I will lead the whole village to occupy the land and become the king.

"Huh? Didn't Lao Meng and the others tell you yesterday?" Village Chief Li asked curiously.

Lu Yanzheng shook his head, "No, they only talked about the Qinggang Mountain incident and some other situations."

"They must have forgotten. After all, we have gotten used to it over the past few months." Village Chief Li understood immediately.

After hearing this, Lu Yanzheng could understand. It was he who had been leading everyone to talk about the grain robbery in Qinggang Mountain yesterday. It was reasonable that they didn't think of anything else for a while.

"Uncle village chief, all the uncles and uncles," Lu Yanzheng stood up and saluted everyone, "Thank you all for taking care of my parents during the years I was away."

After saying this, he bowed to everyone.

Village chief Li and others quickly dispersed, waving their hands and saying that they were not worthy of it.

"A Zheng, you are now the general who protects the country. How can you show such courtesy to people like us? You can't, you can't!" Village chief Li patted his chest lightly, his heart almost jumping out of his chest with fear.

When Old Man Lu heard this, he asked, confused, "What national defense general?"

"Old Lu, don't you know yet?" Village Chief Li looked at him in shock. "A Zheng is now the Great General who was personally appointed by the Emperor to protect the country!"

Old Man Lu: "..."

Chen and Jiang Qinyu, who had just come out of the kitchen: "..."

The Great General of National Defense?

Jiang Qinyu was a little confused. Did Lu Yanzheng's status rise so quickly? With such an impressive title, how many soldiers would he have to command?

"A Zheng, why didn't you tell me before?" Old man Lu came back to his senses and looked at him with sadness and relief.

Lu Yanzheng said calmly: "It's just an empty title, there's nothing much to say."

"How can this be just an empty reputation?" Chen was unhappy when she heard this. "No matter what, you earned it on the battlefield."

"Yes, A Zheng, don't be so modest," said Village Chief Li. "You are now the most promising person in our village. I think we should open the ancestral hall tonight and burn incense for our ancestors!"

Lu Yanzheng immediately spoke out to stop them, "There's no need to mobilize so many troops. Thank you for your kindness, village chief."

He was not being modest, but the title was indeed just an empty title. It sounded nice, but it had no practical benefits.

Village chief Li tried to persuade him a few more times, but Lu Yanzheng refused, so they had to give up.

"Uncle village chief, I want to go around the village and take a look. Is it convenient?" Lu Yanzheng asked politely.

Village Chief Li smiled and said, "What's so inconvenient about this? You're from our village too! Come on, uncle will take you there!"

As he said that, he turned and left. When he saw Jiang Qinyu, his eyes lit up, "Niece, come with us!"

Jiang Qinyu's smile was a bit forced. "Uncle Village Chief, I have something to do at home, so I won't go."

Just kidding, it’s obvious that Lu Yanzheng is not easy to fool, so she’d better stay away.

What's more, she has a time bomb in her hand, and she has to deal with it quickly while Lu Yanzheng is not around.

Lu Yanzheng glanced at Jiang Qinyu, said nothing, and followed Village Chief Li out.

Chen looked at the backs of the people, tears suddenly streaming down her face, "Our A Zheng has made it big, he really has made it big..."

"Mom, it's a good thing that Brother Zheng is doing this. Please stop crying, otherwise Brother Zheng will feel sad if he sees it." Jiang Qinyu patted her back and comforted her.

Chen wiped her tears and said, "Yes, this is a good thing. I should laugh. I should have a good laugh."

But she started crying again while laughing, "It was really not easy for A Zheng... Back then, he... wuwuwu..."

Chen's words were unclear, and Jiang Qinyu didn't understand them. She just thought she was lamenting how difficult it was to raise Lu Yanzheng over the years.

After comforting Chen, Jiang Qinyu handed the two children to her and said, "Mom, I'm going to the fields and will come to pick them up later."

Chen had calmed down by now, wiping her eyes and saying, "Go ahead, go ahead. I'll be watching over them, don't worry."

Jiang Qinyu then left the house.

She came out of the village entrance and walked through a field. She put on a mask and sunglasses as she walked, then took a motorcycle helmet and put it on her head, and then randomly found a large black down jacket and put it on.

Soon, unless you spoke to Jiang Qinyu at close range, no one could help but wonder who this strangely dressed person was.

When they reached the road out of the village, there was no one around. Jiang Qinyu took out the off-road motorcycle on display on the first floor, stepped on the seat, and rushed out!

It was very cold in Yongshan County during the Spring Festival, and Jiang Qinyu, who was riding an off-road motorcycle, was naturally even colder. But apart from cursing the One-Eyed King and Zhu Youcai a thousand times in her heart, she could only accept her fate and head to her destination.

As early as that night when she and Meng Tianze and others went up Qinggang Mountain to explore the way, they discovered a group of caves halfway up the mountain.

At that time, Meng Tianze also told them not to go to that area in the future because they might encounter some large wild beasts.

But Jiang Qinyu accidentally took 10,000 dan of military rations without knowing it. If she doesn't return it, she probably won't be at peace for the rest of her life.

Besides, she had felt bad when she knew that Dingshui Village would be troubled by the One-Eyed King and others because she had taken the 10,000 stones of military rations and pay. Now that she knew that it was military pay, they could not leave it with her.

In this kind of weather and at this time, there were almost no people on the road, and the off-road motorcycles were very fast. Even if someone saw it, they would not know what it was, let alone catch up. Jiang Qinyu naturally rode more boldly.

A quarter of an hour later, Jiang Qinyu arrived at the foot of Qinggang Mountain.

It was not safe to ride a bike up the mountain, so Jiang Qinyu put away her off-road motorcycle and walked up.

Qinggang Mountain is not high, and the terrain halfway up the mountain is relatively flat. After another quarter of an hour, Jiang Qinyu arrived at the natural cave group.

That night, Qin Shen interrogated the surviving bandits and learned that all the bandits who had been recruited by the One-Eyed King had gone to Dingshui Village, so there must be no one on the mountain at this time.

Jiang Qinyu didn't care too much and climbed up and down breathlessly. It took her half an hour to hide the 10,000 stones of grain deep in different caves.

She stood at the bottom of the cave and looked up, making sure that she couldn't see it unless she went in, before leaving.

Returning the same way, Jiang Qinyu took off her disguise and breathed a sigh of relief.

Now all she had to do was lead Lu Yanzheng and his men to Qinggang Mountain to search for food, and everything else was none of her business.

On the other side, Lu Yanzheng looked at the lush green crops growing in the fields, and then at the shallow layer of clean water in the canal, and felt that everything about Dingshui Village was different.

Others may not know, but he has many sources of information. Today, Dai Viet is suffering from drought, and many states and capitals can no longer hold on, and people are fleeing to the south of the Yangtze River.

However, the canal in Jiangnan stopped operating last year, and the Yue River, known as the mother river of Dai Viet, has shrunk by two-thirds. Except for the three prefectures where the canal and the Yue River flow through and where people can still grow crops, the harvests in other prefectures this year are almost only 30% of those in previous years.

Among them, the autumn harvest of Yukang Prefecture was only 10% of that in the past.

However, there is water in Dingshui Village and people can even farm there!

This is all so unusual...