Volume 1 A Little Mountain Village in the Cracks Chapter 7 A kerosene lamp
Seeing Li Laosan's innocent expression, Tang Yi suddenly became angry, if he couldn't beat him, it was really like beating him. Tang Yi glared at Li Laosan viciously, got up and patted the dust on his body, turned around and walked on the path back to the village.
"Think you can deal with the Valan bandits with two crossbows? How long can this crossbow shoot an arrow? Even if the whole village has one hand, how many people can be killed in a salvo? Don't say it's the Valan bandits, even if it's a top commodity like you, at most two arrows can rush into the village. Tang Yi muttered as he walked, his words full of disdain.
When Li Laosan heard this, the joy on his face immediately disappeared. Although this kind of crossbow is not small, unless you release a cold arrow, as long as you notice it, it is easy to avoid it. Even if you can't avoid the covering fire of hundreds of crossbows, you can protect the vital points in a rain of arrows.
The villagers are all ordinary people, even if only two or three bandits rush over, it is enough to slaughter everyone! After all, long-range weapons are useless in close quarters.
"Brother Tang, you must have a solution, right?" Li Laosan followed Tang Yi with a hippie smile, and circled around Tang Yi left and right: "Brother Tang, as long as you can help our Lijia Village tide over the difficulties, I will accept you as an apprentice on behalf of my master, how about it?"
"It's not uncommon!" Tang Yi rolled his eyes, and his steps were three points faster.
"Don't you want to learn martial arts? I'll teach you how about it now?
"I'll also help you out with the medicine money in the future. ”
"Our village Xiufeng is handsome, how about I be a matchmaker for you?......"
You're a fucking straightforward man, why are you so verbose?
Tang Yi, who couldn't stand it, scolded angrily in his heart, and ran towards the entrance of the village with great strides, he didn't want to listen to Li Laosan anymore, dirty ears!
When Tang Yi and Li Laosan arrived at the threshing floor, there were hundreds of villagers on the threshing floor, and these villagers seemed to have just finished the meeting and were walking back. The villagers' interest did not seem to be high, and the mothers-in-law who had been able to talk for a long time on the road were like dead men, bowing their heads and saying nothing.
Seeing this situation, Li Laosan, who had been making noise all the way, also closed his mouth. He rushed over and grabbed a few familiar men, but strangely, after those few people looked at him blankly, they pushed his hand away and went back to the village.
There was despair and numbness in his eyes.
The same is true for the people of the hunting party, let alone others.
Li Laosan stopped dozens of people with one face, and said more than one sentence to everyone, "What's wrong", "dumb", and "speak", but hundreds of villagers in Lijia Village, no one paid attention to Li Laosan. People looked at him as if they were looking at a stranger, no, it seemed like everyone had become strangers.
When the last person stepped over the archway at the entrance of the village, a terrible cry suddenly sounded, followed by everyone crying, and for a time the entire Lijia Village was overwhelmed with sadness.
The man was fine, just shaking his shoulders and crying like a child, while the women were crying and scolding and shouting, like crazy demons.
Tang Yi frowned, patted the lonely Li Laosan, and said, "The situation is not quite right. Let's go, ask the little doctor. ”
Granny Ma was not at home, and at this time, the village chief and all the clan elders were probably in a meeting, and Granny Ma naturally wanted to go as a clan elder.
As for Granny Ma's grandson, it will not appear in the small courtyard. Since Tang Yi came here, she had never seen her grandson at any other time except every morning, and she didn't know what that kid was busy with.
It's just that there is another person in the courtyard besides the little magic doctor, and the little magic doctor who has never let anyone else touch the herbs unexpectedly asked that person to help him screen the herbs.
This person is none other than Li Shi's son Li Yong.
Tang Yi's impression of Li Yong is not good, nor is it bad. At least when he knew that his sister was dead, he dared to come forward, although he was stopped by Li Shi, but he was a little bloody.
