Chapter 243 She Grew Up in the Northwest Snow
Luobei Village, Xu family.
Sang Zhixia, who had returned earlier, fell silent after reading the news sent back by Lin Yun. She decisively handed the note in her hand to the old man: "Grandfather, please read this."
The old man's gesture of stroking his beard suddenly abruptly changed. After a while, he threw the note into the charcoal basin and said with a smile, "Chen Nianhe must have been irritated by you."
A general who was in charge of a region was angry with Sang Zhixia because of the extra five hundred taels of silver for ten thousand kilograms of grain.
Of course Chen Nianhe would not quarrel with Sang Zhixia, but he could be shameless.
Sang Zhixia only needed a thousand men, so he openly transferred ten thousand men from his army that was starving.
How can this help?
It's obvious that they are rushing to Luobei Village to eat!
Sang Zhixia blushed with anger: "I told him to give him some food first. He can handle it if he takes it. Why is he like this?"
Is it so obvious that you are shameless?
The old man said with a smile: "You have never dealt with these warriors in the army, so you don't understand their temperament."
To put it nicely, it means being unconcerned with details and being bold and magnanimous.
But to be honest, most of the military generals are like tough guys who are shameless and only care about benefits.
An old fox like Chen Nianhe is the best among them. He is a tortoise at heart and will never let go once he catches someone.
He suffered a loss in price at the hands of Sang Zhixia, so he must find a way to make up for it.
The old man shook his head and smiled, and said with emotion: "That's good now."
"Weren't you worried at first that Chen Nianhe would get angry and refuse to lend anyone? Didn't you already borrow this person?"
General Chen is really generous, lending one thousand and giving ten thousand!
Sang Zhixia was so angry that she didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She muttered, "Borrowing people is a good thing, but we don't need so many people."
And ten thousand people!
A full ten thousand people!
There's no chance of any grass being left on this land that has been eaten by so many people!
How to settle down after arriving?
Luobei Village is just suspected to be targeted by a hundred or so bandits. Should we release these ten thousand people and let those hundred or so bandits crush them all at once?
Sang Zhixia looked at the old man who had lost his smile and curled his lips. He said depressedly, "Besides, I'm worried that with so many people coming, something might go wrong. There are only over 400 people in our village. What if something goes wrong?"
"Won't."
The old man's face became more serious, and he smiled and said, "Chen Nianhe is very strict with his subordinates, and his soldiers all know the rules."
"Since he dared to release these people, he must be confident that he can control them and nothing will go wrong."
Moreover, Chen Nianhe's situation in the northwest was unfavorable, and the Xu family had food on hand, which was something he needed.
Chen Nianhe didn't want to make enemies with the Xu family because of this. He was simply angry and wanted to annoy Sang Zhixia.
However, Sang Zhixia's worries are not unreasonable.
The old man thought for a moment and said, "It's definitely not possible to put all those people into the village. The villagers have never seen such a scene, and there's not enough land in the village to fit them all in."
"Have you decided on a general location for the porridge distribution? Once these people arrive, we can arrange for them to go there first, and just leave some in the village."
Sang Zhixia really wanted to pack up the extra people and send them all back, but she knew it was impossible.
There's no way a shameless guy like Chen Nianhe would agree to this!
Sang Zhixia puffed out her cheeks and exhaled, saying gloomily, "It can only be like this."
"But we have to make it clear in advance that when you come, you can only drink porridge, nothing else."
After distributing a portion of the money and opening soup kitchens in three cities and six counties in the name of Chen Nianhe to provide relief to the people, the Xu family didn't have much left.
Everyone is tightening their belts and waiting for food, and no one's rice jar is bigger than anyone else's.
The old man smiled and nodded: "The porridge is also very good."
"At this critical moment, porridge is a life-saving good thing. No one will be ungrateful."
Sang Zhixia groaned, feeling helpless. Suddenly, a hurried voice called out from outside the door: "Old man!"
"Something happened in the old man's threshing ground!"
The old man and Sang Zhixia stood up at the same time and went out. The person who came to report the news was covered in wet snow, with water dripping from his empty sleeves, and even his eyes were red.
Mo An didn't expect Sang Zhixia to have returned. He was stunned for a moment and was about to salute when Sang Zhixia quickly interrupted him and said, "What's going on? What happened?"
Mo An wiped the sweat from his face and said in a hoarse voice, "There are no less than a hundred people rushing over to the threshing ground to try to loot. They are all strangers, mostly from nearby villages."
If the ones coming are bandits, kill them one by one without showing any mercy.
But most of the people who came were starving and had lost their minds. Such people should not be killed unless their lives were in danger.
Sang Zhixia keenly grasped the key point and asked suspiciously, "Most of them are villagers? What about the rest?"
Mo An hesitated for a moment before saying, "There were about ten people who rushed in among the crowd. They looked like martial artists and injured two of our men."
"Hurt someone?"
The old man frowned and said, "What's going on now?"
"Under control."
"We just let those people escape during the chaos and we didn't catch them."
Mo An breathed a sigh of relief and said hoarsely, "Thanks to the village chief's previous suggestion. If a commotion really breaks out, I'm afraid that the dozen or so of us won't be able to hold it together. We arranged for the young and strong men in the village to watch over there at night."
As soon as the incident started, the villagers rushed to the scene with sticks.
There were quite a few people who came, but most of them were women, children, the elderly and the young who had little fighting ability. The people who came out of Luobei Village were all young and strong, and after a while of chaos, they managed to control the situation.
No problem for now.
But the hidden dangers also become greater.
The people who mixed in with the rioting villagers ran away and broke into the threshing ground and saw the granary.
The terrain of the granary is simple to begin with, and now that these people have figured it out, there will probably be a lot of trouble.
Sang Zhixia was already worried, and now it was even more impossible for her to sit still.
Hearing the noise, Xu Wenxiu and others followed out. Seeing that Sang Zhixia was about to leave, Xu Wenxiu's eyes showed a trace of pity and distress: "Xia Xia."
Seeing her red eyes, Sang Zhixia mistakenly thought she was afraid, so she quickly slowed down her voice and said soothingly, "Don't be afraid, mother-in-law. Everything has been settled over there, there's no room for trouble."
Sang Zhixia took the cloak handed to her by Aunt Xu and put it on quickly, smiling: "I'll go take a look and be back soon, nothing will happen."
Things happened suddenly, and it was late at night and the situation was unclear. Sang Zhixia didn't dare to delay any longer. He said a few words to the old man in a hurry and took Mo An out in the snow.
The tears in Xu Wenxiu's eyes fell uncontrollably.
Aunt Xu suppressed her anxiety and said, "Sister-in-law, Xia Xia said it's fine, you don't have to worry."
It's fine if you can't help at a time like this, but you must never hold us back.
Xu Wenxiu wiped her tears awkwardly and said with a wry smile, "I'm not scared, I just feel anxious."
If Xu Yu were here, Sang Zhixia shouldn't have been the one to take part in this kind of fighting and killing.
Why should a girl who should be pampered have to witness such chaos?
Aunt Xu sighed silently after hearing this. She glanced at the old man, who had a worried look on his face but still let Sang Zhixia go alone, and smiled, saying, "Sister-in-law, this girl has great potential and is more capable than any of us."
"You've watched her grow up in the wind and snow of the northwest. You should be happy for her."
The extra family head order in Sang Zhixia's hand is enough to prove that she is different from the female elders in the family.
She will be different.
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