sbdcsierra Chapter 361 I'm in Charge!
Chapter 361 I'm in Charge!
Liu Xiang was anxious to rush over and pull them away when a ball of fire fell from the roof and landed at her feet. Lu Yangyang pulled her aside just in time.
Liu Xiang continued to look inside, her face filled with anxiety and helplessness.
Lu Yangyang used the knife in her hand to extinguish the flames on the ground, grabbed the rolled-up straw curtain, ripped it off and threw it aside. She bent down and pulled up a girl near the door, shouting inside, "Get up, everyone who can move! If you want to die, die somewhere else! What's the point of dying here? No one will even look at you, they won't even recognize you. Dying here will only turn you into ashes. But if you get out alive, at least you can clean yourselves up, have a good meal, change your clothes, and then die. You've lived your whole lives, whether long or short, is this all you want to end up like?"
"Sisters, this young lady has come to rescue us. We can leave this place now, really! As long as we leave, even if we have to find a clean place to die, it's better than this beastly life. Didn't you say you wanted to die cleanly? Are you really willing to stay here? No one has ever thought of us, but now someone is willing to rescue us. No matter how difficult it is, we have to try. There's no worse outcome than this, don't you think?" Wan Niang shouted at them, "This place is in chaos now. If we don't leave, we'll be burned to ashes. We're all without a way out. What difference would it make if we went a little further? Sisters, get up! Let's leave this place together. We can't live cleanly in this life, but at least we can leave cleanly. Get up!"
Wan Niang didn't cry, perhaps because she had already run out of tears. She shouted at the girls with all her might, trying to ignite their last bit of will to live.
Lu Yangyang said no more, pushed the girl she had helped up out of the way, and then went to help another one.
Seeing her actions, Liu Xiang disregarded the raging fire and rushed over to pull the girls out.
Even Lian Sheng, who felt it was inappropriate to go, momentarily forgot about these things and stepped forward to help pull the girls out.
The girls' numb eyes were reflected in the firelight, as if tiny specks of light were slowly gathering, finally coalescing into a bright glow. One girl staggered to her feet; her body was covered in wounds, almost no part of her skin unscathed, and her clothes were tattered and barely concealing her form. She struggled to her feet, but couldn't maintain her balance and nearly fell forward. Gritting her teeth, she pushed herself up again, her voice weak: "I...I want...I want to eat...I want to eat sour jujube cake..."
The faint thought quickly coalesced into an obsession and strength. She fell again and again, and tried to get up and walk out again and again, until a hand grasped hers, supported her with all its might, pulled her across the non-existent threshold, and dragged her out of the muddy shack.
She saw a pair of eyes brighter than a lamp, and someone said to her with absolute certainty, "When we get out, I'll treat you to sour jujube cake."
The girl smiled genuinely.
Then, another girl struggled to her feet, and then one after another. Many of them were so weak that they could not stand up at all, but they still held on to their last breath and tried their best to get up. The girls who still had strength helped them up, supporting each other and using each other's strength, they walked out little by little in the billowing smoke.
Who would have thought that such a small thatched hut, less than half the size of a room, housed dozens of girls? When they were crammed inside, they seemed like a small group, but when they came out, they stood there supporting each other, forming a large group.
Lu Yangyang carried the most seriously injured girl who couldn't walk on her back, with Lian Sheng following behind. The girls who could still walk walked on the outside. The group dodged the falling flames and walked steadily towards the outside of the shack...
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When Sheng Junyi and Lu Yangyang parted ways and rushed back, several hundred salt workers had already gathered at the salt pit. It was obvious that the garrison at the salt mine had been alerted. Countless torches lit up from afar and began to surge toward them. At the same time, lights also began to appear on the distant sea, and horns sounded one after another.
Sheng Junyi walked up to Chief Luo and patted him on the shoulder: "Chief Luo."
Luo Da Biaojia immediately shuddered, turned around abruptly, looked at the stranger in front of him, and subconsciously raised the knife in his hand.
But before his knife could even touch a hair on Sheng Junyi's head, Sheng Junyi had already appeared on his other side.
Chief Luo's heart sank, and he coldly demanded, "Who are you?"
Sheng Junyi pointed to the sea: "To make a long story short, I need to gather evidence of the salt mines selling smuggled salt. A girl surnamed Lu just asked me to come and cooperate with you. The salt mines have three thousand troops stationed there, and the number at sea is unknown. Even if you gather all the salt workers now, you won't be able to break through the encirclement. You'll just be attacked from all sides and die without a burial place. You should know that it doesn't matter how many of you die to the salt mines, so don't worry about this causing any sensation. Dying will be pointless."
Chief Luo's gaze turned cold and sharp: "What exactly are you trying to say?"
“Breaking out by sea is your only way out now,” Sheng Junyi said.
"You want me to cooperate with you, but why should I trust you? You want evidence of the salt mine selling smuggled salt. Come to think of it, aren't you in cahoots with these corrupt officials? We're nothing more than tools in your power struggles." Boss Luo sneered.
"If I kill you now, this turmoil will end, and it will have no impact on me whatsoever." Before Sheng Junyi finished speaking, a thin, soft wire-like object had already wrapped around Luo Da's neck like a ghost: "So, cooperate?"
Luo, the gang leader, grabbed the thin cord that was strangling his neck, and blood dripped from his huge fist: "With such skills, you want to be a lackey of the imperial court? I'd like to see what you're up to!"
Sheng Junyi retracted the silk thread, her figure already ten steps away: "I like the term 'hawk and hound,' but who can command me as their hawk and hound is up to me!"
As Luo Daddy watched the figures heading towards the sea, he gripped his knife tightly, raised it, and shouted, "Brothers, there are soldiers stationed at the salt mine, and there are many checkpoints behind us. We can't break through, but there are smuggling ships at sea. Those ships are our only way out. If you want to live, follow me and charge out, seize the ships, and we'll leave this hellhole!"
"Come on -"