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

Zhou Guo picked up the axe and used the back of the axe to hit one person after another, but she didn't know how to control the strength yet, so even though she had some control, the first few people fell down without even a grunt.

The two behind were also beaten and cried for their parents.

The crowd was in chaos, with sounds of "ouch" everywhere.

The refugees remembered their eldest brother's words and took advantage of the chaos to grab food. After grabbing the food, they ran to the mountains on both sides. So they put their hands on their heads and rushed into the crowd. However, after rushing for a long time, they looked up and there were still people everywhere. Not to mention food, they didn't even know where the carts were. As soon as they raised their eyes, they saw countless sticks hitting them on the head. They were scared and ran away, screaming to the sky.

They were all refugees, and they didn't have any sharp knives in their hands except wooden sticks, so Zhou Guo and his men didn't kill them. Those who held sickles only used the back of the blades.

The leader came straight towards Zhou Guo from the beginning. As soon as they met, he showed a ferocious expression and said, "Little bastard, hand over the axe in your hand."

Zhou Guo: “……???”

Say it again, you are not here to steal food?

"What are you looking at, little brat? Give me the axe in your hand or I'll make you pay! My fists don't recognize anyone. Even if your father comes, it won't help."

She looked at the axe in her hand and couldn't figure it out. After thinking for a while, she felt that the most likely possibility was that he knew the previous owner of the axe, which meant that he was in the same group as the bandits who robbed and killed people. With just this thought, her heart turned cold. She narrowed her eyes and asked, "Do you know this axe?"

The man was stunned. What do you mean by knowing or not knowing? Axe heads all look the same. But he immediately realized and nodded, "I know it. It's the one I dropped. It's an heirloom in our family. It's passed down from my great-great-grandfather. It's incredibly sharp. Tell me where you found it. It was gone before I could turn around. You're pretty quick. Give it back to me. Didn't your parents teach you that you can't just take something that doesn't belong to you? That's the same as stealing."

Seeing that he was about to get the axe, the man couldn't help feeling proud, and this pride made him talk too much.

Zhou Guo was reluctant to listen, so he went up and swung the axe without saying a word and started chopping. As he struck, he said, "It's a precious axe, right? It was passed down from your great-great-grandfather, right? Why, it has the names of your great-grandfathers engraved on it? Since it's an heirloom from your family, just call it and see if it responds. How dare you claim anything, even an axe? You're bullying me now. I'll show you how powerful I am. Even your father can't help!"

Zhou Guo was so angry that she laughed. She also realized that this guy didn't know anything about axes. It was probably because she showed off her skills with the axe on the road yesterday that he regarded the axe as a treasure and started to plan to take the axe for himself.

The man didn't dare to fight head-on, after all, the axe was very sharp. But after hearing what the kid said, he couldn't bear it any longer. He dodged and hit the kid with a stick, hoping to hurt the kid's arm and the axe would fall.

But as soon as the wooden stick touched it, it was taken away somehow.

Then there was a burst of beatings with sticks, which almost made him kneel down and walk around on the ground. He had to walk around, because after being hit by the sticks, there was a big black bruise on his leg, which almost made him unable to get up.

"Good, sister, you fought well, you fought well, you are really great." Zhou Su on the side couldn't help but applaud and cheer when he saw this.

When Zhou Guo saw the child jumping for joy, he remembered the bad things these people had done, robbing food and stealing things. If they succeeded, a cute and well-behaved child like his own brother would go hungry. He became even more angry and beat him hard with a stick a few more times.

He was beaten to the ground and couldn't get up. He begged for mercy, "I was wrong, I was wrong, young master, I was wrong, I won't do it again, that axe is not ours, I just saw that the axe was sharp and wanted to use it myself, I was wrong, wrong, please don't hit me anymore, wuwuwuwuwu, I have old people and young children to take care of."

At this time, some of the clever ones had already run away, and there were still a few left. I don’t know whether they were loyal or their brains were not very good, but they just refused to leave. They would rather hold their heads and get beaten than leave, and just waited for the boss to give the order.

Seeing this, everyone stopped fighting.

They began to question the group's origins.

"Hey, where are you from? How many of you are there? Who told you to do this?"

"And who is your leader? When did you start following us? Have you done anything like this before?"

Several people asked and answered nervously.

Zhou Guo threw the axe at the man under the wooden stick. The axe fell beside the man with a bang, and the man was so scared that he shook all over.

She didn't waste any words, she just raised her chin and said, "Open your blind eyes and see clearly whether this axe is a precious axe that can cut iron like mud."

The man was so scared that he shook his head repeatedly, "I, I, I don't dare anymore, I don't dare to ask for your precious axe. This axe is yours, it's your family heirloom, please let me go!!"

Zhou Guo was speechless, and tried his luck and said, "I'll ask you to pick it up and take a good look at whether this axe is the so-called treasure axe."

"I dare not, I dare not, I don't want it anymore..." The man was terrified. Who was the one who was robbed? Why did this child look so much like a local tyrant and a bandit?

Zhou Guo gnashed his teeth and said, "I asked you to raise your head and take a good look, but you didn't obey, did you? Do you still want to be beaten?"

If she didn't clear up this misunderstanding and the news got out, she would probably never have a peaceful life again. How many people would come to her to look for treasure, just for a broken axe.

When the man heard it, he raised his head and glanced at her quietly. Zhou Guo glared at him, pointed at the axe beside him, and ordered, "Pick it up and chop it, quickly."

"Oh, yes, yes!" The man quickly got up.

He looked at her, then at the axe on the ground, his eyes shining quietly. He really wanted him to see it. If he could pick up this precious axe, it would be his. Then, hehe~

Zhou Guo didn't even bother to look at him. This obscene expression made it hard to guess what he was thinking. With this condition, how could he be the leader? How did he become the leader?

The man looked at her while carefully reaching out for the axe, fearing that she would change her mind.

The next second, as soon as he got the axe, the man stood up and laughed loudly, proudly raised the axe and said to Zhou Guo: "Little bastard, now the axe is in my hand, what else do you want to say? If you know what's good for you, hand over all the food quickly, or I'll let you taste the power of my axe!"

Zhou Guo: “…”

This attracted everyone's attention.