Without the disturbance of these robbers, the whole village returned to its original tranquility.

As the temperature gradually rose these days, everyone seemed to feel the breath of spring, which made Qin Suyun's originally high heart gradually calm down, and the snow on the mountain began to melt on a large scale.

This has made Dahei and the others less interested in going up the mountain recently. Although German Shepherds are not long-haired dogs, Dahei and the others have very thick hair. Therefore, when the snow on the mountain melts on a large scale, their hair is always easily dirty.

Although Dahei and Heidou, being far more intelligent than other cats and dogs, don't particularly object to bathing, nor do they struggle like pigs being slaughtered, eager to scratch their owners, like other cats and dogs do during bathing. However, they still instinctively resist bathing, especially in such cold weather, as it takes a long time to dry off afterward.

So during this period of time, they just wandered around the village.

The villagers were quite happy to see Dahei and the others, knowing that these dogs were very smart and obedient. Therefore, even some timid people, although a little scared by the size of Dahei and the others, would just stay away from them and would not do anything to kill them.

Everyone knew that these dogs were truly remarkable, especially their bravery and cleverness in dealing with thieves and robbers and helping to rescue those trapped under the rubble of houses in the village. Even when Cao Shufen and their owner had a conflict, they never thought of attacking the villagers. Instead, they chased after Cao Shufen and pulled her pants to intimidate her.

Who can not like this kind of dog that knows when to advance and when to retreat, knows its limits, and is brave and good at fighting?

Many people in the village secretly thought that when Qin Suyun's dog became pregnant and gave birth to puppies, they would definitely ask for one from her.

Qin Suyun didn't care about these things. She let the dogs at home roam freely. As long as they didn't get into trouble, she would let them go wherever they wanted.

The walnut seedlings given as a reward to Zhazha were soaked in spiritual dew for three days before they began to sprout.

White seedlings with a hint of green quietly grew out of the thick walnut shells. However, even after soaking for three days, only four seedlings sprouted, and one walnut had no reaction so far, except that it looked a little more juicy.

Logically speaking, the word "juicy" should not be used to describe such a dry walnut.

But in fact, after soaking for a few days, Qin Suyun clearly found that the walnut, which originally had a rough shell, suddenly became as smooth as if it was suddenly covered with a layer of wax.

If you put it in the sun, you can even clearly see the light reflected from the walnut.

"This thing is quite strange." Qin Suyun picked up the walnut that had not sprouted yet, looked at it left and right, but couldn't figure out what it was.

When she used jade dew in the past, one drop was enough to bring about amazing changes in the entire plant, allowing a peach seedling to complete a round of flowering and fruiting in the blink of an eye without any problem.

But for these five walnuts, she used one drop of Jade Dew on the first day, two drops on the second day, and three drops on the third day. The total amount was six drops. On average, she only used one whole drop of Jade Dew on each walnut. However, these walnuts had just sprouted, and one had not even sprouted yet.

If she hadn't used the jade dew to harvest another crop of grapes these days, she would have started to doubt again whether her jade dew had lost its original efficacy?

"Could it be that the walnut shell is too thick, so the Jade Dew is not very effective? Or is there some other reason that I don't know about?"

Qin Suyun frowned, took out the four sprouted walnuts from the cup, and put the walnut that had not sprouted back into the original water.

She went up to the third floor, found four flower pots, planted the four sprouted walnuts in the pots, poured some water into the pots, and then turned around to deal with other things at home.

All the seeds that were placed at home for seedling cultivation a few days ago have sprouted. What she has to do now is to plant these seedlings that have sprouted and grown four or five leaves in the original greenhouse.

This is a huge project, so Qin Suyun does not plan to finish all of it in one day. Instead, she plans to build the two acres of greenhouse and the three acres of land outside the greenhouse in batches within a week. As for crops such as potatoes and corn, Qin Suyun plans to leave them until last.

The five acres of land at home were turned over and mixed with fertilizer last year to remove the large pieces of gravel. In addition, when Qin Suyun was planting seedlings a few days ago, she drove a small agricultural machine to turn over the five acres of frozen land again. Now the planting speed is much faster.

However, Qin Suyun has been working in the city for many years and has not planted much land, so her speed is not as fast as those villagers who are used to doing farm work on weekdays.

Qin Suyun had just started planting peppers, eggplants, pumpkins, and water spinach in the greenhouse when the noisy sounds at the entrance of the village attracted her out of the greenhouse.

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The entrance to the village.

A group of villagers carried sacks on their shoulders and various large and small bags in their hands, and transported them to the village non-stop.

