The Rise of a Farm Girl

Chapter 29: Escape from Famine 4

Wang Jingru looked around but couldn't find a suitable place, so she had to return empty-handed. The next day, she continued to walk forward, and there were already cannibals on the road.

They would eat the flesh of children and women. People who ate human flesh would be different from usual, their eyes would be red.

On this day, they passed by a mountain and the villagers were resting at the foot of the mountain. Wang Jingru planned to go for a walk on the mountain, but before he could take action, a group of bandits rushed down the mountain. Nowadays, bandits eat both food and human flesh. They will eat anything that is edible.

Seeing so many people coming, including many women and children, they wanted to take these people up the mountain, round them up and eat them bit by bit.

The villagers no longer had the energy to fight these bandits. They were captured weakly on the mountain one by one, and all of them, regardless of gender or age, were locked up in caves.

What surprised Wang Jingru the most was that there was actually a spring on the mountain. These villagers, together with other people fleeing famine, numbered at least six or seven hundred people, and they were all locked up in this large cave.

This cave can accommodate several thousand people, so these six or seven hundred people are not crowded here. When they came in, there were still more than a hundred people in the cave.

Dozens of people were posted at the entrance of the cave to guard it. The second in command of the mountain stronghold even came to take a look and was very satisfied with the people who were captured.

Tell the guards, brothers, keep an eye on them, don't let anyone get away. Pick out two pretty ones and send them to my room.

I'm tired of playing with the ones I caught last time. This time I have to pick two pretty ones. Second in command, don't worry, I'll definitely take care of it for you.

The second in command left after he finished speaking. Wang Jingru said to her parents, "Dad, I have to go out for a while at night. I will go to the village chief later and ask him to find someone to cover for me."

Good, Dad and Mom will cover for you. The sky gradually darkened, and at 12 o'clock in the evening, it was the most sleepy time, and the guards were drowsy.

The cave entrance was not only guarded by someone, but also had two large logs across it. But none of this could stop Wang Jingru, who used her Qinggong to quickly jump out and quickly hid in the bushes beside the cave.

One of the guards immediately shouted "Who?" and the other guard was awakened by him, "I think you are just making a fuss out of nothing. There are so many of us guarding, who would dare to run out?"

Don't you see that they are so hungry that their bones are visible, and they can't even walk, yet they dare to run out? The man thought about it and muttered. Even if they run out, they can't get down the mountain. There are people guarding our mountain gate!

Wang Jingru left the mountain. The cave was in the back mountain. There were many wooden houses built on the mountain in front. Those were where the people in the village lived.

Wang Jingru used her Qinggong to shuttle through the mountain village as if walking on flat ground. Soon she came to a wooden house with lights on. Someone in the wooden house was talking, "Boss, why don't we eat those two-legged beasts tonight?"

We arrested a lot today, about six or seven hundred people. Then I heard the boss say, "Second brother, can you please think about it? We have to screen them before we can eat them."

Keep the useful ones, kill the useless ones and eat the meat. And tomorrow, choose carefully to see if there are any pretty girls. I'll leave two for you.

There are still many brothers in this village who haven't found wives yet! Choose one for all the brothers. Big brother, should we eat the rest?

The rest have been eaten, so you should work! There is still a lot of land in the mountains. No one is working! Their place is dry, but don’t we have mountain spring water?

Don’t you see that all these people have fled to escape famine? Who will farm the land? Without food, we will be left starving!

We can't eat two-legged animals every day. If the government finds out, they will have to bring us to the mountains. Brother, you are becoming more and more timid.

We are not afraid of the government if they come. We will fight them. It is not certain who will win or lose!

We can't go against the government. After all, their soldiers are no pushovers. If a fight really breaks out, there are only a few hundred of us on the mountain. How can we defeat the government?

We are peaceful and comfortable. Isn't it nice to live a simple life in the mountains? We have to be careful about everything. There are too many disaster victims now, and the government has no time to take care of us. That's why we can act so recklessly.

Brother, if we rob the government’s grain, will the government come to find us? No, they will think that the grain was robbed by refugees fleeing famine! When we robbed the grain, we pretended to be refugees fleeing famine.

