The best survival in troubled times

There were a lot of children here. Pearl looked at them and saw that these bandits should be ordinary good people.

It's just because they are ordinary people that they are pitiable.

Look at the serious weapons in their hands.

Most of them are just sticks and don't even have iron tools.

The child was holding a long stick and stood aside, trembling but with a firm expression.

Pearl looked at the elderly people again.

Each of them had a sallow complexion and thin muscles. Judging from their appearance, they must have only been in Shanshui for a few days.

"What do you want?"

Pearl's voice was very calm. The bandits looked at each other and said, "You shouldn't!"

Shouldn't they be very scared when everyone goes down the mountain to rob them?

Even if you weren't afraid of them, they shouldn't have this expression.

There was an elderly man who swallowed hard and held a rusty sickle in his hand.

"We want food. We don't want to hurt people. Just give us food."

"But I bought all this food with money. Why should I give it to you? Is it just based on this broken sickle in your hand? Or is it just based on the people behind you, or is it based on the wooden sticks in their hands?"

The man trembled when he heard this and looked at the people behind him.

Some people's voices trembled with great fear.

"What will the village chief do if they don't provide food?"

The village chief cursed.

I know what to do, but I have to get food.

Otherwise, everyone will starve to death, and there will be nothing to eat on the mountain except dirt.

There was a woman who knelt down with a thud.

The village chief's eyes darkened when he saw this. Unexpectedly, a woman followed him down.

"My lord, please give us some food. If we don't eat any more, our child will starve to death."

Pearl stood on the carriage and looked at the woman in front of her.

This woman is so thin that she looks like she has lost her appearance.

The woman's voice was weak when she spoke.

If real bandits had come down, they would have snatched everything.

Look at these mountain people, they are standing there holding sticks, trembling all over.

No one dared to step forward to grab anything. No matter how loud they shouted before, they were still extremely scared when they started doing it.

"I can give you a chance, but I don't know if you can seize this opportunity."

The bandit leader, the old village chief, looked up at the girl in front of him when he heard this.

"If you were good citizens before, you can follow me, and I can give you a meal of porridge every day.

Don't worry, I won't care about why you became bandits before, and I won't ask.

Now I'll give you a moment to discuss whether you should follow me or continue to be bandits. "

As if she didn't hear anything, the woman crawled forward a few times and then stood up and took out a small bag from behind.

Standing on it, Pearl could tell that the person wrapped there should be a child.

The child's breathing was very soft, and Pearl's eyes dimmed. It looked like the child was dying.

"Please give us a mouthful of food, even a mouthful of rice soup. As long as my child can survive, I will work as a cow and a horse for you, and I will do whatever you want me to do."

Pearl untied her kettle.

He threw it over, and when the woman took it, she opened it and gave the child a sip.

The woman actually smelled of soup.

The child even struggled to swallow.

The woman's expression changed when she saw this, she took the pot and took a sip of soup.

He opened the child's mouth and very slowly took several mouthfuls into his mouth.

Then the child cried like a kitten.

The woman saw that the child was crying and wiped the non-existent tears from the corners of her eyes.

Pearl looked at it from above. It turns out that when a person is sad to a certain extent, there are no tears.

That woman should have been a scholar before.

Because he only gave the child a few sips.

He knelt on the ground and kowtowed several times.

"Thank you for your life-saving grace. From now on, whenever you find something useful, you can speak to me at my place.

Whether it's going up a mountain of swords or going down into a sea of ​​fire, I will never look back. "

The woman stood up and this time held the child in her arms.

He looked carefully at the child who was crying softly.

The old village chief saw that the woman's child was still crying?

My heart was very complicated. I thought the child was dead, but I didn't expect that he was still alive now.

"Village chief, let's stop being bandits and follow this master.

At least he can give us something to eat and we can survive.

We have nothing on the mountain.

We can't defeat those bandits on the mountain.

They let us come down just to be bait.

Don't we think about ourselves? Don’t you think about our children?

Can there be chaos forever? What if one day the world is peaceful?

Our children will become bandits, and our children will be finished for the rest of their lives. "

The old village chief was hesitant when he thought about this.

"Do you want to follow them or do you want to stay and go back to the mountain?"

The expressions of the others changed. Even if we follow, what will we do if we still have relatives on the mountain?

The woman knelt on the ground and looked at the pearl in front of her.

“Sir, we want to follow you, but we still have relatives on the mountain.

Our relatives were detained by bandits, and we couldn't do it unless we came down from the mountain.

Even if we want to go with you, we can't. Please save us. "

After the woman finished speaking, she looked back at the village chief and his expression changed.

“Sir, we are really forced to the point of desperation.

If we don't come, those man-eating demons will kill the people in our village.

Sir, you are a good person, can you go to the end and save us? We really have no choice.

We don’t want to be bandits, we don’t want to kill people, we don’t want to rob things, we just want to live a stable life. "

"Do you sincerely want to follow me or are you just trying to slow things down?"

The old village chief heard this.

"Sir, we are all good citizens. We really have no choice but to go to the mountains to escape the disaster.

Who would have thought that we would be robbed by those bandits when we went to the mountains to avoid disaster? "

Pearl glanced at Hongyi.

Hong Yi nodded, seeing that these people should be ordinary people.

Then what they said should be the truth.

Their family members must have been detained by the bandits on the mountain.

"Then you'd better rob us of food, otherwise you won't be able to explain it when you go back.

You can rob as much as you want, and then go back first. "

The few people standing in front looked at the pearl-shaped man blankly.

Looking at their gleaming knives, everyone felt extremely scared, but then they thought about their relatives on the mountain.

"We will listen to what the adults say."

The old village chief's attitude was very firm.

Now that you have decided to follow him, you can't do it half-heartedly.

The old village chief straightened his back at this moment.

Look at the pearl.