After burying the bandits' bodies, Yunye summoned the captains and deputy captains of each squad back to the council hall for a meeting. The wounded were moved aside.
Lin Yinan made a great contribution by shooting down the bandits on the watchtower, and Yun Mo arranged for him to sit in a chair at the table.
Yunye glanced at everyone, a smile creeping onto his lips.
We are very satisfied with everyone's execution ability for taking down the bandit stronghold so quickly with relatively little damage.
He cleared his throat and, without beating around the bush, went straight to the question everyone was most concerned about.
"I have ordered all the money and food in the bandit stronghold to be registered and recorded. We will hold a meeting to discuss and decide how to distribute them after everyone arrives."
"Next, we will split into two teams. One team, led by me, will stay in the bandit stronghold to do the final cleaning and inspection work, to ensure that there will be no potential dangers after the Lin family villagers and the Yun family move in, and to take care of the wounded."
"The other team, led by Yunmo, will return to camp at dawn. Tomorrow, all personnel in the camp will be moved to the bandit stronghold. We plan to stay here for the winter, and then continue our journey south when spring arrives."
That's all I have to say. Feel free to voice any opinions you may have.
Everyone agreed with Yunye's arrangements.
“Anan, you’re injured. Stay in the village. I’ll go back and get Grandma and Mother.”
Lin Yiheng couldn't bear to see his sister working so hard, so Yunzhi stayed behind so the two of them could look after each other.
"My injury is nothing serious. My mother will worry if I don't go back."
Lin Yinan didn't want to stay here, so she had to use Li Shulan as an excuse.
As dawn broke, Lin Yinan and the others followed Yun Mo toward the camp in the valley.
The trees and grass were covered with dewdrops. People walked through them, and their clothes were quickly soaked. A gust of wind blew, and they could feel a chill on their bodies.
The Lin family man and the Yun family guards, who were on duty, were the first to see them return.
"Young Master Yun is back!"
Hearing the shouts, Li Shulan ignored the slow-moving old lady Zhao and ran after the crowd. She had already seen Lin Yiheng and his sister walking towards her.
"Anan, you're back!" Li Shulan excitedly rushed up and hugged her daughter.
"Ouch...it hurts." She accidentally touched Lin Yinan's wound and cried out in pain.
Li Shulan hurriedly let go of her hand, and only then did she see that she was wearing Lin Yiheng's clothes.
"Where are you hurt?" she asked in a trembling voice, her eyebrows furrowed in a tight knot.
Lin Yinan said, "Arms and shoulders."
Yu Suqin, who was watching the commotion from the crowd, noticed that Lin Yinan was wearing a man's clothes and said sarcastically, "I wonder whose clothes he is wearing. Were they torn to shreds by bandits?"
At this moment, Old Mrs. Zhao finally arrived. Upon hearing Yu Suqin's words, she was furious and slapped her across the face.
"Watch your mouth, what the hell are you spouting? Open your dog eyes and see clearly, Anan is wearing Heng Ge'er's clothes."
Yu Suqin covered her slapped face and glared at her fiercely.
"The people who went to the village were all men. What's the point of her, a little girl, going there to make a scene?"
Upon hearing her words, the unsuspecting villagers immediately began to whisper among themselves.
Yun Mo hadn't gone far. He had recommended Lin Yinan to his second brother for help, so he knew the most about her situation.
He pushed through the crowd, unwilling to see her being slandered like this.
"Miss Lin is very skilled and an excellent archer. We specially invited her to help deal with the bandits on the watchtower at the entrance of the bandit stronghold. Without her, we wouldn't have been able to take down the bandit stronghold so quickly."
“This aunt is so aggressive, slandering the young girl who has contributed to the village. I’ll go and ask your village chief and clan leader later. We don’t need to share the gold, silver and grain we seized from the bandit stronghold with troublemakers like you.”
Yun Mo's words were resounding and powerful.
The village chief already knew the whole story, and he was furious, his face turning ashen. It was Yu Suqin again, that troublemaker.
“Young Master Yun is right. The gold, silver and grain seized from the bandit stronghold will be distributed by the Yun family.”
The villagers who had been whispering just moments before immediately fell silent, some quite annoyed that they couldn't control their mouths and chatter along with Yu Suqin.
Lin Tiezhu's wife couldn't help but wipe away her tears. "My uncle Tiezhu is a scholar who can't even kill a chicken. He was injured while fighting the bandits. Village chief, you have to be fair. Don't let them go out and risk their lives for the village, only to come back and have to listen to these gossips and cry."
The village chief's sharp gaze swept over the women led by Yu Suqin, who all shrank back, silent as if trembling in fear.
He knew what was going on, and the men from those families who were supporting him hadn't signed up to participate.
“I will tell the elders about your words and actions. Whether you stay or leave is up to the elders to decide.”
A woman was so frightened she wanted to scream, but Yun Mo swept a sharp look over her, and the woman dared not utter another sound.
Finally, Yunmo led the returning villagers to report to the village chief, clan head, and elders on the detailed events of the attack on the bandit stronghold and the extent of injuries.
Lin Yinan returned to the tent, changed her clothes in front of Old Mrs. Zhao, Li Shulan, and Zhang Shi, and then had Li Shulan apply medicine to her wounds.
Li Shulan held the torn clothes in her hand, looking at the two hideous wounds on her fair skin, and her nose felt sore.
"And you, why didn't you avoid it a bit?"
This minor injury is nothing to Lin Yinan.
"There was no way to avoid it. I was walking along the road when that bandit leader suddenly jumped out. I couldn't beat him. If it weren't for the third young master of the Yun family arriving in time, I would definitely have died there."
Zhang felt that her niece was really unlucky.
The four of them came out of the tent and saw that Zhu Jinhui had come over at some point and was standing guard outside the tent, having overheard what the mother and the others were saying.
The villagers who returned said that their sons were injured, which is why they came to ask Lin Yinan.
"Anan, I heard Yunzhi is injured. I wonder how he is?"
Su Yunzhi's chest was wrapped in gauze, and Lin Yinan was unsure of the extent of his injury.
"Dr. Lin and the Yun family doctor have already bandaged the wound, so it should be fine."
"Didn't you go see him?"
Zhu Jinhui was somewhat unhappy. Yunzhi was so badly injured, yet Lin Yinan, as her fiancée, didn't even bother to ask about it.
Lin Yinan blinked. Did this person not understand what she was saying, or was he deliberately picking a fight?
“Didn’t I say his wound had been bandaged?” she repeated.
Here we go again! This is hardly the attitude a fiancée should have towards her fiancé.
Zhu Jinhui's chest heaved with anger, her chest heaving violently.
"I'm asking you, now that Yunzhi is injured, why don't you, as his fiancée, stay in the village to take care of him!"
“Jin Hui, Anan is injured herself, how can she take care of Yunzhi?”
Zhu Jinhui's voice was high-pitched and thin, "She can stay there and keep him company!"
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