We agreed that I would be married off to a short-lived general, but why is my husband so powerful?

After leaving Yancheng, Wen Rushi used magic to conceal her appearance, so that others would see her as an ordinary person, in order to avoid causing unnecessary trouble.

Since she wasn't in a hurry, she traveled like an ordinary person, heading south.

They also encountered a group of robbers from the Jin Dynasty along the way.

Wen Rushi directly robbed the other party of all their money.

Unfortunately, after searching the bandits' bodies thoroughly, they couldn't find a single coin.

They were called bandits, but they looked no different from refugees; they were all skin and bones, and they stood in front of her, their bodies swaying.

Seeing how pitiful they were, Wen Rushi couldn't bear to punish them.

I don't know if it was just bad luck that I ran into bandits.

Before she even entered the city, a group of barbarian men appeared out of nowhere and surrounded her. Without saying a word, they started to grab her.

To outsiders, Wen Rushi is no longer the same person she was when she first came down the mountain.

At that moment, in other people's eyes, she was just an ordinary, unremarkable woman.

Logically speaking, under normal circumstances, no one would even notice her.

Thinking about this, Wen Rushi couldn't help but wonder why they wanted to capture her.

She did not struggle.

The clothes she was wearing had been worn for ten years; the ordinary fabric had long since become brittle from the constant low temperatures.

She dared not move too much while walking, for fear of accidentally tearing her clothes.

Not to mention the current situation.

When the newcomers saw that she did not struggle and did not dare to say a word, and just followed them, they assumed that she was afraid and were secretly pleased with themselves.

Wen Rushi was taken into the city and brought to a large courtyard.

As soon as she entered the courtyard, she saw other women and children there. They all looked like people from the Great Jin Dynasty, and they were all kept in cages like livestock.

Those people all had numb eyes.

Even if someone walks right in front of them, their eyes won't even blink.

The courtyard was filled with the stench of blood.

Wen Rushi was able to discern in a single breath that the bloody smell was not from ordinary animals, but from human blood.

Wen Rushi's heart sank, and she immediately understood why those people had arrested her.

Although she deliberately lowered her profile and presented herself as an ordinary person in the eyes of others, she was still a woman in their eyes, a woman from the Great Jin Dynasty.

No matter how insignificant she was, in the eyes of these barbarian people who fed on the women and children of the Great Jin Dynasty, she was the most delicious food.

Who would miss out on delicious food?

Wen Rushi looked at the people in the cage and took a deep breath.

She thought that after ten years of seclusion away from the world, she could take everything in stride.

But seeing these women and children, Wen Rushi couldn't bear to look anymore.

"Go inside and stay there!" The person behind her pushed her, gesturing for her to crawl into the empty cage in front of her.

Hearing this, he remained completely still.

With a slight twitch of his fingers, he silently uttered a single word: "Freeze!"

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone coming and going in the courtyard immediately stopped what they were doing.

They stood still, maintaining the posture they had just assumed, like puppets.

Wen Rushi did not immediately open the cage.

Instead, they went to the house inside the courtyard.

Upon arriving, she discovered that the door she had just entered through was actually a back door.

This courtyard was just a side courtyard, a place specifically for imprisoning and slaughtering two-legged sheep.

In the few rooms of the side courtyard, cured meat hung everywhere, along with some bloody human legs, arms, and ribs...

Wen Rushi didn't look at it much.

She passed through a door and came to a three-room kitchen.

The kitchen was filled with smoke, indicating that someone was cooking.

On the cutting board was a human leg that had been chopped in half.

There is a moon gate on the side of the kitchen.

That door leads to the main courtyard of this house.

This household was entirely populated by barbarians, from servants to masters; the people of the Great Jin Dynasty were only meant to become food here.

No wonder there wasn't a single Jin dynasty man to be seen on the street.

It turns out that the people of the Great Jin Dynasty had become food for the barbarians.

Even though Wen Rushi hadn't eaten anything, she still felt nauseous.

Everyone in the mansion was frozen in place by Wen Rushi.

Wen Rushi used his divine sense to search the entire mansion, leaving nothing of value, including all the grain.

Finally, they returned to the courtyard and opened the cages.

"You all better run!"

The woman in the cage seemed to only then notice Wen Rushi. She raised her head, looked at the cage that had been opened, remained silent for a moment, and then slowly climbed out.

That's right, it's crawling.

Those cages were very low.

Inside, people can only sit or lie down.

The height of the cage is so great that it's impossible for a person to stand up inside.

One person crawled out, then a second, a third...

After the adults came out, they took the child out of the cage next to them.

After everyone came out, Wen Rushi prepared to leave.

The people in the courtyard suddenly became motionless. Although Cui Liu didn't know what had happened, these strange occurrences happened after her benefactor arrived.

The benefactor must be a person of great ability.

She could only survive by following her benefactor.

Wen Rushi was somewhat surprised. "Aren't you going home?"

The woman gave a bitter smile. "Since the fall of Longmen Pass, where have we people in the north found our homes? We live in constant fear, afraid of being captured by those barbarians and eaten like sheep. My family is all gone. I was starving and had to come out to find food, which is why I was captured."

The person next to him immediately knelt down as well, pleading, "My benefactor, please, I am willing to serve you like a slave."

"Please, my benefactor, if we go out, we'll be captured by the barbarians and used as meat..."

Wen Rushi recalled the scene she had just witnessed and knew that these people were not lying.

"Alright, then you'll come with me and leave this place for now!"

Wen Rushi readily agreed, but she couldn't help feeling a little worried, as these people were all women and children.

The women are easy to deal with, they're all young, but the children are a bit of a problem.

Different sizes.

The youngest is two or three years old, and the oldest is around ten years old.

They are mostly orphans.

Hearing this, he had no choice but to let all the women take care of the children.

Seeing that everyone was barely clothed and filthy, he told the women to go to the front yard to find clothes.

Boil water in the kitchen to take a bath.

As long as she didn't break the spell, everyone else in the mansion remained the same.