Chapter 54 It’s not your fault, it’s the bandits’ fault

So the villagers stepped forward and tied up the bandits.

The old people, children and women were also controlled and they were not allowed to run around.

The crowd escorted the bandits into the stronghold, with the woman in pink skirt leading the way.

Qiao Ran walked and looked around and saw that this village was not big. There were only a few dozen houses built with wood and thatch for a total of three to four hundred people.

Except for the few leaders who have separate houses, everyone else lives in one house.

The old village chief felt that he had never dealt with such a matter before, so he gave Qiao Ran full responsibility.

Qiao Ran asked the villagers to tie the hands and feet of the bandits, lock them in several houses, and assign the villagers to take turns guarding them.

The old, weak, women and children in the village were all locked up in two larger houses.

She had to find out who these people were before deciding what to do with them.

She asked the woman in pink skirt to lead the way, and everyone arrived in a very spacious hall, which was the meeting hall of the bandits.

Qiao Ran asked other villagers to find a house to settle down and rest for two days. The injured people came to the meeting hall, and she wanted to see their injuries.

After seeing everyone's injuries, Qiao Ran breathed a sigh of relief.

A total of more than 20 villagers were injured. Fortunately, there were many of them and they looked after each other, so the injuries were not serious.

These are just flesh wounds. Find some medicine and apply them on them. They should be better in two days.

She thought of the effect of the spring water in her own space. The serious injury on her forehead healed quickly, and the scars left behind seemed to be almost completely gone.

After drinking the spring water, everyone in the family has become visibly healthier. Even grandma can now walk as fast as flying, as if she is more than 20 years younger.

Qiao Dong's legs recovered so quickly, which must be due to the effect of the spiritual spring water.

Last time, she put the spring water in the small courtyard of her space into the pool of the mountain stream, and asked the villagers to collect some water for preparation.

Except for the Wang family in Qingshui Village, every family in Qingshui Village has taken a few bottles of spiritual spring water. Drinking it has many benefits for the body. The people who were injured last time also recovered much faster than ordinary people.

But after that time, Qiao Ran never brought out the spring water in the space for everyone to drink. Only her family members always drank the water she got from the space.

Qiao Ran just wanted to get some more spring water in the space and give it to these injured people to drink, so that their injuries could heal faster and not delay their journey for too long.

Qiao Ran asked the woman in pink skirt: "Are there any herbs in this village?"

The woman nodded: "These bandits often go down the mountain to block roads and rob, and sometimes they come back injured, so they always have ointments and herbs to treat injuries."

Qiao Ran felt happy, as long as there was medicine, she wouldn't have to get the medicinal materials from the space.

The herbs in the space courtyard are all dried and conjured out of thin air, for fear that people will ask where they came from.

Since there is wound medicine in this cottage, you can use it directly.

Qiao Ran nodded: "Please take me to see it."

The woman took Qiao Ran to a warehouse, and Qiao Erhe and several men in the village also followed.

As expected, there are many herbs and some ointments in the warehouse.

Qiao Ran opened the ointments and smelled them. Some of them were really good medicines. She didn't know whether they were bought from the city or robbed.

She took a few bottles of ointment, and asked the villagers who followed her to take out the herbs she pointed out, mix the proportions, and asked the villagers to boil the medicine and give it to the more seriously injured villagers.

The ointment was used to apply on their wounds, so they no longer had to pound the herbs themselves.

After settling the villagers and returning to the meeting hall, Qiao Ran found a relatively quiet corner before she had time to ask about the woman's origins.

The woman lowered her head and looked sad.

"My name is Wu Qianqian. I am the daughter of the shopkeeper of Wu's Grain Shop in Linzhou Prefecture. My life should have been rich and beautiful. However, half a month ago, my father wanted to send a batch of grain to Yunnan County in Yunzhou Prefecture. I made a fuss. We wanted to go out to play together, but my father couldn't resist me, so he took me out."

"Unexpectedly, when we passed the mountain road below this mountain village, we were blocked by these bandits. Not only did they steal all the food, but they also killed my father and the servants and took me captive up the mountain."

"I still have my grandmother, my mother, and my ten-year-old brother at home. If I hadn't worried about them and wanted to go back to see if they were okay, I would have no longer wanted to live. My innocent daughter's family was... I have defiled my body, and I really have no shame in living in this world anymore.”

After hearing this, Qiao Ran sympathized with the girl's plight.

If your family owns a food store, your family must be in a good position.

A daughter of a rich family should have been pampered in a boudoir and lived a life of fine clothing and fine food. Later, she would find a well-matched family to marry, and she would have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of her life.

But just because of a moment of fun, he was robbed by bandits and his life was ruined.

Sympathy was sympathy, but Qiao Ran did not agree with the idea that this girl would seek death after being defiled.

She decided to give this girl a break and let her open her heart and live a good life.

"My name is Qiao Ran. I am 14 years old this year. You are a few years older than me. I will call you Sister Wu!"

"Sister Wu, I know what you are thinking now, but what I want to tell you is that this is not your fault. You should not use other people's mistakes to punish yourself."

"Your body, hair, and skin belong to your parents, but at the same time it belongs to you. And you were kidnapped by bandits and came to take away your innocence. This is not your fault, it is the bandits who are wrong."

"I have killed the big boss for you, and I will not let go of the remaining bandits. When the time comes, I will find out who is guilty of heinous crimes and who is innocent. I will kill everyone who deserves to be killed. Then there will be no People know about your innocence being ruined.”

"Since you said that only your elderly grandmother, your mother and your younger brother are left in your family, and you can't worry about them, how can they trust you? If you die, won't they be sad?"

"Why don't you live a good life, shoulder the burden of the family for your father, be filial to your grandmother and mother, raise your younger brother well, and make your father who is suffering from anxiety feel at ease."

"I...but, I..."

Wu Qianqian's face showed a look of pain and struggle.

She also couldn't worry about her grandmother, mother and still young brother.

However, how could this world tolerate an unclean woman whose body was taken away by bandits?

Qiao Ran saw her entanglement and comforted her: "If you are worried that someone will know what happened to you, you can also take your family to live somewhere else and find a good man to marry who doesn't mind what happened to you in the future. Or if you don't marry for the rest of your life, it's up to you. Grandma and mother are filial to each other. We women don’t necessarily have to get married to survive. As long as we become strong, we can live a good life alone."

After hearing this, Wu Qianqian's desperate eyes finally had a glimmer of light.