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At this time, Gu Zhong suddenly came over with one arm hanging, took out a small piece of silver from his arms, handed it to Gu Qing, picked up the millet, and left.

These days, he watched coldly how Gu Zhang subsidized their brother in secret, and their eldest sister also subsidized their third brother secretly.

When his second brother’s family had something good, he sent a bowl to the eldest sister and a bowl to the third brother, but there was no share for his family.

He couldn’t understand why his brother and sister didn’t like his family so much. It can’t be that they were jealous of his family’s wealth.

The eldest sister’s family and the second child’s family were much better than his.

In addition, Bao’er and Huzi were cousins. He often saw Gu Fei secretly giving food to Huzi, but not to Bao’er.

The siblings were separated from him. Gu Zhong understood this fact and felt very cold in his heart.

He just saw Mrs. Qian going to borrow food with a clear conscience, and then he suddenly realized that Mrs. Qian Shi wanted to take advantage of others. But no one was a fool, why should she take advantage of others? In the end, she didn’t get any advantage but became annoying.

While his third brother didn’t fight or compete. Seeing that he was in trouble, his brother and sister were willing to help him with money and effort.

If he let Mrs. Qian go on like this, he would be alone!

Even Bao’er should take care of him. If he didn’t care, who would he rely on when he got old?

No one knew what Gu Zhong was thinking, but Gu Zhang looked a little unhappy.

He felt that the money from his eldest brother was too hot to handle.

It seemed as if he was the one without any brotherly love. Gu Zhang winked at Gu Qing.

Gu Qing understood.

When Mrs. Qian saw that Gu Zhong gave her the silver, she felt pain in her heart and walked towards her home with an unhappy face. Gu Qing said loudly at this time: “Aunt, Xiao Fei is still young, don’t bother with her about what she said. We are all family. You can return the grain when your family is well-off.”

“Take this silver back.”

Mrs. Qian didn’t expect such a good thing to happen. She smiled instantly and was about to take the silver happily.

Gu Zhong suddenly shouted: “You are not allowed to take the silver. Come over here and cook!”

Mrs. Qian’s hands trembled. She looked at the silver but didn’t dare to take it. Her face was a little distorted.

“Come over!” Gu Zhong shouted again.

Mrs. Qian didn’t dare to look at the silver anymore and ran away in a panic.

Gu Fei was also a patient now. Mrs. Chen didn’t let her cook and pressed her to sit by the fire.

Su Chen sat next to her. After getting along for a while, everyone knew that this young man’s surname was Su.

Gu Fei had nothing to do, so she poked the fire with a stick.

Su Chen beside her suddenly whispered: “Is your injury okay?”

Gu Fei paused for a moment while holding the stick, and whispered, “It’s nothing serious. Thank you, Young Master Su, for the medicine.”

After saying that, Gu Fei stood up, bowed to Su Chen, and walked away.

Su Chen followed her with his eyes.

Seeing her walk to her aunt’s side and talk to a little girl.

She was wearing a heavy sheepskin coat, with a pair of bulky red flowered cotton pants underneath.

She was dressed like a real country girl.

But her actions didn’t look like a country girl at all.

The firelight illuminated her side profile, making her face look gentle orange-yellow. Her eyebrows were curved, her nose was tall and straight, and it formed a beautiful curve from her chin to her neck.

She smiled as she spoke, and the corners of her mouth curled up as if the pale pink petals suddenly bloomed.

Su Chen suddenly saw that face turned around, and there seemed to be two bright flames flashing in her eyes.

Su Chen looked away in a panic, and his heartbeat seemed to be out of control for a moment.

 

After walking for another hour, they were a distance away from Qinglong Gorge, so Uncle Ma told everyone to rest.

As usual, they first picked up firewood and lit a circle around, then surrounded the mule carts in a circle, and lit a pile of fire in the middle, and everyone rested in the middle.

The fire was lit, illuminating the surroundings.

Gu Fei then saw the miserable situation of everyone.

Gu Jinsheng from the village head’s family dragged a leg and limped.

Uncle Gu Zhong had one arm hanging in front of his chest.

The shoulder of the uncle was covered with blood.

Each one seemed to be a defeated general returning from the battlefield.

Mrs. Chen had just put up the pot, when Mrs. Qian suddenly came over, saying in a loud voice: “Sister-in-law, my family’s food has been robbed, can you lend me some.”

