Quick Transmigration: Survive to the End

The elders exchanged bewildered glances: "Other small countries are one thing, but Zhao Kingdom has also been destroyed?"

Although they were surprised, they did not doubt the news brought by Li Yinyin.

After processing the news, the village chief asked, "But Chengming has become a high-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty and needs his relatives to help him?"

“You could say that,” Li Yinyin thought for a moment and said, “It’s because our relatives are helping out, and it’s also because my older brother wants to help them live a better life.”

The elders all showed some excitement and emotion: "It's a good thing that you siblings care about the clan, but some things are not done this way. Chengming became an official and his career improved, so he took the whole clan to enjoy the good life. How would others view him?"

"It wouldn't hurt to send a few people to help him out. Chengming, have you decided who you want to ask to help him?"

The elders in the clan meant well, and Li Yinyin didn't hide anything from them: "But the Ming Kingdom was only founded a few months ago, and everything is in need of rebuilding. We need help everywhere. Even if our whole clan is put together, we still don't feel it's enough."

Upon hearing this, the elders suddenly felt a strange premonition.

“Yinyin,” the village chief’s throat was a little dry, “what you mean is, Mingguo…”

“The ‘Ming’ in Mingguo is the Ming in my elder brother Li Chengming,” Li Yinyin said, sitting up straight with her head held high. “I even chose this name for myself!”

"Snapped!"

One of the elders lost his balance and dropped the teacup he was holding.

"This...I...I must be dreaming, right? When did our Li family's ancestral graves start emitting auspicious smoke?"

Li Yinyin blinked: "What do you mean by 'smoke rising from the sky'? Is it about Big Brother establishing a country? But I also destroyed a small country."

All the elders' eyes were fixed on Li Yinyin: "Yinyin, what did you say? You, destroyed a small country?"

“Yes,” Li Yinyin nodded naturally, “Although that country is just a tiny place, it is indeed a country.”

"My goodness!" The elder leaned back and pinched the brother next to him. "Does it hurt?"

"Ouch! Isn't that obvious? I'll pinch you and see if it hurts!"

"Oh, that's true."

The word "truly" struck the hearts of the clan elders like a heavy hammer.

“We have to go,” the village chief decided this time without Li Yinyin needing to persuade him further.

What a joke! If someone in their clan becomes emperor, they'll all be royalty. Why would they stay in the Jiang Kingdom?

Even if it's hard to leave one's homeland, if someone in the Jiang Kingdom knew that a royal family from another country was on their territory, wouldn't that be giving them ammunition to use against them?

The elders did not object to the village chief's decision, but they said, "Why don't we leave some people in Shangshui Village to preserve the clan's roots? It's also a way of not putting all our eggs in one basket. If something happens, our family will still have a chance to make a comeback."

But Li Yinyin said, "It's better if we all leave. The Yin family in Jiangguo has ulterior motives and might cause trouble at any time. The second young master of the Yin family often comes to our village, and we are very likely to be implicated by him. When my master first came to our village a few years ago, he said that we would face a massacre of the village in a few years. If we don't leave, we will definitely not be able to avoid it."

During the year or so that Li Yinyin was away, the fortune teller would occasionally come out for a stroll. When he was in a good mood, he would tell the villagers a divination and give them a warning. Everyone in the village knew that his predictions of disasters were extremely accurate, almost to the point that if he said you would suffer a bloody disaster at noon, you would definitely fall and break your head. So when he mentioned that he would say the village would be massacred, no one dared to stay any longer.

"Go, go, all of you, go! Anyone in the village who doesn't leave, we'll tie them up and take them away!"

Looking at the elders, Li Yinyin reminded them, "What about the aunts who have married out of the village? It's not good to leave them behind when our whole clan has left. But it's best not to tell them about my eldest brother becoming the ruler yet. We can talk about it when they're ready to go."

“Yes, yes,” the elders all nodded. “Just say that your brother has become a high-ranking official in the Western Region and wants to bring the whole clan there to enjoy a life of luxury.”

As the clan elders eagerly went out, the village chief couldn't help but ask, "Yinyin, you just said that the second young master of the Yin family often comes to our village, but no one has heard anything about it?"

“You’ve actually heard of him, but you just didn’t know it was him,” Li Yinyin pointed to the location of the Mu family’s residence. “Two years ago, didn’t Mu’s mother keep looking at Xijiangyue every day, saying that she was having an affair with a man outside? That man was Yin Hong.”

"I know that I resent that they never choose a good place to meet. They always like to talk under the big willow tree in front of my house, which often traps me inside the door. I don't know whether to come out or not."

"It was last night that I had the bad luck to run into them at the entrance of the village near my house, which is why I changed my route and came this way."

Upon hearing her words, the village chief's expression changed drastically: "But I've never heard the sentries mention Yin Hong coming to the village. Could it be that someone in our clan has been bribed by him?"

“That’s not true,” Li Yinyin quickly reassured the village chief. “Yin Hong and Xi Jiangyue are really strange. Whenever they are at the door, my servants who guard the door are either called away for something or dozing off. Even my maid can’t come to go with me in time.”

“He can bribe one or two people, Yin Hong and Xi Jiangyue, but he can’t possibly bribe all the clansmen in the village and all the servants in my household.”

The village chief shuddered; he was clearly terrified.

Such talk of ghosts and spirits would surely frighten anyone who believed in it. But Li Yinyin was also afraid that the village chief might do something terrible, so she brought up Li Zhenzhen: "Uncle, Zhenzhen's wedding is approaching. Why don't you contact the Zhao family again and ask if they are willing to leave?"

The village chief then came to his senses: "Yes, yes, we have to ask them. If they refuse to leave, the wedding hasn't even taken place yet, so it's fine to call it off."

Although breaking off an engagement is immoral, and Young Master Zhao is indeed a good person, once Li Zhenzhen goes to Ming, as a member of the royal family, she can find any kind of husband she wants. It's not as good as staying in Jiang, where she doesn't even know when she can return to her parents' home.

Having made up his mind, the village chief saw Li Yinyin off and headed straight for Baihua Town.

In the village, the elders of the Li family knew the truth and were extremely diligent in persuading their clansmen. Even those families who were unwilling were threatened with expulsion if they didn't leave, and thus agreed to the matter.

The news of the Li family's misfortune naturally reached other families in the village as well.

At the Mu family home, Mu's mother was discussing this matter with her family.

"They say Li Chengming has become a high-ranking official in the west and is going to take the whole clan away to enjoy a life of luxury. Once they leave, so many of the village's best fields will have to be abandoned. Should we take this opportunity to buy some back at a lower price?"

The Mu family members were all tempted. After all, once the Li family clan left, Mu Xianyun would naturally be the most prestigious person in Shangshui Village. At that time, the position of village chief might even fall into their own hands.

Mu Xianyun paused in her chopsticks, looking at her mother: "Mother, what did you say? The entire Li family is moving away?"