Seeing Li Yong coming over, Tang Yi took the initiative to nod and went back to the house to change his clothes. He knew that when the little divine doctor faced the herbs, he would never be distracted by other things, even if there was a fire burning his eyebrows, he would wait until he finished cleaning up the herbs.
The little miracle doctor has an almost paranoid devotion to medicinal herbs.
By the time the little doctor finished screening the herbs, it was already time, and the winter sun had set very early, and the sky was already a little dark at this time, but Granny Ma had not come back yet.
After asking the little miracle doctor, Li Laosan's face also became solemn.
This morning, Valanzhai really sent someone to add offerings in the village, and Tang Yi and Li Laosan were not surprised by these things that had already been expected by the little god doctor. Just the amount of money enshrined is a bit amazing, and it has directly increased tenfold.
The worship of Valan Village is not fixed, but a certain percentage is charged according to the total annual income of each village.
Of course, at least two hundred taels.
The original proportion was already as high as three, but what is the concept of a tenfold increase? The whole village will only be able to take out one-third of it if it does not eat or drink this year.
If those wealthy villages had enough savings in previous years, it would not be impossible to take them out, but although Lijia Village had some savings in the past few years, it had already been spent in the past two years. Since the old immortal was accepted into the door by the old immortal three years ago, Lijia Village has an additional expense for cultivating school-age children.
Now, in addition to the original offerings in the village, the spare money that can be taken out is only more than three hundred taels. Even if each family took out all their money, they would make up more than 1,000 taels at most.
Since the beginning of the training of school-age children three years ago, the village has not shared any money, and most of the money in the hands of the villagers has been saved three years ago. Except for Granny Ma, everyone else can take out five taels per household.
Granny Ma has a little miracle doctor and some rental income. But even so, at most, it would be up to the sky to come up with twenty or thirty taels.
This more than 1,000 taels is not a drop in the bucket, but it is not very useful, but it can barely make up the total income for this year.
In fact, it is not that there is no opportunity to save up for worship. The offerings of Valan Village are handed over in May every year, and as long as you can earn more than 2,000 taels before May next year, you can also hand over the offerings.
In the past, Lijia Village only earned 6,700 taels a year, but this year is already the largest year, and the total is only 1,000 taels.
"You said that the village chief and the clan elders have been discussing for so long, what will be the result of the discussion?" Just when a few people were frowning and thinking about how to make money, Li Laosan suddenly asked.
After Li Yong laughed, he glanced at Tang Yi.
Do you still have to guess the result?
With the urine of his father and the elders of the group, it is nothing more than handing over Tang Yi, who was the first to shoot, to Valan Village, and asking Valan Village to postpone the worship for three years and five years. As for praying for the reduction of the offering in Valan Village, the old guys didn't even dare to mention it, for fear that if they mentioned it, they wouldn't even have a chance to slow down.
For Li Laosan, who stopped the false messenger, and he who killed the false messenger, the clan elders would never hand it over.
Li Laosan is the captain of the hunting team, and he is also the hope of the village to save enough for worship, and those old guys are not stupid. As for him Li Yong, even if his father sells his sister, he will never sell himself unless necessary, otherwise who will give him the banner?
However, Li Yong did not say his guess, even if he no longer had any hope for his father, he would not say anything about his father in front of outsiders.
Although Tang Yi couldn't guess the result, he knew that the group of people would never think of resisting, don't say that it was those clan elders, the people who were like walking corpses that he had seen in the threshing floor before, as if they dared to resist?
I'm afraid that both the villagers and the clan elders are thinking about how to crawl at the feet of the bandits and kneel to live, right?
Thinking of this, Tang Yi smiled disdainfully, and then frowned, not knowing whether it was good or bad for Li Jiazhai to make a crossbow.
In the war of the world, I am never afraid that I can't beat the enemy, but I don't even dare to fight, and I am scared when I hear the enemy's name. If you don't have blood, what can you do if you give you planes, tanks, and artillery? In the end, you don't obediently kneel on the ground, flatter the humiliation of others with your face, and then offer all your weapons with your hands obediently!
