Having gone through several incidents, Village Chief Li and the others had become much more vigilant. Tonight's events were clearly not right; they realized what was happening immediately after the people from Xiahe Village left.
Jiang Qinyu was very pleased with this; finally, she didn't have to remind him of everything anymore!
“Uncle Village Chief, Grandpa Jiang, there is indeed a problem with this matter, but we don’t know exactly what’s going on, so we can only defend ourselves passively.”
Jiang Qinyu began to analyze for everyone, "It doesn't make sense that the people from Xiahe Village went out to escape famine and were driven back by bandits."
Actually, she wasn't sure why the people from Xiahe Village had returned, because in her previous life, they had pushed the people from Dinghe Village to take the blows and robbed Dinghe Village of its supplies, so they hadn't returned.
But in this life, the people of Xiahe Village faced a brutal massacre, and it's not impossible that they were so terrified that they wanted to return to their familiar surroundings.
But why did they head straight to Dinghe Village to borrow grain? How did they know that Dinghe Village had grain? That's the key question.
“The girl is right,” Grandpa Jiang confirmed Jiang Qinyu’s guess. “They didn’t inform us when they fled the famine, so it’s impossible that they would know about our situation before they even settled in. There must be something else going on.”
Village Chief Li frowned. "Who exactly told them?"
He wasn't interested in why they came back, but when it came to the grain supplies of Dingshui Village, that was something he had to take very seriously.
“I suspect,” Jiang Qinyu pondered, “that the chief of Qinggang Mountain and the county magistrate haven’t given up yet…”
After she said that, everyone else looked at each other in bewilderment.
"Why haven't you given up yet? They've already searched the entire village!"
"Yeah, we were so humiliated last time, what more do they want?"
"This is outrageous! No, starting tomorrow, I have to remind everyone in the village, young and old, that they absolutely cannot reveal that we still have grain!"
"..."
Jiang Qinyu was also going through the whole story. The grain they found in Qinggang Mountain only amounted to a few thousand kilograms, which was not a large quantity for a village of a few hundred people.
The people of Qinggang Mountain persisted relentlessly, and the county magistrate sent officials to search the village. The first thing the people of Xiahe Village did upon returning from their famine was to ask for grain...
A sudden realization dawned on Jiang Qinyu's mind—she knew it!
The supplies she took from the cave behind Qinggang Mountain were definitely problematic! And they were even connected to the magistrate of Yongshan County!
"No matter what, if we're prepared, we won't be afraid of them causing trouble," Jiang Qinyu said quickly, sounding a little guilty.
It is very likely that she brought about these repeated crises.
She unlocked the system's grain and oil section, and the villagers found enough food in the mountains to get through the winter, temporarily alleviating the food crisis.
At that time, the system took away all the gold, silver and gems to obtain the right to upgrade the system, so much so that Jiang Qinyu hadn't paid much attention to that batch of supplies for so long.
When collecting supplies, she only felt that there were a lot of things in the cave, definitely tens of thousands of kilograms, but she had never actually counted the exact amount.
Jiang Qinyu quickly opened the system in her mind and activated the material statistics function for the cashier area.
Looking at the words "1.2 million catties of three-year-old rice" in her mind, Jiang Qinyu felt numb.
One shi of Da Yue is 120 jin, which means that she took 10,000 shi of grain from the cave in Qinggang Mountain.
No wonder she spent so long collecting things and almost got bumped into by the One-Eyed King; it turns out she had too much stuff.
Good heavens, ten thousand shi! Such a quantity is only found in military supplies, except in large grain depots!
Judging from the reactions of the chief of Qinggang Mountain and the magistrate of Yongshan County, this batch of supplies must have been intended for the army, but it is unclear why they ended up on Qinggang Mountain.
Just as Jiang Qinyu and the others were discussing how to deal with what was to come, on the main road leading out of Dinghe Village, Village Chief Wu loudly questioned two tall, thin men.
"Didn't you say that the people of Dingshui Village have food and would definitely not stand by and watch them die?"
The two men exchanged a glance, and one of them said, "Don't your two villages have many in-laws? Didn't you have them go and ask for help?"
"Why didn't you ask? But the people of Dingshui Village insist they have no grain either, and they just won't lend it to us! Is there something wrong with your information?" Village Chief Wu looked at them suspiciously.
They did indeed turn back because they were terrified of being robbed by bandits, but it was these two men who suggested that they borrow grain from Dingshui Village.
"If they won't lend it, why don't you just rob them?" another tall, thin man said disdainfully.
Village Chief Wu chuckled coldly, "You all said it yourselves, they stole the grain that Qinggang Mountain had. We haven't had a proper meal in days, how could we possibly win?"
"Old Gao, this is a bunch of nobodies. Don't waste your breath on them. Let's hurry back. The boss is waiting!"
The two tall, thin men ignored Village Chief Wu and walked away.
"Village chief, are we just going to let them go like this? We don't have much food left!" someone said anxiously behind Village Chief Wu.
Village Chief Wu turned around and glared fiercely at the person who spoke, "Didn't you see they had large machetes on them? If you're so capable, go and chase after them!"
"Then what should we do?" the villagers all asked, looking at Village Chief Wu.
Village Chief Wu scratched his head in frustration. "What else can we do? We have to learn from the people in Dingshui Village! They can get food from the mountains, so why can't we?"
He still didn't believe it. If the people of Dingshui Village could survive here, were they any worse than others?
Meanwhile, the two tall, thin men returned to Qinggang Mountain and were summoned by the One-Eyed King for questioning.
"I sent you to contact people, why are you only coming back now?" One-Eyed King looked at the two men below with displeasure.
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