"No matter what, they deserve to die for daring to kill our people."
Jiang Sanlang finished eating the cantaloupe and stood up: "I'm going to sleep for a while, and I'll tell you about the future later."
He hadn't slept much for several days and was feeling extremely sleepy.
Old man Jiang waved his hand: "You go to sleep, I'll go take a look outside."
The eldest son's and the second son's rooms still need to be tidied up, so he has to tidy them up whenever he has time, clearing out the debris in the wall frames, and then repainting and re-covering the ceiling after he has recovered.
At this moment, Yingbao took her brothers and sisters to look for melons.
Of course it was impossible to find it, but they did find a bamboo bed with two large wooden boxes piled on top of it, as well as two sacks of rice, two sacks of wheat, and several quilts.
They were covered with some straw and did not get wet after two rainy days.
Jiang Quan rushed over first, pulled away the straw, and spoke excitedly incoherently: "I'm rich! I'm rich! Hahahaha! I found the bandits' treasure!"
Yingbao said unhappily, "This is my family's stuff."
Jiang Quan: “…”
I opened the wooden box, picked up a piece of clothing and took a look. It was indeed my little cousin's clothing.
Oh, he was so happy for nothing, he thought he had picked up stolen goods hidden by bandits.
Jiang Quan and his eldest brother Jiang Cheng carried a sack and walked back, while Dani and Erni followed, each carrying a quilt.
Yingbao, her two younger brothers, Yuanbao, Huzi and Wei Zhan were guarding the bamboo bed.
The two dogs barked excitedly and circled around the bamboo bed.
They both saw it clearly just now. This thing suddenly appeared in front of the young master, and the two dogs were frightened.
Until now, they have not recovered.
"Yingbao, let's go pick up the eggs. Let Brother Yuanbao and Wei Zhan stay here to guard them."
Hu Zi was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks, urging his little cousin again and again.
But before the little cousin could say anything, Yuanbao was the first to object, "Why do you want us to watch over it? What can you, Xiaojie and Xiaowu do? I think you should just stay here and watch the things while Yingbao and I go pick up the eggs."
"Why?" Hu Zi snorted, "I've already told Ying Bao about this! Humph! I'm going!"
Seeing that the two brothers were about to fight, Yingbao glared and said, "Neither of you should go. I can do it alone."
Then he pointed at his two younger brothers and said, "You are not allowed to go either. Watch the things here carefully. When I come back, we will go home and cook some eggs for ourselves."
Jiang Jie and Jiang Wu pouted in grievance, but still nodded.
Jiang Wu ran to his sister and whispered, "Sister, let's not bring them here next time! Humph!"
"Yeah." Yingbao agreed.
Jiang Wu suddenly became happy, and glanced at Hu Zi and the others with a proud look, feeling very proud.
So, the boys watched Yingbao lead the deer into the bamboo forest.
Yingbao found an open space in the bamboo forest, which was only about ten feet square.
Take out a small shovel and start digging the soil, move out some of the melon vines and cucumber vines, and plant them one by one in the soil.
After I prepared the soil and watered the vines, I was satisfied.
I'll bring Big Sister Ni and Second Sister Ni over to pick the melons later, and then I'll have something to talk about with the adults.
Then he caught a few chickens and scattered a handful of wheat on the ground.
The hen was a little confused when she first came out, but when she saw Yingbao's familiar face, she calmed down and pecked at the wheat grains happily.
When Yingbao appeared in front of Yuanbao and the others carrying a basket of eggs, Dani, Erni, Jiang Cheng and Jiang Quan also came.
Also coming with them were Old Man Jiang, Mrs. Jiang Liu, and Mrs. Chunniang Zhou.
They carried shoulder poles, ready to carry back several sacks of grain and boxes.
"Baoer, where did you find the eggs?" Old Man Jiang asked first.
Yingbao pointed to the bamboo forest and said, "It's over there. Do you want to go take a look?"
"Go, of course!" Old Man Jiang has always been curious about where his granddaughter found these things.
Not only the old man was curious, but everyone in the family was curious.
So Yingbao brought her grandparents, cousins and sister to the place she had just tidied up.
"Oh my, so many melons!" Jiang Liu excitedly pulled her dazed husband, "Look, is that our **? Oh my God! God bless me."
Dani, Erni and Jiang Quan had already gone to pick melons.
Erni was picking melons while shouting, "No wonder there's a melon field here! Haha! I'll come here every day to pick melons to eat."
When Jiang Liu saw her second granddaughter pull the melon vine out of the soil, she slapped her thigh in pain: "Oh my goodness, be careful, there are melon seeds on it, don't pull the vine out. Oh, you are so clumsy..."
Erni hurriedly tried to be gentle, but the vine was too resistant to pulling. Before she could even exert any strength, the vine was pulled out by the roots.
"Stupid!" Jiang Liu slapped her granddaughter's hand away, forbidding her to pick any more, and ordered her second grandson, "Go home and get a sickle!"
Yingbao silently handed over a pair of scissors, "Cut it with scissors."
Erni was overjoyed and took the scissors and started cutting.
You know what, it feels really good to cut melons with scissors.
After several people picked the melons, Jiang Liushi added soil to the roots of the melon vines one by one and compacted it. Then she took the captured hens home.
On the way back, Old Man Jiang muttered to his wife: "The bandits actually hid our things in the bamboo forest. Do you think they have hidden something else?"
Jiang Liu nodded: "Of course, we will look for it again after we send all these back home."
"Okay, I'll go look for it later."
As a result, Old Man Jiang searched all over the surrounding bamboo forest but found nothing.
At night, women stay in one room and men in another.
Fortunately, we found some bedding today so the family won’t suffer from the cold.
The next day, the weather became even colder.
Jiang Cheng got up early in the morning, had breakfast, and went to the town with his younger brother Jiang Quan.
Everyone in the family needs to prepare cotton-padded clothes, otherwise we won’t be able to survive this winter.
As soon as Jiang Cheng and his companions left, Patriarch Chen and several village elders came to look for Jiang Sanlang.
Patriarch Chen sat down beside the bamboo bed, stroked his beard and said to Jiang Sanlang: "Now that Sanyou is unable to take charge, our village has unanimously decided to elect you as the village chief of Chen Village."
Jiang Sanlang was stunned and waved his hands repeatedly: "This won't work."
"Why not?" Chief Chen said, "The young people in our village all listen to you. Your family is also a second-class household. This village belongs to you."
"Yes, Sanlang, just agree to it." Several village elders said, "In the current situation in the village, we can't do without someone in charge."
Jiang Sanlang scratched his head, "But I..."
"Well, it's decided." Chief Chen said, "I have already met with the villagers before I came here, and they all agree that it is most appropriate for you to be the village chief."
An elder patted Jiang Sanlang on the shoulder and said, "It's not easy to take over the post of village chief now, but I have high hopes for you. Let's go to the village chief and tell him that all the affairs of Chen Village will be under your jurisdiction from now on."
"Yes, yes, you must not refuse, otherwise our village will be finished."
Jiang Sanlang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he could only nod and agree: "Well, I'll obey your orders. If I'm not doing well, please give me some advice from Uncle Chen and the village elders."
"No way, we are very confident in your work."
The village elder smiled kindly and said, "Also, you need to worry about the villagers' house repairs. Winter is coming soon, and everyone can't be left without a place to live."