novelden Chapter 141 Refugees Become Bandits
Chapter 141 Refugees Become Bandits
Yun Hu curled his lips. The God of Killing just now had a lively expression on his face again: "You are right. You have a good eye for choosing our Dongfeng Caravan."
"Hehe." Luo Xiaoran's breathing was a little short, and there was clearly a bitter smile on her face.
Yun Hu no longer paid attention to Luo Xiaoran and ordered his men to clean up the scene. After all, this was a government road, not a desolate mountain area.
Luo Xiaoran asked Niu Dan to close his eyes, and holding him with one hand and the horse with the other, she returned to the back of the team and stayed there obediently, trying her best to play the role of a frightened but strong person.
What Yun Hu didn't know was that when Luo Xiaoran turned around and returned to the end of the team, the bitter smile on his face immediately disappeared without a trace, and instead became expressionless.
Luo Xiaoran’s mind flashed wildly with the scene of the Eastern Caravan hacking and killing bandits just now. All the moves of each person came from the same clan, and the team had a sequence and method. It was obvious that they had been specially trained, and there was a kind of... military style?
No matter how famous the Dongfeng Caravan is and how its business spreads across Daliang, that only means that the power behind it is very powerful, most likely a prince or noble.
But how can the subordinates of ordinary princes and nobles have military style?
Luo Xiaoran thought for a long time, then looked up to the north with a dark and incomprehensible expression.
"Sister," Niu Dan suddenly pulled her sleeve, "Sister, is there another death?"
Niu Dan's eyes were wide open and her face was pale. After spending so many days together, she regarded Luo Xiaoran as her only relative after her mother's death.
After Wang Cuihua's death, Niu Dan not only became more introverted, but also lacked a sense of security.
Luo Xiaoran originally didn't want him to see all this blood, but since he asked this question, it meant that he had a vague answer in his mind, but he just didn't dare to believe it, and wanted to confirm it with Luo Xiaoran.
If I lied to Niu Dan and he found out, he would probably become even more frightened and uneasy.
Thinking of this, Luo Xiaoran decided to answer him truthfully:
"Yes, because they are bad people and they want to hurt us. Uncle Yunhu did this to protect us."
Hearing this answer, Niu Dan nodded subconsciously, and then said something that Luo Xiaoran had never expected:
"Uncle Yunhu killed the bandits to protect us. Before my mother was killed...it was also to protect us. It's just that their methods of protecting us were different."
Luo Xiaoran was shocked. Niu Dan, who was usually taciturn, was so sharp and insightful today. This was really beyond her expectation.
"Yes, the methods are different, but the intention to protect us is the same."
It’s just that your mother’s intentions are purer and her thoughts are simpler, and if Yun Hu himself is not involved, it is still unknown whether he will lend a helping hand.
"Oh." Niu Dan nodded thoughtfully, then his eyes went blank, and no one knew what he was thinking.
When Luo Xiaoran saw Niu Dan like this, she was really worried.
In her mind, the scene of Wang Cuihua lying in a pool of blood, the scene of the bandits' corpses scattered all over the ground, and the scene of the Dongfeng caravan being hacked and killed were like a repetitive drama that took turns to be performed, making Luo Xiaoran feel complicated and confused, and her face gloomy.
When Yun Hu came to find Luo Xiaoran, he saw her expression. He thought the little girl was frightened by the scene just now, so he comforted her:
"My men just found the lair of this gang of bandits. They are indeed refugees who escaped from the south and were one of the first to arrive.
The prefect of Changzhou at that time was incompetent and failed to properly resettle the refugees in a timely manner, resulting in the refugees looting food everywhere and public resentment.
The new governor who took office later was considered to be capable and practical. He settled the refugees properly, distributed farmland, and even gave them houses to live in. "
"I have heard of this. I heard that the previous governor of Changzhou was beheaded because of his failure to provide disaster relief."
Luo Xiaoran continued, it seems that Zhu Jingxing may not have tried his best to find Zhu Jingshu, but he is a good official.
He spent most of his time and energy providing many refugees with houses and land to settle down.
Yun Hu continued, "As a result, some refugees were unwilling to register with the government office and were unwilling to be resettled. These people were the ones who had been looting food before.
Perhaps they felt that going back to farm would not be as comfortable as looting, where they could rob people of their money and their women, so they gradually settled on this official road and became bandits.
Recently, their robbery business has been booming. I don't know where they got the knife from, but they dared to attack our Dongfeng Caravan. They deserve to be punished!"
Yun Hu was talking excitedly when suddenly there was a commotion in front of the team. A fellow came running over and said with a fist: "Leader, those girls in the bandit village are crying and refusing to leave."
"I'll go check it out!"
After Yun Hu finished speaking, he walked over there, and Luo Xiaoran also brought Niu Dan to join in the fun.
A dozen girls stood in front of the caravan, not saying a word, just crying quietly.
Yun Hu obviously didn't have the virtue of sympathizing with women. Seeing a group of women crying, he suddenly became impatient: "Stop crying, didn't I rescue you? Don't block my way!"
After hearing Yun Hu's words, the girls were so frightened that they stood still for a second, and then cried even louder.
The louder the girls cried, the more Yun Hu's eyebrows furrowed, and the more irritated he became: "If you don't open the door, I'll beat you all out!"
Luo Xiaoran stood aside and swallowed her saliva. It turned out that Yun Hu was an extremely straight man!
Seeing such a group of beautiful girls crying in sorrow, even Luo Xiaoran, a woman, could not bear it, and he was still yelling at them, which was really unromantic.
However, after Yun Hu's second warning, the girls did stop crying, but they still knelt in front and refused to move.
When Yun Hu was about to ask people to leave for the third time, a tall, pretty girl with fair skin stood up and walked forward.
She wiped the tears from her face with her sleeve in a self-destructive manner. Her movements were rough but a little unfamiliar, as if she was doing this for the first time. Then she raised her red eyes and looked at Yun Hu:
"On behalf of all the sisters, I, Yiru, would like to thank you for saving my life." After saying this, she bowed deeply.
"No need, it's just convenient. Now please get out of the way, we are about to set off." Yun Hu said lightly.
The woman named Yi Ru suddenly stepped forward and blocked Yun Hu's horse, with a bitter smile and a look of despair:
"We are all decent women who were kidnapped by these bandits and taken to the mountain stronghold. Now you have led your men to kill the bandits and rescue us. We are all very grateful.
But we have already lost our innocence, we have no home to return to, and we have nowhere else to go. After much thought, only you can save us. I beg you to be a good person and take us in!"