NFBE Chapter 185 Who are you?
Chapter 185 Who are you?
Tears fell into the soup, drop by drop.
She didn't intend to run away; what good would it do? Where could she go?
This life has been so hard; she doesn't even know why she's ended up like this. All she wanted was a better life—was that a mistake from the start?
Li Yuemei felt the pain in her body intensifying, and the things around her began to blur. Slowly, her body became very light, and she seemed to... have found her home...
……
midnight.
"The bandits are coming! The bandits are coming!"
With a shout, the once quiet Shanxie Village was now like a pot of boiling water.
The bandits would cut down anyone they saw and steal anything they could find.
The bandits stormed into Qian Laoshui's house in a menacing manner.
Even the most notorious bandits were stunned by the situation before them.
Three people lay in the courtyard, bleeding from all seven orifices. They looked like they had been dead for quite some time. Their deaths were truly horrific, giving one goosebumps.
"What are you all standing there for? They're just a few dead people, look at you all so spineless! Go see if there's anything valuable, take everything you can, food and supplies with you!"
Upon hearing that their leader had spoken, the bandits swarmed into Qian Laoshui's house and looted everything they needed.
Before leaving, the bandit leader ordered his men to set fire to Qian Laoshui's house, burning it to the ground.
After the bandits left, the villagers rushed to put out the fire. Amidst the ruins, they found four unrecognizable, charred corpses, which appeared to be the Qian family.
……
The next morning, news of the attack on the neighboring Shanxie Village by bandits spread like wildfire to Dongyuan Village.
When Zhao Chunxiu, the village chief's wife, learned that her sister's family and her daughter had all been murdered, she cried uncontrollably and was heartbroken.
"My poor daughter! How could you leave like this! I didn't even get to see you one last time!"
Even from a great distance, you could hear Zhao Chunxiu's heart-wrenching cries.
"Sigh! This village chief's wife is really pitiful!"
"That's right, it's a tragedy for parents to outlive their children."
"Luckily, the bandits didn't come to our Dongyuan Village last night, otherwise, we would have been the ones to suffer."
"You can't guarantee that bandits won't come to our village tonight either."
"That makes sense. Why don't we run away quickly and come back after the bandits leave?"
"Go? Where can you go? There's only one road leading out of here. You might get killed by bandits halfway there!"
The bandits' actions in Shanxie Village made the people of Dongyuan Village feel insecure and uneasy.
He Jing suggested to the village chief that at night, all the elderly, women, and children in the village be gathered together and that the able-bodied men patrol the village.
Soon, the sun began to set in the west, and night gradually enveloped the entire village.
In the darkness, a person's fear is magnified infinitely.
At this time, apart from those who were out on patrol, everyone else in the village was hiding at the village chief's house.
"Will we be okay?"
"Yeah, we won't be burned to death too, will we?"
"I heard that the bandits are very brutal. They will kill anyone they see and drag women back to enjoy themselves."
"I don't understand why the village chief insists on everyone gathering together. If we're not home, wouldn't it be easier for bandits to rob our homes?"
"That's right, in the end only the village chief's family was completely unscathed, without any losses."
"..."
Ye Xiaoxiao stood in the corner, firmly protecting the others behind her.
Seeing that the people in the yard were talking increasingly outrageously, and the noise was getting louder and louder, with some children even turning pale and trembling uncontrollably, she narrowed her eyes, frowned, and sternly reprimanded them:
"Shut up, all of you! The bandits haven't even arrived yet, and you've already ruined your own prestige. What's all the noise about, and you're scaring your own children? We're in the safest place in the village right now, so don't worry about anything."
Aunt Sun rolled her eyes and retorted loudly, "Ye Xiaoxiao, who do you think you are? Who gave you the right to speak? I'm just making a fuss, so what? Can't I even speak?"
Aunt Wang, disapproving of Aunt Sun's tantrum and absurd behavior, stood aside and chimed in:
"Xiao Xiao is absolutely right, Fatty's mom, let's listen to Xiao Xiao."
"Shut up, you old man! I think you're practically half-buried in the ground, so don't get involved in this." Aunt Sun immediately retorted.