Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

Zhou Da Cang looked at her increasingly elongated face and could not help but said, "Okay, don't think too much. That kid followed you all the way. Although you haven't learned any of his skills, he must have learned at least 40%, 50%, 60%, or 80% of this life-saving skill. He won't let himself starve to death. Just come back and look for him later."

He paused and continued, "Besides, doesn't he know he's going to the north? Maybe he won't wait for us to find him, but he might find us first."

Zhou Guo nodded.

They hurried along the way. When it was getting dark in the afternoon and the afterglow of the setting sun spread over the earth, Zhou Guo wanted to find a place to rest.

I didn’t sleep much last night and was a little sleepy. The sunset was warm. I haven’t seen such beautiful sunset for a long time.

"Uncle, let's find a place to rest. Rest early today and get up before dawn tomorrow to continue on our journey."

If she went any further, she would fall off the horse.

Zhou Dacang glanced at her and frowned, "What's wrong with you? Why do you look listless? Are you sick?"

Zhou Guo sneered and waved her hand, "Sick? Me? Let me tell you, with my physique, I can't get sick even if you are sick. I'm as strong as a bull."

Zhou Dacang glanced at her sideways, "You must have forgotten what you looked like before this year, strong as an ox?"

Zhou Guo: "...I am just stupid, not in poor health."

As she was talking, she heard roars and shouts from the southeast corner. She frowned and looked over. There was a lot of grass and trees, and she didn't see anything. "It sounds like someone is fighting."

Zhou Dacang didn't want to get involved in this. "If you want to fight, just fight. Who cares if others don't fight? We still have to hurry on our way. This place is unlucky. Let's go forward."

Zhou Guo nodded. She was not in the mood to care about it right now. As long as the bandits and soldiers were not killing people, just let them be.

After running half a mile, Zhou Guo sighed deeply, stopped the horse with his eyes closed, opened his eyes after a while, and looked at Zhou Dacang beside him.

Zhou Dacang said helplessly: "Go ahead, go ahead. I know you. Why do you want to meddle in other people's business? They say you have a connection with the Bodhisattva. Do you really think you are the Bodhisattva?"

Zhou Guo said, "I don't want to care, but the cries of the children float into my ears and I can't get rid of them. I am getting more and more panicked. Anyway, there is no rush to travel. Uncle, I will go and take a look. You go to the front and find a place to cook. I will be back soon."

Zhou Dacang said, "I'd better go with you. I'm worried if there are bandits. It will be very dangerous for you to go alone."

Zhou Guo waved his hand, "No, no, I can go alone. Looking at their momentum, they don't look like bandits. Besides, if they are bandits, it's a good opportunity to practice. You go first, I'll be back soon."

He turned his horse around and headed back, looking very aggressive, as if he was going to kill someone.

Zhou Dacang opened his mouth and swallowed a mouthful of ashes, "Cough cough cough cough..."

After thinking about the sound he just heard, it didn't sound like the voice of bandits. The bandits had encountered real killers who killed people without blinking an eye, and they could smell that smell from a long distance.

Zhou Guo rode his horse at full speed with a stern face. Just as he arrived, he met two men with grim smiles carrying a child who was crying like a pig being slaughtered.

Zhou Guo frowned, picked up something and threw it out, hitting someone's wrist heavily.

Hei Dadan was startled and raised the dog's head. Its big bones!

"Ah!" A man screamed and lost his grip.

Several people turned to look at Zhou Guo, and the first thing they saw was a tall and fine horse. The two men were a little scared at first. In this world, who else but the powerful could ride a horse?

But after seeing Zhou Guo on horseback, his expression changed and the greed in his eyes could not be hidden.

The two men didn't even want the child in their hands. They grinned and said to Zhou Guo, "Little kid, how old are you? Come down and play with the uncles?"

The other one looked the horse up and down, muttering, "This horse is good, this horse is good. If it is sold, it can be worth at least sixty taels. Haha, I'm rich, I've met the God of Wealth. Today is really not a loss."

Zhou Guo leaned over to look at the two men, waved his whip and pointed at the child who had already run away, and said, "What are you going to do with this child?"

The first man laughed and said, "What do you want to do? I can do whatever I want. It just so happens that you let the kid run away. Then you will be our dinner tonight. I will definitely taste you well."

As he spoke, he squinted his eyes and licked his tongue. His expression was terrifying and extremely disgusting.

Zhou Guo's nonchalant expression turned serious. He sat up straight involuntarily. His hands holding the reins trembled slightly. He suppressed the nausea rising from the bottom of his heart and said word by word: "You mean, this child is your dinner?"

The man laughed triumphantly, his eyes full of madness, his face twisted, and said, "So what? They won't live for many days anyway. Instead of starving to death and rotting, it's better for us to have a good meal, so that their life will not be in vain. Little kid, I think you look like someone your family doesn't want, but I won't eat you. Just give me your horse and I'll let you go. How about that?"

The man who looked at the horse immediately raised his head and rubbed his hands and laughed, "I think so too. The horse will stay and you can go. You don't have much meat on you."

Zhou Guo sat on his horse, looking down at the two people who were laughing with their mouths open. Looking at those two bloody mouths, he felt dizzy and almost fell off the horse.

The two men were still laughing, and the more they laughed, the more proud they became. "I never thought that one day we would be able to treat the young master of a wealthy family like this. Young master? Hahahaha, let's be young masters in our next life!"

With trembling hands and tightly pursed lips, Zhou Guo untied the tightly wrapped broadsword from behind, and with his left hand, he grabbed the strip of cloth and threw it into the air. The broadsword drew a silhouette in the air, and the bright blade reflected bright light in the setting sun, making it impossible for the person stabbed to open his eyes for a while.

Where the tip of the knife passes, no blood is shed.

The two men's laughter stopped abruptly.

After a while, a red line appeared on the necks of the two men. The red line slowly grew larger and red liquid slowly flowed out.

Two bodies that seemed huge to the children fell to the ground with a loud bang, splashing up a cloud of dust.

Zhou Guo turned his horse around, leaving the two corpses far behind. With the sound of horse hooves, he headed towards the direction where the shouting came from.

The closer they got, the fewer the children's shouting became. Zhou Guo felt a chill in his heart and had a bad feeling.

As I got closer, I saw chaos ahead. The grass, as tall as a person, was trampled flat. There were seven or eight people lying in a mess on the ground, including adults and children.

At a glance, there were four or five still standing.

Three or four adults were pulling a seven or eight-year-old child, laughing strangely.