In the next few days, there was no abnormality in the birds and beasts in the township, and the beasts in the valley did not jump out to hurt people and destroy things, and the intelligence recovered by the hunters showed that the beast tide in the meteorite valley had shown signs of fading. After a few days of such observation, life in the township has returned to normal, and the lives of the villagers have not been affected by this incident, except for the families of the three villages who have temporarily left their homes.

Although this crisis seems to have passed, people of insight know in their hearts that from now on, if the problem of meteorites cannot be completely solved, then there will be an invisible rope around the necks of Qingwan people forever. If you don't prepare early, as soon as this invisible rope is tightened, the fate of the villagers will hang by a thread. Therefore, the work of responding to the crisis is being carried out in an orderly manner.

Today, the small cemetery behind the Mongol Courtyard has been bulldozed, and it will be opened up as a training ground and barracks for the village soldiers.

There are about 20 people sitting on the newly built general platform, all of whom are village elders and leaders who have received donations. The basis of the villagers' autonomy is that the township association is the highest decision-making level, and the executive directors of the township association are the elders of the five townships, one from Qingtan and Shenyun villages, one from the township market, and the other two are elected by other villages. When there is a vote on a major event in the township, each of the elders of the five townships has a certain weight of votes, and the other votes are distributed by the rich households who have a share of the donations.

Township associations do not have the right to directly intervene in the affairs of individual households and villages, but they can vote on disputes between villages and supervise the payment of taxes and other public affairs. The elders of Wuxiang are all respectable and have no family affairs, and they are responsible for convening meetings and managing the income and expenditure of donations.

Under the stage, on the training ground where the new mud was not dry, there were more than 20 columns of people, all of whom were sturdy young men in the township. This cadre is disheveled, with a scarf on his head, a crown and a hat, and the queue is also uneven.

There is a large group of people watching in the huge outer circle, most of these people are children and teenagers, and the younger half are young girls, mixed with a few idle women, old women, and old men.

Today is the first gathering day of the township soldiers, and many villagers in the township who have nothing to do come to watch, and at the moment when it is about to begin, the audience is silent.

Everything was ready, and Wang Lao, one of the elders of the five towns, left his seat and walked to the front desk of Dianjiangtai. He took out a manuscript, read out the township's response strategy for the incident, and then read out the list of donations and the money, the old man cleared his voice and encouraged the young people in the audience:

"Disaster is coming, only we can work together! In this catastrophe, the villagers have the money to contribute and make a strong contribution, no one retreats from their hometowns, and no one plays tricks for narrow selfish interests. Going through the difficulties together, this is where the spirit of my hometown lies. In all the responses, the responsibility of protecting the elderly, children, women and children in the end is entrusted to you. Today is the auspicious day for the establishment of the township soldiers, so in the future there will be children in my township, on behalf of all the villagers, I hope that all the children and soldiers will train well, fight bravely to kill the enemy, and make every effort to save the township! ”

"Now I invite the chief and deputy captains of the township soldiers, Li Xing and Chen Chao to come out and talk about the township soldiers."

In full view of everyone, Li Xing and Chen Chaohu stepped out and walked to the front desk of Dianjiangtai side by side. Chen Chao looked at Li Xing and stared at him, and he slightly agreed, indicating that Li Xing, the captain, would speak first.

Li Xing glanced at the crooked queue under the stage, raised his voice and said loudly:

"Wait, but they're all men?"

When everyone was stunned, Li Xing then shouted: "Of course it is!" You have the courage to stand up in danger to protect the old and young, women and children, and dare to shed blood and sacrifice to defend your homeland, of course, you can be regarded as a real manly husband! Remember, when you stand up, when you put on your armor, when you take up arms to face the monsters, you are not only a real man, but also the patron saint of Qingwan Township! ”

"At present, we have only two ways to go, one is to run away from our hometown, leave our hot hometown, become a lost dog, and be a traitor! The second is to use our flesh and blood to be a guardian saint of the hometown with an iron-blooded heart! ”

"Tell me, are you going to be a bastard or a patron saint?" Li Xing shouted angrily at the quasi-village soldiers in the audience.

"Patronus!" Earth-shattering shouts rang out on the field.

Not only were the villagers on the field ambitious, but the children like Li Wen on the field were also raising their arms and shouting "Guardian Saint", as if they were eager to go into battle with their father and brother.

The cloudy eyes of the old men in the field actually flickered, and they actually contained divine light, and when they were about to raise their arms, they almost flashed their old waists. Helplessly, he stroked his aching waist and thought: It's good to be young! It would be good if I could be twenty years younger, with a warm-blooded heart, even if I died twenty years early, what regrets would I have. Compared to the current withered and empty shell slowly aging and waiting for death, I don't know how many times stronger life is!

Men should be self-reliant, which is the thoughts of the old and young masters in Qingwan Township at this moment.

The old ladies were smiling, smiling and thinking, worthy of raising good children and grandchildren for me, good sons.

The women's expressions were much more complicated, and they were accompanied by a deep sense of melancholy in their joy. They thought: The child is his father, you can rest assured to protect the hometown and protect the family! I can carry everything at home, but I must remember to return home safely!

The young girls' eyes were full of brilliance, and the dark glow flew their cheeks, their minds were much simpler, and they were all thinking about it shyly: marry someone to marry Qingwanlang!

Li Xian, who was sitting on the stage, was also in a mood, he couldn't wait to pull Master Lai at home here, and asked directly: Master Lai, is this considered unity? Our township is saved, right? Our township will definitely be able to save itself!