Those clever villagers even brought bamboo baskets and shoulder poles from their homes to help transport the supplies.

"You are finally back! You have been away for five or six days, and I was so worried." Zhao Xingguo's mother, Old Lady Zhao, was standing at the village gate. When she saw her son and grandson coming back with all kinds of things in big and small bags, a bright smile immediately appeared on her face, and the old woman's originally cloudy eyes were even brighter.

"Mom, although the snow has melted, it's still very cold. Don't stand here. Go back quickly... Everyone in the village has to have a meeting later. I have things to do, so I won't say much to you." Zhao Xingguo, who was also carrying two sacks of grain on his shoulders, just smiled at his mother, and quickly directed the villagers to take the harvest brought back into the village.

It was lucky that the robbers drove three buses in total.

However, due to the collapse of the road, some parts were impossible to pass, so the three buses stayed at a fork in the road about 500 meters away from the village entrance.

On ordinary days, buses are certainly not a rare thing. Any bus in a big city is a bus. However, because of the earthquake, many buses were hit by collapsed houses. It is not easy to find three suitable buses at the same time in a small place like Ningyong County.

Therefore, Li Yuan regarded these three buses as one of his most important assets. Since they were his property, Li Yuan was naturally unwilling to hand over the keys to the buses to others. The keys to these three buses were naturally kept by Li Yuan's confidants.

Nowadays, there are many people who have a driving license and can drive, especially men, so Li Yuan is not worried at all about whether his confidant can drive.

In fact, quite a few of his confidants can drive!

So among the robbers arrested this time, two were drivers who had car keys in their hands. Without the car keys, the group of people who escaped before naturally had no way to drive away the car.

So, two of the three cars stayed behind. Even though some of the fleeing people smashed the glass of the car doors, they still couldn't drive away the two cars.

In this way, the two cars became cheaper for Zhao Xingguo, Meng Changlong and his group.

They drove a bus to escort the group of robbers and took out Li Yuan's most important warehouse.

The most stored thing in this warehouse was food. The house of more than 200 square meters was filled with supplies. The group of people did not distribute the food first, but went around the county town to get two trucks, loaded the food into the trucks, and transported it back.

On the way, someone wanted to take over a few vehicles. Even the supplies in the back of the two trucks were wrapped in large dark sheets, and it was impossible to tell what was hidden inside.

But who cares about so many things when they are starving?

Fortunately, everyone had anticipated this before they went, and it was very likely that something like this would happen.

Therefore, without any hesitation, the people brought by Meng Changlong fired several shots into the sky on the spot.

People who try to hail a taxi on the road are quite capable. Even if each of them is hungry, they are definitely not in a state of being about to starve to death.

Under the threat of weapons, the group did not dare to approach the vehicles. Even though they coveted the cargo on the vehicles, they did not dare to risk their lives to seize the trucks guarded by so many people. Even though the group knew that there was a high possibility of something hidden in the trucks, no one had the courage to approach them directly.

So, the group drove the car back to the village smoothly.

"In other words, four trucks loaded with supplies are parked at the fork in the road in front of our village?" After hearing their men talk about this, some women with good physical strength immediately picked up their own bamboo baskets and shoulder poles, slapped their thighs, and asked them to lead the way quickly.

How could they leave so many supplies at the fork in the road? Even though the fork in the road was only about 500 meters away from their village, with so much food and supplies, who knew if a group of people would suddenly jump out and steal these things?

Since the car couldn't drive into the village, they naturally had to quickly carry all the food and supplies back!

"How did you deal with those robbers?" Some women couldn't help but ask curiously while helping their men carry supplies.

"What else can we do? Those guys wanted to kill people and steal our vehicles while we were moving food, but they were shot dead on the spot by the soldiers. The rest who were caught all had a leg or an arm broken!"

The man, carrying the food, smacked his lips and said to his wife, "Hey! Don't tell me, we were all in the car before and didn't know anything. Now that we're back in the county town, I realize how big it is! That commercial street you used to love to go to, about 60 to 70 percent of the buildings have collapsed, but the remaining buildings are even more terrifying than the ones that have collapsed!"

"How horrible is it?" The woman asked curiously, shifting the heavy burden from one shoulder to the other.

"There were large areas of blood in front of many shops! When we went there, we happened to see a man dragging an old lady out of a shop. The man held a knife and ignored the old lady's screams, and directly chopped the old lady with the knife... If it weren't for Commander Meng's excellent marksmanship, and if he hadn't shot the man in the chest, I'm afraid the old lady would not have been hit in the arm, but her head would have been chopped off directly!" The man said, his face full of sighs.

