After the marriage was severed, I fled with my golden finger to protect my mother

When the men saw that these two thin-looking women dared to attack people, they were not afraid at all. Instead, their ferocity was aroused and they immediately rushed over with the weapons at hand.

Cui had a machete that was still dripping with blood in her hand, and all the people rushed towards Yuxiu. In their eyes, she was just a little girl of ten years old. If they caught her, they would be afraid of the tigress.

Yuxiu didn't say much, just sneered and wielded the hoe in her hand with great vigor. After a few encounters, only bursts of muffled sounds mixed with the men's short screams were heard, and those men lay on the ground in a mess.

There were some disaster victims who were resting in the distance. When they saw the fight breaking out, no one intervened. After a burst of exclamations, those people ran away and disappeared without a trace.

"Girl, are you okay?"

Cui ran over and pulled Yuxiu's sleeve to check around. She was relieved to confirm that she had not even a scratch on her skin.

Looking at the people on the ground, each of them was hit on the head by the hoe, which was a fatal blow. The man named Lao Zhu saw that he had provoked a tough guy this time, so he didn't care about his severed palm and ran desperately into the depths of the forest.

There was no way Yuxiu would let him go. She picked up a kitchen knife from the man on the ground and threw it at Lao Zhu.

"what!"

The kitchen knife pierced deeply into Lao Zhu's back. After letting out a shrill scream, he fell to the ground and never responded again.

In just a short while, the sky had become completely dark. Under the light of the fire, Yuxiu and He Cui were the only two people left in the entire forest.

"These people have quite a lot of stuff."

Yuxiu walked over to the pile of miscellaneous items and took a look. There were quilts, clothes, a few small bags of food, a few water bags that were only half empty, and the rest were some daily necessities such as pots, pans, and bowls.

"It's a pity that I don't have any money..."

Yuxiu reached out and rummaged through those things. She couldn't help but mutter something, which made Cui laugh.

"Silly girl, if someone keeps their money in those junks, they have to keep it close to their body."

After Cui finished speaking, her eyes lit up and she walked towards the corpses with a machete. After bending down and searching for a while, she indeed found several heavy money bags.

Yuxiu also reacted and quickly ran to Lao Zhu's side. She had seen before that he also had a black purse hanging around his waist.

The mother and daughter gathered around the fire and poured out the contents of the purses. They found that although these people were wearing tattered clothes, they had a lot of silver and money in their hands.

Cui estimated and counted them, and found that the total amount of silver ingots of various sizes was more than fifty taels, one of which also had a silver note, also with a face value of fifty taels, and the remaining loose silver was about ten taels, plus some copper coins and so on, it was still a considerable amount.

"These men still have women's jewelry on them?"

Yuxiu picked up a shiny object on the ground. It was a butterfly-shaped silver hairpin inlaid with two rice-grain-sized pearls. It looked plain yet playful, and more like a hair accessory used by young women.

"Girl, do you think it's possible that they stole this from someone else?"

Cui's face looked a little pale, just like her and her mother. If two ordinary women were surrounded by those people, they would have no chance of escape and would only end up being torn apart and eaten.

"This is how the world works. Everyone has their own destiny. We are not Bodhisattvas and cannot save other people's lives. We can only try our best to protect ourselves from getting hurt."

They had been traveling silently these past few days, and Cui had always held the big, shiny machete in her hand, so most people only dared to watch but not to take any action.

Gathering all the silver and money together and putting them in the backpack is actually using the backpack as a cover to put the things into the space.

"Mom, the smell of blood is too strong here. Let's walk forward and see if we can find a suitable place to rest."

Yuxiu rummaged through the pile of miscellaneous items again and took out two empty water bags and put them in the backpack.

She didn't use this to drink water herself, but to keep it away from others.

As for the food and other water bags, it depends on who will be lucky enough to pick them up. It will help them to survive for a few more days on the journey of fleeing famine.

"My daughter is right, let's go..."

Cui also stood up and was about to leave with a machete in hand. Not knowing what happened, she suddenly turned her head to look at the big pot over there and was immediately frightened and trembled all over.

"My daughter...then...then..."

She pointed at the big pot, her face was already pale. Yuxiu quickly reached out to support her, and then took a look at the big pot. She staggered for a moment before standing still, and her eyes became red.

Damn beast!

Killing them so easily just now was too merciful to them. They should have been skinned alive with a knife.

It would be understandable if they were really starving to death, but they had food in their hands but did such a heartless thing. How can one not be angry?

"Ding...Host, host, congratulations on triggering the mission of the famine escape system. Come and accept the mission."

At this moment, the small system that had been silent for a long time suddenly popped up. Yuxiu felt a little uncomfortable and was not in a very good mood.

"What's the mission this time?"

She felt a little gloomy. She had lived in a peaceful era in her previous life and had never seen such a tragedy with her own eyes. Although she had been mentally prepared, it still took her a while to recover.

"An innocent child was cooked. Since the host has come across this, please help dig a pit and bury it. The reward is a chance to draw a lottery."

The soft voice of the small system stopped talking after it issued the task. Yuxiu thought about it and whispered a few words to Cui.

"Okay, let's bury him and consider it a good deed."

Yuxiu only said that she wanted to bury the murdered child, and she didn't even mention that it was a task assigned by her master, but Cui agreed immediately.

Yuxiu took a hoe and started digging under a big tree. She was very strong now, so it didn't take much effort to dig the pit. Cui chanted "Amitabha" in her heart and poured the contents of the pot into the pit.

"Please, Bodhisattva, I hope you will be reborn into a good family in your next life, and don't let this famine happen again..."

Yuxiu filled the hole, and Cui clasped her hands together devoutly and muttered something. Then the two of them packed up their things and continued on their journey in the dark.

"Congratulations to the host for completing the mission. May I ask if we can draw the lottery now?"

Yuxiu had originally thought of drawing the lottery during her break, but now that the system had asked her, she decided to draw first. It wouldn't delay anything anyway.