Chapter 106 Stealing Vegetables and Causing Trouble: How could they forget about this good stuff...?
Three days have passed since the wolf attack.
For the past three days, the people of Yunlu Village have been living their lives as usual. However, the disaster victims have been left with huge psychological trauma because of the wolf pack incident. They dare not go to the waterfall to catch fish anymore and can only steal water from the pipes flowing through the fields of Yunlu Village to survive.
They blocked most of the cave entrance with large rocks, leaving only one entrance for one person to squeeze through. They only went out when absolutely necessary.
Even the entrances and exits were prepared with plenty of thorny branches, which were placed around the cave and at the entrance at night, in case of another nighttime attack by wild animals.
Regarding the food... it might not be entirely accurate to say it was a blessing in disguise, but the fact is that after the people of Yunlu Village helped deal with the wolf pack, they didn't eat the wolf carcasses themselves, but instead handed them all over.
This made the previously starving disaster victims rich overnight, acquiring more than 200 kilograms of wolf meat.
Over the past three days, Fang Dahe, who was severely injured, died, and two other seriously injured patients could not be saved. However, a young man with a missing arm was surprisingly tenacious and gritted his teeth and survived.
The disaster relief team was reduced by nine people, leaving twenty-three. On average, each person could get about ten pounds of meat. Even if the elderly and weak were bullied and received less, they could still get five or six pounds. If they saved enough, they could last for ten days or half a month.
The successive blows completely demoralized most of the disaster victims. Only Lei Shan and Uncle Xu couldn't help but curse and grumble whenever they saw the earthen wall blocking the giant wood square, their minds filled with resentment.
In contrast, the people of Yunlu Village quite like earthen walls.
Many people have said that such a wall should have been erected a long time ago!
The wall extends directly into the fields, where patrol teams guard the area during the day, making it impossible for disaster victims to bypass it.
Forget about using a VPN.
The earthen wall is covered with sharp thorns that can easily cut the skin. If you're not afraid of getting hurt or infected, feel free to climb it. But if you accidentally fall and die, don't blame anyone else.
Viewers couldn't help but burst into laughter every time they saw the disaster victims looking at the wall in despair. The streamer is so witty!
However, the earthen walls could not completely eliminate the troubles caused by the disaster victims.
Especially when dealing with people who have lost their minds and are giving up entirely.
These people actually dug up the tender seedlings, saplings, sweet potato leaves, and even the tiny sweet potatoes that had just sprouted and were no bigger than a fingernail!
That's their guarantee for harvesting thousands of kilograms of supplies in the future! It's crucial to their quality of life during the subsequent days of disaster!
There was clearly enough wolf meat to feed the disaster victims for a while, so why pull this stunt? Isn't it just deliberately undermining them?
Several women from Yunlu Village were so angry that they surrounded the cave of the disaster victims, pointing at the entrance blocked by thorns and cursing loudly.
Inside the cave, the now subdued disaster victims looked at the two women who seemed oblivious to the cursing outside. A hint of impatience and displeasure flashed in their eyes, but the heat and hunger made them too lazy to waste their energy on them, and in the end, they did nothing.
Holding her son, who had a blank expression, Zhao glanced at Lei Shan, who was fast asleep in a corner of the cave, and glared at the people of Yunlu Village who were cursing outside through the rocks, her eyes filled with resentment.
Zhou, standing next to her, looked haggard and leaned against the cool stone wall with a numb gaze, seemingly unresponsive to everything around her.
It wasn't until Zhao pulled her aside and spoke to her in a low voice that Zhou's eyes flashed, and a look of madness appeared on her face.
If the people of Yunlu Village hadn't been so cold-blooded and ruthless, showing them absolutely no mercy, how could she have ended up like this? The ones who truly deserve to be cursed and die are those outsiders!
What does it matter if it's just some vegetables that haven't grown in the ground?
