After the carriage stopped, Mrs. Zhou's maid Ying'er lifted the curtain, stuck her head out of the carriage and asked:

"Zhao Da, why don't you leave?"

"Miss Ying'er, those yamen runners can't walk anymore. Li Tou said to take a break."

"Madam, they need to rest for a while, why don't you and the young master get off the carriage and get some fresh air!"

Ying'er let down the curtain and turned to ask Mrs. Zhou.

Before Madam Zhou could speak, Zhou Yan, who was sitting next to her, heard that they could get off the carriage to play, and immediately took over the conversation: "Get off! Get off! Mother, I need to pee."

"Um... Yan'er needs to urinate, so let Xiaoyuanzi go with the young master! Ying'er, let Zhao Da accompany Yan'er and Xiaoyuanzi."

Mrs. Zhou, who was a little carsick, said weakly.

"Then I'm going to get off the bus. Isn't mother going to get off the bus too?"

"Yan'er and Xiaoyuanzi are going! Mother is waiting for you in the carriage."

"Uh-huh!"

8-year-old Zhou Yan said as he walked out of the carriage...

The 9-year-old Xiao Yuanzi also quickly followed the young master out of the carriage...

"Zhao Da, take Yan Ge'er with you to relieve yourself."

"Miss Ying'er, I understand. Master, come, I'll carry you out of the car."

-

Li Laishu, who was taking a break in the bushes at the foot of the mountain, felt something was wrong the more he thought about it:

There were so many refugees along the way from the county town to the foot of Woniu Mountain.

It's so quiet here at the foot of the mountain, there's not a single refugee...

Could it be?

Li Laishu pricked up his ears and listened carefully to the movements nearby...

There was no sound at all, not even the chirping of cicadas or the buzzing of insects.

Something is wrong!

Li Laishu glanced around...

There seems to be a shadow moving on the mountain...

After Zhou Yan and Xiao Yuanzi got off the carriage, they walked towards the thorn bushes at the foot of the mountain, and Zhao Da followed closely behind them.

Suddenly, Li Laishu saw a figure in the woods on the mountain rushing down the mountain quickly...

These figures rushing down the mountain are actually refugees!

It's not just a few refugees, there are at least dozens of refugees...

Even a large number of ants can kill an elephant!

When Li Laishu saw clearly that dozens of refugees were rushing down the mountain, he was instantly frightened even though he was a martial artist.

He immediately picked up the knife on the ground, climbed up, and ran quickly towards the horse he had tied, shouting, "Liu Yong, hurry up, dozens of refugees are running down the mountain, hurry up! Drive the carriage to Lijia Village, quickly..."

Hearing Li Laishu's roar, Zhao Da, who was following Zhou Yan, hugged Zhou Yan and turned around and ran towards the carriage...

Xiao Yuanzi also reacted immediately, turned around and followed Zhao Da to run towards the carriage...

Liu Yong and his ten other yamen runners and another coachman named Wang Laosan also heard it.

Without saying anything, Wang Laosan drove the carriage and rushed towards the winding mountain road...

Wang Laosan had been to Lijia Village and knew that it was only a few miles away from the foot of the mountain and that there were many able-bodied men in the village who knew martial arts.

He planned to run quickly to Lijia Village to call for help.

Among all the yamen runners, only Li Laishu was a third-rate martial artist with some skills, while the others were just fancy moves.

All the way from the county town to the foot of Woniu Mountain, the refugees did not dare to take action because they did not know the details of these yamen runners.

It’s hard to say what will happen to these dozens of refugees we encounter now.

Wang Laosan knew how capable his group was: one more person would be of no use, so he might as well run quickly to Lijia Village to call for help.

-

After hearing Li Laishu's roar, Liu Yong and the other 10 people quickly stood up and ran towards Madam Zhou's carriage...

Zhao Da threw Zhou Yan and Xiao Yuanzi into the carriage, picked up Ying'er who was standing by the carriage and didn't get on, and let her sit next to him, then drove the carriage quickly towards the winding mountain road...

