Chapter 84: Buying Villagers
Carpenter Zuo is indeed not a person from Xingnan Village, but it is reasonable, after 20 years, it is not an excessive requirement to come back to do a ritual.
Not to mention the sudden haunting incident today, the village chief also has to use this to stabilize people's hearts.
Seeing that the other party agreed, Carpenter Zuo was relieved, and his face eased a lot.
"Thank you then, and I hope you can take care of me more."
Taking advantage of the fact that everyone could not see their actions, Carpenter Zuo stuffed a small bag into the village chief's arms, and the smile on his face was unknown.
Holding a heavy bag in his hand, the village chief was stunned for a moment, and then came back to his senses.
As soon as the other party came, he brought trouble to himself, and he was a little dissatisfied in his heart, but now under this move, it disappeared in an instant.
It's not a good time now, even if it's the village chief's family, it's a little tight.
The benefits of sending them to the door, how can he refuse it?
The village chief secretly hid the bag in his sleeve, smiled happily, and patted the other party's shoulder.
"Don't worry, I'm sure I'll arrange this for you!"
As the head of a village, it is still easy to assist the other party in handling the law, after all, the other party has not made any harsh requirements.
As soon as his words landed, Carpenter Zuo pointed to the location of the door again, and said with a smile:
"I think this will affect the villagers, so in order to apologize, I specially brought some rice and flour food, and each family shared some of it, which should be compensated!"
The things are on top of the carriage, and there are not many, just a few dozen catties.
But there are dozens of families in the entire Xingnan Village, and each family can get about a pound of grain, which is tantamount to pie in the sky at a time when food is incomparably expensive!
The village chief was stunned by his heroic hand, and it took a long time to come back to his senses, and he nodded his head again and again.
He is not stupid, he understands that the other party is using these things to buy the villagers, but he himself has benefited, right? There is absolutely no obstacle!
So, the village chief took Carpenter Zuo to the outside of the ancestral hall, and the two stopped at the door, looking at a large group of villagers crowded outside the door.
"Fellow villagers, this is Master Zuo who moved out of the village twenty years ago. He came back this time to pay tribute to his ancestors, and he wants to do a ritual tomorrow, and I hope you will not stop him. As a sign of sincerity, Mr. Zuo said that he would distribute some food to each family as compensation."
As soon as these words came out, the door that was still noisy suddenly became so quiet that you could hear a needle falling on the ground.
Everyone came to see the excitement, and a large number of people came to see it because they heard about the haunting.
I didn't expect to be lively, but I didn't watch it, and I showed myself a great benefit!
The villagers were stunned, they were the only ones who were exploited by the government on weekdays, where was the benefit of going down?
It was the village chief who followed Carpenter Zuo to the vicinity of the carriage first, found a few young and strong young men, and transported the grain back to his home first, and then distributed the grain to each family according to the household registration in the village.
When they really took a bag of grain to their own hands, the villagers couldn't believe it.
The rice noodles in it are really white, which is much finer than the coarse noodles they are usually willing to eat, and it looks like it is now precious.
The whole village immediately came alive, and if nothing else, the food distributed was enough to make them crazy.
At this time, Carpenter Zheng was still hiding in the house and didn't know what to do, so he was anxious to go around the house.
He knew that his senior brother had a straight temper and was not a person who could fiddle with any fancy intestines, otherwise he would not have been so easily angry with himself back then.
But the haunting of the day was too strange, and it was inconvenient for him to appear in front of the people, lest he should be further condemned.
Suddenly, there was another knock on the door.
Carpenter Zheng's heart was about to rise to his throat, and after hesitating for a long time, he finally walked over and opened the door amid an impatient knock.
When he saw that there was someone standing outside the door, he breathed a sigh of relief again, fortunately, he was not a senior brother.
"Carpenter Zheng, this is the rice and noodles that Master Zuo has compensated to every household in the village for tomorrow's work, you take it carefully
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Standing outside the door was the eldest son of the village chief, although he was a little impatient when he knocked on the door, but his attitude was quite respectful when he saw the other party.
Handing the cloth bag in his hand to the other party, he was about to turn and leave, and behind him there was a cart of the same cloth bag, apparently to be distributed to others.
This scene made Carpenter Zheng stunned for a moment, and it took a long time to react, Master Zuo?
This old man Zuo can't be his senior brother who has been mixing in the city very well, right?
After Carpenter Zuo moved out of the village, because he was still worried about the secret book in the other party's hand, Carpenter Zheng specially asked people to inquire about him.
Over the years, I haven't heard that the other party has made a fortune, why is it suddenly so generous?
He wanted to ask again, but the eldest son of the village chief sent him off and hurried to the next family with a donkey cart.
Carpenter Zheng was holding the bag of rice noodles in his hand, and he didn't know for a while whether to throw it away or take it back.
I lost it, and I felt a pity. Now that rice and noodles are expensive, even he doesn't dare to waste them at will.
But if he stays, he doesn't deserve it in his heart, this trick of recruiting and buying people's hearts, his senior brother will actually make it?
Carpenter Zheng even had the idea of whether the other party was his senior brother.
Of course Carpenter Zuo won't, he has an upright personality and is not good at scheming, which is why he was pinched to death by Carpenter Zheng back then.
But Ye Hao will, she doesn't want to watch too many of these little tricks in various TV series, although she is a doctor who spends all day in the research room, she occasionally watches some dramas.
