Starting from the Greyhound, seventy-two changes.

Chapter 25 Rescue
Dachen Village has become a complete mess.

Obviously this was a premeditated robbery. They started with big landlords like Mr. Guo, and then spread to the entire village, taking as much as they could.

The entire village was filled with refugees who could not be distinguished as human or ghost, shouting and yelling, accompanied by screams and cries of villagers fighting and resisting.

In less than an hour, seven or eight people had died, including villagers and refugees.

When Chen Ku sneaked back to the broken cave, he found that his mother and sister-in-law were holding Hu Zi and were still safe in the broken cave.

Did not bother.

After feeling relieved, I went back to my home.

I found that my house had indeed been broken into by refugees.

The results tonight were clear.

His family was extremely poor and had no food stored, so not many valuables were lost, but their house was turned into a complete mess.

Even so, after Chen Ku entered the kitchen and checked the house, he found that two beds had been taken away and even the half-full jar of salt in the kitchen was lost.

Chen Ku cursed in his heart: "This group of locust ghosts!!"

From what we can see, even his family, which didn't have much food stored, was plundered by the passing geese. It is conceivable what the families in the village who really had food stored are experiencing now.

No one else can do anything about it, but we still have to take care of Ji Yang, Master Li, and Brother Zhao's family. After all, it's okay if the food is stolen, but it would be a disaster if people were beaten to death in the chaos.

Just as Chen Ku was heading towards Mr. Li's house.

A man suddenly jumped out on the road, and Chen Ku subconsciously wanted to attack, but he heard the voice of Heiwa, the farmhand of Mr. Guo's family, and became very excited:
"Brother Chen Ku, I have been looking for you for a long time. The squire is asking you for help. The beheaded refugees are not leaving even after they have eaten their fill. They are robbing every household. The squire asked me to come to you for help. As long as you can keep their family safe and alive, the squire is willing to give you another ten acres of land as a thank you gift."

Ten acres of land!
Chen Ku's heart moved. Mr. Guo was really generous.

You know, one mu of land is worth at least five or six taels of silver, and ten mu of land is worth fifty or sixty taels of silver.

And in the countryside.

The importance of land sometimes exceeds that of silver.

When you own enough land, you will naturally become a landlord.

Mr. Guo owned more than one hundred acres of land in the village. Even if his family lay at home, they could have chicken, duck, fish and meat for every meal. He was a wealthy man with a net worth of over a thousand taels of silver.

If he took over these ten acres of land, plus the seven acres of land from his family, a total of seventeen acres of land, his mother and sister-in-law would definitely not be able to cultivate so much, so they would have to recruit tenants and hire long-term and short-term workers. In a sense...

Chen Ku suddenly transformed himself and entered the landlord class.

Something moved in my heart.

"Okay, go back and reply first, I'll be there soon."

Heiwa nodded excitedly.

They had all witnessed how Chen Kuge overturned the old ox in the field.

Chen Ku watched Heiwa leave.

I thought to myself that I had to repay the kindness and hospitality of Mr. Guo, the local resident, a few days ago. Now he was given an extra ten acres of land, so there was no reason for me not to go.

However, things have different importance and people have different closeness.

As usual, Chen Ku first went to look after his good friends in the village.

When he arrived outside Brother Zhao's house, he found blood all over the floor. He was slightly shocked and quickly shouted inside: "Brother Zhao, is everyone okay?"

Hearing the sound, Zhao Liangcai's voice came from the window, and he seemed to be relieved: "It's Brother Chen, my family is fine, don't worry, the blood outside the house is the blood of those beheaded people who were shot by my arrows. I shot two people in the arms, so no one dared to come in. Don't worry about my family, go to Master Li's house to check."

Chen Ku felt relieved and said, "Then be careful over here."

After a while, he arrived at Ji Yang's house, but seeing that Li Ji Yang's house had been turned upside down, he was slightly moved and hurried in to look for someone.

After a while, Chen Ku came out thinking:

"The granary was clean and there was no sign of being robbed."

Immediately, he figured it out.

