On the way to escape famine, my parents divorced

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When the two horses had eaten the grass, Li Shiyue also called Li Wangshui, Mazi Mole, as well as Yangzai, Erdan's mother and Wang Shisan, who had also helped in the last ambush of the barbarians, to her house.

Everyone gathered around the two horses to look at them curiously, because they were horses!

For an ordinary family, having a large animal like a donkey or a cow would mean they were living a good life.

As for horses, how could ordinary people dare to think about it?

But at this moment, right in front of me, two real horses are eating grass. Who wouldn't be surprised?
"How much will this one sell for?"

Zhou Lanhua stood aside and looked at the two horses, "I don't know what to say about my life.

My family just got a new mule, and now there's a horse in front of me that I never even thought about before?"

"This is a good horse for the battlefield. I saw it at the cattle and horse market in the county last time. A good horse of this age should be worth at least this much."

Li Shiyue stretched out four fingers towards everyone with his palm facing outward.

"Forty taels!"

Zhou Lanhua screamed!
"It's more valuable than a barbarian's head!"

Li Shiyue was stunned for a moment before she nodded. She really didn't expect that Zhou Lanhua would use the price of a barbarian's head to make such a comparison.

"Yesterday, my sisters and I explored the route. The foot of the mountain behind the Great Black Mountain is still some distance away from the barbarian grassland. We are only going to find horses and bring them back, and we are not going to go deep into that area.

It only takes one day. We will go up the mountain before dawn tomorrow and arrive at the same time when it is daybreak. We will spend the whole day looking for horses and find as many as we can.

Just like last time, when the horse is sold, the one who contributes more gets more, and the one who contributes less gets less!
Don't worry, take the whistle we used to patrol the mountains. If anything happens when we separate to look for the horses, just blow the whistle. I, Li Shiyue, will definitely go to rescue people!
As long as I am alive, I will never give up on any of you!"

"Done!"

It was Ma Zi who first responded to Li Shiyue's words!
"October, you think highly of me!
Don't worry, the wound on my arm has already scabbed over. As long as we don't have to fight against the barbarians, I won't delay anything!"

One person agreed, and the others followed suit.

They got to work right away. Li's mother and Zheng Meiniang were preparing to make pancakes in the kitchen. This little bit of flour was weighed back by Li Shiyue when he went to Sanshan County to buy grain last time.

Only five pounds of flour was all baked into pancakes, ready for Li Shiyue and his friends to eat on the road.

Li Shiyue and his companions went to prepare hemp ropes, sharpen knives and other things. Li Shiyue thought that if the horse could be brought back, then do so. If not, just kill it on the spot, take off the skin and one leg and take it home to eat.

Just like that, as soon as it got dark, sisters Li Shiyue, Li Qiutian and Li Xiatian went to bed on the kang.

At four o'clock in the morning, the earth was still shrouded in darkness, and there was a chill in the air.

Li Shiyue and his group had already left.

Erdan's mother entrusted Erdan and a basin of food to Li's mother. Zhou Lanhua also brought Dazhuang and Xiaozhuang to Li's house. Yangzai was followed by his cousin, and finally, Shitou was called by Li Shiyue, so the team had eleven people in total.

Li Shiyue and his men set out on the road to Dahei Mountain. At the same time, Liu Tan, who had returned to the military settlement, sent out all his personal guards and scouts of the Xuanjia Army through investigations over the past few days, and finally found the whereabouts of Liu Shu!
In other words, he found Liu Shu's servant and got the news about Liu Shu from the dying servant.

It turned out that Liu Shu and his servant stole the horses from the stable, left the palace, rode directly out of Liaocheng Prefecture, and headed all the way to Sanshan County.

At the post station outside Sanshan County, they encountered a little girl who had fainted on the roadside. Liu Shu and his servant dismounted and went forward to check. However, the little girl, who pretended to faint, suddenly sat up and sprinkled a handful of medicine powder, knocking her unconscious.

When the master and servant woke up, they found themselves in an unknown dilapidated temple.

Of course the two wanted to shout for help, but they were tied to pillars and had cloth stuffed in their mouths, so they could only make whimpering sounds.

Later, an old man with disheveled hair and dirty face came out, along with four or five men who looked fierce, and then the little girl who pretended to faint on the side of the road.

Even the willful Liu Shu knew that he had been tricked. Fortunately, after the towel was taken out of his mouth, he did not shout loudly that he was the son of the King of Zhenbei and the Crown Prince.

If he said that, he would definitely not survive the night.

He simply pretended to be the youngest son of a wealthy merchant and asked the gang of bandits to let him go. As long as they let him go, he would offer them enough gold and silver.

Of course the bandits knew that Liu Shu was the daughter of a wealthy family.

After all, the horse they were riding was worth at least one hundred and eighty taels of silver, not to mention the clothes on Liu Shu's body. While Liu Shu was unconscious, they also touched his purse.

There are gold ingots inside!

The old man found pen, ink, paper and inkstone and asked Liu Shu to write a letter to her family. This letter was a kidnapping notice demanding a ransom.

Liu Shu agreed to write the letter, but asked for clean drinking water.

The old bandit leader naturally agreed, and also promised: "As long as we get the gold, we will definitely send you home safely!"

But how can we believe the words of the bandits?
After writing the letter and leaving a mark in it, Liu Shu finally found an opportunity to escape on the third night. He discovered that these people must have sold the horse he and his servant rode, and with the silver they bought wine and meat, they lit a fire outside the dilapidated temple and went to brag to each other.

Liu Shu seduced the little girl to talk to him, told her about the prosperity of the capital city, coaxed her to untie the rope for him, and said that he would teach her the hairstyle that the little girls in the capital city liked most.

I don't know whether it was because of his good looks that the girl believed him, or because the women's hairstyles he described were too beautiful and aroused the girl's yearning for beauty. In any case, after looking at the people who were drunk outside the dilapidated temple, the girl bravely untied Liu Shu.

But as soon as Liu Shu regained the ability to move freely, he stepped forward and covered the little girl's mouth. No matter how the little girl struggled, he would not let go. Even though the little girl's fingernails scratched his face and it hurt a lot, he endured it.

After the little girl stopped struggling, Liu Shu held her hand for a while before letting go.

He let go of her hand, not daring to look at the little girl lying motionless on the ground. He looked directly at the servant boy who was looking at him with wide eyes.

After untying the hemp rope for the servant, the two of them supported each other and moved step by step to the back door of the dilapidated temple. Nothing could be seen in the darkness, so the two of them just ran in one direction.

But their luck was not very good. The old man outside the dilapidated temple brought a chicken leg into the temple and wanted to give it to the little girl. However, what greeted him was not the little girl's sweet call of "Grandpa", but a corpse that had died of suffocation.

The old bandit has gone crazy!
He gathered those men, lit torches, and went all over the mountains to look for Liu Shu and the book boy! (End of this chapter)