Previously, Zhou had ventured into the square of Yunlu Village in search of her grandson. Although she was mostly focused on Fang Yuan, she also noticed the various fruits and vegetables growing well in the vegetable gardens around the square.
They can only eat wolf meat with a strong, fishy smell all day long, while the people of Yunlu Village eat and drink well every day. Why is that?
They should just pull up all those vegetables; not only would it provide them with more food, but it would also infuriate the people of Yunlu Village!
The earthen walls and the guards were indeed annoying, but the guards only patrolled during the day; nightfall was their chance!
So, no sooner had Aunt Liu and the other women finished their tirade than the vegetable garden in the square was robbed that very night.
The next morning, when the villagers went to their vegetable gardens to pick some vegetables for cooking, they found the place in complete disarray, and the whole village was in an uproar.
"Those damned bastards, they deserve to die! Not content with digging up the seedlings, they even have to come and ruin our vegetable garden!"
"Who was on night watch yesterday? Didn't they notice someone stealing our vegetables?!"
"It was me." Li Jing looked guilty. "I was very alert last night, but... I really didn't notice anything unusual."
Upon hearing the news, Lu Xuan walked around the vegetable garden, picked up a few withered weeds, and said, "The people who came deliberately used weeds for some disguise. The square was dark at night, and the moon hadn't risen yesterday, so it's not surprising that you didn't notice anything amiss."
The villagers, their faces turning ashen with anger, then discovered that the trampled vegetables in each family's garden were mixed with weeds.
Everyone in the village knows Li Jing's personality; he's much more composed than the impulsive Li Tuo, so it's highly unlikely he'd slack off during night watch.
So in the end, the people who steal vegetables are the most despicable!
With tears in her eyes, Aunt Zhang scolded, "They can steal vegetables, but why did they have to trample on the ones they couldn't carry? Isn't that wasting food? That's too much!"
The viewers in the live stream were also angry.
[This is absolutely outrageous! So many vegetables, many of them were already ripe for eating, and they've all been ruined! I'm so angry!]
[The streamer and villagers have already saved them twice, and they're still so heartless and ungrateful! They might as well just be killed!]
I don't understand. It's understandable to steal some vegetables when you're starving, but why pull up everything you can't carry and trample on it? So many of them were trampled; it couldn't have been an accident, right?
[What do you mean by accident? It was intentional!]
Those disaster victims are insatiable; they might be thinking, "If I can't take it, I won't let you eat it either. If we're going to suffer, we'll suffer together."
Wow! That's insidious!
[Are the vegetable garden and orchard at the streamer's house alright?]
[The streamer gave Lei Shan a good beating before and even demonstrated his supernatural abilities. Any disaster victims who value their lives wouldn't dare mess with him.]
[My temper is flaring up, I can't stand it anymore, streamer! Let's get him!]
Several of the village women were so angry that they cried, and some were so angry that their chests heaved violently and their eyes blazed with fury.
In this weather, to get fresh vegetables, you have to water them frequently. They work from morning till night without stopping. They managed to save their vegetables, but in one night, almost every family lost more than half of their produce. The unlucky ones had their crops completely destroyed. At that moment, they were so angry they wanted to kill someone.
Not only them, but the men were also heartbroken.
I feel sorry for the vegetables in the garden that we couldn't eat in time, and even more sorry that the hard work of the women in my family was being wasted.
"Are they crazy? Aren't they afraid we'll kick them out?!"
Xiong Mao, who doted on his wife the most, had no intention of holding back any longer. He rolled up his sleeves, his anger blazing, and shouted, "Damn it! I'll go and beat them to death!"
Not only did the others not stop them, but they were also swayed by the crowd and swarmed around the earthen wall to find the door.
Just then, some disaster victims came out of the cave to fetch water. The victims swiftly seized the victims and were about to beat them up.
The disaster victim cried out, "Don't hit me! I didn't steal the vegetables! It was Lei Shan's wife and Zhou Shi who stole them, it has nothing to do with me!"
