Chapter 85 85. Take advantage of the situation
Poor people must be hateful.
This world is inherently cruel, and the people living at the bottom can only endure it silently if they have no power to resist.
"Xing Luo, do you think it's appropriate to shoot the arrow now?"
He was seriously seeking advice.
To be honest, he wanted to spare the refugees. If shooting arrows could deter them, killing a few refugees would also make the villagers feel better.
These people are also citizens of Dayan——
Shen Xingluo glanced at the people in the patrol team and saw hesitation on their faces.
“Then let’s shoot the arrow.”
Cheng Xi also saw the entanglement on everyone’s faces. Although he shouted so proudly that he broke his throat on the way here, he still had to face all this. It takes courage.
There is an essential difference between refugees and bandits.
The bandits have done a lot of evil, and killing them is just and natural, but the refugees are good people, and they would not be desperate if it were not for the natural disasters that hit the place where they live.
Changing places, if the worst snow disaster place becomes Lin'an Prefecture, they may not know what will happen now.
Shen Manyun's eyes flashed brightly when he heard this and he raised his hand.
“Fire the arrow!”
There were several swish swish sounds, and the arrow feathers shot forward through the cracks in the rocks, and the nails made a dull drilling sound in the snow.
Cheng Xi has excellent eyesight and can see most of the arrow feathers that fell on the ground at a glance, but only a few refugees were hit.
Isn’t it the patrol’s archery skills?
If it were a month ago, this result would be no exaggeration.
But after a month of training, they have long been transformed.
The reason for this is because the patrol team has a backup plan.
Every arrow is a warning.
If the other party is smart, he will know that Shenjiacun is not easy to mess with.
The leader was horrified. The refugees standing behind him quickly took a few steps back to distance themselves. Some even left shouting.
The original team of thirty or forty people was instantly cut in half.
"Why are you panicking? There are no more arrows now. They must only have these, give them to me!"
Hunger defeated reason, and the leader was cruel, picked up the weapon again and came back here.
Shen Manyun sighed heavily behind the stone wall.
“Alas——”
The patrol team also sighed heavily.
"Alas——"
"Humph——"
Cheng Daqian expressed his dissatisfaction.
Only Shen Xingluo and Cheng Xi's expressions did not change. The latter even touched Shen Qingsong's furry little head next to him to express comfort.
The 20 or so refugees are really not worth the patrol team's action. The traps on the ground are enough to drink a pot.
And it turned out that there was no accident. All 20 refugees were caught in the trap behind, including the leader!
Some people are lucky enough to be pierced by the cold and still survive, but those who are unlucky are killed on the spot.
The patrol only fired dozens of arrow feathers from beginning to end as a warning, and the war ended.
When the last refugee stumbled away dragging one leg, Shen Mantun walked out of the stone wall in a low voice.
“Let’s go and pack up.”
At that time, behind a snowdrift a few hundred meters away, a group of people who witnessed an overwhelming victory looked horrified.
"Boss, boss, they are so strong!"
"You managed to clean up a group of victims without breaking a single person?"
This is not an ordinary village. It's a bandit village!
Thankfully they didn’t rush forward, otherwise they would be the ones dead now!
Wave after wave of victims came from the north, and the first few groups to arrive had already set their sights on the seemingly affluent Shenjia Village.
Just because they don’t look easy to mess with, I keep monitoring them. After a long time, a group of refugees arrived to attack the village. They also wanted to see if the people inside could fight from behind.
I don’t know if I look at this, it scares me half of my life!
“I have known for a long time that this Shen Village should not be messed with, but they are too strong——”
"Let's go, let's stop staring at this place. You might lose your destiny one day."
More than a dozen people got up and ran back in panic, as if there were hungry wolves chasing behind them.
I will never come again, even if I put it on my neck!
The patrol team left one by one, and only Shen Xingluo and Cheng Xi were left behind the stone wall.
Both of them looked at the snowdrift a few hundred meters away.
"How about this deterrent?"
"How many days can it last?"
The deterrent is there, and it is eye-catching enough, but it is not ruthless enough.
Shen Xingluo originally wanted to use the group of people who attacked the village to establish his power, and warned other refugees who were lurking in the dark to watch what happened that they were not to be messed with.
But Shen Manyun and the patrol team couldn't bear it, so the deterrent effect was compromised.
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The attack of the victims that day seemed to be the beginning.
After Shenjia Village was peaceful for a few days, it was attacked by another group of victims. The patrol team members have slowly accepted it.
And two days later, when the third batch of victims targeted this place, the patrol team members could shoot arrows at the enemy without any burden, showing no mercy at all.
“How come these people can never finish fighting?”
"Just keep an eye on our piece of meat, right!"
"Come as you come, whoever is afraid of whom, we will take care of as many brothers as you come!"
Gradually, Shenjiacun It became a fortress that could never be conquered, and gradually became famous among this generation of disaster victims.
For the patrol team, it has become a compulsory course for them to beat the refugees from time to time after being trained to survive.
In late February, one-third of the snow on the ground had melted away.
"Minus 10 degrees."
In the small courtyard of the Shen family, Cheng Xi held a thermometer in one hand and read the scale on it.
The temperature has risen steadily, which is enough to indicate that the snowstorm is about to pass.
This is a good thing for Dayan as a whole, but not so good for Lin'an Mansion.
It can be said to be very bad.
A large number of refugees from the north have accumulated near Lin'an Prefecture. Although many people continue to go south, a large number of them remain.
According to Shen Qingsong's statistics, the number of people passing by has exceeded 50,000.
Then there will definitely be many people staying nearby.
When Shen Xingluo pushed open the door and walked in, Cheng Xi just put away the thermometer.
"A letter from Qin Zheng."
Hongwei Escort traveled all over the country and raised a lot of homing pigeons. The last time they went to Fucheng, the communication function was opened inside and outside Fucheng. Uncle Xizi was very happy when he received the first letter from his son.
"What was written in the letter?"
"The merchant ships from Huaishui Pier came twice more, but they didn't bring much food. There were also many places south of Lin'an Prefecture. What a disaster.”
If the Qin family hadn’t been willing to spend money, they wouldn’t have been able to buy even a grain of rice.
Shen Xingluo handed the letter in his hand to Cheng Xi, "The Qin Mansion has strengthened the security, everything is fine."
The fate of the third brother of the Qin family has been completely changed, and Qin Zheng will not be as miserable as in his previous life.
Cheng Xi read through the letter, "The imperial envoy sent from the capital has entered the Lin'an Prefecture?"
The Qin family is really well informed.
Shen Xingluo nodded, thoughtfully.
In the previous life, the imperial envoy and his party lost their lives due to the intervention of people from Qingshan Village led by Zhuang Kun.
But this time Qingshan Village will not interfere again, and Zhou Lesong's letter will not fall into Zhuang Kun's hands again.
Maybe he can use his plan?
(End of this chapter)