On the way to escape famine, my parents divorced

Chapter 430 "Tell them not to be afraid!"

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A huge fire was lit in front of the wooden house, and the firelight reflected the blood and grime scattered all over the ground.

The leader was killed by Wang Cuihua's knife;
The second-in-command also received the promise Li Shiyue made to him, leaving him with a complete corpse.

However, the second-in-command had been stabbed countless times and left bloody and mangled during his lifetime.

But Li Shiyue ultimately kept her promise and didn't cut off his head.

As for the other bandits?
Those who weren't killed by Zhao You's wife were naturally finished off by Hei Zi and the Xuanjia Army, who then chopped off their heads.

The headless corpses were carried to the huge pit they themselves had dug and buried.

Yes, Li Shiyue never intended for these bandits to leave the mountain alive.

Those who commit such heinous acts should go to the underworld to meet Yama, the King of Hell; the human world is not a place for them.

At midnight, Li Shiyue and the Xuanjia Army ate the meal prepared by Wang Cuihua and the women.

After drinking most of a bowl of thick rice porridge to fill her stomach, Li Shiyue looked at Wang Cuihua, who was looking at her eagerly.

She put down the porridge bowl. "Madam Wang, how is Xi'er's injury?"

Did you apply the medicine to her?

After receiving Wang Cuihua's affirmative answer and words of gratitude, Li Shiyue listened and nodded. Then she said to Wang Cuihua, "If it doesn't rain after dawn tomorrow, we can go down the mountain."

Please go and tell them that if you wait one more night, you should be able to go home tomorrow.

Li Shiyue picked up the porridge bowl again and waited for two or three breaths, but still did not hear Wang Cuihua's reply.

She held the bowl and looked up at Wang Cuihua, only to see Wang Cuihua staring blankly at the ground, motionless.

"Madam Wang? Madam Wang?"

Startled awake by Li Shiyue's raised voice, Wang Cuihua turned her head groggily to look at Li Shiyue: "General?"

Just as Li Shiyue was about to ask, Wang Cuihua smiled bitterly and said to him, "General, let's go home?"

"We're in this state, how can we possibly go home?"

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After a brief silence, Li Shiyue finally spoke.

"Zhao Sanhe originally wanted to come to this bandit stronghold with me, but the bandits are fierce, and no matter how strong the men of the Zhao family are, they are still civilians who have never been on the battlefield."

I brought the Xuanjia Army with me, which is more than enough to deal with these few dozen bandits, so I didn't call them along.

However, when searching the mountains for traces of these bandits, they, including Zhao Sanhe, helped me a lot.

"I don't know about other men, but Zhao Sanhe truly wants you and your daughter to return home."

As Li Shiyue narrated, Wang Cuihua felt a tingling and aching sensation in her chest. The fresh blood that had just stained her dress made her, who had been tense, appear much softer.

Wang Cuihua lowered her head, looked at the ground again, bit her lip, and held back the hot tears that were about to burst out of her eyes.

Seeing this, Li Shiyue thought about the views on female chastity at this time, and realized that they were not as restrictive as in some other eras.

Otherwise, the sixth sister, who was sent to the Turks by the old Zhenbei King, would not have had the chance to be brought back by Liu Tan's Zhou Yiran and Li Shiyue.

There won't be a situation where a scumbag father like Li and Qin Tao get together, and Qin Tao can escape unscathed after losing her child;

This all shows that people at that time, or rather, in Andong, did not place much importance on female chastity.

However, they were very concerned about who the father of the child the woman gave birth to.

After all, the inheritance of bloodlines is always linked to money and profit.

Li Shiyue knew that what Wang Cuihua asked was indeed true. Zhao Sanhe wouldn't despise Wang Cuihua and Zhao Xier for being bullied, but that didn't mean the other men in Zhao You's family wouldn't. Furthermore, some people knew in their hearts that they should resent the bandits, curse them, and even kill them.

However, their possessiveness over women's bodies and even their minds always makes them want to vent their resentment on the innocent women they have hurt.

Although at that time, it was not uncommon for widows to remarry twice or even three times, it was not a common occurrence.

Besides, in the countryside, women who are as resolute as Li's mother in divorcing their husbands on the road to escape famine are a rare minority.
Even fewer women could be like Zhao Min, who, after a divorce, brought her daughter home and then married another woman.

As for someone like Jiang Yining, the accountant, who not only abandoned her son after the divorce but also refused to remarry, yet was still able to be hired by Li Shiyue as an accountant based on her own abilities, such people are extremely rare.

Li Shiyue put down her porridge bowl again and looked at Wang Cuihua, who was sobbing with her head down. "Madam Wang, come and sit down."

After Wang Cuihua sat down next to Li Shiyue, Li Shiyue was wondering how to start the conversation when she heard Wang Cuihua speak first.

"General, Xi'er's father is a good man."

I married her father, and over the years I only gave birth to one daughter, Xi'er, and her father never said anything unpleasant.

Even after I gave birth to Le Ge'er, her father still treated Xi'er just as well!

Not to mention, in this whole area, which family could afford to send their daughter to school? And for five years straight?
After Xi'er and I were abducted to the mountain and suffered all that, I never thought of giving up on life.

That's because I knew in my heart that Xi'er's father couldn't abandon my daughter and me!

"But, General," Wang Cuihua raised her head, two lines of clear tears flowing from her eyes.

"Where in this world can you find men like Xi'er's father everywhere?"

Li Shiyue naturally knew that Wang Cuihua was telling the truth. Hearing Wang Cuihua say this, she didn't know how to comfort her.

"Xinghua from the fifth and sixth sons' family was strangled to death by her mother with her waistband!"
Right there in the dugout where Xi'er and I were locked up!

That night, while we were all asleep, Xinghua was killed by her own mother!

Xinghua's mother didn't survive either; she ran into a wall and bled profusely for a while before finally passing away.

"General, tell me, after what has happened, even if we follow you back alive, will we really be able to go home?"

Li Shiyue sighed helplessly. She reached out and took Wang Cuihua's hand, then took out a handkerchief to wipe away the tears on Wang Cuihua's face.

"Of course, not every man in this world can be like Zhao Sanhe."

People say that women are jealous, but that's a lie.

Men and women are both human beings, how could it be that only women are jealous?
Men's jealousy and possessiveness are no less than women's, or perhaps even more so.

Therefore, all I can do is rescue you and take you home first. After you are home for a month, I will trouble you to take them to our Lijiatun.

Our village has a doctor. You've suffered so much, so let the doctor check your pulse. If there are injuries, treat them; if not, consider it a check to ensure your well-being.

Li Shiyue's expression darkened as she spoke, and her voice became deeper.

"If they are not happy after returning home, tell them that they can get a divorce and settle down in our Lijiatun village."

I'll ask Magistrate Wang to talk to you about this matter of settling down.

Our village has sheep farms and wool sweater workshops. If you are skillful, you can learn for a while and work in the workshop to support yourself.

Even if you're a bit clumsy, you can still do tasks like washing wool and spinning yarn, and you'll always have a way to make a living.

Tell them not to be afraid!

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