Tomb raiding: Intercepting Yin Xinyue and building a family of immortals

Seeing this, Su Renzhao stood side by side with Su Chen, glaring fiercely at the disaster victims.

Su Renxiu, on the other hand, would draw his bow and arrow, ready to kill anyone who dared to steal his grain.

A small sack of grain represents the hopes of the entire clan, and cannot be allowed to be lost in the slightest.

Seeing the fear on the faces of the disaster victims, yet still refusing to leave.

Su Chen turned his head and whispered, "Sixth Uncle, there's an old white poplar tree thirty paces to the north. Are you confident you can hit it?"

In front of the Changsha city gate is a wide gravel road that can accommodate two horse-drawn carriages side by side.

Thirty paces away from Su Chen and the others, there was a poplar tree growing by the roadside.

However, poplar bark is edible, and the old poplar had long been stripped bare by starving refugees. Only a bare, half-dead trunk remained.

Su Renxiu raised his eyes and gestured for a moment, then said confidently, "I guarantee I'll hit the target!"

"Alright, fire an arrow at it!"

Su Renxiu gave a soft shout and drew his bow like a crescent moon.

The sound of an arrow whistling through the air rang out, and the next second, it accurately struck the old poplar tree thirty paces away.

The arrow pierced the wood three inches deep, yet its tail feathers still trembled incessantly.

Upon seeing this, a group of disaster victims looked terrified.

In terms of numbers, they numbered over a hundred, while Su Chen's side only had six people.

However, swords and blades have no eyes.

No one could guarantee that they wouldn't be the unlucky one to die from an arrow.

The disaster victims finally began to back down, and soon retreated back to the foot of the city wall.

Su Chen breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly led the group away from the city gate, heading towards Su Family Village.

On the way, they encountered another group of disaster victims blocking their road. This time, one of the victims was a daring rogue who actually tried to rob them.

He was shot in the arm by an arrow from Su Renxiu, and his groans and screams on the ground finally scared away the wave of disaster victims.

When they returned to Su Family Village, Su Ling'er and the other two young people collapsed onto the ground, their faces filled with relief at surviving the ordeal.

I saw similar scenes during my escape from famine.

But back then, the Su family village had a large and powerful population, and they were only witnessing the tragedies of others.

There's nothing like this, a truly personal experience.

At this point, Su Renzhao, still somewhat shaken, whispered to Su Chen, "Xiao Chen, we really owe you a debt of gratitude for insisting on buying weapons today, otherwise we really wouldn't have made it back!"

"You bet those people had their eyes glowing green just now, they almost scared me to death!"

Su Ling'er gently touched her chest, still not recovered from the shock.

The other two young men nodded eagerly, their eyes filled with admiration as they looked at Su Chen.

"Brother Chen is a scholar and knows more than me. I'll listen to Brother Chen from now on!"

"Me too!"

Su Chen smiled faintly. Just then, the villagers who stayed behind heard the commotion and gathered around.

The old clan chief, Su Xiaoquan, walked over shakily with the help of others.

He saw the small bag of rice and flour on the ground, as well as the bow and arrow in Su Renxiu's hand. After thinking for a moment, he said, "You all come with me first. Also, Fourth Brother, Sixth Brother, Twelfth Brother, and Xiaotong's wife, you take them to cook first."

Several women from the village, their faces beaming with smiles, quickly took the cloth bag from Su Ling'er's hands and happily went to cook.

Su Ling'er swallowed hard, but still felt too embarrassed to go with them.

They stood behind Su Chen and obediently followed the new clan leader.

Seeing this, Su Chen nodded to Su Xiaoquan and said in a deep voice, "Elder Clan Chief, I have something to say!"

Su Xiaoquan nodded and called Su Chen, his fourth uncle Su Renzhao, and the remaining two elders of the Xiao generation into the ancestral hall.

After entering the ancestral hall, Su Chen was about to speak.

Su Xiaoquan shook his head and gestured, "Renzhao, you go first. Tell me everything that happened today, from beginning to end."

