Chapter 164: Joining forces to repel the enemy
Nanny Lai glanced at Qiu Yi's grim expression and tried to make amends by asking, "Life was easy in the past. How can you have fish and meat every day while fleeing from famine? I'm afraid you've suffered a lot."
"How could that be possible? Other families not only have to walk but also carry their belongings and babies. But the Jiang family has several cows and donkeys. They don't have to carry things or babies, and can even ride in a donkey cart from time to time."
"The food is even better. The Jiang family has a profitable business, and they were lucky enough to sell their land before the flood. Not only are they well-prepared with smoked meat, rice, and flour, but the men in the Jiang family also fish and catch shrimp, so every meal is fish and meat."
"Even when eating wild vegetables, they need several seasonings! Vinegar and sesame oil, how can it not be delicious? So while others are suffering from the famine, her family is so happy. It's really frustrating to compare yourself to others!"
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Every time Wang Fugui and Sun Xiaomai said one more word, Qiu Yi and Lai Mama's faces became even uglier.
I originally thought that Huo Bing had suffered a lot and had a near-death experience on the way to escape, but it turned out that he was living a very comfortable life!
They thought that people would flock to them if they were given porridge, but they worked hard for two days, covered in dust and tired, and ended up becoming a joke. People didn't even like the porridge!
Qiu Yi gritted her teeth and finally winked at Nanny Lai.
Nanny Lai understood, took out an exquisite purse from her sleeve and threw it over.
Wang Fugui caught it, touched the heavy purse, and quickly poured it into his palm to check. He saw ingots of white silver. The two men's eyes suddenly widened, and they couldn't stop swallowing their saliva as they looked at the silver.
Weird, this ingot weighs ten taels, right?
So much silver, when had they ever seen so much silver!
Nanny Lai suggested, "Go find some disaster victims, find a conflict, and kill Huo Bing. Then all this will be yours. How do you think?"
"Ah?" Sun Xiaomai looked up and opened his mouth, his face filled with shock.
After all, it was a human life. She usually killed fish, chickens and ducks, and had never killed anyone!
Wang Fugui looked at the hundred taels of silver, a fierce and cunning look flashing in his eyes, and responded: "Okay, I'm familiar with this matter, you two can keep it with confidence!"
Anyway, the two of them don’t even know where Huo Bing is. They can just find someone at random and say they killed him or not. How can they verify it?
"Wang Fugui, the village chief of Shili Village, right? Tomorrow I'll arrange for two people to come and help you. You will place them in the team and pretend to be disaster victims. When they succeed, they will report to me. You two just need to cooperate with them."
Wang Fugui's eyes were rolling around, revealing an unconcealed shock, but he quickly put it away and replied, "Okay."
Damn, rich people are not stupid! Money is not easy to make.
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"Sister-in-law, are you all ready? Can we leave now?"
Not far away, Jiang Ying shouted.
"I'm coming, I'm coming." Shen Qing replied happily while carrying the backpack.
Beside her were Huo Bing, Jiang Yu and Guan Li who were waiting together.
Everyone was excited when the notice was issued today, but just waiting was more frustrating, so they decided to go out together to dig wild vegetables.
When you have something to do, time passes extra quickly.
The wild vegetables around had long been dug up, and the group walked further away.
"A Bing, is your headache better?"
"Is the medicine prescribed by the old doctor in the city effective?"
"You have to eat on time and in the right amount. Don't be lazy. If you develop a disease at such a young age, you will suffer for decades to come."
"You've got a good mother-in-law. She's spent all her money and effort to take you to the hospital for treatment. Thinking back to my mother-in-law back then, well, I don't want to mention it anymore. It makes me full of bitterness."
Huo Bing listened quietly, with a smile on his face, and nodded in agreement when he heard Shen Qing being praised.
Shen Qing felt that being a mother-in-law was quite easy. As long as she didn't abuse her daughter-in-law and fed her the same meals, she was already the best she could be.
But being a mother-in-law is such an easy thing, but many people can't do it well.
Ten years to look after the mother-in-law, ten years to look after the daughter-in-law. When you are young, you make things difficult for your daughter-in-law, and when you are old, you still want to wait for your daughter-in-law to take care of you. I don’t know if this is bad or stupid...
Today we went to the water chestnut depression where the water chestnuts were not harvested yesterday afternoon. The water chestnut leaves, which were as tall as a person, fluttered in the wind, and the layers of them were quite spectacular.
"Once we take over this, we'll have enough food for six or seven days. The village chief said it'll take another twenty days to get there. With the relief food, the victims will have food to eat, and we won't have to worry about being intercepted along the way like before."
"Wait!" Huo Bing suddenly spoke.
Everyone stopped and looked at her.
Zheng Hui was just about to ask what she said was wrong, but Huo Bing looked up and gestured for everyone to look at the茭白潭 in front.
The women's hearts skipped a beat, and they lowered their voices and asked, "Is there a problem ahead?"
Huo Bing nodded hesitantly. "I feel something's wrong up ahead. The wild rice leaves aren't swaying in one direction, but are swaying left and right. And the directions of the adjacent leaves are different."
This means it’s not the wind that’s blowing it, but there’s someone inside!
If someone is harvesting water chestnuts, but no one is cut down, then the person inside is just hiding, not harvesting water chestnuts!
What are you doing hiding in a puddle in the wilderness?
Especially since they are a group of women, they are afraid that they will be targeted.
The women in Qili Village had also experienced life-and-death struggles. Although they were afraid, they were not panicking. They calmed down and prepared to turn around and run back quietly.
But the moment he turned around, he saw the men standing apart and forming a circle not far away, and his heart sank to the bottom!
It turned out to be directed at them.
"I just said that we don't have to worry about being intercepted all day like before, and now I'm here right away. Tell me, is this a slap in my face?" Zheng Hui took out the big knife from the backpack, weighed it in her hand and asked.
Jiang Ying also skillfully drew his broadsword from his waist and sighed softly, "We are still relatively inexperienced, but at least we are not bad. At least we have weapons, right?"
Li E's body was shaking like a sieve, and she felt like she was going to fall apart at any moment. She immediately pulled out a crossbow from the bamboo basket she was carrying and tearfully demanded, "I've got it, I've got it. I carry it every day, just in case I run into these bad guys. Woohoo, don't rush forward later. Let me practice my accuracy by firing a few shots."
"I want one too! Auntie said that we who use crossbows are long-range archers, and you who use swords are close combat. We should use long-range weapons first and close combat later. Otherwise, once they get too close, our long-range weapons will be useless." Feng Tao emphasized hurriedly, fearing that they would rush up first.
"What my aunt meant was that close combat is dangerous, so she asked you to kill the main force first! But look at the victims on the opposite side, they don't even have a hoe or a shovel, they only have sticks. What are we afraid of?" Feng Xing retorted quickly.
Shen Qing:......
Then she thought that it was a good thing that these disaster victims targeted them. If it were other girls, they would have been harmed!
However, those in the茭白潭 cannot be spared either.
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