"Auntie, why are you running? I told you I won't hurt you."
Tian Lin was bandaging the other party's wounds and talking nonchalantly, but the injured woman didn't care about the pain. She had long been staring at the bundle Tian Lin casually placed beside her. There were words in it.
The bread and dried meat given by the brothers before parting.
"Eh? Are you hungry?" Seeing this, Tian Lin took out a cake and handed it to the woman: "Please eat."
"Pah." She quickly grabbed the pancake into her hand and opened her mouth to bite it. The woman's devouring look and the sound of chewing made several people around her feel a sense of inexplicable pity. They all thought: "What on earth is going on?"
How many days have you been hungry?"
"Mom... hiccup..." Because she ate so fast, the woman almost choked and rolled her eyes, but at this time, seven or eight people in ragged clothes were surrounding her, some old and some young, all with faces...
The dishes came forward staggeringly.
"Do you all want to eat?" Upon seeing this, Tian Lin quickly took out the food in the bag. Everyone got some, and the bag was quickly empty.
"Shanlu, let's go nearby to see if there are any small animals that we can catch and roast." After Agou said this, he turned around and left with Shanlu. This unsmiling man would not say anything heart-warming.
, but can use practical actions to help poor people.
At this moment, the people holding the bread and dried meat were squatting or sitting still, and only the sound of chewing came and went. It seemed that their thinking had become rigid due to long-term hunger.
Ruotao saw that the woman she met first had eaten something. She was relatively normal at this time, so she couldn't help but ask: "Auntie, I want to ask you about there is a businessman named Wan, who is in his fifties.
He is many years old, looks chubby and very kind, do you know where his home is?"
Hearing this, the woman who was about to thank Tian Lin for giving her food suddenly changed her face. She hurriedly shouted: "Uh?! No, no, no, I don't know anything. Don't kill me, don't kill me!"
"
As soon as she finished speaking, the woman turned around and wanted to leave, but at this moment, a child with a sallow complexion, about four or five years old, ran from a distance. He threw himself into the woman's arms and cried: "Mom, I'm hungry..."
…”
"Xiao Qing, I..." The woman looked stunned and didn't know what to do. Guan Heng and A Gou came from the other side, carrying a few hares and fat rats in their hands. She said loudly: "
Come on, come on, if you want to eat barbecue, hurry up and find some firewood to make a fire, and be more agile with your hands and feet."
Hearing this, the hungry people around him immediately ran towards the collapsed ruins and brought back a pile of blackened wood. In their eyes, the burned-out remains of their homes were no doubt the same as firewood.
The bonfire was set up, and the smell of barbecue soon spread around, and the remaining villagers of Gufeng Village immediately gathered around.
"Tsk." Guan Heng pulled off a roasted rabbit leg and said, "It's easy to eat meat. You just need to answer the questions I asked."
One of the crippled old men spoke up: "Little brother, what do you want to ask?"
"That's right, we were entrusted by five merchants headed by Wan Laoda to send back some things from the northern border." Guan Heng said: "I just want to know where Wan Laoda's family is at this time? Does anyone know?"
"Are you really coming back to deliver things?" The old man paused and sighed: "Oh, it's a pity that we came two days late. The relatives and family members of Mr. Wan and the other four people were all killed by the people of the 'Nanle Tribe'
Captured."
"What? Nanle tribe..." Upon hearing this name, Tianlin's face suddenly changed. Guan Heng said beside her: "Tianlin, I remember you once said that Wan Lao and the others seemed to have accepted the commission from this tribe to find
Fifteen nine-leaf grasses, right?"
"Yeah, I didn't expect these people to be so unreasonable and even kidnapped Uncle Wan's family." Tian Lin was sweating on her forehead. She was spinning around in circles and kept saying, "Oh no!
What should I do?" "It's more than that."
The woman who appeared first was holding her son Xiaoqing's head and sobbing: "Those guys from the Nanle tribe are simply beasts. They are not only making things difficult for the family members of those merchants, but also all the people in our Gufeng Village."
The villagers were also unlucky."
Hearing this, Guan Heng's eyes suddenly narrowed. He first signaled Ruotao to distribute the roasted food to everyone, and then asked in a deep voice: "What on earth is going on?"
After hearing his inquiry, those people began to narrate the whole story while eating.
The Nanle tribe is a powerful tribe north of the capital of Chongguo. I heard that their tribe has thousands of people and strong horses. This time they paid tribute to the Communist leader and prepared a lot of good things, but they couldn't get enough of them.
There are only a few types, including the nine-leaf grass that the businessman Wan Lao Da and others were sent to look for.
That kind of nine-leaf grass, with a total length of three feet, square stems, yellow flowers, and red fruits. Whether it is rhizome, branches, flowers and fruits, it is a precious nourishing herb that can prolong life and treat internal and external injuries. It lives in the three ancient countries.
The wealthy gentry and nobles all like this kind of things, so they become the targets of the Nanle tribe.
Wan Lao Da and the others have been trading between the capital and the north of Chong State all year round. They were recruited by the leader of this tribe with a heavy reward to search for Nine-leaf Xuncao. However, in order to prevent Wan Lao Da and the others from overdue and having nothing to gain, the other party forcibly detained the merchants.
relatives.
Guan Heng had heard all these things from Tian Lin. However, the guys from the Nanle tribe initially claimed that they would only send people to monitor the families of the merchants in Gufeng Village, and it would not be too difficult. But now they are sending people
He was also taken away, and he also harmed other villagers, but I don’t know why.
At this moment, the rickety old man said: "Dear guests, I am the village chief of this village. My surname is Gao. You can just call me Mr. Gao."
"Village Chief Gao, do you know why those Nanle tribe people are making things difficult for you?"
"Oh, these beasts rely on the strong to bully the weak. They don't need a reason at all."
Hearing Tian Lin's inquiry, Mr. Gao was so angry that he shook his body. He said: "Three days ago, a dozen horses came from the Nanle tribe. Those knights said that they entrusted Mr. Wan and the others to purchase nine-leaf grass. The deadline has expired.
Now that no one or anything is seen, all the relatives of the five families will be taken away."
"Not only that." A woman next to her whispered: "These guys also want the whole village to collect a thousand gold shells as compensation for them. If everyone can't come up with gold shells, they will have to
A dead end."
"What? What a bunch of overbearing beasts." After hearing these words, Guan Heng and Agou clenched their fists loudly, both of them very angry.
Tian Lin and Ruotao looked at each other, and then asked quickly: "What happened next?"
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