Mrs. Zhou and Mrs. Hu, who were sitting in the carriage without any preparation, were thrown to the floor in an instant when the carriage started.

Zhou Yan and Xiao Yuanzi, who were thrown into the carriage by Zhao Da, happened to be piled together with Madam Zhou and her husband.

Dozens of refugees rushed down the mountain, seeing that they could no longer catch up with Wang Laosan, and turned to chase after Zhao Dajia's carriage...

At this time on the winding mountain road: Zhao Dajia's carriage was speeding on the winding mountain road...

Liu Yong and his 10 other yamen runners followed behind Zhao Da's carriage...

Li Laishu rode a horse behind 10 yamen runners to provide support...

Dozens of refugees were chasing after Li Laishu...

There were about 60 refugees in this group, and each of them had a weapon in their hands: kitchen knives, sticks, hoes, hatchets...

The 10 yamen runners running behind Madam Zhou's carriage were trembling with fear at the scene.

Even though they were trembling with fear, they still did not dare to delay...

More than ten of them were not enough to fill the gaps between the refugees' teeth. They dared not fight head-on and could only run away with all their might.

Run away...

Most of these yamen runners were able-bodied men serving temporarily in the yamen. None of them had ever learned proper martial arts, and they could only scare ordinary people with knives. If they met a desperado, they could only run away.

-

After Wang Laosan drove the carriage at full speed for about 10 minutes, he arrived near the entrance of Lijia Village.

After Li Dalang pulled some weeds to wrap the tablet, Li Laitong carried the tablet of Li Chunhua's family and went to Li Chunhua's house with him.

After searching Li Chunhua's house several times, the uncle and nephew neither found anyone nor saw the entrance to the cellar in her house.

From Linjia Village all the way to Lijia Village, until now at Li Chunhua's home, no clues about Li Chunhua and her son were found. Li Laitong was immediately worried.

Today, on the way from Linjia Village to Lijia Village, there was a long section of the road where we did not take the winding mountain road, but instead took a small path to reach Lijia Village.

Could it be that if I hadn't taken that winding mountain road, I would have missed the mother and son?

Why not take the winding mountain road back to Linjia Village and see if we can find them...

After each family of Li Xiaohu and his family went home and placed the tablets, they came to Li Chunhua's house one after another...

After Li Xiaohu and his 10 companions arrived, Li Laitong led Li Dalang and the others out of Lijia Village...

A group of people who had just walked out of the village suddenly saw a horse-drawn carriage rushing towards the entrance of Lijia Village...

When Wang Laosan drove his carriage at full speed to the entrance of Lijia Village, he saw Li Laitong and a group of people coming out of Lijia Village.

He was not familiar with the others, but he knew Li Laitong.

Li Laitong was Li Laishu's master and also the escort of Xinglong Escort Agency. Wang Laosan had been a coachman in the county government for several years and had met him several times.

"Master Li...Master Li, please help me!"

"Ah! Wang Laosan, why are you here? Your county government knew so quickly that our Lijia Village was..."

Wang Laosan had no idea what Li Laitong was talking about. He was extremely anxious. He stopped the carriage, took a few breaths, got out of the carriage, and ran towards the foot of the mountain with Li Laitong...

"Master Li, refugees are chasing us, hurry up and save them!"

Seeing Li Laitong being dragged by Wang Laosan to the foot of the mountain, Li Dalang and his group also followed...

Zhao Da drove the carriage at a high speed and Ying'er was almost thrown off. She quickly grabbed Zhao Da's clothes.

After the carriage ran for a while, Zhao Da had already seen Wang Laosan and others running down the mountain.

Zhao Da felt much more relaxed all of a sudden.

With so many people from Lijia Village, the worst that can happen is a head-on fight.

Among the dozens of refugees, there were a few who were more discerning. After seeing Wang Laosan and his group, they felt that there was no chance.

After hesitating for a moment, they turned around and ran towards the foot of the mountain...

When the other refugees saw those refugees turning around and running down the mountain, they didn't dare to chase them anymore and also turned around and ran down the mountain...

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