nucmednet Chapter 171 When Were There Bandits?
Chapter 171 When Were There Bandits?
"Instead of cursing me here, why don't you hurry up and rescue people? The bandits of Longxing County are not to be trifled with."
Upon hearing this, Lin Bao cursed under his breath, turned around, and ran out. Scarface looked up at the sky.
Dragged and pulled along, Lin Cai and her companions finally arrived at the mountain, accompanied by several other girls of similar age.
They were all intercepted by bandits on the way; they were all girls from families going to the market.
On the way up the mountain, one of the girls cried, and the others followed suit. Lin Cai stood by and watched coldly.
He neither cried with the girls nor stopped them from crying, but their crying annoyed the bandits. A whip lashed out, and the surroundings instantly became quiet.
"Cry, cry, cry, what's there to cry about? Shut up, all of you. It's your good fortune that I've even noticed you. If you keep crying, I'll kill you."
Terrified by the bandits, the girls, though still crying, none of them dared to make a sound.
Having finally arrived at the mountain stronghold and seen their bandit den, Lin Cai felt that she never wanted to walk again.
After being taken up the mountain, the girls were locked in a room, and Lin Cai looked exactly the same as when they went up the mountain.
A person found a corner and started looking at their shoes and feet.
When she saw a hole in the shoe, she frowned. Her shoes were made by her mother, who was a novice at sewing them.
Now that I've worn them out, if my mother finds out, she'll definitely have to make several new shoes overnight.
The other girls, seeing that Lin Cai hadn't cried or made a fuss the whole way and was still staring at her shoes after arriving here, couldn't help but ask, "Girl, aren't you scared?"
The girl who asked the question had a round face, and her voice was a little hoarse, probably because she had been crying for too long.
The little girl with the round face moved closer as she asked the question. After asking, she didn't care whether there was an answer or not, and continued, "I'm so scared. I'm scared I won't be able to go home, scared I'll never see my parents again. I'm so scared..."
After the little round-faced girl finished speaking, she still didn't hear any reply. She turned her head to look at Lin Cai next to her.
She wanted to ask Lin Cai why she wasn't answering her.
But before he could say anything, the door was opened again, and a burly man with a thick beard entered.
The girls in the room were startled when they saw him and tried to find a place to hide, but there wasn't even a table in the room, so there was nowhere to hide.
The burly man who entered ignored the girls' fear. He glanced around the room, his eyes lit up, and he walked straight over and pulled one of the girls over.
"Don't come any closer, don't come any closer, don't come any closer..."
"Get away! Get away from me! Help! Parents, help me!"
The girl kept struggling, not wanting to go with him at all, but the bearded man was not afraid of her struggles at all.
He pulled the person over and hoisted him onto his shoulder, slapping him across the face as he did so: "What are you moving for? What's there to move? I'll take you to eat and drink the good stuff, what more do you want?"
"I don't want to, I won't go, I don't want to go with you, let me go, let me go..."
"Whether you go or not is not up to you, but you'd better behave yourself, or I'll make you regret it."
The girl was crying, and the big man was laughing. And so, the girl was carried away amidst the big man's laughter.
The little girl with the round face was terrified. She gripped Lin Cai's clothes tightly and stared at the doorway: "Will I be taken away like this too?"
"But I don't want to be taken away like this. Do you have a way to prevent them from taking me away?"
Hearing this, Lin Cai turned to look at the little round face: "If you behave well, they won't take you away."
Upon hearing this, the little round-faced girl immediately smiled and looked at Lin Cai, saying, "You can talk! I thought you couldn't."
The little round face that had been frowning was now smiling. She looked at Lin Cai as if looking at Lin Cai would allow her to leave this bandit's den.
On the other side, Lin Bao didn't find his little sister, but he found Hua Ni. As soon as Xiao Chunhua saw Lin Bao, she rushed over and burst into tears.
"Waaaaah~ Uncle, Uncle, hurry and save Mother, hurry and save Mother..."
She had seen it all before; she had seen her mother being taken away by those people. Those people were so fierce, and they were carrying big knives. They knew they would mistreat her mother after they took her away.
The thought of Lin Cai possibly being scolded and crying made Xiao Chunhua burst into tears, and her already red face turned even redder from crying.
Upon seeing this, Lin Bao quickly gave the child to Hua Ni and then sent them back. He then found Gu Zhan, who was wiping his bow and arrows.
He ran over and pulled Gu Zhan up, trying to walk outside: "Come on, come on, hurry up and come with me. It's a time like this, how come you still have time to wipe your bow and arrows here?"
Lin Bao was anxious to pull the person out, but after pulling twice, the person didn't budge. Lin Bao turned to look at Gu Zhan.
"Did you even hear what I said? We're saving lives right now. If I delay any longer, your brother will be dead!"
Upon hearing this, Gu Zhan finally put down his bow and arrow and looked at the anxious Lin Bao.
"Have the nearby villages, including Gujia Village, ever been plagued by bandits before?"
Lin Bao was slightly taken aback when he heard this, and then he heard, "Has Longxing County ever been plagued by bandits before?"
Upon hearing this, Lin Bao immediately understood. He looked at Gu Zhan in shock: "You mean they..."
"But if not, why did they take people up the mountain?"
"Why did you take someone's vegetables when you went to collect protection money?"
"You're messing with their food because... no, who told you I collected protection money from them?"
Although he has seen others do such things, he himself has never done such things. How can this person falsely accuse others?
This was a bit of a tangent, so Lin Bao quickly steered the conversation back on track: "You said they brought people up the mountain to keep some hostages, but those girls are from nearby villages and have no powerful connections whatsoever."
Without any powerful connections, capturing those girls wouldn't be of much use, so what's the point of capturing them?
As soon as Lin Bao finished speaking, Gu Zhan gave him a look, and Lin Bao immediately exploded upon seeing it.
Damn it, those bastards actually have this kind of idea. It seems they really don't plan to go back alive.
Bandits appeared in Longxing Town, and the news quickly reached Longxing County. The county officials were furious when they heard the report from their underlings.