Chapter Forty-six: Live Well

  Rushing into the house on fire, Li Qin saw that there were about twenty women inside, all with their hair down and crying loudly, while a bandit sat on the ground, holding a wine jar in his hand, drinking heavily, looking like he would die after getting drunk.

  The bandit was somewhat deranged, only caring about his own drinking, and didn't even notice Li Qian rushing in. Of course, Li Qian wouldn't waste any words on him either, raising his knife to strike, swinging it down, and splitting the bandit's head into two halves!

  Afraid of wasting time, Li Qin rushed into the group of women and shouted: "I am an official soldier, I have come to rescue you, follow me, hurry!" He pulled up the women and dragged them out.

  The women were all good girls from respectable families who had been robbed by bandits. They usually endured humiliation and sought to escape the den of evil, but unexpectedly tonight the bandits went mad and wanted to burn them alive. Just as they thought they would suffer misfortune, they saw the arrival of government soldiers to rescue them.

  Under Li Qin's urging, the women could no longer afford to be afraid and rushed out desperately.

  Li QIN shouted: "Use your sleeves to cover your face, don't breathe when you encounter fire!" In fact, when encountering a fire, many people are not burned to death, but rather inhale the scorching hot air, damaging their respiratory organs and dying as a result. So he reminded the women not to breathe in and to escape directly.

  At this time, the Fu Jiao soldiers also rushed in and started rescuing the women, helping them escape.

  Suddenly, a bandit rushed out of the next room, holding a big knife and yelling as he charged towards Li Qian. Li Qian dodged to the side, his curved knife stabbing straight into the bandit's right ribs, the knife entering and then being twisted and pulled out, the bandit yelling loudly as he fell to the ground!

  Drawing out his sword, Li Qian thought: "There must be more women in the wing room, I have to go save them!" He rushed in with big strides.

  Li Qian had just entered the house when he saw a naked thief jumping up, with no weapon in hand, but like a mad dog, opening his mouth wide and pouncing on him. Li Qian shouted loudly, and with a powerful slash of his curved knife, cut the thief's head into two halves.

  Kick away the robbers, Li Qin saw that there were two women in the house, one was naked and the other was still dressed, both crying loudly. Li Qin shouted: "Follow me, quick!"

  The naked woman burst into loud wails and violently crashed into the wall, hitting it with a loud thud, blood streaming down her face, apparently dead!

  Li Qin rushed forward in a hurry and pulled up the woman who was wearing clothes, but saw that she was so frightened that her whole body was paralyzed and couldn't even stand up.

  The woman did not want to implicate him and cried: "Don't care about me, let me die, next life I will not be a woman again!"

  Li Qin angrily said: "Don't be allowed to die easily, you must live well, this life has not ended yet, what are you talking about next life!"

  He carried the woman on his back, wanting to escape outside, but before he reached the door, there was a loud crash. The wall had been hit by the woman earlier and now collapsed in the fire, trapping them inside!

  Inside the courtyard, Jia Xu led Ma Chao to the scene, where they saw that the yard was in a state of chaos. The soldiers who had been guarding the corner were rescuing a large group of women, who were crying and wailing. Jia Xu dismounted his horse and asked, "Where is Ah Qian? What's going on here?"

  Xu Xiaoni looked around, didn't see Li Qin, and suddenly shouted: "Brother Qin, he's still inside saving people!" At this time, the big fire was already crackling loudly, even if they were soaked in water, there was no way to go in!

  The Fu Jiao soldiers were all shocked and cried out in unison!

  Jia Yu glanced at the women and then looked back at the fire scene, feeling both angry and anxious in his heart. Wasn't his brother-in-law out of his mind? Couldn't he save people without putting himself in harm's way too?!

  Xu Xiaoni and Li Qin's friendship was the deepest. He recklessly grabbed a long spear, disregarding his own life, and rushed towards the fire scene, using the spear to knock down the collapsing pillars of flame. Astonishingly, he wanted to go back in to rescue people again. The soldiers behind him all shouted loudly, imitating his actions, grabbing their weapons and running into the fire scene!

  Ma Chao shouted: "Uncle Li, Uncle Li..." The little kid had been frightened and started crying, but still bravely wanted to follow everyone in!

  Jia Yu pulled him back, shouting: "Are you looking for death?!" He grabbed Ma Chao and pushed the child into the pile of women. He also started to cry: "How can I explain this to his sister?!" Covering his face with his sleeve, he rushed towards the fire scene as well. For half his life, Jia Yu only thought of himself and didn't care about others, but at the critical moment, he was heroic and disregarded his own life to go save Li Qin.

  Just then, someone suddenly shouted: "What are you all doing? Come back to me! Don't you want your lives?" The voice was incredibly loud and clear, covering up all the other noises in the chaos. The person shouting was none other than Li Qin.

  The crowd heard his voice and rushed back to run, running to a safe place, only then did they look towards Li Qianwang, and saw that he had a woman on his back, nothing was wrong with him, and he was shouting at them!

  Xu Xiaoni let out a loud cry, rushed towards Li Qin, hugged him and burst into laughter. The Fu Jiao soldiers also gathered around, hugging Li Qin and laughing and jumping with joy, overjoyed beyond measure!

