Chapter 758 Purpose of Visit
Bai Cha handed the pastries to Mo Datou's wife. Mo Datou took them back, opened them, and placed them on the table, his face flushing slightly.
“Miss Lin, we country folk have never seen the world, and we don’t have anything good at home. Please excuse us.”
Mojia Village is two or three hours away from the city by horse-drawn carriage, and the villagers rarely go out except to buy groceries.
When villagers go shopping, several households go together and share the travel expenses, otherwise the cost of going to the city is too high.
"Uncle Mo, you're too kind. I'm the one who's bothering you."
Lin Yuesha pushed the snacks towards Baiyu and Huajuan, the two little children, and said with a smile, "Come and have some snacks. Baiyu, do you prefer peanut filling or red bean filling?"
"Thank you, Sister Lin. I like red bean filling, and my little brother likes peanut filling."
Mo Baiyu straightened her back, like a little adult, unlike her previous restraint. When she saw Lin Yuesha smiling at her, she still blushed.
Lin Yuesha distributed the snacks, but didn't want to immediately explain her purpose.
"I just entered the village and heard from Mo Laoshi's family that the first village has been replaced?"
Seeing this, the old woman took the initiative to start a conversation, saying, "The girls in the village are all daring to go out and bask in the sun now."
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Mo Datou sighed. In the past, their territory belonged to the First Village, which was inhabited by a hundred or so vicious mountain bandits. These bandits were exiled to the Northwest and escaped from the mines. They banded together and occupied the village to bully and oppress the people.
The forty-eight villages have almost reached an unspoken consensus: they will not rob villagers of their property, but they must protect the safety of the villagers. In return, the villages will make offerings to the villages every year.
On the surface, the bandits obeyed the rules, but behind the scenes they harassed women and engaged in illicit activities, such as theft and prostitution. Villagers frequently lost chickens, ducks, and sheep, suffering greatly but having nowhere to seek justice.
Their ancestors lived in Mojia Village. If they left, they would have to take their families and livestock with them and sell them cheaply. Where would they go to make a living?
"I heard that the bandits were all killed, and you've been taken over by a group of women. What's going on?"
The old woman continued to inquire. Originally, there were only eight villages with women in the Forty-Eight Villages, but now the first village has been occupied by women. She wondered if the situation had changed.
Judging from the current situation, this is a very happy event.
"Of course, it's an extremely joyous occasion, one that you can't find even with a lantern! The women have taken over the village, and the scum have been completely wiped out. It's avenging my Chun'er!"
Mo Datou, a tough man, couldn't help but get teary-eyed when he talked about that past.
The old woman also sighed. Fortunately, the couple's suffering had finally come to an end. If Chun'er could see from heaven that those villains had died so tragically, she would be at peace.
"Those who do many evil deeds will surely perish. This is a true saying. Our villagers cannot afford to offend the bandits, but those women are not to be trifled with."
Previously, the forty-eight villages lived in harmony, keeping to themselves. But these bandits really deserved a beating. They went to a village occupied by a woman to provoke her, insisting on a marriage alliance and mixing men and women. When the female village chief refused, they were dissatisfied and secretly sought revenge.
"They captured two of the female chieftain's subordinates, took them back to their own village, and subjected them to the most humiliating treatment..."
Enraged, the female chieftain razed the First Stronghold to the ground, annihilating its entire inhabitants.
"That felt so good, so exhilarating!"
Mo Datou was always very afraid of people with criminal records. After his daughter's tragic death, he felt even more resentful. He thought all crows were black, but little did he know that this was not the case at all!
"After the new chieftain took over, the village chief offered sacrifices, but the female chieftain returned them."
Mo Datou became more and more excited as he spoke, saying, "The female chieftain said that our villagers are barely able to eat their fill, which is already difficult enough. Since they have taken over Mo Family Village, they will not take advantage of the villagers in the slightest. If there is anything that cannot be resolved, the villagers can go to the village for help."
When the village chief returned, not only were the offerings he brought returned, but he also received a lot of meat from the first village, so he returned home with a full load.
"I originally thought that asking the village for help was just a polite way of saying 'go to the village for help.' But a few days ago, Mo Laoshi's granddaughter had a fever. The village chief's family happened to be going to Qincheng to buy things for us, so Mo Laoshi went to the village for help. There was even a female doctor there who knew medicine!"
The young woman's medical skills were miraculous. She only carried a few silver needles, which she inserted into the head of Mr. Mo's granddaughter, and the fever subsided within an hour.
In recent months, the villagers have been overjoyed, as if every day is Chinese New Year.
In the past, it was a luxury for girls to walk around the village, as they were afraid of being targeted by evil men. Now, even in winter, the village is filled with laughter and joy.
"I've seen the female chieftain. Her face was tattooed, but so what? As long as she's good to our villagers, who cares what she did in the past? Maybe she just killed someone who deserved to die!"
When Mo Datou got excited, he immediately stood up, but his wife pulled his sleeve, and he realized what was happening. He then sat down again, feeling embarrassed.
"After hardship comes happiness, this is what it means to have gone through hardship and then come to happiness."
The old woman was genuinely happy for the Mo family. In fact, the two families were not far apart, both located around Qin City. However, she rarely visited them because she was afraid of the people from the Forty-Eight Villages.
Now that the villain is dead, she is relieved and will bring her husband to visit in a few days.
Relatives only grow closer through frequent visits; in the past, we were held back by wicked people.
"It's convenient for us to go to town now. The First Village has horse-drawn carriages that go to town from time to time, and each time they can take a few villagers with them. Now we can go directly to the female doctors in the First Village for medical treatment, and it's much more convenient to buy things."
After Mo Datou finished speaking, his face beamed with joy, genuinely happy.
“I heard that the First Village is doing business and I want to buy a batch of pigs. I don’t know if it’s feasible.”
Mo Datou kept praising the First Village, and Lin Yuesha seized the opportunity to bring up her purpose.
She didn't know anyone from the First Village and wanted to ask Mo Datou to act as a middleman to pass on a message. Of course, she would receive a lot of benefits after the matter was settled.
"It's just running errands and delivering messages, it's very simple, why would you ask for money?"
Mo Datou readily agreed, hoping that the First Village would do more business and make more money, as it wasn't easy for those women to go up the mountain.
In chaotic times, without men to support them, how could women survive without forming groups, especially those with criminal records who faced rejection when they went out to work?
"Then I'll have to trouble you, Uncle Mo."
Lin Yuesha shared her thoughts, but the specifics still needed to be discussed with the female chieftain.
Now that the first village was women's territory, she had no more worries.
"Miss Lin, please have dinner here while I pack up and go down to deliver a message."
As he spoke, Mo Datou blushed and packed up the snacks that Lin Yuesha had brought, intending to send them to the mountain stronghold.
The snacks looked expensive. Although I felt bad for the two kids, social obligations were necessary.
"Father, I'll leave one piece for you and one for Mother, and you can take the rest with you."
Upon hearing this, Baiyu sensibly replied that her aunt from the First Village was really kind, and she liked her. Every time she saw Aunt Lianqiao come down the mountain, she would bring her delicious food.
"Lianqiao is the most skilled female doctor in the first village."
He cured the villagers' chronic illnesses that had lasted for more than ten or twenty years, and he didn't charge them a penny. Not only that, he even provided them with medicinal herbs.
The people of Mojia Village now feel only heartfelt gratitude and relief towards the newly taken-over first village.
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