The ransom offered by Zhao Hengyi to the captives in Zhoujia Village was two taels of silver per person, and the old lady of the Zhou family was absolutely unwilling to pay this money.

Not to mention the ordinary villagers of Zhoujia Village who are inferior to pigs and dogs in the eyes of Mrs. Zhou, even the eldest son of his long house, the eldest son of the dear son Zhou Xingwang, the ransom of 200 taels, Mrs. Zhou is reluctant to take it out!

To put it bluntly, Yushuwan and Zhao Hengyi have no deterrent power, and their reputation is not enough.

If Zhou Xingwang was really tied up by the bandits, and he would have sent a finger or an ear to the Zhou family every few days, presumably the two hundred taels of silver, and the old lady Zhou would have sent them to the thieves' cottage.

Old lady Zhou was so free and easy, it was nothing more than that he decided that Yushuwan and Zhao Hengyi would never dare to kill Zhou Xingwang and other villagers in Zhoujia Village.

Even, the old lady Zhou sent people to preach in the village, saying that all the young and strong people of the Zhou family were detained by Yushuwan, and they were allowed to do some hard labor every day to torture people.

As for why all the young men of the Zhou family went to Yushu Bay, the old lady Zhou didn't say a word, as if Yushu Bay had really become a den of thieves, and the more than 200 young men of the Zhou family were all tied up by the thieves.

Old lady Zhou is in Zhoujia Village, he is like an emperor, and the affairs in the village are really decided in a word.

In the entire Zhoujia Village, except for a very small number of three or five families who have their own two-acre thin fields, all the others are tenants who rent the land of the Zhou family.

Almost everyone in the entire village has the surname Zhou, and Mrs. Zhou, as the largest landlord and the patriarch at the same time, has a terrifying control over the entire village.

In fact, the situation of Zhoujia Village is the norm in the entire Dayanguo village, and villages like Yushuwan, which are all composed of foreign populations, are a minority.

With super control and undisputed power, Mrs. Zhou regarded the entire Zhoujia Village, including all the tenants and all the villagers, as his own property.

In this way, when Mrs. Zhou is thinking about problems, she will naturally substitute herself into the role of the master, and other villagers surnamed Zhou will become items that can't think and have no brains.

In this case, anyone will have a specific price in the eyes of Mrs. Zhou, and the villagers of Zhoujia Village, who were captured by Yushuwan, are not worth two taels of silver no matter how they measure it.

As for his eldest son Zhou Xingwang, in the eyes of Old Lady Zhou, it is worth two hundred taels of silver, but even if it is the soil emperor of Zhoujia Village, these two hundred taels of silver is a lot of money for Old Lady Zhou!

After all, the Zhou family is an extremely pure landlord, except for two or three shops in Dangyang County, the Zhou family, which can be called a behemoth in the local area, relies on collecting rent from tenants every year to support themselves.

Such a rich man and Zhao Hengyi can't be compared, maybe there is no shortage of food and clothing, but it is also an extremely difficult thing to take out the silver for nothing.

The scheming old lady Zhou planned to drag it, and when she dragged it to Yushu Bay, she had to release people automatically.

In Mrs. Zhou's mind, even if more than 200 young people are asked to do hard labor every day, they will not create too much value, and the daily consumption of food by more than 200 young people is a lot of expenditure.

In the insight of Mrs. Zhou, the only thing that can generate value in this poor countryside is land, to be precise, land that can be cultivated.

There is not much land suitable for cultivation in a poor place like Elm Bay, otherwise it would not have been occupied by a group of displaced people more than a decade ago.

The more than 200 young people in Zhoujia Village who were detained in Yushu Bay will not produce value and cannot create wealth in the consciousness of Mrs. Zhou's grandfather.

Thinking about it this way, the fact that those people were being detained in Elm Bay is not necessarily a bad thing.

Originally, the Zhou family was unreasonable to attack Elm Bay at night, but after all, it didn't succeed, did it?

Now that more than 200 young people are being detained in Yushu Bay, living on their own, Mrs. Zhou has decided that it will be a heavy burden!

The old lady Zhou, who has been calculating all her life, has calculated the people of Zhoujia Village, and sooner or later she will be obediently put back by Yushuwan!

Even Mrs. Zhou has secretly explained to the subordinates in the family, asking people to report to the Zhou family who are doing hard labor in Yushuwan, and don't leave when Yushuwan takes the initiative to let them go home.

Just eat them in Elm Bay, drink them, and make trouble if you don't eat and drink, and the trouble is out of control!

As for whether there will be people from the Zhou family starving to death in Elm Bay, and being beaten to death in Elm Bay in the process of trouble, Mrs. Zhou doesn't care.

Although everyone's surname is Zhou, a few villagers who are not as good as pigs and dogs will die, and they are not worth a few copper plates.

On the contrary, as long as someone dies, the Zhou family will change from being unreasonable to being reasonable, so that they can be entangled with Yushuwan.

Once caught in an entangled situation, the experienced old lady Zhou has enough means to change the way to rectify Yushuwan and Zhao Hengyi!

It was under the domination of such thoughts that the people of the Zhou family turned a blind eye to the more than 200 young people who were detained in Yushu Bay, except for encouraging those young and strong family members in their own village to go to Yushu Bay to make trouble, as if there had never been those people in the village.

Even if Zhoujia Village has a large population and is the largest village around Dangyang County, it is a great event that there are more than 200 young people missing all of a sudden!

If nothing else, the work in the fields will definitely be affected, and this year's grain output will inevitably be reduced considerably.

But so what?

Farming is the business of the tenants, and collecting rent is the business of Mrs. Zhou, and if the grain is small, then dig more grass roots and pick up more bark to eat, in short, Mrs. Zhou and his descendants are not hungry.

However, the place of Yushuwan, in Dangyang County and even in Dayan Kingdom, is different from other places.

From the point of view of people like Mrs. Zhou, that place is full of evil spirits, prosperous, and making a lot of money, which makes such people both red-eyed and vaguely frightened.

As for where this inexplicable panic came from, people like Mrs. Zhou can't be straightened out, so they can only wait for reality to give them an answer.

The answer was soon placed in front of Old Lady Zhou, and Yushuwan didn't seem to care about adding more than two hundred mouths, and none of the young men who were detained were put back.

On the contrary, most of the young and strong family members who were instigated by the Zhou family to make trouble never returned!

At first, the Zhou family only thought that those people lived in Elm Bay and were ready to cry for a long time, but when someone returned to Zhoujia Village one after another, cleaned up the few belongings in the family, and left quietly in the middle of the night, and never appeared again, the Zhou family realized the strangeness of the matter!

There are two if there is one, there are two and there are three, when more and more people secretly leave Zhoujia Village with a few belongings, and some people even don't even want to stay at home when they don't come back directly, the Zhou family panicked, and the old lady Zhou panicked!

Aren't these people crazy or not?

Leaving the Zhou family and the rented land, what do you rely on to survive?

Are we all going to starve to death together?