newbobooks Chapter 776 Someone was killed!
Chapter 776 Someone was killed!
They still maintained their habit from the time of fleeing famine, heating up breakfast and lunch in the morning.
At this moment, I returned to the carriage and took out the warm buns from the thick quilt.
After the three of them finished their meal in the carriage, they heard a quarrel nearby.
It turned out that someone was targeting the two families who had just been arrested.
I bought the grain from one of them at a high price.
Someone else came to buy it later and accidentally leaked the news.
The family that sold the grain went over and wanted to get the grain back.
But since the family that bought the grain had already found a way to buy it, how could they possibly return it?
After a few words, the two sides started arguing loudly.
The cavalrymen who were watching nearby looked grim when they saw this.
They came over with knives in hand and gloomy faces.
"What are you arguing about? If you disturb the Lord, all of you will die!"
When the quarreling parties saw the cavalry coming, they were so scared that they took a few steps back, shrank their bodies and stopped talking.
The cavalryman looked at him, still not satisfied, and lashed him with a few whips.
The two groups of people standing in the front were both whipped and screamed.
However, the scream was only one.
Under the fierce stare of the cavalry, the remaining screams were forcibly suppressed.
Both sides received several whippings, and the two families dared not quarrel anymore.
After a quiet negotiation, the family who sold the grain took back half of the grain.
This matter just passed like that.
After watching the commotion, Lu Qingqing leaned back in the carriage quietly, intending to take a rest.
Before he had rested for long, he heard the cavalry shouting and hurrying on.
Everyone hurriedly put on the carriage frame, waved the reins and started on their way again.
In the afternoon, the cavalry seized several more carriages.
When they stopped that night, the cavalry came to them again to ask for food.
However, this time, Lu Qingqing and Sun Yue were also treated as elderly people.
Just give 20 kilograms of grain and you don’t need to pay any more money.
Although the quantity has decreased, the 20 kilograms of food per day is still very stressful.
While delivering the grain, Lu Qingqing noticed a family not far from them with serious expressions.
She recognized that this family had come to them last night to ask if they had any extra food to sell.
Before she could say anything, Old Man Zhuang and Sun Yue had already chased the person out.
When the man was driven out, he was still shouting that he was willing to exchange his ancestral jade pendant for food.
But at this moment, not to mention jade pendants, even gold and silver are not as important as food.
After handing over the food, each family began to set up tents and cook.
While Lu Qingqing was busy, she clearly felt that the atmosphere around her was a bit solemn.
She told Old Man Zhuang and Sun Yue that if they wanted to go to the toilet, they should do it in the urine bucket.
Go out and pour it out tomorrow morning.
After hearing her say this, the two of them realized that something was wrong.
Looking at the pitch-black night outside, he silently raised his guard.
The three of them took turns on night duty as agreed upon previously.
Even so, Lu Qingqing was still very alert when she slept.
Around midnight, she was sleeping when she heard footsteps approaching.
It was already windy outside, and the footsteps were not very obvious in the wind and snow.
She opened her eyes, took the coat and put it on.
When I reached the entrance of the tent, I heard someone approaching.
In order to ensure food security, they set up camp with the doors of the two carriages facing each other.
The entrance to their tent was on this side of the carriage.
At this moment, the footsteps were obviously heading towards the carriage entrance.
When Lu Qingqing opened the tent, she saw Sun Yue in the opposite carriage rushing out with a big knife.
"Who dares to steal food?"
With a low shout, the three thieves were frightened.
When they saw they were discovered, they turned around and ran back in a hurry.
Just as Sun Yue was about to chase after him, Lu Qingqing stopped her.
The thief was seen turning left and right, hiding behind the carriages and tents, and soon disappeared.
At this time, Old Man Zhuang also came out wearing his clothes.
After listening to Sun Yue's account of what happened, he cursed the thief who stole the food in a low voice.
The three of them exchanged a few words and then went back to lie down.
Unexpectedly, the next day, before the cavalry could even wake them up with the gong, they heard a scream.
"Someone's dead! Someone's been killed!"
This shout woke up everyone in the carriage camp.
Even the cavalry not far away came over with frowns.
Lu Qingqing asked Old Man Zhuang and Sun Yue to take good care of the belongings, and went over to check the situation.
Squeezing into the crowd, I saw two bodies lying next to the carriage.
Both victims had a cut on their necks, and blood was flowing all over the ground.
Judging from the traces on the ground, these two people have been dead for some time.
The cavalryman looked around the carriage and saw that the traces on the snow had been destroyed by people's trampling.
Besides, the cavalryman had no intention of seeking justice for the two men.
He randomly pointed out a few men from the crowd and gave instructions:
“You, you, and a few of you, come and throw the bodies of these two men to the west.”
Seeing those people start to move, he stepped forward again, got into the carriage and moved the things out.
At this time, there was not a single grain of food in the carriage except bedding and luggage.
The cavalryman had anticipated this and divided the valuables inside with the soldiers nearby.
But the cavalrymen didn't want big items like bedding.
They have space for bedding, so they might as well collect more silver.
In other words, if they had a place to put their money.
The silver and money in the hands of the people in the carriage had long been looted by the cavalry.
After the cavalry left, Old Man Zhuang came over to see what was going on and quietly went forward to pick up the thick quilt.
He cursed these people in his heart for not knowing the value of things.
This is a thick quilt weighing four kilograms, which keeps you very warm.
Even if you don’t cover it, you can just stuff it into the car to block the wind!
Look, how warm it is!
He returned to the carriage with a thick blanket and brushed off the snowflakes on his head.
After looking around the carriage, he finally put the quilt next to Qin Lang's seat.
Sun Yue was heating up the food at the time. Seeing him come back with a quilt, she asked him what happened.
Old Man Zhuang briefly explained it to her.
After listening to this, Sun Yue whispered:
"Master, could it be those three thieves from last night who did this?"
Old Man Zhuang shook his head.
“I don’t think so, those three guys are not very courageous.
Frightened by you, he turned around and ran away.
I saw those two men were killed with a single cut to the neck. It was a quick and easy kill."
Lu Qingqing had just returned from emptying the urine bucket. After hearing this, she agreed:
"I think so too. The two people who were killed were not too far away from us.
I didn't hear any noise last night, which means those two people didn't struggle much.
The person who did it was not only ruthless but also had good skills.
Next time, we have to be more careful on night duty!"
After hearing what she said, Old Man Zhuang and Sun Yue both agreed seriously.
Two days later.
As it got dark, the cavalry stopped.