newbobooks Chapter 288 It’s even more chaotic outside
Chapter 288 It’s even more chaotic outside
At night, the whole village was guarded by men, so the woman should be outside the wall.
Lu Qingqing looked at Master Yan and Qin Lang in front of her. The two reacted quickly and started running forward.
Master Yan turned back while running and said to Lu Qingqing:
"Daya, take good care of your master's wife!
Xiao Lang, follow me!"
When the master's wife heard the voice, she felt a little nervous.
But she had experienced too many dangers when fleeing from famine before, so she remained calm during this meeting.
"Daya, let's go over and take a look!"
Lu Qingqing nodded and pulled her master's wife towards the village entrance.
When the two rushed over, Master Yan and the man on night watch from Linshan Village were already standing on the battlement.
Lu Qingqing supported her master's wife, and the two of them quickly climbed up the parapet.
By the light of the torch, three people could be vaguely seen standing outside.
The taller one is the woman who just spoke, and the other two are not tall, probably two half-grown children.
The woman was standing outside the wall, looking up and talking to someone on the parapet.
"My sister married in Linshan Village. Her brother-in-law is Yonggang. I am her sister Suqin. Could you please call my sister for me?"
A man on duty at Linshan Village heard this and continued:
"Okay, sister, you wait here. I'll go to Yonggang's house and tell him. My house is close to his!"
"Hey, brother, I'm waiting here!"
The woman outside quickly agreed.
On the parapet, the man said a few words to Master Yan, then hurriedly packed his luggage and went home.
Master Yan saw a few people outside stamping their feet in the cold and said:
"Which village are you from? Why are you here so late? What happened?"
The woman heard this and replied with tears in her eyes:
"We are from Renjiahe. Bandits broke into the village at night and killed most of the villagers!"
As she spoke, the two children following the woman also burst into tears.
"The three of us siblings were only able to escape alive thanks to our parents who risked their lives to stop us!"
Master Yan listened to the crying of the three people and sighed deeply.
"Did you see clearly how many bandits entered the village and what they looked like?"
The young woman shook her head. She was so busy protecting her younger brother and sister-in-law while they were escaping that she didn't even have time to look.
Instead, the boy next to him said:
"I saw that the leader was a tall man. He was holding a torch and shouting, 'Catch the Kill!' The light from the torch shone on his face, and it looked like there was a black spot on the left side of his face."
Master Yan and Lu Qingqing on the parapet both felt a pang of fear in their hearts.
The tall man who led the team that used children as rafts to ask for food had a spot on his face.
At this time, the boy said hesitantly:
"I saw 30 or 40 bandits, but there were also many who broke into other houses in the village. There were probably more than a hundred of them in total."
Lu Qingqing was stunned. It seemed that the team did not have so many people.
I don’t know whether the boy’s estimate was wrong or the team had more members.
But no matter what, this is not a good development.
Master Yan asked a few more simple questions and then heard the sound of running coming from the village.
After a while, Yonggang's wife and her parents-in-law came running over.
Yonggang's wife climbed up the parapet and was extremely panicked when she saw the people below.
Come here in the middle of the night, I'm afraid something big has happened at home!
"Suqin, why did you come here in the middle of the night?"
Su Qin repeated what she had just said.
When Yonggang's wife heard that her hometown had been massacred and her parents were gone, tears suddenly welled up in her eyes.
It had only been a month or so, and first her head of the family was killed, and now her parents were killed too.
How could these damn bandits be so evil!
I must catch her and bring trouble to her family!
But then, she remembered something and said hurriedly:
"Didn't I go home a few days ago to inform them? Didn't they build a wall around the village?"
Su Qin sobbed, "It was built. Although the wall is not as high as here, it is difficult for normal people to climb in. I don't know how the bandits got in."
"Didn't I tell you last time I went back that the village would have to arrange for someone to be on guard? Didn't the person on duty notice it?"
After Yonggang's wife asked, Suqin shook her head:
“A guardhouse was built in the village, but everyone thought it was too cold and no one wanted to go there.
Later, the elders of the clan also agreed that each family should keep vigil in their own home."
Yonggang's wife was so angry that she beat her thighs, crying and cursing:
"I went back and told you in advance, how could something go wrong?
It’s all because of those damned bandits who killed my parents!”
Under the wall, several younger brothers and sisters also started crying.
Yonggang's wife came to her senses only when she heard her sister-in-law crying.
Seeing several of her brothers and sisters stamping their feet in the cold, she said to Master Yan and Qin Lang beside them:
"Please help me pull my three brothers and sisters up."
Master Yan thought about the fact that Goudan's mother had been in and out a few days ago, so he agreed.
He found a rope from the igloo and threw it down the wall for them to tie around their waists.
After tying it firmly, he pulled the person up little by little.
Only after all three of them came up did Lu Qingqing see their appearance clearly.
The woman who spoke just now was the oldest, but only about fourteen or fifteen years old. The other boy looked twelve or thirteen years old, and the shortest girl was probably only about ten years old.
After Yonggang's family and the three brothers and sisters thanked Master Yan and his companions, they turned and walked towards the village.
Lu Qingqing and others went down the parapet and returned to the ice house.
Although it was much warmer inside the igloo than outside, it was still cold.
The two of them helped to tidy up the bedding, and Master Yan added some firewood to the fire to make the flames burn brighter.
After this experience, everyone's sleepiness was driven away and they sat together around the fire.
Master Yan said:
"It's getting increasingly chaotic outside. We need to see Village Chief Yang tomorrow. We need to be more careful!"
Lu Qingqing nodded:
"Yes, there have been refugees passing through these days. If that group of people gathers more and more, I'm afraid it will get even more chaotic!"
The master's wife frowned and said with some worry:
"In this world, we can't even live a peaceful life!"
Master Yan held her hand, his voice gentle but firm:
"If you don't become strong, you will be bullied wherever you go.
The more chaotic the world becomes, the stronger we need to be to survive!"
Seeing Lu Qingqing staring at the fire in a daze, Qin Lang quietly put the hot water bottle in her hand.
Lu Qingqing recovered and looked at Qin Lang while holding the hot water bottle, and said softly:
"We will all survive."
Qin Lang nodded vigorously.
For a long while, the room was very quiet.
Master Yan suddenly said:
"Da Ya, Xiao Lang, after catching up on your sleep tomorrow morning, let's continue training.
You haven't practiced the multi-player formation enough before, so you need to practice more diligently from now on!"
Lu Qingqing and Qin Lang nodded in unison.
The master's wife was startled by his sudden loud voice, and after she came to her senses, she hit him lightly.
Master Yan saw that Lu Qingqing and the other woman were staring at them, and he was too embarrassed to do anything. He just patted his master's wife's hand soothingly.
Lu Qingqing and her master's wife sat for a while before being urged to leave by Master Yan.
It’s too cold here. My master’s wife is weak and will get sick easily if she stays here for too long.