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

Lin Yinan glanced at Yun Ming who was already fast asleep on the bamboo bed, and said calmly with a slight curl of his lips, "Please ask him to come in."

Zhao Mang entered the house and bowed quickly, "Greetings, Lord City Lord!"

"Zhao Mang didn't know that the city lord was coming, and failed to welcome him. This is a real sin!"

"Thank you, village chief." Lin Yinan said in a light voice.

Glancing at Lin Shuo lying on the bed, Zhao Mang apologized and said, "It was stormy earlier, and the Lord City Lord's men were injured by trees in order to help the villagers. This selfless spirit really makes me admire it."

"What the village chief said is very good. I just wonder what the village chief and the villagers were doing when this happened?"

Zhao Mang said guiltily, "It's all my fault. I didn't take good care of Brother Lin."

"Does the village chief have any difficulties in management?" Lin Yinan asked directly.

Zhao Mang hesitated. In the past, everyone lived in different hills and might not see each other for ten days or half a month.

Now that we all live in the village, we see each other every day, so some friction is inevitable.

Most of the villagers have complex identities and backgrounds, and it is difficult to communicate with them after spending a short period of time together.

A small number of villagers are unwilling to participate in hard work. They just want to live off the mountains, hunt, and live a leisurely and unrestrained life.

"Are the villagers still not used to spring ploughing?" Zhao Mang said cautiously.

"Oh? I didn't know farming requires adaptation." Lin Yinan glanced at him and said with a fake smile, "Since some people can't adapt, let them go back to the thatched hut in the mountains."

Zhao Mang's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. He knew that the city lord was not easy to fool.

He knelt down and kowtowed, "Lord City Lord, please forgive me!"

"Please stand up, Mayor Mang. It's good that you consider our relationship, but if someone takes advantage of our relationship to stir up trouble, we must not tolerate it."

"Yes, I understand."

Lin Yinan's eyes were slightly cold. When she passed by the terraced fields, she noticed something strange. Although there were more than 300 people in the village, only a few were working on the terraced fields.

"We conquered this place. If they don't want to stay and cultivate it, they can vacate the place so I can bring people here."

She looked up at Zhao Mang nonchalantly, her deep eyes scrutinizing him.

Zhao Mang felt like a thorn in his back, and his straight back couldn't help but bend a little. "I will definitely discipline my subordinates. Let them go and plow the fields now."

After he left, Yun Shiyi asked, "Madam, do you want me to check it out?"

Lin Yinan picked up the tea on the table and took a sip.

"No need. We don't have many people now. It would be bad if we pushed too hard."

As soon as he left the house, Shanque Niang and several villagers surrounded him.

"Mountain Sparrow's father, did the city lord say anything?"

"Are you blamed?"

Zhao Mang sighed, looked back at the two secret guards standing at the door, and waved to them.

"Let's go back and talk about it."

From time to time on the way, they met villagers who were looking out from their houses. When they saw that it was Zhao Mang and others coming, they hurriedly slammed the door shut.

After returning, Zhao Mang told everyone what he had promised Lin Yinan.

One villager looked embarrassed and said, "Brother Mang, the key is that they don't listen to us now, so it's useless to talk to them."

"Go and convey it first, and then make other plans after they listen to it." Zhao Mang sighed.

Several people took the order and left.

As soon as Zhao Mang sat down on the chair, he saw the person who had left come back.

"Mango, most of the mountain people have been instigated by the two brothers Acai and Awang. They are going to rob the cattle and tools brought by the forest manager."

"What?" Zhao Mang stood up with so much force that he even knocked over the chair.

The messenger was running so fast that his forehead was covered with sweat. "Really, they heard that there were not many people coming to Longtan, so they decided to go and tie up the people in the field."

"They are so lawless!"

Zhao Mang led his men hurried to the fields.

Qianxia was changing the handkerchief on Lin Shuo's forehead to cool him down faster.

Retracting his gaze, Lin Yinan asked Yun Shiyi who was meditating nearby, "Shiyi, if we launch a flare here, can the other secret guards on the mountain see it?"

"I may not be able to see it, but I can try." Yun Shiyi said truthfully.

"Please arrange something and send a signal to see if they can receive it. There may be trouble here."

She was careless and did not check Chi'an's situation clearly before rashly asking her second uncle to bring people over.

The sound of Yun Shiyi closing the door woke up Yun Ming who was sleeping lightly.

He opened his eyes, saw Lin Yinan adjusting his sleeves, and sat up.

"Third sister-in-law, is Uncle Lin feeling better?"

"The fever is slowly going away."

"Yun Ming, tell Third Sister-in-law whether the villagers in this village are unwilling to obey the orders?"

"A small part, the villagers in the village are quite complicated. Some of them have family members who joined the bandits before and were killed by my third brother. They are very hostile to us."

"Hate?"

Lin Yinan suddenly realized that this was the reason why the construction and planting of the terraces had not been completed for so long.

Yun Ming's face was filled with resentment. They were here to help them. "Well, it's fine if they just hate us, but they also do all kinds of bad things to sow discord between us and the villagers. I..."

Before he finished speaking, Lin Yinan made a gesture to silence him.

"There's movement outside!"

As soon as she finished speaking, the secret guard pushed the door open.

"Madam, the villagers have kidnapped Chen Shi, Wu Song, and several of our brothers, and are heading this way."

"Where are the recruits?"

"Confront them and persuade the villagers to release the people."

Lin Yinan's eyes flashed fiercely, "You've come just in time, I'll go meet them."

"Ma'am, let's go too." Sisters Chixia stepped forward.

Glancing at Lin Shuo lying on the bed, Lin Yinan said, "Qianxia, ​​you stay and look after your second uncle."

Just as he stepped out of the house, Yun Shiyi, who had just returned from sending the signal, happened to fall from the roof.

When a few people came to the outside of the yard, Zhao Mang and the people he brought were forced over by the rebellious villagers.

Lin Yinan saw Chen Shi and Wu Song tied up by the mountain people, as well as several secret guards with bloody heads.

"Zhao Mang, what's going on?"

Zhao Mang, with a bruised face and nose, said, "Lord City Lord, they killed the oxen for farming and arrested Manager Lin's men. Now they want to arrest you."

"Oh? Why?"

"They want to, they want to negotiate terms with you."

Lin Yinan looked at the middle-aged man in front with cold eyes, "What are your conditions?"

The leading man glared at her fiercely and said, "We mountain people are blessed by the mountain god. We will never be controlled by anyone, let alone accept the leadership of a woman and pay taxes to you."

"That's it? Let our people go!"

"We will release him as long as you agree to our conditions!" the man shouted.

At this moment, different voices were shouting among the crowd.

"We must not let them go. Our brothers have been killed, and blood must be paid with blood!"

"Yes! Blood debt must be paid with blood!"

"There are actually accomplices of the bandits mixed in with the villagers?" Lin Yinan glanced at Zhao Mang indifferently.

Zhao Mang heard from Shanque that the city lord had extraordinary skills and was not comparable to ordinary women. He was so scared that he couldn't help shivering and the hatchet in his hand almost fell to the ground.