On the way to escape famine, my parents divorced

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Li Shiyue was about to step forward with her knife in hand, but before she could draw her knife, the two men dropped their sticks and knelt on their knees facing Li Shiyue!
"Aunt, please spare me, please spare me, I kowtow to you!"

"Have mercy!

We are blind and will never do it again! Please spare our lives, auntie!"

The two men shouted these words and kowtowed to the compacted snow without stumbling, which sounded quite sincere.

But with Li Shiyue's intentions, can she trust him?
However, since the other person knelt first, she couldn't use the knife, right?
Although they said they would not use knives, Li Shiyue had thought about these two people. They were able to stay in the city and were attracted by their generosity. They even wanted to go out of the city and rob people with their friends. How could they be good people?

This is just like a scumbag knelt down to apologize to you and yelled that he would swear to you. If you really believed it, you lost.

He put the hatchet back into his waist, but Li Shiyue attacked the two men who thought they were little girls and could be soft-hearted. When the two were not on guard, he directly hit the fatter man with a strong force and subdued him.

The thinner man was frightened for a moment, then turned around and ran towards Sanshan County without even looking back.

Could Li Qiutian let him run away?

After chasing for a few steps, Li Qiutian tapped the man on the shoulder with the back of the knife. The man was so frightened that he dared not move anymore and knelt down with his knees bent.

"Auntie, please spare me! Auntie, please spare me! I have an 80-year-old mother above me and a 3-year-old child below me. Please don't kill me! Auntie."

Li Qiutian felt that this person was really noisy, so he yelled at him: "Shut up!"

The thin man was so scared that he immediately stopped talking and shut his mouth, not daring to bother anyone again.

Li Qiutian turned around to look at Li Shiyue. Li Shiyue looked at the two men from front to back and tied them up tightly with the remaining hemp rope in the car.

"Come on, tell me, why did you target us?"

Li Shiyue and Li Qiutian were leaning on a cart. In front of them, two men, one tall and one short, one fat and one thin, were kneeling on the snow.

To say that one of them is fat is actually only relative to the thin one. Neither of them is strong and both look frail.

How could the man kneeling on the ground dare not remain silent?
They were filled with deep regret, feeling that they had made a mistake. They had never thought that a girl who could come to the city alone to shop and even dared to buy things in a silver shop could not be a good person.
In fact, when they saw the two men drawing their swords, they were already frightened and wanted to run away at that time.

But they never expected that Li Shiyue would draw his sword and move forward, so they were forced out.

At this moment they were talking to the two of them while crying.

The two men said they were from Zhao You's family and were cousins. The taller one was called Zhao Youtian and the shorter one was called Zhao Youcai.

Both of their parents had passed away, leaving them with only an old grandmother at home. As it was nearly the end of the year, the brothers had little money, but still wanted to have a good year, so they came up with the idea of robbery.

Little did I know that this time I would run into a tough guy without good intentions.

"Auntie, spare me! This is the first time for us!
In the past, we were not very courageous. We only dared to steal a chicken in the village and pull a few vegetables from other people’s fields. We didn’t dare to do anything else.

Really!

This time, if my grandmother hadn’t been confused, we wouldn’t have dared to do such a bad thing! "

Zhao Youcai looked really pitiful as he cried with tears and snot.

But Li Shiyue didn't believe it!

She doesn't believe it!
Of course, it is possible that the two were telling the truth, but how could one trust the words of people who had done bad things?

But we have to report to the authorities, right?
It's already late now. Should we catch the bus back to Sanshan County?

Finally, Li Shiyue decided to let the two go, but she took two steps forward and said to them, "I don't know if what you said is true or just a lie to deceive me.

I don't care, but I remember what you two look like.

I am going to Zhao You's house to buy bean cakes in two days. If I find out from others that you two have done something bad, I will find you two by following your example." Li Shiyue patted the knife at her waist and said, "I have killed people before, don't worry, I will behead them with one knife, it won't hurt."

After scaring the two men, Li Shiyue untied them. The two men knelt down and kowtowed, but when they saw that Li Shiyue did not stop them, they turned around and ran away.

But after a while, it ran quite far away.

Only then did Li Shiyue and Li Qiutian get back on the carriage and drive back to Liujiatun.

When the two returned home, there was a torch standing in the yard, guiding the two people returning from the village entrance.

"Why did you come back at such a late hour?"

Li Shiyue felt that the complaining and worried words from Li's mother were very pleasant to the ears.

Everyone worked together to move the items on the cart into the house one by one.

"Oh! What is this? What an exquisite wooden box!"

Li Xiatian was the first one to discover the jewelry that Li Shiyue and Li Qiutian bought in the silver shop. When she entered the house and opened the boxes, she was overwhelmed by the exquisite and beautiful earrings.

She counted carefully and found that all five girls in the family had one!
"I want this lotus one, it's beautiful!"

"Why did you spend money to buy this?" As soon as Li's mother saw the jewelry, she knew it was definitely bought by Li Shiyue. Li Shiyue had ten taels of silver in her hand, so she could spend nine and a half taels.

Li Shiyue told Li's mother and Zheng Meiniang what he had said to Li Qiutian. While they were talking, Li Xiatian turned over another box.

"Ah! Why is there no flower on this hairpin?"

Li Shiyue put down the water bowl and glanced in the direction of Li Xiatian. She said, "That's the hairpin I bought for my second uncle. I have to send him to the city to study next year. The female shopkeeper of the silver shop said that all the scholars in the city wear this."

Li Wangming, who hadn't been in Li Shiyue's good grace for several days, was overjoyed when he heard that this was bought specially for him. He stood up without even looking at the jade hairpin in the box and said directly to Li Shiyue: "Hey, Shiyue is thinking of me!
But why would I need that? This ribbon my sister-in-law sewed for me is pretty good.”

"I bought it for you, so just wear it. Why is Second Uncle so talkative?"

"Okay, tell me what you mean. What is that money-making business that made you happy to buy so many jewels?"

"Mother, the eldest son said that the rebellious Prince Jing'an has been executed, and the biggest civil strife has been quelled.

The Youzhou army won a great victory in the battle against the Turks. Shibi Khan pledged loyalty and paid tribute, and asked to marry the princess so that they could trade in the border town!

We are right here on the border of the trade. In the next one or two years, there will definitely be many caravans that will cross the grassland from here to the trade area.

Now, we should buy land and build houses, and sit at the doorstep and wait to make money! "(End of this chapter)