"Um!"
"Am I also entitled to a share?!"
"There should be!"
"Dad, give my share of the money to my older brothers and sisters!"
After saying that, he lowered his head and dared not look at Xie Ming again.
"It's always good to be responsible!"
Qili looked up and his eyes lit up. In the past two years, he no longer took advantage of being the youngest child in the family to eat, drink, and take things as a matter of course.
After learning kung fu, he would go up the mountain to hunt wild animals to take home, but Xie Ming never said anything good about him.
Xie Ming knew he was trying his best to make amends, but if he didn't discipline the child severely when he made a mistake, then he would be waiting for someone else to discipline him in the future!
"Father, I'm sensible now. I know who's good and who's bad. I'll never do such a foolish thing again!"
Qili awkwardly twisted his fingers as he spoke to his father.
"Remember, don't be soft-hearted towards those who are most willing to hurt you or blackmail you. Similarly, those who are unwilling to hurt you are the ones who truly value you."
Qi Li remembered these words for the rest of his life, and they became the reason why he doted on his wife.
The bandit problem at Niujiaofeng has been temporarily resolved by the tribesmen.
With the foot of the mountain temporarily safe, the group found a place to rest and heal their wounds, while Old Li took the young man to the county to fetch the yamen runners.
The matter was resolved quickly, but for some reason, the county government only gave out 300 taels of silver as a reward.
But even a thin mosquito is still meat, so the tribesmen took the reward and headed south.
Having experienced Niujiaofeng, the young men were all eager to try it out, wishing that bandits would come and cause them trouble every day.
Xie Ming did not disappoint them, leading them to kill all their enemies from their past lives.
Later, their team became known as the "fear of ghosts" in the underworld.
Knowing they were not to be trifled with, those people didn't dare to approach.
Xie Ming, who had seen blood, only dispelled the fierce aura of his clansmen, but he left them with their imposing presence and courage.
After all, they were too easy to bully, and even if they went to Nanquan, they wouldn't be able to handle the "pie falling from the sky".
The journey was slow and intermittent, and what should have been a two-month trip took until mid-June before we finally reached Nanquan County.
But everyone was happy to have a month or two wasted. With the government's reward money, they now had a total of 30,000 taels more in savings.
If divided by headcount, each of them could receive over a hundred taels.
Upon arriving in Nanquan County, Lao Li led everyone to a farm in the suburbs. Xie Ming, in order to establish his persona, bought over a thousand acres of land in the county and started a farm.
The houses in the village are all modeled after those in Heman Village, and each household has enough rooms.
Not all members of the Xie clan were brought this time, so many houses were left empty.
The old clan chief decided to leave it empty for now, and any family that needs it in the future can purchase it from the clan.
After everyone was settled in the village, the old clan chief carried a mahogany box and distributed the spoils to everyone. He was quite fair in dividing the money.
In the end, 2,000 taels were left in the clan as a family fortune, and each family received over 1,000 taels of silver.
Everyone knew that their good fortune was thanks to Xie Ming, so the clan gave him an extra 500 taels.
Xie Ming had put a lot of thought into preparing the houses for each household, and even the fields here were easy to manage.
Now that they have such a large windfall, everyone is settled down and living here with peace of mind.
The event quickly progressed to mid-summer of the following year, when the Xie clan members who had settled in Nanquan County received a letter from Xie Liushan in the prefectural city.
They said that there hadn't been a drop of rain in their hometown this year, and with little harvest, life would be tough. Everyone sighed as they looked at their nearly ripe crops.
Not long after, news came that a locust plague had struck the northwest, and many people, fearing they would not survive, began to flee in all directions.
Upon hearing this, the Xie clan members felt a wave of fear.
If they hadn't come to the south, I would be the one suffering back home right now, with refugees everywhere. I don't know how I would have survived.
When the winter solstice arrived, news came from Xie Liudi that the village had been robbed several times, but fortunately everyone was skilled and nothing serious happened.
However, they can no longer stay in their hometowns. Before the new year, many of their fellow villagers will likely bring their families and flee to the capital or the south.
Meanwhile, firelight flickered faintly in the woods outside Pianshan Village, as many refugees who had heard that life was better here gathered there.
In just a few days, they had plundered everything edible on the mountain.
The person sitting there stared blankly into the dark woods not far away, hoping that something edible would appear.
"call--"
Xie Xing took a deep breath and slowly woke up from her pain. She clearly remembered the pain of dying a second ago, so how did she wake up again?
"Could he not have died completely?" Xie Xing angrily pounded on the wooden board beneath her and kicked it twice.
She kicked the rotten coffin down.
Xie Xing suddenly realized she could move, and her excitement made her immediately sit up.
For some reason, she managed to push aside the soil that was buried on top.
"Hey! What's that noise down there?"
The people in the woods were startled half to death by the sudden noise and quickly huddled together, staring nervously in that direction.
Upon hearing voices, Xie Xing, who had just woken up, immediately cried out for help, but she was startled by her own voice as soon as she opened her mouth.
The person on the other side immediately realized what was happening, and upon closer listening, discovered that the noise coming from ahead was the call of a wild boar.
"Quick, quick, grab it! You can tell how old it is just by the sound."
Xie Xing was trembling all over. Even though she hadn't crawled to the ground yet, she could feel how fat the dark body was.
She was reborn as a wild boar?
Knowing what would happen if she were caught, she immediately started shoveling dirt up the ground, trying to escape before the people on the other side could reach her.
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