Quick Wear: The Wronged One Becomes Rebellious

Chapter 445: Reconstruction of the Family on the Road to Escape

Gu Mancang put down the cart and wiped the sweat dripping down his chin, "I'll go check ahead!"

Gu Li leaned against the car dejectedly and uttered "hmm" lazily.

Tao Chunhua sat on the ground leaning against the car to rest, and He Xingqing asked He Yunwang to help her to the side of the road, probably to go to the bathroom.

Soon, Gu Mancang came back, looking unhappy.

The team set out again.

As long as it has nothing to do with her, Gu Li is too lazy to bother to find out, but some people are very curious.

Tao Chunhua walked next to Gu Mancang and asked quietly, "Brother Gu, what happened up ahead?"

"The man in front of the group wanted to sell his wife to Shi'ao Village in exchange for food or water."

Tao Chunhua was stunned.

It has come to the point where he has to sell his own wife.

She couldn't help but look at Gu Mancang. This man gave her a very solid sense of security. Even though they were a half-way reorganized family, she had a hunch that he would not do such a thing.

Tao Chunhua secretly made up her mind to have her son build a good relationship with Gu Li and never let him be abandoned by Gu Mancang.

Otherwise they will be dead.

Tao Chunhua's voice became softer. "The woman who was sold is so pitiful. Brother Gu, are you heartbroken?"

Gu Mancang looked at Tao Chunhua strangely and said, "That's not why I'm talking about this. I think if we take in the first one, there will be a second and a third one. How should this team proceed?"

Before setting out on the journey, Gu Mancang discussed with the village chief that no matter what situation they encountered on the road, they must not expose their stored supplies.

The heads of each family who came to the meeting all agreed to it, but just now a man in the village who had difficulty finding a wife disobeyed the village chief's warning and exchanged the woman for a piece of horse meat.

The village chief actually agreed.

This made Gu Mancang worried.

Gu Li couldn't bear to see her father frowning, so she swung her short legs in the air and said nonchalantly, "Shi'ao Village is not where we belong anyway, so we don't have to worry too much. If it doesn't work out, we can just go on our own. It's not like we haven't been there before."

Gu Mancang also has such a plan.

There were many people in Shi'ao Village, and many of them were injured by the horse bandits, so the speed of travel was far from what Gu Mancang wanted.

Gu Mancang still wants to catch up with his fellow brothers in the escort agency.

"It's not that serious!" Tao Chunhua was unaware of the danger. She just felt that following so many people, she wouldn't have to worry even if bandits came, and she could even make a small fortune.

But she didn't know that because there were so many of them, they were a bigger target for robbery.

Once there is a breakthrough, it will be easy to be targeted by evil people like jackals.

"Let's go and see. If it doesn't work, we'll just leave first!" After Gu Mancang spoke, Tao Chunhua didn't say anything more.

Gu Li was thinking about how to persuade Gu Mancang to change direction and go to Western Xinjiang when something was suddenly put on her head.

As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw her father looking at her with a smile. She raised her hand to take it off. It was a simple straw hat with rough weaving.

There is a circle the size of a head in the middle, and extending around it is a hat brim made of dry grass picked from the roadside.

Gu Mancang nodded at her and said, "Hurry up and thank Uncle Xingqing."

He Xingqing sat behind Gu Li, with their backs facing each other. "I just made it up for fun, it's not worth Xiao Li's thanks."

But Gu Li still thanked him readily and put it back on her head, "Uncle, please help my dad weave one too. I'll go find some hay for you!"

Look at how hot the sun is, the whole warehouse is filled with black grains and oil is coming out!

"No need. Yun Wang has already got me a lot of hay. If it's not enough, I can ask Yun Wang to collect some more on the roadside."

"Oh." Gu Li lowered the brim of her hat and continued to doze off.

On the way, accidents happened frequently, with people blocking the road to sell their wives or daughters. Even after being stopped by the village chief, some people still refused to give up and chased the team, crying and shouting that they wanted to exchange their relatives for food.

Seeing that this tactic didn't work, someone simply pushed his daughter, who was as thin as a bag of bones, into the team of Shi'ao Village and ran away.

Some even had bad intentions, dragging their wives along, ripping open their clothes and pushing them into the team, and holding whoever they bumped into responsible. They acted as if the whole family would blame him if he was not given food.

Various farces took place one after another, and it was hard for Gu Li not to gossip.

Gu Mancang was originally following at the back of the team, but gradually, as the team stopped from time to time, he was almost at the front.

Tao Chunhua was always vigilant and stayed by Gu Mancang's side, fearing that a woman with tattered clothes would come over and snatch her man.

By the end of the day, Gu Mancang had gotten rid of his anger.

It was even slower than when he was carrying He Xingqing on his back.

In the evening, the village chief asked someone to call Gu Mancang to discuss matters, but he did not go. He ate a bowl of coarse grain porridge cooked by Tao Chunhua, ate half a steamed bun, and fell asleep.

The village chief sent someone over again, but Gu Li opened her arms to stop him, pouting and frowning, and said very dissatisfiedly: "My father has been on guard and traveling these past two days, he is very tired and has already gone to bed. You should solve the problems of your village by yourselves, why do you always bother my father!"

The visitor was too lazy to argue with a child, so he walked around Gu Li and wanted to call Gu Mancang. He Yunwang also stood up.

He Xingqing sat on the cart and said calmly, "My eldest brother has gone to bed, I hope you don't wake him up."

"But----"

"But what buts? You didn't listen to what my father said, and now you are in trouble and want to come to my father again, but my father is busy!"

Gu Li relied on her young age and spoke without any reservation.

Hearing Tao Chunhua's embarrassment, he quickly stepped forward and pulled Gu Li behind him, "Well, don't mind the child's nonsense, don't mind it."

The villagers left and the village chief came again.

Gu Mancang couldn't sleep anymore, so he got up, dusted off his body, and followed the village chief.

He couldn't get into a bad relationship with the village chief. After all, there were more people than them. If they really turned against each other, Gu Mancang would not be able to take his family away safely.

In the late night, a shrill scream pierced the dark sky.

Gu Li was frightened and her heart was beating wildly.

Who is the one that scares people in the middle of the night?

Gu Li, who usually had no moodiness when waking up, was also provoked into having moodiness when waking up.

Gu Mancang on the ground flipped over and rushed to the cart, with the knife in his hand. Gu Mancang leaned against the cart, patted Gu Li twice soothingly with one hand, and looked around vigilantly.

Not far away, there was a fight between people where the villagers were camping, and the people on night duty also ran over.

Gu Li sat up with her messy hair and took a look. "What's going on again? It's so annoying. Can't I sleep?"

"You go to sleep, Dad will go check!"

"Uncle, you stay here, I'll go take a look!" He Yunwang ran out before Gu Mancang. On the road of escaping from famine, he couldn't always rely on others. He had to grow up as quickly as possible.

He has people he wants to protect.