The whole family travels through the book, the plot is broken but the characters are not

Lu Liang and Dalin took Han Qingyun and Lu Fugui to the cave where the mountain stronghold stored its treasures.

Perhaps the mountain stronghold had indeed had a hard time in recent years, as only more than 400 taels of silver and banknotes were found in the entire village.

There were about 3,000 kilograms of grain, as well as some jewelry, paper, pens, etc.

Adding the more than 270 taels they divided today, the entire village only had a barely 700 taels of silver.

This isn't right.

This gang of bandits has been committing crimes on Pulu Mountain for many years, and most of the people they robbed were wealthy businessmen. Their savings are definitely not just this.

Even though many businessmen have avoided Jincheng County in recent years, judging by the furnishings in the village and the number of corpses in the pit outside, it is impossible that they only have these things.

Not to mention others, even Qiao Bing could not have brought only 700 taels of silver.

Han Qingyun and Lu Fugui knew there must be a conspiracy as soon as the bandits revealed their past.

The county government's attitude towards these bandits also shows that the bandits have close ties with government officials.

The people below may not know this, but their leader Liang Daying must know it.

However, Han Qingyun and Lu Fugui didn't want to care about any conspiracy here. They were just a group of refugees and didn't want to know too many secrets.

Lu Liang also found the bag containing the household registration of Yan Dahu and others.

Under normal circumstances, neither Qiao Bing nor these bandits would leave such things behind.

But Yan Dahu and his friends' household registration documents were sewn into the inner layer of a small bag made of fox fur.

Last year, Wang Gui made a fox fur cloak for a wealthy family. There was a piece of not-so-good leather left, so the wealthy family gave it to Wang Gui.

Wang Gui was very skillful and used the remaining fox fur to sew a small bag with a layer inside.

When they escaped from Jinling Town, they were worried that the rain would get their household registration documents wet, so they put them all in the briefcase.

Only Lu Liang, who was used to carrying important things with him, was able to avoid having them taken away by Qiao Bing.

Han Qingyun looked at the small fox fur bag and secretly praised Wang Gui for his talent. His craftsmanship was no worse than that of the senior craftsmen who made luxury bags in his previous life.

The bag was so beautifully made that no one who handled it was willing to throw it away.

After a few people counted the things in the village, they heard the crying of a woman in a cave not far away.

The crying was so sad that it made people feel heartbroken.

They probably wanted to cry out all the grievances they had suffered in recent days.

Lu Yanyan and Qin Yuru had been trying to persuade them that it was not their fault and that they should not hurt themselves because of someone else's mistake.

Later they stopped trying to persuade them and just cried together and cursed those beasts.

From these people's cries, they learned that most of them had been captured for less than a year, and most of the women who had been captured earlier had died, and died tragically.

The person who stayed here the shortest was the young girl named Zhenzhen.

She didn't say her last name, and Lu Yanyan and the others didn't ask.

Zhenzhen was only seventeen years old. A month ago, she and her new husband were returning to her parents' home and were captured by bandits when they passed through Jincheng County.

It was ridiculous that her husband abandoned all his luggage, pushed her out of the carriage, and drove away.

Seeing that he was sensible, the bandits did not chase him.

Poor Zhenzhen was taken back to the mountain village and never saw the light of day again.

"Scumbag." Lu Yanyan gritted his teeth in hatred.

The one who stayed the longest was Lan Niang.

Lan Niang was the wife of a merchant in Lin County.

Five years ago, her family moved to Lin'an Prefecture to settle down and was captured by bandits.

Her parents-in-law, her husband, her six-year-old son, and his five servants were all killed.

Lan Niang failed to commit suicide, so she took advantage of the villains' inattention and scratched her face with a stone.

The bandits originally wanted to kill Lan Niang, but their leader, Liang Daying, discovered from her family's account books that Lan Niang was good at managing finances, so he asked Lan Niang to stay and manage their accounts.

How could Kelanniang manage the accounts for her enemy? Moreover, all this money was stolen.

Liang Daying ordered his men to pull out a "disobedient" woman from the cave. In front of Lan Niang, he cut off the woman's tongue and blinded one of her eyes.

Lan Niang was so scared that she almost fainted.

She felt that it was her fault that the poor woman suffered such inhuman abuse, so she agreed to Liang Daying's request and let the woman go.

But the woman did not survive in the end. She deliberately bumped into Liang Daying and was stabbed to death by Liang Daying.

Lan Niang still can't forget that the woman's intact eye was full of relief before she died.

In the days that followed, Lan Niang learned that the bandits enjoyed killing people.

Anyone captured by them, regardless of gender, would be severely tortured if they showed any resistance.

They are a bunch of perverts!

She once fantasized that perhaps one day the government would come and arrest and kill all these evil people.

But as more and more people like her were arrested and died, the government officials never came.

She gradually gave up hope.

Three years ago, the spies sent out by Liang Daying reported that a big fat sheep was coming, but there were many good players among the visitors.

Liang Daying led everyone in the village out, leaving only a few people to guard them.

Lan Niang felt that the opportunity had come. She wanted to find the key first, release the poor women in the cave, and then they could escape.

But the one-eyed man named Lin Sanqi was watching her very closely, so she had no way of getting the key.

But that day was the happiest day since she arrived at the village.

Because of the two hundred bandits who went out that day, less than half came back.

Liang Daying, who killed her entire family with his own hands, is also dead.

She couldn't help laughing at that time and was severely beaten by Lin Sanqi.

After Liang Daying died, Lin Sanqi took all the accounts from her and told her that she no longer had to worry about the accounts and that she only had to be responsible for delivering food and drink to the women in the cave.

Lan Niang finally doesn't have to deal with those shady accounts anymore.

She took care of the poor women to the best of her ability, feeding them, cleaning them, talking to them, and asking them to wait a little longer.

But they never received any help.

Lan Niang could only watch those young lives disappear in this sinful mountain village.

These gangsters are all alone.

They hate being a burden and know that they are destined to die a miserable death, so they absolutely do not want offspring.

If a woman here is found to be pregnant, she will be taken away and killed.

A few months ago, a woman was so thin that her pregnancy went undetected for several months.

Lan Niang knew, but she couldn't save the woman.

She could only hope that someone would come and rescue them before the woman was discovered to be pregnant.

But two months ago, the woman was discovered.

She was more than five months pregnant at the time. She said she knew who the child belonged to and begged the child's father to let her give birth to the child.

But the man stabbed the woman in the stomach.

How could people like them possibly know who the father of the child was? They were just trying to ensure the birth of the child.

But what's the use of him when he has such filthy and sinful blood?

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Lan Niang thought she had cried all her tears long ago, but today when she talked about her experiences over the years, her tears never stopped.

The crying sounds around gradually died down under Lan Niang's hoarse voice.

It took a full hour before the cave returned to peace.

When Lu Yanyan walked out of the cave, it was already around four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun outside was still very hot.

But under such scorching sunlight, Lu Yanyan felt cold all over.

Han Qingyun and others were standing outside the cave. The cave had some echo, and although the women's voices were not loud, they could still hear them clearly.

Seeing Lu Yanyan's pale face, Han Qingyun and Lu Fugui didn't know what to say.

The women’s experiences are sympathetic, but what should they do next?

It's impossible to take those women back.

They had been through long periods of torture and were not physically fit to keep traveling with them day and night.

Moreover, this world is so harsh on women's reputation that it is outrageous.

They won't look down on these women, but what about the villagers?

Even though the villagers sympathize with their plight, their deep-rooted ideas still make them think that these women are unclean.

Any inquiring look could kill these poor people who are already physically and mentally fragile...