Mrs. Chen’s hand froze, here it comes, the thing she was worried about all the way finally came.

It would be unreasonable not to lend it, this was Gu Zhang’s brother and sister-in-law.

Needless to say, it is impossible to return the loan.

Aunt Liu looked at this side and hesitated to speak, but thought about it and decided to forget it. It was not appropriate for her, an outsider, to interfere in the affairs of the two brothers.

The old lady hurriedly said to Mrs. Chen: “Why are you still standing there? I see there are two bags of flour in the car, just give one bag to the eldest family.”

This was simply eating from the inside out!

The old lady was a typical example of it!

She eats from her family and gives away her family’s things!

She didn’t say she would give coarse grains, but flour!

Gu Fei opened her mouth several times and swallowed the words back into her stomach.

These were Gu Zhang’s brother and sister-in-law, and it was not easy for others to speak.

Gu Zhang said in a deep voice: “I don’t have much food at home. Everyone knows that Master Su and the others are eating at my house. This flour should be kept for them.”

“It’s okay if my sister-in-law wants to borrow it. There is still half a bag of millet, which is enough for your family to eat until Huainan County.”

“Chen, give it to her.”

Mrs. Qian was unhappy when she heard this. They had flour, but she gave her millet.

What does that mean? The flour was a fine grain, and millet was a coarse grain. Flour was generally three times the price of millet.

She didn’t plan to pay it back after borrowing it, so naturally she wanted flour. She couldn’t help but mutter: “Can the three of them eat so much flour?”

Gu Fei finally couldn’t help it. She wanted flour even though she got it for free!

She said quietly, “Aunt, you haven’t told us when you will return the grain you borrowed.”

“When you lend our family 1 tael of silver, you ask us to return it to you in just an hour.”

When Mrs. Qian heard what Gu Fei said, she said: “You dead girl, you have no right to interrupt when adults are talking–”

After saying this, Mrs. Qian suddenly remembered that Gu Fei killed people, beat wolves, and killed who knows how many bandits he killed today.

Her cheeks twitched a few times, and she hurriedly said, “Xiao Fei, Aunt didn’t mean that, it’s just, it’s–”

Gu Fei Looking at her coldly: “Food is so precious now, it is life-saving. You must have seen how many people died on the way to grab food.”

“But you make it sound so easy.”

Lian’er plucked up the courage to respond: “That’s right, don’t you have money? Aunt Huang ran out of food a few days ago, but they bought it with silver.”

The two of them sang in unison, making Mrs. Qian’s face flushed. She stared at Lian’er.

A bought girl dared to talk back to her!

The old lady was anxious at this time and scolded Lian’er, “Shut up, you have no right to speak!”

She turned her head and looked at Mrs. Chen again: “Didn’t you hear what the second son said? Go and get it!”

Mrs. Chen silently took out half a bag of millet from the mule cart, put it on the ground, and went to cook.

 

Xiao Cui hurried to turn over the strips of cloth, but couldn’t find them for a while. In a hurry, Gu Fei found a clean inner garment of Zhang Laodao from the bundle and tore it open.

Several people bandaged Zhang Laoda’s wound together. At this time, Uncle Ma came over and saw that Zhang Laoda Da was unconscious. Just as he was about to continue to look at other people, he suddenly saw the blood on Gu Fei’s back and frowned and said: “Xiao Fei, don’t worry about these. You are also injured. Hurry up and apply medicine.”

Gu Fei said “Mmm” and was about to leave. Mrs. Chen had already rushed over and hurriedly pulled her: “You are injured on your back. I will apply medicine for you.”

Gu Qing asked the old lady to get out of the carriage. Old Lady Gu was shocked when she saw the bodies on the ground. She kept chanting: “Amitabha, sin, sin.”

Gu Fei got in the carriage. Mrs. Chen untied Gu Fei’s clothes and looked at the knife wound on her back. Tears couldn’t help but drip down.

Gu Fei saw her mother suddenly stop moving. She looked back and saw her mother crying. She grinned and said: “Mom, it’s okay. The wound is not deep. It just hurts a little skin.”

This was true. Thanks to Su Chen’s shout, Gu Fei rushed forward and only the tip of the knife fell on her back. The injury was not serious, but some blood flowed, which looked scary.

Mrs. Chen wiped her tears, silently applied medicine to Gu Fei, wrapped her with cloth strips, changed her underwear, put on a small coat, and put on a sheepskin coat outside.

