The Lucky Farmgirl
Chapter 300 - 289: Ambush (Extra Update with 1000 Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 300: Chapter 289: Ambush (Extra Update with 1000 Monthly Tickets)

Another day, Manbao was holding Zhou Silang’s hand, swinging it as they walked at the rear end, while Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang were each carrying things and walking ahead.

As they were about to ascend into the surrounding mountains, Keke, who had been silent, suddenly said, "Host, there are people in the bushes."

Manbao paused for a moment and asked, "Who are they? Are they trying to scare us?"

Keke knew what she meant, like when she hid by the door waiting for Bai Shanbao to enter and then suddenly jumped out to startle him.

But after another scan, Keke judged, "It doesn’t seem like it because they look rather fierce, and they’re gripping their hoes tightly, ready to attack. Most importantly, I haven’t seen them before; they’re not from Qili Village."

Keke had seen all the people from Qili Village, and once it had seen someone, it would not fail to recognize them.

Hearing this, Manbao immediately stopped Zhou Silang from walking any further.

Zhou Silang turned his head and asked, "What’s wrong?"

Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang, who were walking in front, were waiting for the two to choose a spot to start climbing the mountain and couldn’t help but stop and look back.

Manbao pointed to another side of the mountain path, "Silang, let’s head over there instead."

Zhou Silang was about to ask when Manbao quickly winked at him, then winked again.

Zhou Silang stared back at her with blinking eyes before reaching to pull at her eyelid, asking, "Got dust in it?"

Manbao: ...

"Here, let Silang blow on it for you."

Saying that, he bent down to blow the dust from her eyelid.

Manbao & Keke: ...

When Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang heard, they also turned and walked back, gathering around her and asking, "Are you alright, just rub it with your hand and it will be fine."

Keke: "...You shouldn’t rub your eyes with your hands if there’s a foreign object in them."

But obviously, the three Zhou brothers couldn’t hear it, and Zhou Liulang even offered his sleeve, "Use my sleeve to wipe it."

Zhou Silang glanced at his dirty sleeve, pushed his hand away, and said, "Alright, it’s nothing, come, Silang will carry you. Honestly, getting dust in your eyes just by walking."

After he spoke, he bent down to piggyback Manbao and took off in a different direction.

Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang were stunned and hurried to catch up, "Silang..."

Zhou Silang hummed in response, cutting off their words, and swaggered, "Once we get on the mountain, make sure to stick close, or you might get carried off by a wild wolf."

Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang followed the pair in a fog of confusion as they gradually went farther away.

The Jia Family brothers hiding in the bushes: ...

After everyone had walked out of sight, the two couldn’t help but stand up from the bushes, Jia Li spat in the direction of the departing four, and asked, "Big brother, are we just letting them go like this?"

"What else? They’re walking on the main path; what excuse do you have to detain them?"

"But those holes in the mountain are definitely dug by them; they might have harvested tons of wild mushrooms from our side. The poor fools from Qili Village might not know their worth, but we do. Right now, the lowest price for mushrooms in the county is twenty wen per jin, and the good ones are sold for thirty wen."

"If we’re going to catch adulterers, we should catch both; if we’re going to catch thieves, we need the stolen goods. Did you actually see them take anything?" Jia Sheng was also unwilling to let it go but had no choice. He looked in the direction they left and also spat, "They’re just lucky today."

"Big brother, why don’t we follow them and see how they find wild mushrooms," Jia Li was displeased, grumbling angrily, "How come we’ve looked in the mountains for so long without finding any, yet they find them so easily every time?"

Jia Sheng frowned slightly, "That’s not right, it hasn’t rained these past few days, how could there be wild mushrooms on the mountain?"

The more he talked, the more he felt something was amiss, "Plus, wild mushrooms are picked, just a light pull is all it takes, why dig such a big hole?"

The two brothers glanced at each other, realizing why they had felt something was off. It was this inconsistency all along.

Jia Sheng’s eyes flickered slightly, gripping the hoe in his hand tightly, "Let’s go, we’ll follow them."

Jia Li immediately followed.

The two didn’t bother to hide but walked upright and openly along the road to chase after them.

The road is open to the sky, and anyone can use it; if they were sneaking around and got seen, that would be a real problem.

Then, in broad daylight, the Jia brothers walked with their hoes for half a day without catching up to the Zhou brothers.

Jia Sheng couldn’t help but frown, looking around, "Where did they go?"

"They must be up ahead; didn’t that little girl point to the mountain in front?"

But there was nothing obstructing the view ahead; one could see all the way to the base of the mountain, yet there were no people. Jia Sheng didn’t believe they could walk that fast with a child.

He frowned, turned to look back at the winding road behind him, and then immediately turned around to go back, "They’re probably behind us; let’s go look for them."

By this time, Zhou Silang had already hoisted Manbao onto his back and was sprinting back the way they came, with Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang scattering their footsteps in a rapid chase.

Halfway there, when they turned a corner, Zhou Silang led them to hide behind a thicket of bushes, where they crouched for a long while. Just as they were losing patience, they saw the Jia brothers speed past with their hoes; not daring to make a move, they stayed perfectly still.

Based on Zhou Silang’s experience as a delinquent since the age of fifteen, he deduced that these two men had come with the intent of ambushing them.

He weighed the military might of both sides and decisively chose to retreat; once the two had gone far enough around the bend, he immediately carried Manbao and made a run for it.

Heh heh, a wise man does not fight when the odds are against him, and they had been digging China root on the Jia Family’s mountain for three days.

The four siblings ran silently back, passing through the surrounding mountains and only slowing down when they reached the fields near Qili Village. They could see a few villagers scattered about the fields as they walked on the road.

Zhou Silang caught his breath, put Manbao down, and let her walk on her own.

He looked back at the empty road, opened his arms and smiled broadly, waving grandly, "Let’s walk back slowly. We’ll look for a mountain with lots of pine trees and try our luck there later."

He wasn’t afraid of the Jia brothers catching up at this point.

What could they do if they caught up? After all, this was Qili Village.

Zhou Silang chuckled to himself, actually quite hoping they would catch up; when it came to fighting, the Zhou brothers weren’t ones to back down.

Zhou Silang glanced behind again, still not seeing the Jia brothers, about to turn his gaze away in disappointment, when out of the corner at the end of the road, two figures burst forth.

Zhou Silang’s face broke into a brilliant smile, and without any hesitation, he turned back and waved cheerfully at them.

Jia Sheng was beyond furious, smashing his hoe to the ground, watching Zhou Silang walk away.

"Big brother, we’re just letting them go without chasing?"

"Chase my arse, what are you going to do after chasing them, fight the Zhou brothers or all of Qili Village?" Jia Sheng spat bitterly, also feeling utterly peeved.

He had intended to wait until they climbed up the mountain and after figuring out what they were doing, catch them and give them a good beating.

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