The leader, Xiong Mao, glared and roared, "Without you leading the way, would two women have the audacity to provoke us?!"
The disaster victim stammered, "Didn't they both have a son whose husband died and another son who is mentally challenged?"
When the wolf pack attacked, Zhao protected Lei Tianbao, so he was not injured. However, he developed a high fever after being frightened. He managed to bring down the fever with the help of the medicine left behind by Yunlu Village after they were rescued, but he became mentally impaired.
He couldn't understand what people were saying, drooled and grinned foolishly all day, tripped over himself while walking, and even licked the urine that people in the cave had urinated in the corner when he was thirsty in the middle of the night. In short, he had completely become an ignorant little fool.
Lei Yan and his wife, who had followed, also only then realized that Lei Tianbao had become mentally unstable, and their expressions became somewhat complicated.
Zhao used to mock Lu Xuan for being a fool, but now her son has also become a fool due to an accident, and his condition is obviously much more serious than Lu Xuan's in the past.
The women, who had just lost a lot of vegetables, didn't sympathize with Zhao at all. Instead, they spat and said, "It's all karma! That woman and Lei Shan do nothing but bad things all day long, and now this karma has fallen on their son!"
"It's not our fault that her son is mentally challenged, so why is she causing trouble for us and ruining our vegetables? She's unlucky, but does that give her the right to complain?"
"That's right! Where is she?! Tell her to come out here! Make her spit out the vegetables she stole!"
The villagers were in a frenzy, and the men even tried to pry open the rocks blocking the cave entrance to find the person.
The refugees inside were terrified and dared not pretend they hadn't heard anything. They quickly threw Zhou and Zhao, who were hiding, out.
When the women of the village saw the two, they immediately pounced on them and started fighting.
"You two filthy women! How dare you steal my vegetables! I'll beat you to death!"
"Give me back my food!!!"
Zhou and Zhao retaliated fiercely while unleashing a torrent of insults, shouting, "Retaliate my ass! If you weren't so cold-blooded and ruthless, my son wouldn't be mentally challenged! Those vegetables are what you owe us!"
"If you had let us live in this cave earlier, my husband wouldn't have died! You murderers! Do you think I'm afraid of you?!"
"If it weren't for that guy surnamed Liu who kept blocking the villagers from accepting us, wouldn't we be in this situation? You're all the ones who made me who I am today, you deserve to die a horrible death!"
Aunt Liu was furious, "Your family members who bullied my daughter are all bad people! This is your retribution! You deserve to die a horrible death! I'll tear your mouth apart!"
There were only two women, Zhou and Zhao, but more than a dozen women from Yunlu Village attacked them at once, along with men who were worried about them getting hurt. Naturally, the two women didn't fare well and were soon beaten black and blue, with their hair and clothes almost torn to shreds.
Even so, they still refused to say where they had hidden the food.
The disaster victims who came out to fetch water also said that they did not see the women bring back any vegetables. The small amount they brought back was all eaten up in the morning, leaving only a few rotten vegetable leaves.
Aunt Liu and the others couldn't possibly kill the two men, and the men in the family wouldn't let them get their hands dirty over such a thing. In the end, they could only beat them up to vent their anger before going home with gloomy faces.
But having already suffered a loss once, no one wanted to suffer a second time.
We must do something to guard against those two reckless, crazy women!
Li Tie suggested in a deep voice, "How about starting today, we send a few people to patrol around the square and the fields at night?"
It's tiring, but at least I can guarantee that there won't be any more losses.
Lu Xuan, who had only been observing, said, "There's no need for such trouble. There's a simpler way."
Everyone else looked over. "What method?"
Lu Xuan said, "Activate the protective electric grid."
The villagers were stunned for a moment, then their eyes subconsciously swept over the thin wire wrapped around the fence around the square, and suddenly they realized!
How could they forget about this wonderful thing!
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