Anyway, she's a girl too!
Spending money to buy people's hearts is more direct than pretending to be sympathetic to the White Lotus, and it makes people willing to stand in line.
What era is this? It was a time when there were frozen bones on the road!
Isn't everyone working hard every day just to have enough to eat?
Carpenter Zuo has no money, she Ye Hao has!
Spending some money out of the evil breath in your heart, it's worth it!
From the beginning of entering the village, every step of Carpenter Zuo was planned for him by Ye Hao, whether it was the haunting of the ancestral hall or the distribution of food later, it was all arranged by Ye Hao.
What she wants is to let the people of the entire Xingnan Village believe in this old man Zuo who has returned to his hometown after leaving his hometown for many years!
With this trust, she can make the next step and expose the true face of Carpenter Zheng in public.
After the grain was distributed, the grandfather and grandson of Zuo Carpenter also left with the people, leaving only a village to talk about him.
The two of them still live in the old house, but the inside has been cleaned up and is not as old as before.
Regarding the matter of renting a shop, Ye Hao has no time to deal with it for the time being, and she plans to wait for Carpenter Zheng's matter to come to an end before finalizing this matter.
As soon as Carpenter Zuo left, Lin Bin also rushed back home and reported to Ye Hao what happened today.
As the setter of the entire chess game, Ye Hao's brain was spinning rapidly, and she thought of the next step.
She pulled Lin Bin into the kitchen alone, avoiding Xie Yunshu and Zhao Yi.
Sneaking out of his arms, he put it in the palm of the other's hand, and whispered:
"This is a treasure I got by chance, it has a very magical effect, you can take it to the ancestral hall of Xingnan Village later."
The thing she took out was naturally the voice recorder she drew last time.
This voice recorder is very simple and convenient, and the operation is also simple, after Ye Hao demonstrated it a little, Lin Bin understood how to use it.
Although he still looks calm on the surface, he has already turned up turbulent waves in his heart.
This treasure is simply unheard of and unseen by him, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an immortal weapon!
However, Lin Bin's bearing ability is still good, although he has never seen Ye Hao take out items empty-handed like Xie Yunshu, he has also seen the other party easily make ice cubes in the summer.
The peculiarity of this woman has already made him subconsciously feel that no treasure taken out by the other party is enough
Surprised.
In fact, seeing that Lin Bin's receptivity was so good, Ye Hao was also a little surprised in her heart.
The voice recorder is extremely common in modern times, but in ancient times, it was at the level of a fairy treasure, and it could be enshrined when it was taken out.
The other party is so calm, but he seems to be a little too proud.
Coughing softly, she waved her hand.
"I'll work hard for you to keep an eye on tonight, if you see Carpenter Zheng, be sure to record what he said!"
All this trouble during the day is all to prepare for the main drama at night, what she wants is for the other party to mess up and confide the truth of the year.
Before she could draw the recorder, she had another plan, but that one was more laborious.
Now with the assistance of such a divine weapon, she doesn't believe that she can't move Carpenter Zheng!
Lin Bin nodded when he heard this, and then turned around and disappeared into the night.
When he came back this time, in addition to explaining things, he also had a meal, and he really came and went in a hurry.
Xie Yunshu saw all this, but he didn't ask.
Ye Hao had already told him that he was going to deal with Carpenter Zheng, and he had told him the general plan, but he didn't say anything about the recorder.
Mainly, she felt that Lin Bin was easier to fool than Xie Yunshu, and she was too lazy to spend too much time explaining to the latter.
As far as Xie Yunshu is smart, she has to fool the other party and it will cost a lot of brain cells!
It's just that as soon as she walked out of the kitchen, as soon as she came into contact with Xie Yunshu's sight, the other party turned around and went back to the house with a cold face.
What's going on?
Ye Hao was confused, and she didn't know where she had provoked him again.
Let's not talk about it for the time being, and turn my eyes to Xingnan Village.
Lin Bin can not be noticed during the day, and he can come and go freely in Xingnan Village, let alone at night when there is a night cover.
The first destination was not the ancestral hall, but Wang Hu's home.
Wang Hu, who was sitting in the room, shook his eyes to the door from time to time, and when he saw the figure of the person coming, he quickly closed the door.
"I've got everything ready for you!"
took out a cloth bag from under the table, which was what Lin Bin had told him to ask for, and Wang Hu had prepared it early and waited for the other party to pick it up.
After taking the cloth bag, Lin Bin confirmed that there were a lot of things in it, and then looked up at him.
"How's the situation on Carpenter Zheng's side?"
"After the man who delivered the food went, he was shut up in the house again and never came out again. Until now, there has been no movement."
Honestly answered, Wang Hu had been staying near Carpenter Zheng's house, secretly observing the other party's actions.
Fortunately, he is usually an idle person, and even if he appears in all corners of the village, no one will be suspicious.
Not to mention that the villagers are extremely excited now, where can they take care of him!
Nodding slightly, Lin Bin then ordered:
"Keep watching, and if you see him going out, come to the ancestral hall to find me."
After receiving an affirmative reply, he turned around and left with his things, this time to the location of the ancestral hall.
Not long after he left, Wang Hu was also dressed in black, and took advantage of the night to touch the vicinity of Carpenter Zheng's house, looked at the house with the lights on, and hid near the door.