After dinner, every household began to prepare bedding and mats. After a tiring day, they could finally have a good rest.

People have been reduced to fleeing famine, and no one is so pretentious as to consider whether men and women can sleep together in the open air.

Anyway, the whole family sleeps together, one to two meters away from other families.

The five mule carts from the Han and Lu families were placed together.

Lu Yanyan and Chen covered the two-person mule cart compartment with gauze and let the children sleep inside.

There was a lot of dew and mosquitoes outside, so they felt more at ease letting the children sleep in the car.

In the Han family's car, the two younger ones slept in the middle, while Han Huaijin and Han Huaiyu slept on both sides.

The two brothers Lu Changping and Lu Changan were sleeping in the Lu family's car.

Han Qingyun, Lu Fugui and others set up three tents with bamboo poles and gauze. A single piece of gauze was not big enough, so they simply sewed the joints with needle and thread. They placed bedding and mats in the tents.

Three tents formed a triangle and surrounded the five mule carts in the middle.

The five women slept in the tent closest to the children, Han Qingyun, Lu Fugui and Erlin slept in the tent closest to the road, and Lu Youtian, Qin Gang and Dalin slept in another tent.

Originally, Han Qingyun suggested to Han Hongzhi that they select a few people to work on duty every night, but Han Hongzhi rejected Han Qingyun's proposal when he saw that the villagers were so tired that they looked like they were about to fall asleep at any time.

He felt that they were walking on a rarely traveled path and no one would pass by here in the middle of the night, so there was no need to let the already exhausted villagers stand guard.

What's more, they have to get up before dawn tomorrow and can't sleep for long, so there is no need to waste their energy.

Han Qingyun stopped persuading him, but when he and Lu Fugui set up the tent, he specially tied the three tents together with inconspicuous black cloth strips.

Han Qingyun deliberately extended the cloth strip tied to their tent a little bit and tied the end around his wrist.

These three tents were temporarily erected with bamboo poles, mainly to support the gauze to prevent mosquitoes, and they are almost not sturdy.

If someone wanted to come towards them or go to their mule cart, Han Qingyun could sense it no matter which piece of cloth he touched.

This is just a simple alarm system. Han Qingyun doesn't expect or hope to actually use it. He just wants to be at ease.

It was late at night, and everything was silent except for the occasional chirping of insects in the distance. Everyone was immersed in sleep...

Suddenly, Han Qingyun felt the cloth on his wrist move slightly. He immediately became alert and sat up gently.

Through the gauze and in the bright moonlight, he could vaguely see a few furtive figures moving among the group of sleeping people.

Two of them were walking towards their mule cart, and one of them was looking down to see what it was, probably because he had tripped over a piece of cloth.

Han Qingyun quickly woke up Lu Fugui and Erlin who were sleeping soundly, lifted the gauze, and shouted, "Who is it?"

In the quiet of the night, the cry seemed particularly loud.

The villagers quickly sat up, and some of them found that there was a dark shadow next to them stealing their things. They were so scared that they shouted and rushed forward to snatch them.

When the dark shadows saw the villagers waking up, they turned around and tried to run away.

When his uncle shouted "Who is it?", Lu Changping jumped up and kicked the two dark figures next to their mule cart at a rapid speed. One of the dark figures was kicked and fell down with a groan.

The other shadowy figure never expected that there was a kung fu expert in the car. He wanted to help his companion who was kicked, but was knocked unconscious by Lu Fugui with a stick.

After Lu Changping kicked the shadowy figure, he stayed beside his cousin's mule cart, fearing that there would be more thieves.

Han Qingyun, Lu Fugui and Erlin were guarding the women's tent.

On the other side, Zhao Chun, Zhao Xingye and Zhao Xingwu intercepted and captured a person together.

Han Qingshan saw two people running past him, so he reached out and grabbed the person behind him and was about to punch him.

The man he caught shouted, "Han Qingshan, why are you catching me instead of the thieves? You let all the thieves get away."

It turned out to be Han Daji from the village.

"Brother Daji, I'm sorry, I thought it was a bad guy." Han Qingshan apologized while running to catch the person who ran away in front.

