Crossing the Unknown Country

The village chief took a torn quilt and threw it at Li Wu, cursing him: "Look at what you have done. You are lawless in the village. This time you go to the town to face the lawsuit yourself, or I will take you there."

As soon as Li Wu saw the quilt, he knew something bad had happened, and he quickly knelt down and begged for mercy: "Uncle, we were bewildered and did something bad, please forgive us!"

Li Wu was not stupid enough to take all the responsibility himself, since they were all involved. Bad San also knelt down and begged for mercy, because he knew no one could escape this time.

The two men then cried and begged for mercy, knocking their heads. They were really scared this time. They couldn't enter the government office. Once they entered, they never came out safely. They knew that they had been fooling around in the town and knew some things that outsiders didn't know. The people in the government office were very corrupt. If you went in, you couldn't get out without money. Even if you had less money, you couldn't get out. If you didn't have money, you had to do hard labor. Few people could come back alive.

The village chief was just trying to scare them. They were all from the same village, so how could they be so cruel? If they really wanted to send someone away, they would not have only come with their own son. In the end, the village chief asked them to take the eggs and flour they had gathered and go to Su He's house to apologize. After all, they were all from the same village. For the sake of the village chief's face, the Su He family let the matter slip. Su He's father also knew that they were all from the same village, and they were still outsiders, so they could not offend the Li family. Although Li Wu and others were not good people, they were all members of the Li family. Since the village chief asked them to come and apologize, they just needed to stop harassing their family.

Su He's father also took the opportunity to do the village chief a favor, saying that he saw a group of soldiers galloping towards the county town, is there something going on? After all, the village chief has been the village chief for so many years, and he is still very smart. They are very close to the border town, and every time something like this happens, it must be related to the border.

He did not dare to make it public, so he asked his son to go to the city to buy some food and store it, and then go to the town to check the situation. The town was more informed than the village, and those officials had more or less relatives in the border town, and whenever there was something, they would report the news immediately, after all, this was a way out for those people.

Whenever there was friction between the two countries, someone would pass the news back, and the families of the rich and officials would start to leave. The village chief's son saw several cars heading towards the county town at the entrance of the town. There was no wall in this town, so the enemy would drive straight in without any obstruction. They didn't dare to stay here, because if they failed, they would be too late to run.

The village chief's son bought the food, drove the ox cart home quickly, and told his father what he saw. The village chief frowned, unable to think of any solution. Their ancestors had lived here for generations, and it was definitely not realistic to run away. At most, they could hide in the nearby mountains when a war broke out. They couldn't run to the county, and it was difficult to get a household registration certificate. There was no reason for them to go, and the county would not allow them to stay for a long time. Living there would cost money, and it was not something that the villagers could afford. Now they could only ask everyone to store some food, in case of a war, the harvest would be affected.

The village chief thought about military service. If there was a war, they would be conscripted, and the young and strong men in the village would be reduced by more than half. They had to think carefully about what to do with their village. They had to prepare in advance and go to the mountains to look for some hidden caves. The young and old in the village had to have a hiding place.

The village chief has been worried since he confirmed the news, but he is also glad that Su He's father, who sells tofu every day, told him about this. Otherwise, it would be too late when he found out, so the village chief decided to gather the tribesmen to discuss countermeasures.