kvmb Chapter 105 A way out
Chapter 105 A way out
The Zhou family servants who were fleeing looked as if they were listening to a foreign language, with expressions of disbelief on their faces.
Did they hear correctly just now? People from Daxi Village came to support them? !
Mr. Zhou, who was wiping his tears and preparing to see his wife and daughter off, was also stunned. People from Daxi Village are coming?
Zhou Wan'er's eyes lit up. She knew that the uncles and aunts in Daxi Village would not sit idly by!
Even the robbers who had the upper hand were stunned. Why didn't the villagers of Daxi Village follow the plot of the script?
The people of Daxi Village were holding hoes, sticks, axes, and swords. Their weapons were of varying quality, some good and some bad, but the only constant was the determined look on their faces.
When defending their own village, they are always the most united group of people with the strongest sense of mission and responsibility.
The robbers are fighting without regard for their lives, so they should be even more reckless. Behind them are their families, and they are the last line of defense!
To cross this line of defense, you have to cross over their dead bodies!
The addition of people from Daxi Village instantly stabilized the army's morale, and the servants who had originally fled in disarray took up their weapons again.
When one side gains an advantage, the other side is at a disadvantage.
Scar never expected that these people from Daxi Village would come out to disrupt the situation.
He looked at the leader Li Xu with a vicious look, intending to capture the leader first. This was the only way out he could think of.
Scar could become the leader among this group of people, so he must have some skills. He wielded the sword with great power and had taken the lead before, killing several servants.
Li Xu was just a farmer. Although he was quite brave, he was not as brave as Scar who had experienced many battles.
When he discovered Scar's sneak attack, it was too late to react.
Li Sheng, who was beside him, immediately remembered what his mother said, grabbed a handful of powder from the bag and sprinkled it on Scar's face.
"what!!!"
"What are you doing!"
The scarred man felt a sharp pain and his eyes seemed to be burned by fire.
He dropped the knife in his hand, covered his face, and rolled on the ground in pain.
Li Xu and Li Sheng were both stunned. Is the thing their mother gave them so useful?
After realizing what was happening, the two men captured Scar and tied him up with ropes.
This wave is called the reverse tactic of capturing the leader first.
The chief was captured, and the desperate criminals lost all their energy, and except for one or two who escaped, the rest were captured.
In this battle, five people from Daxi Village were slightly injured, one was seriously injured, and no one died.
The seriously injured person tried to pick up the knife on the ground himself, but ended up cutting his thigh.
In this battle, everyone in Daxi Village played at their best and showed their confidence.
The prestige of the two brothers Li Xu and Li Sheng, who captured the bandit leader, increased greatly.
Li Xu, Li Sheng: We just sprinkled a handful of powder according to mother's instructions. Who knew he was so weak?
Compared with the situation in Daxi Village, the Zhou family's situation is much worse.
Eleven people died, seven were seriously injured, and the rest were more or less slightly injured.
Although Li Sheng said that he had reasonable reasons to suspect that some of the Zhou family servants' minor injuries were falsely reported, he also had some knowledge of the ways of the world and how to behave in society, so he shouldn't expose others at this time.
They all work for their masters and get paid for it, so it is understandable that they cherish their lives.
There is a difference between working for others and working for yourself.
This time, the Zhou family escaped death.
Mr. Zhou straightened his clothes a little and came out to personally thank everyone in Daxi Village.
He generously stated that the Zhou family would be responsible for treating all the injured people in Daxi Village.
In addition, he distributed about twenty knives to the people in Daxi Village.
In this wave, those who used to hit people with hoes have traded in their muskets for cannons.
In fact, Mr. Zhou wanted to give some gold and silver, but was rejected by Li Shuming.
They helped the Zhou family for friendship and for themselves.
Once money is involved, the relationship will deteriorate.
Li Shuming thought more about it than gold and silver. If he could get in touch with the Zhou family, the Zhou family might be able to help the people in Daxi Village with their settlement and livelihood in the future.
This is much more cost-effective than simple gold and silver.
No one in Daxi Village cared about what happened to the robbers. All they knew was that they were dead early the next morning.
The Zhou family dug graves for all the dead servants and buried them on the spot. Each small mound of earth spoke of the cheapness of human life.
The Zhou family specially cleared out an idle carriage, and all the seriously injured people were placed on the carriage, including Da Congming from Daxi Village who had scratched himself.
Every night, he suppressed his dizziness and showed off his carriage to his friends in the village.
After all, most people in the village have only ridden in ox carts. Being able to ride in a horse carriage is a rare thing, just like it is a rare thing for ordinary people in modern times to ride in a luxury car.
It has to be said that his words made many villagers envious, as they had never ridden in a horse-drawn carriage before.
Jiang Jiang heard it as he passed by and shook his head helplessly. The road was bumpy at that time, and riding in a carriage was not a comfortable experience. The up and down bumps were much more uncomfortable than riding in a car.
If Jiang Jiang had to choose, she would rather choose a fully open ox cart than a closed and bumpy horse carriage.
Since this incident, the relationship between the Zhou family and Daxi Village has developed rapidly. In her spare time, Zhou Wan'er would come to play with Li Cuicui, and even Mrs. Zhou did not stop her.
In her opinion, Li Laibao is a blessed and lucky man. Somehow, they are the ones who benefit from the good relationship with Jiang Jiang's family.
Not only that, Mrs. Zhou originally wanted to adopt Laibao as her godson, but the relationship between them was too strange, so the plan fell through.
When she heard that several children of the Jiang Jiang family had originally studied in a private school, but now had to flee famine with the villagers and had to abandon their studies, she felt pity for them.
In his early years, Mr. Zhou had dreamed of taking the imperial examination, serving in the court, and becoming a noble and prime minister. Unfortunately, his dream of taking the imperial examination failed at the first step.
After passing the examination for a student, he failed to pass the examination for a scholar for five consecutive times. Facing the reality, he had to give up the imperial examination and follow his father into business.
Perhaps it was because all his talent points were allocated to business, the Zhou family's business was growing bigger and bigger.
Now that they are fleeing from famine and are bored, Mrs. Zhou persuades Mr. Zhou to temporarily serve as a teacher for the Jiang Jiang family's children.
Jiang Jiang originally refused, but Mr. Zhou became interested. He himself failed the imperial examination, but who could say that his students could not do it?
So Mr. Zhou rummaged through boxes and drawers, found out all the enlightenment books that had been covered in dust for a long time, and taught the children to read all day long.
"Come on, come on, repeat after me, man is born good..."