"Asking for help is easier said than done." Grandma Dao sighed: "You are from Mengyang and understand the situation of the Ming army, but the people in the village still don't understand, and they don't dare to ask for help, what they are afraid of is that the wolf on the front foot has just left, and the tiger has come on the back foot; The other stockades are now also occupied by the Luchuan soldiers, and there is no way to ask for help. ”

Jiang Yu asked, "Is there really no other way?" Can you only keep handing in food like this until you have nothing to eat? If you continue like this, you will be able to flee in a dead end. ”

"I think I want to fight again, but the young master doesn't dare to fight anymore, he is afraid that more people will die, maybe he is also afraid of death." Auma said with some dissatisfaction: "After the last battle, most of the people who could have spoken in the village died, and now the people in the village still listen to the young master. ”

"What the young village master did was right, at least Nansang Village since the young village master set the rules, except for the starving people and the people who fled, the Luchuan soldiers did not open the killing ring, and the other cottages and the Luchuan soldiers continued to clash, and the casualties were only a lot more than the battle we had at the beginning." Grandma Dao looked like she had palpitations.

Auma was still angry: "Then give our money and our food to the Luchuan soldiers?" If they all go to flee, they will also give our stockade, our bamboo building, and our fields to the Luchuan soldiers? ”

"Bear with me." Grandma Dao said and looked at the sky outside the window, silently praying for her son and grandchildren who had fled to Manmo.

Jiang Yuyan listened to the two arguing, and also knew the deeper secret in this village: it turned out that this Nansang village could maintain this kind of calm under extreme oppression, because of the idea of the young village owner, and the failure of the previous battle seriously hit the villagers' will to struggle, so they could strictly abide by the rules of not clashing with the Luchuan soldiers.

This is both bad news and good news. The bad thing is that because there can be no conflict with the Luchuan soldiers, Aouma's proposal to join forces with the Ming army to resist the Luchuan soldiers cannot be realized as soon as possible; Fortunately, the people in this cottage were not completely spontaneously bullied by the Luchuan soldiers, but were affected by the ideas put forward by the steward.

After eating, Jiang Yugang and his entourage stayed at Aouma's house. Awuma's family is not big, but Xi'er lives in one room with her father, Jiang Yugang and Ah Tian live in one room, Chen Ziyu lives in one room with two intelligence officers, and An Bai takes two intelligence officers to rush back to Manggu Mountain at night, and then transport food over, and arrange it to live.

Jiang Yuyan gently touched Ah Tian's hair, lying on the bamboo mat that was a little cold at night, covered with a thin quilt made of linen, but he had no dreams all night.

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In the next few days, Chen Ziyu picked fresh artemisia annua every day to make medicines, and under the conditioning of the food and nutrition brought by Anbai, Aouma's condition gradually improved, and he was no longer tormented by the disease, but his body was quite weak.

After staying at Aouma's house for a few days, Jiang Yugang finally met the so-called young village master, who suddenly came to Aouma's house one night to visit Auma who had recovered from his illness, and by the way, he also got to know Jiang Yugang and his party.

Because of the continuous sale of grain in the cottage, their reputation finally reached the ears of the owner of the young village. Although this young village master is called the young village master, he looks to be more than forty years old, but there may also be reasons for the lack of maintenance and premature aging of ancient people.

"Awuma, it's really nice to see you getting better." The young village master showed joy: "You are the bravest warrior under my uncle, and the village will need you in the future." ”

"I can get better thanks to these brothers." Awuma's expression was indifferent, and he didn't appreciate the feelings of this young village master, and pointed to Jiang Yu and a few people who were standing on the side: "These brothers brought grain to the cottage, and among them, this Chen Ziyu brother has extremely good medical skills and cured my illness." ”

"These are businessmen from Mengyang." The master of the young village saluted Jiang Yu and a few people: "You came to Nansang Village and helped us a lot. ”

"I don't dare to say help, we are all fair trades, and we have also benefited from the stockade." Jiang Yuyan is really not polite to say this. In the past few days, Nansangzhai has brought back a large number of iron tools to Manggu Mountain, and a large number of various metals have been obtained under re-smelting, according to An Bai's return report, Lu Chong has been very excited these days, and the production of bird guns has been greatly helped, and this batch can be made of about ten.

"Mangge, everyone will exchange the iron and spices at home for the food of these brothers, and after getting the food, they will hand over some of it to save their lives, and if this continues, the spices and iron tools will always run out one day." Auma called the young village master's name directly, and his face was quite gloomy.

"Isn't it still possible to bring in food?" The young village master Mang Ge glanced at Jiang Yu, and the meaning in his eyes was unclear.

Jiang Yu touched the saber on his waist, he could clearly feel that Mang Ge's gaze was not good, but the hunting knife on his side also made him not have too many ideas.

This young village master, really not a good stubble, at the first sight of himself, he made no secret of wanting to control himself and swallow the killing intent of the food in his hands. Even if you don't really want to kill yourself, you want to use yourself as a hostage to get food.

"After all, it's not a long-term solution, and if it goes on like this, the village will break up sooner or later." Auma said.

Mang Ge sighed softly: "It's not time yet, you take care of your illness and don't go out casually." ”

"Like you, do you want to be a bug hiding in the shadows?" Aummah does not save any face in his words.

Mangge's face froze, but he didn't bother with Auma anymore: "Awuma, we have to survive, fighting is not the only way to survive, we endure, there may be people starving to death or fleeing from the stockade, but the price of fighting is something we can't afford, we have already fought once and lost, we are not the opponent of the Luchuan soldiers." ”

"But what if you win? We have won the real survival, and now we live under the oppression of the Luchuan soldiers every day, does our life still belong to us? Auma shook his head: "I have no relatives in other places, except for Nansangzhai, I have nowhere to go, and when I hand over all my belongings to the Luchuan soldiers, that is, wait for the day of starvation to come." ”

"If I die, will you take care of Xi'er for me?" There was no emotion in Aouma's eyes, and he looked at Mang Ge coldly.

Mang Ge was speechless for a while, stunned for a moment, and only said one sentence: "You can live in peace by yourself, don't make a mess." Then he turned and walked away, as if he couldn't stay here any longer.

Jiang Yuyan could also hear from the conversation between the two that Awuma's patience with the Luchuan soldiers had reached the limit, and the young village master Mangge himself had no ability to suppress the emotions in the village that wanted to confront the Luchuan soldiers.

He still needs to be a little more patient, and wait until the contradiction between this Auma emotion and the decision of the young village master's side to tolerate the Luchuan soldiers is a little more serious, and a little more serious.