The First Arrival Chapter 39 The Black-Hearted Village Chief
After placing the wounded troops, Yi Ye met with Manid, who had arrived in a hurry.
"Mr. Manid, forgive me for my recklessness last time." Yi Ye lowered his head.
"It's okay, sir, it's good that there is no danger on the road, otherwise the tragedy will happen again."
"Yes, I feel guilty for my recklessness."
Manid nodded, handing over a bag of dinars.
"Sir, this is the profit this time."
"This time, you can take all the profits, but I still have something to ask you." Yi Ye pushed the money bag back.
"You do business in circles around our village, and you don't demand the highest profits, but you have to respond to my orders at any time."
"Of course."
"Also, if the profits are divided fifty-fifty in the future, you can use three wagons, and I will use the remaining one for transporting grain."
"Remember, more profits are not yours, bring me more lads back, I need people."
"As you wish."
"That's it for now, hurry up and get to work."
Although a small number of personnel were already able to get out of the hospital bed and start working, Yi Ye asked them to stay with the seriously injured, so that they could take care of them and cultivate their feelings.
Yi Ye's current thoughts are to find out the traitor, and he needs to build a pharmacy in the village, and the cost of treatment outside is not low. This time, the cost of treatment for the troops is huge, but fortunately, those robbers were sold, and their equipment was almost offset, you must know that there are several bandits whose equipment is at the lord level.
But this is a long-term consideration, Yi Ye's primary goal is to find out the traitor, he wants to go back to the cave to see, the robbers who sneaked up on the attack are the same group of people who went out by boat that day, so now, the boat should still be on the shore. Yi Ye was almost sure who the traitor was, according to the villagers, there was one less person among them besides the dead, and he couldn't run far in this vast forest, and the place where he could barely survive was the cave or the village of Waye Zeji.
With his three-inch incorruptible tongue, coupled with the huge temptation of profits, he finally persuaded two bankrupt craftsmen to come to his village, which didn't require much effort, but Yi Ye's small village had no name, and those two people didn't want to believe it, but seeing that Yi Ye still had a layer of iron on his body, riding a good horse, and giving them food and rich dinars, they were willing to fight for it.
In this era, the law is strict, but only for civilians, take the storm a few days ago, many civilians were charged with trumped-up crimes, died, and injured, which is still a common behavior in various places, and it is not uncommon.
Yi Ye is playing a psychological game with that traitor, and if he is not found out, Yi Ye will not be able to feel at ease. Because of his betrayal, the troops suffered heavy losses and were almost wiped out.
When the two craftsmen arrived in the small village, they took the tools and began to build the torture instruments. The day the torture instrument was built was the time when the traitor was beheaded.
Yi Ye took Kress to scout the cave.
The cave was still the same, but the wind whipped up dirt and weeds around the cave, and the villagers had almost emptied the supplies, but the three boats were still docked on the shore, and according to the villagers, they did not move the three boats because of their fear of them.
Yi Ye didn't have a good impression of Waye Zeji Village, at least not for the village chief. He suspected that the traitor was in the village, and the village chief probably already knew all about Yi Ye. It is necessary to meet him for a while.
It was noon and most of the villagers were out farming, which was a good opportunity.
Entering the village, this village is even more barren than the last time, the number of people is almost half, several mills are unattended, and the people who remain in the village are also busy feeding poultry and making clothes, it seems that manpower is very scarce, Yi Ye found the village chief.
"Mr. Yi? How do you have time to be here? The village chief was surprised.
"What, you didn't think I'd come back?"
"Of course not, by the way, you helped us solve such a big problem, and I haven't thanked you properly." The village chief said enthusiastically.
"How about you thank me for letting us stay for two nights?"
"Of course it's fine, it's on me." The village chief agreed.
Yi Ye stayed in the village temporarily, although he didn't want to see these false faces, but for his own purposes, he had to endure it no matter what.
Yi Yebang did farm work, fed sheep, fed cattle, cut pigweed, grinded wheat, and fully integrated into the life of a farmer, which won the favor of many people.
