From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

The old woman seemed to have found her pillar of support and shouted hysterically.

"thumping!"

Gunshots rang out.

But Jiang Liu made no move.

"Forehead···"

The infant in the old woman's arms was the one who was hit; the bullet pierced the infant's forehead and entered the old woman's heart.

It was precisely because Jiang Liu sensed through his magnetic field that the bandit was flustered and confused, and didn't even point his gun at him, that he remained unmoved.

I just never expected to kill the old woman...

thumping!

A second shot rang out.

But Jiang Liu had somehow raised his right hand, and between his index and middle fingers, a magnetic field covered him, trapping the bullet.

This stunned the woman and also made the bandit who fired the shot pause in surprise.

Before he could react, Jiang Liu's fingertips magnetically squeezed the bullet.

call out!

The bullet shot backward and instantly pierced the man's skull.

This is the end.

The last bandit also fell down, without making a sound.

"Thank you so much, hero, for saving my life!"

Fearing that the other party would kill her as well, the woman kowtowed and knelt down again.

Jiang Liu: "..."

# Chapter 62 Xiuhua Bai? Cousin!

"Don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person."

Jiang Liu helped the woman up and asked, "Are you a woman from Goose City who was abducted by the leader of this mountain stronghold?"

"Not from Goose City."

As she spoke, the woman covered her face and wept, “My name is Xiuhua Bai, and I live in Pucheng, which is more than a hundred miles away from Echeng. Because the warlord Cao Ying wanted to attack that area, I fled with my family, intending to go to Renjia Town to seek refuge with my cousin. He is the richest merchant in Renjia Town, and people call him Master Ren…”

What a coincidence!

Jiang Liu raised an eyebrow, realizing that this woman was actually Ren Jiating's cousin.

Xiu Huabai continued, "I was just passing through this place when Zhang Mazi robbed me, killed my father, mother, and maid, and forced me to have a child. The child is that of the bandit!"

I wanted nothing more than to smash it to death, but I feared the bandits would become enraged, so I had no choice but to submit...

Fortunately, a great hero saved me!

"I see."

Jiang Liu nodded and waved to Ren Jiating, who had already entered the mountain stronghold, saying, "Miss Ren, come and meet your cousin!"

"Cousin?"

Ren Jiating was taken aback.

"Cousin?"

Xiuhua Bai also opened his mouth. When he saw Ren Jiating, he felt that her face looked somewhat familiar, and she resembled his cousin's deceased wife by about 80%.

Are you Ren Jiating? Or Ren Tingting?

Xiuhua Bai probed.

"Ok?"

Ren Jiating began to believe it somewhat.

If you can call her by name, you must know her.

"What's your name?"

"Xiuhua Cypress".

"Xiuhua Cypress? Xiuhua Cypress..."

Ren Jiating thought for a while, but didn't remember much. After all, she had been learning her skills at Jiyun Society for many years and hadn't returned home, so she wasn't familiar with her distant relatives.

However, among the Ren family's relatives, there was indeed a woman surnamed Xiu. After learning about the woman's background from Jiang Liu, he became more or less convinced and asked her about his other relatives.

Seeing that Xiu Huabo could answer fluently, Ren Jiating believed her to a large extent and called her "Aunt Xiu". As for the remaining part, she would have to confirm with her father when she returned to Renjia Town.

At this moment, Lu Jin noticed the infant with a bullet piercing its head and, feeling a pang of pity, said to Jiang Liu, "Brother Jiang, you..."

"I didn't kill him, it was that bandit who fired the shot."

Jiang Liu pointed at the bandit whose head had also been pierced by a bullet.

"It's him."

Xiu Huabo also pointed at the bandit, his eyes filled with reluctance, resentment, and determination as he looked at the infant's corpse. Finally, he turned his head away and said to Ren Jiating, "Jiating, let's go. I don't want to see them again."

Ren Jiating glanced at Jiang Liu, and seeing him nod, she took the lead and headed towards Goose City with her Aunt Xiu.

Jiang Liu, Lu Jin, and Li Muxuan were responsible for collecting the bandits' corpses and bringing them to Goose City to reassure the city's residents.

Li Muxuan pointed to the corpses of the old woman and the infant, and asked Jiang Liu, "Say, are these two corpses also included?"

"Throw it into the fire."

