Chapter 41: Selling out one's country for personal gain
Village Chief Du and the captain of the village protection team beat up the man who had been asked to stay. As soon as they knocked him down, the captain of the village protection team shouted, "Bring a rope and tie him up."
"No, this beast hit me several times, I want to kill him."
As Village Chief Du spoke, he pulled out a dagger from his belt and stabbed it hard into the stomach of the boy. Then a sinister smile flashed across his face.
Looking up at Du Wanwan's face, he was extremely proud.
Disaster! I killed the people you wanted to leave behind. I wonder what else you can do to harm our Dujia Village.
Du Wanwan raised her chin and stared at Village Chief Du coldly, her eyes motionless, like a beast staring at its prey.
Village Chief Du felt his whole body go numb when she stared at him. He couldn't understand why the disaster star was looking at him so viciously. Did she understand his intentions?
It's impossible. She is just a seventeen-year-old girl. How could she understand his intentions?
After the battle, the women of Huojia Village released Chen and Qiu. At this moment, the two were sitting on the ground hugging each other, vomiting continuously.
The bodies of the dead were everywhere, and the blood was all over the ground, which was extremely horrifying. After all, they were just country women, and they didn't dare to watch the slaughter of pigs and sheep, let alone human beings.
Today they witnessed for the first time the cruelty of fighting between people. They were frightened, their hands and feet became weak, their faces turned pale, and there was a constant heat and a terrible stench underneath.
In contrast, the women from Huojia Village were actually watching with great interest, including Yao Meixian, Du Jiang, Du Wenjun, Du Wenguan, and Du Wenhuo; none of them showed any fear.
It seemed that killing a person was a common thing and nothing to be surprised about.
But they couldn't. They watched the blood line soar and the head fly up. They both closed their eyes and screamed loudly.
The woman from Huojia Village warned them fiercely: "Shut up! Are you shouting like that to attract the attention of the enemy so that he can come over and kill you?"
After hearing this, the two dared not shout anymore. They buried their heads tightly in each other's chests, not daring to look at each other again.
After the battle, the people of Huojia Village started to pick up hoes and dig holes on the spot. Village Chief Du didn't know what these people were going to do, so he led his people to retreat to the side and observe.
The people in the village protection team were very knowledgeable. They ordered some people to dig a hole to bury the body, and some people began to search and check the body of the corpse, stuffing whatever they found into their pockets, and finally handed everything over to the person who was registering.
These thirty or so thieves pretended to be common people. They had no swords or anything like that, but they found a lot of silver notes, some in 50 taels, some in 100 taels, and some in 1,000 taels.
Not only one person had it on him, but several people had it on them. Huo Sien looked at the banknotes and fell into deep thought.
The name of the business on the banknotes is Baofeng Money House of Wei Dynasty. What on earth do they want to do by bringing so many banknotes to Wei Dynasty?
Village chief Du also saw the silver bills and felt extremely regretful. If he had known that Qiezi had so many silver bills, he should not have charged him only one or two taels of silver per person, but a hundred taels.
Now, all the property on the body of Qiezi belonged to the people of Huojia Village, and the people of Dujia Village got nothing.
"Search carefully to see if there is anything that can prove their identity. Don't leave even a piece of paper on them. These people are from unknown places, so we must not take them lightly."
When Du Wanwan saw the banknotes, she had a vague guess in her mind, but she had no evidence and dared not speak nonsense. Guessing is just guessing, after all, there is no real evidence.
It is never right to say it out loud.
"yes!"
The people who touched the corpse responded collectively, and Village Chief Du's eyes turned red.
He pushed the person next to him and urged, "Let's check the body and see if we can find anything."
The people around him were excited: "Great! If we can find the banknotes, we will be rich."
As soon as they moved, Du Wanwan threw a stone at them, hitting the man's knee with a "swoosh". The pain made him squat on the ground.
Village Chief Du was not happy and yelled at Du Wanwan: "Disaster! What are you doing? We also killed the thief, so we also have the right to find something."
"You killed someone?" The captain of the village protection team cursed rudely, "How dare you say that? You killed the person we wanted to keep, and you still have the nerve to say that?"
Du Wanwan sneered: "Disaster star? I remember I once said that if I were a disaster star, the first person I would kill would be you. You are disrespectful to the elderly. Who doesn't know your little tricks? Just because you killed the people I wanted to keep, you think you can rest easy?
Let me tell you, Dujia Village took in the intelligence team, led them deep into the heart of Wei, and even attempted to annihilate our people. Just for this, you will have to bear the consequences. "
"Hehehe!" Village Chief Du sneered, "Words are not enough. What evidence do you have to prove that these people were taken in by people from our Dujia Village?"
The people were dead, but they still wanted to put the blame on Dujia Village. The disaster star was young after all and didn't understand the principle of death without evidence. The people were dead, who could prove that the people of Dujia Village were involved with the robbers?
"You are the witness." Du Wanwan said, took out something and shook it in front of Village Chief Du, then asked slowly, "Look at this. Do you recognize it? Does it look familiar? What do you think of it?"
The thing in her hand kept waving back and forth in front of Village Chief Du's eyes. Village Chief Du's eyes followed the thing back and forth several times, and the expression on his face gradually became dull.
Du Wanwan asked with a smile: "Village Chief! Why did you take in Qizi?"
Village Chief Du answered blankly: "Those people gave us one tael of silver per head, more than thirty taels."
The villagers of Dujia Village nearby were terrified and shouted in the village chief's ear: "Village chief! How could you tell this? Didn't you say you couldn't tell it even if you were beaten to death? You told us to shut up, but you revealed it first. What kind of thing is this?"
Village Chief Du woke up with a start when someone called him. Du Wanwan gave the things to Yaya and looked at him with a smile: "Village Chief Du! You are so capable. You actually brought the bully in for a head and a tael of silver. What do you want to do? Are you selling out your country for fame?"
Village Chief Du's face suddenly turned pale. Although he was confused just now, he still remembered what he said.
"I didn't, stop slandering me." He was furious, his eyes were blazing with anger, and he began to argue, "We didn't know they were gangsters."
"I don't know?" Du Wanwan still smiled, "Everyone is bringing their families with them, pots and pans, pushing carts and pulling babies, young and old, fleeing the famine non-stop. But these more than 30 people are all men, without parents, wives and children around them. Haven't you ever doubted them?"
"That's right." Huo Sien collected a large stack of banknotes and walked towards them, "Village Chief Du was really blinded by the petty profit of one or two taels of silver.
"Jizi is tall, with thick hair and a full beard. Unlike us Dawei people, who are shorter, with sparse hair, and whose beards are not as thick as Jizi's, how can we not tell them apart?"
(End of this chapter)
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