After many inquiries, Yi Ye determined his goal. According to them, some time after those men followed Yi Ye to exterminate the robbers, a woman returned, saying that she was pregnant and did not want to take the risk. But the strange thing is that after coming back, there was no one all day, and I heard that she was wandering around the forest during the day and came back late at night, which is not in line with her pregnant identity.
"Pregnant? That's a wonderful reason. Even if it is one corpse and two lives, it is impossible to escape one death. Yi Ye clenched his fists. A tingling pain.
"Cress, I'll leave it to you, you know what to do."
"I'll do my best."
"Just remember to keep it alive."
Yi Ye trusted Cress very much, and he could feel the loyalty of the other party.
Only this time it seems to have failed.
Late at night, Kress returned, and even the cold Kress couldn't get his hands on it. She observed this woman for a long time, and did not seem to be such a person who would ventilate the news, and after some interrogation, she found that her situation was the most difficult, her husband was killed by a robber, but she was pregnant with a robber's child, and the people in the village were responsible for her, and no one was willing to help her, she returned to the village, and her house was emptied, and she had to find some food with a bulging belly during the day, and only returned to this small and empty room at night, crying helplessly.
After hearing this, Yi Ye kicked over the wooden bench next to him, and that inexplicable anger surged up again. Only this time he tried his best to hold back.
He seems to have found the problem, this village is not so simple.
"Cress, your intelligence is very useful, you are also tired, you sleep first, I will go out for a while."
"I know what you're going to do, boss, don't leave me behind."
"That's good." Yi Ye glanced back.
"Let's go, I'll have to take back some of what I said before."
Taking advantage of the night, the two hid in the shadows and went to the village chief's room.
Cress skilfully infiltrated the chief's room, and without making a sound, she struck the chief in the neck with precision, causing him to fall asleep for a while. With Yi Ye, he moved the village chief to the southern forest.
Kress lit a small fire and tied the village chief to a tree. Yi Ye kicked the old man heavily. The old man woke up retching and coughed incessantly.
Yi Ye didn't give him time to breathe, and directly put the dagger on the old man's neck, Yi Ye didn't joke, the tip of the dagger had already pierced the surface of the skin, shedding a few drops of blood.
"This ...... Mr. Yi, what are you going to do here? The old man's eyes widened and he looked at Yi Ye in horror.
"I don't have time to talk nonsense with you, I ask you, did you lure the robbers to my territory?"
"If you have something to say, you can say anything, please put down your weapons."
"Indeed, it was my fault, I'm sorry, Mr. Yi, it was I who lured the robbers over." The old man complained bitterly.
"But there is no way to do it, the gang of robbers came to the door, and we had no power to fight back, so we had to ......" The old man had tears and snot.
"Who else knows where we are but you?" Yi Ye continued to ask.
"Also, there are the cadres under me. Mr. Yi, I've said everything, I'll give you whatever you want, please let us go. ”
"Cadres, how many people are there? You'd better make it clear to me. Yi Ye was ruthless and worked hard.
"Ten people, ten people!" The old man's tears flowed down his cheeks.
"I've said everything, can you let me go? The old man put away his weeping face.
Yi Ye turned his back to him.
"Kress."
"Yes."
Just when the old man thought he was saved, he felt a tingling pain, but he could not find the source of the pain.
"What I want to hear is the truth. If you talk nonsense again, I'll give you another finger. "Yi Ye turned back.
Yi Ye cut off one of the village chief's fingers, but compared to Geng Scar, it was just a drop in the bucket.
The old man seemed to feel Yi Ye's majesty.
"Yes, yes...... I'm sorry I deceived you. The old man endured severe pain and replied to Yi Ye's words.
"Our village has suffered from bandits for many years, I can't resist the pressure, I, I have to cooperate with the robber......"
"Cooperation, heh, that's nice, I've heard about the things you ** did, which one is personnel? Which is not enough to sacrifice a married woman to a robber, to build a den for them, to tell them to die, to try to put us to death? "Yi Ye is angry.
The old man had nothing to say, but wept.
"Forget it, that's it for today, it's almost dawn." Yi Ye said to Cress.
The old man was knocked unconscious again, and Yi Ye temporarily stopped the bleeding for him.