"Mom! Mom, just agree to me. Didn't you say that we Zhou family members should be polite and give and take in everything? They gave me gifts, so what's wrong with us treating them to a meal?"

Zhou Wan'er tugged at Mrs. Zhou's clothes and kept acting coquettishly.

Mrs. Zhou looked helpless. She blamed herself for doting on her daughter too much. Now her daughter was lawless.

However, the villagers of Daxi Village were quite grateful and spontaneously sent a lot of things.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Zhou's original intention to reject Zhou Wan'er's proposal gradually wavered.

"I will go ask your father about this. Before that, you must not act on your own." After Mrs. Zhou gave Zhou Wan'er a few instructions, she got up and left the carriage.

Zhou Wan'er smiled, looking confident of victory. She had already asked her father, who said he would ask her mother for her opinion. Now the two of them had no excuses.

White smoke rose up, and the aroma of meat and vegetables blew in with the wind. Everyone raised their heads slightly and smelled the fragrance hard.

Seven-year-old Li Erwa closed his eyes, smelled the aroma of meat, and his saliva almost fell to the ground.

His father was also very greedy, but when he saw his son's look, he immediately knocked him on the head.

"Look at you, you are such a loser. The Zhou family told us to go eat today. Don't just stand there and smell it. Grab the bowl and chopsticks and eat a few more bites later."

Li Erwa quickly wiped his mouth with his sleeve, picked up his bowl and chopsticks and nodded. But then he changed his mind and thought, didn't his father always enjoy the aroma of the food while eating? Why did he just talk about him?

"Everyone line up, everyone has food to eat. Don't be so impatient. If I find anyone cutting in line or trying to get an extra meal, then don't get to eat!" Li Shuming stood at the front of the line and shouted loudly.

Under his supervision, no one dared to cut in line, and everyone stood in the order they arrived.

The Zhou family also sent out more than a dozen servants, some to cook and some to serve. If nothing else, the portions were indeed sufficient.

"Woo woo woo, and braised pork. I haven't eaten it for a long time."

"This bacon is also good, cut into big chunks."

"What's in this soup? It tastes smooth and has a special flavor, like the taste of the sea fish that my seventh aunt's master treated me to thirty years ago."

Everyone in Daxi Village who had this meal felt that the Zhou family was generous.

Not to mention anything else, just for this meal, at least several dozen kilograms of meat must be consumed.

This is meat.

The Zhou family said to take it out, so they took it out.

In this hot weather, leftovers would go bad in a few hours, and Li Shuming had to persuade everyone to eat all the food.

With oil in my stomach, I won’t be so hungry that I can’t sleep at night.

Some families saved the Zhou family's brown rice, intending to eat it the next morning so that they could have leftovers for another meal.

After eating and drinking, Jiang Jiang lay on the straw mat and felt very comfortable.

She exchanged half a pound of brown rice for this straw mat from Li Changfeng's mother. His mother was skillful and the straw mat she wove was tightly arranged and not prickly, so Jiang Jiang, who was not used to sleeping on straw, could finally sleep comfortably.

Huang Ying and Sun Qiaoqiao were reluctant to spend food, so they learned to weave straw mats themselves. However, their mats were not as good as those made by Li Changfeng's mother. However, they did not mind and just used them for the sake of getting by.

As the night deepened, a few stars in the sky were still twinkling.

"Snapped!"

The skinny monkey squatting in the hay clapped his arms and killed the mosquito that was sucking blood.

"Damn it, the weather is so hot, why are there so many mosquitoes?"

The man next to him had a scar on his face and looked very fierce.

"Stop whining. The Zhou family will arrive in the county in three or four days. We have to find a time to kill them before then. The gold, silver, and food we have will be able to live happily for decades."

After Scar finished speaking, the dozen or so brothers behind him laughed.

"They eat good food every day. Today, the aroma of meat has reached our place. Damn it, let's see how long they can live happily."

The skinny monkey touched his deflated belly, full of resentment.

They all regarded the Zhou family's food, gold and silver as their own possessions, and they felt very unhappy when they saw the Zhou family eating them.

"I heard that the Madam and the Second Miss of the Zhou family are extremely beautiful, but I don't know if they will be so lucky."

The skinny monkey chuckled twice, obviously thinking of something dirty.

They are a group of people living on the edge of a knife. The Zhou family is just relying on the sharpness of their knives and their numerical advantage. If they really have to fight to the death, they are not good enough.

The Valley of Broken Souls is ahead.

"Sister Jiang Jiang, let me tell you, ahead we have to pass a place called the Valley of Broken Souls. It is said that many wronged souls are buried there. Some people who pass by there at night can hear the cries of wronged souls."

Li Chunhua would chat with Jiang Jiang when she had nothing to do. Her second son used to be a bodyguard, but unfortunately he injured his arm and had to come back to farm.

It was her son who told her the news about the Valley of Broken Souls.

The army of the previous dynasty was buried there. A few years ago, a group of robbers also took advantage of the geographical location to rob. However, they hit a wall one time and were wiped out by government troops.

"I don't know if there are any robbers there now." Li Chunhua became scared as she spoke.

Seeing Aunt Chunhua's expression, Li Sheng waved his hands and said with a smile, "If there really were robbers, they must have fled to escape the famine. How could they have anything to eat?"

Li Chunhua also thought so. Nothing had happened in the Valley of Broken Souls in recent years, so there might have been no one there.

The Zhou family living in front of Daxi Village was also worrying about whether to take a detour.

The Zhou family's masters are cautious by nature, so they naturally know more about the Valley of Broken Souls.

There are cliffs on both sides and a narrow path in the middle. If it is blocked, it will be like crying out to heaven and earth for help, and no one can help.

But if you choose to take a detour, you will have to walk for three more days, which is really not cost-effective.

Besides, there has been no news of bandit activities in the Valley of Broken Souls for three or four years. It is impossible for them to be so unlucky to encounter such a thing.

The Valley of Broken Souls is only a few hundred meters away, and it can be crossed in less than an incense stick of time.

"Boss, it's confirmed. The Zhou family's convoy is heading towards the Valley of Broken Souls." Skinny Monkey was the scout in the team. As soon as he confirmed the Zhou family's route, he came back to report.

"Then proceed as planned. I want them all to die in the Valley of Broken Souls."

Scar smiled. The Zhou family really knew how to find a place for him. He originally thought that it would take some effort to take it over, but he didn't expect the Zhou family to come to him on their own initiative.

"Mom, look, the Valley of Broken Souls is just ahead."

Li Xu pointed to the long and narrow road ahead and said.

Jiang Jiang looked up and couldn't help but marvel at the wonders of nature. It looked like a mountain was split in half.

If it were placed in modern times, it would definitely be a popular tourist attraction.

But in ancient times, it was also an ideal place for countless robbers to rob.

Based on Jiang Jiang's experience of watching so many movies and TV dramas, he knew that when this kind of terrain appeared, something big would definitely happen.

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