At this time, a little girl who looked to be only eight or nine years old looked at Jiang Chao with a longing on her face, and there was a pleading in her eyes.

She looked very thin, her face was sallow, and she looked visibly malnourished and hungry.

She was also holding a little boy of four or five years old, and the little boy looked at Jiang Chao with blank eyes. My stomach was still rumbling.

The dozen or so people left around were all old and young like the old man and the little girl. They are the most difficult group of people in the village.

Either they are lonely and old, or they have lost their parents and elders, and only their children are left to live a difficult life.

Just like the little girl in front of her and her brother.

My father fell to his death while going up the mountain to collect medicine, and my mother let a tiger bite off a leg while picking wild vegetables in the back mountain. People were also seriously injured.

If it weren't for the presence of a dozen villagers who worked together to drive the tiger away, their mother would have died.

Nowadays, although people have survived, they are not capable of action. The whole family is supported by a nine-year-old girl.

There are a lot of families like this in the whole village.

For example, Su Xiaoxiao, her parents died of cold. Only the two sisters were left struggling to survive.

"You just help Xiao Xiao boil water to cook, don't worry, in the future, the rice tube will be full!" My brother will give you two copper coins a day. Jiang Chao stroked the little girl's head and said distressedly.

Although their siblings can't help much, they can be regarded as finding a livelihood for them.

The entire village is almost full of such families, and it is impossible for Jiang Chao to help everyone for free for the time being.

The rest of the old and weak, the old ones in their fifties to their sixties, and the few ones are in their teens.

Jiang Chao arranged for them to dig a kiln and cut wood. How much can be done. In addition, I picked two more to help Su Xiaoxiao cook.

After all, in the future, he will not only be in charge of the food of the people in front of him, but also the food of the entire village.

At the end of the day, almost two taels of silver were used.

Su Xiaoxiao on the side was shocked, and felt that Jiang Chao was losing again. But she was scared by Jiang Chao and didn't dare to care about Jiang Chao's affairs.

Jiang Chao asked her to do whatever she did, at least, and now she and her sister no longer worry about food.

Even if she is a little tired now, she is satisfied.

Jiang Chao arranged the affairs of the family and went out with thirty-two young men and Ah Sheng.

At Jiang Chao's request, everyone took hoes and firewood knives.

Jiang Chao led everyone to the entrance of the village, where there is a vertical soil slope five or six meters high on the left, and a wide road about three meters below it. On the right is a bamboo forest.

Jiang Chao asked everyone to dig a lot of pits here, and then sent people to pick up a lot of stones on the soil slope.

In addition, people were left to observe from the top of the hill on the side ahead.

The position at the top of the mountain offers an unobstructed view of what lies ahead. If the bandits come, they can be seen miles away.

In addition, Jiang Chao led everyone to set up many traps in the bamboo forest.

With the ability of Jiang Chao's agents, it is too simple to set up traps based on local materials.

When everyone was busy until the afternoon, Su Xiaoxiao brought someone to bring food. Everyone had a full meal and worked harder.

The villagers paid almost all the taxes on their food, and they were able to leave not much, so they rarely ate food such as rice and noodles. Most of the time, they eat bran and wild vegetables.

Jiang Chao not only gave money, but also gave free food, which was white flour rice. It's no wonder that everyone is not active.

It's just that Jiang Chao only has eighty taels of silver, and I'm afraid that this kind of consumption won't last for a few days.

However, as long as the bandits are dealt with first, he has many ways to make money.

At that time, let alone feed a village, even if it is from these ten miles and eight townships, he will be able to feed alone.

By the time the trap was ready, it was almost night, and Jiang Chao took advantage of everyone's time to work and made all the remaining gunpowder into explosives bags.

He buried the gunpowder bag in the road, poured the oil into a container made of bamboo, and buried it beside him.

He was afraid that the fuse would be in trouble, so he poured fire oil into each gunpowder point and connected the ignition points.

At that time, as long as the oil is ignited, these powder packets will blow up the bandits directly.

Do all this, Jiang Chao asked everyone to go back, the weather is so cold, bandits deal with a village, and they won't come over in the middle of the night.

However, Jiang Chao gave everyone an order to come over early tomorrow morning.

The distance between Mao'er Mountain and the mountain village is about half a day.

Calculate the time when Liu Chunhua went to report the news, plus the time when the bandits came, if the bandits didn't come today, they will have to arrive tomorrow morning at the earliest.

Therefore, Jiang Chao is not in a hurry.

According to his guess, the time of the bandits' arrival should be tomorrow at noon.

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At this time, in the county lord's mansion of Anning County, Song Ningxue, the county lord of Anning, looked at the paperwork in his hand, and her beautiful willow eyebrows wrinkled.

The beautiful face that is extremely delicate is full of strangeness. muttered softly:

"Jiang Chao! Did you really kill the two bandits on your own? I heard that this gray dog ranks second in force among the five bandit leaders in Maoershan. Second only to the bandit leader Evil Tiger. Even if it is the head-catcher Iron Eagle of the county government, he is afraid that he will not dare to say that he can defeat him. You have the strength!? ”

She was dressed in silver armor and looked heroic.

During the day, when the county sent the good news of beheading two bandits, she felt that something was wrong.

With the fast catching of those wastes from the county government, it is impossible to behead the four bandits in Maoershan.

If it were so easy, the bandits in Anning County would not be so rampant.

So, she sent someone to inquire a little and got the news she wanted.

The one who killed the bandits was the villager who ruled a small mountain village.

Moreover, it is said that he killed with his own strength, and he was not even injured.

When Jiang Chao handed over the corpse, when he sighed that someone could kill the greyhound, Ah Sheng blew it hard for Jiang Chao.

Song Ningxue also found out the news from the catcher who knew the details.

At that time, she was thinking that if she could do this, Jiang Chao, who made the move, was either superior in force or outstanding in wisdom.

If there really is such a wise and brave person under her rule, she has the intention to recruit under the account.

For her, who has newly taken over the fiefdom, she just wants the people under her rule to live a well-fed, safe and prosperous life.

Banditry was her first target. Unfortunately, she has been unavailable.

"County Lord, if it's him, I'll just go to the mountain village tomorrow to see, if he really has this ability, or he can help you calm down the bandits in this peaceful county."

The beautiful guard standing beside him spoke up.

She was also dressed in silver armor. The temperament is not much inferior to Song Ningxue.

"Hmmm! Xiaoya is right, tomorrow we will go to see if this river tide is really as people say. Song Ningxue nodded.