Just after putting on the coat, Chen Hu’s voice came from outside, “Miss Fei is injured, right? This is the best gold wound medicine sent by my young master.”

Gu Zhang took the medicine, thanked Chen Hu, and asked Lian’er to pass the medicine in.

Gu Fei had already bandaged it, took the medicine from Lian’er’s hand, and put it in her arms.

After Lian’er went down, Gu Fei took a few anti-inflammatory pills and got out of the car.

Gu Zhang hurriedly said: “Why are you here when you are injured? Just lie down.”

Gu Fei asked: “What’s the situation with everyone?”

Gu Zhang sighed: “Zhang Laoda was the most seriously injured. The rest, your first uncle, your third uncle, the village chief, Jin Sheng, Yin Sheng, and Shanzi were all injured.”

Gu Fei sighed, which meant that someone in every household was injured, and she should move faster.

Uncle Ma came over at this time, looked at Gu Fei, and said in a deep voice: “If it weren’t for Xiao Fei today, I’m afraid everyone would die here.”

As he was talking, Mrs. Qian’s cry came from the other side: “Damn bandits, they have robbed all the food in my family. How can I live like this!”

His family didn’t buy food in the city this time, so there was not much left, and now it happened to be the mountain bandits.

A bag of food was also taken from Zhang Laoda’s family, but his family didn’t care about this at the moment, Zhang Laoda was still unconscious.

Uncle Ma took a breath and shouted: “Everyone, hurry up and pack up and get on the road. We can’t stay here for long.”

Gu Fei’s family suffered almost no losses. Even the village chief’s family also suffered no food losses. First, Gu Fei came quickly, and second, everyone in the family tried their best to protect the food.

Xiao Cui from Zhang Laoda’s family came over at this time and said to Gu Zhang and Uncle Ma: “Uncle Ma, Second Uncle Gu, my uncle is seriously injured, and there is no one to drive the cart at home.”

The uncle came over and said: “I have extra people at home, Tie Niu will drive the carriage for your family.”

Xiao Cui thanked the uncle and ran away in a hurry.

Soon, the convoy continued to move forward. Gu Fei looked back and saw that there were twenty or thirty bodies left on the mountain road.

 

Gu Fei raised her hand and shot the bandit who was shouting, and then killed the bandits who were surrounding Chen Hu and Zhang Ze.

This area was also empty. She glanced at Chen Hu and Zhang Ze: “Leave one of you to protect your young master, and the other one——”

Before she finished her words, a bandit suddenly jumped out from behind a tree beside the mountain road and chopped Gu Fei’s back with a big knife.

Su Chen saw it clearly in the car and shouted: “Be careful behind you!”

Gu Fei didn’t expect that there were still insidious bandits ambushing behind the tree, and she didn’t have time to look back, so she rushed forward.

She just rushed to the side of the carriage and met Su Chen’s eyes at a very close distance. His eyes were as bright as stars in the night, and at this time, they were full of anxiety and horror.

Then a chill came from her back.

Gu Fei supported herself on the carriage with both hands, turned around, and shot.

The gun hit the bandit’s forehead, and a big hole appeared on his forehead, and he slowly fell backward.

Su Chen saw in the carriage that Gu Fei’s apricot-yellow jacket had a hole in the middle, and blood seeped out from it, quickly staining the jacket red.

He was about to say something when he saw Gu Fei running back.

Su Chen watched her run while raising her hands constantly, and bandits kept falling one by one.

Gu Fei ran to the back of the convoy, where her uncle and grandson Tie Niu were together, and her aunt was also beside her. Her uncle chopped a bandit’s neck with a knife, and another bandit also chopped her uncle on the shoulder.

Gu Fei shot several bandits here with a few shots, bypassed the rear of the team, and went to the other side of the convoy.

While running, she quickly changed the magazine.

This side was much worse than Gu Fei’s side.

At the village chief’s side, the village chief and his two sons were covered in blood and were still fighting with the bandits. Aunt Liu sat on the ground and gasped, not knowing whether she was injured or what.

In front, Zhang Laoda fell to the ground. His wife and children hid under the carriage and watched the bandits rummaging around on the mule cart.

Gu Zhong’s family also hid under the carriage, hugging each other. The things in his car were thrown all over the ground by the bandits.

Gu Fei swept over. Cold weapons were inferior to hot weapons. They had no power to fight back before getting close. They fell one by one.

