter the city at that time? Besides, wait for us Find a good place to settle down, what can you do for free?"
Fang Lu also agreed with her father's statement. She held her mother's hand and persuaded her in a low voice. After all, she was still a little girl, her face turned pale with fright, and she thought more clearly than my mother.
Wu looked at the group of tough bandits, waving their swords in their hands, feeling scared and knowing that the man was right. I had no choice but to lower my head and cry.
The people around them are also like them. Their family backgrounds are very poor. It’s a big deal that they can survive until now, but they can’t survive without money.
Everyone's eyes were confused, and they didn't know where the end would be, or where the weather would be smooth. They only know that far away from the suffering in their hometown, they may still have hope of survival.
Now this glimmer of hope has been choked by the bandits.
This place is deserted, with no villages or shops. Being stuck here is really a dilemma.
There was a family wearing shabby linen and straw sandals, but they could tremble and take out 50 taels of silver from their arms.
The man in charge carefully handed the money to the bandits and begged them to let them go.
The bandits counted the money, and if there was no problem, they let him go.
The family ran across this section of the road quickly, not daring to look back, for fear that the bandits would regret it.
The man with the mole on his chin smiled evilly and said to the rest of the group, "Did you see it? I'll say it again, a person can leave after paying 10 taels of silver or 2 cakes!"
"Don't you want to find a good place to settle down quickly? As long as you find it, what does this little money mean?"
"If you stay here all the time and you die of sunburn or starvation, wouldn't that be even less worthwhile?"
Some people with a small family feel ready to move when they hear this. Yes, wouldn’t it be possible to live a good life if we get over it as soon as possible?
He looked around, his heart itching, and his mouth becoming greedy again, "Or, you can exchange family members. For example, one person stays and two people go over. Let's make an agreement first, we only want children and young women. .....”
The bandits laughed heartily, and their glances at the refugees became even more malicious and unscrupulous.
The people who heard this originally secretly rejoiced that as long as they persuaded the elders in the family, they could go on their own and reduce their burden. But they didn't expect that they only wanted children and young women. His face turned gray again.
Bandits are really hard to fool.
The scorching sun was in the sky, scorching the earth, and everyone was still in a stalemate under the anxious atmosphere.
The bandits were sweating profusely, but they did not dare to take off their clothes for fear that they would die if they were exposed to the sun.
They looked at the hesitating refugees, and their little patience was lost. "I'll give you another quarter of an hour. If you don't want to go through it, just go back to your disaster-stricken hometown!"
Wu didn't want to walk back. Along the way, they had narrowly escaped death in so many dangers, and the soles of their feet were bruised with blood before they got here. Just thinking of those cannibalistic eyes made her tremble.
Ignoring the man's obstruction, she began to rummage through boxes and cabinets to find money, "I don't care what happens in the future, we have to live now, right? We can't survive now, what else do we want to do in the future?"
The same is true for many refugees. They had to dig out the coffin for another chance.
The man with no money dragged his wife and daughter to find the bandits, asking for him and his son to go there...
Amidst all the noise, the sound of the mule cart's wheels seemed less prominent.
Jiang Yue and the two drove up to the scene, only ten steps away from the bandits.
The man raised his chin. The mole was more obvious in the sun, and there was a tuft of hair on it, which was really eye-catching.
"Should I give you money or food?"
Jiang Yue showed a sneer under the mask and snorted, "I won't give you anything."
The tone was muffled, but it was still recognizable as a woman's voice.
The bandits surrounded them ferociously, but anyone dared to challenge them?
The man with the black mole narrowed his eyes, looked at the two men back and forth, and smiled at the brothers, "We met this in the woods more than ten days ago."
He turned around, with a lewd light in his eyes, and said, "It turns out she is a young lady. No wonder she refused to stay and rest with us that night..."
There was teasing in his voice, but before he could finish speaking, Jiang Nian had already unsheathed his sword and headed towards the man.
Under the scorching sun, the blade reflected light, and a bloodstain appeared on the neck of the man with the black mole.
He opened his eyes wide and covered his neck with his hands in disbelief, but he couldn't stop the blood from gushing out and fell to the ground instantly.
With a "bang" sound, the bandit boss fell face to face, and the surrounding bandits were stunned.
I don’t understand why the boss fell down after just blinking.
