Zhao Kun then stopped.
Deng Dafu, rolling on the ground, got up and let out a howl, "Second brother, third brother, this person has bullied me too far."
The three brothers were unusually united, and with their men, they charged forward in unison.
Seeing Deng Dafu limping, it was obvious he had been beaten.
"Who beat him, which hand beat him, I'll dislocate that arm of his today," Deng Erfu said menacingly.
At the front of the carriage, only Tuoba Yan and Zhao Kun had any fighting ability. It was impossible for a weak woman like A Jiu to beat someone this badly.
The old woman covering the carriage certainly couldn't have.
"Big brother," Tuoba Yan sidled up to A Jiu, "Little Yan Yan doesn't want to kill people."
A Jiu instantly recalled that dead look and her mouth twitched. "I didn't ask you to kill anyone."
"Uncle Deng, you're an elder, shouldn't you also speak some sense? Your eldest brother came up and demanded the things on my carriage. Isn't that robbery?"
A Jiu didn't have any good ideas in her heart and could only reason for the moment:
"Besides, he fell off himself because he was afraid of snakes." Let's tell a lie, don't anger Little Yan Yan and make him kill someone.
If that deathly look appeared, these people would all be terrified.
"Granddaughter, why are you wasting your breath on these bandits?"
Wang Shi's voice came from the top of the carriage.
Everyone looked up in unison. "Bandits? You can't compare us to robbers and thieves!"
Unexpectedly, Wang Shi untied the ropes and jumped directly from the roof of the carriage.
Several people flinched back a few steps, examining Wang Shi, who was unharmed.
A Jiu was also startled and quickly stepped forward to help her. "Grandma, please be careful with your legs and feet."
"It's nothing." Wang Shi put her hands behind her back, protected her granddaughter, and calmly scanned the surprised group.
That transcendent, otherworldly gaze, as if she didn't eat human food and scorned these fools, even infected A Jiu.
Could her grandma be planning some even more formidable trick?
"I beat this person, what are you going to do about it?"
Unexpectedly, Wang Shi sat cross-legged on the ground.
A Jiu's mouth twitched.
"I am this brat's elder after all. Isn't it natural for elders to discipline their juniors?"
A Jiu could see it now, Grandma planned to rely on her seniority.
"You beat him?" Deng Erfu asked incredulously.
"What? I am strong and healthy. All of you combined are no match for me. Can't I beat him?"
"Old man?"
A Jiu realized there was a good show to watch. Everyone's expression was different, yet all twisted with varied differences.
"Wang Shi jumped down from the carriage just now. How are her legs and feet so good?"
Granny Sun's leg was still somewhat lame. If not for her son's care on this journey, she might have been crippled.
"What are you looking at? Do you want to spar?" Wang Shi looked at Granny Sun and then at the Deng brothers.
"Is... is it Wang Shi who beat him?" Deng Erfu asked his elder brother in a low voice.
"No, it was those two boys." Deng Dafu naturally couldn't do anything to Wang Shi. No matter how rebellious, filial piety was the most important virtue, it was an ancestral rule.
Otherwise, he would not only be arrested by the yamen and beaten, but he would also be unable to hold his head up in public.
"Stop arguing, stop arguing. Some soldiers are coming from over there."
Cai Lihua rushed over to deliver the news.
Meng Shaode, seeing that the horse was improving, was using human power to push its abdomen.
"Soldiers?"
As soon as this was said, everyone became panicked. Who had the time to argue about Deng Dafu being beaten?
"Quick, hide, go into the mountains!" Deng Dafu ordered with a bruised and battered nose, then glared back at Tuoba Yan and Zhao Kun.
As if warning them, "You just wait."
Everyone scattered. The men, women, old, and young had been frightened countless times on this journey. Their retreat was extremely fast. They packed their belongings and extinguished the torches.
"Everyone scatter and hide in the woods."
Instantly, only a lone carriage remained on the open space.
"Lihua, quickly take mother and A Jiu to hide. Don't worry about me. I must drag this horse into the woods no matter what."
If it was left by the roadside and discovered by soldiers, it would also be snatched away.
But as soon as these words fell, the sound of horse hooves suddenly stopped not far away.
"Halt."