Gu Jiu rolled his eyes mockingly: "Okay, you can go and say it now. But now everyone is running out of food. As someone who has tricked them, do you think they will chase you?" Do you want the ten extra kilograms of grain you harvested back then?"
"You can definitely try it."
"Furthermore, if ten portions of food are found here, then everyone will definitely think that you must have three or four portions. Do you think the folks will not break down your door?"
Lao Shatou was startled by what he said, but he was unwilling to leave like this. He twitched the corner of his mouth, showing his big yellow teeth, and said: "I don't care, I have nothing to eat now, so I can't starve to death!"
"Then pack up and leave with the others."
"Can……"
Before Lao Shatou finished speaking, Gu Jiu left directly for the village chief's house. Lao Shatou didn't leave either, following Gu Jiu without missing a step from a distance away.
"The purpose of going out at this time is to find food!" Lao Shatou followed, happily thinking about how to snatch the food from Gu Jiu's hand later.
But while walking, Gu Jiu knocked on the door of the village chief's house.
"Girl Jiu? What's the business of coming here at this time?" The village chief had two pieces of clothing on his arm and was obviously busy packing his things. Seeing Gu Jiu nodding, he turned sideways to let her into the hospital.
After closing the door, Gu Jiu said seriously: "Village chief, I have a way to help the people in the village overcome this difficulty."
Hearing this, the village chief quickly pulled Gu Jiu into the house.
"Great, great, Gujia Village can be saved!" After hearing Gu Jiu's words, the village chief raised his hands excitedly and wanted to kowtow to God to thank him for his spirit.
After the excitement subsided, the village chief gradually calmed down. Not to mention that the foggy area was very dangerous and there was thick snow outside. How could Gu Jiu find large pieces of potatoes so delicately?
"Xiao Jiu, potatoes are not cold-resistant. They must have rotted a lot in this icy and snowy environment."
"I dug them out one by one in advance."
"You already knew there was this food, then..."
Gu Jiu smiled: "The village chief blames me for not telling him earlier?"
"Isn't it that the village chief doesn't know the temperament of the people in the village? If I had taken it out earlier, most people would have ended up in the same situation today. And I myself would have gotten into trouble and they would have asked for food as they should. So. Rather than doing this, it is better to come up with food at the last moment.”
The village chief looked at Gu Jiu and said nothing. Most of the people in the village were very opinionated. Unless they had no choice, they would only listen to their own choices, just like when they were asked to buy food.
The village chief sighed and said, "You just said you had a request. What is it?"
"Our third bedroom must leave the Gu family completely."
Hearing this, the village chief frowned fiercely: "Xiao Jiu, do you want to separate the family? Your grandma is still alive, and if you separate the family, you will go to jail!"
Gu Jiu shook his head and said, "I don't want to separate our families. I plan to move to the county after the city gate opens."
"Are you afraid that your grandparents will sue you?" the village chief asked with some uncertainty, but generally speaking, as long as the children pay money or give things on time, the elders will not do such things.
Gu Jiu nodded and continued: "I want a guarantee that no one from my grandma or even the entire family will report on our third bedroom!"
The village chief smiled, looked at Gu Jiu with a look that looked at immature children playing, and said, "Xiao Jiu, if you deliver things to your home on time, this situation will never happen."
"But I won't go out!"
The village chief was startled, his smile froze on his face, and he looked at Gu Jiu with complicated eyes: "Xiao Jiu, those are your grandparents after all. Even if you are dissatisfied, you can't do this? You are unfilial! Your father There are spirits in heaven who would be so angry that they would die if they saw you like this!"
The village chief's voice became more and more serious. Gu Jiu had no intention of refuting, but he would not compromise at all. The original owner was the one who was related by blood to Mr. Gu and Mrs. Gu, but the original owner had been forced to death by their own hands. As an outsider, he had no obligation to take care of them?
The village chief looked at Gu Jiu and said nothing. He seemed to be unable to solve the problem of the whole village starving to death. He finally sighed: "Xiao Jiu, if you have any trouble, you can tell the village chief. The village chief..."
"Village Chief, there are many people in the village who don't want to flee. I can definitely gather them together and achieve my goal." Gu Jiu directly interrupted the village chief and completely dismissed the conversation. I came to you just for this. Because you are the village chief, I will inform you first if something happens, but that doesn't mean I can't handle it if you don't express your opinion.
"Xiaojiu, your uncle Li Zheng is just afraid that you will regret it in the future. It's pointless. Just wait. Auntie will call everyone over for you later and have your grandpa sign a pledge." Aunt Xia said as she The village chief pulled him into the back room.
"Are you stupid? It's not like you don't know the attitude of the people in the village towards you. Now that this matter is going to go wrong again, do you still want to be the village chief? If they want to leave, what are you going to stop? Then Mr. Gu's preference for the big house is Everyone can see that this girl's father is dead..."
