Starting from the Greyhound, seventy-two changes.

Chapter 26 Landlord
Guo Xiu looked at the savior under the torch with excited and misty eyes.

"Chen, Brother Chen." Mr. Guo excitedly spoke, crawling and running to his feet, and came to Chen Ku: "Brother Chen, you really came to save us."

But Chen Ku looked at the gray snake on the ground with a "complicated" expression.

"He won't die, will he? I've never killed anyone before, and now..."

Mr. Guo was looking at the corpse of the gray snake.

"What? You mean, maybe he's not dead?!"

Mr. Guo heard this.

With fear and resentment, he picked up the sharp fork in his hand:
"He must die! I'm going to fuck this bastard to death!"

As the sharp fork pierced into the back of the gray snake, blood gurgled out.

"My family has been emptied out by this beast! I'll stab him to death! That was all the food in my family, and it's gone just like that!"

puff! puff! puff! puff!
"You bastard, you actually wanted to touch my daughter and steal my money. Go to hell, go to hell, go to hell!!"

Puff puff!
With great resentment, Mr. Guo thrust in and out more than ten times in a row. He was so tired that he was gasping for breath and sweat on his forehead, then he stopped.

He turned to look at his son and daughter who were covering their mouths in fear.

Panting, he ignored it.

He just looked at Chen Ku and pleaded:

"This kind of bastard deserves to die. No matter how many of them die tonight, the government won't blame us when it comes. Brother Chen Ku, don't worry. As long as you can protect the safety of Guo's family tonight, I am willing to give you 15 acres of land! What do you think? Saving our family's lives is the most important thing!"

Fifteen acres...

Chen Ku was just pretending, pretending that it was his first time to kill someone and he was scared. He didn't expect the other party to be so sensible. In order to dispel his uneasy feeling about killing someone, whether it was to vent his anger or something, he actually stabbed the gray snake a dozen times and was willing to give him another five acres of land.

In this case, there is nothing to worry about.

Chen Ku nodded:

"I'll escort you out of the village first."

Next, with Chen Ku's guards, even if there were refugees trying to rush over, they wouldn't be able to get close to Chen Ku.

Just like this, in the constant fright, Chen Ku was escorting him.

The seven members of the Guo family, who were originally in a dilemma, finally escaped from the village that was like hell and full of refugees and evil spirits.

But not long after Mr. Guo and his family escaped.

"Ah! Bastard, beast!!"

In the distance, Mr. Guo watched as the refugees not only stole all the food from their home, but also set fire to their farm.

It was all built with good wood and it took a year to build.

"You beasts, a bunch of beasts, all of you will not have a good death! You beasts will go to hell on a mountain of knives after you die!"

Mr. Guo's eyes were bloodshot and his whole body was shaking and he was about to fall down.

It was his daughter who supported him in time and whispered to him with tears in her eyes: "Dad, as long as our family is okay, it's good. Didn't you also say that as long as people are alive, food and houses are just external things."

Mr. Guo burst into tears and said that this was what he said, but he did not expect that these beasts would even burn down his house.

Chen Ku looked at the Guo family house that was on fire.

I guess the people who died tonight were all turned into charcoal in the fire. So why worry about how they died? It was too chaotic. There were more than just one or two people who died. They were all trying to grab food...

but.

Probably after tonight, everything will be over.

Without the organization behind the scenes, the one or two hundred people were already a loose group. After they robbed so many things and scattered like birds and beasts, they should not launch a second robbery on Dachen Village in a short period of time.

This will make him feel more at ease about his family after he moves to the county town.

…………

The house of Mr. Guo is indeed made of good wood.

A huge fire burned for the entire night, setting half of the village red, and was not extinguished until dawn.

And the day breaks.

There were no refugees left in the village, no one knew where they had gone. Only the people of Dachen Village who had survived the disaster were left, hiding at home, in caves, or in broken haystacks.

