"Self-Defense Forces?"
Lu Qiqi nodded, "Yes, village chief. The villagers were arrested this time because they were not organized. If we encounter a similar situation on the road again, we can prepare in advance."
Actually, the village chief's command wasn't bad either. A small team protected the old and young as they left, while the young and strong tried to stop them. But the villagers were, after all, farmers, and they were no match for trained bandits.
Without a good strategy, it's like a pile of loose sand, easily scattered by a gentle breeze.
The village chief thought about it and felt it made a lot of sense. He said, "Girl, how do we train this self-defense force? We don't have any instructors here!"
Lu Qiqi stood in front of the village chief, blinking, 'I'm here!'
The village chief looked at Song Yanqing, who was walking over, and said, "Good idea! Young Master Song will definitely be able to train the soldiers well!"
The village chief immediately went to Song Yanqing's side to discuss how to mobilize the entire population to fight.
Lu Qiqi, "???"
It's hard to believe that after saying all that, it was all for someone else's benefit.
However, she quickly came to terms with it. Song Yanqing was a bodyguard, and although he might have more than one identity, he was still very capable. Lu Qiqi felt at ease leaving him in his care.
Lu Qiqi walked back, intending to tell Lu Dashan and the others about the plan. The men definitely had to train, and Auntie San and Madam Lu also had to join in. Even Lu Yao and Li Xibao, Lu Qiqi planned to have them learn together. Even if they couldn't fight, they had to learn how to protect themselves.
"Why is there so little meat? I arrived the earliest and insisted on queuing, but now this is all I get."
Lu Qiqi recognized the voice and quickly walked over, only to see Li Erma, the man who had exchanged goat milk for milk the other day, causing trouble again.
Liu Tong had been busy for a long time but hadn't gotten any credit, so he immediately became unhappy. "Eat if you like, get out if you don't!"
Upon hearing this, Li Erma was furious. If he were afraid of being insulted by an outsider, how could he ever face the village again? He would become a laughingstock!
Li Erma straightened up and cursed, "Damn it, you fat bastard, are you trying to greedily eat the meat all by yourself?!"
Liu Tong was so angry with Li Erma that his face turned red, and he raised his spoon as if to hit him.
Li Changhu, who was helping to divide the meat, and Lu Dahai, who was dividing the soup, were also quite angry.
But Lu Dahai didn't say anything. He was an outsider in the village, having married into the family. Although people didn't say it, they were still prejudiced against him. Even if Li Erma wasn't, they were still from the same family. Blood is thicker than water, and the villagers were all relatives and clansmen. They wouldn't side with someone from outside the family.
Lu Qiqi rushed over and said sternly, "If you're not going to eat, then get out. Nobody's going to put up with you. Everyone gets the same amount. There's no question of who gets more or less. If you don't want to eat, then give the extra portion to the villagers behind you."
"That's right, if you're not going to eat, then hurry up and leave."
"Hurry up, hurry up, don't block the way!"
"Let's go, then we can have one more bite!"
The remaining dozen or so villagers, upon hearing that Li Erma wasn't eating and that the extra portion could be shared with them, were overjoyed that Li Erma would stop eating and leave quickly so they could have more to eat!
Li Erma was known as the village's most notorious troublemaker. He was always the one taking advantage of others, and no one else ever had the chance to take advantage of him. The news that Lu Qiqi had killed the bandit king spread to all the villagers of Li Family Village overnight. When he saw that Lu Qiqi had returned, he knew he couldn't get anything out of her and was also a little afraid of her. He stubbornly said, "Why don't you eat? Even if you don't eat, you still have to have your share. Even if you throw it away to feed the dogs, you can't let others have it for free!"
The villagers behind Li Erma got angry when they heard this and started cursing, "You heartless scoundrel! The Lu family girl saved everyone, and now she's treating the villagers to donkey meat. She doesn't know how to be grateful and instead comes to cause trouble. Get lost!"
