Chapter 335 Arrangements
After briefly explaining the treatment of the three people, Zhou Xu directly signaled them to leave.
After leaving Zhou Xu's residence, Zhou Chongshan turned around to receive the reward of one thousand coins and divided it into three parts, giving them to Ye Jinghong and Li Ce.
Seeing this, the two of them waved their hands to refuse.
"This is the reward given to you by the leader, how can you share it with us?"
"And just like the leader said, you have made the greatest contribution this time. There is no doubt about that. You deserve this reward."
Looking at the two people singing the same tune, Zhou Chongshan was speechless, and then he stuffed the divided money into their arms without saying a word.
"Since the leader has given it to me, I have the power to deal with it. You two should take it and go back to reflect on your mistakes!"
Seeing Zhou Chongshan stuffing the reward money into their arms and running away, Li Ce and Ye Jinghong couldn't help but smile bitterly at each other.
As two of the relatively smart people in the village, they definitely understood their leader's meaning better than Zhou Chongshan.
Their leader actually had no intention of punishing them, but since so many people died this time, he must give an explanation, so they came here specifically to apologize, hoping that the leader would punish them, which was considered active cooperation.
For them, salary deduction is actually the lightest punishment.
To let them "reflect on their mistakes behind closed doors" was, in plain words, to let them go back and recuperate, and not run around for no reason. What kind of punishment could this be in essence? Later on, it was normal for Zhou Chongshan to be rewarded for his meritorious service, but a reward of one thousand coins was too much.
In this era, the normal daily expenses of a villager under Zhou Xu were between one and three cents. Five hundred cents was considered a large sum of money, and one thousand cents was not an exaggeration to say that it was a huge sum of money.
It’s not that their leader should give less reward, but if the reward is too much, after deducting daily food and drink, there is no place to spend the extra money, which will reduce the value of the reward and thus affect the act of "rewarding".
But this thousand coins is very reasonable if we consider Li Ce and Ye Jinghong whose salaries had just been deducted.
Did Zhou Chongshan understand what their leader meant? Li Ce and Ye Jinghong thought it was highly unlikely.
Although Zhou Chongshan is very quick-witted in learning and mastering weapons and fighting, his brain is not that good at ordinary times.
It's just that this guy's character was controlled by their leader.
The leader guessed that Zhou Chongshan would divide the thousand coins between Li Ce and Ye Jinghong even if he didn't understand what he meant.
It's just that they really didn't plan to take it, but as two injured men, they couldn't resist Zhou Chongshan's pack of food and had to run away.
"Is this guy really strong?"
Looking at Zhou Chongshan's back as he ran away, Ye Jinghong couldn't help but complain.
Let alone running, even if he walked faster he felt unbearable pain all over his body, and the wound that had just stopped bleeding was beginning to bleed again.
Zhou Xu definitely won’t worry about things here.
Since the Grassland Village only started to operate normally after noon today, although there was nothing for him to deal with when he fell asleep in the morning, in the afternoon, some matters were still reported to him one after another.
By the time he has finished dealing with most of the issues, the day is basically over.
"Chief, the conditions of all the wounded in the village have basically stabilized. There is no risk of death. How well they can recover from this will depend on themselves."
It's a new day. Sitting at his desk, Zhou Xu is patiently listening to the report from the medical director.
"Are there enough medicinal herbs here in Prairie Village?"
"Reporting to the leader, we have already made preparations before winter. At present, the medicinal materials are more than enough."
"That's good."
Zhou Xu nodded.
"Keep an eye on the wounded and try not to leave them with any sequelae."
"yes!"
After watching the medical director leave, Zhou Xu, who had temporarily finished his work, stretched his muscles, put on his fur coat, and walked out the door.
It was still snowing outside the door. Over the past few days, the snow and wind were getting stronger.
Exhaling a breath of hot air, Zhou Xu stared at the flying snow and was lost in thought for a while.
"It's almost time for me to leave, but before that..."
He couldn't say he was unfamiliar with this situation. He had just experienced it last winter, when a snowstorm was brewing before his eyes.
He wanted to leave the prairie village before the snowstorm came.
It’s not that he intended to avoid the disaster, but he had other things to do this winter and couldn’t be trapped in the grassland village.
For this reason, he has been sending Qiansui to the grassland every day these days to look for traces of lizardmen.
For several days in a row, Qiansui returned empty-handed every day.
It would not be easy for an army of that size, with giant beasts in tow, to hide from being discovered.
Based on Qiansui's reconnaissance capabilities, if he couldn't be found for several days in a row, then there was a high probability that he had really left.
This result undoubtedly made Zhou Xu feel greatly relieved.
Judging from this situation, at least they can spend this winter in peace.
After all, according to normal thinking, when the other party destroyed the elf village but failed to lock their position and made the decision to withdraw, there was no need to attack again in this troublesome season.
The other side also needs to recuperate and wait until the spring of next year to launch the war. This approach is undoubtedly safer.
On this day, Qiansui returned before dark again, but just like the previous few days, he returned empty-handed.
This made Zhou Xu completely convinced of his previous conclusion. At least they had a chance to catch their breath.
Thinking of this, Zhou Xu did not hesitate and turned to look at the followers waiting on the side.
"Go, call Zhou Chongshan, Ye Jinghong and Li Ce over here."
"yes!"
With a reply, the attendant hurried off to pass on the message.
Under the premise that the leader took the initiative to summon them, the previous punishment of "reflection behind closed doors" was naturally lifted by default.
Although a few days of full rest could not heal their injuries, their physical and mental states had recovered well.
In fact, Zhou Xu was not in Caoyuan Village most of the time this year. All matters in Caoyuan Village were basically left to Ye Jinghong and Li Ce to handle.
They were already familiar with this matter, and Zhou Xu didn't have much to tell them now.
"Anyway, if nothing unexpected happens, I will leave Grassland Village early tomorrow morning. From now on, everything here will be handed over to you. Please be careful."
Having said this, Zhou Xu paused and waved to Qiansui who was standing beside him.
"Even in the snow, Chitose has excellent mobility. You can ask Chitose for help with some things. It can understand."
After saying that, Zhou Xu turned around and looked at Qiansui who was walking in front of him.
"Chitose, just like always, after I leave, I'll leave the village in your hands."
“Ouch~”
(End of this chapter)
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