Chapter 6: Don’t Leave Gifts Unclaimed

According to the original owner’s memory, Jiang Yu immediately recognized the extremely shabby ex-husband and ex-mother-in-law walking beside the ox-cart convoy.

As for the man sitting on the ox cart, missing a part of his leg and cursing loudly, no doubt he was a Japanese soldier.

Jiang Yu’s eyes were initially drawn to those ox carts.

Especially noticing the deep ruts left by their wheels, it was clear they were carrying a lot of stuff.

She really hadn’t expected that, even after all her searching and setting fire,

Ex-husband’s family still managed to gather so many things.

Impressive!

But!

Hehe!

Since they brought this all right to her doorstep, she wouldn’t be polite — she’d take everything, people included!

Jiang Yu quickly concealed herself and rushed toward the convoy.

She needed to first confirm whether they had any guns or similar weapons, then decide how to deal with them.

As for fetching water — that could wait until after this was settled.

What Jiang Yu didn’t know was that these past two days had been extremely difficult for the ex-husband’s family.

After a huge fire, all the ill-gotten wealth accumulated over generations was either burned or carried off by Jiang Yu.

The remaining fields and shops still had some value,

But unfortunately, the only surviving Japanese soldier had his eyes on them.

Ex-husband wanted to resist, but he got scared just seeing the Japanese soldier.

Even though the soldier was so injured he could barely move,

He only dared to mutter curses at the soldier’s ancestors silently.

The Japanese soldier was actually quite scared at first — after all, all his comrades were dead,

And he was injured so badly that even a small child could easily kill him.

But unexpectedly, the soldier’s bluster scared everyone else.

Even the ex-husband flattered him by ruthlessly killing an “old bandit” who tried to ambush him,

Claiming it was to “atone for his crimes”!

After that, the Japanese soldier became arrogant again.

Later he realized,

As long as he left some life for ex-husband, no matter how much he humiliated him, it was fine.

Since he still needed people to help transport the goods,

And worried that ex-husband might suddenly wake up and rebel,

Although he cursed a lot, he held back quite a bit.

Unexpectedly, this made ex-husband extremely grateful,

Repeatedly promising to find ways to make up for the lost goods.

His eagerness was so much that even the Japanese soldier himself felt uncomfortable…

When Jiang Yu got closer, she overheard ex-husband babbling nonsense to the Japanese soldier,

But since she couldn’t understand, she ignored it and carefully observed each person and the convoy,

Looking for any sign of guns.

“Young master! If we go further, we’ll enter Jurong’s area. There are many mountains and bandits around here. Traveling like this might not be safe,”

Finally, seeing the Japanese soldier stopped cursing,

A servant hurriedly approached ex-husband to warn him.

“Don’t worry! Madam has already notified a small Imperial Army squad to pick us up.”

“Ah? Didn’t you say the Imperial Army is busy fighting the Nationalist forces in Jurong? How would they have time for us?

Besides, a squad is at most seventy or eighty men, and there are dozens of mountain groups around here.

Maybe… young master, we should…”

The servant made a throat-slitting gesture: “This can be our token of loyalty.

With your foreign education, at least you could be a company commander or something…”

“Shut up! Commander? You need to be alive first to be a commander.

Don’t you think we can fight the powerful Japanese Imperial Army?

And the bandits, I’m not underestimating them, but as long as we raise the Imperial Army’s banner, which mountain group would dare to mess with us?”

“But young master, you said earlier…”

“Times change, understand? Do you know what’s in those boxes?

If we really help deliver those things to the Imperial Army,

The rest of our lives will truly be secured…”

Ex-husband said this and stopped paying attention to the servant.

He turned and flattered the Japanese soldier with a long speech again.

Then hurried to the front of the convoy to personally hang up the “dog-skin plaster” flag.

Jurong?

Wasn’t that where the defense of Nanjing began?

Jiang Yu, carefully inspecting the convoy, finally realized where she was.

She was stunned for a moment before realizing she was actually quite close to Nanjing.

But it was already February 1938.

If only she had traveled back earlier,

Could she have done something to help the people of Nanjing in this world…?

Wait a minute!

This is an alternate world!

Although the ultimate historical outcome will be the same as the original world,

The timeline, locations, and even people might be different!

That means the defense battle might only just be starting now.

Or it could have already ended, but other forces are still resisting here!

Anyway,

For whatever reason, the Japanese soldiers are attacking Jurong now!

So does that mean she still has a chance to do something?

For example, like the plan before — assassinate Japanese officers, and empty out their ammunition depot.

Wait!

That might not work!

With her terrible sense of direction, even if the battle was over, would she be able to find Jurong?

Then…

Maybe leave someone as a guide?

And another who understands Japanese?

Let them lead her to the Japanese soldiers in Jurong.

Anyway, it was confirmed that only the Japanese soldier in the convoy had a pistol; the others were unarmed.

As for the locked boxes, even if they contained guns, if she was fast enough, those people wouldn’t have the chance to take them out.

So leaving one alive wasn’t impossible.

Thinking this over, Jiang Yu’s gaze swept over the ex-husband.

She then quickly approached the Japanese soldier’s ox cart, took out a door bolt from her space, and knocked it on the Japanese soldier’s head.

At the same time, with her other hand, she grabbed the pistol at his waist…

Instantly!

“Pft—”

“Enemy attack! Enemy attack—”

“Master… Madam, young master, what to do?”

“Help!”

“Ghost! There’s a ghost!…”

Watching the Japanese soldier’s head suddenly explode, everyone panicked.

Especially the servant who had seen Jiang Yu run off with a stool last time.

He screamed like crazy and stumbled into the nearby woods.

Jiang Yu ignored all that.

After dealing with the Japanese soldier, she immediately started quickly gathering the big boxes from the ox carts into her space one by one.

For a moment,

The remaining people who were barely in defensive postures,

Seeing the boxes disappear one by one,

Could no longer hold back, dropped the convoy, and scattered in a panic trying to escape.

After Jiang Yu finally dealt with all uncertain threats, she realized—

This wouldn’t do!

Others could be left.

But what about the ex-husband?

Jiang Yu hurriedly jumped down from the ox cart, preparing to chase after him.

But before she had taken two steps, that familiar churning in her stomach hit again.

Before she could react, she crouched down and vomited violently.

“Ugh—” Help!

That same indescribable familiar feeling after killing soldiers last time.

What was going on?

It wasn’t food poisoning, nor the physiological discomfort like the first time she killed.

Could it be a serious illness?

Impossible!

The body in the book had lived over a hundred years and had many descendants…

Luckily she was used to vomiting by now.

After quickly emptying her stomach, she immediately recovered like last time.

Seeing the ex-husband already far ahead, she didn’t hesitate.

She quickly pulled out the Japanese soldier’s tricycle motorcycle from her space and gave chase.

However, she had not noticed she had exited stealth mode while vomiting.

By the time she realized, she was already on the road.

So!

When Liang Mengzhuang saw an empty tricycle motorcycle coming straight at him,

He screamed and rolled into the forest beside the road.

Jiang Yu had no choice but to stop, put away the tricycle, and continue the chase on foot.