This was Dezhou. Although it was quite prosperous, it was not a friendly place for the poor!
"Big brother, where did Father go?"
Tian Zheng'er was somewhat simple-minded, but he had always obeyed his big brother, Tian Zheng Yi.
"Father was killed by someone, and I killed that person in turn. They may come after us, so we need to leave before they find us."
As he said this, their mother walked into the room and happened to hear everything he said.
Tears immediately streamed down their mother's face, but she said nothing. She quickly packed up their belongings and left the dilapidated thatched hut with her two sons.
She was merely an ordinary countrywoman with bound feet. After renting a small donkey, she had her two sons lead it and carry their bundles. Before long, they had left the village that had never been particularly kind to them.
Since it was already dark, no one noticed their movements.
But when they reached the entrance of the village, two burly men suddenly charged out from the bushes beside the road.
Lady Tian and her two sons, Tian Zheng Yi and Tian Zheng'er, were startled. When they saw who had come, their expressions immediately turned grim.
The two burly men were village ruffians. Even when the family's protector was still alive, the villagers had been bullied by them, let alone now, when that person was no longer there.
"What are you doing? Did you steal something from the village and try to sneak away?"
"That must be it. Let's search them!"
The two men stepped forward, and Tian Zheng Yi walked between them.
Two bloody marks appeared on their throats. They clutched their hissing, blood-spurting necks and collapsed to the ground. After twitching twice, they stopped moving!
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