Through the troubled times and famine, I just want to farm peacefully

With her only son being deposed and her husband not expected to live long, Mrs. Yu could not help but feel grief-stricken. She covered her face with a handkerchief and cried bitterly.

Yu Xunmei stood there looking at her woodenly, his eyes as cold as water, without a trace of warmth.

After a long while, she left without saying a word.

After Yu Shida returned from Yun Mansion, he called all his men to a meeting again.

It is certain that the Yun family is the one who has the ability to kill the Chi'an bandits and the Xihe Iron Mine.

"General Yu, let me take people to take back Xihe." His subordinate, Deputy General Wang, said unwillingly.

This Deputy General Wang was promoted by himself and is absolutely loyal to the Yu family.

Others were not so optimistic. The more than 30 Jingwei soldiers brought by Captain Cai a few years ago were all killed.

"They can even destroy the Japanese ships on the sea. It may not be so easy to take back Xihe." said another deputy general Li.

When Vice General Wang heard this, he was immediately displeased. "How can you boost others' morale and destroy your own prestige?"

"We have been unable to do anything to the Chi'an bandits for such a long time, but as soon as they arrived, they eliminated the biggest hidden danger in the South. It can be seen that they are quite capable. I am just telling the truth."

"You always side with others. Are you in a hurry to find another employer because the master of the family is ill?"

"You, don't spit bloody words at me! This is absolutely not true."

Seeing the quarrel, Yu Shida quickly stood up and acted as a peacemaker, "Everyone calm down! We are here to discuss countermeasures, not to argue."

"I wonder what General Yu thinks?" The other generals below turned their eyes to him.

Yu Shida immediately stood up, walked to the map, and pointed to the locations of Longtan County and Xihe County.

"We will split our troops into two groups. One group will be led by Vice General Wang with 500 elite soldiers. We will pass through Chi'an County and head straight to Longtan. We will put our troops at the gates of the city and force them to return to Xihe. If they refuse, we will tie up all the refugees in the city and bring them back as slaves."

According to his idea, there were not many people in Longtan. After occupying Xihe, they must have sent heavy troops to guard it. There must be only the elderly, children, women and children left in Longtan. It would be easy to take over Longtan.

"The second route is led by Lieutenant General Li with 2,000 troops from Huaizhou City and Dongshui County to Xihe. After Lieutenant General Wang and his men capture Longtan, we will attack them from both sides, making them vulnerable from both sides and catching them off guard."

Yu Shida's opinions were all supported by his subordinates present.

Although he had never actually been on the battlefield, he was trained by Patriarch Yu at great expense.

Yu Shida believed that this time he would definitely beat the Yun family into a pulp.

Some veterans in the military camp also expressed their concerns, "We still don't know how many troops they have at hand. Did that old bastard Yun Zhentian intervene?"

"Last year, Yun Zhentian's eldest son went to Longtan, bringing with him two hundred pieces of music."

"There are only two hundred parts, there's nothing to worry about." Someone said lightly.

They all knew that the soldiers maintained by various noble families were at most no different in ability from the guards who guarded the house.

Of course there are people with excellent martial arts skills, but they are just a few of them.

"We have to be on guard. I heard that the Yun family is extremely capable in leading troops in battle." The staff expressed their concerns.

"Bring more people from Longtan. They have built tall walls and are more difficult to deal with."

Yu Xunmei suggested that she had not forgotten those people mocking her on the city wall.

"Then add another hundred people." Yu Shida said.

After the deployment, Yu Shida took the generals back to the military camp to make various preparations.

Yu Xunmei called the manager to gather food and supplies for the army that was preparing to set off.

They were full of confidence and firmly believed that as long as the army arrived, they would be able to wipe out the group of refugees in Longtan in one fell swoop.

After receiving the news, the Zhong family in Huaizhou City was in a gloomy mood. When the Yu family soldiers passed by them, they were worried that they would attack the Zhong family.

After all, they had experienced the scene when the aristocratic families started fighting over a disagreement during the famine.

The eldest son of the Zhong family mobilized the family guards and the tenants and slaves from the various farms to guard the vicinity of the Zhong family's granary.

All valuable items in the home storeroom were moved to a safe place.

Just as the Zhong family was on high alert, the Yu family's soldiers did not even enter the city, but changed their routes to Longtan and Xihe respectively.

Chi'an County is made up of undulating hills and slopes with rich vegetation and poor water storage capacity, making it completely unsuitable for farming.

The people living here are scattered in the mountains, and most of them make a living by hunting.

Tit grew up in the mountains. On the day her mother gave birth to her, a group of birds flew to the door of the house, so her father named her Tit.

Deep in the bushes, a grayish-white rabbit poked its head out vigilantly, its nose twitching for a long time, as if it realized that there was no danger outside. It kicked its legs hard, jumped out of the bushes, and happily chewed the tender green grass.

With a "swoosh" sound, the rabbit was pierced through the body by the arrow that came through the air. It fell to the ground twitching, with a few pieces of grass in its mouth that it had not eaten.

"Da Li, come on!" The girl's voice was clear and pleasant.

As soon as she finished speaking, a big wolfhound jumped out from the side and bit the rabbit's throat with its sharp teeth. The rabbit became motionless in the blink of an eye.

Dali brought the rabbit back, and Shantiao took a handful and threw it into the backpack behind him.

Shantiao stroked the dog's head and said, "Good dog! I'll reward you with a rabbit leg when I get back."

The dog responded with a cheerful bark, "Woof! Woof!"

"Come on, Dali, let's go look somewhere else."

A man and a dog moved nimbly through the dense forest.

When they were about to walk out of the dense forest, they suddenly heard the sound of heavy and uniform footsteps in front of them, as well as the occasional voices talking.

Dali pricked up his ears vigilantly, and when he opened his mouth to make a sound, the titmouse pinched his mouth in time and made a gesture to silence him.

"Shh! Dali, don't shout! We have to be quiet."

The dog seemed to understand and blinked at her with his big wet eyes.

The tit slowly let go of his hand, crouched down and moved forward carefully, crawled on the ground with his ears erect, and followed the tit.

The man and the dog walked two miles in the woods, following the team outside.

When Shanque finally learned that the place they were going to was Longtan, she stood there in a daze, her heart beating violently.

Longtan is where the benefactor is!

The benefactor killed the bandits and distributed their food to them. Without the bandits, they no longer had to pay tribute with the prey they hunted.

These people are actually going to catch our benefactor. They are bad guys!

Thinking this, the titmouse bent over and returned the same way. After getting away from those people, she ran home madly.

"Titfair, you're back so early today!" Mother Titfair was tidying up a small vegetable patch in front of the house.

The titmouse put down its backpack, scooped up water from the water tank and started drinking it in gulps.

Her mother held the hoe and said with a smile, "Drink slowly. Look at you. You are sweating in such a cold weather."

Shanque burped after drinking. She raised her hand to wipe the sweat off her forehead and said very quickly, "Mom, some bad guys are going to Longtan to arrest our benefactor. I'm going to tell our benefactor."

After saying this, without waiting for her mother to react, she picked up her small bow and arrow and ran away with Dali.

"What bad guy? Hey, kid, you don't even explain clearly." The mountain sparrow mother shouted in confusion, but unfortunately the mountain sparrow had already run away with the dog.

Longtan

Lin Yinan's right eyelid has been twitching these days.

As the saying goes, a twitch from the left eye brings wealth and a twitch from the right eye brings disaster.

She didn't know whether Yun Mo had received any news from Yun Si and the others, and she felt a little uneasy.

Unable to calm down, Lin Yinan simply got up and went outside for a walk.