Su Renzhao hesitated for a moment, but still told everything in detail.

However, after saying all that, he added, "Old chieftain, Xiao Chen is right. We're so glad we bought weapons first, otherwise our food would definitely have been stolen! You didn't see it, those disaster victims' eyes were practically glowing with greed. I wonder how long they've been starving. And Xiao Chen said that with weapons, we can go into the mountains to hunt. That's one way out."

Before Su Renzhao could finish speaking, Su Xiaoquan shook his head and said, "Hunting? There's no food for people, do you think there are wild animals in the mountains? They've already run hundreds of miles away!"

Su Xiaoquan's words were absolutely true. During famine, everything that flies in the sky, runs on the ground, or swims in the water...

Anyone who can eat something will want to eat it!

As for those in later generations, who are ignorant of human suffering, they even ask others why they don't hunt or fish in the river during famines...

Such people are simply inhuman.

If there are fish in the river and pheasants and wild boars in the mountains, do you think those disaster victims are out of their minds and don't know how to catch them?

At this point, Su Xiaoquan's eyes burned as he looked at Su Chen and asked, "Xiao Chen, what exactly are you thinking? Are you really going to buy weapons and lead everyone to rob the granary?"

Su Chen didn't answer directly, but instead asked, "Elder Chief, what else can we do? Three silver dollars, even if we buy all the grain, that's only sixty catties. How many days can that last?"

Su Xiaoquan frowned, and several times he tried to open his mouth but could not close it.

However, the other two elders of the Xiao generation firmly said, "No, we can't rob the granary. Doing so is punishable by death, and it might even implicate the entire Su family!"

"If all else fails, we'd rather beg for food in the city than become rebels!"

"Xiao Chen, you mustn't do anything foolish!"

Seeing that the time was almost right, Su Chen sighed and said, "Since we can't seize the grain, I only have one last option left!"

"any solution?"

Upon hearing this, Su Xiaoquan looked at Su Chen with anticipation.

He is now at his wit's end and can't think of any solutions.

Su Chen smiled mysteriously and suddenly said, "There are several powerful families in Changsha that control the antique trade. These families are known as the Nine Gates Admirals. Their reputation isn't good, but they are truly powerful figures in their own right!"

Upon hearing this, Su Xiaoquan was suddenly stunned.

He naturally knew that the Changsha Nine Gates Admiral was one of the major families that had risen to prominence since the Qing Dynasty. They not only traded antiques but also engaged in grave robbing.

Thinking of this, Su Xiaoquan exclaimed in surprise, "You want to... lead everyone to be tomb raiders?!"

"Not bad!"

Su Chen slammed his hand on the offering table and said in a resounding voice, "If the Wu, Huo, and Xie families are capable, why can't our Su family be! Elder clan leader, should we seize grain and rebel, or become tomb raiders? You make the decision!"

"Here……"

Su Xiaoquan looked helpless and hesitated for a long time!

The other two elders from Sujia Village, whose names begin with the character "孝" (filial piety), lit up and quickly advised, "That's right, elder brother, Xiao Chen is right! The Wu and Huo families are very prestigious in Changsha City. Why can they be tomb raiders, but our Su family can't?"

"That's right, let's do it too, we have to make sure everyone has enough to eat."

"Well done, Xiao Chen, this is a way out."

Actually, Su Chen deliberately told his fourth and sixth uncles about seizing grain in order to lay the groundwork for his next plan.

As Lu Xun once said, if you advocate demolishing the house, they will be willing to compromise and even open windows on their own initiative...

If Su Chen had said from the beginning that he wanted to lead his people to become grave robbers and dig up graves, most of his people would have disagreed.

After all, the Su family are descendants of a great literary figure.

How could you do something so uncivilized!

But what if Su Chen said, "I'm going to lead you to plunder the granary, kill officials, and rebel..."

Hey, it seems like becoming a tomb raider and digging up ancient tombs isn't out of the question!