On the way to escape famine, my parents divorced

Chapter 20: Don’t trust what scholars say easily!

Why did Li Shiyue take the initiative to stand up?

One reason is because of what she said, that you have to fight for your life on the road to escape famine, and if you don't resist, you will be killed and eaten.

We still have food and water now. If the food is eaten up later and we can’t find any water, and we haven’t reached the Andong Protectorate where we can be resettled, then it won’t be as simple as killing people.

By then, cannibalism will become a necessity.

Therefore, since the people of Lijia Village have been targeted by this group of refugees, they must take the initiative to find them and eliminate future troubles.

The second is Li Shiyue's own consideration. She, Li Qiutian and Li Xiatian killed someone tonight. No matter whether they killed someone for self-protection, as long as you killed someone, you will be talked about and evaluated by those ignorant villagers.

They certainly wouldn't dare to say anything in front of you, but they would definitely do something weird behind your back.

Human nature is what it is.

Li Qiutian didn't tell anyone about the fact that he was stronger than the men, but how could those gossipy villagers not tell anyone about the fact that three teenage girls teamed up to kill a refugee and took their way to Xiasan Road?
He says one thing, but probably means another.

Of course, if it was just a few words, why would Li Shiyue be worried?

But on the way forward, among their group, only Li Wangming and Shitou were strong men. However, Li Wangming, the young uncle, had been studying since he was young and had rarely worked in the fields, so it was good enough for him to have a little strength.
As for Shi Tou, he is strong, but he is just an obedient person after all. He listens to whatever you say like a child. How can he protect this whole family?

Not to mention, there is also Grandmother Li, an old lady with limited mobility. Mother Li is still okay, but what about Zheng Meiniang?

Zheng Meiniang is good at killing pigs, but she accidentally ate a poisonous fruit on the road and became half blind. It’s good enough that she can protect herself and not be a burden to others.

Not to mention, Li Shiyue was watching from the side and thought that Li's father and Qin Tao's family of three might stick to her family like taffy.

Just now, in a moment of desperation, Father Li pushed his lover Qin Tao, who was pregnant, out to block the knife. Can you count on him?
And as long as it is not the moment of life and death, filial piety should be considered.

After all, Father Li is Grandmother Li's son, Li Wangming's brother, and Li Shiyue and Shitou's biological father, so how can they really ignore Father Li?

At least, you can't do this openly.

Therefore, someone in this family must take the lead in terms of military force to be the one to deter external threats.

For his own sake, for the sake of the Li family and the Zheng family, Li Shiyue had to take the initiative to stand up and make friends with Li Shiyang, the village chief's son who had won the title of scholar and led the entire village to escape famine in advance!

Therefore, Li Shiyue took the initiative to stand up and echoed Li Shiyang's words.

At this moment, their group of twenty or so people were hiding behind patches of weeds. They stood up slightly, half bent over and looked forward, and saw two torches lit about a hundred steps away.

After confirming that the lair described by the three refugees was correct and that they had really found the person, Li Shiyang turned around and took the hatchet from the village man next to him.

The refugee, with his mouth gagged and hands tied, and only his feet able to move, kept backing away as he watched Li Shiyang walking towards him with a hatchet. But where was there any place for him to retreat?
However, after taking two steps back, the village man pressed his neck against her.

Li Shiyue, who was huddled together with Li Qiutian, guessed what Li Shiyang was going to do next when she saw him like this.

"Don't be afraid, sister. I'm here."

Li Shiyue was already holding Li Qiutian's hand, and as she spoke, she squeezed Li Qiutian's hand harder.

Li Qiutian didn't quite understand what Li Shiyue meant. Suddenly, Li Shiyang's hatchet slashed towards the refugee's neck.

No one expected this.

Li Qiutian saw the refugee's wide-open eyes in the moonlight. In just a few breaths, the spurting blood suffocated him to death.

No one expected that Li Shiyang would kill someone personally, including Li Shiyue herself, who only realized it just now.

After all, in everyone's mind, Li Shiyang was a scholar, the only scholar in the village, and the most capable person who could exempt two people from corvee labor. But who would have thought that the person who raised a knife and killed people without saying a word was also such a scholar.

Li Qiutian was not frightened. She shook Li Shiyue's hand for a while, then leaned close to Li Shiyue's ear and whispered, "Shiyue, didn't the scholar just say that as long as they told the truth, he would spare their lives?
Why, again."

"Sister, if you don't remove the roots, they will grow again in the spring breeze."

After a pause, Li Shiyue said, "Don't trust the words of scholars!"

Li Qiutian nodded solemnly. Li Shiyang's behavior today taught Li Qiutian's young mind a good lesson. Many years have passed, but Li Qiutian still remembers this incident.

One died, and there are two left.

At this moment, Li Shiyang stopped. He looked at the two refugees who had their necks cut and were dead. They were trembling with fear and tried their best to escape but were held down by four villagers. He sighed but did not say a word.

When Li Shiyang was about to go forward and kill one of them with a hatchet in hand, Li Wangshui suddenly jumped out, also holding his own hatchet.

Li Wangshui imitated Li Shiyang's method, and the blade slid across the refugee's neck. Blood spurted out, and the man was motionless in a few breaths.

As for the last person left, Li Wangshui used the same method to deal with him.

Without the burden, Li Shiyang raised his hand to signal everyone to follow and quickly ran towards the place where the torch was.

But three warm bodies were left in this place.

After getting closer and observing for a while, Li Shiyue had an idea in his mind. This group of refugees including Dazhuzi must have gathered together not long ago. They were probably a few families of disaster victims who had fled famine. With someone like Dazhuzi leading them, they made a living by killing and robbing people along the way.

Because there was not a single elderly person to be seen in this gathering place, only dishevelled women and half-naked children. There were probably less than ten women and children in total.

There were no elderly people, either they died on the way or were left behind.

Leave the women and children behind because they are weak and the best reserve food.

According to what the three refugees had said before, there were three older men staying here. Dazhuzi took the remaining strong men to attack Lijia Village.

The people of Lijia Village killed seven on the spot tonight and captured three. They were all killed just now, so ten people have died in total.

However, only five of the refugees who attacked their Lijia Village tonight escaped. Now, if they counted carefully among the group of people, there were exactly eight of them.

Once the numbers matched, I felt half relieved.

Moreover, when Li Shiyue saw how anxious they were, it was obvious that they wanted to pack up the food and water cart and leave.

Yes, they even had two donkeys pulling the cart.

What happened next was simple and clear. Twenty-three people, each holding a knife and prepared, formed a circle and rushed forward, aiming at the necks of the eight men.

It all ended very quickly, as Li Shiyue and Li Qiutian cooperated with each other, still using the same method of attacking the lower three routes and then inserting wards into the brain.

However, this time the killing was even faster, because Li Shiyue was stabbing directly at the head with the hatchet.

Li Shiyue would say: "I just didn't have enough strength. The knife stuck in my head and it's hard to pull it out."

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