On the way to escape famine, my parents divorced

Chapter 56 I lied to him.

Someone added more wood to the fire, making it burn more vigorously and the flames become brighter.

Li Shiyue was sitting beside the fire holding a knife. In front of her was a man kneeling with his hands and feet tied behind his back and his mouth gagged. He was the man who was so scared that he dropped the knife and knelt on the ground begging for mercy.

Between the two of them was a head with wide eyes.

Li Wangshui stood behind the man who was trembling with fear, while the other three people from Lijia Village stood behind Li Shiyue.

Li Shiyue pointed the tip of the knife at the kneeling man opposite him and said, "I want to ask you something. If you tell me the truth, I will let you go."

When the man heard this, he nodded quickly, and his head moved up and down greatly, which showed how much he wanted to live.

After Li Wangshui stepped forward and removed the cloth that was gagging the man, the man immediately shouted at Li Shiyue: "Auntie, spare my life!

Please spare me!
I have never killed anyone. I was also kidnapped!
Woohoo, I"

Li Shiyue didn't have the time to listen to this man crying. She took the knife and slapped the head on the ground with a little impatience: "Shut up!"

The crying man was frightened by Li Shiyue's harsh shout and immediately fell silent.

"I don't have time to listen to your ramblings. I'll ask you questions and you answer them."

The man felt Li Shiyue's fierce gaze and nodded quickly, saying, "Yes."

"Are you from the Shen Ce Army?
Why did you kidnap our people?"

"We can't really say that we are the Shence Army, but we are considered to be part of it.

We used to be auxiliary troops for the Shence Army, and I was the one pushing the grain cart.

First, Prince Jing'an rebelled, and the superiors sent the Shence Army to suppress the rebellion.

But once they met, the Shence Army was no match for them and was defeated.

Later on, there weren't enough people, so our superiors sent us auxiliary soldiers to join the battle, but there were still not enough, so they sent us out to capture able-bodied men. That's when we saw your people on the road and arrested them.

"I didn't order them to be arrested. It was Zhao Wu. Yes, it was Zhao Wu," the man pointed at the head on the ground and shouted, "I didn't beat them, auntie, please let me go. I'm telling the truth. Everything I said is real!"

"Where is your camp located? How often do you go back to take over?"

The man said everything one by one. After Li Shiyue lowered his head and thought for a while, he nodded to Li Wangshui who was standing opposite him.

Li Wangshui also nodded in agreement. He raised his knife and took a step forward. He pressed the auxiliary soldier's neck and slashed with the knife.

The auxiliary soldier's eyes widened in disbelief, his neck tilted and he fell to the ground, dead.

"This, this, doesn't it mean that if he confesses, we'll let him go?"

Li Shiyue replied without even turning his head: "I lied to him."

The village man was choked by Li Shiyue's words. Li Shiyue didn't care and just stood up: "Hurry up and search the bodies. After you're done, pile them together, light a fire, and burn them all."

When they heard about touching the corpses, the villagers reacted and they worked together to search all six corpses clean, finding some loose change, a few brand names, a dozen cakes and a few water bags.

Of course, the most important thing is the six official swords.

Li Shiyue put away all the name tags and gave each person an official sword. "I'll take one more sword. I won't share the silver and food. I hope Uncle Shui can help to divide it."

Naturally, they had no objection to Li Shiyue's words.

A fire covered up all traces.

After seeing the corpse burned beyond recognition, Li Shiyue and Li Wangshui walked back.

There was no conversation along the way, and before we reached the place, a village man came to greet us.

"You are finally back. Mr. Xiucai asked us to wait for you here."

It might be difficult to see Li Shiyue clearly in the dark night when she came back covered in blood-stained clothes, but even in the middle of the night, the strong smell of blood on her body could still be smelled, and the smell was really too strong.

Li Shiyue took Li Wangshui, Mazi, Mole and others to see Li Shiyang. As soon as Li Shiyang saw him, he knew that he had killed someone again. "How is it?"

Li Shiyue quickly told Li Shiyang the whole story about Ma Zi and Mole Zi and how she and Li Wangshui had killed six auxiliary soldiers.

Finally, Li Shiyue took out the name tags and showed them to Li Shiyang: "I don't know the map, but it sounds like this place is not far from us. There are still three days before they hand over the people next time. We have to leave quickly, the sooner the better."

Li Shiyue had never seen a map before, but Li Shiyang had the good fortune to see it twice when he was in the provincial capital. So when he heard Li Shiyue say this, he knew that what Li Shiyue said was right.

Now, they had to race against time. They had to leave quickly before this was discovered and before the other party knew about it. The only way they could survive was to leave.

"Walk!

I won’t sleep tonight, I’ll leave at night!”

As soon as Li Shiyang gave an order, the Lijia Village camp, which had been quiet, began to move.

Because of past experience, everything was packed up in less than half an hour this time. Li Shiyang led everyone to the small road again, hoping to avoid as much human habitation as possible and reach Dengzhou earlier.

The next day, Li Shiyang listened to what Li Shiyue said and gathered all the men from various families together. The old, the weak, women and children walked in the middle, and the men protected them at the front and back, which would be of some use when encountering problems.

Li Shiyue had changed her clothes, as her mother had found a place to burn her original blood-stained clothes.

Li Shiyue originally wanted to change only his outer clothes, and when the conditions were right and there was enough water, he could wash the clothes and wear them again.

But Li's mother insisted on burning it. Her original words were: "You are a girl after all. What if outsiders knew that you have this bloody shirt?"

Li Shiyue looked at the worry in Li's mother's eyes and felt it was not appropriate to argue with her, so she just agreed with what Li's mother said.

However, behind the scenes, she did talk about this with Li Qiutian when they were chatting together.

"My mother is worried that if people knew about my fierceness, they would be afraid of me and I wouldn't be able to find a good husband.

My mother loves and cares for me, and I know it clearly.

But, in this world, isn’t it a good thing that people are afraid of me?

Sister, just look at my dad," Li Shiyue turned around and motioned Li Qiutian to look at Li's father who was sitting on the donkey cart at the back leaning on a bag of grain. "My mother was such a good person, but she met my dad. It shows that getting married is risky.

So, why should I think about getting married and having a good in-law family when I don’t have enough strength myself?
My mother, after all, was still bound. "

Li Qiutian followed Li Shiyue's hand and saw Qin Tao bringing a bowl to Li's father. It was quite far away and Li Qiutian did not hear clearly what Li's father said, but judging from the look of it, it was not something good.

Father Li didn't even take the bowl, nor did he stretch out his hand. He just took a look at the bowl and started cursing. Qin Tao had no choice but to turn around and leave with the bowl. Facing Qin Tao's back, Father Li was still cursing.

Li Qiutian didn't really understand what Li Shiyue said, but just by watching how Li's father and Qin Tao got along, Li Qiutian understood what Li Shiyue said: "It's risky for a woman to get married. If she marries a selfish man like Li's father, she won't have a wife, and she won't even have her own mother and children."

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