Fight the Giants

  Chapter 498 Entering the Village

  A group of villagers saw that the group of nobles were going to take the bandits to the government, and they were afraid that they would be taken too, so they all begged for mercy.

   "Forgive me, my lord, forgive me, we were all deceived by those mountain bandits, they occupied our village and ordered us to make offerings to them, if we don't listen to them, we will die!"

  The rest of the people nodded one after another: "We are all forced, please spare your life!"

   "How do you know that you are not in the same league as them? You dare to do road robbery, and you will be innocent. Girl, take them to the government too." Xiang Cao said angrily.

A group of villagers kowtowed at the same time: "Girl, we are really good people. Those bandits occupied our village half a month ago. They ate and drank in our village. They forced us to follow them down the mountain when we had nothing to eat." Robbery, this is the first time we have come out of the mountain, what we said is true, please spare your life!"

   "It's true what they say."

   Huo Nian threw his spear in front of him, the kid who was scared to pee, said to Huo Nian, "If you don't believe me, you can come to our village to see."

   Fearing that the young master would be fooled, Vanilla pouted, "Why did we go to your village to see? If we are ambushed by you, we still have lives?"

   "No more, no more", the kid waved his hands desperately, "All the bandits are here."

   "You boy, you don't even have full hair, and it's not a good idea to follow the bandits down the mountain to rob." Vanilla was very angry. If it wasn't for Zhuifeng's high martial arts skills, so many of them would have succeeded.

  The boy lowered his head in shame.

  Fearing that Huo Xi would be fooled, Vanilla turned around and said to Huo Xi: "Girl, let's help move the stones too. Seeing that a heavy rain is coming, it's better to hurry up."

   "Is it going to rain?" Huo Xi looked up at the sky.

   "Well, let's have another hour." The moisture in the air is getting thicker and thicker, it's going to rain, and it's still heavy. Vanilla is now much more accurate in seeing the weather than before. The timing is also quite accurate.

  Huo Xi believed what she said, seeing that Qian Sankunsi was pushing people to leave, she hurriedly reminded her.

   "It's okay. Miss Huo, let's go back, push them to the post station, and take them to the government in the post station's carriage. Then we will come back quickly to find you."

   "Okay. Be careful on your way."

  After Qiansankunsi led the people away, he interrogated the rest of the villagers, "Girl, what they said should be true."

  The boy spoke again, "Your Excellency, we didn't lie to you. Our patriarch is sick, and we also want to grab some money for the patriarch to see a doctor."

   "Your family is so poor that you don't even have money to see a doctor?"

  Huo Nian looked down on this kid a bit. No matter how poor you are, you can't do things like highway robbery. Moreover, there are so many people in one village and one family, how can they be manipulated by more than 20 bandits?

  Hmph, it’s just cowardly.

  The kid lowered his head again.

An old man stood up and said, "My lord, although our village is poor, we still have tiles to cover us. Once it rains in this mountain, we don't know when it will stop. If there are rocks, mud and water rolling down, it will be unsafe to travel. I apologize , let's invite the girl to our village to rest for a while."

  Huo Xi looked up at the sky, and then looked around. There were dense forests and mountain roads. If it rained heavily, it would be really unsafe to travel.

   "Is your village on a mountain?"

   "Is the girl afraid that your car will not be able to go up the mountain? Our village is halfway up the mountain, and there is a road behind here, which can be walked by a horse-drawn cart. We used to often carry rocks down the mountain."

  Huo Xi thought that if there was a heavy rain, it would be difficult to hide on this mountain road, and if there was a mudslide or something, it would be dangerous, so he planned to follow the group of people to their village to take shelter.

   "Girl, beware of fraud." Mama Ma was still a little worried.

   "It's okay, let's let Zhufeng go to the village to have a look in a while, if there is nothing wrong, we will go up again."

  Zhufeng went around the village and said it was safe up there, so Huo Xi led everyone up the mountain with the villagers.

   Along the way, among the mountains, there are many kinds of rocks and dense forests covering the sun. How did you think of building the village on the middle of the mountain?

   Entering the village, I saw that the houses of each house were either made of wood or stone houses built of rocks.

   "Do you have carpenters and stonemasons in your village?" Huo Xi asked the boy who was following him.

  The kid is Mao Shi, who is about the same size as Huo Nian, seeing Huo Nian showing his hand, he admires him, and follows Nian'er all the way.

   "Returning to the nobleman, there is no arable land in our village, and everyone makes a living by mining stones or logging. Or go to the city to lay stones for others, make rockeries, and build houses."

   "Then how did you end up being a bandit's younger brother?" Huo Nian turned to ask him.

  The kid stopped talking. Asked by others without realizing it, it is even more embarrassing for a kid who is about the same age to ask.

  Arrived at the entrance of the village, an old man was supported and stood there anxiously. Seeing that everyone in the village had come back safely, his feet were so weak that he was about to slump to the ground.

   "The patriarch..." When the villagers saw the patriarch, their eyes were embarrassed, and they didn't dare to look at him.

   "You guys! How can you do roadblocking and robbery! How is that different from bandits!" In one sentence, he was out of breath, coughing and panting.

   "Patriarch, we can't live anymore..."

   "If you can't survive, you can't engage in road robbery. If you let me know next time, you should all get rid of your clan and go out, and don't stay in the village."

   When it came to expelling the clan, everyone panicked and quickly admitted their mistake, "Patriarch, we won't dare next time."

The patriarch's face was flushed red. He heard that the robbed nobles had followed into the village, so he hurriedly got him to walk in front of Huo Xi: "Great man, let me confess to you on their behalf. It's their first crime, so let them go." , I, kneel down to you on their behalf..."

   "Grandpa!" Huo Nian couldn't bear it, and hurried forward to help.

He stayed in the exile village for a month, and he has seen all the miserable conditions of some people in the exile village. He also saw the lives of some people in the Shu area in the nearby villages, which was the same as what he saw in the village near the capital and at Huojiaba. Yes, very different.

   was greatly shocked.

  While supporting her, she turned her head and glanced at Huo Xi.

  Huo Xi sighed: "Old man, we don't have to pursue it, but please be sure to restrain your clansmen. If the crime falls into the hands of others next time, you will not be so lucky."

  "Yes. Please don't worry, my lord. I will definitely restrain them." Hearing that Huo Xi and others went to the village to shelter from the rain, they rushed to welcome them to his home.

   Arriving at Patriarch Mao's house, Huo Xi saw that it was similar to the house in the village, except that it was a little bigger.

  There is no furniture in the room. It seems that he is really poor. No wonder the clansmen went down the mountain to rob in order to seek medical treatment.

   "Patriarch Mao, I see that your house-building skills are very good. Even if there is no land to cultivate, life will not be like this?"

  (end of this chapter)