The end of natural disasters: the daily life of child brides in ancient times

With these people harassing her from the side, Lu Qingqing quickly found the right opportunity and slashed the man's neck with a knife, ending the fight.

Seeing that the man was dead, Lu Qingqing picked up the bow and arrow again and aimed at the people fighting in front.

The women saw Lu Qingqing kill two deserters just now, and hid beside her as if they were grabbing a life-saving straw.

Lu Qingqing couldn't care less at this moment. She kept her eyes on Qin Lang who was fighting in front of her.

Qin Lang was always in the front, and Lu Qingqing was afraid that he would get hurt, so she kept staring at that side.

At this moment, the man who was fighting with Qin Lang retreated, and Lu Qingqing shot an arrow, hitting him right in the middle of his eyebrows.

Qin Lang knew that it was Lu Qingqing who was helping him, so he grinned, shook his arms which were numb from the fight, and continued to rush forward with the long sword.

During the battle, Lu Qingqing looked for opportunities to shoot arrows from time to time and saved many people.

It felt like a long time had passed, but in reality it was only about twenty minutes. The people from Lujia Village had already gained the upper hand. After dozens of deserters were hacked to death, the rest were frightened and fled.

The men from Lujia Village chased after them and brought all the deserters back.

At this time, the leading centurion had his hands tied and was forced to kneel in the middle, with other deserters kneeling beside him, a total of about twenty people.

When the deserter saw the men coming towards him with bloody knives, he immediately admitted defeat and kowtowed and begged for mercy.

Lu Tianming looked at the deserters kneeling in a row in front of him and asked:

"Are you the soldiers who fled from the state capital when the barbarians attacked?"

Seeing a group of people nodding, he continued to ask:

"I heard before that deserters plundered the village and killed everyone, young and old. But you?"

At this time, the deserters did not dare to nod, and some of them hurriedly explained:

"That's not us. It must be some other soldier who escaped. We are all civilians from the nearby county, and we were forcibly conscripted to fight in the war."

"Please, sir, spare our lives. We didn't mean to kill anyone. I really didn't do anything!"

Lu Tianming looked at the group of deserters in front of him with cold eyes. They might indeed be people from the nearby county, but it was impossible to say that they had done nothing.

At this time, Yao County Magistrate also came over after bandaging his wound. After hearing the man's explanation, he said:

"Since you say you haven't done anything bad, then you can report the people around you. If you successfully report someone else and haven't done anything bad yourself, I'll let him go."

When the deserters heard that there was an opportunity, they all spoke up, and some of them revealed the silver, money and food they had robbed during this period.

After listening for a while, Lu Tianming and Yao Xiancheng found that the centurion who was kneeling in the middle and taking the lead was the one who committed the most evil deeds.

The captain heard his brother's backstab and knew that he would not be able to escape the disaster today. He laughed and mocked the man who backstabbed him.

"Do you really think they will let you go? I guess we brothers will all be buried together today!"

County Magistrate Yao looked at the captain and felt that he was still clear-headed.

At this time, every deserter had been reported. They had burned, killed and looted too many villages during this period, and all of them had been involved in human deaths.

Lu Tianming and County Magistrate Yao looked at each other and ordered their men to remove the arms of the deserters. County Magistrate Yao took half of the men to guard them.

Lu Tianming took the other half of the men and took two of the deserters to search for the silver, money and food they had hidden.

Lu Tianming was worried that there might be an ambush in their lair, so he asked Lu Qingqing to follow him.

The deserters' hideout wasn't too far from where they were resting, and it took about half an hour to walk there.

At this moment, there were five or six men lying down and sleeping in the den, and two night watchmen were sitting around the fire, and they also fell asleep with their heads down.

The people from Lujia Village approached quietly and slashed the neck of a deserter with a knife. However, the deserter's struggle before death woke up the night watchman.

Everyone stopped hiding. Lu Qingqing shot an arrow and killed one person. Most of these deserters were injured and were no match for them in a fight. The rest were quickly dealt with.

The deserters' money and food were also on carts, ten in total.

Five of them were pulled by people, and among the other five, one was pulled by oxen, and the remaining four were pulled by mules.

Most of the carts were filled with looted food and a small amount of bedding, iron pots and other items. In addition to food, several boxes of gold and silver jewelry were also found on the ox carts.

Lu Tianming led his men to search the surrounding area again, but didn't find anything else, so he went back with his gains.

On the way back, the people who came out to search looked around nervously, fearing that someone would jump out and snatch these things away.

When Lu Tianming and his group returned, the villagers were surprised to see that they had carried so much food.

Lu Tianming discussed with County Magistrate Yao, the village chief, and the elders and decided to deal with all these deserters.

We got so much food and gold and silver this time. If we hand over the deserters to Pingkang County, I am afraid that the news will leak out and bring about unnecessary disasters.

Besides, if we hand them over, the county government will execute these deserters.

When dealing with the deserters, Lu Tianming discovered that the two robbers he had caught before were missing. He heard from the women in the village that the two men ran away when the deserters attacked.

County Magistrate Yao had led people to search the surrounding area but found nothing, so no one cared anymore. The focus now was how to divide the gold, silver and grain that had been obtained.

After Lu Tianming discussed with County Magistrate Yao, the village chief, and the elders, they decided to give priority to distributing the gold and silver to those who died in the sneak attack, and then divide the rest equally among the men who participated in the battle.

As for food, it was distributed according to the number of people, with adults getting one portion and children getting half a portion.

Several boxes of gold, silver and jewelry were moved out, and the gold was picked out first, a total of twelve gold ingots.

And from the remaining treasures, a small number of jade bracelets, jewelry and the like were picked out.

Apart from some silver ingots, most of the remaining items were scattered silver grains and copper coins, totaling more than 980 taels of silver and copper coins.

Nine people died this time. Each family of the deceased was given a gold ingot, and the remaining three were kept in the public treasury, and any expenses on the road would be paid from this.

When it was time to divide the money, Lu Tianming called Lu Qingqing out and said:

"Daya played a very important role in resisting the deserters' attack this time. What do you think, should we give her some money?"

The men she had helped in the previous battle and the women in the village all shouted,

"It should be divided, give it to her!"

Seeing that the elders all nodded, Lu Tianming included Lu Qingqing in the group.

There were a total of 92 young and strong men participating in the battle, including Lu Qingqing. Each of them received ten taels of silver, and the remaining several dozen taels were left for public expenses.

When it came time to distribute the food, the women also became excited because they also wanted a share of the food.

There were a total of 204 people from Lujia Village who fled the famine this time, and a total of 42 relatives who came to seek refuge with them.

All the grain obtained included more than 2,600 kilograms of fine grains and more than 7,200 kilograms of coarse grains.

By the time all the food was distributed, it was already midnight, but the villagers were still very excited.

Some families who didn't have carts even used money to buy carts from the villagers.

People took the food they were given back to their resting places, and families with large populations even carried several bags back.

Lu Tianming called Lu Qingqing and Qin Lang, gave Qin Lang a gold ingot, and gave Lu Qingqing two jade bracelets.

"This is a reward the elders agreed to give you. You two are good children. Not only did you play a key role in this night raid, but you also came up with the ingenious idea of ​​leg binding. It has greatly increased the team's marching speed. You two should accept it quickly."

Seeing that the elders all nodded, Lu Qingqing and Qin Lang accepted it.

Lu Tianming also told them separately not to tell anyone to avoid trouble.