Chapter 163: No Way Out

Su Qingnao was not interested in washing clothes or anything else. She sat on the bluestone slab and stared blankly at the surrounding mountains. read

It was still early, the fog was thick, and the green mountains not far away were looming. In the past, Su Qingnao would run into the mountains after work. The air in the mountains is fresh, the scenery is charming, and most relaxing.

But now she just wants to escape.

There is only one way out of the mountain, so what about climbing over it? What's on the other side of the mountain?

"Xiu'er, are you the only village in this mountain?"

"No, my grandfather said that there are many villages in this mountain. It's just that everyone lives far away from each other. The mountains are high, and they don't usually come to visit."

"Then after climbing over this mountain, what is behind it? Is there a village? There is only one way out of the mountain, so what if we climb over from the other side?"

What Su Qingnao was thinking was, since this village had only one road out of the mountain, and it was guarded by bandits, could she climb over from the other side of the mountain, go to another village, and use the other village's roads to get out of the mountain? Woolen cloth?

I just don’t know if other villages have also been taken over by bandits.

"I have no idea."

Xiu'er shook her head. She has never been out of the mountains a few times. When the men went out to hunt, their women never followed them. She didn't know whether there was another way or what was on the other side of the mountain.

Su Qingyu looked around, then approached Xiu'er and whispered: "Didn't you say that your grandpa wants my help? What help does he want from me?"

Xiu'er also looked around, moving her hands constantly, and whispered: "My grandpa wants you to help deliver the letter.

Originally, her grandfather wanted her to get close to Su Qingyu to see if Su Qingyu was trustworthy, and then asked her to take the letter out and find someone to rescue them.

"Does your grandpa know of another way?"

"There is only one way out of the mountain. It was carved out of the mountain by generations of ancestors with a shovel and a hoe. There is no second way. However, my grandfather often goes into the mountain for hunting and knows the general distribution direction of other villages. He wants you to Go to other villages to borrow people.”

Borrow people from other villages? Su Qingyao was noncommittal.

Although at this time, everyone is resting, our village has suffered a disaster, and it may be your village's turn next. We must jointly defend against the enemy and fight together.

But, if things don’t end soon, why would people come here to die? There is no greater benefit to give to the other party. All of flesh and blood.

All cooperation is based on interests, and cooperation is possible only when it is in the best interest of both parties.

Does the village have any benefits in exchange now?

Su Qingyu thought silently, apart from the village, what channels could she use and what benefits could she exchange for?

After thinking for a long time, I found that it was not the case.

She has nothing. Neither does this village. A group of old and weak people, the few remaining strong men are still being guarded tightly.

Su Qingyao was a little troubled. She found that her limited knowledge and skills were of no use now. Are you just waiting to be slaughtered?

no! That can't be done! It's not her style to let others take advantage of her!

But she couldn't think of a way for a while. I was so anxious that I scratched my heart and liver.

Seeing that another dark night was coming, she didn't know what else was waiting for her. She was frightened. I don't want to have an experience like last night again.

"Can you take me to see your grandpa?"

"Not now. My grandfather should be suppressed by those thieves right now, taking the men in the village to hunt to get meat for the thieves."

"Then there are many of you? If there are many people, just kill them on the mountain. They will not notice it. It will cause an accident and they will fall down the mountain. Kill them one by one." Su Qingyu said a little fiercely.

Xiu'er turned her head and glanced at her leisurely.

Su Qingyu touched her nose and felt that she was a bit retarded. This damn powerlessness... she was going crazy.

"I will take you to see my grandpa in the evening."

Um. Su Qing agreed. The three cobblers are like Zhuge Liang, maybe let them come up with a solution?

"My grandfather feels sorry for the people who stayed behind. If they find out, more of us will die. I have two good friends, Guo'er and Hua'er... they died the next day. Guo'er's mother He was also hanged that day. Guo'er's brother went to kill them with a knife, but was stabbed. Now he can't get out of bed. Hua'er's fiancé went to fight with them and was thrown off the mountain..."

Su Qingyu was silent.

"There are many people who have died in their families. Grandpa said that although the living are suffering, they still have to live. Otherwise, who will remember the dead..."

Su Qingyu tilted her head upward. She wanted to cry again. What was going on?

Blinking away her tears, she saw Xiu'er speaking with a sad and desperate look on her face, while she was washing the clothes with utmost sincerity in her hands.

He pulled me over and said, "Learn."

I threw it into the water twice, took off my shoes, squeezed the water with my feet twice, and it was ready.

Xiu'er looked at her blankly, and silently took the clothes over again: "If they can't be washed clean, they will ask to wash them again, and they will torture us in different ways."

Well……

Su Qingyao wanted to help Xiu'er reduce some of her burden, but she really couldn't do it. A group of thieves, why should I wash their clothes?

Don't wash it. Su Qingyu sat on the bluestone board, put on her shoes silently, and began to ask Xiu'er about the situation.

"Don't you have many women in the village? There are only about ten people in Datongpu where we live, right? Including the women captured from outside, how many people are there in your village?"

Xiu'er shook her head while washing: "No. There are several large stores. We are also scattered in several places."

This...thief! hateful!

"Are there any ferocious wild animals in this mountain?"

"We don't have tigers or black bears here. But there are leopards, wolves, and pythons. They are very big. I saw them when I was a child. Our village worked together to kill one. All the people in our village ate the meat for a month, and they still hadn't finished it."

Su Qing'an was so scared that she shuddered. Desperate.

She wanted to climb out of the mountain, but how could she avoid them? God wanted to kill her.

"Do you know how many villages there are in this mountain?"

"I heard from my grandfather that people outside seem to call our place Jiangdong Seventy Villages. But I don't know if there are seventy villages. Anyway, there are many villages in this mountain. Some are smaller than ours, and some are also a village with one or two households. There are also large villages with one or two hundred households, and there may be even larger ones. But I haven't been to any of them."

Jiangdong Seventy Villages?

Su Qing'an was refreshed. Even if it is a small village, if we only count the average of dozens of households, there must be seven hundred households, right? There are only one or two thousand households in a lower county, and this is completely equivalent to the scale of a lower county.

Jiangdong Seventy Villages, does it have a leader?

If someone or some force can take down Jiangdong Seventy Villages...

Su Qingmei felt a surge of excitement in her heart. There should be someone interested, right? There are treasures in this mountain.

But where are these seventy villages distributed? These continuous green mountains are so vast that you can't see the horizon, and they are unfathomable. The mountains are high and the forests are dense, the terrain is complex, and it is easy to defend but difficult to attack...

That's why there are so many bandits hiding in the mountains.

She has to think of a way to kill this group of bandits. Otherwise, she will have no way to survive.