Chen Ku had returned to the dilapidated cave long ago and brought his family back to the house.

"God damn it, the salt is gone, the bedding is gone..." The sister-in-law looked at the miserable state of the house and cried, "These are a bunch of beheaded people."

But Chen's mother heard the cries of people from every household in the village, as well as the sound of many firecrackers. At this time, setting off firecrackers was to notify others...

If someone dies in a family, please ask the young and old in the village to come and help.

Mother Chen heard the sound of firecrackers coming from seven or eight houses in succession.

Looking at his own house, he only lost the salt jar and a few quilts. He closed his eyes and said to his wife, "Don't cry. Our family is lucky enough. There is basically no loss. Mr. Guo's house was burned to the ground, and other families even lost people. Isn't it worse than ours?"

When my sister-in-law heard this, she stopped crying and went to the kitchen to cook quietly.

Tick.

Chen Ku stood in the yard and felt his face wet.

Wow!
Soon, heavy rain fell.

Just as he expected.

It rained in the morning, and all traces of the Xieshui beam were completely gone.

This autumn rainstorm poured down on the ruins of Mr. Guo's house, extinguishing the last ashes and white smoke, leaving Mr. Guo in tears...

If it had rained sooner, perhaps his house could have been saved.

"Dad, what should we do now?" Guo Wen looked at the ruins numbly and stupidly.

Mr. Guo dug out a large box that was hidden very secretly from the ruins, exhaled, and said, "Xiu'er, go and give this 15-mu land deed to your brother Chen Ku to thank him for saving our family last night."

"Fifteen acres, Dad...that's too much." Guo Wen felt distressed. Their family only had about a hundred acres of land in total, and they gave away so much at once.

Guo Xiu had no objection. He nodded obediently and handed the land deed to Chen Ku.

Watching my daughter leave.

Mr. Guo turned around and scolded his son: "You are stupid. You can only see what is in front of your eyes. Let me ask you, is the whole village robbed this time?"

Guo Wen scratched his head: "So what?"

Mr. Guo sneered, "We have so many farmhands in our family, but we can't protect our grain. The rest of the villagers can protect it. About half of the families have been robbed. The autumn tax will be due in two days. If we don't have grain to pay the tax, we will have to sell the land. So, your father will give away 15 acres of land today, and in two days, he can sell 30 acres or 50 acres in return. Do you believe it?"

Guo Wen's eyes lit up: "Dad, you are amazing!"

Mr. Guo said coldly, "Otherwise, how do you think we got these hundred acres of land? Now, I will give you one thing. Take this silver and go to the county to buy grain. Bring more people to protect you, and then use this grain to buy land from the villagers."

Guo Wen nodded heavily: "Dad, I understand!"

Watching his son leave.

Mr. Guo held out his hand again and called him back, saying, "After you buy the grain, send a cartload to Chen Ku's family. That's the tax paid to him for his fifteen acres of land."

Guo Wen frowned and shouted, "Dad, you..."

Mr. Guo shouted, "You know nothing. Just do as I say."

Uniting with the strong and devouring the weak is the way to survive.

Here.

Chen Ku also received the deed to the 15 acres of land sent by Guo Xiu. When he saw the little girl leaving, he looked back every few steps, probably because of the scene last night that left an impression on him.

Unfortunately, living in the countryside with a wife and children was not his dream, and it was destined that they would never be together.

Looking at the 15 acres of land deed in my hand, they were actually the best paddy fields and wheat fields in the village.

Then look at the disaster situation in the village.

I guessed that this looting had caused Mr. Guo to suffer great losses, but it might also have given him an opportunity to annex land. After all, only food and houses were burned last night, and his other property was not lost...

Looking at the land that he had acquired easily, plus the land at home, he was now a landlord with more than 20 acres of land. In the future, as his income increased, his family would probably have more land...

"I never expected that I would eventually become a landlord."

(End of this chapter)