Lin Shuanglan, Feng Anan, and Tu Xiaoxi were all in the Lin family's backyard.
Lin Shuanglan clutched her hands and walked back and forth.
Feng Anan's eyes were red, and he was sitting on the stone steps, crying all the time.
Tu Xiaoxi was relatively calm, and from time to time he looked up at Lin Shuanglan who was walking around.
Wang Pan knocked on the door gently, and Lin Shuanglan hurriedly stepped forward and opened the back door.
Feng Anan and Tu Xiaoxi stood up at the same time and looked at her.
"It's terrible," Wang Pan said with a pale face. "It's like the Bai family was ransacked. Wu Niang and Liu Niang's mother-in-law were beaten terribly!"
"Oh my God!" Feng Anan reached out and covered his mouth.
"I guessed it would be like this!" Lin Shuanglan said anxiously, "What about the man on the mountain?"
"He was taken away! Many people grabbed him and brought him down!"
"I'm so scared," Feng Anan said with a trembling voice, "If Wu Niang and Liu Niang are caught, will they be..."
She didn't dare to speak any more.
"Didn't you say you hate them?" Wang Pan looked at Feng An'an.
"I was talking out of anger! Who wouldn't be angry if I let it go?" Feng Anan cried.
"But, will it be found on us?" Tu Xiaoxi said.
The three girls turned back to look at her.
Tu Xiaoxi looked at them: "If it is found out that we let Wu Niang and Liu Niang go, what will they do to us?"
Just now, Wang Pan went to her cousin's house to deliver embroidery and accidentally bumped into Mr. Zhan Ba, who was gathering people, so she immediately turned around to find Lin Shuanglan.
Lin Shuanglan knew something had happened, so she immediately asked Bai Wuniang and Bai Liuniang to run away first, and they were all present.
"It can't be found!" Feng An'an said immediately, "Tu Xiaoxi, you can't leak the secret of this matter. If you tell it, all of us will be ruined!"
Tu Xiaoxi raised his eyebrows lightly and nodded.
At this moment, there was a knock on the backyard door again.
Lin Shuanglan stepped forward and opened it. He was a militia captain in the village.
Lin Shuanglan's face darkened and she said coldly: "Liu Sanlang, what are you doing?"
"Da Lanzi, the generals want me to come to you for questioning," Liu Sanlang looked at her, "Where are Bai Wuniang and Bai Liuniang?"
"I don't know, I didn't see them today!" After saying that, Lin Shuanglan closed the door directly.
The moment before the door closed, several men stepped forward and held it open.
Lin Shuanglan was not as strong as them. Fortunately, Wang Pan helped her in time, otherwise she would have been knocked to the ground by the force.
The militiamen who usually had a good relationship with Lin Shuanglan were now more and more cold-faced, so they broke in and started searching.
"What are you doing!" Lin Shuanglan said angrily, "This is my home, you should give my father some face!"
"General Lin agreed!" Liu Sanlang said while searching.
Feng Anan, Wang Pan, and Tu Xiaoxi immediately looked at Lin Shuanglan.
Even Mr. Lin agreed, which shows that no one can take care of this matter for them anymore.
This really touches the bottom line of the village.
The sky is getting darker and darker, the sky in the west is shining brightly with gold, and the people in Qingxiang Village are looking for someone to prepare to implement the village rules.
The homeless militiamen outside Qingxiang Village looked at Qingxiang Village from a distance, eyeing it with eagerness.
From the southwest of the Xinyi Station, Xia Zhaoyi and Zhi Changle's mounts set foot on this wilderness.
After traveling south from Yantianpo for twenty-seven days, they finally returned here in the afterglow of late autumn.
Compared to the bustle of people when they went there, it was deserted and deserted now, with almost no one in the vast wilderness until they encountered a group of wild dogs that were dragging away carcasses.
The body had been eaten by wild dogs and was completely disfigured. It was not highly decomposed and should have been dead not long ago.
Zhi Changle drove away the group of wild dogs, and following the traces of the wild dogs, they discovered a huge mass grave.
The pit was filled with thick soil, and the surrounding area was torn apart by wild dogs. It was strewn among the vegetation, broken limbs and arms were lying on the ground, and flying insects were everywhere.
They stood six feet away and watched from a distance, but did not step forward.
"They all died of starvation," Zhi Changle looked at Xia Zhaoyi, "There should be some who died of illness. There are almost no external injuries on their bodies."
Zhi Changle could clearly distinguish the wounds sustained before death and the wounds opened by wild dogs after death.
Xia Zhaoyi turned around with some emotion at this time and looked at the southern sky.
As the sky light faded and the stars hung high, a sparse row of torches lit up at the foot of the mountain in the south, spreading out across the entire skyline.
"It should be those refugees," Zhi Changle said, "They are still here after so long."
"Perhaps they are no longer refugees," Xia Zhaoyi said, "perhaps they have become an army."
"Will Qingxiang Village be in danger?"
"Don't be afraid if there is danger," Xia Zhaoyi said, changing direction and saying, "Let's go back and take a look."
Zhi Changle understood what she meant when she said she was not afraid of danger.
Those Ten Wounding Instruments on the mountain can make crossbow arrows. If there is a real danger, the people of Qingxiang Village will definitely use them.
They did not go back from the village, but took a long way to prepare to go downhill from the northeast.
Zhi Changle took out a lantern made of bamboo strips woven by Xia Zhaoyi from the bamboo basket behind his horse, and hung it in front of the horse's head like a fishing rod for lighting.
The night breeze was blowing, and the sky was filled with boundless stars. They were walking slowly on the hillside just like they had been traveling for more than twenty days.
While walking, Xia Zhaoyi suddenly reined in his horse and stopped.
Zhi Changle looked at her: "Hmm? Ah Li."
The wind in the mountains was very strong, and there was the sound of streams not far away. Xia Zhaoyi turned his eyes and looked around, and his eyes stopped on the big rock beside the road.
"Come out." Xia Zhaoyi said.
The calm and cool sound is especially clear in the mountains and forests at night.
Zhi Changle was immediately alert and looked in that direction: "Who!"
He didn't hear any movement, but he never questioned Xia Zhaoyi's judgment.
After a while of silence, Bai Wu Niang and Bai Liu Niang walked out from behind the rock with pale faces.
After running away for several hours, the two sisters looked up at them with disgraceful faces and trembling eyes.
Xia Zhaoyi still recognized them: "Bai Wu Niang, Bai Liu Niang?"
"Miss Ah Li!" Bai Wu Niang and Bai Liu Niang knelt down, "Can you pretend you didn't see us?"
"Let us live!"
"What's going on!" Zhi Changle shouted, "Tell me slowly, what happened?"
Bai Wuniang shed tears: "Didn't Miss Ah Li say that whoever is good at reading can follow you to make a living outside and get a lot of money? But you only need two people."
"...Did I say that?" Xia Zhaoyi said.
"Da Lanzi said it," Bai Liuniang cried, "Da Lanzi said it was you who said it."
"What does this have to do with your escape?" Zhi Changle asked.
"We just wanted to make money and leave Qingxiang Village and go with Miss Ali," Bai Wuniang said more. "We met a man from outside on the mountain that day. He was literate, could read, and could write poems.
, we just wanted to learn secretly with him so that we can compare with other girls in the village!"
"Now, we have been discovered," Bai Liuniang cried more and more sadly, "people in the village are looking for us everywhere, they will kill us!"
