Transmigrating with a Five Million Dollar Retirement Life

Chapter 202 Strange Landslide

Seeing Song Jiaojiao's incredulous look, Sun Erniang said, "If you don't believe me, sir, you can send someone to check. It's just ahead, you can see it after turning two corners."

Song Jiaojiao and Zhou Dadan exchanged a glance. Zhou Dadan didn't understand what Song Jiaojiao meant at first, so he and Yan Tian rode off to check.

Half an hour later, the two appeared in Song Jiaojiao's room. "How was it?"

"Your Majesty, the official road is indeed blocked by a large amount of mud, but it doesn't look like a landslide."

“Yes, Dadan and I walked around the nearby mountains. There were many footprints on the mountains, but no traces of a lot of mud flowing over them. It seems that someone deliberately blocked the official road.”

Yan Tian said seriously that it rained yesterday. Even though there were trees in the mountains to cover it, a small amount of rainwater still seeped in. They followed the tracks in the soil and could clearly see the footprints next to the soil.

"Looks like someone wants to keep us here!" Song Jiaojiao knew that the quietness last night was abnormal, but she didn't expect that they were waiting for us here.

"How long will the cleaning take?" Song Jiaojiao asked again.

"It will take at least a day. Besides the mud, there are also a lot of dead tree branches. If it's just clearing a narrow path that has been used by horse-drawn carriages, it will take about half a day."

Upon hearing Zhou Dadan's words, Song Jiaojiao thought that cleaning up was definitely necessary. Few people walked this road, and if it was left unattended, it might not be passable for ten days or half a month.

"Here's what you'll do: take Shang Yu and Xu Sen and go clear the area. But don't go openly. Use the excuse that you're running out of food and need to go hunting in the mountains. Head up the mountain first, then go around the area. Be careful and watch out for anyone watching you. Just clear a narrow path that a carriage can pass through."

"Yes, we'll go right away." After Zhou Dadan and the others left the room, Song Jiaojiao came down to the counter.

"Manager Sun, is it really blocked by mud? Will the government officials come to clear it?"

When Sun Erniang saw Song Jiaojiao coming over, she knew that the matter was half completed. "Yes, it is, but it will take about two or three days for the news to be sent out. Once the official road is open, it will probably take five days."

"What?! It'll take this long? Are there no other routes?" Song Jiaojiao exclaimed dramatically.

“Young master is joking. Once you’re here, the only options are to go forward or return the way you came.”

“Madam, since we can’t leave, I’ll take the brothers hunting. We’re running low on rations, so we’ll hunt some game to replenish our supplies,” Zhou Dayong said loudly as he came out and heard Song Jiaojiao’s words.

"Alright, alright, you guys go ahead. Remember to pack plenty of food. I thought we'd be out in ten days at most, so I only bought ten days' worth of rations. Now we're stuck here, and I don't know how long it will take before we can get out!" Song Jiaojiao said with a worried expression.

When Sun Erniang heard Song Jiaojiao's words, she didn't doubt Zhou Dayong and the others' departure. After all, there were many mountains around them, and there was plenty of wild game in the mountains. Being trapped here, they naturally needed to find something to do.

"Manager Sun, please extend my stay for another five days." Song Jiaojiao handed Manager Sun a fifty-tael silver note, looking like she had no choice but to stay temporarily.

"Alright, if you don't have enough food, young master, you can eat at our shop. We just replenished our food supplies a few days ago, enough to last another ten days or so." Sun Erniang said with a smile. When she saw Song Jiaojiao hand over the money, she knew that Song Jiaojiao and her group had decided to stay.

Song Jiaojiao simply waved her hand, without saying whether she wanted it or not.

During this time, Song Jiaojiao and her group left under various pretexts, even taking two carriages with them, claiming that there were no such high mountains where they lived, and since they were trapped here anyway, they might as well take the children out to play nearby.

Seeing that Song Jiaojiao hadn't left, Sun Erniang didn't take it to heart.

Later, when Song Jiaojiao felt that it was about time and the road should have been cleared, she made an excuse that the child had not yet returned and that she needed to go out and look for him, so she asked Zhang Li to drive the carriage out of the inn.

Although Sun Erniang felt something was off, she quickly realized that Song Jiaojiao and her group seemed more like wealthy young men who would do manual labor like clearing the road, so she put aside her doubts.

It was already completely dark when Song Jiaojiao and her group still hadn't returned. They ran upstairs to check, and sure enough, the room was empty.

She then realized that she had been tricked by Song Jiaojiao and her group, and that she must have given herself away somewhere so that they would find out.

"Damn it, these people got away!!!" Sun Erniang said through gritted teeth.

The person staying at the hotel that night came out and asked familiarly, "What's wrong?"

“They got away. I told you we should have made a move last night. Look at that group of people, some are weak, and one of them is sickly. How could they possibly be experts?”

“Then let’s go after them now!” the man said.

Sun Erniang kicked a chair angrily, "Why are you chasing us! We've been running for half a day, how can we possibly catch up with us?!"

The man looked at the furious Sun Erniang without saying another word. They had come here last night after receiving news that there was a big fish. Although they didn't know why they hadn't taken action afterward, they were just following orders.

"Oh dear, that blind fool has angered our beautiful Sun Erniang."

The fourth leader appeared at the inn's entrance. He had thought about it all night and realized that it would be difficult to escape from Ant Village. They had been entrenched here for many years and naturally knew that there was an inn down there that was their stronghold. Inside the inn was Sun Erniang, the second-in-command of Ant Village. This Sun Erniang was a little clever, but not much. Her methods could only be used on men with sharp minds.

"What are you doing here?" Sun Erniang said irritably.

"Of course I'm here to help Second Sister solve her problems," the fourth leader said glibly, his eyes scanning Sun Second Sister back and forth. He had to admit that Sun Second Sister was indeed beautiful; no wonder she was able to rise to the position of second leader despite being a woman.

"You? As far as I know, your Black Mountain Stronghold suffered a defeat just yesterday," Sun Erniang said dismissively.

The fourth leader was stunned, and his face instantly darkened. It was all that brainless fellow from the three major families' family's fault.

"Yesterday, my third brother led the team, and he was just a bunch of reckless brutes. I've come today with important news."

"Oh my, the sun has risen in the west! Even our mortal enemies are being so kind." Even if Sun Erniang wasn't very bright, she knew that Ant Village and Black Mountain Village were rivals, the kind of rivals who couldn't do anything to each other. The caravans that came from the Seventy-Two Turns were already few in number, and after being divided up, the goods that could be obtained were even fewer. Naturally, the two villages didn't like each other.

"Hey, hey, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Those people caused so many of our Black Mountain Stronghold brothers to lose. We've been at odds for ages. If this Seventy-Two Turns wasn't your territory, I wouldn't have come to this." The fourth leader said angrily. This old woman was the hermaphrodite.