Traveling through troubled times, he fled with his stepson

"I am the relative who was being hugged. He asked me to share some of his things, so I came here."

The young man was neither impatient nor guilty. The two people followed his gaze and saw two people arm in arm.

Some people in the village will even introduce one or two relatives to each other. I guess these are the relatives of the person being introduced.

The man who asked the question waved his hand, motioning the young man to come over.

When the young man came up to Li Yuan, he breathed a sigh of relief. He turned his head and said something to Li Yuan, who patted his shoulder.

After seeing that there was nothing wrong with the person, he changed the topic back to what we were going to play tonight.

This is just the first level, there is still a long way to go.

It is difficult for anyone to come down from there on purpose.

Li Yuan glanced at Jianfeng, and Jianfeng quietly retreated to the back, approaching the two people.

The few people crawling outside received instructions from Jianfeng, and Jianfeng stepped forward to talk to the two men.

"Uncle, I want to ask if our village can..."

Two people came up from behind and slashed at the two people whose attention was diverted by the sword.

Jianfeng caught the two men, and then the two people behind him quickly pulled the two men into a small hut nearby that provided shelter from the wind and rain.

The hut was two stories high. The people who pulled them in stripped the two men of their clothes, tied them up, stuffed something into their mouths, and threw them to the second floor.

When he came out again, he was the two people who had just used the knife.

When Jianfeng saw that it was them, he gestured to the outside.

After the farmers and others above had gone up a long way and could no longer see the situation on their side, the people crawling outside lowered their bodies and hid in the house.

"Two people, please help. Stay and help these two brothers to intercept the situation outside."

The two people the sword pointed at nodded, looked at their brothers wearing each other's clothes, and couldn't help laughing.

The two had no clothes, so they hid in the hut.

After leaving four people behind, Jianfeng led the rest up the mountain.

It is not easy to climb this mountain. It is steep and slippery, and it is easy to fall if you are not used to it.

When they were halfway up the mountain, two people came down from the mountain and passed by them, talking and laughing.

Dai Jiangong's tense muscles were all tense. Noticing his unnatural condition, Li Yuan held his shoulders and shook his head gently.

The two men just glanced at the farmer in front, then walked down the mountain without caring about anything else and talking to themselves.

Thinking about what would happen next, Li Yuan was not worried.

Dai Jiangong breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked Li Yuan in a low voice: "What's going on? These people are too careless."

"Born in sorrow and die in comfort."

Dai Jiangong repeated these two sentences several times and couldn't help but sigh that they were true.

These bandits have lived a good life for too long and feel that no one within a hundred miles can defeat them in Jiguanshan. They have forgotten who they are and have let their guard down, becoming cunning and treacherous.

They continued to follow the farmer up.

We stopped and walked along the way. It was so dark that except for one or two unextinguished torches on both sides of the road, the rest was not very clear.

I could only vaguely sense that there were people around me.

The crowd walked in the night and finally reached the top of the mountain.

The top of the mountain was a gradually rising flat land. As they went up, there were more and more torches, and the night became as bright as day.

Under the protection and guidance of the farmers in front, they entered another path.

"Keep your voices down, or you'll annoy them and cause them to lose such a good job." The farmer in front instructed the people behind.

Someone responded.

He walked upstairs with confidence.

Li Yuan guessed that the place they were going to was the kitchen, after all, the things in the backpacks were their improved meals.

As he expected, the farmer in front had already started to take off the baskets on his back and was walking towards two or three connected houses with slightly brisk steps.

It was already dark, but the smoke from cooking continued to rise.

Hearing the noise outside, someone came out of the house and gruffly told them to put all their things under the eaves.

The farmers did as they were told. Li Yuan and his companions stood at the back, and their faces could not be seen clearly in the darkness.

After all the things were unloaded and put aside, the man raised his face and said, "Your things must be good. If they are not good, they will be deducted from the next one."

The farmers nodded and bowed repeatedly in agreement.

Seeing that they were about to go down, Li Yuan signaled Dai Jiangong to take the men down.

"Hide on both sides of the small kitchen road. The lights on both sides are dim, which can hide some of you well."

"Master, you..."

"Swords and rain of swords follow me."

Dai Jiangong shut up, then took the others and followed the farmer down.

Halfway through the journey, the people behind split into two groups and immediately hid in the bushes on both sides.

The farmers in front were unaware of the situation and were chatting and laughing about what they would do with the money when someone sent it over tomorrow.

Some people said they wanted to buy a piece of good cloth and buy two sets of clothes for their wives.

Some people said that they wanted to improve the food for their children at home as they had not eaten meat for a long time.

When they walked down, someone suddenly had the idea to ask the people behind them what they were doing, but found that there were fewer people.

"Where are those people at the back who are dragging their feet? Haven't they come down yet?"

"I guess he was held back by someone and made to do some work."

Someone casually said that this kind of thing has happened before.

Thinking that they would eventually come down, a few people decided to go down and wait for the people behind them at the mountain gate.

Li Yuan, Jian Feng and Jian Yu above quietly climbed up a tree next to the house and did not move.

The people in the kitchen classified the things outside one by one and pulled them into the room. I guess some of them were storage rooms specifically used to store food.

Afterwards, no one came out, only the smoke curling from the chimney indicated that someone was working on something inside.

Li Yuan waited with Jian Feng and Jian Yu for almost half an hour, when they heard a voice not far away.

"Have the appetizers for the first and second boss been prepared?"

The door curtain of the room was pulled up, and a man with a rough voice came out: "Okay, okay, I was waiting for a seasoning, it just came out of the pot."

Three people appeared from the shadows. It turned out that there was a small path on the other side that could not be seen without careful observation.

These two people came out from that path.

As the man with the rough voice entered the house, he came out carrying a box of food in his hands.

"I'll deliver it to the first boss, and you go deliver it to the second in command."

After assigning the route, the two of them went down along the path.

Li Yuan and Jian Feng Jian Yu jumped down from the tree.

Unfortunately, when the door curtain was lifted, someone came out. When he saw Li Yuan and the others, he was stunned for a moment.

Jianfeng took a step forward, trying to knock the man unconscious.

Who would have thought that although the man was a cook, he also had martial arts skills.

Backhand push towards the sword tip.

The sound of fighting alarmed the people in the house. Jian Yu immediately stepped forward to guard the door, intending to knock out the person who came out.

Knowing that he was not needed here, Li Yuan followed the two people in front.