When Li and the others heard Su Ying ask this, they thought they had a chance to blackmail her, so they pointed with five fingers.
"Five hundred taels of silver. Just give us five hundred taels of silver and we'll be done with it."
Upon hearing this, Su Ying nodded without comment, but her eyes were looking around, as if she was looking for something.
Seeing that Su Ying didn't say anything, Li and the others thought she was complaining that it was too much, so they said, "Evil woman, this is a life. I tell you, if it weren't for our family's kindness, we wouldn't have let this five hundred taels go like this."
"Number Three, throw that stick to me." Su Ying pointed to the stick as thick as the wrist next to Number Three.
Number Three understood and threw the stick over.
Su Ying weighed the stick in her hand and slowly raised her head to look at them. "I haven't finished what I said just now. Everyone present has opened their eyes and seen clearly. When I, Su Ying, am in the wrong, I will reason with you and make it up to you. But people like this who are just courting death and come to show off in front of me will only end up dead."
As soon as Su Ying finished speaking, she smashed Hu Wei hard with the stick in her hand.
"Ah!" Hu Wei screamed in pain and turned around to run. However, as soon as he turned around, Su Ying hit him on the leg with a stick. He staggered and fell in front of Li Daya's grave.
Li felt pain when she looked at Hu Wei and wanted to run, but no one could outrun the stick in Su Ying's hand.
The four men were beaten and screamed.
"I don't have five hundred taels, but I can give you five hundred sticks anytime! Tell me, were these the seeds you stole last night?"
Li was beaten so hard that she didn't even have the energy to hide, "Yes, yes, yes!"
"You stole my seeds and ate them and got poisoned. Don't you deserve it?"
"Yes! Ah! Stop hitting me. We know we are wrong. Please stop hitting me."
Under Su Ying's stick, several people didn't have the strength to fight back or even dodge.
"We were wrong, we really know we were wrong... Please let us go..."
The four of them fell to the ground like a puddle of mud.
Su Ying stopped what she was doing and said, "Throw them all out."
"yes."
The bandit leaders dragged the half-dead Li and his son, who was still breathing his last breath, out together.
Many of the people watching the excitement felt refreshed. The Hu Wei family was a troublemaker and had caused a lot of trouble in the past. It was so satisfying to see them getting beaten today.
After the fun, everyone went back to do their own work.
Su Ying turned around and saw Li Laosan with red eyes tidying up Li Daya's grave.
"Daya, it's Dad's fault. If Dad had discovered something was wrong with you earlier, you wouldn't have died at such a young age."
"We accidentally dug up the little girl's grave before, please don't be surprised." Su Ying came behind Li Laosan and spoke slowly.
Li Laosan raised his head and glanced at Su Ying. "Young lady, you are new here, right? Daya's grave has been here for several years. We have been busy making a living and neglected the management of the grave. It is normal that you did not notice it. I do not blame you."
Su Ying was still curious about the living conditions of ordinary people in the Tiger Camp.
"Do you know the Dust Wind Restaurant in Tiger Camp?"
Li Laosan nodded when he heard that. "I know, but it disappeared a while ago. The restaurant said before that there would be meat for first-timers, but that's not true. Before you eat the meat, they will check your body first. They say that some people's bodies are not suitable for eating their meat, and eating it will cause stomach upset. Such people will not be served meat even if it is their first time."
Su Ying didn't expect that there was such a trick in this. Those people from the Gu tribe wanted people to raise the Gu and they were very selective.
"So how do you usually make a living?"
"It all depends on the big mountain behind us. We usually go there to pick some wild vegetables or hunt some prey. Tiger Camp gives us some subsidies from time to time, and also gives us grain seeds. But in fact, not much food can be grown, because a lot of it is taken away by others before it has grown for a long time. Over time, fewer people are farming."
"Are most people in Tiger Camp in the same situation as you?"
Li Laosan nodded, "Yes, it's almost the same. Everyone is living on a daily basis. There are too many people like Hu Wei, so everyone has to hide their belongings carefully. You are the first one to cultivate such a large area of land."
Su Ying nodded, thought for a moment, and then asked, "Can you farm?"
"Now that I've reached this point, even if I didn't know how to do it before, I should know how to do it now."
"If I hire you to farm for me, whether you are willing to work for me or not, whether you want silver or grain, is up to you."
Li Laosan looked at Su Ying with some surprise, "But young lady, don't you already have many people working for you?"
"Of course I still have my uses. You should think about it carefully. If you work for me, I can give you half of the monthly salary. If you don't want the silver, you can exchange it for thirty kilograms of rice, or forty kilograms of brown rice, and I can also provide you with a meal at noon."
Twenty kilograms of rice, or forty kilograms of brown rice! That's a lot. If you eat sparingly and add some wild animals and vegetables, you may not starve to death, but you may even have a full meal a day!
"Don't rush to agree to me. Wait until you have thought it through."
"I can do it, I can do it, young lady, I can work for you." There is nothing to consider at all. Now that I can have food to eat, let alone farming, I can do anything!
"Okay, then come over early tomorrow morning."
"Yes, yes."
After cleaning up the grave, Li Laosan left happily.
The bandit leader felt uncomfortable with what Su Ying and Li Laosan said.
"You say, Madam asked people from the Tiger Camp to come to work for her. Are you planning to kill us?" A certain bandit had a sad face, thinking that his time might be up.
Number One's face wasn't looking too good either. Although he now had endless work to do every day and his life didn't seem as glorious as before, he was almost getting used to this kind of life of living with this bunch of bandits.
If Su Ying wanted to kill them, would they rebel or wait to die?
For a time, the rented army and the bandits were caught in an unprecedented tangle.
"What are you all standing for? I don't want to eat lunch. At this rate, when will I be able to raise fish in my pond?"
Su Ying saw that they were all standing there motionless, so she walked over with a shovel.
Everyone came to their senses and wanted to go back to work, but their knees subconsciously went weak and they knelt down towards Su Ying.
Su Ying: “…”
"Madam, we had no choice but to attack you. Please let us go."
"Please, Madam, give us a chance to live."
Su Ying: “…”
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