Chapter 65 Oh My God! The Village is Destroyed The once peaceful Jiuyang Village is now in chaos. A cavalry team of over a hundred men, riding their war horses, burned, killed and looted in the village. "Someone come and help!" "You bunch of beasts." "Ah ah ah..." The village was filled with villagers' cries for help, screams, and all kinds of wails. Gu Chan and Ma Zheng were hiding behind a big tree at the entrance to the village and witnessed the tragic scene with their own eyes. Ma Zheng was so anxious that he burst into tears, "My grandma is still in the village, I have to go save her." "Calm down, don't be anxious. With your ability, you will die if you go in." Gu Chan hurriedly pulled him back. "What should I do? Should I just watch them kill people?" Ma Zheng said while crying, unable to stop the tears.
Gu Chan took a close look at the cavalrymen who were plundering the village and discovered that the armor they wore was different from the armor worn by the soldiers of the Tiancang Kingdom. "These are enemy cavalry." "It's from the Diyue Kingdom. I said there was something fishy about the death of the black-clothed man from the Tianji Pavilion yesterday. It seems that the Diyue Kingdom really crossed the forest and attacked the border of our Tiancang Kingdom." "Don't worry. You see, apart from stealing food and burning houses, they didn't kill the villagers. Some villagers were stabbed but not killed directly." Gu Chan looked at the situation in front of her and analyzed it rationally. If the Diyue Kingdom really wanted to massacre the village, these villagers would probably have died long ago. But the fact that they are still wailing and screaming proves that these cavalrymen have no intention of massacring the village. So what was their purpose in burning the villages? Is it just to provoke a war between the two countries? Thinking of this, Gu Chan made a prompt decision, "Let's go, find a place to hide first, and wait until they leave." "Then what about your grandpa and my grandma?" Ma Zheng asked. "Believe me, the Diyue Kingdom cavalry is definitely not here to kill people this time. They have other purposes, and they definitely intend to keep these villagers alive." Gu Chan said firmly. After hearing what she said, Ma Zheng instantly calmed down. Then the two of them quickly ran to a nearby haystack and hid there. And the fact is just as Gu Chan said. After looting food and destroying the village, this team of hundreds of cavalrymen, led by a general, ordered their cavalrymen to drive all the villagers of Jiuyang Village to a big tree at the entrance of the village and surround them. The general rode on his warhorse, holding Gu Chan's cute little fox in his arms, and shouted to all the villagers, "Listen to me, we are not here to massacre the village today, we are only here to occupy this land. You will have one night to move out of here and go to Wuheng County to tell your magistrate that from now on this land and the entire forest behind it will all belong to our Diyue Kingdom." "Half of the forest belongs to our Tiancang Nation, but they want to take it all!" "The Earth-Moon Nation has a really big appetite, and is extremely ambitious." "I've heard for a long time that the Diyue Kingdom and the Tiancang Kingdom are at odds with each other. This day has finally arrived!" When the villagers heard the general's words, they all grumbled in low voices. No one could have imagined that the offensive of the Diyue Kingdom was so fierce that even a cavalry team of hundreds of people had crossed the forest and entered the territory of the Tiancang Kingdom, and the border garrisons had not yet reacted.
As a result, all the villagers present had to relocate overnight. The general ignored everyone's discussion and shouted angrily, "After midnight, we will come back to take over this place. If anyone shows up here again, we will kill them without mercy." After saying this, the general and hundreds of cavalrymen quickly left with all the villagers' food, money, and the only four livestock in the village. As soon as they left, the villagers all collapsed on the ground, crying and howling, all of them were sad. At this time, the village chief He Fengyang stood up and shouted to everyone, "Okay, everyone, stop crying. It's good enough to be alive. Now we can only go to Wuheng County to find the county magistrate for resettlement and bring this news over. Otherwise, we can only wait to die if we stay here." "That's right, there's nothing to cry about. Everyone, stop crying. In this situation, we can just move to the county and no longer have to live in this poor mountain village." Gu Chan suddenly jumped out from the haystack and shouted to everyone following the village chief's words. Ma Zheng rushed out from behind her and ran quickly towards Grandma Ding Meihua who was slumped in the crowd in front. "Grandma, are you okay?" "I'm fine, just a minor injury, nothing serious." "Woooooooo..." The grandmother and grandson hugged each other and cried inconsolably. All the villagers cried secretly when they saw this and were extremely sad. Zhang Wanshan also stood up and walked to Gu Chan, squatted down, hugged her and cried, "Gu Chan, Grandpa is sorry for you! I am useless. I couldn't protect your little fox cub. Even the silver we saved was taken away." "Grandpa, it's okay. There's nothing we can do about this. We are all the same. We just need to be strong." Gu Chan pushed her grandfather away and clenched his little fist to comfort him. Zhang Wanshan cried and sobbed, "We are all poor people from a small mountain village. What will happen if we go to the county? First, we have no place to stay, and second, we have no money. Even eating is a problem!" "..."Gu Chan. She is not a savior. Even if the county magistrate wanted to give her a three-story building later, it would not be enough to accommodate the hundreds of villagers present! At times like this, she felt deeply powerless. It wasn't that she didn't want to help everyone, but she really was powerless. He Fengyang said in time, "Everyone, this is the most difficult time for everyone. You can only rely on yourself for everything. If you have relatives or friends in the county, you can go to the county with us to seek refuge with them. If not, everyone can see which other village you like and go there to find a way to settle down!" "I don't have any relatives or friends in the county, but I do have some in another village, so I'll go there to seek refuge." "Me too, I'm going to another village too." "Then everyone should find a place to stay!" As soon as the village chief said this, many villagers started to join in the conversation. Then more than half of the villagers stood up, supported each other and left. After a while, there were only about forty villagers left, still standing under the big tree waiting. Gu Chan looked at everyone and asked, "Do you have relatives or friends in the county?" "We don't have any relatives or friends in the county or other villages. Now we can only follow the village chief." "Yeah! We don't know where we went."
"We can only go to the county first and see." Everyone complained. Gu Chan immediately put her hand on her forehead, feeling overwhelmed. She thought these people had connections in the county! But judging from the current situation, she was overthinking. This group of people actually had nowhere to go and could only follow the village chief! (End of this chapter)