At this time, Lu Youtian and Qin Gang had already lit torches.

Dalin was quick-witted and threw the stick in his hand, hitting the knee of the thief that Han Qingshan was chasing. The thief fell to the ground and was caught by Han Qingshan.

At this moment, the village chief's eldest son, Han Dahe, cried out in pain.

Han Dahe was fighting with someone for a bundle, but the man cut his arm with a dagger.

Han Dahe let go of his hand in pain, and the man grabbed the bag and ran away. Han Dahe covered the wound on his other arm with his uninjured hand and shouted, "He stole my bag, catch him!"

Han Dahe's younger brother Han Dachuan rushed forward, trying to stop the man from escaping, but was stabbed in the shoulder by the man with a dagger. He paused and was pushed to the ground.

Before the other villagers could help, the person who stole Han Dahe's bag had already run away.

In the darkness, the cries of several villagers were heard, mixed with the crying of children, and the whole place was in chaos.

People running around to help didn't know where to go first when they heard the sound.

In the chaos, the remaining few shadowy figures had already run out of the crowd and fled in all directions.

Han Dongchen, who was lying on the cart unable to move, picked up the "beautiful stone" his sister had picked up for him and threw it at the person closest to him. Han Dongchen was strong and had good aim. The man was hit on the back and staggered and fell to the ground.

Han Dongchen had just sat up and launched a stone, having already used up all his strength. Seeing the man fall to the ground, Han Dongchen fell heavily onto the cart again, feeling relieved that he was no longer a cripple.

But before he could finish his sigh, a dark figure running in front turned around and shouted "Erhu", then turned around and ran back. The man was holding a butcher knife in his hand and chopped at Han Dongchen.

At this time, Han Qingshan, Zhao Chun and others were helping in other places. Zhao He, Zhou Taohua, and Lin Dani were far away from him with their three children. Han Dongchen was left with only the eleven-year-old Han Beiwang. Zhao He and Zhou Taohua screamed in fear.

Han Beiwang stood in front of his elder brother, watching the butcher knife getting closer and closer to him. He closed his eyes and thought to himself, "I'm going to die."

In a flash, Qin Gang leaped to Han Beiwang's side, pushed him aside, kicked away the butcher knife of the man opposite him, and then captured the man with a small grappling move.

Han Dongchen, who was lying behind Qin Gang, was originally worried about his fourth brother, but when he saw Qin Gang's kung fu, he was so shocked that he couldn't even speak.

Han Dongchen learned all his kung fu from Zhao Chun.

In his early years, Zhao Chun worked as a bodyguard for the Weiyuan Escort Agency in the county. He learned some self-defense skills from the bodyguard. Later, the Weiyuan Escort Agency lost a big convoy and lost all its money, so it closed down.

Zhao Chun also returned home and made a living by hunting.

Zhao Chun's kung fu is based on simple self-defense techniques. In the later period, he relied on fighting with prey to develop his skills, but it is very different from orthodox martial arts.

Han Dongchen was very talented and was able to defeat Zhao Chun, who taught him martial arts, when he was only fifteen or sixteen years old.

Zhao Chun also told him that his kung fu skills were so good that he wouldn't lose even to the county's Captain Wang.

He had seen Captain Wang in action before, and he was confident that although his kung fu moves were not as fancy as Captain Wang's, with his strength, he would definitely not lose to Captain Wang.

But now Han Dongchen saw Qin Gang using the "fancy" moves that he looked down upon, and he moved more than ten meters in an instant, and easily subdued a tall and strong man holding a pig-killing knife.

Han Dongchen was very frustrated. Even if his left arm was still there, he would never be able to subdue a strong man with one move, let alone teleport more than ten meters.

Han Dongchen thought of the Dragon Constable that his second uncle had mentioned. He was initially inspired by the story, but later realized that this was just a provocation from his second uncle.

How could someone be able to become a great detective and command two major martial arts forces after losing an arm?

But now he believed the story again.

Just as Han Dongchen was staring at Qin Gang with a burning gaze, Zhao He and Zhou Taohua rushed over. Seeing that Han Dongchen and Han Beiwang were fine, they both shed tears...

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