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

"No matter what, let's get everyone ready." Village Chief Li said with a bad look on his face.

When the others heard this, they thought of the group of people from Xiahe Village who had followed the bandits to rob them, and they immediately became careless and ran back to grab their weapons.

Jiang Qinyu's small cloth bag contained the brand new folding engineer shovel she had just received. She was not worried about not having a weapon to use, but she felt speechless when she thought of the people in Xiahe Village.

In the previous life, the original owner and his companions were killed by the people of Xiahe Village. At that time, Xiahe Village was large in population, with more than 300 strong laborers.

But in this life, their people faced off against the bandits and were killed, leaving only a hundred or so strong laborers who escaped.

However, for their own interests, these people colluded with bandits to rob Dinghe Village. As a result, they were not only beaten up by the villagers, but also detained in the county government office by Lu Yanzheng's men. It is unknown how they will be dealt with.

While thinking, Jiang Qinyu saw a crowd of people at the village entrance. The remaining people from Xiahe Village had arrived.

"People from Dinghe Village, come out here right now! My man came to your village two days ago and never left. Did you do something evil?"

"Yes, my father came too, and he didn't go back. They must have been harmed by you!"

"If you don't hand over the people, we will stay in your village!"

"Hand him over quickly..."

Village chief Li and others were shocked to see that this group of elderly, weak, women and children were so unreasonable and asked them to hand over the person.

Liu Erlang looked at Li Dachui, whose leg was still unhealed, and said, "Dachui, did I hear correctly? They actually asked us to hand over the person?"

"I think they are crazy. It was obvious that they teamed up with bandits to rob us, but now they want to rely on us. What do they want?" Li Dachui spat and glared at the group of people from Xiahe Village at the entrance of the village.

Village Chief Li was also disgusted. He looked at the old woman leading the group with an expressionless face. "Aunt Zhuang, because you delivered my baby, I'm kindly telling you this. The people from your village were caught by the Protector General who came back to visit his family because they teamed up with bandits to burn, kill, and loot our village. Now they and the bandits have been taken to the county government office. If you want to find someone, go to the county government office!"

"What? They've all been arrested?" Mrs. Zhuang stared at him in disbelief. "And what about the Great Protector of the Nation? Who is that?"

He must be a high-ranking official! If he were to catch them, wouldn't all of them be hopeless?

In fact, someone from Xiahe Village came to inquire about the news yesterday and learned that their people had been arrested, but they didn’t know if the general was involved.

In addition to asking for people, they also wanted to get some benefits from Dingshui Village.

"In short, since you are not in our village, we have no obligation to help you. In the future, your village is not allowed to come to the ditch to fetch water, otherwise don't blame us for being rude!" Village chief Li glanced sternly at the people in Xiahe Village.

Originally, they felt sorry for the people in Xiahe Village and asked them to fetch water from the ditch. Whether they used it for food, drink, or watering the fields, it was considered to help them get through the difficult times.

But those people were not only ungrateful, they even joined the bandits to rob them. If he continued to let those people take the water from them, wouldn't he be regarded as a fool?

"Why don't you allow us to fetch water? The water is not bought by your family!" Someone in Xiahe Village immediately became anxious when he heard this.

Village Chief Li snorted coldly, "We gave you water out of kindness, so how have you repaid us? How foolish are we to continue supporting a bunch of ungrateful people like you? Besides, no one bought the water, but our villagers put in a lot of effort to bring it here. Even if you sue us to the emperor, we'll still be right!"

When Jiang Qinyu heard this, she couldn't help but give a thumbs up to Village Chief Li in her heart.

Before New Year's Eve, people from Xiahe Village came to fetch a lot of water to take back as a reserve, so no one came to fetch water in the past two days. Otherwise, they would definitely find out that they could no longer get water from Dingshui Village.

"Village Chief Li, we spoke without thinking just now. We don't know what happened to the men in the village, but that is different from fetching water. We can't control what they did, but if you kill the people in our village, wouldn't that mean the lives of all of us in the village?" Seeing that she couldn't cheat, Mrs. Zhuang immediately changed her tack.

Jiang Qinyu chuckled coldly, "Yes, all the strong laborers in your village have come out, but you are all deaf and blind and don't know it. Then the people in our village are not your fathers or your mothers. What does your life or death have to do with us?"

Want to use moral blackmail? This trick won't work on people without morals.

Of course, Village Chief Li, Jiang Qinyu and others are not without morals, it’s just that their morals vary.

"Who are you? Do you, a little girl, have the right to speak here?" Someone next to Mrs. Zhuang shouted at Jiang Qinyu.

Her words stirred up a hornet's nest. Originally, Village Chief Li and his men saw that the people who came were all the elderly, the weak, women and children, and they had no intention of doing anything to them, but when they shouted at Jiang Qinyu, they could not tolerate it.

"She's my eldest niece!" Village Chief Li said angrily, "She's also the wife of the Great Protector of the Nation General, and she's the one who brought our village a better life!"

Liu Erlang stepped forward with a shoulder pole in one hand, holding it across his body. He glared at Zhuang Pozi and the others angrily, "All of you get out of here! Do you think you can say anything about A Sheng's wife?"

"Why waste so much time talking to them? Get them all out!" Li Dachui rushed forward, holding a crutch in one hand and a kitchen knife in the other.

Mrs. Zhuang and the others retreated in fear, the screams of the women and children were so loud that their eardrums hurt.

"Don't mess around! Killing is against the law!"

"Yes, yes, yes, we didn't do anything to you, don't do anything!"

"Oh, I don't want to live anymore! My husband is dead, and we are not allowed to fetch water. How can we live like this..."

Jiang Qinyu was speechless after hearing these words. Who was the victim? She just couldn't understand. Was there no one in the village who understood?

Li Dachui and Liu Erleng were just trying to scare the elderly, weak, women and children in Xiahe Village, and they would not actually take action.

Mrs. Zhuang understood this and ran forward again, shouting at Village Chief Li, "Li Jinyuan, do you really want to completely break off relations with our village?"

Village Chief Li was almost laughing at this. "Didn't you think about this when you sent people to rob us? Mrs. Zhuang, I advise you to go back quickly. Don't think that we won't take action just because you are a group of elderly, weak, women and children..."

Before Village Chief Li could finish his words, Mrs. Zhuang stepped forward with her hands on her hips and her chest puffed out. "Go ahead! Do you think I'm afraid of you?"

"You, you...how can you be so rude, old woman?" Village chief Li was forced to retreat step by step, seeing that Old Woman Zhuang was about to enter the village.

At this time, Mrs. Meng, Aunt Qin and their group rushed over.

Mrs. Meng quickly stood in front of Village Chief Li and slapped Mrs. Zhuang in the face. "You shameless old woman! What are you doing standing so close to my man? Get back here right now!"