dognovel Chapter 116 Bandits
Chapter 116 Bandits
Qin Lang looked at the rabbit and said to Lu Qingqing:
"The rabbit is doing this to distract the enemy. There may be baby rabbits nearby."
Qin Lang ran to the place where the rabbit had just jumped out and found the rabbit hole nearby. Qin Lang lowered his voice and said:
"Da Ya, come quickly, there is a rabbit hole, there might really be little rabbits."
Seeing this, the rabbit was so anxious that it kept circling around, but did not dare to get too close.
Lu Qingqing looked over and saw a hole about ten centimeters in size on the ground. The hole was surrounded by weeds and it would be difficult to find if she didn't search for it specifically.
Normal wild rabbits have multiple holes to escape through. Qin Lang asked Lu Qingqing to guard this hole while he looked for other holes around.
After searching nearby for a while, he found another hole, and Qin Lang blocked it up.
During this time, the female rabbit did not run far away and even tried to lead them away.
Qin Lang dug in along the hole and soon found a nest of baby rabbits.
The rabbit nest was made of a mixture of hay and rabbit hair. The little rabbits were lying in the nest without opening their eyes yet, and each of them looked very much like a little mouse.
At this moment, sensing a strange smell, the little rabbits moved restlessly and made humming sounds.
When the female rabbit heard the sound, she became even more anxious and wanted to rush over here.
Lu Qingqing's grandmother in her previous life raised rabbits, and rabbits have a strong reproductive ability.
But the female rabbit is very sensitive to smells, and she will not keep a baby rabbit that has been touched by humans. Fortunately, neither of them has touched the baby rabbit yet.
Looking at this litter of baby rabbits, they are probably still nursing and need to be fed by the mother rabbit.
Lu Qingqing wanted to put both the mother rabbit and the baby rabbits into the space, but the mother rabbit was very wary and it was unlikely to be put in peacefully.
Glancing at the female rabbit and seeing it still staring at her, Lu Qingqing quickly raised her bow and arrow.
The female rabbit was frightened and wanted to run away. Lu Qingqing took advantage of the moment when it jumped and shot an arrow at the rabbit's leg.
Qin Lang suddenly jumped out, held down the rabbit that was still struggling to run away, and came back holding the rabbit's ears.
The female rabbit was caught and kept kicking her legs hard to try to escape, making terrified gasping sounds.
Lu Qingqing put the mother rabbit and a litter of baby rabbits, along with their nest, into the space. Since she didn't have time to build a nest for them, she just put them in a bamboo basket first.
I poured some space water for the mother rabbit, put some hay in it, and finally put a bamboo basket on it, and only then was the rabbit settled.
Qin Lang, who had just gotten a litter of rabbits, was a little excited and hummed a tune unconsciously while on the way.
Lu Qingqing was in a good mood. Looking ahead along the mountain road, she thought they would be able to get out of the mountain in just two more mountains.
In the afternoon, the two saw refugees running back.
Someone in front grabbed the refugee and asked what happened. The refugee wanted to break free and continue to escape.
After pulling twice without success, he saw that the person holding him was a tall man, so he said with a bitter face:
"There are bandits blocking the road on the mountain ahead. Pay them money or food. If you don't pay enough, they'll chop you in the head!"
The man who stopped him frowned upon hearing this and asked:
"How many bandits are there ahead? How much money and food do they need? Is there anyone on guard at night?"
After hearing his three questions, the refugee shook his head and said:
"There are over thirty bandits blocking the road, all armed with swords! I saw one up ahead and he handed over thirty taels of silver. As for this one at night, I really don't know. You see, I don't have much luggage, so I definitely can't get through. Can you let me go?"
As soon as the man let go of his hand, the refugee ran away.
There were more than twenty men blocking the road, and they looked like a family.
After hearing the news, the whole family started discussing with tears in their eyes that this group of people didn't seem to have much luggage.
Many people in that family didn't want to go back, as they had walked for so long to get here.
We are about to cross the mountains. Even if we go back and take a detour, it may not be safer than this way.
The group of people were still discussing. After hearing the news, Lu Qingqing continued to move forward.
She still had more than a thousand taels of silver in her space, as well as countless copper coins and other jewels.
If this bandit only wants money and food and doesn't want to harm anyone, he can leave safely by paying thirty taels of silver.
Lu Qingqing checked her and Qin Lang's clothes again. Their clothes were torn many times due to walking on the mountain road.
It hadn't been washed for a long time, so it looked dirty and torn, and looked similar to other refugees.
Qin Lang was carrying a backpack and a dusty hatchet was hanging on his waist.
Lu Qingqing had already put away the bow and arrow on her body, and it didn't look like anything special.
She took out some copper coins and silver, a total of thirty taels, from the space, and took out a small bag of coarse grains and put them in the backpack Qin Lang was carrying.
After thinking for a while, they took out some mushrooms and put them in the backpack, and then they continued on their way.
After walking for another half an hour, they finally reached a narrow mountain pass.
There are steep mountains on both sides, leaving only this small path for travel.
At this time, there were some refugees queuing up ahead.
The view behind is blocked and I can't see what's going on in the path.
Lu Qingqing walked forward and saw more than thirty bandits carrying big swords standing on the path blocking the way.
There were several refugee bodies on the side of the road, and blood was everywhere.
At this moment, a family was standing anxiously not far from the bandits, waiting to pay the money and be released.
The man in front carefully took out a purse from his pocket, and the purse was bulging with money.
The leader of the bandits saw the money bag and snatched it away.
He opened the purse and saw a large pile of copper coins inside, with small pieces of silver grains occasionally covering the copper coins.
He simply opened the purse and poured the money onto the sack on the ground.
Bandits were already running over to count the silver and money, and it would take a while to count all the copper coins.
The leading bandit glanced at the family's luggage and pointed at one of the backpacks and asked:
"What's in here? Take it out and let's see!"
When the man heard him say he wanted to see it, he thought to himself that it was bad.
But seeing that a dozen or so bandits with big swords were staring at them fiercely from behind, they didn't dare to say no.
He opened the lid, took out a bundle, and opened it at the bandit's signal. Inside were patched clothes of his family members.
The bandit curled his lips in disdain and spat, saying:
"What a bunch of poor bastards, they're still carrying all this junk! What's that underneath? Keep driving."
The man didn't dare show anger on his face and responded with a smile.
He took out the cloth bag placed underneath, which contained some coarse grain and wild vegetable cakes.
The bandit was annoyed by the man's hesitation, so he waved his hand and knocked the cloth bag down, and the coarse grain and vegetable cakes inside fell to the ground.
While picking up the cakes, the man kept his eyes fixed on the leading bandit.
Seeing him rummaging through the bottom of the backpack and pulling out half a bag of grain, he knew that the grain might not be saved, and a look of heartache appeared on his face.
The leading bandit took the bag of food and opened it to see that it was wheat flour.
He raised his leg and kicked the man, cursing:
"If you have such fine grains, why don't you hand them over? Okay, consider this as your filial piety to me!"
As he spoke, he walked back with the bag of food and placed it in the pile of supplies at the back.