Gu Jiu couldn't hear clearly after that. The two of them chatted in the back room for a long time before they came out.
"Xiao Jiu, wait here for a while, Aunt Xia will call everyone over for you! Your grandpa is a man of low reputation. With the testimony of the whole village, he will definitely not trouble you again in the future!" As he said Aunt Xia put on a wind-proof headscarf and went out. The village chief took out pen, ink, paper and inkstone from the back room and started writing.
This set of pens, inks, paper and inkstones is quite old. It was given to him by the village chief when he became the village chief more than ten years ago.
None of the villagers wanted to leave their homes and go out to beg for food. Now that they knew things had taken a turn for the better, each one became more excited than the other. Everyone in the family ran to the village chief's house as if they had been given blood. It didn't take long for the small yard to be filled with people. .
"Folks, my land is too small. Except for Mr. Gu's family, we only need to leave one person from each family here, otherwise we won't be able to stand apart!"
"Why, village chief, do you want to give them more food? They are all from the same village. As the village chief, you can't be partial!"
"yes!"
When there are more people, it is difficult to keep quiet. The slightest movement becomes a bustling place, especially now.
"Folks, please be quiet. Girl Gu Jiujiu found this food. They asked us to take the food. We still have to give them this privilege!"
Hearing this, the objections immediately disappeared, compliments came one after another, and many people began to leave and stand outside the courtyard on their own initiative.
When Mr. Gu and others arrived, the scene was even more exciting.
"Old man, you are the lucky star of our whole village!"
"That's right. Why did you reject the position of village chief in the first place?"
"Yes, Mr. Gu just heard that someone went to your house to cause trouble, but I didn't go!"
"..."
The flattery reached Gu Jiu's ears and also the village chief's ears. Aunt Xia, who had just returned from calling someone, happened to hear these words, pushed the person away and walked in with a stern face.
Mr. Gu, Mr. Gu again, if it weren't for him, would his man's prestige in the village be getting lower year by year? Pretending to be confused while pretending to understand, I really think others can’t see through it!
Aunt Xia's behavior did not affect the flattery of those people at all, and she was completely different from the one who wanted to break down the door not long ago. Especially the one who was in the lead just now was full of witty words, and he hadn't stopped talking since Mr. Gu appeared.
Amidst the compliments, Gu Youcai and Zhao Xiuer, who originally wanted to shrink into a ball and not want to see anyone, also straightened up and started chatting happily with everyone.
"Mr. Gu, where is your family?"
Mr. Gu was so busy listening to the flattery and trying to regain the face he had just lost that he ignored the village chief. It was Gu Wensheng who explained: "Zhe Qi is not feeling well, so he fell asleep now."
Upon hearing this, a stream of comforting words immediately spewed out.
"Wen Sheng, is Zhe Qi okay? You said that I am an old rough guy and it's not a big deal. I'm here to help Zhe Qi."
"Yes, yes, just now, I'm so sorry! Village chief, you are also accommodating, let's not let anyone come here unintentionally!"
"Wen Sheng, when my child is admitted to Tongsheng School, you can't give my child small shoes!"
"Yes, yes, the child is innocent!"
Everyone said something to each other, and Gu Wensheng was happy to listen to the good words and nodded repeatedly to show that he was not so narrow-minded.
Aunt Xia rolled her eyes and said loudly: "Xiao Jiu is the only one who knows this food location, and I don't know what you are fawning over there? We can't start if there are not enough people!"
Hearing this, the whole place immediately fell silent. Gu Jiu looked at Gu Wensheng, smiled with a low eyebrow, and said: "Since no one is willing to disturb my cousin, let's just stand here and wait until he wakes up. Come over here and I'll tell you the exact location."
What a joke, what she wants is to avoid future troubles. What does this mean to leave troubles behind?
Everyone in the village was full of human beings. Listening to Gu Jiu's tone of voice, they all kept a little distance from Mr. Gu and others.
Mr. Gu snorted coldly, tapped the ground with his crutch and scolded: "Girl Jiu, don't waste everyone's time. It's quite cold for the folks standing here."
"Go back if you feel cold! Anyway, I won't tell him until he arrives. The folks can go back and wait. But if you get less food than others, you won't blame me."
Take less food? How can that be done? Anyway, we don’t go to get food when people are not available. A few people immediately stepped out of the crowd and volunteered to call for help.
Gu Wensheng was afraid that something would happen again, so he trotted out quickly.
"Gu Jiu, what are you doing? A girl who yells is not afraid of being laughed at!" Mr. Gu stared at Gu Jiu with warning in his eyes.
Seeing that there were still people who couldn't distinguish between the big and small kings and wanted to speak for Mr. Gu, Gu Jiu said directly: "Grandpa, if you don't want food, you can go back now, so that the villagers can get more."
