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

The system's prompt sound brought Jiang Qinyu back to her senses. This time, she didn't think about continuing to use the system's bug to find water. After all, if she missed this point, she was not sure if she could complete the task in one go.

So, before anyone else could react, Jiang Qinyu had already placed her hands flat on the water.

She was thinking about collecting a thousand liters of water and submitting it to the system, but in just a moment, the system prompt sound came to her mind again.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the task of unlocking the aquatic area! The supermarket aquatic area has been unlocked!]

[Task: Host, please collect 1000 pieces of cloth to unlock the daily necessities area! Task progress (0/1000), task deadline: 30 days!]

Jiang Qinyu's mouth twitched. What the hell? A thousand bolts of cloth? And to be completed within a month? Why doesn't the system just rob them?

No, even if she went to rob, she didn't know where she could get a thousand pieces of cloth!

Even if she had the money to buy it, given the current situation in Yongshan County, did the system think that only ordinary people were fleeing famine? Most of the merchants in the county town had also moved away!

What's more, the greedy system swallowed up all the gold and silver she had obtained from Qinggang Mountain. Now she only had the eight taels of silver that Lu Yancai had obtained from the human traffickers, and the less than a thousand copper coins that her original body had saved by living frugally over the years.

Jiang Qinyu's heart was broken at this moment, tears welled up in her eyes, she really wanted to cry but had no tears!

……

On the other hand, after Jiang Qinyu and the others left, the people who stayed in the village began to worry about various things.

The first day was fine, after all, we all knew they would not be back until the next night.

But by the evening of the next day, many women in the village could no longer sit still and ran to Meng to ask what was going on.

Meng was also worried that something might happen to Village Chief Li and the others in the mountains, so she could only calm them down and persuade them to leave by saying, "Once they go out, it's not their turn" and "There are so many of us going there, nothing will happen."

At that time, Jiang Qinyu thought that only thirty or forty people would be enough to go, but after the previous food distribution incident, each family in the village had their own ideas about this kind of collective action. So, in addition to the people arranged by Village Chief Li to guard the village, more than ten or twenty people followed.

However, by the evening of the third day, the people who stayed in Dingshui Village could no longer sit still.

Chen knew that they would definitely come to cause trouble for Meng again, so she brought Shufan and Pan'er here in advance to inform them.

"Sister Meng, why don't you hide away? The villagers speak rudely, don't let them affect you." Chen advised.

In fact, she was also very nervous. After all, Old Man Lu and Jiang Qinyu were both there. If something really happened to them, what would she, an old woman with two children, do in the future?

But she also felt in her heart that Jiang Qinyu would never give up the two children easily. Unless they encountered any major problems, they would definitely come back.

Meng shook her head and sighed, "What good will it do if I hide this time? As long as the people who went up the mountain don't come back, they won't let me go."

"But you..." Chen also knew this problem and didn't know how to persuade her for a moment.

Just then, loud shouts were heard outside the yard of Village Chief Li's house.

"The village chief's family, we know you're in there, come out now! Give everyone an explanation!"

"Yes, it's been three days, and my Laizi and the other people in the village haven't come back yet. Don't even think about fooling us today!"

"Auntie, please come out and talk. When will my father and brothers come back?"

"..."

There was a lot of noise outside the yard, and everyone was waiting for Meng to give an explanation.

Inside the room, Meng patted Chen's hand and said, "Big sister, please stay in the room first. I'll go take a look."

"Goodbye, I'd better go out with you!" Chen squeezed the two children's hands and said to them, "You stay in the room, don't open the door, okay?"

Shufan and Pan'er looked at each other and nodded obediently.

They actually missed their aunt very much, but their aunt told them that she might be gone for a longer time this time, so they could only wait.

Meng looked at Chen with some gratitude, "Okay! Let's go out together!"

Except for a few daughters-in-law, all the men in her family have gone up the mountain, so there are no men at home at the moment, and the daughters-in-law cannot show up, so she just locked them in the house.

How could she not be grateful when someone was willing to support her unconditionally at a time like this?

Meng flung the door open and shouted fiercely, "Why are you shouting? They're just a day late. Are you so sure they won't come back today?"

"Yes! I heard from Lao Lu that this time they went into the mountains not only to find food, but also to find water. Is it so easy? Who knows how deep they will go into the mountains, and the mountain roads are difficult to walk on. What's wrong with them coming back late?" Chen also shouted loudly.

Outside the courtyard, when Mrs. Wang saw them coming out, she stepped forward and spat on the ground, "Bah! You talk nicely, but if something really happens, can you take responsibility?"

"Mrs. Wang, you'd better be careful with your words. Only one person from your family went there, but all the men in my family went there. Am I not more anxious than you?" Mrs. Meng put her hands on her hips and pointed at Mrs. Wang angrily.

Chen chimed in, "That's right, two of my family members have gone there too. Now we shouldn't argue about who's responsible, but we should think about what we're going to do if they don't come back tonight."

She tried to shift the focus to the solution, but was pulled back by Wang Po's words.

"Old Lu, come on, don't think I don't know that you sent everyone up the mountain. It was your daughter-in-law who paid the compensation who told the village chief! If anything goes wrong, your family will bear the greatest responsibility!"

Chen's face turned pale and her mind suddenly went blank.

Jiang Qinyu had mentioned this before, and she knew that Mrs. Wang was right, but if everyone really couldn't come back, how would their family live in the village in the future?

Meng suddenly stepped forward and blocked Chen behind her. "Wang Po, stop talking nonsense! This matter was decided after consultation between my family's Old Li, the village elders, and the heads of each family. What does this have to do with the Lu family?"

"It's hilarious. You two families are in cahoots with each other. You tricked me and so many strong laborers in the village to go up the mountain. Who knows what evil intentions you have? I'm afraid you want them to work illegally for others so that you can make money?" said Mrs. Wang excitedly.

In the past two years, many young and middle-aged people in Dingshui Village were deceived into doing illegal labor and eventually died in the mine. Wang Po's words were undoubtedly the last straw that broke the camel's back, so that many people lost their minds when they heard about doing illegal labor.

"We don't care about anything else, my husband and son went out with the village chief. I just want to ask you for people!"

"Yes, hand him over!"

"Hand it over!"

For a moment, the crowd was excited. Seeing that they were about to bang on the gate of the courtyard, Meng's face turned pale.

At this moment, someone outside the crowd shouted hoarsely, "What are you doing surrounding the village chief's house? Hurry up, someone help us move the wild goats and tigers! Chen Shao and the others can't lift them anymore!"