At this time, the bearded man who was fighting with Uncle Ma in front saw Gu Fei coming all the way. His brothers fell one by one and almost killed everyone.

He was extremely sad and angry. He wanted to go over and kill Gu Fei, but Uncle Ma entangled him tightly again.

The bearded man watched Gu Fei approaching and was afraid of what she had in her hand. He suddenly shouted: “The point is prickly, the wind is strong!”

The few bandits who were still fighting and the robbers who were looking for things heard this, some holding knives, and some holding the things they had just robbed, and ran up the mountain quickly.

The bearded man slashed fiercely, and Uncle Ma dodged to the side. The bearded man took the opportunity to run quickly.

Gu Fei put away her gun and stood there panting, and the mountain road became quiet for a while.

Suddenly, Zhang Laoda’s wife cried: “Husband, husband, what’s wrong with you, don’t scare me——”

Gu Fei walked over quickly while searching for the shells on the ground and the bullets on the bandits, and put them all into the space.

Then she walked to Zhang Laoda and squatted. Gu Fei looked at Zhang Laoda’s clothes on his chest were cut open, and there was a knife wound on his ribs, deep enough to see the bone.

Gu Fei hurriedly shouted: “Aunt Yu, tear off Uncle Zhang’s clothes, I have medicine here!”

She took out the golden wound medicine and poured it on Zhang Laoda’s wound while shouting: “Xiao Cui, bring a clean cloth.”

 

Gu Fei whispered: “Uncle Ma probably said these words because of the rules of the underworld.”

“And, are you stupid? There are so many people ambushing on the road. Do you think there is only one?”

Gu Sanlang hurriedly looked around, and Gu Fei whispered, “Don’t look, you can’t see it.”

“Hold the knife in your hand, I feel that Uncle Ma is not making sense.”

Sure enough, the bearded man in front shook his head: “Boss, don’t make things difficult for me, there are more than a hundred of us waiting for food.”

Uncle Ma looked back at the crowd, all of them were farmers, and only a few of them were capable of fighting.

He bowed: “Two bags of grain, how about letting us go?”

The bearded man said in a deep voice: “Leave all the grain and let you go!”

The village chief was very anxious when he heard this. His family had passed down from their ancestors that every autumn after harvesting grain, they would save enough for the family to eat for a year, and every year they would replace the old grain with new grain. This time, he brought all the grain in the cellar at home, which was a lot.

He couldn’t help but shout: “That won’t do. If we give it to you, what will we eat?”

Uncle Ma didn’t have time to stop him, and sneered at the bearded man: “Then there’s nothing to say!”

The bearded man put his hand into his mouth and whistled.

Suddenly, there was a rustling sound on the mountain roads on both sides. Gu Fei hurriedly retreated and pulled Gu Sanlang close to the carriage.

Uncle Ma shouted anxiously: “The wheels are in a circle, grab your weapons!”

He forgot that everyone was not a bodyguard and couldn’t understand his underworld jargon.

The wheels were in a circle, which meant that everyone surrounded the mule cart in a circle for easy protection.

Everyone at least understood the phrase “grab your weapons” and each grabbed the machete, sickle, and axe in their hands.

Uncle Ma then shouted again: “Women and children, hide under the carriage, don’t move!”

Bandits seek money and generally don’t kill women and children except for young and strong men.

In just a moment, dozens of bandits rushed down from both sides, holding machetes in their hands, and chopped with their knives.

Gu Fei had already taken the gun in her hand. When she saw the bandits, she raised her gun and shot without hesitation.

“Bang, bang, bang” three shots in a row, and three bandits who were coming towards Gu Fei fell instantly.

These bandits were also powerful. Seeing someone fall, they not only did not retreat but rushed towards this side fearlessly.

Su Chen’s carriage was behind the Gu family’s car. He held the dagger in his hand tightly and lifted a corner of the curtain to look out.

Then he saw Chen Hu and Zhang Ze, the two of them holding knives and slashing with the bandits.

He was a little worried about whether the little girl could handle it, and couldn’t help but stick his head out and look forward.

He saw that Gu Fei didn’t know what she was holding in her hand. Before the bandits got close to her, they fell to the ground with a “bang”.

Gu Fei killed seven or eight in a row, and a vacuum appeared in the surrounding area.

The bandits on the mountain had all come down, and the bandits next to them were fighting each other, and no one came here.

