Chapter 145 - Chapter 145: Chapter 141: Escaping Disaster_1 (1/2)

Chapter 145: Chapter 141: Escaping Disaster_1

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Old man Jiang calmly directed his two grandsons to draw their bows, aligning their arrows toward the direction where the bandits were about to appear.

“Hold your bows steady, and don’t let your arrows skew, beware not to mistakenly injure your second and third uncles.”

“Yes.” Jiang Cheng and Jiang Quan responded, drawing their bows with a grim determination.

With the help of her eldest daughter-in-law, Jiang Liu finally managed to climb the steep slope, sitting on the ground, gasping for breath.

She saw her little granddaughter, Yingbao, untying the rope from around Wen Shu’s waist after dragging him up, and then she held onto the rope and smoothly slid down the hill.

“Baobao!” Chunniang exclaimed in shock, quickly looking downward, she saw that her daughter wrapped the rope around Youyou after descending the hill, instructing her mother and aunts above to pull up.

Youyou must not be left behind, it still had great use.

Chunniang, Yanru, and Mrs. Zhou all pulled hard on the rope, dragging it up. Combining their efforts with the intelligent Youyou who understood it needed to climb, they quickly pulled it up too.

“Baobao! It’s your turn now!” Chunniang called out.

Yingbao took the thrown down rope, quickly moved to tie up the mule.

“Baobao, hurry up and come up!” Chunniang was almost frantic, “Forget about the mule!”

Yingbao shook her head: “No way! Without the mule, we can’t take a lot of our stuff.”

“I’ll do it!” Jiang Cheng also slid down and took the rope from his younger cousin to tie up the mule.

The mule was carrying two large sacks of grain, which Jiang Cheng swiftly discarded.

The grain could be forsaken, but they surely couldn’t abandon this mule.

Though Chunniang and her sisters-in-law on the slope were irritated, they could not hesitate, and with great force, they pulled the mule up as well.

The only thing left now was the horse of the Wen family.

At this moment, Jiang Erlang and the others had already retreated from the bamboo forest, with the bandits closely emerging behind them.

The old man Jiang, who had already taken over his eldest grandson’s bow and arrows, fiercely loosed several arrows at the bandits, along with his second grandson’s arrows, forcing them back into the bamboo forest and making them dare not show their heads.

“Hurry and come up!” Chunniang shouted out.

Yingbao cast a reluctant look at the Wen family’s horse and the grain on the ground and held tightly onto the rope with her elder cousin, as they were pulled up by their mother and the others.

As soon as Jiang Cheng came up, he seized hold of the bow and arrows his grandfather had made last night and fired continuously at the bandits who showed their heads, buying time for his second uncle and third uncle to make their retreat.

Fortunately, old man Jiang and his sons had peeled a lot of bamboo arrows last night, otherwise, they really wouldn’t have been able to fend off those bandits.

In the end, when Jiang Erlang and Jiang Quan were pulled up, they still held onto the baskets that Dani, Erni, Yanru, and the others had discarded.

As for Wen Fu, he was more steady, he hastily dumped the things from the horse’s back, astonishingly tied the rope around the horse’s belly, and had the people above pull the horse up first.

Seeing that Jiang Erlang and Jiang Quan were continuously shooting arrows overhead, he again used the rope that was thrown down, tied up the hemp sacks, and let them pull up every single sack and bedding as well.

Finally, he carried his own stuff and climbed up the rope.

Chunniang and the others were exhausted, but also very relieved.

They managed to bring up all the food and bedding from both the Jiang family and Wen family, even the mule and big horse had been brought up.

After a few bandits were wounded by their arrows, they shrunk back into the bamboo forest and didn’t dare to show their heads again.

But the Jiang family never let their guard down and kept a close watch on the movement below.

Chunniang and the others untied the rope and took a short break, placed two sacks of grain back on the mule’s back for it to carry.

This steep slope was actually the ridge of South Slope, once they crossed it, they would descend to the other side, within view was a large wasteland.

The Jiang family worried that the bandits might climb up, and they could not stand a chance against them, so they did not linger and continued their journey downhill.

Seeing that her father, second uncle, and uncle Wen were all injured, Yingbao hurriedly took out some medicine she had prepared and handed them over and also took out some tablets to distribute to everyone else.

Their clothes were soaked through and if they didn’t take some medicine to ward off the cold, someone might fall ill soon.

In fact, besides being a bit exhausted, everyone in the Jiang family was in good health, with Jiang Liu also being robust and reliable, her steadiness in walking not losing out to her children or grandchildren.

But Mrs. Wen, her daughter and the nanny seemed to be reaching their limits, their pace became slower and slower, and they were almost unable to keep up with the group.

“Should we find a place to rest first?” Chunniang watched this, feeling quite worried.

Jiang Erlang looked back, seeing no bandits chasing after them from behind, he sighed a little bit of relief. “Once we reach the woods ahead, we can decide then.”