Chapter 42: take the initiative to defect
Chapter 42 Take the initiative to defect
Coming out of the ruined temple, Ye Anlan didn't leave the team immediately to explore the way ahead, and she had to prevent the refugees behind from gathering to rob them.
It wasn't until she was completely out of the sight of everyone in the ruined temple that Ye Anlan went forward alone to inquire about the news.
Stopping and stopping all the way, at dusk, they walked outside a deserted village.
Ye Anlan, who had already been here once, did not bring everyone into the village, "Father, mother, we have to live outside the village tonight."
She chose a grove near the water, and signaled Ye Jinkui and Zheng Fengshou to drive the mule cart over.
Ye Jinkui lost consciousness immediately, he asked Ye Anlan, "Is there a problem in that village?"
Ye Anlan nodded, and sighed to reveal the answer, "That village was slaughtered, and the whole village was spared."
As for why she was so sure—if it wasn’t for the fact that there were no survivors in the village, the corpses of the villagers wouldn’t all be lying there, and no one would dig a hole to bury them.
She briefly told Ye Jinkui and others what she saw in the village, "... I was afraid that it would cause an epidemic, so I burned all the corpses."
Ye Jinkui was silent for a long time, "I don't know if the villagers who died in Xiaohezhuang have gone back to collect their bodies."
Ye Anlan can understand Ye Jinkui's complex feelings. She can't say that this is the sorrow of a small person in the torrent of the times. She can only pick up nice words to explain Ye Jinkui, "There are many people who escaped from Xiaohezhuang, no matter how people go back to deal with the aftermath."
Ye Jinkui forced a smile on the corner of his mouth, "Forget it, I don't think about it anymore, it's rare that I live in the wild, and my father came back from hunting some meat."
Although they also brought jerky, it was very hard and salty, and Ye Jinkui was actually not very happy to eat it.
Ye Anlan stopped him, "You should take Harvest and set up a tent with them. I'll prepare the prey."
Ye Jinkui hesitated for a while, "It's fine, then you should be careful."
Ye Anlan nodded, and walked towards the short hill next to the forest with a bow, arrow and long knife.
This kind of low mountain covers a small area and can only be regarded as an ordinary height. The wild animals living there are basically only rabbits, pheasants, wild sheep, foxes, wild boars, etc., and the degree of danger is not high. Ye Anlan was fully armed, and he was actually on guard against people.
She went into the mountain alone under the scorching eyes of more than fifty refugees, and soon brought back a large bunch of rabbits and chickens.
Someone couldn't hold back, and surrounded her with a large number of people.
The refugee headed by him had a fierce look on his face, "If you are sensible, hand over all your prey, otherwise Grandpa will sell you to the Nanfeng Pavilion in the county immediately if he is not happy."
Ye Anlan narrowed her eyes slightly. She was carrying things in her hands, and it was not convenient to hit people. Fortunately, she didn't need her hands urgently to deal with these refugees who had nothing to do with brute force.
"Who are you grandpa? Huh?" Ye Anlan quickly jumped to the leader's side as he spoke, and kicked him backwards with a kick.
She stepped on the other person's chest and flew out of the crowd, "Don't think that you can bully someone with a large number of people, and make me unhappy, believe it or not, I will break each of you with a big leg?"
Ye Jinkui also ran over with a long knife in his hand at this time. Although his skill is not as good as Ye Anlan's, he has practiced martial arts for several years after all, and he still has no problem dealing with ordinary people.
The father and daughter teamed up to repel all the unbelieving refugees. While they were lying on the ground hugging their wounded places and wailing loudly, the two returned to their camp with calm faces.
After handing over the hunted rabbits and chickens to Mrs. Ye, Ye Anlan was about to help Ye Jinkui and the others set up small traps for defense, when a skinny little girl with only a handful of bones wobbled towards them Come over here.
Ye Anlan turned around and looked at the girl quietly.
"Please, accept us." Before the girl came to Ye Anlan, she knelt down to her from a distance.
"We are willing to sign a contract of sale, and we will be your cows and horses for the rest of our lives. As long as you treat my father's injuries, we will have a full meal for our family every day, and don't let us starve to death."
"My parents, sister, and I are very diligent, and we can do a lot of work. In the past, the four of us planted my land, and we basically did all the work at home."
Seeing that Ye Anlan didn't respond, the girl said again: "I am very strong, and I can fight. I, I dare to kill people."
Ye Anlan raised her eyebrows, "Your name."
The girl's eyes brightened, "I, my servant, is called Yang Xiaotao."
The corners of Ye Anlan's mouth twitched slightly, "You should call yourself 'I'. Besides, I want to take a look at your family first."
Yang Xiaotao nodded repeatedly, "Okay, I'll let my parents come over to see you."
Ye Anlan nodded, Yang Xiaotao turned around and walked towards two men and a woman not far away.
Ye Jinkui leaned over, "Yuan Niang, didn't you say that you can't save people casually on the road?"
Ye Anlan smiled, "Didn't you hear what that girl said, she is 'very strong'. I'm very interested in this."
Ye Jinkui:
He whispered, "No matter how big you are, can you still be stronger than you?"
Their family's Yuan Niang is a natural supernatural power passed down from their ancestors, and there is no other stronger than her in the world.
Ye Anlan smiled, "As long as she is stronger than Fengshou, she will be a great help to us. Of course, whether we want to keep them depends on whether they have eaten living people."
Ye Anlan's bottom line is very low, she doesn't even mind that refugees who can't survive eat the corpses of her own kind, but if the other party has eaten living people, hehe, then don't blame her for being cruel and bloody.
Fortunately, Yang Xiaotao's parents and sister are honest people, with a keen sense of smell like Ye Anlan, and they can only smell the smell of sweat accumulated after not taking a bath for a long time, and the faint smell of blood from Father Yang's body.
Ye Anlan was very satisfied, she waved at Old Man Yang, "Come here, let me see your injury."
Papa Yang looked anxious, but it was Yang Xiaotao who gave him a push, so he walked up to Ye Anlan hesitantly.
Ye Anlan glanced at his right arm, "It's been injured for at least three days, right?"
The wound was inflamed, red and swollen. Without treatment, this arm might be lost.
Papa Yang looked surprised, "Yes, it has been hurt for almost four days."
Ye Anlan nodded, "Harvest, bring me a basin of hot water and two clean cloth towels."
"Okay!" Zheng Fengshou agreed and went to get things, while Ye Song gave Ye Anlan a bag full of medicine with winking eyes.
Ye Anlan looked at Father Yang, "It will hurt, bear with it."
Papa Yang nodded again and again—some treatments are good, whether it hurts or not, he has the right to be hypocritical?
After Zheng Fengshou brought the things over, Ye Anlan took out a silver needle, and first gave Father Yang two needles.
These two injections are not for healing, but to temporarily paralyze Old Father Yang's arm, so as to reduce his perception of pain.
Cleaning, applying medicine, bandaging, exhorting precautions, taking back the silver needle. After finishing all these in a smooth manner, Ye Anlan put on the posture of a close sister and chatted with Yang Xiaotao with a smile.
(end of this chapter)