Surviving the famine: I made my fortune by helping others

"Listen, everyone in the mountains. You are surrounded. If you hand over the boy who is leading the horse, we will let you live. Otherwise, you will have to wait for someone to collect your bodies."

As the sound got closer, Ye Chuyi gradually slowed down his pace.

There were quite a number of refugees, and at first glance they were all middle-aged men, with a few women vaguely seen, all of them strong and healthy.

"Second brother, that guy is so ungrateful, why don't we just charge in? Then the people and horses will be ours, and they will also have food."

"You are a tiger, don't you see there are dozens of them? What if they get desperate and start fighting with us?"

Two refugees were whispering to each other, and the more Ye Chuyi listened, the more he felt that they were talking about Zhao Wenzhu.

Could it really be related to her?

"But second brother, what if those people are unwilling to hand over the person?" The younger brother looked dull and could not read people's expressions at all.

The man called the second brother slapped him hard, "Are you stupid? Don't you see that the boy is not in the same group with them?"

"Aren't they very close? How come they are not in the same group?" The younger brother was not convinced and continued to talk back, while the others around him lowered their heads and moved away silently.

"That guy came here alone last night, and this group of people arrived this morning. We just bumped into each other. You are so stupid and talkative. Get out of the way now, or I will beat you up later."

The man angrily slapped his younger brother again and continued to shout into the mountain, "Come out quickly when you have thought it through. Our patience is limited."

The shouting was quite fashionable. Ye Chuyi curled his lips, quietly walked around the refugees and tried to get into the mountains.

"Who is it? Come out."

A cold shout came from behind Ye Chuyi, and he was so frightened that he held his breath and dared not move.

She didn't make any noise, could she be deliberately trying to trick her?

"Why don't you come out? What are you doing hiding in there?"

The sound suddenly came back to me, and this time I could even hear the footsteps.

Ye Chuyi looked to the side, then bent down and hid in a bush.

The good thing about the primeval forest is that the shrubs grow as lushly as those in the green belts.

"Hurry up and come back. The eldest brother said he would rush in and rob it later."

Someone shouted in the distance, and the little red dots in my mind gradually gathered in one direction.

"one two Three……"

Ye Chuyi counted silently, and when the man came up to him, he suddenly took the stun gun and hit him on the back of the head.

"you!"

The man covered his head and turned around, his eyes full of disbelief.

"Hey, hello."

Ye Chuyi smiled, raised his hand, and hit him hard again. The man finally fell to the ground unwillingly.

"Amitabha, sin, sin."

After saying that, she ran into the woods without looking back.

Zhao Wenzhu and his men's location was easy to find. They were hiding behind a large protruding rock. There was a thin and narrow stream nearby. At this moment, dozens of people were huddled there in fear.

About twenty men holding simple weapons stood at the outside, all with alert eyes. Looking inside, they saw strong women holding dry branches they picked up and making defensive postures. In the innermost were children, the elderly and three spirited horses.

Ye Chuyi was so absorbed in watching that he accidentally stepped on a branch and almost fell to the ground.

"who?"

The sudden movement made everyone alert, and the brave men walked towards her with weapons in hand.

Ye Chuyi simply walked out. He didn't see the familiar Zhao Wenzhu at first glance, so he could only shout helplessly, "Zhao Wenzhu!"

Zhao Wenzhu, who was squeezed in the crowd, heard the noise and hurriedly squeezed out of the crowd. His clothes were in a mess and torn in several places, and there were two long cuts on his face.

"Master, you are back. I, I lost your weapon. I am so useless." Zhao Wenzhu had been keeping his head down, so he didn't notice that the weapon he was talking about was right in front of him.

Ye Chuyi clenched the stun gun with a guilty conscience. She was so happy that Bai Zai took the object from the air that she actually forgot to consider Zhao Wenzhu.

"Well, I took the weapon because I needed it urgently. I forgot to tell you. Don't blame yourself."

Zhao Wenzhu raised his head in disbelief, and only when he really saw the familiar weapon did he reveal a faint smile. How great.

"What's going on with you guys?"

Ye Chuyi irresponsibly began to change the subject. She really didn't want to and didn't know how to comfort anyone.

Although these villagers no longer stared at her, they did not relax their vigilance against her, and looked as if they would attack her immediately if she did anything.

"These are the people from my uncle's village. They all came out to hide from the bandits. There weren't many people in their village to begin with, and some of them got scattered on the way out. These are the only ones left. We met them in the woods."

Zhao Wenzhu quickly explained the situation.

It turned out that after he discovered that his weapon had suddenly disappeared in the morning, he began to look for it nearby. The group of people that Ranmian and the others met last night saw it and said they would help look for it.

He was cautious and did not dare to get too close to them. He wanted to avoid them, but his horse was discovered in the woods.

In order to protect the three horses, he had no choice but to deal with those people. At the beginning, these people had a good attitude and did not intend to rob him, but wanted to recruit him.

He had just come out of a bandit's den, so how could he be willing? He didn't agree. At this time, people from Dujiawazi came over.

Zhao Wenzhu immediately saw his grandmother's family, his two uncles with their families, and two elderly people in the crowd, and the whole family soon burst into tears.

When this group of refugees saw that the situation was not right, they wanted to rob people and horses, but Zhao Wenzhu naturally disagreed.

All the people in Dujiawazi were from the same clan with the surname Du. Although Zhao Wenzhu's mother had married someone else, they were still family after all. Not to mention that scholars were highly respected in this era, so naturally they came along to help.

The refugees were unable to capture them for the time being, and they did not want to be discovered by others and have a share of the spoils, so they chased this village of the elderly, the weak and the sick into Xiaoqingshan.

The injury on Zhao Wenzhu's face was sustained at this time. Not only him, but all the men in Dujiawazi were injured to varying degrees.

"Why do they have to chase the horses?"

Ye Chuyi was a little confused. Although she had never raised horses, raising three horses would require a lot of food, right?

Come to think of it, she seemed to have forgotten to buy food for the horse, and wondered if it would be ok for it to only eat grass on the road.

"They want to eat horse meat."

Zhao Wenzhu said this with gnashing teeth. Horses are such precious things, and almost all of them are registered. They are simply not available for purchase here. Yet they actually want to sell horse meat for silver, and they are not afraid of being arrested and charged.

Ignoring Zhao Wenzhu, Ye Chuyi clearly heard the sounds of people swallowing saliva one after another.

"You didn't go without food for a whole day, did you?" Ye Chuyi asked uncertainly. She didn't expect to be away for so long.

"Eat, eat."

Zhao Wenzhu answered cautiously, not daring to look at her. He shared the few pieces of bread he had left with everyone.

Ye Chuyi sighed silently. It was obvious that there was no food left. Alas╯﹏╰.