Quick Wear: The Wronged One Becomes Rebellious

Chapter 437: Reconstruction of the Family on the Road to Escape

Gu Mancang was driven away. Gu Li held her knees and took a breath. She endured the numbness like needles on the soles of her feet, shook her legs and tried to take two steps.

But her prosthetic legs were not strong enough. She didn't know what numbness had been touched. She trembled twice, but couldn't hold on. She fell to the ground with a thump.

Gu Li: ------

With a muffled groan, Gu Li, who was lying on the ground, held her breath and pounded the ground with her little fists.

She's not going to have her limbs amputated.

He Yunwang has been paying attention to Gu Li intentionally or unintentionally.

Seeing that she had obviously not recovered yet and was holding on, she refused to let Gu Mancang support her and insisted on walking by herself. Then he watched her fall flat on her face.

This time the little girl didn't cry and call for daddy.

He Yunwang wanted to laugh, but when he saw Gu Li lying on the ground for a long time without getting up, he became serious again.

"Are you okay?" Unable to ignore her, He Yunwang walked over and bent down to help her up, but Gu Li waved her hand and pushed her away ruthlessly.

"Get away and shut up." Gu Li, who was lying on the ground with her face turned sideways, was impatient to be chased away.

Gu Mancang, who was facing away from here, heard the noise and turned to look at Gu Li. Seeing his daughter fall to the ground again, he immediately dropped the cloth bag in his hand and ran over.

"Xiao Li'er!"

Gu Li also stopped Gu Mancang who wanted to help her up. She supported herself on the ground with her hands, pressed her upper body down, and pressed her ears closer to the ground.

"Dad, I feel the ground shaking. Is the earth dragon about to turn over?"

"What?" Gu Mancang's face changed.

Gu Li pulled Gu Mancang down, "Dad, listen quickly."

Gu Mancang put his ear to the ground and listened for only two breaths before he straightened his upper body and turned his head to look towards the forest in front.

"There are horses approaching quickly." Gu Mancang, who had rich experience in escorting escorts, immediately determined the number of horses ahead and the direction they were coming from.

His face was solemn, and he ordered in a deep voice: "Chunhua, pack up your things, we need to go far away and hide. Quick!"

Tao Chunhua put the things she had just found back into the backpack and asked, "Why do we have to hide when a horse comes?"

Gu Mancang helped Gu Li up and only had time to explain briefly, "The horses are coming from the woods. There's already a fire there, but the horses have no intention of slowing down."

Before Tao Chunhua understood what was said, He Yunwang immediately went to support He Xingqing.

Gu Mancang's meaning was very clear. The target of that group of horses was most likely an entire village of refugees who had settled in the woods ahead of them to rest.

They probably encountered some horse bandits.

Gu Li was thrown onto Gu Mancang's back and ran quickly in the opposite direction of the forest. Gu Li looked back at He Xingqing, who had to use He Yunwang as a crutch to barely walk. Could this be the place where He Xingqing died in his previous life?

Gu Mancang carried Gu Li on his back and crossed several earthen slopes. He found a sunken dry riverbed, put down Gu Li and the backpack, and then turned back to pick up the three people from the He family.

Almost at the moment when Gu Mancang was sliding down the riverbed carrying He Xingqing on his back, a shrill cry was heard from afar.

The horse bandits rushed into the crowd.

Gu Mancang lowered Tao Chunhua and He Yunwang onto the riverbed one by one, and then pulled some dry grass to cover them. He then climbed up the slope and lay on the ground to observe the movements in the forest.

Gu Li, sitting on the ground, kept massaging her legs with her hands.

At this critical moment of life and death, it would be bad if her legs were disabled.

The neighing of horses, the shouting of bandits in the distance, and more importantly, the crying and screaming of women and children seemed even more terrifying in the dark night.

Tao Chunhua trembled with fear, and couldn't help but be glad that she had found Gu Mancang as a backer in advance, so that she could escape the fate of being hacked to death by the horse bandits.

He Yunwang also heard the noise over there, but he kept looking at Gu Li from the corner of his eyes. The girl was very calm. She had obviously discovered the traces of the horse bandits by accident, but now she seemed to be nothing, as if she could not hear the cruel sound of the massacre.

The worries and panic that had just arisen were slowly calmed down by the isolation.

He Yunwang's fist fell on Gu Li's leg as she kept waving it.

He Yunwang thought again that she might be afraid, afraid that once she was discovered, her legs would not be able to run fast enough.

Gu Mancang, who was lying on top, noticed someone groping towards this side. He turned back and whispered, "Everyone hide, someone is coming. Xiao Li'er, take the dagger I gave you, remember the techniques your father taught you, and protect yourself. He Yunwang, there is an axe in the backpack, take it and protect your family!"

"Yes, Dad."

"Yes."

Gu Li and He Yunwang said in unison, looked at each other and then turned away.

Tao Chunhua trembled even more violently, "Well, let's run farther away!"

He Yunwang held down his mother's shaking hands and comforted her carefully, "Don't worry, we have to trust Uncle Mancang."

This was the first time He Yunwang called Gu Mancang uncle.

However, Gu Mancang did not hear it at this time. He was carefully identifying the person who came, and his right hand was pulling out the short knife hanging on his waist.

Two figures approached hurriedly.

Just as Gu Mancang was about to pounce, a child fell from the man's arms. As soon as the cry came out of his throat, the man bent down and covered it.

"Jinbao, don't cry. Don't attract the bandits. We won't be able to escape then."

"Boss, our mother is still there. She didn't catch up with us."

"No matter what, there are too many of us. It will be hard for the bandits not to notice us. Let's run as fast as we can."

As soon as the man finished speaking, a knife was placed on his shoulder.

The cold silver blade was shining, and the man shuddered, and the child he had just picked up fell to the ground again.

Gu Mancang was not so kind to other people's children. He raised his foot and used the tip of his shoe to plug the child's mouth which was about to open to cry.

"If you make a sound again, I'll pull out your tongue and sew your mouth shut."

Gu Mancang's threat not only stunned the child on the ground, but also frightened the couple so much that they covered their mouths and nodded repeatedly.

"Tell me, who are you?" Gu Mancang swung his knife and hit the man in the face with the blade.

"We are from Shi'ao Village in Yongzhou. We are not bad people, we are good citizens. It's just that our hometown has been suffering from drought for years, so we had to follow the village chief and migrate south. We didn't do anything wrong."

The couple was originally at the end of the team and was only at the outermost edge when resting. When the horse bandits rushed over, it was actually the easiest for them to escape.

Yongzhou is to the south of Yazhou. They should have joined the fleeing army later than Gu Li, and happened to walk ahead of Gu Li and his group.

Gu Mancang looked solemnly at the forest where fighting was taking place. The fire was kicked over, igniting the trees in the forest.

The weather has been dry for so long that the fire will start soon.