Chapter 106 Stealing Vegetables and Causing Trouble
In the blink of an eye, three days had passed since the wolf attack.
For the past three days, the people of Yunlu Village have been living their lives as usual. However, the disaster victims have been left with a huge psychological trauma because of the wolf pack incident. They dare not go to the waterfall to catch fish anymore. They only survive by stealing water from the pipes in the fields of Yunlu Village every day.
They had found a lot of large stones that blocked most of the entrance to the cave, leaving only one way for one person to enter and exit sideways, and not to go out unless necessary.
Even at the entrances and exits, a large number of thorn branches were prepared, and they would be placed around the cave and at the entrance at night, for fear of another night attack by wild beasts.
As for food...it might not be quite right to say that it was a blessing in disguise, but the fact is that after the people of Yunlu Village helped to deal with the wolf pack, they did not eat the wolf corpses, but handed all the wolf corpses to them.
This made the victims, who were originally starving, become rich overnight and obtained more than 200 kilograms of wolf meat in one go.
Over the past three days, Fang Dahe, who was seriously injured, died, and two seriously injured patients could not be rescued. However, a young man with a broken arm was unexpectedly tenacious and survived.
There were 23 people left in the group of disaster victims after nine people were gone. On average, almost everyone could get 10 kilograms of meat. Even if the old and weak were bullied and got less, they could still get 5 or 6 kilograms, which was enough to last them for 10 days to half a month.
The successive blows completely demoralized most of the victims. Only Lei Shan and Uncle Xu could not help cursing and getting angry every time they saw the earth wall blocking the Giant Wood Square.
In contrast, the people of Yunlu Village quite like earth walls.
Many people said that such a wall should have been erected a long time ago!
The wall extends directly into the fields. There are patrols guarding that side during the day, and the victims cannot get around it even if they want to.
Forget about climbing over the wall.
The earthen wall is densely packed with sharp thorns that can easily cut the skin. If you are not afraid of getting injured or infected, just climb it. If you accidentally fall and die, don't blame others.
Every time the audience sees the disaster victims sighing and looking at the wall, they can't help but burst into laughter. The host is still the coolest!
However, the earth wall cannot completely eliminate the troubles caused by the victims.
Especially when facing some people who have lost their minds and are determined to do whatever they want.
These people actually dug up the tender vegetable seedlings, rice seedlings, sweet potato leaves and even the sweet potatoes that were as big as fingernails that had just grown out of the ground!
That would guarantee their future harvest of thousands of kilograms of supplies! It was crucial to their quality of life in the days following the disaster!
There is obviously enough wolf meat for the victims to eat for a while, but they still do this. Aren’t they deliberately digging up their roots?
Several women from Yunlu Village were so angry that they gathered around the disaster victims' cave, pointing at the entrance blocked by thorns and cursing.
Inside the cave, the already obedient victims looked at the two women who seemed not to hear the scolding outside, with a hint of impatience and displeasure in their eyes, but the heat and hunger made them too lazy to waste their energy on them, and in the end they did nothing.
Zhao held her son, who had a dazed expression, in her arms. She glanced at Lei Shan, who was sleeping soundly in a corner of the cave. She glared at the people from Yunlu Village who were cursing outside through the rocks, her eyes full of resentment.
Next to her, Zhou had a haggard face and leaned against the slightly cool stone wall with numb eyes. She seemed to have no reaction to anything in the outside world.
It was not until Zhao pulled her over and whispered to her that Zhou's eyes flashed and a look of madness appeared on her face.
If the people of Yunlu Village hadn't been so cold-blooded and merciless, with no shred of mercy towards them, how could she have fallen to this point? The ones who really deserved to be cursed and killed were clearly those people outside!
What’s the point of just some vegetables that haven’t grown in the field?
Before, Zhou had passed through the square of Yunlu Village in order to look for her grandson. Although her attention was mostly on Fang Yuan at that time, she also saw the various fruits and vegetables growing well in the vegetable gardens around the square.
They can only eat the extremely fishy wolf meat all day long, while the people in Yunlu Village eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks every day. Why?
We should pull out all those vegetables. Not only will it provide us with more food, but it will also piss off the people in Yunlu Village!
The earth wall and the guards are indeed annoying, but the guards only patrol during the day. When night falls, it will be their chance!
So, just as Aunt Liu and other female family members had finished cursing, the vegetable garden in the square was stolen that night.
The next morning, when the villagers were preparing to pick some vegetables for cooking in the vegetable garden, they found a mess everywhere and the whole village was shocked.
"Those damn bastards deserve to die! Not only did they dig up the seedlings in the ground, they even came to destroy our vegetable garden!"
"Who was on guard yesterday? Didn't they notice someone stealing vegetables?"
"It's me." Li Jing's face was filled with guilt. "I was very alert last night, but... I really didn't notice anything unusual."
Lu Xuan, who had rushed over after hearing the news, walked around the vegetable garden, picked up a few withered weeds and said, "The people who came here deliberately used weeds as a disguise. The square was dark at night, and there was no moon yesterday. It's not surprising that you didn't notice anything wrong."
The villagers, whose faces turned blue with anger, discovered that there were weeds mixed in with the trampled vegetables in each household's vegetable garden.
Everyone in the village knew Li Jing's temperament. He was much calmer than the lively Li Tuo. It was unlikely that he would slack off while keeping watch.
So in the final analysis, the people who come to steal vegetables are the most hateful!
Aunt Zhang cursed with red eyes: "If they want to steal vegetables, they can steal them. Why do they trample on the vegetables they can't take away? Isn't this a waste of food? This is too much!"
The audience in the live broadcast room were also angry.
