The village chief's house does not look more gorgeous than other ordinary houses, but it is located in a relatively central location to highlight the village chief's important position in the village.
Everyone followed the village chief to his home and saw the furnishings and decorations, and their doubts gradually arose.
"Ninja-sama, don't be surprised. If the village was not destroyed, our life would only be more difficult." The village chief seemed to know the doubts in everyone's hearts and explained.
The village chief's house looks very neat. Although it is not as gorgeously decorated as modern buildings, it is definitely not as dilapidated as it looks from the outside.
After everyone sat down, the village chief said to Yuko: "Yuko, you go and play by yourself for a while, I want to chat with the guests for a while."
"Old man, please pay attention to your health." Yuko said.
"I know." The village chief smiled fondly.
"Yuko is...?" Nuolan asked after she left.
"My granddaughter." the village chief replied.
"Okay, you can tell me if you have any difficulties." Lin Biao asked.
"It's a long story..." The village chief seemed to be lost in reminiscing.
This village was not like this originally, at least not a few years ago. Although the people here are not rich, they can still live in a paradise.
However, things did not go as planned. Perhaps because there was little contact with the outside world, or because there was a lack of admiration for force, disaster still befell this ordinary village.
The Kingdom of Sichuan is indeed as Lin Zhu and the others thought. It does not have a powerful Ninja Village leader, and even the alliances between ordinary villages are very loose. The existence of this country is probably the result of the relationship between the Kingdom of Fire and the Kingdom of Wind. It is just a yardstick for demarcating territorial boundaries.
A country that is not a country has no core government leadership and no united national force machine. In addition to meeting its own daily needs for food and clothing, it has no right to speak to the outside world. No one even knows how many villages there are in the country. And how to distribute it? Strictly speaking, the three words "Kingdom of Sichuan" are jointly determined by the Kingdom of Fire and the Kingdom of Wind.
Since there is no way out, ambitious people can only expand inward.
I don’t know how many natural villages there are in this country that are as closed as this village. Some powerful villages have begun to form alliances within the Kingdom of Kawa. In fact, there have always been people who want to unify the domestic forces, but they have not. The strength to accomplish all the results in one battle.
However, mutual attrition is always unavoidable. The ultimate end of a place as isolated as this village is not to be aloof, but to be bullied by others and finally annexed.
From this perspective, this village is actually quite miserable.
Because apart from people, this village has almost no resources that are beneficial to the war.
Their kindness and ignorance obviously did not pay off as they hoped.
The brutal plundering has now almost emptied the entire village.
After this village was discovered by other powerful villages, the plundering of food and manpower never stopped.
What a coincidence that this village happened to be sandwiched between two powerful villages. No matter which side they attached to, they would be killed by the other side before the other side could rescue them.
The location here has no strategic significance, and the village itself has no strategic resources available, so they have become an ATM for the other two forces.
Human imagination is sometimes very lacking.
It is the tacit approach of both parties to plunder and let the bandits collect protection fees.
If there is no food, men will be used to compensate, and if there are no men, then women will be used. In short, they have many ways to make the village gradually die out in this situation of cutting flesh with blunt knives. It was at this time that the team entered The tattered walls that we saw when we arrived in the village were erected not to protect ourselves from foreign enemies, but to give ourselves some inner comfort.
Years of plunder have made the lives of the people here very miserable, and human nature is actually the most wonderful thing. I want the village chief or a leader-like figure to come to this village to stand up and cheer, organize the villagers to resist foreign aggression, I want to It is not difficult to survive under the squeeze of the other two forces, but the trouble is that the person with the leadership temperament is dead.
So the village began to let this situation continue without being able to do anything about it, and it sank deeper and deeper.
What happened later was in line with the reality. The village began to become dilapidated day by day, and the villagers began to wait for the day when they would be captured as strong men by others, or for the day to be killed by others, or to starve to death here.
Once a person is impoverished to a certain level, the evil in his bones will show up like a demon. They cannot resist the plunder of the two villages. They can only plunder the travelers and outsiders passing by, and then kill them for use. Let yourself survive and find some powerful sense of superiority.