Master Li is worthy of being Master Li, the old leader of the mountain herders, who has led his brother before. The three words "old leader" often mean that one is careful, cautious, and smart, and can be the leader of the herb-collecting team. Seeing that no one was at home and the granary was clean, he guessed it.

"I can think of moving my family. As a shrewd old boss, it's not difficult for Master Li to think of that. Not only that, he probably hid the food he received somewhere when he heard the news. Now that the refugees are coming, they just need to hide their families like me, and the refugees can search the house. As long as the food and people are safe, it doesn't matter if something is missing from the house."

I think this guess is probably correct.

Chen Ku felt relieved.

"I guess many people in the village have thought of this method, but it is limited to small families with three or four acres of land and not much grain. They can easily move the grain. On the contrary, Mr. Guo's family is an example. They are a large family with so much grain in the granary that it is about to overflow. They can't move the grain in a short time..."

Chen Ku knew that he couldn't delay any longer and had to go over and take a look.

Don’t let Mr. Guo really be beaten to death by the vagrants.

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Mr. Guo's house was filled with refugees who took advantage of the chaos to smash, loot and rob. The granary had been completely destroyed. The young and strong men from the village who had gathered there, as well as the farmhands from his farm, had not been able to hold on any longer and were scattered all over.

Mr. Guo and his family were forced into the stable and hid secretly in the haystack.

There were seven people in the family: the mother, wife, son, daughter-in-law, and a daughter of fifteen or sixteen. All of them had black faces, which they had deliberately smeared to pretend to be refugees.

"Dad, all the food in our house has been snatched away by those bastards!" Although Guo Wen was hiding, he was furious and wanted to rush out of the stable and fight with that group of people.

"My dear, please calm down!" Old Mrs. Guo grabbed her grandson's sleeve anxiously: "Those are just external things. Living is the most important thing."

"But, but, those are all our family's things!" Guo Wen was anxious.

Mr. Guo gnashed his teeth and cursed his son in a low voice: "You useless son of a bitch, you know nothing, it's just some food, what can be more precious than life."

His mother whispered to her son, "Silly son, your father is right. Also, your father had already secretly hidden all our gold, silver, valuables and account books while entertaining those beheading men. Now we only have some food left. It doesn't matter if it's gone. The most important thing is to save your life."

Mr. Guo looked at his stupid son and gritted his teeth and said, "Even if we take a step back and our family has nothing left, we still have to survive. Your father knows how to go from being poor to being rich. Remember, staying alive is the most important thing."

And just as the family was hiding in the stable and talking.

Suddenly, a torch lit up the stable.

Behind the torch, there was the gray snake that had knocked on the door before.

He grinned and said, "I told you so. I searched for Mr. Guo's house for a long time but couldn't find him. It turns out you were hiding with the beast."

The gray snake held a torch in one hand and a prong in the other.

All of a sudden, Mr. Guo’s family of seven felt like they had lost their parents.

Mr. Guo's eyes went dark, and he said with trembling lips: "Brother Gray Snake, you have opened the granary, you can move as much grain as you want, just go ahead, why do you still want to embarrass my family!"

"You want food? Those who want food are the starving ghosts. Who said that what I want is food?"

The gray snake showed a dangerous smile, and then set its sights on the daughter of Mr. Guo:
"Your daughter is really pretty. Even with her blackened face, she's still so delicate and has an oval face... Master Guo, how much do you think she's worth so that I won't touch her?"

As he said this, he stuck the torch next to the stable.

He pointed the fork at Mr. Guo's neck, then stretched out his free hand and grabbed Guo Xiu's collar.

"Dad! Brother! Save me!"

Guo Xiu let out a cry of fear.

however,
Her brother, whom she regarded as her biggest savior, looked at the sharp fork at this moment. He no longer had the fighting spirit he had just now, and he actually shrank back a few times in fear.

Guo Xiu suddenly despaired.

Just when she thought she was going to be ruined.

call!
call!
call!
A gust of wind blew violently from the air, directly blowing Guo Xiu's hair in front of her forehead and causing her clothes to sway.

Then a figure stood on her left.

boom! !

The gray snake holding the sharp fork simply lay on its back and fell heavily into the stable. It died instantly.

(End of this chapter)