The arrogant little husband is desperately flirting with the hunter

Chu Xiao and Yan Zhenshen waited for the rain to stop for a few days before going down the mountain. The rain was really heavy. There was a gully on one side and a broken tree on the other side of the road going up and down the mountain.

You can see stones rolling down along the way, and the place where there was a stream before has now become a rushing sound, giving a feeling of being unstoppable.

Seeing this, both of them were a little worried. They didn't know what the situation was like at home and whether it would be affected by the rain.

Fortunately, most of the villages in Anning Town are located at a relatively high terrain. Although many fields of many people were washed away and the rows of fields looked like they were broken in half from a distance, there was no collapse of houses and no rocks rolling down the mountains.

For a time, many people in the village were busy blocking water and filling holes in the fields, and women who had married from other villages would also return to their own villages to take a look out of concern.

As soon as the news spread, everyone started talking about which village was punished by the gods. A torrent of water mixed with mud flowed down from the mountains, destroying most of the village. In an instant, almost everyone died.

The villagers were curious and frightened when they heard this. Many old people who remembered the previous natural disasters shook their heads and sighed, saying "it's all fate" to express their regret.

It is said that where there are natural disasters there will be civil unrest. The magistrate of Anning Town County has always wanted to make some political achievements, but he did not expect to make any mistakes in his last year in office.

As soon as the rain stopped, each village was asked to count whether there were any families whose houses were washed away. If so, the government would provide a certain amount of disaster relief funds.

Of course, the money couldn't be paid by the county government. He also had to send people to check out the situation in other counties and report it to the higher authorities as appropriate.

The village chief was not a stubborn person. He did not hesitate to ask for statistics and directly reported the school where Brother Lin, Uncle Sun and another child were studying.

The number reported by Anning Village was too low, so the yamen runner in charge of the matter only took a glance and gave that household 300 coins to the village chief.

This amount of money is not enough to do anything. Building a simple thatched house would cost at least three or five taels of silver. Three hundred coins could only build a cowshed with wind blowing in from all sides.

The county magistrate wanted to distribute some copper coins as a consolation, but how could a village that was severely affected by the disaster survive with just a few hundred coins? For a while, there were actually several cases of robbery.

After Yan Zhenshen came back and took a day's rest, Wang Wu asked him to go to the mountain to cut trees. Some craftsmen who were building houses had come to take a look. If Lin Ge'er still wanted to live in that house, it would be best to replace all the wood on the beams.

The craftsman was found by Yan Zhennan in the county. Recently, many villages have had dilapidated houses, and he was very busy. After checking the situation, he instructed the team what to do with the cut trees and then went to the next village.

While chopping some trees, Wang Wu chatted with him: "Boss Yan, your home is far from the village, you have to watch over the house at night."

"What's wrong?" Yan Zhenshen raised his arm to wipe the sweat from his head, then raised the axe again and chopped at the tree.

"There are bandits. This is the first time I've heard of bandits in our area since I was a child. I heard that people living in brick and tile houses in some villages had their homes robbed at night."

In the village, if a family owns more than ten acres of land, it is not a big problem to save some money to build a blue brick and tile house in five or six years of good weather.

Especially Liujiawan, which is closest to Anning Village, because there are many families doing business in the village, and every family that makes a living has a blue brick and tile house.

Yan Zhenshen didn't take it too seriously and said with a smile: "What kind of bandits would steal at night instead of robbing?"

"No matter if he is a bandit or not, things have been uneasy lately. Our county is still relatively safe. I heard that there are more bandits in other counties, and a lot of our county's guards have been borrowed."

After hearing this, Yan Zhenshen couldn't help but feel a little worried. It seemed that he had to go to the county town to inquire about it. If there really were bandits in the town, families like his who lived far away from the village would definitely be the first target.

"Bandits?" Chu Xiao didn't care at all. "They have to be really brave to come. Don't they see that we are only two miles away from Bai Hao's house? It will only take three to five minutes if they run fast. By then, I will hold them off while you go call for help and we will kill them all at once."

Chu Xiao was really eager to try: "Hey, do you think there are many bandits? If we send them to the county government, can we get a reward? If we can get one or two taels of silver per head, how much can we earn if there are a hundred or eighty of them?"

Yan Zhenshen rubbed Chu Xiao's hair helplessly, knowing that his husband was thinking about picking up the government's money like he did before when hunting wolves.

"Don't overthink it. Forget that the people we caught blocking the road last time didn't even get a reward of one or two taels of silver. Now there are only some petty thieves in our town. You can't earn this silver, and neither can we."

Neither of them told their families about these things, for fear that they would be frightened all day and unable to sleep well at night.

The next day, Yan Zhenshen said he was going to the county town to ask Lu Zhicheng about the situation. Chu Xiao pointed to the Beishan mansion and said, "Why don't you go to ask about something so close? What on earth are you going to do in the county town?"

Yan Zhenshen felt helpless when he heard his husband's tone. He thought he was just picking trouble with him.

"Tell me, what am I supposed to take the blame for?"

"What do you mean by taking the blame?" Chu Xiao was unhappy and slammed the table: "You just answered my question. Don't you take me, the head of the family, seriously?"

Yan Zhenshen: “…”

Chu Xiao snorted coldly: "You are ignoring me, right? Then I will ignore you too."

After saying this, he got up and left in an angry look.

"Husband, where are you going?" Yan Zhenshen asked as he followed him.

"Go find the man who takes care of me and have a good chat with him." Chu Xiao went to the main courtyard and said something to Zhao Guizhi, then walked towards the old house in Beishan.

Yan Zhenshen didn't continue to follow this time. Whenever his husband met Bai Hao, he always spoke something incomprehensible, and if they started talking, they could talk for a whole day.

He really couldn't sit still with the two men, so he might as well continue chopping trees.

As a marquis, Bai Hao naturally knows a lot of things. When Chu Xiao asked him, his face was full of confusion.

"Beware of fire, theft and villains. Chu Xiao, ah Chu Xiao, my situation is even worse than yours. Do you know how many people are ready to do something to me? I'm really worried that those villains will take this opportunity to kill me again."

"Ah, no, no, they don't want to take my life, they want the lives of the generals of Zunyuanhou's generation."

Chu Xiao was speechless. He was praising and scolding at the same time. He didn't know what Lei Huo's expression would be when he heard that he was also a dog.

"What's wrong with you?"

Bai Hao wiped the cake crumbs from his mouth and said, "Most of the guards borrowed from our county are my people. Lu Zhicheng tried to stop them but failed. Damn it, I suspect that the county magistrate was either caught by someone or got some benefits."

How could Chu Xiao understand such a thing? He shrugged and said, "So what?"

"So you guys have to be careful too. My death is not a pity, but I can't let my fellow villagers get implicated."