Through the troubled times and famine, I just want to farm peacefully

Lin Yinan stood up, walked over slowly, and said calmly, "There is no order without rules. If you don't want to stay, you can go down the mountain now. If you want to rush up by force, then we'll see whether your necks are tougher or their swords are sharper."

"Since we allow you to stay here, you must follow our rules!"

The villagers looked at each other, and saw fear in each other's eyes.

At this time, the village chief came over with a gong and banged it twice in front of everyone.

"Why are you making so much trouble? Go back! You just had your meal and you don't even remember your name?"

The villagers lowered their heads in shame after hearing the village chief's words, and returned to their families, not daring to complain anymore.

"My Lord City Lord, I am so sorry! I have caused you so much trouble!"

The village chief hurried over to apologize.

"Village chief has done a great job!" Lin Yinan pointed to several bundles of oilcloth on the ground and said, "These are the oilcloths that the military camp has loaned to you. Organize the villagers to set up the tents before dark."

"Okay, I will do as you say."

The village chief nodded repeatedly, fearing that Lin Yinan would be unhappy and ask the men in black to hack them to death.

"Go."

Lin Yinan waved to Zhou Yong who was standing aside, ready for action.

"You are from this village?" She looked at the young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, her voice without any fluctuation, "Yes, may I ask what the Lord Mayor has to say?"

"Then I'll leave this place to you. Make sure they set up the tents before dark, and don't cut down trees around here..."

Lin Yinan told him that when he led people to cut down trees, they should not cut down thick ones, but should cut them at intervals, and they should not cut down large areas at once to avoid soil erosion in the future.

Finally, she asked, "Can you do this?"

Zhou Yong clasped his hands together and said, "I will definitely live up to the trust of the City Lord!"

After giving the instructions, Lin Yinan was ready to get up and leave. After taking two steps, she said, "By the way, after the tents are set up, ask the women in the village to make a big pot of ginger for everyone to drive away the cold. It's easy to get sick if you're caught in the rain for so long."

"Yes! I will obey your orders!"

Lin Yinan took the Qianxia sisters to the military camp on the mountain. She had done everything she should do. Whether they could survive depended entirely on themselves.

You can't put the food in front of your mouth and still not eat it!

Looking at the backs of Lin Yinan and the others as they left, the village chief stomped his numb feet, looked at the shivering children huddled in their parents' arms, gritted his teeth, and gathered all the people in the village.

"Now listen to my instructions. One team will go cut down trees, and the other team will go collect dry firewood..."

Zhou Yong said, "Come with me if you want to cut down trees. The city lord has warned us that the trees in this forest cannot be cut down at will."

Everyone had lost their temper at this point, picked up their axes and tools and followed Zhou Yong away.

There is strength in numbers.

An hour later, the first tent was set up. Inside the tent, a long row of large bunk beds were built with branches.

The village chief let the elderly and children in the village go in to take shelter from the rain first.

Soon a simple kitchen was built next to it.

Zhou Yong went to the village chief and said, "Uncle village chief, the kitchen is ready. Ask the aunties to find some ginger and quickly make a pot of ginger soup for everyone to drive away the cold. If we are caught in the rain for a day, we will get sick."

"Okay! I'll go right away." The village chief left with a frown.

Not to mention the elderly and children, I'm afraid no one in the entire village has dry clothes.

A moment later, the village chief's wife and Zhou Yongniang found the village chief.

"Boss, we have ginger, but the dry firewood we found is all wet and won't light. What should we do?"

The village chief raised his voice and called Zhou Wang who was helping over.

Zhou Yong put down his hatchet and said, "I'm going to the military camp to borrow some dry firewood."

As he said this, he wiped the water off his face and ran up the mountain.

"Brother Yong is a good young man!" The village chief's frowning brows relaxed.

Halfway through his run, Zhou Wang was stopped by two secret guards.

These black-clad guards always trained them to death on a daily basis. He was a little scared and his speech was a little slurred.

"Yun, Captain Yun."

Yun Shiyi pointed at a bundle of dry firewood wrapped in oilcloth on the ground and stared at him with a pair of sharp eyes.

"Are you back to borrow firewood?"

Facing his boss's scrutiny, Zhou Yong felt more stressed. He swallowed and nodded with difficulty.

"Yes!"

"The Lord City Lord has anticipated this. You can take these dry firewood!"

Zhou Yong heaved a sigh of relief and immediately bowed, "Thank you, Lord City Lord, and thank you, Captain Yun!"

Yun Shiyi raised his eyebrows, a slight curve appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he tiptoed and disappeared into the woods with his men.

Zhou Yong picked up the firewood and ran down the mountain as if there was a ghost chasing him.

With dry firewood, the women gathered all the pots in the village together and threw the washed and cut ginger into the pots to boil water.

Remembering that everyone had not eaten all day, the village head's wife asked each family to contribute some rice, put it into ginger water and cook it into porridge. When it was ready, sprinkle a handful of salt on it. The ginger porridge, which could both fill the stomach and drive away the cold, was ready.

With the joint efforts of more than 300 people in the village, six tents were finally set up before dark.

The villagers either changed into dry clothes or stood in front of the fire, warming themselves while eating bowls of thick ginger porridge.

After drinking a bowl of ginger porridge, everyone felt warm all over and felt alive again.

“I wonder when this rain will stop?”

The village chief squatted in front of the tent, looking at the heavy rain outside, lit his treasured water pipe, and started smoking.

The women's sobbing could be heard from inside the tent.

"I finally made a home here, but now it's gone!"

"Alas! I was hoping to sell the rapeseed in the field for some money."

"Aunt, your rapeseed has been harvested, but mine is still soaking in the field. I'm afraid it's all gone."

"Yours is soaking in the field, mine is soaking at home, isn't it the same? My family still has to work hard to harvest it, alas!"

"I wonder if the quilt I hung under the house will get soaked by the water?"

"It's been flooded. How can we live in this house in the future?"

"There will always be a way..."

As the night deepened, accompanied by the rustling sound of rain in the mountains and forests, the villagers who had been busy all day gradually fell asleep.

The gloomy and fierce storm, carrying with it a bone-chilling chill, mercilessly spread across the earth.

"Ah! Xiaobao! Xiaobao! What's wrong with you?"

The sleeping villagers were awakened by the sudden scream.

Covering his pounding chest, the village chief struggled to sit up and looked towards the tent next door.

"What happened over there?"

The young and quick villagers quickly found out what was going on.

"Village chief, a child has a high fever."

Before the village chief could speak, people in their tents discovered that their relatives were also running a fever.

"Dad! Are you okay?"

"Goudan mother, wake up!"

Such noises echoed throughout the camp, and soon it became a chaotic mess.

After Lin Yinan went up the mountain, he took Qianxia and her sisters to live in the room where Yun Mo had lived.

After the three of them simply washed up, they had their meal and then rested. They were really exhausted after traveling all day in the heavy rain.

At dawn, Lin Yinan was awakened by a series of hurried knocks on the door.

"Lord City Lord, Zhou Yong wants to see you!"

"What's the matter?"

The Chinatsu sisters who were sleeping on the simple cots also woke up and quickly put on their clothes.

A secret guard said, "Many villagers camped at the foot of the mountain have fever."

"Is Doctor Lin here?" Lin Yinan asked.

After the New Year, Doctor Lin's son was sent to the military camp in the mountains.

"Here I am."

"Okay, let Doctor Lin go check it out first, I'll be there shortly."

Lin Yinan got up, dressed and washed up quickly.