Taohua Village Chief Wang continued, "Yes, Old Li, you don't have to worry. We've all made a lot of money with the Li girl, and life has become much better. We all know how to be grateful. We understand that without the Li girl, it won't be long before we'll be back to the hardship we once were. That's not what anyone wants."
"Besides, even if we don't go up the mountain to look for people, with the severe drought and crops gone, we don't know how long we can hold out. Now the Li family girl has shown us a way to go up the mountain to find water. If we pretend we didn't see it, we wouldn't be able to ask for help when we find the water."
As soon as Village Chief Wang finished speaking, Village Chief Ji spoke again.
"Village Chief Wang is right. We in Shitou Village are also concerned about the water. If we don't help now, how will we be able to ask for help later?"
"We in Guihua Village are the same. We don't simply want to help your village find people. We just want to water the land."
"Who says she isn't? I think the girl from the Li family is very capable. She can make the inconspicuous locust business so prosperous, boosting the income of dozens of villages and allowing everyone to no longer have to worry about their belts. They have to eat well every day to have the energy to catch locusts. I think, if we peasants want to have enough to eat, we should follow the girl from the Li family and do whatever she tells us to do." said Zheng, the village chief of Meihua Village.
The more Village Chief Li listened, the more he felt something was wrong, and he suddenly slapped his thigh.
"Hey, let me tell you, Miss Yue is from our Xinghua Village. She has nothing to do with you. Why do you treat Miss Yue as if she is from your village?"
The village chief of Zhoujia Village, Zhou, disagreed and said, "Old Li, you are wrong to think so. What do you mean Yue girl is from your village? I said she is from Qingshan Town. All our villages belong to Qingshan Town. If we round it up, Yue girl is ours too."
"Old Zhou, that's not how it's calculated. I don't agree." Village Chief Li retorted.
Before Village Chief Li could jump up and down, several village chiefs grabbed him.
"Old Li, whether you admit it or not, Li Mengyue belongs to all of us. Now she has taken people up the mountain and her life or death is unknown. We need to go to the mountain to look for her."
"Yes, we just informed you and sent someone up the mountain to look for him."
Village Chief Li was touched to see that everyone was doing it without any reluctance, but he still said, "Be careful."
"You still have to tell me this. Everyone knows it. We old guys should just wait patiently for good news."
So the young and strong men from the six villages took their tools and went up the mountain to look for people.
After the mighty crowd of 180 people arrived, the people of Zhulin Village began to sneer and mock again.
"It's fine if Xinghua Village is causing trouble, but now the other villages are following suit. It's better to stop before the damage is too great. You know, there's a mountain god in the deep mountains. If they act like this, they'll anger him, and what will happen to the other villages if they get into trouble?"
The villagers of the original six villages were quite supportive of the village chief's decision to have the villagers go up the mountain to look for people, and their determination was firm.
But after hearing what someone from Zhulin Village said, he became a little shaken. He felt that the people of Xinghua Village had already lost so much, and they shouldn't rush to seek death.
What's more, this is just the beginning, and Xinghua Village has already lost nearly a hundred people. If the water source is really found and the water is brought out from the mountains, wouldn't more people die in the mountains?
Thinking of this, several villages went to their own village chiefs to track down the person. There was still time.
Village chief Li and others looked unhappy. Although they were village chiefs and had prestige in the village, they were not the type to quarrel.
Faced with the ridicule and sarcasm from Zhulin Village, I had to pretend not to hear them.
Besides, Li Mengyue brought people up the mountain, but she did not bring them back yesterday. This is a fact and cannot be refuted at all.
If I really argue with a group of women about this, I will give them something to talk about.
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