Everyone's expression changed. Looking at Widow Ye's face, they wished they could gouge her out. How could she be so vicious? This traitor, colluding with people from other villages to scheme against the villagers.
Widow Ye shook her head frantically and lunged forward, pulling and tugging at Zhang Laizi.
"Smack!"
Zhang Laizi slapped her across the face.
The two started biting each other.
Tian Youwei, standing to the side, remained expressionless and silently left the crowd.
The others didn't bother with the two people's messy affairs, but instead looked at Yin Lan.
But what about Madam Yin? After all, a man entered her household. What exactly happened? If Chen Yourun returns in the future... will he find her repulsive?
The people from Long Spear Village dared to cause trouble in Iron Sword Village. After Zhang Laizi was severely beaten, the village head ordered him to be thrown out of the village.
Zhang Laizi, his face bruised and swollen, was carried out by several men, groaning and moaning all the way.
Just as they arrived at the village entrance, they were about to throw the man out when the village head of Changmao Village rushed over with several men.
The group's expressions were initially quite good, until they saw their fellow villagers thrown to the ground, covered in injuries.
The village head of Changmao Village immediately turned pale. "Chen Tieguan, what do you mean by this? Why are you hitting people from my Changmao Village?" The man who had come with him also glared angrily.
The village head snorted, "You people from Long Spear Village are shameless! Knowing that we hunted wild boar, you actually came to our village in the middle of the night to steal meat from the orphan and widow. This time I'll return the person to you, but next time, I'll take the person directly to the county town and not give Long Spear Village any face."
Longspear Village's man, his face dark with rage, yelled, "You stinking iron pot! Do you think you can just say whatever you want? Even if my villagers did something wrong, or if there's some misunderstanding, how can you just hit people like that? So what if you killed a few wild boars? What's so great about that? If you can kill wild boars, there are plenty of men in Longspear Village who can too!"
One of the men who came along tugged at the sleeve of his village head, but the village head of Long Spear Village was always a straightforward and stubborn man who cared a lot about his reputation. Today, he had already swallowed his pride by asking Iron Sword Village for help in finding a way to kill wild boars while ensuring the safety of the villagers.
Now that the people of Tiejian Village have humiliated him like this, he absolutely refuses to accept anything. Even if Chen Tieguan offered him the method, he wouldn't take it.
It's just killing wild boars, right? If Iron Sword Village can do it, does that mean their Spear Village is any worse?
"Walk!"
With a wave of his hand, the village head of Changmao Village ordered his men to lift Zhang Laizi up and take him away.
"We'll bring back more wild boars than Iron Sword Village. Then the whole village will eat wild boar meat!" Long Spear Village said threateningly before leaving.
“Village head…” someone looked at Chen Tieguan with concern.
The village head waved his hand, "It's alright."
Their method was a secret technique passed down by Chen Yourun's wife. If the villagers in Changmao Village had spoken politely, he might have asked Madam Yin if she could teach it to them, but now...
When the village head returned to the village, everyone was still a little worried and they were discussing it amongst themselves.
"People from Longspear Village can come once, and they can come a second time."
"There's only one Zhang Laizi this time, but what if there are even more people coming next?"
“Long Spear Village is bigger than our village, and it has more men than our village. If a fight really breaks out, we definitely won’t be able to win.”
The village head also had a furrowed brow.
Yin Lan stepped forward, and everyone's eyes immediately turned to her. If she had stepped forward last time when the pig was being slaughtered, everyone would have reacted with distrust, mockery, and contempt.
This time, although some people looked down on Yin Lan, most people took her words seriously.
Yin Lan remained composed and assertive. "Actually, it's not just a problem with Long Spear Village. As everyone knows, a group of men from our village were conscripted to work outside. Things have been very unstable outside. There are fights here today and there tomorrow. We need to protect ourselves because of the wild boars, because of Long Spear Village, and also because we're worried about whether the world will descend into chaos in the future."
Everyone frowned at Yin Lan's words.
“My aunt married someone from a county that’s so far away I don’t know how far away it is. I heard that things are starting to get chaotic there.”
Everyone's hearts sank.
"What should we do?"
"Will things get chaotic here?"
"I heard there are a lot more bandits now, and several镖师 (bodyguards/escorts) outside have died."
Yin Lan asked everyone to quiet down.
"Therefore, we must protect ourselves. I suggest that we make a batch of weapons ourselves. At the same time, since Uncle Lizheng used to be a soldier, we can also invite a bodyguard to come and teach the men and children in the village some self-defense skills."
“We don’t know how many wild boars there are in the mountains, or whether we can kill them all. We also don’t know if they will come down from the mountains or cross over from other mountains. If that happens, then the people in our village will have a stronger fighting force.”
"Moreover, there are relatively few people in our Iron Sword Village compared to the surrounding villages. I believe everyone has noticed that this winter has been very cold. If the weather gets even colder, will people who lack food and clothing sneak in to steal or even rob?"
"The other thing is the chaos outside. It's still quite far from us now, but if chaos were to reach us one day, we'd have some ability to protect ourselves."
Yin Lan's words left the surrounding villagers stunned.
However, some people raised objections, saying, "With so many things to do at home, where would we find the time to do these things?"
"Hiring bodyguards costs money, and we don't have that kind of money."
"By spring planting time, where would we find the time?"
"Yourun's wife is still a woman after all. She's timid and too afraid of outsiders. We can kill wild boars. If others come looking for trouble, we'll go out and fight them directly."
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