"Village chief, let's go down the mountain and have a look! If it's really the county lord who comes back and can't find us, she will definitely leave again in a short time. Who else can we talk to when the time comes?"

The village chief was shaken and went down the mountain with everyone.

I felt like I had walked for a long, long time, and finally came to the one that was smoking. Sure enough, it was the He family!

"Village Chief, let's go in!" Liu Lao Er said and was about to knock on the door, but the village chief stopped him.

"Look, what are these?" said the village chief, pointing to the rifles and weapons in the courtyard that were stuck in the ground, and his voice trembled.

Everyone saw that it could be that those soldiers were coming back again! But only the He family had a voice, and everyone was unwilling to give up this opportunity, so everyone tacitly stayed outside the courtyard, waiting for the village chief's decision.

In the end, this entanglement was broken by the arrival of He Jingjing, who came to the yard to breathe fresh air.

After He Jingjing finished eating, he took Ye Haixuan outside the house to cool off, and by the way, he breathed in the fresh air of his hometown that he had not seen for a long time.

However, as soon as he went out, he saw a lot of people surrounded by people outside his yard, He Jingjing, Ye Haixuan and these people stared at each other, not knowing what to say.

The impression of these villagers in He Jingjing's mind was completely blurred, but everyone clearly remembered He Jingjing's face, and their faces became excited.

"Who are you?" He Jingjing asked tentatively.

"Jingjing! you still recognize me!" a neutral voice suddenly appeared.

He Jingjing raised her eyes to look as if she had seen it somewhere, and tilted her head and thought for a long time.

"You made a strange cauldron with me back then!"

As soon as he said this, He Jingjing remembered that when she was in the ring with Han Xiaofeng, she did make a lot of unusual tools in the blacksmith shop.

"It turned out to be Second Brother Liu!Why are you here, come in!" He Jingjing hurriedly beckoned everyone to come in and sit down, there were not enough stools, everyone sat on the ground, and they didn't pay attention to it in the countryside.

"When I came to the village, I found that there was no one, and I was wondering what happened to you, village chief, where have you been?" He Jingjing asked the village chief after pouring a glass of water for the village chief.

"County Lord, do you know that not long ago, the village was occupied by a group of officers and soldiers who don't know where they came from. Anyway, we didn't kill people and set fires, but they just occupied our house, so we had to run to the mountains and hide, for fear that they would see us, otherwise we would be beaten badly. ”

The village chief was also helpless, and explained to He Jingjing with bitter tears.

"Why did the officers and soldiers come here?" He Jingjing asked with a frown.

"Who knows, when we come, we won't do anything, but they will occupy our house, and even the heavens and the earth will not let us cultivate. Even if they are gone, we dare not go down the mountain for fear that they will come back. ”

Li Laohan added on the side, He Jingjing thought of the barren scenes he saw along the way, nodded, and felt bad in his heart.

"Didn't you go to ask for an explanation? Don't you care about the county order?" He Jingjing felt that if the officers and soldiers of the imperial court did such a thing as forcibly occupying the people's houses, they would definitely be punished.

"We also want to ask for an explanation, Niu Dahu, do you remember? It's the one who used to bully you, and when he resisted, he was beaten and couldn't get out of bed for several days. ”

"That's it, I've heard that the fight was terrible, and the young and strong can't get out of bed, and we're old ones who are afraid to just explain it there. ”

He Jingjing thought about it, and it was right. The rest of the village is either idle ruffians like Niu Dahu, or a large family lives on a strong laborer, such as the Ergou family next door. More of them are elderly people.

He Jingjing expressed deep sympathy for everyone's plight.

"Later, Niu Dahu heard that you were doing well in the county, and he wanted to blackmail you, but who knew that he was used and gave his life to the county. ”

Hearing the news of Niu Dahu's death, He Jingjing was still a little embarrassed.

In such a short period of time, a lot of things have happened to me, from a rural village girl to the current county lord, and the mental journey in the middle is still very long.

Looking back again, I came to the small village, listening to the words of these villagers, I felt that everything was like yesterday, and I and Ye Haixuan seemed to have just met.

"Village chief, what do you eat on the mountain?" After all, the fields are barren, He Jingjing looked at the old people with yellow faces and thin muscles, and asked with some distress.

"What else can we eat, we are not like young people who can still hunt, when we are old, we can't use bows and arrows, so we can only go to the pond to try our luck and fish, and then eat some wild vegetables, wild fruits or something, hungry and full, everyone makes do with life. ”

The village chief sighed and said helplessly to He Jingjing.

Although the life in the village was not very rich in the past, everyone was able to eat rice. But now the fields are barren, and the grain is gone, and even if there are crops, they dare not harvest them, and they can only see the grain rotting in the ground, and it is false to say that they are not distressed.

But those officers and soldiers can't afford to be provoked, how can a man with old arms and legs beat others?

He Jingjing tilted her head sideways and said something to the soldiers she brought, and these people went into the mountains.

Then He Jingjing went into the kitchen again, fried two dishes with some remaining vegetables and sent them to the village chief.

"Village chief, that's all there is to do with these small dishes, let's give them a bite to eat first, I've already let them go hunting, and I have to eat a full meal today." ”

He Jingjing's words and this move made all the old people burst into tears, this is to meet a good person!

"Thank you, county lord, thank you, county lord!" everyone said that they were going to kneel down for He Jingjing, He Jingjing naturally couldn't accept such a big gift, and pulled these old people together with Ye Haixuan.

"Anyway, we used to be villagers too, and everyone helped me a lot when I was down. Otherwise, I might have been forcibly married by Niu Dahu. I have to thank you all!"

After a while of pleasantries, the hunting soldiers returned. Don't worry about He Jingjing, the soldiers have already processed the ingredients. He Jingjing saw that everything was ready, so he asked the village chief and others to wait in the courtyard, while Ye Haixuan took a few villagers to the house to get the remaining empty dishes and chopsticks.

After He Jingjing finished cooking, the courtyard was already a different look, and it was much more lively than before.