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

Old Man Zhuang looked at the roof of the car with some concern. Fortunately, the reinforced roof was very strong.

Even if a large hailstone hit the middle of the car, it only made a loud noise, and the wood on the roof did not break.

Seeing this, both of them breathed a sigh of relief.

After a while, the hail slowly stopped.

Until there was no movement at all, Lu Qingqing leaned on the bench and looked outside.

At a glance, I found that there were many people approaching this side in the woods.

Moreover, the distance is very close.

When those people saw her looking at them, they hurriedly shouted:

“Little brother in front, we have no ill intentions.

I really haven't been able to find anything to eat after walking for these days.

We have money, can we buy some food from you?

Whether it's dried vegetables or wheat bran, it's all fine. You can decide the price."

As he spoke, his pace became faster and faster.

When Old Man Zhuang heard what they said, he hesitated.

They bought a lot of food on the carriage.

Moreover, looking at the map, we will reach Yancheng in two or three days.

If you buy low and sell high and make a profit from the difference, that's fine too.

He was just about to ask Lu Qingqing's opinion when he turned around and saw that Lu Qingqing had already taken out the compound bow.

Draw the bow and shoot the arrow in one go.

With a sound of arrow shooting, the arrow shot straight into the feet of the person in front.

At the same time, Lu Qingqing's cold and hard voice sounded.

"Stop! Whoever takes another step forward will have the arrow aimed at his head!"

Those people were startled by her sudden action and stopped in their tracks.

After a moment of panic, they all looked at the man in front.

The man was quite brave. He stopped and looked at Lu Qingqing with a smile.

"It turns out to be a girl, I misunderstood just now.

Girl, old man, we have no ill intentions, we are just very hungry.

As the old saying goes, saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda.

You see, you both have two horses, so I guess you won’t be short of food.

Even if you can sell us some horse feed, that would be good."

Old Man Zhuang looked at their sunken faces, and then at their jackets that were so torn that the black cotton was exposed.

For a moment, I felt a little sympathetic.

Especially, there was a short child at the front of the team.

The leading man also noticed the way he looked at the short man and pointed at him and said:

"Even if you don't pity us, at least pity the children!

This child is only six or seven years old. If he doesn’t eat something, he will starve to death.”

The leading man said this and took off the bag on his back.

After rummaging around inside, he took out a silver ingot weighing ten taels.

"Here's the silver. If you give me half a bag of food, this silver ingot will be yours!"

When Old Man Zhuang saw the silver ingot, his eyes widened.

"Qing girl, how about we sell him a little?"

Lu Qingqing remained unmoved.

Her eyes lingered on the short man for a moment before she finally realized what was wrong.

Those eyes don’t look like a child’s at all!

His eyes were cloudy and filled with calculation.

She shifted her gaze to the silver ingot, looking somewhat moved.

"In that case, I'll sell you half a bag of coarse grains.

But you can't go any further.

Once we get the food, we'll go over and exchange it with you!"

When the leader saw that she agreed, the smile on his face deepened.

"Don't worry, we'll be waiting here."

Seeing this, Lu Qingqing said to the old man Zhuang next to her:

"Go up to the carriage and take out half a bag of coarse grains."

As soon as he finished speaking, he added in a low voice.

"Go and bring out the brown horse. Leave it untied. I'll ride it later.

Once you've harnessed the car, don't worry about me and just drive away."

Old man Zhuang was just about to climb onto the carriage when he heard this and his relaxed expression froze.

Is there something wrong with the group of people on the opposite side?

His instinctive trust in Lu Qingqing made him go ahead quickly without asking any questions.

Using the carriage to block the view, he led the brown horse to the front and quickly put on the carriage frame.

While Old Man Zhuang was operating, Lu Qingqing asked in order to divert attention:

"Brother, where are you from?"

The leader thought that Old Man Zhuang had gone to get food, and was now making plans.

How should we catch him when we exchange food later?

When I heard the question suddenly, I subconsciously said:

"We are villagers from the village at the foot of Qiwang Mountain in the north.

This is not just a disaster, but also because soldiers from the north came to capture people for war, so they ran away!"

Lu Qingqing chatted with him in a random manner, glancing at Old Man Zhuang's progress from time to time.

When Old Man Zhuang had harnessed the carriage and motioned for her to get in and go.

She then said to the refugees opposite:

"Why are you so slow? Let me go and take a look."

As he spoke, he walked back a few steps and came to the side of the brown horse.

She looked at Old Man Zhuang and whispered:

"go!"

After saying this, Old Man Zhuang flicked the reins and Xiaobai pulled the carriage out.

Lu Qingqing also pulled the shed off the horse, jumped on the horse, and rushed out behind the carriage.

At this moment, the people behind finally realized something was wrong, and the leading man cursed:

"Damn, I almost got tricked by this little bitch!

Fortunately, I was prepared!

Let's go, brothers, catch up!"

As he said that, he quickly caught up with him.

On the other side, Lu Qingqing and Old Man Zhuang had already run more than ten meters away.

But when we walked to the small path leading to Shangguan Road, we found that the road was blocked.

At this moment, there were more than a dozen men waiting there with axes in their hands.

Seeing their carriage, he sneered:

"The boss is indeed very clever. He arranged for us to ambush here long ago."

The bandit next to him also had a grim smile on his face.

"Of course! If we take this carriage, we can have enough food to eat for a few days!"

The meaning of his words seemed to indicate that he had already taken Lu Qingqing and the other two as his possessions.

Old Man Zhuang didn't expect to be stopped here, and looked at Lu Qingqing in panic.

"Qing girl, what should we do?"

Lu Qingqing turned around and saw that the bandits in the woods were gradually catching up with them.

When the boss ran over, he was already exhausted and out of breath.

"How dare you play tricks on me, little bitch.

Originally, I was planning to ask you to warm my bed.

Now it seems that you have too many tricks up your sleeve, I can't let you stay!"

Lu Qingqing didn't want to waste arrows and ammunition, but she had to use them now.

She was too lazy to talk to them and just threw two grenades at them.

The grenade exploded among the bandits, knocking down the group in front.

In addition to those who died from having their limbs blown off, there were also many others who were injured.

Now, the pain spread.

Screams rang out among the crowd.

The boss was hit in the arm by a grenade and was now wailing while covering his bleeding right arm.

The dozen or so bandits who were blocking the road behind him saw the power of the explosion.

The steps that were originally rushing forward suddenly stopped.

When they were stunned by the explosion, Lu Qingqing said to Old Man Zhuang:

"Quick, turn right and run to the small road first!"

Old man Zhuang obediently pulled the reins and turned around.

Lu Qingqing also drove her horse behind the carriage.

At this time, the big boss reacted, covered his arm and said angrily:

“Brothers, no matter how powerful she is, there are only two of them.

There are so many of us, are we afraid we can't defeat her?"