Chapter 169 Three Little Ones Crowded in the Well

There was no one, no one at all. The pawnshop was empty with only a mess of things. Li Yaoguang searched everywhere in there but couldn't find her brother. Li Yaoguang was worried, and Ji Mo couldn't bear to see it, so he pulled her aside to comfort her.

"Don't worry, Yaoguang. There is no one here, let alone blood or corpses. No news is good news. Don't worry. With Yang'er's intelligence, he will definitely hide if he encounters danger."

"is it?"

"must!"

At this moment, the Black Whirlwind, who had just been sniffing around in the pawnshop, suddenly moved, roared at Li Yaoguang again, spread his hooves, and led Li Yaoguang out from an inconspicuous corner door in the backyard of the pawnshop. There was another street outside, but unfortunately it was not peaceful here.

Civilians were lying all over the alley, corpses were piled up, and his nose was full of blood. Li Yaoguang rushed forward and quickly passed through the alley to check and search. Fortunately, God protected him, there were no bodies of children. Li Yaoguang breathed a sigh of relief, but saw Black Whirlwind leading De Sheng to continue passing in front, sniffing left and right as they persisted in searching. Li Yaoguang felt heavy in his heart. He prayed that they could take him to find his brother quickly, but he was also afraid that his brother would be found in this purgatory-like street. He felt conflicted.

Ji Mo: "Let's go, it's none of them. Black Whirlwind has already run far away, we have to catch up."

"Okay, let's go."

Li Yaoguang gritted his teeth and followed, his heart beating fast. The Yangzhou City, which he thought was not very big before, now seemed particularly large. The road under his feet seemed endless. Where was the little guy?
The little guy that Li Yaoguang is worried about at the moment is not in a good situation.

Two streets away from where Li Yaoguang lived, in a residential building with corpses outside the yard, there was a well under a persimmon tree on the side of the front yard. The rope on the windlass lying on the edge of the well was stretched tight, and the entire rope hung down into the well. It was obvious that there was something hanging underneath.

If someone lay on the edge of the well and looked down at this time, they would naturally find three children facing each other, hugging each other tightly, and standing trembling in fear in the large wooden barrel hanging at the end of the rope.

The barrel was big, but after putting three children in it, there was no space left, and no one could sit down;
The children are not heavy, but with three of them together, and the windlass holding the bucket in place, the water will naturally flow into the bucket as the children sway.

It was a chilly spring day, the well was icy cold, there was water underfoot, fighting and wailing were heard above, and the three children were suddenly in trouble. How could they not be cold? Not afraid?
Their little bodies were trembling, tears were glistening in their eyes, they clearly wanted to cry, but their mouths were tightly pursed. They still remembered the last words that the big brother told them when he put them in the bucket. They dared not cry, dared not make a fuss, and just waited quietly, waited...

An unknown amount of time had passed, but the big brother who was supposed to let them down still did not appear above their heads, and the horrifying sounds from above gradually stopped. The whole world seemed to have quieted down, and the small well was so quiet that it was frightening. Yang Ge'er could even feel the tense breathing of brother Yi and sister Xiao Jie in front of him.

They were so scared, their feet were so cold, their bodies were so numb, and the three of them couldn't help shivering. Yi Ge'er, the oldest but the least courageous, was the first to lose control. Seeing his brother Yang looking at him, Yi Ge'er couldn't help but speak in a crying voice.

"Yang, Brother Yang..."

"Shh! Brother Yi, don't talk, be quiet."

Yang Ge'er was such a well-behaved boy that he remembered his big brother's advice and quickly stopped it.

But Yige couldn't help sobbing, "Yang, Yang brother, hehe... I, I'm so scared, hehe, I can't help it, my legs are numb, I'm so cold, wuwuwu..." When Yangge saw Yige crying like this, the little guy's face suddenly changed, and he and the little girl beside him hurriedly looked up, and when they didn't see anyone coming for a long time, the two little guys finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Huh, there's no one here. The bad guys outside must have left." This was the little girl's voice of relief.

Yang Ge nodded, "Then let's keep our voices down." Then he looked at Yi Ge beside him, "Brother Yi, hold back and stop crying. If you make too much noise and attract bad guys, we won't be able to escape. My cousin said Hu Di is a cannibal and likes children's tender flesh the most."

Yi Ge'er was so scared that he quickly covered his mouth with both hands and looked up in horror.

Seeing Yi Ge'er stop talking, Yang Ge'er slowly and carefully moved his numb body, trying to maintain the balance of the wooden barrel and relax his stiff little body as much as possible. The little girl next to him kept looking at the wellhead above her head, with worry in her eyes.

"I don't know what happened to my brother..."

Hearing the little girl's words, Yang Ge'er paused and hurriedly comforted her in a low voice.

"Don't worry, little sister. Big brother is so powerful that he could lead us back from the pawn shop and cleverly hid us in the well. Big brother will definitely be fine. Let's wait a little longer, maybe big brother will come back soon."

Speaking of the big brother they were talking about and the strange little girl in front of them, it was just a coincidence.

It turned out that after the two kids ran out of the hole dug by Black Whirlwind and his men, they had a smooth journey at first. In addition, both of them could read and knew how to write the word "pawnshop". In addition, Yang Ge'er was brave and found the clerks or shop owners in the fixed large stores on the street to ask for directions. Although it delayed them for some time, they successfully found the pawnshop a few blocks away.

When they arrived, the pawn shop was doing a booming business, and ahead of them in line were a brother and sister.

The older one was about thirteen or fourteen, dressed like a scholar, and the younger one looked about four or five years old. The brother and sister were dressed simply but without any patches. However, what surprised Yang Ge'er was that what they were holding in their hands were actually thick cotton-padded jackets.

Because the brother and sister were in front and they were behind, Yang'er and Yi'er were forced to listen to the older brother's plea to the shopkeeper. Only then did they realize how pitiful this brother and sister were.

They are as pitiful as my cousin. It was so cold last winter that their parents passed away. They couldn't even afford to eat and were about to starve to death. They had no choice but to pawn their winter clothes for emergency use. But the pawnshop owner was so mean. He only gave them 100 coins for four thick winter clothes, which was not enough to buy their father's favorite roast chicken. They were really pitiful. Maybe the older brother and younger sister would suffer from the cold this winter if they pawned them. How could the pawnshop owner bully them!

Yang Ge'er, who was still very young, spoke up for his brother and sister, but he ended up angering the shopkeeper. While the two sides were arguing, there were a few loud rumbling noises outside, and then the street suddenly became chaotic. The shopkeeper wanted to kick them out, but suddenly many familiar figures appeared on the street. They were Hu Di, the ruthless killer mentioned by his cousin.

Yang Ge'er has seen a lot and faced many dangers during this escape, so he is not that afraid.

It’s a pity that these adults who were used to a stable life had no experience and were even worse than himself. Especially the shopkeeper who was so fierce just now. When he heard his shouting and saw the Hu soldiers rushing in outside, he was scared to death on the spot and didn’t care about anything else.

He didn't even bother to close the door. He just left everyone behind and ran to the back of the store as if he was being chased by an evil spirit.