Old Hu Er's leg had broken, but he couldn't bear to spend the money. He only found a barefoot doctor to apply some herbal medicine and bind it up with wooden boards. The pain kept him awake every night.
He wanted to go to the hospital for treatment, but all the money left in his family had gone toward treating his son, who had injured his manhood. He could only grit his teeth and endure it.
Because of this incident, Old Hu Er's family and Wu Yingxiong's family had become enemies. Every now and then, whenever they ran into each other, they would trade a few insults.
As for Su Qiao, she waited for many days, but Chen Ligeng never returned to look for Guo Caixia. Once she was certain he wasn't coming back, she packed up her things, ground the herbs into powder, and prepared various medicines. She planned to leave in another day or two.
That morning, just as she was carrying her luggage and taking Xiao Bao to the village chief's house to seize a boat and leave, a large group of black-clad men suddenly stormed into the village and interrupted her plans.
These people were practically fully armed. They all wore black work clothes, black military boots, and hats, and carried military knives in their hands. Each of them also had a khaki backpack slung over his back.
There were roughly thirty or forty of them. In the blink of an eye, they had taken control of everyone in the village, and all the villagers were herded to the open ground in front of the Ancestral Hall.
Su Qiao reacted swiftly, pulling Big Treasure into the nearby cornfield to observe what was happening outside.
After the group searched the entire village and confirmed that everyone had