Where can he find us? Is the food in the cave well hidden? Don't worry, brother, the food is hidden in the cave well. Then it was sealed with stones. Even the refugees who fled the famine could not imagine that there was food in the cave they were staying in.

Wang Jingru heard their conversation and thought it was over. She was about to take action against them when she heard the second brother say, "I think the gold, silver and jewelry in the eldest brother's warehouse should be moved to another place. I always feel uneasy when they are in the warehouse."

We have to hide it somewhere safe. Just listen to the boss. I will find a good place in a day or two, and then you can find a few reliable brothers to move the things there.

Wang Jingru flashed to the door and then heard footsteps. "Brother, you take a rest first. I'll leave first."

I didn't hear what the boss said, and then I heard the door open. Wang Jingru was holding a rolling pin in her hand, which she brought from home.

As soon as the second in command came out and closed the door, Wang Jingru knocked him out with a rolling pin and stuffed him into the space. Then Wang Jingru also entered the space.

The eldest son was very alert. He opened the door and said, "Second brother, what the hell are you doing at the door?" When he opened the door, he saw no one. The second brother was very impatient all day, and he went back to the house after finishing everything.

Wang Jingru stayed in the space for a while longer. Wang Jingru's space can keep animals, but outsiders cannot enter. Even if they are brought in, they are in a coma. So Wang Jingru was not worried at all that the second in command would wake up.

Wang Jingru stayed there for about an hour before coming out of the space. After all, the boss had just come out and she was afraid of an explosion.

Wang Jingru had guessed correctly. The boss thought someone was there and didn't dare to lie down to rest. He kept looking at the door from time to time. After looking for a while and seeing no one, the boss lay down on the recliner and drank. He fell asleep while drinking.

Wang Jingru left the space, quietly opened the door and went into the house. She quickly took the big boss into the space, and then she also went into the space and hit the big boss on the back of the neck with a stick.

This is to prevent him from waking up if he is released from the space. It would be bad if he makes some noise.

Wang Jingru searched the boss's house and found a lot of silver. There were 20,000 taels of silver notes alone, and two boxes of silver under the bed, probably more than a thousand taels.

Under a loose floor tile in the corner, two boxes of pearls were found. The pearls were really round and big. The boxes were sealed and only supplied to the palace. It seemed that this group of people dared to rob anything!

But now it was a bargain for me. I put away the two boxes of pearls. After putting away the two boxes, there was still a box underneath. Wang Jingru opened the box and found two huge night-shining pearls inside.

Wang Jingru said, "I've made a fortune, I've made a fortune," while quickly putting her things away.

After I finished cleaning up here, I looked around and saw that all the useful things in the house were also put into the space, including the table, chairs, benches, and two big knives. Then I saw two jars of wine on the ground, which I also put away.

Before dawn, Wang Jingru hurried to find the warehouse. After searching for a while, she finally found it. Why was she able to find it? Because there was someone guarding it.

Wang Jingru counted and found that there were about four people guarding the place, with two standing on each side. This was going to be difficult. No matter how hard Wang Jingru thought, she couldn't come up with a good solution.

If she didn't do anything soon, it would be dawn. Just when she was getting anxious, she remembered to put all these people into the space and then deal with them together.

Wang Jingru used her Qinggong skills to quickly collect the two people and ran to the other side. Before the two people could react, they were also collected into the space.

After collecting the four people, she quickly opened the lock with a hairpin. Walking inside, there were many boxes, and Wang Jingru didn't have time to look at them.

He quickly put all the boxes into the space, and after he finished, Wang Jingru hurried back. He was afraid that his parents might be in danger. When he ran back, the people at the entrance of the cave were already snoring.

In this way, no one in the cave dared to come out. It was not that they were afraid to come out, but they simply did not have the strength to walk.

After Wang Jingru came back and sat down, Wang Laosan and his wife started to complain to Wang Jingru, "You said you ran away, why did you come back?"

Why do you care about the two of us? It's already this late, whoever runs away will be the last one. How can you be so stubborn, kid?

Wang Jingru just sat down and explained a few words to her parents, saying that she had gone to find out the situation and would deal with the bandits in the mountains tomorrow. Her parents and children were very worried, but when they saw their daughter's haggard appearance, they asked her to rest quickly.

