As soon as Zhao Dahe returned to Laohuying with the seeds, he saw a lot of villagers blocking his door.
He looked at the sun. Normally, everyone should be working outside at this time, so why did they all come here?
"Li Zheng, Li Zheng, you have to do justice for my son."
As soon as Zhao Dahe walked over, the villagers rushed over crying.
"What's going on? Did something happen?"
Zhang Dong’s mother howled the loudest. She didn’t know whether her son was dead or alive after he was taken away by the men in black. She wanted to chase him out but was stopped by the men in black. She was almost sick with anger.
"Village head, those people in black clothes are not human beings. They treat us as slaves and don't take our lives seriously at all. My Dongzi was just tired and wanted to take a break, but he was beaten to death by them!"
Zhao Dahe was shocked when he heard this. After spending some time with them, he was a little afraid of the men in black. However, he found that as long as they did their job honestly, the other party would not do anything to them and would just treat them as officials in charge.
"Is there any misunderstanding here? Where is Zhang Dong? If anyone knows what's going on, please tell me about it."
A villager who had watched the entire process stood up and told Zhao Dahe what had happened.
After hearing this, Zhao Dahe's brows were twisted into a shape of "川".
Guys like Zhang Dong are not easy to deal with. They just cause trouble for no reason.
But it was a bit too much for the men in black to beat them to death and throw them out.
"Where are they now? Have they been sent away?"
"After sending him away, we wanted to follow him because we were worried something might happen, but we were stopped."
Zhao Dahe felt that Zhang Dong and the others were guilty, but their crimes did not deserve the death penalty. If the men in black wanted to take people's lives at every turn, how could he let them stay in this place without worry?
"Don't worry, I'll go find them and ask what's going on."
When Zhao Dahe came back, the villagers seemed to have found their backbone and followed him to find the Black Protector.
"Black Guardian, sorry to bother you."
The Black Guardian looked at Zhao Dahe with no expression on his face. "What's the matter?"
Zhao Dahe smiled and said, "It's nothing serious. I just want to ask about some misunderstandings that happened the other day. It's about Zhang Dong and the others. I wonder where Black Protector took them? Those guys are really bastards. They were disobedient before. It's my fault that I failed to discipline them. I have to confess to Black Protector. Please hand them over to me. I will give him an explanation later."
"I have been thrown out of the Northern Wasteland and will never set foot here again."
Zhao Dahe paused, "This... they are certainly wrong, but isn't this punishment too severe?"
The Black Protector disagreed with this statement, "They attacked the black-clad people, slandered the black-clad people, and refused to obey discipline. Just throwing them out is already a mercy."
"But……"
"No buts. If you are dissatisfied, you can go to Tiankui City and ask the city lord for justice."
Zhao Dahe thought of the towering city he had seen when he went to get the seeds. Just looking at it was frightening. If he went alone to file a complaint, he might not even be able to get in through the gate.
"Black Guardian, after all, we are going to live here for a long time in the future. If you are so tyrannical, I am worried that the villagers will feel resentful."
The Black Guardian looked at him puzzledly, "You did something wrong and got punished, what's there to complain about?"
Zhao Dahe choked. Seeing that he couldn't convince the Black Protector, he could only take a step back and said, "We have nothing to say if they are not allowed to come back, but can the Black Protector allow our people to go and check on them? After all, they are the villagers' family members."
"Okay, but once you go, you can't come back."
Zhao Dahe was also a little angry, mad that the Black Protector was so heartless.
If people who know the situation knew what Zhao Dahe was thinking, they would probably be so angry that they would laugh. These men in black were not even human beings before, so what human feelings are there for them to talk about?
When Zhao Dahe walked out from the Black Protector, the villagers waiting outside came out to greet him.
"Village head, what's going on? Are Dongzi and the others okay? Can we go and find them?"
Zhao Dahe waved his hand, signaling them to go back and talk about it.
When Zhao Dahe returned home, he was surrounded by villagers.
"The head of the village..."
"Okay, listen to me." Zhao Dahe interrupted their chattering impatiently.
Everyone fell silent and turned their eyes to Zhao Dahe.
"There's nothing we can do about it. The person has already been thrown out. If you're worried and want to look for him, you can't come back. Think it over carefully."
Everyone was shocked when Zhao Dahe said this.
"What does this mean? Even in the South, we wouldn't be beheaded if we committed a crime. Why is it like this here? Village head, this place doesn't intend for us to settle down and live a good life. They treat us as free laborers and send us away with just a few rotten sweet potatoes a day."
"If something like this happens again in the future, will we just have to wait for death?"
The more they talked, the angrier they became. They had completely forgotten how they had managed to survive when they were almost starving to death.
"Village head, are we just going to keep going down like this? What can we do if we leave? Didn't they ask us to go out and look for someone? Then let's go, and go back directly to the Southland."
"Yes, let's go, leave here and stop using them as slaves for free."
Zhao Dahe's brows sank. Compared to here, he certainly felt more of a sense of belonging to the place where he grew up.
But when they stayed, Su Ying also made it clear that if they decided to stay, they could not leave easily, otherwise they would bear the consequences.
"Those people don't look easy to mess with. If you want to leave, don't be reckless. This is not a decision that can be made by several people. If you really want to leave, leave together. I will discuss it with some elders in the village later. Don't be anxious and don't cause trouble again. They will really kill people."
"As long as I can leave here, it doesn't matter if I endure it for a few days."
Zhao Dahe couldn't make up his mind now, so he just asked them to go back to work and not reveal any flaws.
After the villagers left, Zhao Dahe's son walked in from outside.
"Dad, do you really want to leave here? Not to mention that those people don't look easy to deal with, this place is actually not bad. Anyway, we are all in the village in the South Country, which is not much different from here. If we really leave, I'm afraid there will be trouble."
Zhao Dahe let out a breath, "Zhang Dong and his gang are hooligans, but we don't need to kill them. These people are too cruel. If we don't meet their expectations in the future, will they kill us too?"
He couldn't answer this question, but he also felt that if they really left, none of them would have a good ending.
"Let Dad think about this carefully. Think about it carefully."
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