After collecting their silver tickets and making an appointment to see the inventory of the material warehouse, the men got up to say goodbye, the village chiefs went home, and the soldiers went back to resume their lives.

Qi Ke and Zhaolin returned to the back house side by side, and as soon as they stepped into the door of the hall, Qi Ke put on a face of settling accounts after the autumn.

"Hmph~" Qi Ke pointed to Zhaolin, "You are hiding it tightly." ”

"Otherwise, how can you call it a surprise?" Zhao Lin was confident, "Your acting skills are not so good, and that is a general, what scenes have you not seen?" If you had known beforehand, you would not have been able to fool his eyes, and you can see how lovely the stunned expressions of the three of you were at that time. ”

Zhao Lin said, playing a holographic picture, this is the expression of the two village chiefs when General Mu said that when she appointed Qi Ke as the deputy village head, she and the two village chiefs were stupid together, quite neat.

Qi Ke watched it, so he had to bow his head and admit that his acting skills were inferior, and he couldn't make the right natural reaction without knowing it in advance.

"What's the matter with the deputy village chief? What do they think? Give me such a title? ”

"Probably because I see the potential in you, you have made so many meritorious contributions, you can't say it if you don't reward you, but if you want to give silver according to merit, Bai Jiajun is so poor and can't give it, then give you a small position with limited power, which not only wins you over, but also saves money, and both sides have face." It is not difficult to analyze what the above thinks.

"Is there a precedent for letting a woman be the village head?"

"Yes, under the traditional custom of men and women, who does it, it is not strange to appoint a woman as the village head."

Zhaolin controlled the holographic picture for a while, and let the remarks she had just sorted out for Qi Ke to hear.

"Well, it's pretty much the same, otherwise let me be a small village official for no reason, and I'm afraid that they will have a backhand to deal with me."

"You don't trust them?"

"I dare not trust. To put it bluntly, Bai Jiajun's approach is a compromise method based on the current situation of a serious shortage of labor. Qi Ke sneered and smiled slightly, "Young and strong want to enlist in the army, there is no one to work in the village, the labor force is low, and the productivity is insufficient. ”

"What do you want to watch out for?"

"I'll tell you a history that's happening." Qi Ke stretched his neck, "When the labor force is insufficient, the state publicizes that women can hold up half the sky, and encourages women to go out of the family and work; If it is not needed, it will become an aging country with a shortage of newborns, and women will be asked to return to the family and have more children. ”

"Are you worried that one day the village will be really rich, and you will be killed by men crossing the river and demolishing bridges and unloading mills?" Zhao Lin instantly comprehended Qi Ke's meaning.

"Can you not be afraid? If the Bai family army is still living in the former territory, then I am not afraid that they will turn their faces. But it's not the same, we live in a rich and rich place, and the locals are poor because they are uneducated and don't know how to use the wealth that nature has to offer, and I am of course afraid that they will kick me out once life is better. Qi Ke licked his lips, "Now the Bai family army is still under the control of the Bai family, and it looks pretty good, but after all, they are the army of the imperial court, and the world is unpredictable, and it looks good now, who knows what will happen in the future?" ”

"I understand, whether it is in the capital or in the army, we don't gamble on human nature, we only look at the risks, I will make a precautionary plan, if someone really wants to erase our merits in the future, then how we give the wealth, how we can take it back, this is the price of ingratitude, do not damage your due merits."