As soon as Wang Jingru closed his eyes, he felt the space vibrate. He used his spiritual sense to explore the space and was bounced out.

Wang Jingru was very anxious. Why was the space vibrating? He had just collected so many gold, silver and jewels. They were all his treasures. Wang Jingru was about to cry. But what could he do?

Unable to get in, she could only wait. In this way, Wang Jingru fell asleep leaning against the wall.

At daybreak, a man came with two buckets of water. There was no food, only water to drink. Anyone could help these people fleeing famine. Although they were hungry, they were even more thirsty!

So these people rushed to drink the water, and the people on the mountain cursed loudly, "Stand still, damn it." Is there one bowl of water for each person?

These people stood up obediently, and each of them drank a bowl of water from the bucket. These people had walked all the way without even a drink of water. It was very good to have water to drink, but those who drank slowly would be scolded or beaten.

Wang Jingru and her family did not go to drink the water because there was a lot of clean water stored in the space. Wang Jingru did not dare to drink the water for fear that there was something in it.

After these people finished drinking, they left with buckets of water. Wang Jingru and her family remained sitting there without moving.

Wang Jingru used her spiritual sense to explore the space and found something very strange. The space expanded. Of the six people he had collected into the space, the eldest and second in command did not wake up, and Wang Jingru did not hit the other four people with a rolling pin.

So they woke up, but they just sat there, unable to move. Wang Jingru looked at the endless space, so much black soil, Wang Jingru was worried, how to plant it!

Just when I was worrying, an idea suddenly occurred to me. How can a person wake up in a space? Is the space upgraded so that people can also be in it?

But they must obey my command. Wang Jingru tried to control those people with her mind, and then told them to go to the fields. The four people really got up, went to the warehouse to get tools and seeds, and went to work far away.

Wang Jingru was overjoyed by this discovery. Could he take in more people? Such a large amount of land also needs someone to cultivate it. If she relied on cultivating it alone, she would be exhausted.

It happened to be in this bandit's den, so she took all these people into the space to work. There were mountains and trees in the distance, so she let them cut down trees and build wooden houses by themselves, and work for her forever in the space.

Anyway, these people are not good people. I don’t know how many evil things they have done in their lives.

It was a good thing for them to work in there. Anyway, if they were not allowed to come out, they would never come out, and the secrets of this space would not be leaked out.

Wang Jingru thought that when night came, she would go out and put all the people in the village into the space. Soon the night came, and the first people Wang Jingru put in were the people guarding the cave entrance, and she quietly put those people into the space.

Then he ran around the village, arresting anyone he saw, regardless of gender, as long as they were walking in the village, they must be in the same group. Wang Jingru went out at 11 o'clock in the middle of the night, and only arrested all the hundreds of people at dawn.

Then he searched every room, and put away all the banknotes, gold, silver and jewelry he could find into the space.

She searched the entire village, and after finishing everything, Wang Jingru was exhausted and dragged her tired body to the cave.

We found the village chief and dragged him outside. He was a little afraid to leave when we dragged him outside. Wang Jingru said, "It's okay. Come with me, village chief. I'll talk to the guards outside." That was all.

After he came out, he told the village chief, "Grandpa, all the bandits on the mountain have fled. They heard that the government was coming to arrest them. So there is no bandit left on the mountain. Now you have to come out and take charge. We can't stay on this mountain for long. If the government comes, they will think we are bandits!"

The village chief was also anxious when he heard this, but we didn't have the strength to leave. It's okay, village chief. When they escaped, I heard that there was food in our cave. You can distribute it to them, as well as the tribe leader and elders. The three of you can hold the fort.

The village chief was very pleased to hear this. Erya, you are a good child. I am grateful to you for the journey. Let me thank you on behalf of the whole village.

The village chief then called the clan leader and the elders, as well as dozens of young men from the village, because he was afraid that he would not be able to control the situation, after all, there were many people who were not from the village.

There were also people from the neighboring villages who walked with them, and the two villages merged into one team. Otherwise, there would not be hundreds of people.

The main task now was to calm down the more than 100 people originally imprisoned in the cave, plus the 100 people who were not from the village. The village chief discussed countermeasures with these people.

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