The days that followed passed quietly as Pinghe Village continued to cultivate and harvest. Some minor incidents occurred during this time, but they did not affect the daily life of Pinghe Village.

The three families from Xin San Village had previously considered seeking compensation from Pinghe Village. However, before they could act on their plan, Village Chief Shi and his team stopped them.

"Entering the back mountain without permission is your personal behavior. What does it have to do with Pinghe Village? Besides, those wild boars in the back mountain aren't raised by them, so it can't be blamed on them." Village Chief Shi really didn't expect these people to lose their temper like this. This had absolutely nothing to do with Pinghe Village.

"But if they hadn't brought our villagers into the mountains, we wouldn't have had this idea."

"So you're the kind of people who eat from a bowl and then curse it, and then expect compensation if they choke on it." Captain Liu was so angry at their reasoning that he laughed. Sure enough, there are extreme people everywhere in life, and these are the epitome of extreme behavior.

“But our family is losing its able-bodied members, and life is getting harder and harder. The conditions in Pinghe Village are much better than ours, so it would be easy for them to get some compensation. Besides, they are partly responsible for this incident.”

The three families have probably discussed this for a long time and have all agreed on the same thing: they want the village to stand up for them.

“What responsibility do they have? I begged them to take us up the mountain. Otherwise, do you think the village’s income came from recently? Now your families are all raising chickens and ducks, all thanks to Pinghe Village.”

Captain Liu was surprised that these people were so ungrateful, and most of them had received higher education before the disaster, yet now they were trying to pin this on others out of thin air.

Village Chief Shi also got angry, "You should give up those thoughts as soon as possible. Our two villages will have to rely on each other in the future. It's not like they're forcing you up the mountain at knifepoint. On the contrary, they've repeatedly emphasized that you can't go to the back mountain recklessly. You can't argue with them anywhere."

"But I really can't go on living like this." Xiao Qin's mother has been crying for the past few days until her voice is hoarse. No matter how people try to persuade her, she always complains that she can't make ends meet.

"Stop crying. You are largely responsible for Xiao Qin going to the back mountain. As a mother, you have always relied on your son who has just come of age."

After finishing speaking, Village Chief Shi looked at the two children beside her. "Besides, these two children are already over ten years old. They can help out in some ways, but you always keep them by your side with the excuse that they are too young to do heavy work. But look around the village, aren't there many boys their age who are already searching for things all over the mountains?"

"That's right, Qin's mom. Everyone's life starts from nothing. She always says she's not in good health, but these two kids look so strong. If they helped Qin more often, maybe he wouldn't have thought of going to the back mountain."

“Since we came to this village, I haven’t seen the two little ones work in the fields or go into the mountains. It’s not good for you to spoil them like this. Besides, now that Xiao Qin is gone, it’s time for them to take care of the family.”

The villagers of Xin San Village are not entirely heartless. In the past few days, whoever found something would share some with Xiao Qin's family. The other two families did not help because they still had able-bodied men.

But this help is only temporary. After all, every family has its own family to take care of. Moreover, with mountains behind and a lake in front, as long as they work hard, they can always make a living.

"They really wiped out the whole group of wild boars this time they went into the mountains. If that's not enough, they can give us some as compensation for the three children of those wild boars."

One of the family members said this weakly in the crowd.

"Alright, everyone, go home." Upon hearing this, Village Chief Shi waved his hand, telling the villagers to go about their own business. "There's no need to waste time with people like this. If they're capable, they can go to Pinghe Village themselves."

"So that's what they were planning. They were thinking of 'robbing the rich to help the poor'."

"They want to use our entire village as pawns. Only a few families in this world are smart."

"I don't think they have the guts to go to Pinghe Village, but Wang Zili and his group weren't so lucky." The neighbor who lived next to Wang Zili shook his head when he talked about this.

"What's wrong?" a villager nearby asked curiously.

“These families take turns visiting them every day, and they always choose to do it around mealtimes. Wang Zili’s family is having a lot of trouble, and it’s said that the other families who went up the mountain are in the same situation.”

"That's a bit much. It was their idea to go up the mountain together. They're lucky to have come back alive."

"If only they could think that way, otherwise they wouldn't have suggested that our village stand up for them."

"They really think Pinghe Village is as easy to bully as Wang Zili and his gang. If it weren't for the fact that they happened to be in the mountains this time, these people might all be dead. Where would they go to seek justice then?"

"Let's stay away from those families from now on. It wouldn't be good if they implicated us if something else happened." Nobody wants their hard-won peaceful life to be ruined.

However, their discussion was meaningless to the three families, and they even started to make trouble for the families of the other survivors.

Later, the village officials, seeing that they wouldn't stop making trouble, and having lost their initial sympathy, directly threatened that if they didn't calm down, they would be expelled from Xin San Village. Only then did they gradually become obedient.

The villagers are honest, but trouble is starting to break out outside the village.

The number of refugees in the city is increasing, so we have no choice but to disperse them to different areas and let them find their own place to stay.

More law-abiding refugees will organize themselves into small groups and diligently search for suitable places to live.

Those who were lazier began to wander around, even digging up crops that the villagers couldn't bring inside the walls.

Those with ulterior motives started pimping, and some even began selling their wives and daughters, turning many villages into a chaotic mess.

What is most unacceptable to everyone are the latter two types of people. Many crops in the fields were harvested by these people before they were even ready for harvest, leaving many villagers not only with no harvest but also with lost seeds.

If they were caught on the spot, a brawl broke out between the two sides, and people began to get injured or even die in these conflicts.

Because of these conflicts, the village of Pinghe has been constantly exchanging its wound medicines, as Ma Tao had recently come and exchanged them for a batch of medicinal herbs. The village's already limited stock of herbs is now showing signs of running out.