Chapter 173: Everything is in Our Hands
The village head glared and stood up from the sled.
"Wow! Why are you so self-conscious now? What were you doing before? I told you a long time ago that there would be a snowstorm! Why didn't you listen? If you had listened to us before, would this be the case?"
Every time the village head asked a question, Sun Lizheng's body became half an inch shorter.
After the village head finished speaking, Sun Lizheng collapsed on the roof and started crying.
"Brother, I know I've made a big mistake... My heart bleeds every day... I don't have the face to ask you for help, but more than half of the people in Zhushan Village have been killed. I can't just watch everyone die..."
"Rescue? How do you want me to rescue you? With so many people being transferred to Heihe Village, where do you want me to put you?!"
"Brother, you can leave us anywhere..." Sun Lizheng said pitifully, "As long as there's a place that won't collapse and a fire to keep us from freezing to death, we'll be grateful!"
"So, you're responsible for the consequences!" The village head slapped his thigh in anger. "You guys are making Heihe Village really miserable, don't you?"
All the villagers knelt down.
"Zhuang Lizheng, we really know we were wrong!"
"Zhuang Lizheng, please save us! We really can't take it anymore! I kowtow to you!"
Looking at the villagers of Zhushan Village shivering in the cold wind, the village head said angrily, "Now you know you can't bear it! When Heihe Village was chopping wood and digging black soil, you guys were lying around so comfortably!"
The villagers of Zhushan Village did not dare to look up.
They were shocked, frightened and regretful, and at this moment they felt only helplessness and panic in their hearts.
"Zhuang Lizheng, we have been punished, and many of our family members are gone..."
"Please, Zhuangli is trying to think of a way to help us..."
"If we can escape this disaster, we will definitely repay Zhuang Lizheng and Heihe Village!"
The village head sighed, "Okay, let's not talk about this anymore!"
"If you go to Heihe Village, you'll have to squeeze in with people from Jingwan Village! Let's make this clear first: Heihe Village can only guarantee your safety, not anything else!"
"Zhuang Lizheng, this is enough!" Zhushancun was overjoyed.
"Okay, then we'll move them door to door!"
As the head of the village had just finished speaking, he heard a "clang, clang, clang" sound.
The headman's face froze. What sound was that?
The villagers stood on the rooftops, looking out. "Zhuang Lizheng, it's the neighboring Red Maple Village beating the gong! They're also calling for help from Heihe Village!"
Village head: “…”
"I didn't hear anything!"
The village head picked up the little girl and said, "Yan Ping, pick up the village head Sun this time and have him discuss with the village head Feng how the two villages will live together."
"good!"
The sled kept moving along the country road.
Fortunately, there are wolves brought by Yinyan in Heihe Village, which can be replaced from time to time, otherwise the ten wolves of Jinglei and Lightning would probably be exhausted.
It took a whole morning to transfer Zhushan Village.
Looking at the sleds going back and forth on the road, which were full of villagers from Zhushan Village, the people from Jingui Village sat on the roof and cried.
"Village head, didn't you say that if they were going to rescue Heihe Village, they would only rescue Jingwan Village? Why did they rescue Zhushan Village as well?"
"That's right, headman! Didn't you say that other villages would die like us? But they didn't have to die at all! Only our Jingui Village would die!"
Wu Lizheng's face was gloomy. "Are you blaming me? You were standing on the rooftop and shouting for help, but Heihe Village ignored you? They refused to save you, so what could I do? If you want to blame someone, blame Heihe Village! They are so narrow-minded that they didn't help you. They will get what they deserve!"
"Village Chief, what you said is unfair!"
The person who spoke was Zhang Lizheng's neighbor, a tall and thin man. At this moment, he was standing on the roof with an indignant look on his face.
"Xu Laoliu, are you talking about me? Do you think I'm brave enough?" Zhang Lizheng looked arrogant.
"Yes, I'm talking about you! I heard everything that day!"
Xu Laoliu shouted, "When someone from Heihe Village came over on a sled the other day, you kept making fun of them! You even called Feng Lizheng, who blew the horn from Jingwan Village, a fool, and Zhuang Lizheng, who went to Jingwan Village to rescue people, a moron! You really pissed them off!"
"What?! The village head has been here?" The villagers of Jingui Village were stunned and looked at Zhang Lizheng in disbelief.
"Xu Laoliu, shut up!" Wu Lizheng said angrily, "If you say another word, I'll kick your entire family out of Jingui Village!"
"Why don't you come and chase me! My whole family's lives are in danger, and I'm still afraid of threats like yours?!"
Xu Laoliu pointed directly at Wu Lizheng and said, "Wu Liangshan, you've ruined Jingui Village! It was you who encouraged everyone to steal water, and it was you who colluded with several other villages to grab water! It was you who told everyone not to believe there was a snowstorm! The village chief came here regardless of past grudges, but you cut off the only way for the entire village to survive!"
The villagers of Jingui Village were pale and shaky. "So the village chief originally wanted to save us?"
"Yes! Our whole family heard it all in the house! The villagers were driving a sleigh over, actually wanting to save Jingui Village! But this idiot surnamed Wu said it was a heavenly calamity, that no one could save anyone, and that it was better to die early and be reborn!"
"What?!" The villagers of Jingui Village were shaking with anger.
"In other words, we originally had a way to survive, but were ruined by that son of a bitch Wu Liangshan!"
"Wu Liangshan, if you want to die, it's your business. Why are you dragging everyone down?!"
"Do you want to rebel? I am the head of the village! Just one word from me and you will get out of Jingui Village!" Wu Liangshan pretended to be fierce, but he was actually very scared.
"You're not qualified to be the village head!" Xu Laoliu said angrily. "Look at the village head, and then look at you! You don't care about your fellow villagers at all! You say that if we die, we die together, but secretly you want the Ye family to sell you 50 stone of black soil! Ultimately, you only want to survive for yourself!"
"You're such a jerk, Wu Liangshan! You've fooled us all!"
"We were so blind to elect a despicable person like you as the village head!"
"You are the sinner of Jingui Village, go to hell!"
The villagers were furious and bent down to make snowballs, which flew towards Wu Liangshan like dense artillery shells.
Wu Liangshan rolled off the roof in a panic and hid in the house screaming.
The villagers were filled with anger and hatred, and stood on the rooftops crying loudly.
Xu Laoliu said, "Fellow villagers, we can't just wait to die! We have to find a way!"
"What can we do? If we miss this opportunity, we will miss it forever. The village chief will definitely not come!" everyone cried.
"Everything depends on human effort! Let me ask you one question: do you want to live?"
"Of course I did!"
"If you want to live, you must be willing to risk your life!" Xu Laoliu's eyes flashed with determination, "If Zhuang Lizheng doesn't come, we'll go there ourselves!"
"S-go there by yourself?"
"That's right! Jingui Village is only a few miles away from Heihe Village. We have to crawl there! Only by going to Heihe Village can we have a chance of survival!"
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