After He Laoqi finished reporting the case, the three of them walked out of the yard together, called Lidong over, and announced in public that Lidong would be the captain of the village protection team from now on.
Lidong was overjoyed when he heard this appointment.
After all, being the captain not only brings you a small amount of money, but you are also highly respected by the villagers. It can be said that you will gain both fame and fortune.
After Lidong had finished accepting everyone's congratulations, Xiangzheng Zhao Chunqiang said with a smile, "Chen Lidong, you have to work hard and don't embarrass Brother Xiaobei."
The words are both implicit and direct, that is, you can sit in this position thanks to Chen Xiaobei.
Of course, Lidong understood. He looked at Chen Xiaobei with a grateful face, and then patted his chest, "Brother Xiaobei, no, Xiaobei Li Chang, please rest assured that I will fulfill my mission and fulfill my mission."
The news that Chen Xiaobei became the head of the village quickly spread in the village.
As night falls, his house becomes the busiest place in Hetou Village.
Many villagers took more or less things from their homes to express their feelings in the future. Some bring a few eggs, some bring some vegetables, and some bring grain. But Chen Xiaobei's attitude was very firm and he refused to accept them all, no one wanted them.
As the saying goes, if you take advantage of others, you will have a short mouth. If you accept things now, it will be difficult to carry out work in the future.
After the crowd dispersed, Chen Xiaowen timidly came to Chen Xiaobei.
Chen Xiaowen blushed and handed over a bundle of wild vegetables. Perhaps feeling a little embarrassed, he lowered his head and whispered, "Brother Xiaobei, congratulations. My family, my family really can't afford it..."
Chen Xiaobei smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "It's okay, as long as you do a good job in the village protection team, nothing else matters."
After seeing Chen Xiaowen off, Chen Xiaobei comforted Cui Hongyu and Chen Qiaoer for a few more words, then walked out of the courtyard and walked under the big locust tree.
I became the village chief and resigned as the village guard captain. I will no longer have the opportunity to work the night shift. I have to go and see the team members who once fought side by side tonight.
Lidong, who had just become the captain of the village protection team, seemed very excited. He was sitting under the big locust tree and bragging to everyone. More than a dozen people gathered around him and listened with great interest.
Seeing Chen Xiaobei coming, everyone immediately stood up and said hello.
But Chen Xiaobei discovered that many of the people watching were not village protectors.
Lidong pointed at these people and said to Chen Xiaobei with a smile, "Brother Xiaobei, they also want to join the village protection team. Look..."
As soon as Lidong spoke, these people immediately echoed, "Yes, yes, Xiaobei Lichang, just accept us, we don't want wages."
Chen Xiaobei suddenly laughed. The expansion of the members of the village protection team was the captain's final decision. It had nothing to do with him. However, it was obvious that these people who wanted to join the village protection team came for him.
He suddenly remembered the conversation he had with Liu Rumei, about helping Liu Rumei guard Qingniu Mountain.
"Brother Lidong, with so many people, we can't use them just for one village. I think it's better to send some people to set up a checkpoint at the foot of Qingniu Mountain. Maybe in the future, we will have to organize people to patrol the mountain."
Upon hearing this, Lidong and the villagers present were confused. They couldn't figure out what the use was of setting up a card under Qingniu Mountain.
"Xiaobei is so long, and the mountain is so big, how can we see it?"
Chen Xiaobei smiled slightly, "Just keep an eye on the road from our village into the mountains."
"This is something that Zhao Xiangzheng and He Captou just explained." Chen Xiaobei knew that he couldn't explain it in a few words, so he might as well just say it was an arrangement from above.
Sure enough, after hearing what he said, no one raised any questions.
Beginning of winter is very efficient, and the next morning is very early. Outside the village, at the foot of Qingniu Mountain, a clearing was created, and someone began to build a thatched shed.
Sanqiu also specially wrote a wooden sign with the three characters Qingniu Mountain, which looks a little elegant.
After greeting everyone, Chen Xiaobei entered the mountain.
Chen Xiaobei is already very familiar with the section from the foot of the mountain to the mountain temple.
Every time he walked, Chen Xiaobei would stop to look at the scenery around him and try to remember it.
In this way, if you see big changes in the surrounding scenery in the future, someone must have been here, and you have to be careful.
Sun Jian and others had been waiting at the mountain temple for a long time. When they saw Chen Xiaobei coming, they all pretended to greet him enthusiastically.
Sun Jian even came forward and handed him a large piece of roasted lamb leg affectionately, "Come, brother Xiaobei, eat something first, and then we set off."
Chen Xiaobei took the leg of lamb, and Sun Gui handed over another pot of wine.
When things go wrong, there must be monsters. Faced with excessive enthusiasm, Chen Xiaobei chose to refuse. He did not take the wine bottle, "I don't drink, just eat some mutton."
While eating mutton, the group packed up and headed towards the mountain.
Chen Xiaobei found that these people all had very good memories, especially Sun Gui, who was leading the way. He could accurately take the correct route at the forks in the road without any pause. This made Chen Xiaobei I kind of doubt they should have walked this road more than once.
Back to the fork in the road where Chen Xiaobei deliberately chose the wrong one last time.
After some pretentious thinking, Chen Xiaobei finally chose the right route.
Continuing forward, Chen Xiaobei still adopted a mixed strategy of right and wrong, some of which were right at once, and some of which had to go around once or twice. By the time it was almost noon, Chen Xiaobei had only taken three or four forks in the road.
Continuing forward, the mountain road becomes much flatter, and there are even small terraces on both sides of the road.
Of course, the terraces are full of weeds.
There was a terraced field in front of them, and before they could get closer, the weeds kept swaying.
Sun Jian suddenly shook his hand, and a short sword shot out. Then a hare jumped three feet high, rolled and struggled on the ground, and soon became lifeless.
Sun Gui hurriedly ran forward and grabbed it, "What a fat rabbit. I ate some at noon."
Come to think of it, this place is inaccessible and overgrown with weeds, wouldn't it be a comfortable place for hares?
At this moment, Sun Gui suddenly pointed in the distance and shouted, "Look, it looks like a wolf."
Look in the direction of his finger, right? About three or four miles away, on a raised rock, squats a gray wild wolf.
Perhaps sensing that they had been discovered, the wild wolf suddenly raised its neck and let out a long howl in the air.
When we describe a sound that sounds unpleasant, we would say it is a ghost crying or a wolf howling. To be honest, this wolf howling is really unpleasant.
Hearing this howl, Chen Xiaobei felt his calves trembling. Sun Jian and the others were all highly skilled in martial arts, but as for him, he was powerless to restrain a chicken.
What if the wolf rushes over and they all run away?
Obviously, Sun Jian and others were also a little wary of the appearance of the wild wolf, and they immediately ran to a small pile of rocks on higher ground nearby.
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What is strange is that the wild wolf just howled once, then slowly turned around and ran away.
They waited for a while, but the surroundings were still quiet and there was no sound.
