Started as a thatched house and ended up as a female figure

"Benefactor! Benefactor! Benefactor"

While the family members were talking in the house, they heard a woman's voice coming in through the patter of rain outside.

Cheng Erping, who was closest to the door, stood up, walked quickly to the door, and looked out with squinted eyes.

Before Cheng Erniu could report what he saw, Mrs. Lin and the others heard Cheng Wan say: "Second brother, let them in quickly."

Cheng Wan had already heard that the people outside were the three women who had been in contact with her.

The three women, wearing coir raincoats and bamboo hats, ran quickly into the yard after receiving permission.

When he ran to the door of the hall, he stopped.

When the three women saw the fire burning in the house and the dry clothes of the Cheng family, they pulled at their raincoats that were dripping with some restraint.

The Cheng family had already stood up and greeted him in the house.

When Mrs. Lin saw the three women standing at the door and not daring to come in, she clapped her hands and said hurriedly: "What are you doing standing at the door? Come in and warm yourself by the fire. The eldest daughter-in-law, the second daughter-in-law, Xing'er, you three, hurry up and help me." They took off their raincoats."

The three women entered the house. The clothes they were wearing were no longer the ones Cheng Wan had seen before. They had obviously gone home and changed their clothes.

But even though he was wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat, his new dry clothes were still wet from the rain.

Mrs. Lin hurriedly invited them to sit in front of the fire and warm their wet clothes.

Unexpectedly, the three women did not listen to Mrs. Lin. Instead, they faced Cheng Wan, knelt down with a plop, and kowtowed to Cheng Wan three times without saying a word.

Cheng Wan's eyebrows twitched and she hurried away. She was most afraid of this kind of scene.

"Don't be like this, get up quickly, get up quickly."

Cheng forcefully pulled them up from the ground one by one before evening.

Under the light of the fire, the three women talked about the suffering that the village had experienced.

According to the three women, the bandits in the village suddenly came to the village two months ago.

After the bandits arrived in their village, they went on a killing spree.

The old people, men, and boys were all killed, leaving only the women and girls.

Then this group of bandits took root in the village. They occupied the villagers' houses, manipulated and abused the women in the village, and imprisoned the girls in the village.

This village is not big to begin with, and the number of permanent residents is only one-third that of Jiajia Village.

The day the bandits entered the village, they killed more than half of the village's population.

The women and girls who did not die at the hands of the bandits, but whose lives were spared by the bandits, lived a hellish life in the past two months.

Some of the women and older girls in the village were tortured to death by bandits, and some committed suicide because they no longer wanted to live.

As of now, the only people left alive in the entire village are twenty-one women and thirty-four girls under the age of ten.

The women who are still alive in the village all have daughters who are still alive. They cannot let go of their children, so they can only endure it day by day, hoping that one day they will find a chance to escape with their children.

The woman surnamed Liu wiped her tears and continued: "Recently, the bandit leader took many bandits out. We thought in our hearts that if we have a chance to escape, this is probably our only chance. Before, bandits were everywhere every night. They had to count our heads and lock us in separate rooms. Except for cooking, we were not allowed to touch knives at all. Even when we were cooking, there would be bandits watching."

"Perhaps because we are all obedient recently, we are not so strict with us. For example, the scissors I used to pierce Ma Laosan's body were used to cut Ma Laosan's clothes. He would use them before I put them away. Then put the scissors away immediately."

Another woman surnamed Gao answered: "They have relaxed their vigilance towards us. We all see it, and we are all ready to fight these bandits when we find an opportunity. If we can survive, It’s our destiny, and if we die, we will die. We can’t just accept our fate, children, they are still young.”

By the end of the story, the woman was crying.

The last woman's surname was Zhang. Her eyes showed the loss after experiencing vicissitudes of life, but she smiled tenderly at Cheng Wan.

"Benefactor, you don't know how grateful we are to you. You killed these bandits and rescued us people from hell. We mothers can still drag our lives and work hard to grow up with our children. Otherwise What will happen to these children...the children?"

The woman surnamed Liu wiped the tears on her face hard and said: "Actually, the other sisters in the village knew that the three of us were coming to thank you, so they wanted to come along because of the fuss, but we thought there would be too many people here, and It's raining, so don't cause any more trouble to you then. Also, the kids are very clingy right now, so in the end it was just the three of us who came over, so I hope you don't take it too seriously."

The Cheng family in the room had been very quiet since the three women opened their mouths to speak, and now they were even more silent.

Their emotions are complicated.

Anger, hatred, sympathy, pity, admiration...

Cheng Wan pursed her lips tightly. She walked to the three women, squatted down, and looked at the three women who were close together, with a gentle smile on her face.

"You are very strong, very, very good women, and even more admirable mothers."

"We met this group of bandits on the road. There are sixty-seven of them including the bandit leaders. They have all gone to hell. The sword I used to kill the bandits today was obtained from the corpses of those bandits."

"It's all in the past, and it will definitely get better in the future."

Cheng Wan said three words in a gentle and powerful voice, but the three women were stunned for a long time.

They looked at the bandit's sword that Cheng Wan showed them.

Then look at Cheng Wan, who is full of reliability and warmth.

One last look at each other.

Then, without warning, the three women burst into tears.

They cried incomprehensibly, beating their chests and beating the ground, with tears streaming down their cheeks.

Just by looking at their miserable faces, you can tell that they are riddled with holes inside.

Mrs. Lin, Mrs. Wang, and Aunt Cheng, the three of them had already accumulated a lot of sourness in their hearts. At this time, they couldn't help but shed tears along with the three women.

Several grown men also had red eyes.

Cheng Wan breathed a long sigh of relief and looked at the rain outside in trance.

The rain is so heavy, why can't it wash away the evil in people's hearts?

The three women cried heartbreakingly for a while, and then slowly stopped crying.

Mrs. Lin wiped the tears on her face with her sleeves, and looked at the three women with distressed eyes.

"Good boy, this bandit has been here for so long. Haven't any of the villagers' relatives come to the village to see him? What about the government? The government hasn't received any news at all?"

"Of course there are people from other villages who have come, but everyone who enters the village has the same fate as the people in our village. The men are killed and the women are left to warm their beds."

"The bandit leader seems to be related to the county magistrate. They are not afraid of anything. Villages that are slightly closer have been robbed by them."

The woman surnamed Liu smiled bitterly and said: "Auntie, our relatives can't protect themselves, how can we care about us people in the bandits' den?"