  Li Qīn was deeply moved, his subordinates were so righteous and loyal, it's really too rare! Ma Chāo also ran over, squeezed into the crowd, hugged Li Qīn's leg, pulled his neck and cried loudly, everyone else laughed, only he cried loudly!

  Jia Yu also ran over, but he was not so impulsive, and said: "Ah Qin, how did you come out?"

  Li Qinfang put down the woman behind him and shouted: "Brother-in-law, why are you also rushing in, are you going to save me?"

  Jia Yu said: "Me, me, me... who wants to save you? I'm afraid that when we get home, your sister will blame me and make a big fuss at home, so that no one can have any peace..." Li Qin burst out laughing and hugged Jia Yu tightly. Jia Yu shouted again: "You little scamp, do you want to strangle me to death? I'm suffocating!"

  Suddenly, Ma Chao shouted: "Hairy Uncle has become Short-haired Uncle!" Everyone heard the words and looked at Wu Xiaosan together. They saw that his hair on his head and face had been burned by the flames for more than half, and indeed became Short-haired Uncle!

  Everyone hugged each other, congratulating and teasing one another, having narrowly escaped with their lives. Their bond had deepened by a layer.

  At this time, Feng Cheng and others saw the fire start and also ran in. Seeing the situation, they naturally understood what had happened earlier. They also wanted to come over, but they were all embarrassed!

  Li Qin turned his head and saw them, beckoned with one hand, and the Han soldiers immediately came over, asking questions.

  Jia Yu said: "It's too hot here, let's change places and talk."

  Everyone hurry and move out, taking the women with you, away from the fire scene.

  Jia Yu walked at the back, he turned his head to look at the raging fire, and then turned around to look at Li Qin in the crowd, thinking: "When did my brother-in-law become so bold? He's even more courageous than me! When I left home that year, he wasn't like this. Two years haven't seen him, what a big change! Today he can save these unrelated women, in the future he will not fail those around him. Such good character, it's hard to find even if you travel all over Liangzhou. If things go on like this, after a while, countless heroes will come to join him, sacrificing their lives to follow him. Ah-Qin's prospects are boundless!"

  The big fire got bigger and bigger, Li Qin led the crowd out of the village, pulled out more than 100 war horses, kept a safe distance from the fire scene, to prevent the horses from getting frightened, they were outnumbered, in case the horses got scared and ran wildly, they would have no way to round them up.

  The big fire illuminated half of the valley, and everyone found a clearing to settle down their horses before turning around to gaze at the flames, sighing in unison.

  Shen Yidao said: "What a pity, this time it can't be considered a waste of time, but I didn't get any extra wealth either, and I didn't even cut off a few heads. It's a bit regrettable."

  Li Qinchao smiled and said, "You're too greedy. We've already obtained so many war horses, yet you're still not satisfied? These horses alone are a great achievement."

  Shen Yi stroked the back of his head, and chuckled foolishly. He turned to look at the women sitting on the ground and said in a low voice, "What's long, you saved these women, but how are we going to settle them afterwards? They probably don't have any family, and even if they do, their families probably won't want them back... Alas, they're just pitiful people with no one to rely on, it's not easy to arrange for them!"

  Li QIN thought of the woman who had killed herself, and his heart ached. As long as there was a glimmer of hope, no one would take their own life, especially not when rescue was imminent. There must have been some unspoken suffering that made her lose confidence in her future life, leading her to take the desperate path.

  He looked at the woman who was rescued last, who had been blocked in the fire scene just now. Fortunately, this woman pointed out that he escaped from the back door, which was used by the bandit leader to escape when he encountered danger. Unexpectedly, the bandit leader didn't use it, but instead saved him and the woman's lives.

  The secret door is such an important thing, the leader of the robbers would not tell the woman who was robbed, it must be that this woman had secretly paid attention to it in her daily life, and she paid attention to these things, naturally for the purpose of preparing to escape, thus proving that she has a desire to survive, only the ability is not enough, can't escape, since she is like this, other women are also, no one wants to die.

  Although Shen Yi lowered his voice, the soldiers next to him also heard it. They were originally pointing and discussing the big fire, but after hearing Shen Yi's words, they all stopped talking and looked at the group of women together, sympathizing with their situation, but no one had the ability to help.

  The women felt it, they all sat on the ground, with their hands clasped around their knees, and their faces deeply buried between their arms. Many of them started crying again, but only the last woman to be rescued had tears streaming down her face, yet she stubbornly refused to lower her head. She looked at Li QIN, wanting to hear if this person who risked danger to rescue them would help them again.

  Li Qin turned his head and asked Jia Yu, "Brother-in-law, what plans do you have regarding these women?"

  Jia Yu's face suddenly showed a difficult expression, his clever plans were not false, but he encountered this kind of thing and didn't have any good solutions. After all, this would affect many aspects and some things were very embarrassing, saying it out loud would hurt people, but not saying it out loud would also hurt people.

  Li Qin looked around at the soldiers. Whichever soldier he looked at would lower his head, no one dared to make a sound, and no one had any way out.

  Li QIN looked at the women again and said loudly: "I am Li QIN from Fu Jiao Village, I saved you, not to let you seek death again in the future, but to make you live a good life! Come with me to Fu Jiao Village, settle down there, as long as I, Li QIN, am there, no one will dare to look down on you, no one will dare to bully you!" His words were firm and decisive, everyone who heard him looked at him together.

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