My whole family time-traveled! I became a god during my exile in a famine.

Chapter 96 You're a Devil

"Why didn't you say so earlier?" Xin Nian glanced at them coldly.

The village chief of Huangcun coughed several times, tears streaming down his face. "We didn't want to come either. But what can we do?"

"Commander Wang told us to act pitiful as much as possible, hoping to stay in your ranks. Cough cough cough." The old village chief's wrinkled face was full of vicissitudes and bitterness. "But who would have thought that you wouldn't even give us a sip of water, let alone have the kindness to let us stay."

Xiao Jia couldn't take it anymore. "They're all a bunch of convicts. You're asking penniless convicts to give you charity? Isn't that ridiculous?"

The old village chief wept bitterly, "We have no choice. Waaah, if we don't complete the mission, our families, friends, and villagers will all be in danger."

Xin Nian reached out and helped the old village chief up.

This time, she was very calm and didn't grab anyone. Instead, she gently brushed the dust off the old village chief and said softly, "You should have told us sooner. If you had told us earlier, we would have known you were being coerced. Then we could have sat down together and discussed how to resolve this matter."

The old village chief cried uncontrollably, and the villagers of Huang Village felt that they were the most unlucky people in the world.

Xin Nian said calmly, "I'll count to three, and then everyone please stop crying, okay?"

"one."

The crying stopped abruptly.

Not only did the crying stop, but all other noises disappeared...

Xie Ninglan almost laughed.

Wow, her daughter really has the aura of a big shot wherever she goes.

With the faint, muffled sobbing no longer in her mind, Xin Nian nodded in satisfaction.

"Very good." She looked at the old village chief of Huangcun, smiled, her lips pursed, as radiant as a peach blossom.

"Tell me, you originally planned to stay, and then what happened?"

The village chief of Huangcun, his lips trembling, dared not hide anything and confessed the purpose of their trip in detail.

"What Commander Wang means is that you, and your group, are quite large. Therefore, dealing with you will be more troublesome."

"Let's infiltrate your group as refugees first, and then figure out a way to...smuggle you."

Xin Nian nodded knowingly and smiled, "Where is your base?"

The convicts felt that these words sounded somewhat familiar!

Village Chief Huang and the others shook themselves and pointed towards the other side of the mountain.

"In the village?"

Village Chief Huang nodded and then shook his head. "They built a shed area near the hunters' hut on the mountain, very close to our village."

Xin Nian clasped her hands together and gently fiddled with them. "How many people are there?"

"One, about a hundred people."

"Including you guys?"

“No, that’s not all.” The old village chief shook his head, his expression trembling with fear.

"How many villages did they massacre? Besides Xiaoling Village, I heard there are three or four other villages nearby?"

Village Chief Huang swallowed hard, subconsciously exchanging a glance with the woman holding the boy. Xin Nian let out a silent "oh," her smile deepening.

"This... Commander Wang would never tell us something like this," Village Chief Huang replied tearfully.

"Tie them all up." She waved her small hand, as if shooing away flies.

Without saying a word, Xiao Jia led his men to take ropes and tied up the group of cursing Huangcun villagers tightly.

Xin Nian pulled the boy from the woman's arms and asked with a smile, "Is this child related to that Commander Wang?"

"It's alright!" the woman screamed, almost jumping up, but Erdan slapped her and pinned her to the ground. She continued to struggle desperately.

"Why are you so agitated, hmm?" Xin Nian looked at the other person calmly and gently rubbed the boy's forehead.

"This little head looks fragile. I wonder if it can withstand a slap."

The boy burst into tears, crying, "Mommy, Mommy, save me, Mommy!"

"What are you doing, you damned woman! He's just a child who doesn't understand anything, let him go!" The woman screamed and struggled as she was forced to the ground.

"You don't understand anything? How dare you tell me this?" Xin Nian sneered. "Aren't you all the families of bandits who kill, plunder, and commit all sorts of evil deeds just beneficiaries? What are you talking to me about being innocent or not?"

"When you were taking advantage of others, did you ever think about the suffering of the deceased's family?"

"Old man, my patience is almost gone." Xin Nian gave the village chief of Huang Village a dismissive look. "You'd better explain yourself clearly. Otherwise, I'll kill you all first, and then go do something else."

Village Chief Huang trembled with fear. "I...I'll talk, I'll talk. That Commander Wang is from Wangjiazhai, the village next door. On the day of the earthquake, everyone's village collapsed. People died or were injured, and all the grain and everything else was destroyed."

“Commander Wang used to be a local scoundrel. After this incident, he became even more wicked and gathered a group of idle villagers to rob our nearby villages.”

"But several villages nearby are close to the mountains and were severely damaged. Even if we looted them, we wouldn't be able to salvage much. So Commander Wang set his sights on Xiaoling Village."

“Xiaoling Village is not far from us, and it is located on the main road connecting the north and south. It used to be very prosperous. Commander Wang said that even if there is an earthquake, Xiaoling Village will definitely be in a much better situation than our mountain villages, and there must still be a lot of grain stored up.”

"Commander Wang gathered about a hundred able-bodied men from Wangcun and Huangcun and went to Xiaoling Village overnight to plunder a large amount of goods. If they are careful with their food and drink, it will be enough for them to use for a year and a half."

"But despite this, Commander Wang said that it's pitch black all day long, and he doesn't know when the darkness will end. We can't grow grain or buy anything, and we can't just sit around and do nothing."

"So they came up with a plan to leave people in Xiaoling Village to keep an eye on things and see if any easy targets passed by. When your large group of people passed by, they were already spotted and watched by Commander Wang's men."

"Oh, so you guys know about sustainable development, huh?" Xin Nian said sarcastically. "So you're all actually from the same village as the bandits?"

"No, no!" several villagers from Huangcun cried out. "We were forced, coerced by them. We live worse than pigs and dogs. It's Wang Da Po Niang and her family who are the real culprits. They eat and drink well every day and live a life of luxury."

"Yes, yes, when Wang the old woman saw that you were so adamant that you wouldn't even give us a drink, she came up with a wicked plan to keep her little brat in your group so she could secretly poison you."

"Shut up, all of you shut up!" The woman's eyes flashed with venom, as if she wanted to scratch the gossipy villagers of Huangcun to death with her claws.

"I'll kill you all when we get back!" she yelled, only to have half her face twisted in a slap from Xin Nian.

"Number One. Deal with this drug bastard first."

"What are you doing? Let go of him, you devil! He's just a child! You!"

"He hasn't told the whole truth yet."

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