At first, Li Chengjin wanted to give up, thinking that it was impossible for him to avenge the General's Mansion with his own abilities. But now after meeting Yu Suihuan, his mind changed.

He couldn't go on like this. Maybe one day he could really avenge the more than one hundred family members who had died unjustly.

"The third brother is right. Don't be discouraged. Go back and think about it. Pack up what you need. We are fleeing from famine. Only take your property and clothes. Don't take any useless things."

Even though Li Zhou felt upset, she didn't show it. As the mother-in-law of the family, what would happen to her daughters-in-law and sons if she showed negative emotions.

"Huanhuan, help me get some paper and pen. I'm going to go to the backyard and ask that bastard Zheng Wenjie to write a divorce agreement. From now on, my little sister has nothing to do with marriage in their family."

"Yes, divorce him and we'll take your sister with us!"

Li Zhou thought, if they move to another place, it will be easier for her daughter to find a husband. Although it is her second marriage, her daughter is still a virgin, so she won’t have trouble finding a good husband.”

Li Jiaojiao originally wanted to torture those three bitches for a few more days and then force Zheng Wenjie to write a divorce letter, but now it seems that this is a good deal for the three of them.

Li Chengjin came to the backyard with paper and pen, moved a stool in front of Zheng Wenjie, and placed paper and pen on it.

"I don't need to teach you how to write a divorce letter, right? As for whose fault it is, it's best to write it clearly."

Zheng Wenjie was in a daze and had no strength left after being hungry for a whole day.

"I'll write it, I'll write it. I've written the divorce agreement, so you can let us go, right?"

"Write well, and I'll let you go when you're done."

Li Chengjin hadn't intended to keep them at first. They were all going to flee the famine, so what a joke it would be to leave the three of them behind.

"Okay, okay, I'll write it now."

Zheng Wenjie didn't care about his face at this time. He wrote clearly in the divorce documents that they were getting divorced because he was infertile.

Li Chengjin picked up the divorce letter and took a look at it, feeling quite satisfied. He folded it and put it into his sleeve, then turned around and picked up a thick wooden stick behind the door.

"Of course I can let you go, but my sister has suffered so much in the past two years, I can't just let it go like this."

He raised the wooden stick and smashed it hard on Zheng Wenjie's right arm. There was a click, the sound of broken bones, and the next second, a pig-killing howl echoed throughout the backyard.

"My son!"

Zheng Wangshi was crying with tears and snot.

"This arm is compensation."

Li Chengjin broke his right arm, making it impossible for him to write again. Moreover, people with disabilities can never take the imperial examinations again in their lifetime, which also cut off his retreat.

Even if he didn't break his arm, he might have a hard time passing the exam for a scholar based on his limited knowledge. But Li Chengjin didn't want to let him go for nothing, so he would rather kill him by mistake than let him go.

Zheng Wenjie, Zheng Wangshi, and Zheng Yue'er, who had broken arms, were tied up and thrown onto a donkey cart.

"Didn't you promise to let us go? Where are we going? We still have our mule cart. We don't need you to send us there. We can drive it ourselves."

Zheng Wenjie was scared. He didn't want to kill the whole family to silence them.

"I'll kill you if you keep talking."

Li Chengjin glared at the three of them fiercely. The donkey cart took advantage of the moonlight and drove along the bumpy dirt road towards the foot of the mountain.

The three people were scared half to death along the way. Could it be that they were going to be killed and then thrown into the mountains to feed the wolves?

Li Chengjin ignored them and walked a long way until he was sure they were out of Hedong County. Then he threw the three people onto a hillside where there was a mass grave.

"If you want to live, just leave on your own. Whether you can survive depends on your ability. There are often wild dogs and wolves around here, so you'll have to pray for good luck."

Li Chengjin whipped the donkey cart and it quickly disappeared into the night until it was out of sight.

It takes more than an hour to walk from here to the nearest village. Moreover, the nearest village is close to the mountains and there are not many households. Many men cannot even find a wife in their entire life.

He left the three people here. Whether they could get out of the mountains depended on their own luck. Sometimes death was not terrible, but suffering torture for a lifetime was the most painful.

By the time he drove his donkey cart back home, it was already daybreak.

Everyone in the family is very busy and has already started packing up.

"Third brother, I discussed this with your second uncle yesterday, and they agreed to go together. We will go to the village chief in a while and sell our house and land. The reason is that your third uncle who disappeared for more than ten years has come to look for news. He has become a high-ranking official in another place and is here to take us to live a good life."

I have to say that the old ones are the wisest. If the two families sold their houses and land for no reason, it would definitely arouse other people's suspicion. With such a high-sounding reason, it would indeed be much better.

As for the tool man, Uncle San, there has been no news of him for more than ten years, and it is still unclear whether he is still alive in this world.

"Okay, let's pack up quickly, sell some of the food at home, and grind the rest into flour and make cakes. Try to make them as dry as possible so that they can be eaten on the road and are easier to store."

The Li family had a donkey cart, and now they had a mule cart. They widened the wooden planks at the back of the cart, built a shed on top and covered it with tarpaulin to protect it from rain and moisture.

"Mom, eldest sister-in-law, second sister-in-law, Huanhuan, when you pack your things, only take what you need for the journey and clothes. Don't take anything else. Food is the most important thing."

"Don't worry, we know."

People at that time were not rich, and each person only had a few sets of clothes.

Mr. Li’s family has a mill, and these past two days they have been grinding the grain from both families into flour, and then making it into pancakes.

Yu Suihuan took her mother-in-law and two sisters-in-law with her and made pickles from the vegetables in the fields, so that they would have food to eat along the way.

Li Chengjin went to the mountains and hunted some pheasants and rabbits. In addition, she had three pheasants and two rabbits in her space, so she made them all into jerky.

In the evening, Yu Suihuan went to Uncle Li's house again.

"Cousin Chenghong, have you told Chunxing's family that we are going to Dongzhou? Then we can go together and take care of each other."

She didn't care too much about other people's lives, but Chun Xing's family was the first family that treated her well after she came here. She wanted to give them a hand. As for whether to leave or not, it depended on the decision of Chun Xing's family. She had done it and said it, so she could have a clear conscience.

"I went to Daliushu Village today and told them the news. The magistrate of Hexi County is even more inhumane. The grain tax there has doubled, and some families are already selling their daughters.

Li Chenghong sighed. There was no one left in his eldest sister-in-law's family. His second sister-in-law was sold to their family. He just needed to notify Chunxing's family.

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