This is truly outrageous! So many vegetables, many of which were ready to eat, and yet they all went bad! I'm so pissed!
[The host and the villagers have already saved them twice, yet they're still so heartless and ungrateful! We might as well just kill them all!]
"I don't understand. I understand stealing some food when you're extremely hungry, but why did you pull out everything you couldn't take away and even trample on it? With so many things being trampled on, it couldn't have been accidental, right?"
[What do you mean by accident? It was intentional! ]
Those disaster victims are greedy. Maybe they just figured that since I can't take it away, I won't let you eat it. If we have to suffer, we can suffer together.
[Wow! This is insidious!]
[Are the vegetable garden and orchard at the host's home okay? ]
[The anchor had previously given Lei Shan a good beating and even demonstrated his supernatural powers. The disaster victims, if they really wanted to save their lives, wouldn't dare to mess with the anchor.]
[I really can't stand my temper, host! Damn him!]
Many women in the village were so angry that they cried, and some were so angry that their chests heaved violently and their eyes were blazing.
In this weather, if you want to eat fresh vegetables, you have to water them frequently. They work from morning to night without stopping. They finally managed to save the vegetables, but in one night, almost every family lost more than half of them. The unlucky ones were all ruined. At this moment, they really wanted to kill someone.
Not only them, the men were also heartbroken.
I feel sorry for the vegetables in the garden that I can’t eat in time, and I feel even more sorry for the fruits of the labor of the women in my family being wasted.
"Are they crazy? Aren't they afraid that we will chase them away?!"
Xiong Mao, who loved his wife the most, had no intention of enduring any more. He rolled up his sleeves and raged, "Fuck them! I'm going to beat them to death!"
Not only did the others not stop him, they were also led to swarm around the earthen wall and go to the door.
Just then, a disaster victim came out of the cave to fetch water. The victims acted quickly, caught the person on the spot and started beating him up.
The victims screamed, "Don't hit me! I wasn't the one who stole the vegetables! It was Leishan's wife and Zhou, it has nothing to do with me!"
Xiong Mao, the leader, glared with his tiger eyes and shouted angrily: "Without you leading the charge, how dare these two women provoke us?!"
The victim mumbled, "That means one of their sons has lost her husband, and the other has become a fool."
When the wolves attacked, Lei Tianbao was protected by the Zhao family, so he was not injured. However, he suddenly developed a high fever after being frightened. He finally managed to reduce the fever with the help of the pills left by the Yunlu Village after they rescued them, but he became stupid.
He doesn't understand what people say, drools and giggles all day long, trips over himself when he walks, and when he's thirsty in the middle of the night he licks the urine that the people in the cave have peed in the corner. In short, he has completely become a little fool who doesn't know what's going on.
Lei Yan and his wife, who followed him, also realized that Lei Tianbao had become stupid, and their expressions were a little complicated.
In the past, Zhao often mocked Lu Xuan as a fool, but she didn't expect that her son would also become stupid due to an accident, and his stupidity was obviously much more serious than Lu Xuan's in the past.
None of the women in the household, who had just lost a lot of food, sympathized with Zhao. Instead, they spat, "This is karma! That woman and Lei Shan have been up to no good all day, and now this is karma for their son!"
"It's not our fault that her son is stupid. Why does she come to trouble us and ruin our food? Is she right for being unlucky?"
"That's right! Where's she?! Get her out! And make her spit out the food she stole!"
The villagers were very excited, and the men even wanted to move the stone blocking the cave entrance to find the person.
The victims inside were terrified and no longer dared to pretend not to hear anything. They quickly threw Zhou and Zhao out.
When the women of the village saw the two people, they immediately pounced on them and started fighting with them.
"You two stinky bitches! How dare you steal my vegetables? I'll beat you to death!"
“Give me back the food!!!”
Zhou and Zhao fought back furiously, cursing at the same time, "Pay back! If you weren't so cold-blooded and heartless, how could my son be so stupid! You owe us those vegetables!"
"If you had let us live in the cave earlier, my man wouldn't have died! You murderers! Do you think I'm afraid of you?"
"If it weren't for the Liu guy who kept stopping the villagers from accepting us, right? You're the ones who caused me to be in this situation. You deserve a horrible death!"
Aunt Liu was furious. "You are all bad people for bullying my daughter. This is your karma! You will not die a good death! I will tear your mouth apart!"
There were only two people, Zhou and Zhao, but more than a dozen women from Yunlu Village attacked them at once. There were also men standing by to protect them at any time out of concern that they would get hurt. Naturally, the two of them could not get away with anything. They were soon beaten with black eyes and swollen faces, and their hair and clothes were almost torn.
But even so, they still refused to tell anyone where they had hidden the food.
The victims who came out to fetch water also said that they did not see them bring back any vegetables. The small amount they brought back was eaten up in the morning, leaving only some rotten vegetable leaves.
After all, Aunt Liu and the others couldn't really beat the two to death, and the men in the family wouldn't let them dirty their hands for such two things. In the end, they could only beat them up to barely vent their anger and then go back with a gloomy face.
But those who have suffered a loss once are unwilling to suffer a second time.
We must do something to guard against those two reckless crazy women!
Li Tie suggested in a deep voice: "How about starting tonight and sending a few people to patrol around the square and the fields at night?"
It is a bit tiring, but at least it can ensure that there will be no more losses.
Lu Xuan, who had been just watching, said, "There's no need to go through so much trouble. There's a simpler way."
Everyone else looked over and asked, "What's the solution?"
Lu Xuan said: "Open the protective electric grid."
The villagers were stunned for a moment, then their eyes subconsciously swept towards the thin iron wire wrapped around the fence surrounding the square, and suddenly they understood!
How could they forget about this good thing!
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