Chapter 1307 Living with Your Own Hands

"You all protect yourselves."

The Valley Master and Old Man Ouyang looked serious, and even Cheng Jin was on high alert.

Among the men, Xu Qiao was the weakest. He quietly picked up a dagger to protect himself.

At least don't hold Aguanna back.

In the distance, a skinny child was looking longingly at their carriage filled with luggage.

However, the swords in Cheng Jin and Gan Ze's hands still made them feel a little uneasy.

Even after they walked away, Jiang Wan could still feel the uneasy gazes of the villagers.

"Wanwan, let's go there quickly. Poor mountains and bad waters breed unruly people."

The Valley Master has traveled far and wide and has seen many things like this. Those people are indeed pitiful.

But they also don't want to become the other party's coveted meal.

"good."

Jiang Wan thought so too, but she still underestimated human nature.

Just as they were about to enter Xiangbei Mountain, a group of people came jogging over from the village over there.

It seemed that the adults in the village came one after another because they had just seen their children report the news.

Although Jiang Wan and his group had a lot of people, there were even more people in the village, and they surrounded them.

These villagers were all wearing coarse linen clothes, some of them were holding hoes, and some were holding their own shoulder poles.

In short, they all held farm tools and stared at them eagerly.

"Everyone, we are just passing by."

Jiang Wan looked serious, so Cheng Jin took over the topic, "What do you want?"

His question was so direct that the villagers present were stunned for a few seconds.

Then a middle-aged man walked out from the crowd. He was big and strong and looked quite powerful.

"You are all good citizens. This is the work of bandits. Aren't you afraid that the government will investigate you?"

Gan Ze felt a little bit sorry when he saw the people with their trouser legs rolled up.

If they weren't extremely hungry, they wouldn't do such a thing.

The village chief of Xiangjia Village was the middle-aged man who had just walked out. He smiled coldly.

“People are almost starving to death, so why would they care about reputation, especially those in government offices.

If they really cared about us, we wouldn't be so hungry that our eyes would turn green!"

Village Chief Xiang pointed at the luggage cart behind Jiang Wan and the others and said, "If you want to go into the mountains, leave your food behind!"

“You are robbing!”

Mu Xiangqi's eyes turned red. "What's the difference between your thoughts and those of bandits?"

"I don't care what you think we are, we just have to live!"

Village Chief Xiang pointed at the skinny villagers behind him and said, "For them, nothing is more important than being alive!"

Jiang Wan followed his gaze and saw that behind this group of adults were a group of children.

These children were even thinner than the group of children who were able to walk outside the village just now.

Each of them has a big head and sunken eyes, and the smaller ones are so hungry that they can hardly stand steadily.

Mu Xiang's heart softened instantly, but she thought robbery was wrong, so she looked at Jiang Wan.

"master……"

"Don't worry, we don't want all your things, just leave some food."

Village Chief Xiang said again: "We won't hurt you either."

"Wanwan."

The valley master in the carriage suddenly spoke up, "Leave some food for them.

They are all poor people, don't make a fuss, we are also in a hurry to get into the mountains."

He thought that these people might be injured and had no medicine to treat them.

At least they are not bad enough to just rob people, which means they still have some conscience.

Old man Ouyang, who had the opposite idea from him, was so angry that he blew his beard and glared.

"You are a good person. This is all our food rations. What will we eat if we give them all?

Besides, no matter how poor a person is, he shouldn't do something like robbery, right? Didn't you have a high moral bottom line in the past?

Why are you so soft-hearted now? Isn't this just helping the evildoer?"

"Uncle Master, my master feels sorry for them."

Fuling couldn't bear to see Old Man Ouyang talking about her master like that, so she immediately stood up to defend him.

Aguanna also said, “Uncle, if that’s the case, they will think that robbery is right.

I am afraid that more innocent people will be robbed. We cannot encourage such evil practices."

“Nana!”

Fuling didn't expect Aguanna to say that, and immediately said angrily:

"My master has always been kind, and he has no other intentions. Just think of it as doing good deeds for my master.

Junior Master, please distribute my share of food. I will go to the mountains to find food later."

She has the ability to support herself, so she is naturally confident.

"If you care, just leave your share of the food."

This is what Fuling said to Aguanna, and it seemed that something was not right between the two of them.

Ruoshui and Muxiang looked at each other, and each of them persuaded Fuling and Aguanna to leave separately.

You can't argue at times like this.

It just so happened that Cheng Jin and Xu Qiao also faced off, one sided with Fuling and the other naturally sided with Aguanna.

"Fuling is right. We don't lack food. Let me give them some of mine."

"Mr. Cheng, can you find food in the mountains? Nana is also thinking about everyone.

We can’t let everyone go hungry. If that happens, it will be hard for us to go back alive, not to mention collecting herbs.”

Xu Qiao felt that Aguanna was right, because of the Valley Master and Old Man Ouyang, these people actually split into two factions.

Jiang Wan's disciples were the middlemen, and Xin Shu and Gan Ze were embarrassed.

"master?"

Gan Ze looked at Jiang Wan and said, "Most of these foods were prepared by you. Why don't you make the decision?"

In fact, he also thought in his heart that it was inappropriate to give food to these people, but these people were indeed very pitiful.

Perhaps because they saw them arguing, the people from Xiangjia Village looked at each other and stood together to discuss the matter.

After a while, the village chief Xiang stood up and said, "You are all kind-hearted people.

Please leave us some food, no matter how much."

He reassured: “We grew up near the mountains and are very familiar with the environment there.

If necessary, people from our village can lead the way for you."

He already knew that Jiang Wan and the others were here to collect herbs, but unfortunately they didn't know many types of them.

Otherwise they can also sell the herbs to them.

"How about this, if you have any herbs you've picked at home, bring them out and exchange them for food with us."

Jiang Wan thought about it and came up with a compromise, "Although we feel sorry for the situation of your villagers.

But people can't always survive by robbing other people's supplies.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t have medicinal herbs for the time being. Once you have them, my people will come to collect them.

If you don't know them, I can ask someone to teach you how to identify simple herbs."

"Really?"

Village chief Xiang was tempted. After all, he had read a few words and knew the advantages of a one-time deal and a long-term deal.

If this noble person could really accept their medicinal herbs, then they would be able to live by their own hands in the future.

But the others didn't think so. Someone interrupted the village chief and said, "Village chief, don't believe her. She must be fooling us."