They make the houses in their village look more shabby than others, and try to dress as simply as possible. They don't have to be the worst, as long as they look worse than others, then they are more likely to be robbed next time Sex will be one point lower.
Even though they have been striding forward on an increasingly miserable road, no one has ever thought of rising up to resist. They are like frogs in warm water, having long since lost the courage to jump.
The only person who had the courage to lead everyone to resist was Yuko's father, the son of the village chief.
During a robbery in Nuquan Village, he was publicly executed by them because he would rather die than surrender. His death was the last straw that broke the backs of the villagers.
In front of the young Yuko and the villagers, they killed her father, raped her mother, and then hung their heads in the middle of the village for three days and three nights, completely defeating everyone's courage.
Yuko, who was still young, did not understand the meaning of words like intimidation and demonstration at the time, but from that day on, she was forced to grow up overnight, carrying unforgettable pain and hatred with the villagers. sink.
The village chief told a very clichéd story, but touching enough.
Perhaps they are also looking forward to someone who can save them from danger, but they are afraid that they will end up drawing water from a bamboo basket.
That's why he was very conflicted about accepting the team's help just now.
In his opinion, being able to defeat these weak villagers one-sidedly is not a great thing. To this day, he still believes that no matter how powerful the team's ability is, it cannot defeat those two powerful and well-armed villages.
Nuquan Village and Jumu Village are twenty miles away from here. Apart from this village, there are no other villages within the same distance. This means that this area is completely under the control of the other two forces. Within this group, they were the only ones who were in this position without any embarrassment.
The village chief had just talked to Lin Biao before discussing it. In fact, he wanted the four people to leave here in dignity, at least not to inflict any more atrocities on this already troubled place. They could no longer bear such torture.
"Your Excellency wants to establish a Ninja Village here. I am very happy from the bottom of my heart. However, the people here only have farm tools in their hands. If the two parties find out that we have begun to organize armed forces, I am afraid of the next round of brutal purges. It's about to start again, and I can't let my villagers take such risks." The village chief said softly at the end.
"There are so many people with no blood at all. You are really..." Wang Jianguo didn't know what to say.
"What's the performance like if you have blood? Shouldn't you be killed?" A cold voice came from the door.
Yuko stood outside the door, looking at the four people with a cold face.
"Yuko, why are you back again?" the village chief asked.
"I have to watch them leave in despair. If I want to take away the things in the house, I have to know what is missing." Yuko said.
Counting the lost items after the robbery seemed to be the only thing this girl could do.
"We are good people." Nuolan said.
"Good people die young." Yuko sneered.
"Little girl, if you keep talking nonsense, do you believe I will educate you?" Wang Jianguo said in a feigned viciousness.
"Besides competing with a little girl, you really have nothing else to do." Yuko was not afraid at all and gave him a contemptuous look.
"Hey!" Wang Jianguo raised his voice.
"Old Wang." Sun Jie gave Wang Jianguo a reproachful look, walked to the door, took out a few steamed buns from the space artifact, and handed them to Yuzi.
"Don't expect me to thank you." Yuko grabbed the steamed bun and stuffed it into his mouth, saying vaguely.
Sun Jie touched her little head helplessly and pityingly.
"I want to help them." Nuolan said in standard Chinese.
Sun Jie said nothing, but looked at Lin Biao expectantly.
"Although I don't have a good impression of this village, according to this old man, the other two villages should be more hateful. Anyway, wherever a village is built, it will be built. Wherever the two villages are built, it will have to be done. It's better to just go with the flow. , This is it." Wang Jianguo found some reasons to convince himself and said.
"There is no ready-made armed force here. If we build a village, the process may be more complicated than other methods." Lin Biao said.
"Didn't you just talk about cooperation with the village chief?" Nuo Lan asked.
"It's one thing to be a cunning person in a poor place, but it's another thing to be suppressed and spineless for a long time." Lin Biao said.
Lin Zhuang pondered for a long time, and finally said: "Okay, then I will listen to you."
If Lin Biao had not regained his feelings, he would have chosen to leave the village without hesitation. It can only be said that he has changed too much now.