Gu Fei quickly changed her gun and told Gu Erlang and Gu Sanlang: “Stay here and don’t move.” Then she rushed out.

She rushed to the front first. Her father and eldest brother’s car was in front. The two were fighting with several bandits. They had no rules and waved their machetes randomly, which was dangerous.

Gu Fei shot two bandits one by one and then cleared all the bandits nearby.

Then she ran back and ran to Su Chen’s car. She saw Chen Hu and Zhang Ze were surrounded by several bandits. At this time, a bandit not far away shouted: “Kill the little girl first. The little girl has a powerful hidden weapon in her hand and killed many brothers!”

“The little girl is here, everyone come here first!”

“If we don’t kill her, we will all be finished!”

 

Not long after, Gu Zhang and the village chief came back.

The entrance fee was still the same, 300 coins per person.

After getting used to it, no one questioned the entrance fee. Gu Zhang estimated that Gu Rong had spent all his money long ago, and was thinking of giving him some secretly when he saw the eldest sister coming over, stuffing something into Gu Rong’s hand and leaving.

Gu Zhang was relieved and invited everyone to enter the city.

After a short stop in Xincheng, everyone continued to move forward.

After walking for a few days, before setting off this morning, Uncle Ma said seriously: “Today we are going to pass Qinglong Gorge. There is a group of bandits entrenched in Qinglong Gorge, about a hundred people. First, we must walk faster and try to pass through Qinglong Gorge before dusk.”

“Second, everyone should be alert. These bandits are not the refugees we met before. They have been robbing houses all year round and have some martial arts skills. If they start fighting, no one can take care of each other. If we don’t fight hard, we may die there.”

Everyone was uneasy after hearing these words.

But they still had to go.

They hurried and encountered refugees blocking the road. At dusk, they just stepped into the territory of Qinglong Mountain.

Seeing that it was getting dark, everyone was worried. Gu Zhang asked Uncle Ma: “Can we walk back to the entrance and then cross over here tomorrow morning?”

Uncle Ma shook his head: “It doesn’t matter if we cross today or tomorrow, we have to cross, the sooner, the better.”

“It’s the same whether it’s morning or not, but people feel safer during the day.”

“This section of the road is less than ten miles, if we walk faster, it will only take half an hour.”

Uncle Ma shouted: “Everyone follows closely, walk faster!”

Not long after entering the mountain road, perhaps because of the shade of the surrounding trees, the sky seemed to be dark all of a sudden.

The wind lantern was hung on the mule cart, and everyone dared not speak. For a while, there was only the sound of mule hooves and the rustling of dead leaves in the mountain wind on the mountain road.

The children had been put into the carriage long ago. Mrs. Qian pushed Bao’er in. No one said anything. Gu Zhang only said: “You sit in there quietly. Don’t move or shout.”

Bao’er didn’t say anything. That day, he shouted and was not only scolded by everyone but also beaten by Gu Zhonghao. He was afraid.

After walking for more than a quarter of an hour, Uncle Ma saw a bunch of thorns lying on the road ahead. He was startled and stopped the mule cart. He asked loudly: “Is the hero in front of you from Qinglong Gorge?”

As soon as he finished speaking, a man walked out from the darkness beside the road.

The man was a full-bearded man with a big knife in his hand, glancing at Uncle Ma.

Uncle Ma got out of the car and bowed: “Thank you for your hard work, Boss.”

The bearded man bowed lazily: “Thank you for your hard work, boss. Whose food do you eat? Whose clothes do you wear?”

Uncle Ma took out a flag from his bag and stuck it on the mule cart: “I’m Old Ma from Zhenwei Escort Agency, I hope the boss will give me some face.”

Every year, Zhenwei Escort Agency gives some benefits to the bandits on the roads they often travel. This Qinglong Gorge was also taken care of every year.

The bearded man hesitated for a moment: “It’s not that I don’t give a face to your escort company, but these years are not good. Everyone needs to eat. If I give you face, everyone will starve to death.”

Uncle Ma said in a deep voice: “The ancestors left food, and the boss can eat it all. I, my brother, can only eat a little bit. Please show some mercy, boss.”

Gu Sanlang whispered at this time: “What are you talking about, Uncle Ma, why are you still talking so much with this bandit? The bandit is just one person, what is there to be afraid of? I don’t believe that I can’t defeat him!”