Wow, this rough-around-the-edges pregnant wife is something else, she's incredibly ruthless!

With his eyes narrowed, Lu Chuan and Meng Tong exchanged a glance. With a machete in hand, Lu Chuan held it to a man's neck and said sternly, "Take us to town."

"No, you can't!" the man cried out in panic, his dim eyes filled with terror. "Without food, they'll kill us, sir..."

"Heh..." As if she had heard an interesting joke, Meng Tong turned her head to look at the man who had just spoken.

Did they really think they were an easy-going farming couple?

With a slight twitch of his brow, Lu Chuan understood Meng Tong's meaning. Without hesitation, he brought down the cleaver, and blood splattered on the spot in a second.

The man kneeling beside him was so frightened that he lost control of his bladder and bowels.

"Why did you kill him? We didn't do anything to hurt you. Besides, if he finds out, you won't have an easy time."

"Unless we bring food with us to town, otherwise..."

"Click."

What he disliked most was being threatened. Meng Tong, who had originally intended to let him go, didn't even blink before taking out the cleaver from Lu Chuan's hand.

With a swift stroke, the knife fell, and heads were severed.

It's not like she can't find a way out of town; it's just giving them a way out.

Since they don't know what's good for them, they might as well go down and reunite with their families.

Meng Tong tossed the machete back to Lu Chuan and walked over to the woman lying nearby.

Although she didn't utter a sound or even see what they were doing, her trembling body betrayed her.

Meng Tong felt compassion for women. She knelt down, patted the woman's shoulder, and said in a calm tone, "Tell me who you are?"

"..."

The woman remained silent, but then began to sob.

Just as Meng Tong was about to lose his patience, the woman suddenly sat up straight and turned to look at him.

She looked at her with pleading eyes and said, "Madam, can you save me? I am... He Qun."

Without answering her question, Meng Tong continued, "What's going on in town?"

"It's pretty much as they said. There was indeed a masked man and a woman named Zhou Man. They came out of the deep mountains a few days ago and brought a lot of food for others."

"But it's only enough for a few meals, so that woman named Zhou Man told us about this place..."

He Qun's voice grew softer and softer as he spoke, after all, what they were doing was not something honorable, and they were no different from the refugees of the past.

After tidying up the three corpses on the ground, Lu Chuan walked over to Meng Tong in a few steps.

"Wife, why don't we take this opportunity to go to town?"

"Yes, that's what I think too," Meng Tong said in a low voice. "This masked man is not simple. To avoid any mistakes, we should attack him as soon as we see him and not give him a chance to speak."

"I know."

Lu Chuan gripped the machete in his hand and replied in a low voice.

……

It took half an hour to get from Duanshan Village to the town. Lu Chuan and Meng Tong were calm and composed, but the woman following behind them was not.

Panting heavily, covered in sweat, and feeling so weak she was about to collapse, she still followed closely behind the two men.

Meng Tong and Lu Chuan didn't interrupt each other along the way.

Returning to the town after more than half a year, the scene before me was still quite shocking.

Many houses collapsed, and the original streets were covered with rotten branches and fallen leaves, creating a desolate scene.

Standing beside Lu Chuan, Meng Tong glanced at the woman behind her and asked, "Do you know where they are?"

“I know, they’re in one of the courtyards closest to the foot of the mountain,” the woman replied eagerly.

Then he walked ahead, leading the two of them.

Walk along the dilapidated street, around several bends, and keep going.

Along the way, there were also houses that were intact, and even quite spacious and bright, but still uninhabited.

The place the woman took them to was actually a small village near the town.

After walking for less than fifteen minutes, the woman stopped and said to several courtyards on the opposite hillside, "Madam, they live over there."

Following the direction she pointed, Meng Tong did indeed see four or five rather nice courtyards, all built with blue bricks.

After scanning the woman with his beautiful eyes, Meng Tong asked, hands behind his back, "Do you know which courtyard the so-called masked man lives in?"

"He lives in the courtyard at the very top with that woman; they don't allow anyone else in."

The woman continued, her tone tinged with a hint of resentment.

After all, there were more than thirty of them, and the two of them occupied an entire courtyard. Naturally, the others had some complaints, but they just didn't dare to say anything.

"Well, let's go!"

Meng Tong swaggered forward, startling the woman who tried to stop her, but Lu Chuan blocked her way.

"Madam, you can't go like this. That man is very powerful; you'll be..."

"If you're too scared to follow, you can find somewhere to hide."

"I……"

Her eyes darted away, avoiding Meng Tong's calm yet intimidating gaze. After thinking for a moment, she finally mustered the courage to follow behind.

This small village... oh, I shouldn't say it's the estate of a merchant in a certain town.

There was actually a small river separating the village from the town.

Meng Tong had never seen the river dry up before, but now, due to the melting snow, some of the dried-up river water has appeared, though not much.

Two men were drinking water by the river when they heard footsteps and immediately looked up.

"who are you?"

The two men had sharp, murderous eyes and held wooden forks in their hands.

They returned and sized up Meng Tong and Lu Chuan. The two men's powerful auras told them that they were not to be trifled with.

A man with a full beard leaned close to another man's ear and whispered, "Find the adults quickly."

"it is good."

The slightly thin man ran along the path toward the yard on the hillside, while another man stood on the wooden bridge across the river, holding two pitchforks.

"Who are you?"

The man asked again.

Meng Tong still didn't answer, nor did Lu Chuan, except the man had already noticed the gleaming machete in his hand.

……

In the courtyard on the hillside.

A group of people were still sleeping when a sudden shout woke them all up.

"Oh no! Oh no! Someone's here to cause trouble!"

"What? More people are coming?"

The people lying on their makeshift beds in the courtyard quickly sat up.

In one of the rooms, a slightly younger boy held tightly to the trembling girl beside him.

They were just as slovenly as everyone else, with their dry, yellow hair tangled and infested with countless lice.

But they don't care, and they don't even want to attract other people's attention.

"elder brother……"

"Don't speak." The girl beside him was about to speak when the boy stopped her.

He had said that she would be his younger brother from now on, a mute who couldn't speak.

The boy knew exactly what was going on here, and he didn't dare to think about the consequences if people found out he was a girl.