An hour later, after the people from the Zhou and Liu families had emptied the place of everything useful, they boarded the boats and departed.
As for the women they had found earlier, Li Mu Chuan did not keep them locked up. He released them and left them two days' worth of rations.
Whether they would survive afterward was no longer Li Mu Chuan's concern.
They brought back a huge haul, much of it food.
"Chieftain, I asked around about that water stronghold. It originally didn't belong to that group. I heard they seized it too. The men in the stronghold were all killed, while the women were left behind and imprisoned."
Liu Jiang Lu told Li Mu Chuan the information she had just gathered.
Li Mu Chuan raised his brows slightly upon hearing that. "Oh? When did that happen?"
"Probably just a few days ago."
Liu Jiang Lu thought for a moment before replying.
"Are there any other water strongholds nearby?"
The Huaxia people were practically always clustered together. Did those people not have others nearby?
Liu Jiang Lu merely shook her head. There probably were not.
Li Mu Chuan did not say anything else. He returned to the water stronghold with the people and their overflowing cargo.
The moment they returned, they heard cheers from the villagers all around them.
Those still in the water stronghold had already heard about what Li Mu Chuan had done. Looking at their chieftain now, every one of them felt immensely proud.
Their chieftain really was incredible. He had blocked so many arrows with nothing but a wooden board.
They had brought back all the bows and arrows from earlier, along with that wooden board.
The arrows embedded in the board still had to be pulled out.
When everyone saw the arrows