Transmigrated as a Stepmother: Time to Bring the Family to Prosper!-Chapter 53 - 52: The Way of Survival for the Weak (Fifth Update)

Chapter 53: Chapter 52: The Way of Survival for the Weak (Fifth Update)
Just as they were approaching the Liu Family’s old house, they encountered Liu Bai and Liu Fei, the two brothers, who were fighting with the bandits. As they charged forward, with a swing of the knife’s back, a powerful force struck, causing three bandits who were stealing things to stumble back several steps.
The bags of food being tugged by both sides fell to the ground. Qin Yao kicked them aside, swiftly moved her hand, and quickly dealt with the three bandits.
With each knife, she aimed for the neck, because the cotton clothes would provide resistance, one slash might not be fatal.
While the exposed neck was the easiest target to strike.
After dealing with the bandits, Qin Yao turned her head to see Liu Bai and Liu Fei staring at her in shock, forgetting to act. She shouted:
"Grab the food and head home!"
The two responded blankly with an "Oh" and went to pick up the bags, entering the courtyard under Qin Yao’s escort.
The gate had already been breached, with Old Liu and Liu Zhong bracing bed boards against the doorstep.
The women were clutching their children inside the house, frightened and in tears, Jinbao and Jinhua were holding their mouths, trembling in their mother’s arms, not daring to make a sound.
When Qin Yao appeared, carrying weapons with Liu Bai and Liu Fei, the whole family was as excited as if they had seen their savior.
"Sister-in-law, why are you here? How are the children at home? Is everyone alright?" asked Mrs. Qiu anxiously.
Qin Yao shook her head, "We’re fine, we live far away, plus we have newly built walls."
Qin Yao surveyed the scene. The courtyard was chaotic, the New Year’s Eve dinner just set up in the main hall had fallen to the ground, and the few hens kept in cages were missing, with only broken cages left.
Fortunately, everyone was intact, some had minor injuries, but nothing serious.
There were many people at home, the bandits only stole things and did not fight.
Mainly because Old Liu had experienced this before, he had the experience, just protecting his family, without stopping the bandits with knives from taking things.
As for why Liu Bai and Liu Fei chased them outside, it was just because young people wouldn’t listen, almost driving Old Liu to death.
But now, the grain had been seized back, two bags of coarse grains, just the last two bags of food left.
"Were all other things robbed?" Qin Yao asked, frowning.
Mrs. Zhang nodded heavily, even the new clothes outside were stripped away.
The screams from the house next door sounded even more terrifying, with women’s and children’s screams lasting a while.
Qin Yao looked at Old Liu and others blocking the door with bed boards, "The village chief and clan leader rang the assembly bell. Leave two men at home to protect the women and children, the rest take usable weapons and follow me."
"If we let the bandits just go like this, they’ll come back next time!"
"And they’ll be more aggressive!"
Qin Yao’s latter sentence startled everyone in the house.
Liu Bai and Liu Fei immediately stood up, deciding to go with Qin Yao.
He was anxious and whispered, "We can’t fight them. The whole family is safe now, why not hide at home waiting for them to leave on their own, why provoke the bandits?"
Her words were reasonable, Old Liu agreed internally, but he still looked at Qin Yao, wanting to hear what she had to say.
Qin Yao said, "We are the weak side, if we endure it now, the strong side will feel that bullying us takes no effort, and next time they’re short of food they’ll definitely come to us because Liu Family Village has foolish people with plenty of grain, unaware of resistance, easy to take and use."
"But if this time we resist, even if we still can’t retrieve our belongings, at least we let the bandits know Liu Family Village is tough, hard to bite, touching it will break their teeth, then next time they raid they’ll think carefully to avoid our village, picking somewhere weaker, not coming for us again!"
That’s the simple logic.
The logic of a weakling surviving in front of strong forces!
He said no more, the thought of another catastrophe like this next time, filled her with despair.
Seeing no objections from the crowd, Qin Yao nodded to Liu Zhong and Old Liu, who opened a crack in the bed boards, letting the three out.
Only a wood-chopping knife and an axe were left at home, Liu Bai and Liu Fei took them, nervously following behind Qin Yao, running towards Liu Dafu’s house.
The number of bandits on the road had greatly decreased, but the scene at the farmer households they passed was tragic.
Seeing the three of them, Liu Fei said they were called to assemble to kill the bandits.
Once the head is raised in a dangerous task, it can inspire courage within people.
Later more people grabbed farm tools and spontaneously followed, by the time they reached near Liu Dafu’s house, behind Qin Yao were over twenty young villagers.
The bandits were gathered at Liu Dafu’s front door, continuously transporting grain out, all manpower focused here, hence the fewer bandits on the road.
These bandits weren’t worried at all about villagers fighting back, openly shipping goods at Liu Dafu’s door.
Seeing Qin Yao and others suddenly appear, the tall bandit leader wearing a fox fur hat was taken aback, very surprised.
Liu Dafu’s wife and daughter were tied and placed on the Eight Immortals table in front of the shrine, surrounding them were the corpses of Liu Dafu’s parents, and his three sons with broken legs.
Under the threat and coercion of bandits, Liu Dafu took out the hidden money and grain from home one by one, only hoping for his wife and daughter’s safety.
The moment Qin Yao’s gaze met the bandit leader’s, the arrow in her hand immediately shot over!
That arrow was the signal to act, and the villagers with hoes, sickles, and axes immediately swung towards the bandits at the door.
The sound of killing instantly resounded through the entire village.
Qin Yao’s arrow flew the leader’s hat off, he was both angry and surprised, didn’t expect such an incredible woman.
But she was just a woman after all, he sneered and quickly called the bandits over to kill Qin Yao.
Qin Yao sank her body, building strength on the spot, before suddenly shooting out like a cannonball, leaping high and slashing at the bandit leader’s head!
The bandit leader raised his eyebrow, but was still underestimating, simply raising his arm trying to knock Qin Yao down.
Unexpectedly, his arm met not just over a hundred pounds, but an immense force!
The sound of "crack" as bones fractured echoed, Qin Yao stepped on his arm like a gibbon, borrowing the force to leap again, swiftly spinning a kick, the leather boot mercilessly striking the bandit leader’s head.
Her strength exceeded the ordinary, her kick swept the hundred-seventy-eight-pound man to the ground.
Qin Yao always kills ruthlessly, immediately slashing fiercely.
In the shocked eyes of all the bandits and villagers around, an arm fell to the ground.
In distress, the bandit leader chose to sacrifice an arm to save his head.
"Retreat!!"
The leader strained all his strength, yelled, grabbed a nearby villager, pushing him towards Qin Yao, halting her steps.
Damn it!
A cursed village where such a terrifying woman exists. If known, he would have never come!
The pain from the broken arm spurred his will to survive, making him run outside desperately, climbing onto the horse wanting to escape.