"Get out of here!"
Li Erma held his bowl, not bothering to argue with the villagers, knowing they outnumbered him and he wouldn't get anything good. But he resented Liu Tong for not giving him more meat, and before leaving, he threatened, "You fatso, just you wait!"
Liu Tong wasn't afraid of Li Erma's skinny monkey-like appearance; his waist didn't even look as thick as his thigh.
Lu Qiqi smiled a little embarrassedly at Liu Tong. She hadn't expected that treating someone to meat would cause such an unpleasant experience! The chef had helped her for most of the day, and in the end, she hadn't even received a kind word. She said, "I'm sorry, Uncle Liu."
Liu Tong waved his hand dismissively, "There are bad apples like this everywhere, I won't bother with them."
After the donkey meat was distributed, Li Changhu took Zhuzi and Dunzi to return the pot.
When Song Yanqing returned, Lu Qiqi was holding Wangcai and playing with it.
Upon seeing Song Yanqing, she said, "You're back."
Song Yanqing hummed in agreement and asked, "Did you tell the village chief that you wanted me to be the villagers' instructor?"
Lu Qiqi put Wangcai down, patted its bottom, and told it to go find Lu Yao and the others before she said seriously, "We encountered bandits this time, and many villagers died. We are still quite a distance from Luzhou Prefecture. If we don't learn some martial arts, we probably won't make it to Luzhou Prefecture before we lose most of our lives."
Lu Qiqi is right. This time, the bandits captured them to make money and to atone for their crimes. If they had really encountered bandits who only cared about robbing and killing, they wouldn't have even had a chance to fight back. It's a conservative estimate that most of them would have been killed.
“You are a bodyguard with good martial arts skills. You must have seen many similar situations while traveling the world. You are the most suitable person to be their instructor.”
Song Yanqing said, "It's probably not possible to achieve results in a short period of time."
After all, these are farmers, women and children. It's easy to say that everyone, young and old, is a soldier, but it's difficult to do.
Lu Qiqi nodded, "I know, but it's better than having no idea how to escape when disaster strikes!"
Song Yanqing said, "Then let's practice a formation. Have everyone prepare weapons, hoes, wooden sticks, iron bars, anything will do. Men, women, young and old can all take on the task. If we encounter refugees, they won't dare to attack when they see this formation. If we run into bandits, we can hold them off for a while."
The village chief was incredibly efficient; the food was distributed before noon.
Each household was allocated a certain amount of grain based on the number of people in their household. The grain was all packed in bags, and everyone was given out like picking up a blind box.
Lu Qiqi had the best luck, picking half a bag of rice and half a bag of flour.
Li Changlong and Lu Shi were the unluckiest, each picking half a bag of chaff.
Song Yanqing was also lucky; he picked out a whole bag of rice.
My third uncle and aunt had two bags of millet.
Even Feng Yu'er and Liu Tong's worst rice was just coarse rice.
In comparison, Ms. Lu almost burst into tears. Fortunately, Song Yanqing said he couldn't cook and hoped they could still eat together in the future.
Upon hearing that some of the rice in the bag was edible, Mrs. Lu readily agreed.
Lu's actions made everyone laugh.
After the grain was distributed, it was time to distribute the poultry and livestock. This time, Lu Qiqi's family had nothing to do with it, because they didn't have any!
The only donkey is dead, so now only Wangcai is left, and he still needs to drink milk!
Lu Qiqi remembered that there were several cows in her space, so she released one to pull the cart.
She told Lu Dahai that Song Yanqing had bought it with money to repay her for saving her life.
Upon hearing this, Lu Dahai happily ran over and grabbed Song Yanqing's hand, thanking her repeatedly, leaving Song Yanqing completely bewildered.
It wasn't until Song Yanqing saw Lu Qiqi's sly smile that he realized he had once again become their family's 'benefactor'!
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