Li Tieniu secretly harbored hatred; it was his first time following his brother to smuggle salt, and who would have thought they would encounter such a situation.
His brother had already died here fighting fiercely against the attackers.
He himself would not live much longer.
The two brothers had also taken this path out of sheer desperation; their family did this for a living, and how many people were there now who didn't rely on smuggling salt to survive?
In this remote border area, the terrain was desolate. Although their family had land, the harvest each year barely suffices after paying various taxes, and it's hard to even have a full stomach.
Of course, it wasn't that the land was bad, but because the surrounding barbarians occasionally invaded.
During harvest time, large numbers of barbarians came to plunder from time to time.