Tang Yi is not afraid that the crossbow is not advanced enough, and if it is not advanced enough, he can improve it, after all, standing on the shoulders of giants, he can't create it, and he can't copy and paste? I'm afraid that it will be given to Valan Village by this group of clan elders on their knees, and it will become a sharp blade in the hands of the wicked, killing more innocent people.
He didn't come to Wanluo Realm to be an inventor and an arms dealer, but to earn merit. There's no merit for researching those weapons?
There was a cough outside the door, followed by the sound of tired footsteps.
Hearing that Granny Ma was back, Li Laosan hurriedly opened the door, and he was about to ask about the results of the discussion, but before he opened his mouth, he met Granny Ma's cold gaze.
"Why don't you sleep so late?" Granny Ma stood at the door and didn't enter the house, but kept searching the house, as if she was looking for something.
After seeing Tang Yi, Granny Ma's gaze softened a little, but she didn't speak after opening her mouth, but continued to look into the room. When she saw the kerosene lamp on the table, she was overjoyed, and scolded the little doctor viciously: "Don't you want money for kerosene?
The little doctor has to read a medical book every night before sleeping, and Granny Ma has never cared about the kerosene lamp, what happened this time?
Just when Tang Yi and the little divine doctor were puzzled, Granny Ma's cold voice sounded again.
"Tang boy, you are well now, you can no longer eat and live for nothing, your house money will be two taels per month from this month. Don't say that the old woman doesn't take care of you, and you don't have any money, so you can chop wood to repay the house money. ”
After saying that, Granny Ma left the east chamber and walked back towards the main house, but when she walked to the door, she threw down a sentence coldly, and then entered the house and closed the door.
"Tomorrow's third watch will collect firewood, and fill the firewood room before dawn, otherwise Hugh blames the old woman for being polite!"
Li Laosan and Li Yong glanced at each other, and said almost at the same time: "Isn't it that the village wants Granny Ma to take out the coffin?"
Everyone in the village knows that Granny Ma has a coffin book, which was left by her son and daughter-in-law before she died, I don't know how much, but I heard that it seems to be a lot.
This money is the life of Granny Ma.
Two years ago, when the village first started to train school-age children, the money was not very much, and I wanted to borrow Granny Ma's coffin book, but Granny Ma was dead or alive, and scolded the clan elder who came up with the idea and the village chief who did the work bloody.
Just scolded once, and in that half a year, Granny Ma scolded almost every day and night, scolding the village chief and the eighteen generations of the clan elder.
Lijia Village is a big family, and who in the whole village is not related to whom? The old man of Li Shi and Granny Ma is still cousins who have not yet come out of the five suits.
Granny Ma didn't care about this, she just scolded, scolded the old and the young, and Li Yong was not lightly scolded at the beginning.
Only Li Xin'er has not been scolded.
That time, Li Laosan's role was the same as Tang Yi's, and he belonged to the lying gun. Li Laosan picked up water for Granny Ma for half a year and chopped firewood for half a year, and then was let go by Granny Ma.
Thinking of this, Li Laosan suddenly shuddered, only to see him pat Tang Yi's shoulder, leave a sentence of 'take care', and quickly fled.
Li Yong fled faster, and fled as early as when he finished talking to Li Laosan, and at this time he had already run outside the hospital.
Tang Yi heard Li Laosan's sentence 'take care', and looked at the little doctor in confusion, who knew that the little doctor's reaction was also very strange.
As soon as he turned around, he was pushed out of the door by the little divine doctor, and the door of the back room was slammed into the room.
"You sleep in the firewood room tonight!" Before the words fell, the coal lamp in the room went out, followed by the snoring of the little miracle doctor.
You can never wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep, such as the little divine doctor at this time, even if Tang Yi knocks on the door and makes the dogs in the whole village bark, the little divine doctor just ignores it.
In desperation, Tang Yi had no choice but to scold and scold into the west chamber that was used as a firewood room.
Seeing that Tang Yi lived in the firewood room, Granny Ma breathed a sigh of relief and whispered, "Ten million...... Don't blame the mother-in-law, the mother-in-law can't help it. ”