You confiscated my property, I exiled you, why are you crying when the treasury is empty?

Zhan Beiwang refused without a second thought. However, at this moment, an official stepped out from the crowd and solemnly retorted Wu Qianyun's words, "If you don't sell it, no one in the Zhan family will be allowed to leave the town in the future. You will have to pay a fee to go hunting in the mountains. And don't count on us officials to protect you during your exile."

After saying that, he stopped talking and just looked at Zhan Beiwang quietly.

Su Wanning expected that someone from the exile team would come to Zhan Beiwang to buy food, but she didn't expect that even the officials would go there.

Now that Zhan Beiwang has sold the rice, the people in the Zhan family will have nothing to eat. Although he may ask her to take out some more, the same thing will happen again.

If they don't sell it, the people in the exile team will be forced into a corner and may do something extreme.

Zhan Beiwang also thought about the outcome of this matter. On one side was his own food rations, and on the other side was the threat of exiled officials.

"We in the Zhan family don't have much food, so we can't sell you any." Zhan Beiwang straightened up. "You have the time. Why not take advantage of the light rain and go outside to dig up some wild vegetables and hunt some game? We had a cold snap before, so there must have been a lot of wild animals that were hit by it."

"Okay, since your Zhan family is so principled, I won't give you any convenience in the future." The official said something harsh and walked away.

Zhan Beiwang looked at their departing backs. Could it be that their Zhan family had ever enjoyed any convenience before?

As for the resentful looks of others, Zhan Beiwang was not worried at all. After all, since the day of exile, those people had already pointed their spearheads at the Zhan family, and even before that, they often made trouble for them.

The people around knew that there would be no result if they continued watching, so they all started to think about the method of obtaining food that Zhan Beiwang had just mentioned.

The people around him gradually left. Zhan Beiwang breathed a sigh of relief and handed the rice in his hand to Zhan Yiran, asking her to cook a big pot of porridge.

Each person only got a bowl of rice soup.

While those who were originally just trying to go outside to see if they could find game were drinking, a few people came in carrying game.

"It's especially easy to catch game in the mountains today."

"You guys really caught it."

"Let's go out and take a look."

A dozen people stood up and walked out of the cave.

After a while, a few people came back, but only a few of them were carrying game.

Su Wanning watched as one of them carried a hare that was bigger than any she had ever seen.

Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that the rabbit had been drowned, and it was unknown how long the body had been soaking in the water.

"Big Head, you picked up this rabbit from the water, didn't you?"

Big Head lifted the rabbit in his hand and said, "We didn't get any game. We can't let the child go hungry."

"Don't get sick from eating this drowned rabbit." Someone next to him said quietly.

Big Head's wife stood up and walked over to the man. "We don't want to eat this. Can you give me some food?"

The people around him fell silent instantly.

Su Wanning thought to herself, it’s a good thing she didn’t remind him, otherwise she would be the one to be criticized.

It’s not that the drowned rabbit is not edible, but there is all sorts of things in the water now, including a lot of human body fragments, so eating it will probably cause harm.

Someone had already reminded them, but their family didn't appreciate it, so there was no need for her to go over and remind them again.

After lunch, Su Wanning lay down in the tent and took a nap.

When I woke up again, the rain outside had stopped and the temperature was dropping little by little.

I walked to the entrance of the cave and looked outside. There was trampled mud everywhere.

I was thinking of going down the mountain to see how high the water level was.

It’s better to go back and lie down now.

Just as Su Wanning was walking back from the cave entrance, he suddenly heard Big Head's wife rocking the child in her arms.

"Go check on the child. What's wrong with him? Why is he still sleeping?"

Big Head walked over and patted him, "Lin'er, Lin'er, wake up."

Big Head's wife also kept calling out, "Lin'er, wake up quickly and stop scaring your mother."

The two called him for a long time but he showed no sign of waking up.

The big-headed wife reached out her hand tremblingly and placed it under the child's nose.

Then she burst into tears, "Lin'er, my dear Lin'er."

When Big Head saw his wife like this, his eyes instantly turned red. He walked to the person who reminded them today that rabbits cannot be eaten, grabbed the man's collar, and hit him with his other fist.

Blood immediately flowed from the corner of his mouth.

"It's all your fault. You cursed my son to death, so you must pay for it with your own life."

As he said this, he pulled the man out.

The man who was beaten was a mother at home. When she saw her child being beaten, she reached out to stop it.

"Don't hit my son Benshan."

But he was pushed away by the big head and fell against the stone wall of the cave. His body fell to the ground and he was dead.

When Liu Benshan saw his mother fall, the potential in his body burst out, and he raised his hand and punched her head to the ground.

He quickly ran towards his mother who had fallen to the ground, "Mom, Mom."

I felt my hand was wet and covered in blood.

"Mother!"

He raised his head and looked at the big head with scarlet eyes, "It's you who killed my mother!"

Big Head was at a loss for a moment. He just wanted to scare him, not kill him.

"No...it's not...it's not me..."

The people around pointed at Big Head, and Big Head stepped back.

"I didn't mean to do that. She threw herself at me. If anyone is to blame, it's them. If my son hadn't been cursed to death by him, why would I have bothered with him?"

Liu Benshan laughed sarcastically, "It's my fault. I shouldn't have given you a kind reminder back then. Now I'm being blamed and my mother has lost her life."

He put his mother on the ground, stood up, rushed to Big Head regardless of his life, and started beating him hard.

The two were stopped only when the police could no longer bear it.

"You killed his son, and he killed your mother. You two are even now. Why fight again? If you cause trouble again, you'll be whipped."

Liu Benshan looked at the official in anger, "I didn't harm them, but he killed my mother!"

When the officer heard Liu Benshan talk back, he whipped him.

Liu Benshan took it hard and took a last look at the officer and Big Head's family.

He picked up his mother and took her back to the resting place, washed her with some rain water, and then walked out.

About an hour later, Liu Benshan returned to the cave, carried her mother on her back and walked out.

When Su Wanning followed, she found that Liu Benshan had dug a big hole in the past hour, put his mother in it, and covered her with a piece of cloth.

Fill it in with soil using your hands.

I saw a wooden plaque, engraved my name on it, and stuck it next to the grave.

"Mother, please stay here for a while. When I get to Lingnan, I will rush back and reunite you with father.

As for those people, if no one can punish them, then my son will do it himself."