Starting from the Greyhound, seventy-two changes.

Chapter 23: Save time and effort

when!when!when!when!
The extremely loud sound of the gong echoed throughout the village.

Along with the sound of the gong, there were also hysterical, frightened, and anxious cries from the farmhand of Village Chief Chen who was holding the gong, which spread throughout the village!
"The thief is coming!!"

"Don't sleep!"

"The thieves are coming. Everyone, get up and go to the village entrance to guard against the thieves! The thieves are coming to steal the food!"

Not only the farmhands from the village chief's family, but also the cook from Mr. Guo's family, were running around the village.

The whole village was woken up at once when the moon just rose.

The four members of Chen Ku's family all pushed the door open and came out. Xu Lan and Chen's mother's faces were full of fear, and the buttons of Hu Zi's clothes in their arms were all buttoned incorrectly.

"Brother, the thieves are coming, what should we do..." Xu Lan hugged her son in fear and anxiety, listening to the rapid sound of gongs and drums in the village.

Although Chen's mother was usually calm and composed, she could no longer suppress her emotions at this moment. Her expression was exactly the same as her daughter-in-law's. She could only look to the only pillar of the family for help: "Son, come up with an idea quickly."

his son.

Chen Ku frowned as he listened to the sound of gongs and drums.

Start the transformation of the little dog.

Immediately, one could smell the smell of hundreds of dirty, smelly refugees, gathering towards the wall at the entrance of Dachen Village, and torches...

As many as two or three hundred people!

He exhaled, looked at his panicked old mother and sister-in-law, as well as his nephew who didn't know what was going on but was equally terrified, and said, "I'm here, now listen to me and follow me."

I knew long ago that refugees would come here.

That's why Chen Ku decided to stay in the village for a while, to make sure that his family wouldn't be harmed by the refugees passing through the village before leaving.

Be it his sister-in-law, his mother, or his nephew, none of them is someone he can cruelly abandon; they are his family in this world.

Mother Chen looked at her son and wanted to take them away from home first.

"Let's hide in the broken cave in the back mountain." Chen Ku said.

Mother Chen looked at the house and said, "What about our...what belongings do we have at home? Those thieves broke in, but..."

Chen Ku looked at his mother and said, "Please keep the deeds to the land and the house close to you. We haven't stored any food for a year. What good will it be if we let those people in? They won't get anything, so they will leave naturally."

As for some of his precious herbs and silver, they had been hidden in advance in a place where only his dog nose could find them.

This was the advantage of their family being poor before, they were all alone and all they had to do was hide from people.

"...Wait, there are still five pounds of flour in the jar, about ten steamed buns, you have to take them, otherwise they will be easy for thieves to take." The sister-in-law hurriedly ran to the kitchen and carried the small half bag of flour on her back, "You can go now."

After Chen Ku moved his family to the dilapidated cave in the back mountain, he told them, "Sleep here tonight and wait for the refugees to leave."

"What about you, my son?" Chen's mother seemed to have heard that her son would not be with them tonight and had to go out.

Chen Ku looked towards the direction of the village.

His nose had already smelled that in the "Xieshuiliang" cave in the village five or six miles behind the two or three hundred refugees, there were two people there, giving orders from a high position and watching from a high place.

Xieshuiliang is a place in Dachen Village. There is a large spring well halfway up the mountain. Villagers usually get water from the well. They go up and down to fetch water and often rest there, so it is called Xieshuiliang.

It takes ten miles to go back and forth, and it is hard for the country people to get water.

There, you can stand halfway up the mountain and look down at the entire Dachen Village.

When in Snake Fish Town.

Ordinary people in the town know it.

The so-called refugees' attack on the town was a complete fabrication. If there was no one to organize them, the refugees would all be a group of scattered sand. How could they be gathered into two or three hundred people and even dare to attack the landlord's house?
Chen Ku smelled two people there whose odor was very similar to that of the refugees, and they were obviously the behind-the-scenes organizers who were mixed together.

He was leaving the village after all.

If the organizer behind this is not eliminated, who knows how long this group of refugees will continue to wreak havoc in Dachen Village, and they may even just live in the house.

and so……

He wanted to try it.

The premise is that it can be done.

However, he could not tell the truth to his mother and sister-in-law. He only said, "Brother Zhao and Ji Yang are still in the village. After all, I am the strongest person in the village. Even if I can't save too many people, I have to protect their two families. Don't worry, with my current ability, even if a dozen refugees rush over, they can't hurt me at all."

