Chapter 138 The Army Has Arrived
"Hey, Brother Daxing, you're missing the point. What's wrong with me looking at you twice? It's much less serious than your accusation of murder yesterday, right? It's okay, do whatever you want. I just looked at you a few more times, it's not like you'll lose a hair."
Ding Gui's voice was neither too loud nor too low, and his tone was so calm as if nothing had happened, but this method made Miao Daxing feel creepy.
Others may not know, but he has suffered at the hands of that little girl Ding Xiaodie, not to mention her father, who must be a very smart man!
With no other options, Miao Daxing slapped his thigh and simply walked to another corner, lifting the curtain of his clothes to cover his face. What else could he do?
Seeing this, Ding De couldn't help but push his eldest brother Ding Rong's arm and said, "Hey, brother, do you think he is lying? Could it be that the old woman was really found by the three of them when they left the city?"
Ding Rong looked dazed. He had not yet recovered from the shock of last night. When he heard Ding De coming up to him and talking about what happened yesterday, he instinctively trembled with fear.
"Brother, what's wrong with you?" Ding De looked at his elder brother with a strange look. Where did the arrogant man go? And overnight...
Ding De grabbed a strand of Ding Rong's hair and said, "Hey, brother, why do you suddenly have so many white hairs?"
"Get lost."
Ding Rong finally couldn't bear it anymore and pushed him away.
He didn't want to recall what happened last night at all, and he didn't care about the old woman either. He just let it all go.
"Are you crazy?" Ding De, who was pushed, asked angrily, "Okay, okay, what's the big deal?"
After he finished speaking, he turned around and changed seats with the person behind him, staying away from Ding De.
Everyone thought that this morning was no different from any other morning: they would queue up, get porridge, and then go out and look around to see if they could find anything else to eat.
Several women in the village were cooking porridge. The aroma of the porridge aroused everyone's appetite. When would this life of always not having enough to eat end?
Before he started making the porridge, Lai Fu called Ding Gui aside and asked, "Did everything go well when you guys went out last night?"
He originally wanted to talk to Ding Gui about this matter early on, but later someone had a fight over water distribution, so he went to deal with it for a while.
Ding Gui looked around to see if there was anyone around, so he told him everything that happened last night: "Those three men in black are very skilled in martial arts. If they hadn't secretly helped us, there's no way the three of us could defeat six desert soldiers."
Lai Fu frowned and nodded thoughtfully: "I have always heard that there is a group of warriors who assassinate desert soldiers. It turns out that they really exist. It is a blessing for us to have these unsung heroes like them."
"That's right." Ding Gui thought, isn't this the same principle as the guerrilla hero in the previous life?
…
After eating porridge.
Lai Fu gathered all the men together and spoke: "We've searched every collapsed house and taken out all the food we could. Right now, we can only rely on the Lu family's relief. But those three bags of food won't last us for a few days, even if we only eat one meal a day. After all, there are so many of us. Let's think about it, what can we do? We have to find a way to get something to eat. Just eating and waiting to die every day is not a solution."
"Village Chief, what can we do?"
"That's right. At worst, we can ask the Lu family for some more, or borrow some. After this period is over, we can go back to Aozigou, plant some crops, and then hire a truck to bring them here."
The person who said this is so shameless, but the other villagers actually think this is a good idea.
Lai Fu sighed, "Have you ever thought about what to do if the Lu family can't lend you grain? Even though the Lu family is a wealthy family, they've done their best. Do you think this way is fair to them?"
“…”
The women in the village listened to the men's discussion while walking back and forth among the men, distributing straw sandals to them, one pair for each person. No matter who made them, everyone should change their shoes.
This scene was a bit like the meetings in old revolutionary base areas shown in movies, but compared with those warriors, these people were like heaven and earth.
Ding Xiaodie pulled Wang Dafeng to sit in the corner to listen to their discussion, and couldn't help rolling her eyes as she listened.
Dingxiang ran over and sat next to her: "Cousin."
The little guy gave an innocent smile.
Ding Xiaodie immediately gave her a few colorful chocolate candies: "Eat them quietly, don't let anyone see. These are candies given by the Lu family."
"Thank you, sister." Dingxiang quickly put one in her mouth. It was so sweet that her heart seemed to melt.
But Wang Dafeng only has Hua Ni in her eyes. This rabbit is her whole world. She doesn't care what people around her say, and she ignores her two daughters-in-law whispering not far away.
The meeting ultimately came to no conclusion. The men in the yard held their straw sandals in their arms, their heads lowered one after another. None of them could think of a solution. If they could, they wouldn't be so cowardly.
Just when Ding Xiaodie was thinking that it was time to tell the village chief about the cassava on the mountain.
A man suddenly rushed into the yamen.
Everyone turned around in surprise, and the person who came was Geng, the guard from the Lu family.
It turned out that Mr. Lu was worried after last night, so he took Guard Geng out for a while after a short rest. He hurried back this morning and asked Guard Geng to come to the yamen.
His already serious face turned dark as the bottom of a pot, and he said in a gruff voice, "Village chief, retreat quickly, take your villagers and head into the mountains."
What?
Everyone present was stunned!
Even Lai Fu didn't react.
Ding Gui stood up, Ding Xiaodie stood up, and Zhang Xiu also straightened his back. They had a premonition that something was wrong.
After the others recovered, they were still asking, "Guardian Geng, what happened?"
"Yes, they told us to go into the mountains. Where should we go? Where should we go?"
"Guardian Geng, please explain clearly!"
Meanwhile, Ding Xiaodie hurriedly whispered to Ding Xiang, "Ah Xiang, go find your parents quickly. Remember, you can't leave them even for a moment. We need to get into the mountains quickly."
Dingxiang nodded, put the uneaten candy into a small bag, turned around and ran.
Only then did everyone hear Guardian Geng's thunderous words: "The nomadic army will be here soon."
Pay attention, he didn’t say two or three people, but a large army, that is to say, it was a huge army, countless desert soldiers.
But some people still didn't react.
Fortunately, Lai Fu had already understood. He quickly exchanged glances with Ding Gui and instructed him, "A Gui, quickly take a few trustworthy people to carry the three bags of grain."
Then he turned around and said to everyone, "The elderly, the weak, the women and the children should go first and quickly go into the mountains. Leave a few people behind and we will go and take the water from the well."
"It's too late." Guardian Geng immediately stopped him and said seriously, "You can carry the grain and take it away. Don't take the rest. Village chief, saving lives is the most important thing right now."
(End of this chapter)
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