Chapter 138： we want to be together

Chapter 138 We want to be together

“No, we have to stay together and not separate!”

“Yes, we want to be together!”

The villagers immediately became anxious and rushed forward one after another, surrounding the two small officials.

The two clerks did not expect that the villagers would be so excited. They were startled, but then they stared and yelled.

“Back off, back off! What are you going to do, do you want to cause trouble?!”

The villagers clenched their fists and refused to step back or speak. Their blood-red eyes made the two officials even more panicked.

Did they see it wrong? Why do these mud-legged people seem to have... murderous intent in their eyes?

At this time, Li Laoer coughed, helped the village chief come forward, placed the village chief on a chair, and then said:

"Have you two officials heard what happened at the dock the day before yesterday? People from Jiangbei came to seek refuge, but they encountered barbarians outside the dock. The Dingbei Army guarding the dock refused to send troops to respond, and in the end, the Marquis of Xinting He arrived with his troops and killed thirty barbarian cavalry."

The two clerks didn't react for a moment, so they nodded and said, "I heard about it, but what does this have to do with you?"

The village chief smiled coldly and pulled off the big coat he was wearing, revealing half of his **** arm.

Other villagers also took off their cotton-padded jackets one after another, revealing their scarred bodies.

The clerk was so shocked that he gasped. What else didn't he understand? These people are the mud-legged people who killed the barbarians!

There has been a lot of discussion about this matter in the city in the past two days. Everyone said that this group of people was tough. When they met the barbarians, not one of them died, but they killed more than a dozen barbarians.

I heard that Marquis Xinting arrived with his troops, but it was just a matter of finishing. In fact, the thirty barbarian cavalry were all killed by this group of people.

Of course, what is more famous is that the Marquis of Xinting actually filed a royal warrant for this group of people. The guard who refused to save him was directly beaten, and the Marquis of Dingbei was also reprimanded!

Thinking again of their colleagues who had just come to look for them, both of them felt a little regretful.

Li Laoer looked at the faces of the two people, felt confident, and said again.

"We also know that the two officials have no grudges against us. This is because some people don't like us, but we don't want to suffer. When the time comes, this matter will definitely come to the Marquis. I think you can bear it. Is it Mr. Hou’s anger? In other words, we don’t even need Mr. Hou to show up for this! "

Li Laoer pulled out a string of wolf teeth from his sleeves and continued in a normal tone: "Two gentlemen, look at this string of wolf teeth, is it good? I spent the winter in the mountains before and encountered a pack of wolves. There was not a single one left. , let us kill them all. There was also a group of bandits who were very arrogant. They kidnapped our children, and we came to our door and cut off their heads. Speaking of which, we northerners are barbaric. We don’t want to be offended for anything, and we don’t want to take revenge. Willing to stay overnight!”

The two clerks looked at the wolf's fang and then at the crowd. Cold sweat broke out on their foreheads.

"That, that... brothers, don't worry, this matter can't be slowed down?"

“Yes, yes, let’s think of a way.”

The two clerks quickly opened the book, searched again and again, and finally looked at each other and said.

"We don't mean to embarrass you. If you separate, the five villages are very good, but if you want to separate them together, there is no good place. Are you still planning to... not separate?"

The villagers did not hesitate and said in unison, "We will not separate, we will stay together."

The village chief leaned on his chair, his face pale, and he nodded, "We must be together."

Li Laoer glanced at the young official, "The Marquis is going to kill the barbarians now, but after he comes back, he will come to live in our village. If the place is not good, I'm afraid he will bring us over to exchange, and then we will have to Excuse me, sirs."

The two clerks looked bitter and pushed the booklet directly to Li Laoer.

"You can't change even if you want to. There are nearly a hundred of you, and the land allocated is 400 acres. Other places are too small, and this is the only place that fits the bill."

Li Laoer was not polite and quickly flipped through the book.

The two clerks did not lie. The rest of the places were stamped with seals, except for a few places, which also indicated that there were only a few dozen acres of wasteland. The place assigned to them is about seventy miles to the south, and a hundred miles away is the new capital, Weizhou Prefecture.

Thirty miles apart, it’s considered close.

He discussed it in a low voice with the village chief and decided on this place.

The two clerks breathed a sigh of relief, completed the formalities quickly, and finally sent the group of people away.

The two of them stood in the shed. One of them wiped his hands with cold sweat and said, "What should we do? These evil spirits have been taken away, but over there...how to explain?"

"How do we explain it?" Another sneered, "They only said that it would be difficult for these people, but they didn't say how hard it would be. Besides, the space allocated to these people is enough for us to explain."

Not to mention the private discussion between the two small officials, it is just that everyone in the village was very happy when they heard that they were assigned together and were very close to the new capital.

After all, this is an unfamiliar place, so everyone can be together in one place, which makes me feel much more at ease.

Everyone gathered together to discuss that they should leave early as this is not a place to stay long.

Mr. Ye is not here. If anyone wants to cause trouble, they are afraid they will suffer a loss.

So everyone packed their things quickly, hired seven or eight carriages at a high price, and set off early the next morning with their families.

Mr. Wen and Mrs. Cui are still in the team, riding in the same carriage as the Li family.

Mrs. Cui held Jiayin in her arms, feeling sorry for her that her face had lost weight due to her injury.

Old Mrs. Li was lying on the thick quilt, but the wound was still throbbing with the bumps of the carriage.

She tried her best to endure it, chatting with Mrs. Cui to change her mind.

“Madam, when you should go home, just go home and don’t worry about us. We also have a new place to stay, and our days will definitely get better and better in the future.”

Mrs. Cui smiled and said, "Auntie, I can rest assured when you arrive and settle down. Also, Auntie, please call me Jinrou from now on. I am Jiaren's senior aunt and also your junior. In addition to my senior brothers, my natal family is full of people. There is no one left, and I plan to treat our family as my mother’s family in the future, so don’t dislike me.”

"I don't dislike it, I don't dislike it!" Old Mrs. Li was happy, "You are from a noble family, and you are close to Fu Niu. To be honest, I was hoping that you would help us teach her when Fu Niu was older. This child is too smart. I I’m always afraid of growing crooked.”

Mrs. Cui gently patted the good news and agreed in one breath, "Okay, Auntie, you can't go back on this matter. Fu Niu will be my little disciple from now on."

“If you don’t regret it, of course you won’t regret it.” Mrs. Li touched her granddaughter’s fat feet and felt extremely distressed. “It’s all my fault. I didn’t even protect this girl in my arms.”

“Auntie, don’t say that. In such a chaotic time, it’s good to be able to survive. This girl is lucky. She survived the disaster and will definitely be better in the future.”

“Okay, okay, let me lend you some good words!”

The carriage moved forward, and I heard a few words of good news in a trance, but was soon swayed to sleep again.

The back of her head is still swollen, making it difficult for her to move easily.

But Dr. Zhang had to perform acupuncture every day and guaranteed that she would be cured in half a month, so she was not so afraid.

The seventy-mile journey was actually not that far, but there were many injuries, both old and young, on the bus. We had to stay overnight on the road, and we only arrived at Xiaojin Village in Nanxi County, which was written on the land deed, at noon the next day.

There happened to be farmers busy in the fields, preparing for spring plowing. When they saw Li Laoer asking for directions, he took them there.

(End of this chapter)