After saying this, he gave his family a reassuring look, walked out of the cave alone, and quietly moved towards the Xieshuiliang.

……

At this time, at the entrance of the village, on the wooden wall, the village chief and Mr. Guo stood together, and thirty or forty young and strong men in the village gathered. The village chief saw that those who came were all landowners, who had harvested grain this autumn and were now storing it at home. They were the ones who were most afraid of refugees rushing into the village.

at this time.

Village chief Chen felt his scalp tingling as he looked at the refugees who were lined up in a large black mass from the fields, holding torches.

The total population of Dachen Village is only about a hundred people, and looking at these refugees, there are as many as two or three hundred of them, and they are all men. Even though they are pale and thin, they are all men after all. He believed more in the rumor that someone was organizing these people.

Looking at the wooden wall of the village below him, he felt very uneasy.

Soon, two or three hundred refugees all rushed to the foot of the village wall.

Village Chief Chen laughed and asked tentatively towards the torches below: "Who is the leader? What's your name?"

A short, dark-skinned man with a black cloth tied on his head raised his head and held up a torch. "I am the one you call Gray Snake. I want to ask you, is there a Mr. Guo in your village?"

When his name was mentioned, Mr. Guo subconsciously tried to avoid it, but then someone spoke up:

"Master Guo, please show up!"

Mr. Guo bravely emerged from the tower village, smiled, and looked down: "From the accent, Brother Gray is from Qiubei. I have never been there, so I guess he has never offended Brother Gray. Why did you mention me by name?"

"Master Guo! That's true. I haven't even seen you. You really haven't offended me!" Gray Snake shouted at the top of his voice: "We, a bunch of poor people, came to your village for no other reason. We are hungry! I also heard that Master Guo, you are the richest man in this village, is that true?"

Mr. Guo's heart trembled.

broken!

Coming for me!

After he said this, he felt that the eyes of the young men in the village were not right. If they were only coming for Mr. Guo, then...

Mr. Guo hurriedly shouted to the people below with a guilty conscience: "My family doesn't have enough money to feed such a large group of brothers. So, Brother Hui, I'll throw you two bags of millet flour from above. You take them and go somewhere else to have a look?"

"Two bags of millet noodles. There are more than 200 brothers. One bite per person is not enough."

The gray snake shouted at the top of his voice:

"Master, don't say anything else. My brothers just came from Xiaowang Village yesterday. Today, we will eat in your village. Come in!"

Under one voice.

Hundreds of people rushed towards the wooden tower and fences, and the wooden fences were collapsed in an instant.

Mr. Guo's face was as pale as paper and his heart was as dead as hopeless.

At this time, he realized that it was impossible not to bleed heavily today, but the key was that there were old and young people at home. It was ok to give them food, but if he hurt his family members and took away their valuables...

Suddenly, as if he had grasped a life-saving straw, he hurriedly whispered to the farmhand beside him: "Quick, go find Brother Chen and tell him that as long as he can protect my family tonight, I will give him another ten acres of land!!"

……

At this time, Chen Ku had already reached Xieshuiliang.
There were two men drinking here, each holding a large piece of braised beef in their hands, drinking and eating while talking.

The sound reached his ears from more than ten feet away.

"I just sold the property of the wealthy families in Xiaowang Village for silver notes yesterday, and today someone from above came to ask about it. He's so anxious..."

"How much of this hundred-odd taels of silver do you think we should pay this time?"

"You have to keep half for yourself, right?"

Listening to the two people chattering and waiting for an opportunity, after a while, the person who was drinking couldn't hold his urine anymore.

Chen Ku stared at the man who walked into the grove and looked down at the pickaxe in his hand.

Without saying a word, he followed quietly.

Susu~~
The man was still peeing comfortably with his eyes closed and whistling.

boom!
Chen Ku smashed his head with a pickaxe from behind. With a force of over a thousand pounds and a sneak attack, he didn't give the other party any time to react.

A pickaxe smashed his brain open and he fell into his own urine.

Chen Ku hit the corpse's head several times in a row.

boom!boom!boom!boom!
Make sure to die cleanly.

Then he came out of the grove, stared at the other person drinking, hid behind a tree, and prepared to wait and attack again...

He found that the unethical sneak attack was extremely useful.

It saves both trouble and effort.

(End of this chapter)