On the way to escape famine, my parents divorced

Chapter 428 "Can you and they still hold on?"

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After the rain, the mountain forest was slippery everywhere, and many places were piled with decaying leaves. If you were not careful, you would fall.

If you're lucky, you'll just fall on your backside and get back up.
If you're unlucky, you might fall really hard and even slide down the hillside and lose your life.

Therefore, finding a place to dig that large pit to bury the body is really not easy.

Chen Yong led a portion of the Xuanjia Army and the bandits to find a place to dig a mass grave, leaving the second-in-command, a bandit, behind in front of the wooden house.

Of course, this was because Li Shiyue said he would leave the second-in-command behind.

The eloquent and articulate second-in-command became the subject of Li Shiyue's interrogation.

Asking the second-in-command is much easier than going through the trouble of asking the other bandits.

"Brother-in-law, could you please go inside and drag that thing out?"

Qin Fen was stunned when Li Shiyue suddenly called out to him. After a moment of surprise, he realized that Li Shiyue was referring to the big boss in the room who was still panting and naked.

"Huh? Oh! Oh! Well, I'll go right now."

By the time Qin Fen, suppressing his nausea, dragged the still unconscious leader from the house to Li Shiyue's feet, Li Shiyue had already been chatting with the second leader for a while, smiling.

"I know that besides the Wang family, you must have done other things along the way."

This general is giving you a chance. If you honestly explain all the things you have done, I will grant you a complete corpse.

Otherwise

At this point, Li Shiyue stopped talking, took a step forward, walked in front of the leader, and stomped directly on his mangled genitals.

The force of that stomp was enough to wake the unconscious leader.

Seeing the loud "howling" of the leader, Li Shiyue immediately stepped on that spot and stomped around it a few times.

Bright red blood flowed from the leader's penis onto the damp ground, seeping into the still-moist soil.

The gang leader, screaming in pain, tried to pry off the leg that Li Shiyue had stepped on.

Under everyone's incredulous gaze, Li Shiyue swiftly chopped off the leader's forearms and calves in a flurry of motion!
An even louder, more piercing scream came from the leader's mouth.

The two pairs of bloodied, severed limbs lay vividly on the damp, muddy ground.

Qin Fen stared at the scene before him, his heart pounding. He swallowed hard twice and remained motionless, staring at the blood gushing from the severed limb of the gang leader on the ground.

"I'll talk! I'll talk!"

I'll tell you! I'll tell you everything!

General! I'll tell you everything!

The second-in-command was so terrified by the first-in-command's miserable state that his heart raced and his face turned deathly pale. He spoke so loudly that he even drowned out the first-in-command's shrill screams.

Li Shiyue turned her head and looked at the second-in-command with an appreciative expression, nodding at him with a look that said, "Hmm, you're good, you know how to read the situation."

Li Shiyue no longer needed to get involved in what happened next.

Sun Xiaoliu brought out a square table from inside the house, sat down, and began to record the account given by the second-in-command kneeling on the ground, recounting what happened after they killed Wang Caizhu's family and kidnapped Wang Xiaoniangzi at Qingshi Ridge.

"After selling Wang Xiaoniangzi, we walked all day along mountain paths and encountered a caravan of merchants."
Before we had even killed half of them, the other men knelt down and begged for mercy. The leader, seeing that we were outnumbered, simply took the five men with him.

Later, we wanted a fixed base. When we were in Fuzhou, we met two young men who were gathering firewood in the mountains. We beat them up, and then we went to their village that night.

The background music accompanying the second-in-command's narration was the first-in-command's curses and screams, which Li Shiyue found increasingly irritating. She turned to look at the thing on the ground with its four limbs cut off—no, its five limbs cut off—and walked over with her knife.

Li Shiyue originally wanted to just stab this thing to death.

However, before Li Shiyue, who possessed exceptional senses, drew her sword, she overheard Wang Cuihua, who was "peeping" from the window, muttering to herself.

Although he couldn't hear the whole sentence clearly, Li Shiyue still caught a few words and changed his mind.

"Brother-in-law, please gag this thing to stop the bleeding, just make sure it doesn't die."

Qin Fen isn't a doctor, how would he know how to stop someone's bleeding?

All he knows is how to bleed wild animals!
Seeing Qin Fen's troubled expression, Li Shiyue had no choice but to instruct him on how to bandage and compress the limbs of the chief to stop the bleeding.

When Chen Yong led the twenty or so exhausted bandits back after digging the mass grave, the second-in-command recounted almost all the bad things his gang had done.

By this time, it was getting late, and a light drizzle began to fall again.

After a busy day and two nights, Li Shiyue was feeling quite tired.

Wang Cuihua, accompanied by Zhao Xier, mustered her courage and carried the empty porridge bucket out of the wooden house. Wang Cuihua walked to the side and called out to Li Shiyue, who was reading Sun Xiaoliu's records of confessions related to the crimes committed by the bandits: "General!"

Li Shiyue put down the confession and turned to look at it.

Even though Wang Cuihua's swollen left eye affected her appearance, Li Shiyue still recognized her at a glance.

"Lady Wang?"

When Wang Cuihua heard Li Shiyue shout that, she grinned from the bottom of her heart.

"General, General, you still remember me!"

Li Shiyue returned the stack of confessions to Sun Xiaoliu, and then waved to Wang Cuihua and Zhao Xier, mother and daughter.

When the mother and daughter approached Li Shiyue, Li Shiyue looked at the empty porridge bucket that Wang Cuihua was carrying and said, "Are you hungry? There should still be some food in their kitchen."

Seeing Zhao Xier's head bandaged, Li Shiyue took a small porcelain bottle off her person and handed it to her.

"Once we finish dealing with things here tonight, we can take you down the mountain tomorrow at dawn."

This medicine, you…

As if he had thought of something, Li Shiyue called out to Qin Fen, who was standing to the side, "Brother-in-law, could you please go inside and bring me that half-jar of wine?"

"I can smell that the wound on Xi'er's head has become infected and festering. You should first use this wine to soak a clean cloth to wipe the wound, and then apply this medicine."

"We'll find a doctor after we get down the mountain tomorrow."

"Thank you, General! Thank you, General!"

Wang Cuihua pulled Zhao Xier down to kneel before Li Shiyue!

After Li Shiyue pulled the mother and daughter up from the ground, she looked at the window of the wooden house behind Wang Cuihua and Zhao Xier.

The woman who met Li Shiyue's eyes at the window was so frightened that she took a step back.

"Can you and they hold on?"

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