Jiang Liu glanced at the still-burning granary and sighed, "Consider the grain in that granary as a sacrifice for them."

Li Muxuan glanced at Jiang Liu a few times, but ultimately did not argue with him under these circumstances. Instead, he threw the bodies of the old woman and the baby into the burning granary.

"Brother Jiang, if you really want to, you can save that baby, right?"

Lu Jin noticed Jiang Liu's low spirits, but she was also puzzled: Jiang Liu clearly knew that no matter what, the baby was ignorant and innocent, and his birth was not something he could choose, so why did he give up giving him a chance?

"It's possible to save them, but then what?"

Jiang Liu took a deep breath, slowly exhaled, and looked at the burning granary. He said quietly, "Give it to Xiuhua Baiyang? This is proof of the persecution she suffered at the hands of bandits. If it is given to her to raise, she will probably never forget the pain she suffered."

To be raised by the people of Goose City?

Wealthy people, being intelligent, can certainly guess whose child it is and wouldn't raise an illegitimate one; but the poor struggle to even feed themselves.

After saying that, he looked at Lu Jin and asked, "Ask yourself, Lu Jin, do you think the Lu family would be willing to raise the son of a bandit who robs and plunders?"

Lu Jin opened her mouth, then shook her head and said, "No."

"No, no. The best way is probably to put him in a wooden tub and throw him into the stream, and see who's willing to raise him."

Jiang Liu said, "It's just like when my master found me. But unfortunately, I'm not his parent, so I chose a simpler and more brutal way: to let him die."

"Why think so much? The person is already dead."

Li Muxuan returned, and upon hearing Jiang Liu's words, yawned, feigning composure, and said to Lu Jin, "Don't take this kind of thing too seriously. At least in this matter, Jiang Liu didn't follow the example of Sun Wukong and make us throw the baby off a height to its death."

Hearing Li Muxuan say this, Lu Jin also remembered that in "Journey to the West", when Sun Wukong cut off Baihua Xiu's manhood, he directly ordered his two junior brothers to kill the monster's child so that Baihua Xiu could find a kind family to remarry in the future.

Now that the baby was shot and killed by his own bandit father's bandit brothers, what business is it of theirs?

And it's clear that Xiuhua Bai doesn't seem to have any maternal affection for the baby; at most, she feels like it's just "a piece of flesh."

Afterwards, Lu Jin stopped asking questions, collected all the bodies, and searched the mountain stronghold. He found another warehouse containing guns, bullets, and three large boxes.

When the box was opened, two boxes were filled with gleaming silver, and one box was filled with glittering gold.

"I've never seen so much money before."

As the son of a wealthy merchant, Li Muxuan's family was very rich, but he had never seen so much real gold and silver before.

Jiang Liu took out six palm-sized gold bars and said, "One for Lu Jin, one for Li Muxuan, one for Ren Jiating, and two for Xiu Huabai who has suffered so much."

After all, we're not gods; we can't just live on air. We need some compensation too.

So I took one for myself too.

The rest was all obtained by Huang Silang and this 'Zhang Mazi' through the exploitation of the people.

"Give it back?" Li Muxuan asked.

“Of course we have to return it.” Lu Jin affirmed Jiang Liu’s idea.

"It should indeed be returned, but it cannot be in the form of real gold or silver."

Jiang Liu said, "If we really return their real gold and silver, the people of Goose City won't be able to hold on to it."

Find Zhang Mazi and have his men purchase food, guns, and ammunition.

The other party must have connections to procure the goods.

Moreover, to fight Huang Silang, we need to arm the people who are willing to follow us.

Li Muxuan pursed his lips and said, "But Zhang Mazi doesn't seem too willing to fight Huang Silang?"

"I would be willing."

Jiang Liu is confident.

The death of the martial arts examinee was like a powerful outsider kicking a local snake hard; Huang Silang would definitely not let it go.

But he only targets Zhang Mazi and others.

After all, you should pick the softest persimmons to squeeze.

Admittedly, under normal circumstances, respectable superhumans would not use their methods against ordinary civilians. However, in this turbulent era, no one can guarantee that, apart from the Quanxing sect, members of reputable families would absolutely not take action against the "good citizens" in the city.

Huang Silang dared not make a bet on this matter!

# Chapter 63 Rescue