Everyone gathered all the supplies together. Apart from some miscellaneous and not very useful items, the rest were mostly coarse grains.
"Judging from the houses, this village should have sixty or seventy households, but I didn't expect there to be so little grain," Yun Yang muttered to himself.
"It should be about right. If we hadn't moved to our village, our harvest might have been even worse than theirs." Gu Mili secretly calculated the harvest in her mind and felt that Dong Ge and the others probably didn't take much grain with them. Maybe they didn't even want these coarse grains.
Whether they couldn't take it with them or didn't want it, the grain was cheap for everyone now, and the villages still distributed all the supplies equally according to the old custom.
"No wonder these people always think about getting something for nothing. Just imagine if they turned our village into the seventh village, then all the grain we worked so hard to grow would just go to them."
"It's not just that their food is cheap; we might not even be able to save our own lives."
"We still need to find these people as soon as possible, otherwise who knows how many more digital villages will be created."
At this point, everyone couldn't help but turn their attention to Su Xun.
"I really don't know anything. We were brought here by them on the way and we didn't go anywhere else." Su Xun really didn't know. Although he had tried to find out before, he didn't know if it was because they had just joined, but the other party only told them some trivial things.
"You'd better think it over carefully. If you come up with any useful clues, we might treat you leniently, and it's not impossible that we'll even let you go." Hou Yunhai started to lay out his bait, but he didn't know if he could catch any fish.
Upon hearing this condition, Su Xun began to seriously consider it, but the more he thought about it, the less he could remember. He shook his head, indicating that he really didn't know anything else.
If he had known it would turn out this way, he would have definitely found out everything about them. No, it should be that if he had known it would turn out this way, he would have stayed far away from these people and shouldn't have even considered targeting Pinghe Village in the first place.
Now that we have no direction, we can only rest here for one night and return to our respective villages the next day.
"Captain Liu, we'll probably have to hand over Su Xun and his gang to you to deal with." Hou Yunhai told him about the incident where Su Xun and his gang had instructed him to use drugs to incapacitate refugees.
"This really presents us with a difficult problem. There are no laws to judge them right now, so we can't kill them or let them go." Captain Liu looked at Su Xun like he was a hot potato. He couldn't just lock them up and keep them around.
"As the old saying goes, in times of chaos, harsh measures are necessary. If all else fails, gather them together and let them reform through labor. Besides, for the crimes they committed, even execution would not be excessive."
Angkor still had some recollection of the people who had been disappearing. Thinking about how so many innocent lives had been lost at the hands of these people, he truly felt that killing them would not have been unjust.
"We need to ask our superiors about this as well," Captain Liu thought, deciding it was best to report this matter to them.
"But your village chief Si and his team have been up in the mountains for quite a while this time. Have they said when they'll be back?" Captain Liu thought to himself. If village chief Si hadn't led the team up the mountain this time, Pinghe Village might not have needed them at all. But he didn't say it out loud.
"It should be soon. The agreed time to return to the village will be in a couple of days." Hou Yunhai is more eager than anyone else for Si Cheng to return to the village. He feels that with Si Cheng in the village, everyone feels more secure.
"If your village needs to go into the back mountain next time, could you please invite us? We are very curious about the back mountain, but we are not familiar with it and dare not venture in rashly."
"Of course, that's no problem. Besides, the mountain behind you should be connected to our back mountain. We'll definitely have to clear the back mountain, since it's our backyard. If we don't know about it, we might miss out on a lot of things."
"Yes, when we first came here, we relied on wild vegetables and mushrooms from the mountains to survive. The village was even thinking of organizing a trip into the mountains to see if we could find more, since things are getting harder and harder outside, and the crops in the fields haven't even grown yet. Now everyone in the village is getting anxious."
Captain Liu wasn't trying to elicit sympathy; many families in Xin San Village had started controlling their diets, even boiling wild vegetables into thin soup to stave off hunger. Even if they received some food tonight, it wouldn't solve the village's predicament.
"We've never actually set foot in that mountainous area before, but if you continue exploring along that main road over there, you should find something. But whatever you do, don't go deep into the mountains. Our village encountered a pack of hyenas there before."
Next, Hou Yunhai began to tell him about the last time he went to Hujia Village to carry camellia seeds. In a while, the camellia seeds there would be ready to be harvested again, but now that Xin San Village was at that intersection, they could no longer transport them back on their own. Since that was the case, they might as well sell them for a good price. This was something that the village had discussed before.
When Captain Liu heard that there was a tea seed forest deep in the mountains, his eyes lit up. He knew that they hadn't seen any profit for a long time, apart from their previous stock.
The supplies from the city could be exchanged for some of the goods, but the people of Xin San Village couldn't exchange them because, apart from that thatched hut, there was nothing else to exchange for. So, although their village received the notice last time, no one went.
Seeing the way the other person was looking at him, Hou Yunhai understood that the expectation in his eyes was just something he couldn't say out loud.
"We'll invite you next time when the camellia seeds are ripe."
"I'm so sorry, it was you who discovered it."
"Are you really going to be so polite? Then I'll take that as a rejection." After spending time together a few times, Hou Yunhai had a general understanding of Captain Liu's personality, so he joked with him.
"No, I'm just being polite. You must invite us next time. If it weren't for the delicious meal we had in your village today, I haven't had anything oily to eat in ages." He then deliberately smacked his lips as if reminiscing.
Captain Liu put his arm around Brother Hou's shoulder, looking like they were good buddies. "Brother Hou, I actually think they're absolutely right. Our two villages can really become one big village. I believe that in the future, gangs like Brother Dong's will have to think twice before trying to bully us."
"I can't make that decision, and our two villages are quite far apart, so they're not easy to manage. Just take this as a suggestion; it's basically not very likely." Hou Yunhai thought about the differences between the two villages, and if they were to merge, there would definitely be a lot of trouble.
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