The performance of all the villagers reflects their deep attachment to the hot land of Qingwan Township.

Quietly waited until the voice was a little less, Li Xing pressed his hands weakly, and after suppressing the voice, he continued his face and said to the quasi-village soldiers in the field: "Everyone may understand, I am a good person!" ”

Li Xing paused for a moment and said: "Yes, I am a good person, but I am not a human being when I am bad!" ”

Ignoring the stunned and laughter on the scene, Li Xing said directly:

"Back then, I personally cut off the heads of many fleeing and unruly soldiers. Those are comrades-in-arms who have experienced life and death together, and the moment I wield the knife, I am no longer a person, but a ruthless, cold-blooded moving body. But I had to do it, because letting it happen would only kill more of my good comrades. ”

"Victorious soldiers, first discipline! Therefore, no matter what your background is, when you stand on this training ground, when you put on your battle uniform and go to the battlefield, you must firmly remember that you are a soldier, and you must unconditionally abide by discipline and obey the command of your superiors. Otherwise, you will not only harm yourself, but also others, and even affect your relatives at home, your relatives and fellow villagers! So, don't push me to be the bad guy! ”

"Of course, we are only village soldiers, not real troops, and I have no military law to severely punish violators and deserters, but I can tie the black sheep to the wooden pillars, show them to the public with their bare buttocks, and let the children insert branches, flowers and plants in the cracks of their buttocks, spit on the buttocks on both sides, and smear cow dung!"

Hearing Li Xing's last sentence, the children in the audience squeezed their eyebrows at each other and laughed wildly. The scene of punishment had been imagined in their little brains, and they were ready to give it a try.

The old men and women also laughed so hard that they couldn't close their mouths, and when they just wanted to close their mouths, they were pulled apart by the muscles on their faces that sneered, and if there were dentures and other things at that time, it was already a scene of dentures falling all over the ground.

The women and young girls also bowed their heads and covered their mouths and smiled.

Don't laugh off the field, but the quasi-village soldiers on the field are chilling from their hearts.

"So, don't force me to be a bad guy, understand?" Li Xing drank this sentence word by word.

"Understood!" The villagers replied in unison and solemnly.

Li Xing was very satisfied with this effect, he took two steps back and signaled to Chen Chao with his eyes, it was time for the vice captain to perform.

Chen Chao first gave Li Xing a very appreciative look, and then took two steps forward and shouted to the villagers in the audience:

"Most of my belongings are in the county, but I stayed in the township when I had time, and I have stayed here to fight side by side with you now. Why? What I have seen and encountered in many years of traveling south and north, Qingwan Township is the most mellow folk customs; The people's hearts are the most simple; The people are the most peaceful; The most beautiful place of human nature! ”

"Such a beautiful, nurturing my homeland, how can I be a lost dog who has abandoned my homeland. It is possible to steal a life, but how can the conscience be at peace? ”

"I know that you will lose a lot of money and put your lives at risk in order to protect your hometown. In order to allow you to train to defend your homeland with peace of mind, I hereby solemnly promise that I will try to save you from forced labor this autumn and winter. ”

"Yay??????"

As soon as Chen Chao's words came out, the audience cheered. In ancient times, taxes and forced labor were always a heavy burden on the shoulders of the people. Every year, during the slack season, the people have to take a certain amount of time to volunteer to work for the officials, and do manual work such as building city walls, repairing rivers, building official residences, and leveling official roads for free, which is called conscription.

Chen Chao said that he could exempt the villagers from forced labor this season, and his way was nothing more than to directly pay for the forced labor; The second is to state the difficulties of the township and beg the superiors to avoid going to the township for conscription this year, but with the style of the government at present, it is indispensable to spend a lot of money to dredge up the two to succeed.

The cheers of the township soldiers were half of the joy that they could be relieved of the burden of conscription, and half of them were applause for Chen Chao's selflessness.

Seeing the excitement of the crowd, Chen Chao shouted while the iron was hot: "Although I want to spend a lot of money this time, who told me to be powerful and rich, so I have to contribute and pay." According to my mother-in-law, I am willful when I am rich. ”

"I hope that you will be willful like me, for the sake of this hot land and hometown, in order to keep this bloody heart in your heart! Willful to throw away the gains and losses of interests, willful to throw away family concerns, willful can throw away their lives at any time, just to build an iron wall in front of the old and young women and children in the township, just because we are a real manly husband! What's the point of being willful! ”

"Wayward!"

The villagers shouted in harmony, and immediately looked at each other and smiled, because the word "willful point" was originally a derogatory term, but at this moment there was some kind of sacred mission.

In addition to laughing at each other, Ben was worried about his own death, what would happen to the old and young in the family; The desire to open more dry fields this winter was disappointed, and the panic of such a thing was greatly calmed.

This is the first time to be convened, and it has not yet reached the official training time, because the barracks and equipment still need time to prepare. The purpose is to unify ideas, set rules, negotiate grouping, and other previous work.

In the end, these nearly 500 strong men, based on the principle of one household for one ding, finally recruited 282 standing village soldiers. The soldiers and peasants of this standing township are divided into three teams, each team is rotated once every three days, and when the farmers are busy, they are divided into five teams, and each team is rotated once every three days.

The next day, on the outskirts of Cheongdam Village.

"Master Lai, what do you think of my ancestral grave?" Li Xian looked at Master Lai expectantly and said.