Chapter 102: The Extinct God of War General x The Delicate Little Doctor 2
This Lihua Village was in ruins everywhere, which made Xu Hanye frown.
"Xiao Shun, go check it out. I remember that the emperor allocated money to these villages that were looted by the enemy soldiers."
Xiao Shun frowned and asked, "Master, do you suspect someone has embezzled the money?"
"I will do it right away."
The chief of Lihua Village is a slovenly old man who likes to drink a little wine every day.
When Xu Hanye and others found the village chief's house, the village chief was already drunk.
"Excuse me, is this the village chief's house?"
Li Decai opened his eyes, lay down on the recliner, squinted his eyes and looked at the door and said, "Who is it?"
Xu Hanye looked at the not-so-serious village chief with an unpleasant expression. Coupled with the murderous aura surrounding him, the village chief instantly came to his senses.
Li Decai shook his shoulders, turned over swiftly and hid behind the chair, his voice trembling, "Who are you? Let me tell you, I am the village chief of Lihua Village. If you dare to hurt me, I will...I will report you to the police and have you arrested."
Xiao Shun's mouth twitched. He walked up to the village chief, handed him a piece of silver and said, "Find us a place to rest."
Li Decai's eyes lit up immediately, and he quickly snatched the money from her, and put on what he thought was a very kind smile, "Okay, okay, there's an uninhabited yard not far from here, I'll take you there."
Li Decai put the silver in his pocket, patted it like a treasure, and walked out of his yard with a group of people.
"This courtyard I found for you is not very good, but it is still okay for you to stay here for a few days."
"As for quilts and other things, I'll go borrow two for you later."
The village chief kept chattering along the way, and Xu Hanye learned a lot of things.
This Lihua Village has never received any money from the court, and the county magistrate of Yongde Town is not a good official. There is also a Mr. Wang who does whatever he wants with the support of Kyoto.
It was Wang Yuanwai's hobby to rob women from the people. He already had 16 concubines at home, some of whom were already married.
Li Decai looked around and whispered, "I don't think you are bad people. There is a treasure in our Lihua Village. Don't tell anyone about it. If Wang Yuanwai finds out, he will bring people to rob it."
Binglie, who was following behind Xu Hanye, couldn't help asking, "How do you know we are good people?"
Li Decai looked at Binglie with disdain and said, "You are willing to give me money, how can you be bad people?"
Xiao Shun's mouth twitched and he asked, "What is this treasure you are talking about?"
Li Decai bowed mysteriously towards the sky and said, "There is a little girl in our village. She looks like the girl under the seat of Guanyin. She is very pretty."
Xu Hanye didn't believe what Li Decai said at all. How could he believe what a drunkard said?
"Not here yet?"
As soon as Xu Hanye opened his mouth, the chatterbox Li Decai swallowed the words that were about to come out, pointed to the yard not far away and said, "It's that yard."
"Although this yard is not good, at least it doesn't leak. Who of you will follow me to borrow two quilts?"
Xiao Shun came to Li Decai with a smile, patted his shoulder and said, "Let's go, I'll go with you."
Xiao Shun followed Li Decai to a house where smoke was rising from the kitchen.
"Village chief, how many households are there in your village?"
Speaking of this, Li Decai finally stopped being so frivolous, and said with a sad face and a sigh, "In the past, our Lihua Village was also very rich, and there were many people, more than a hundred households, but since the war, there are only a dozen households left."
"The imperial court didn't care, and the villagers were having a hard time. The boys in the families went to the battlefield to kill the enemy, and the ones left behind were all older people."
"There is a young one, the baby from Lihua Village that I mentioned."
Li Decai straightened his clothes and patted the wooden door in front of him.
"Who is here?"
Auntie Ma wiped her hands, opened the door and looked out. "Hey, isn't this the village chief? What happened?"
Li Decai shook his head and said, "Nothing, I just want to borrow two quilts."
"What?" Auntie Ma thought she had misheard, her eyes twitched and she said, "Village Chief, you know the situation in our family. Let alone two quilts, I can't even get one quilt out."
Li Decai drooped his lips and said, "Come on, don't think I don't know that you gave all your good things to your aunt. This quilt is not for nothing. I will give you money."
When Auntie Ma heard that there was money to be taken, she rolled her eyes and said, "That's fine, then I can get two quilts."
After saying this, Ma leaned forward and asked, "How much silver do you want?"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Shun pushed the village chief away and took out some silver coins from his pocket.
"I don't have much money prepared, this is all I have left, do you think it's enough?"
Auntie Ma was so happy that she said, "That's enough. It's enough to buy Auntie some nice clothes."
Xiao Shun held a patched quilt and said to Li Decai, "That Ma lady looks mean, but she is very nice to her daughter."
Li Decai glanced at Xiao Shun, raised his chin and said, "You look down on me, don't you? Auntie is the treasure of our village. She is not Auntie Ma's daughter. Auntie's parents were hacked to death by the Dongyu people who entered the village several years ago."
Xiao Shun is now full of curiosity about this girl named Jin Jin. How beautiful is she to make all these people like her?
The quilt they were holding was too worn out. Xu Hanye frowned in disdain and asked, "Can this cover us?"
Even Binglie was disgusted with it, but fortunately he smelled it and found that the quilt didn't have any strange smell.
"Master, it's clean."
A few people cleaned up the house. There was too much dust inside and it was uninhabitable without cleaning it up.
After cleaning the house, Xiao Shun washed his hands and took out a few dry biscuits from his bag.
Just as I was about to share it with Xu Hanye, there was a knock on the door.
After a few people looked at each other, Xiao Shun stood up and walked over to open the gate, only to see Aunt Ma standing at the door holding a large bowl.
"Auntie Ma, what are you doing?"
Auntie Ma smiled and said, "Well, you gave me so much money. I thought that our Lihua Village is far away from home and you probably don't have much to eat. So I cooked more food today and I will give it to you equally."
Auntie Ma saw a few horses tied in the yard from the corner of her eye. She thought that these people must be of prominent status, so it would be better not to offend them.
Xiao Shun was somewhat impressed by Aunt Ma, but thinking that his master had not eaten anything proper these days, he took the bowl from Aunt Ma and was about to take out the silver when he remembered that he only had banknotes.
"Well, Auntie Ma, I don't have any cash on me right now. I'll go to town tomorrow to exchange it for silver and give it to you."
Aunt Ma waved her hands and said, "I'm being polite. You gave me a lot of money today. Just return the bowl to Aunt Ma tomorrow."