When they saw this scene, everyone present was stunned, especially the 50 villagers of Wanxi Village, who were so shocked that they almost couldn't close their mouths. They never expected that the county town, which usually looked very harmonious and full of vitality, would suddenly become what it is today.

Not only was it desolate everywhere, but it was also in such a state of chaos that it didn't look like the county town they had once longed for. Instead, it looked like hell on earth.

In fact, the man still had a lot to say. So many things happened after they went to the county town. The old lady's incident was just the tip of the iceberg. They even saw a group of guys who imprisoned women and children like animals.

However, in the end, all of these guys were killed by Meng Changlong and his team. They also brought back the women and children with them. In addition, they also brought back another group of people they met on the way back...

A group of very troublesome guys who cannot be offended...

The man seemed to be thinking of this group of guys, his brows were deeply furrowed, and he didn't say anything more to his wife. Their village chief was so nervous because of the arrival of the other group of people, and he quickly asked people to carry the supplies on the car back to the village.

But the man did not say this directly to his wife, because even if he did not say it, the people who would help later would definitely know about it. He did not want to tell this matter for the time being and make his wife worry.

Everyone was helping, and Qin Suyun was no exception. She asked Dahei and the others not to go out for the time being and to stay at home obediently, while she went out to help with a shoulder pole and a basket.

By the time Qin Suyun arrived at the village entrance to help, all the supplies that had been carried to the village entrance had been moved into the village. Only some supplies left in the car at a distant fork in the road had not been taken down.

When Qin Suyun saw someone calling everyone to go to the fork in the road, she followed. However, when she reached the fork in the road, she was shocked by the scene in front of her!

On the way here, Qin Suyun heard someone say that four cars had returned. However, when she got there, she found that there were not four cars at the fork in the road, but six!

In addition to the two buses and two tattered trucks at the beginning, there were three military trucks following behind!

However, the front two trucks of the three military trucks were filled with soldiers in military uniforms, carrying firearms, while the rear truck was filled with a group of ordinary people in tattered clothes and haggard faces. These people were all crammed together in a dense mass, including young people, the elderly, and children. They were packed into the back of the truck like sardines in a can.

Seeing this scene, the women who were originally just helping to pick up and deliver supplies at the village entrance were all stunned. They didn't know what to do with their hands and feet. Some of them even stopped where they were, staring at the two military trucks with their mouths wide open, not knowing what to say.

The woman who had just spoken to her husband looked at him in bewilderment. Didn't he just tell her about two buses and two trucks on the road? How come the next moment, there were three more military trucks? And judging by the soldiers standing on those trucks and their uniforms, they clearly weren't Meng Changlong's group!

And it was obvious that Commander Meng did not seem familiar with this group of people.

Otherwise, why were these people standing on the car instead of getting off to help transport the supplies?

And what about the people in the last car? Could they be the ones Commander Meng had rescued earlier? But why were there so many people? Looking at the dense crowd, there must be at least a hundred!

However, just when everyone was stunned, the door of the passenger seat on the first military truck was suddenly opened, and a middle-aged man in a black suit and gold-rimmed glasses slowly walked down.

Qin Suyun raised her eyebrows. She hadn't expected people these days to still be dressed the same way they did before the disaster. Ever since the earthquake and snowstorm, everyone had been dressing for warmth, comfort, and convenience. Some even went so far as not to wash their clothes for months. However, the middle-aged man before her was not only spotlessly clean, but even wore a pair of shiny leather shoes.

Before the earthquake, those who sat in the office every day were exactly the same.

The middle-aged man frowned slightly and walked over to Meng Changlong and Zhao Xingguo. "How long will it take you to finish moving all this? We've been waiting here for a long time, and we have to go to other villages later. Can't you move faster?"

"Commander, we are moving very quickly... We are almost done moving all these things. How about this? You come back to the village with me first. After we finish dealing with things here, we will immediately hold a village meeting according to your instructions. What do you think?" The smile that Zhao Xingguo had originally shown to his mother was now completely gone. He had an embarrassed expression from beginning to end.

"That's right, Mr. Zhang. You came here this time because of the order from above. But no matter what, you need to explain this matter clearly in front of everyone in the village, otherwise the villagers may not be able to accept the people you brought." Meng Changlong said with a frown.

"Whether others accept it or not, this is the decision from above. If your village can't accept it, then I'm sorry, we'll have no choice but to use force to resolve this matter!" The middle-aged man was completely unmoved by Meng Changlong and the others. Instead, he said in a cold voice, "Commander Meng, I remember there should be a small military base on Wanxi Mountain above Wanxi Village. Commander Meng seems to be the person in charge of that military base. As the person in charge of the military base, you should know that we have no choice but to carry out the orders from above!"

