After the eight new recruits left, Xiang Feng returned to the Land Temple with a bumpy look on his face. He hesitated for a long time before speaking: "Captain, now the soldiers have been recruited, but the food in our hands is gone."

"The team will start training tomorrow. It's impossible for them to go home for dinner every time they finish training!"

"After the training begins, everyone's appetite will definitely increase. If we don't care about the meal, the food gap among the villagers will definitely increase."

"Last time of sweep, the Japanese snatched a lot of food, and every household suffered losses. It would be difficult for the remaining food to last until the autumn harvest. We must not add insult to injury to them at this time."

Zhou Cheng denied it without thinking: "Of course, it cannot increase the burden on the new recruits' families."

"Am I, in order to encourage the villagers to join the village guard team, support the village guard team, and wait until our conditions are better, we also need to find ways to reduce the burden on the families of all the new recruits in the village guard team and give them some appropriate compensation."

"The conditions are not enough now, so I must take care of three meals a day."

Xiang Feng replied helplessly: "But we don't have food, how can we control the food!"

"The food that the three of us ate was picked out by the villagers from their own food. It's impossible to ask everyone for food again, right?"

Zhou Cheng shook his head: "It's still what I said just now. Establishing a village protection team must not increase the burden on the villagers."

"I don't have food to eat, so how can I ask them for food against my conscience?"

"Plus with the recruits, we have eleven."

"After starting training, everyone's appetite will definitely increase. Eleven people have to eat at least twenty kilograms of grain a day, and six hundred kilograms a month. It's not too much. By the way, can we buy grain with the ocean!"

"In addition to seizing a large amount of weapons and ammunition this afternoon, we also found 21 oceans on the bodies of Japanese and puppet troops, and we should be able to buy a lot of food."

"You call the old village chief right away. No, I'll go to the village chief's house myself. He must know where to buy food."

Xiaoling Village is located on the edge of a mountain, with barren land and small quantities.

Village chief Wang Shuyun is the only landlord in the village, but there are less than 200 acres of land.

Because of the small grain output, the harvest of 200 acres of land will reduce the grain of tenants. The grain that can really fall into his hands will ensure that the whole family will not be hungry all year round, and will live a better life than other ordinary people.

Because he is good to tenants and has studied, Wang Shuyun is willing to become the village chief of Xiaoling Village.

No matter if you are a village chief or an ordinary person, as long as you don’t work hard, you will not be less food you should rob.

The last time the Japanese army entered the village to grab grain, Wang Shuyun's family suffered the greatest losses.

After learning that Zhou Cheng and his friends were beaten to death by the Japanese in order to protect their fellow villagers from being robbed by the Japanese for the second time, Wang Shuyun still took out five kilograms of white flour from his small food rations, and then organized the villagers to raise five kilograms of white flour, and delivered a total of ten kilograms of white flour to Xiang Feng to express their gratitude.

It can be seen that Wang Shuyun is a person who knows the general, has backbone, and supports the War of Resistance.

In the Wang family’s simple house, Zhou Cheng was not polite and said his intentions straight to the point: "Old village chief, with your support, many young people in the village joined the village protection team to protect the village."

"I decided that the village protection team will start training tomorrow. To form combat effectiveness earlier, the village will be protected earlier, so that everyone will not be in danger and will not sleep well."

"But our village protection team has no food."

"I can't let everyone go back to their own houses for dinner after training in the Land Temple, which will increase the burden on the recruits' families."

"Old village chief, you are very knowledgeable. I would like to ask you to buy some food for us."

"There are ten oceans here, buy as much as you can."

Wang Shuyun frowned and thought for a minute before speaking: "Captain Zhou, it's not that I don't want to help you, there's nothing I can do."

"If there were no Japanese, I could buy you even a hundred dollars of grain from the ocean, not to mention a hundred dollars of grain from the ocean."

"Xiaoling Village has a barren land and a small grain output, but our Donghui Town is not without fertile land. If you walk west for ten miles, several villages have thousands of acres of land. All the grain harvested in autumn is concentrated in the town, and you can buy it as long as you have money."

"Not now. The town is full of Japanese devils and traitors. Although they can buy and sell food, the Japanese are very careful."

"If you buy a dozen kilograms, I can still do it. If you buy a thousand kilograms of grain, you will not be able to transport it out of the town even if you buy it."

Zhou Cheng's mind was running rapidly and continued to ask: "Since there is a large area of ​​land ten miles west of Xiaoling Village, and the grain in the town also comes from there, then their village must have food. Can you bypass the town and go directly to the village to buy food?"

Wang Shuyun thought for a while and replied: "You can buy it, but you will definitely suffer a big loss."

"The land is in the hands of several families, but they are all the masters who eat meat and don't spit bones."

"I heard that they were dating to the Japanese in the town a few months ago, giving food and money, buying back a lot of weapons at a high price, and then building a guard team in the village, which on the surface was to protect the village, but in fact they were used as minions for the Japanese to oppress the people."

"Although these villages have not been swept away by the Japanese, except for these landlords who work hard for the Japanese, ordinary people live a worse life than us."

"Buying weapons and currying against the Japanese requires a lot of money and food. These landlords will definitely not pay their own money. As a result, all the money and food are distributed to the villagers, such as quit tax, protection tax, military tax... all kinds of taxes have forced the villagers to suffer."

"But they have guns in their hands and support from the Japanese. No matter how dissatisfied the villagers, they can only hold them in their arms."

"Buy food directly from them and you will definitely try your best to beat us. Maybe you can only buy five of the food for ten oceans, or even less."

Zhou Cheng's eyes were shining brightly, and his first subconscious thought was to kill these borers, give the villagers a bright world, and at the same time, to crack down on the arrogance of the traitors.

After careful consideration, Zhou Cheng decided not to take action for the time being.

If he had just severely damaged the Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold of Donghui Town, he would not only expose all his strength in Xiaoling Village, but also make Xiaoling Village a thorn in the eyes of the Japanese, but also further anger the Japanese.

According to previous ideas, the Japanese will not take revenge on themselves at least half a month later.

Now it appears and continues to anger the Japanese. Maybe the time will be shortened to five days or even shorter.

At that time, the village protection team had not even finished the most basic training. Facing the Japanese and puppet troops, they had no countermeasures except to avoid them, and the villagers suffered the final loss.

If you don’t take action now, wait until the village protection team develops combat effectiveness before taking action, not only will the chance of winning be greater, but you can also train those traitors to train soldiers.

When the Japanese and puppet troops really want to take revenge, the village protection team will have the strength to fight back.

Thinking of this, Zhou Cheng immediately made a decision: "Buy! Ten dollars acres, buy as much as you can, and suffer losses. Sooner or later, I will let them spit out all the people's fat and ointment they eat."

"I'm going to bother the old village chief about this matter, but I must not buy food in the name of Xiaoling Village Village Protection Team. Our Village Protection Team is against the Japanese. If you can't be exposed, you won't be exposed."

Wang Shuyun replied very seriously: "I know this, Captain Zhou, don't worry, tomorrow I will take people to buy grain. The village was swept away by the Japanese and robbed a lot of grain. The villagers gathered money to buy grain until the autumn harvest. This is reasonable and no one would doubt it."
Chapter completed!