"We are villagers living nearby. We have a hard life. We go up the mountain to find some firewood and go back. I don't want to disturb you, so I am here to apologize to you."

Xiang Jiuling knew that it was not appropriate to confront them head-on now. After all, she still had Dabao with her, so she hoped to say something to fool them for the time being.

But these horse bandits are not so easy to fool: "I'm afraid we are more familiar with this side than you. They are all places where no one lives. Where are the villagers from? Huh, if you want to deceive me, I'm afraid it won't be that easy."

The leader of the bandit raised his eyebrows and looked Xiang Jiuling up and down: "Come here, take this dishonest woman and that child back to me. Prepare more food and drinks tonight, let's have a good time!"

"yes!"

Seeing several tall and thick men approaching, Dabao wanted to cry more and more, his eyes were extremely red. Could they be trying to eat their flesh?

Xiang Jiuling knew that the child was scared to death, so she reached out and squeezed his hand to comfort him.

"Brother, my child is young and I can't run, so I don't need to get on the rope, right?"

Xiang Jiuling didn't want her child to suffer, but a horse bandit was a horse bandit, and if he was willing to listen, he kidnapped her immediately.

Seeing that there were so many horse bandits, Xiang Jiuling couldn't resist, so she could only pretend to obey and think about finding opportunities to escape.

The two were taken away. When they were halfway there, Xiang Jiuling suddenly said: "Hey, brother, there are people in front of you. They look like... they seem to be officers and soldiers. There are about a dozen of them."

"How is that possible? Don't talk nonsense. Why didn't I see anyone? If you want to escape, you don't have to make such a poor excuse!"

The horse bandits all laughed instantly. It was a joke that this woman was still thinking about escaping. Not many people in their hands could escape.

For a moment, there was a real voice ahead.

The horse bandits paused, stopped unconsciously, and looked at Xiang Jiuling thoughtfully.

Are there really people from the government?

After hesitating for a moment, for the sake of safety, they immediately decided to take another route, observe the surrounding situation, and then threw the tied two people aside.

There were people in the middle who wanted to touch Xiang Jiuling, but she avoided them all quietly. She held a knife in her hand. In order to prevent them from finding out, she kept holding it tightly in her palm, so that the palm of her hand was cut open.

A cut.

"Okay, stop teasing her. You will naturally have time to play in the evening. Don't miss this moment. Don't delay the business."

There was a hint of impatience in the voice of the leader of the bandit.

"Yes, then just wait for me. We have plenty of time to play slowly in the evening."

The others all laughed, but this time they were much more cautious, fearing that making a scene would attract officers and soldiers.

While Xiang Jiuling was concentrating on dealing with this group of people with malicious intentions, he used a knife to cut the rope where he was carrying the person. Fortunately, the knife was quite sharp and it was cut in a short time.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to the two of them, Xiang Jiuling slowly approached Dabao, cut him open as quickly as possible, gave him a look, and whispered a few words in his ear.

After a while, when the horse bandits were preparing to set off, Dabao suddenly shouted: "Ouch, ouch, my stomach hurts, I'm going to have diarrhea!"

"Oh, children are troublesome, why not kill them."

The bandits were extremely disgusted.

"No, brother, I'm looking at him. He's so young and won't cause trouble."

Upon hearing that these people were so cruel, Xiang Jiuling quickly begged for mercy in a begging tone.

The horse bandits glanced at her coldly and urged one of them: "Lao Jiu, send them over there and bring them back after the kid is dealt with. Hurry up and don't waste time."

"okay!"

Xiang Jiuling quickly understood that they wanted to kill Dabao in the dark.

When I walked to the side of the forest and saw no one around, the horse bandit wanted to take advantage of the situation.

"Close your eyes."

After Xiang Jiuling said these words to Dabao, he quickly took action and cut the opponent's throat with lightning speed. The man fell down before he could even scream, losing his life.

Even when they were about to leave, Xiang Jiuling did not forget what they had found. While the group was drinking water and chatting, she sneaked to the back, picked up the things, walked quickly to Dabao, and whispered: "

Leave quickly!"

The horse bandits gradually realized something was wrong.

"No, the woman ran away with the child, and the sixth child died!"

Hearing this, the leader of the horse bandit was furious and said with a sullen face: "Then why are you still standing there? Hurry up and chase me."

If he is caught again, he will definitely torture that woman to death. She actually dares to kill his brother. He must avenge this!

People and horses chased them all the way, but there was no trace of the two of them. The leader's face was as dark as water: "Follow me, I must find them today. I don't believe in this evil."

At this moment, Xiang Jiuling was leaning against a thick tree trunk with Dabao in her arms. She also covered the child's mouth to prevent him from making any noise due to fright.

Those horse bandits were not stupid people. They could kill people in the blink of an eye. She could do it alone, but she couldn't put her children in danger.

Fortunately, Dabao was very good this time and stayed quietly by Xiang Jiuling's side. Even he didn't notice that he was quietly changing his opinion of her.

He thought that his stepmother would leave him alone, but he didn't expect that she would try to save him.

After finally waiting for those people to leave, they came down from the tree, took the things hidden in the grass, and hurried back.

On the way back, she did not forget to tell Dabao: "Don't tell anyone what happened just now. Just treat it as a secret between the two of us, okay?"

"good."

When she went back and saw that both children were well, Xiang Jiuling's tight jawline was slightly loosened. After taking the children back, Wen Xi glanced at the things she brought back, and her brows suddenly wrinkled: "These

Where did these things come from? How could you have the money to buy them? Could it be that... you stole them all?"

steal?

Xiang Jiuling's eyes narrowed immediately when he heard this word, and he looked at Wen Xi's disgusted eyes with a dangerous light: "What evidence do you have to prove that I stole these things?"

Did she only do these sneaky things in his eyes? He insisted that she stole things without even asking. Did he never believe her?

Wen Xi was slightly stunned, and his face became increasingly gloomy.

Although the little bits and pieces she brought back were not worth a lot of money, they would still cost a small amount of money to buy together, and they are all in the wilderness now. Where can I get them? Other than stealing them

He couldn't think of any other source.

Thinking of this, Wen Xi couldn't help but look at Xiang Jiuling again, and frowned slightly when thinking of her changes in the past few days, but his voice became colder: "You'd better tell me the truth, where did these things come from?

"

If it was really stolen, he would never want it!

Neither of them wanted to give in to the other, and they started to quarrel.

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