"I don't want to make things difficult for you when I come here this time. We are all here to serve the people. According to the indicators issued by the superiors this time, your village must accept at least 150 disaster victims. So don't waste time, hurry up, we have to go to other villages later!" The middle-aged man continued bluntly.

Qin Suyun stood aside and frowned. She was originally unsure what these three people meant.

However, after hearing this, Qin Suyun almost understood the meaning of this middle-aged man and this group of armed soldiers coming to their village...

These people want to force their village to accept outsiders! And no less than 150 people!

When the surrounding villagers heard what the middle-aged man said, they all frowned and looked unhappy. They even stopped the work in their hands and looked at the middle-aged man and Zhao Xingguo and Meng Changlong.

The words of this middle-aged man in front of me were really too shocking!

"150 people? Wouldn't that make up one-third of our village? Our village is so small, we don't even have houses to live in. How can we possibly have one-third more people all of a sudden?"

"Yeah, let's not even talk about where these people live. What do they eat and use every day? We can't let the people in our village pay for all this, right?"

Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that the people standing on the last military truck were starving, with nothing to eat and no other supplies. A few of them were slightly better off, but they only had backpacks on their backs, nothing more.

So many people suddenly moved into their village? Wouldn't their village be in chaos?

Everyone was talking about it, frowning, and no one was willing to accept these one hundred outsiders.

Before the earthquake, Wanxi Village was a poor and remote mountain village. In the past few decades, except for the movement of people due to marriages, there were no outsiders in the entire village. Except for Miss Qin who came to their village half a year ago and wanted to build a flower base, there had never been any other residents who came to live in their village for no reason.

They didn't like other outsiders in the first place, and with the current chaotic world, the villagers don't want other strangers to live in their village even more!

Who knows if these people have bad intentions? Will they target their village?

Everyone's expression was unhappy. A middle-aged man in his 40s frowned in the crowd. He stepped forward and stood beside the middle-aged man and said, "Sir, what are you talking about with these 150 people? Why are they moving into our village? Don't they have a place to live? Our village is the smallest in the surrounding area, and after the earthquake, most of the houses collapsed. Even we have nowhere to live... Even if these people come to our village, there is no house for them to live in. Why would they move in?"

"It's precisely because your village is small that the higher-ups have arranged for so few people to live in it. If it were a large village like Jiangtang Village, they would have arranged for at least six or seven hundred people to live there! So don't be ungrateful!"

The middle-aged man turned his head to look at the man in front of him, and said in a cold and expressionless voice, "To tell you the truth, you have no right to refuse this matter! This is an instruction from above, requiring all provinces to make unified plans and arrangements for the disaster victims in the city. The people on this bus are all disaster victims from Yunhai City. As people from Yunhai City, shouldn't we help each other? Or do you guys have no compassion at all? Are you going to watch other disaster victims starve to death outside?"

The middle-aged man's words were a bit hurtful. The victims on the truck looked at the man one by one with dark eyes, looking a little dangerous.

Being stared at by so many people, the man's expression changed instantly. He said grimly, "Sir, what you said is a bit too much. The people in our village can hardly take care of themselves, and you still want us to take care of others. How can we do that? Can the government just assign people to our village and then do nothing about it? Then what's the point of assigning people to our village?"

"Hmph!" the middle-aged man snorted coldly. "There are some things I don't need to hide from you. You'll know them in the future anyway... This earthquake was widespread, and the authorities can't handle all the victims, so they've left it to each province to deal with it on its own... Experts have shown that the future environment will be extremely harsh. People living in cities without land may not be able to survive. So our province is relocating those urban residents whose homes were destroyed by the earthquake and who are unable to survive..."

"In order to give everyone a chance to survive, the provincial government has issued an instruction to bring urban residents to the countryside and redistribute the previously abandoned fields. During this period, if anyone disagrees with our province's approach, don't blame me for using force to suppress them." As he spoke, the middle-aged man glanced dangerously at the crowd, the threat in his eyes obvious.

The surrounding villagers all frowned and were unhappy. No one wanted the land they had already obtained to be divided up again suddenly, especially to a group of strangers. This made the villagers even more unhappy.

What's more, what is this person talking about? There is no such thing as abandoned farmland in their village. They treasure those lands very much!

Especially this group of guys in front of them. They didn’t come to help rescue and care for them during the earthquake and snowstorm. Now the snowstorm is over and life is about to get better. Why did these guys suddenly appear?