Traveling through ancient times to escape famine, the prince led me to rebel

"Mom! Mom, wake up!" Another person fell down.

At this time, it had been half a month since Luo Xiaoran and his companions came down the mountain, and most of the 30 kilograms of food had been eaten.

Many people had already eaten all the weeds and tree barks a few days ago, and then they started eating Guanyin soil.

The cold wind after the heavy rain took away the lives of a number of people.

Those who refuse to eat tree bark and Guanyin soil will starve to death.

Another group of people died due to indigestion caused by eating tree bark and Guanyin soil.

As we walked along, we saw many corpses lined up on the roadside, including men, women, young and old.

Their relatives and friends no longer had the energy to dig a grave to bury them, so they could only leave their bodies exposed in the wilderness.

Luo Xiaoran knew very well that eating tree bark and Guanyin soil had no nutritional value and could easily lead to death due to indigestion and inability to excrete.

So she has been trying to find ways to reduce her daily food consumption and look for alternatives to food.

Two days ago, she accidentally discovered a wild apple tree in a secluded corner where the official road and the mountain road intersected. The tree was full of fruits that had not been picked by others. The four of them were happy for a long time.

These apples can both resist hunger and quench thirst. The four men picked more than 20 apples from the lower parts and hid them in their bags.

For fear of making noise and attracting the attention of others, thus causing a looting spree, the four men did not continue to move on to the apples at the highest point.

In order to prevent the apples from going bad, Luo Xiaoran would secretly take out a dagger in the morning, noon and night, and cut the apples into small pieces under the cover of her sleeves. She would then stuff the pieces into the pieces for her friends to eat secretly with fried rice.

In recent days, the atmosphere among the disaster victims has become increasingly tense.

To be honest, in this kind of famine-fighting environment, the first group of people to die were mostly the elderly, followed by women and children.

Among the people left now, there are more young men, who often gather in groups of three or five and secretly look at those families whose family members are relatively complete.

Luo Xiaoran and the others were also the targets of attention.

One reason is that compared with other ancient rural families with more than a dozen mouths to feed, Luo Xiaoran's family is small, with only four people, and it seems that only Uncle Li is the one in charge, and the rest are women and children.

The second reason is that although Luo Xiaoran and others were holding weapons, they were never seen using them, so they were probably just using them to scare people.

Third, because they had observed carefully that Luo Xiaoran and the other four had also eaten wild grasses, but when the victims had eaten all the wild grasses and began to eat tree bark and Guanyin soil, Luo Xiaoran and the others did not touch these two things at all.

They must have some food hidden away.

Late at night, all the victims curled up on the ground and fell asleep.

Three tall and thin black shadows quietly came to the place where Luo Xiaoran and the others were resting. Two of them reached under Luo Xiaoran's head to grab the bag of food, and one walked towards Xiao Xingchen.

Luo Xiaoran woke up when they first arrived.

All the victims were starving and made very little noise when they fell asleep at night, so the footsteps of these people were very obvious.

One of them gently lifted up Luo Xiaoran's head and back, and urged the other partner to take the bag away quickly.

Luo Xiaoran opened her eyes and punched the face that was so close to her but whose features could not be seen clearly.

Then she held her bag with one hand and kicked the person who was holding her bag in the chest.

The two men were beaten but they were able to endure it. They didn't cry out, but just groaned twice.

On Xiao Xingchen's side, Uncle Li also noticed the movement, snatched Xiao Xingchen away, and then broke both arms of the thug who stole the child.

"Ah!" A scream suddenly woke everyone up.

It was too dark and the incident happened suddenly. The victims didn't know what was going on and looked around after getting up from the ground.

The three gangsters realized that this matter could no longer be done secretly, so they looked at each other and reached a consensus.

The man whose arm was removed shouted, "What are you still standing there for? Come here quickly."

Just as he finished speaking, five more men emerged from the refugee group.

Eight people stood in a row, each holding a stick as thick as a rolling pin.

The man who had just spoken continued to shout, "Today, brothers, we will only rob this family. Others, please stay out of our business or we will rob you too!"

As soon as he finished speaking, some victims began to pack up their things, trying to escape from this chaotic scene.

Some victims were indifferent and stood there with blank expressions.

Robbing them? They have nothing left to rob, only their lives!

Some people are waiting on the sidelines, ready to make a move, perhaps they will get a piece of the pie later.

Luo Xiaoran and Uncle Li protected Qiu Niang and Xiao Xingchen on their left and right.

Even if we exclude the man whose arm was removed, there are still seven people, and there are only two of them who can fight, and they have to protect two who can't fight. The situation is very serious.

"We have no food left." Qiu Niang poked her head out from behind Luo Xiaoran's shoulder and shouted.

Since the first night after coming down the mountain, when she saw Luo Xiaoran's faint smile, Qiu Niang became more and more bold and more and more attached to her.

"You're kidding! I've been observing you for several days. You still have rice hidden in your sleeves. That's fine grain! Even when we were not fleeing famine, not many people could afford it!" shouted the man whose arm was removed.

There was a sudden buzz in the crowd; at this time, some people still had fine food to eat!

Some disaster victims who were planning to leave also stopped.

Luo Xiaoran gave the dagger that she had hidden at her waist to Uncle Li. There was no point in saying more. If they continued to make a fuss, they might not be outnumbered by two people, but would be besieged by a group of disaster victims!

Uncle Li, holding a wooden spear in one hand and a dagger in the other, rushed forward first and entangled four people in one go.

Luo Xiaoran herself was protecting Qiu Niang and Xiao Xingchen from behind.

Among the other four men, except the one whose arm was removed, the remaining three all held sticks and ran towards Luo Xiaoran, bypassing Uncle Li.

Luo Xiaoran raised her knife to block the wooden stick chopped down by man number one, and then kicked at his Ten Thousand Sons and Thousands of Grandsons Container. The other party immediately couldn't even hold the stick, and covered his lower body with his hands, with a look of pain on his face.

The other two had already pounced on Qiu Niang and Xiao Xingchen.

Man No. 2 directly grabbed the bag from Qiu Niang's hand. Qiu Niang refused to let go, and the two started to pull each other.

Man number three picked up Xiao Xingchen and wanted to search him. Xiao Xingchen struggled and twisted in his arms.

Luo Xiaoran hurried to help, but was knocked to the ground by the man with the arm removed who appeared out of nowhere.

At this time, the third man shouted: "How dare you bite me, you little bastard!"

After saying that, he actually picked up the little star and threw it to the ground.

"Chen'er, close your eyes!"

Luo Xiaoran roared angrily, climbed up from the ground and ran over, slashing man number three on the chest with a knife, and caught Xiao Xingchen before he fell.

Without having time to ask how Xiao Xingchen was doing, Luo Xiaoran rushed to Qiu Niang again, stepped hard on the ankle of man number two, and then knocked his chin off with her knee.