I knew it wouldn't be that easy, and besides, I didn't want to leave just like that, but Cheng Xiaohu suddenly got scared.
He froze in place and asked with a trembling voice: "Then what do you want, Chief Zhou?"
"Let's do this! Seeing that you are still two children, I'll cut off one leg each to give you a warning and stop running around in the future!"
"No, don't beg you!" Upon hearing this, Cheng Xiaohu knelt down again in front of the Zhou clan leader.
This time he really kowtowed, and while kowtowing, he begged for mercy: "Clan Chief Zhou, you have a lot of money, please let us go! You know that my parents have passed away, and I am the only one who earns money to support the family. I have another child in the family."
Sister!"
"Then kill him. Can you choose one of the two?" Chief Zhou pointed at me and said.
Cheng Xiaohu looked at me, and I saw fear in his eyes.
Cheng Xiaohu was silent for a moment, shook his head and said: "Clan Leader Zhou, you can't kill him! Please, I will kowtow to you."
Cheng Xiaohu's forehead hit the ground with a "dong dong" sound. I pulled him up from the ground and said, "Brother Xiaohu, don't do this, don't kneel down for him!"
But Clan Leader Zhou laughed, stared at Cheng Xiaohu and said, "You just said that he is not from your Yulin Village, why are you defending him like this? I'll kill him, and then you can go back. Isn't that good?"
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"No, it can't be done! Patriarch Zhou" Cheng Xiaohu was about to cry.
I know that although he is weak, he has me in his heart.
Otherwise, he could have walked away just now, but he still came to rescue me without hesitation. How much courage did it take for him to muster up!
I, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke, and I said with a wry smile: "Clan leader Zhou, right? Why do you, a clan leader, have the right to kill people? Why do you want to be punished with death for betraying others at will?"
"Ha ha"
When Patriarch Zhou laughed, everyone laughed too. It was a kind of ridicule, mocking my overestimation of my abilities.
After a burst of laughter, Patriarch Zhou looked at me again and said, "You need a reason, right?"
"Isn't it necessary?" I stared at him closely, still not even frowning.
"It seems that you are really an outsider and don't understand the rules here. You deserve to be killed!"
I waved my hand and said angrily: "I don't care about any messy rules. I'm here for one thing, which is to break your stinky rules for decades! A good piece of land must be divided into two areas. I don't think so.
Is there a problem?"
As soon as I finished speaking, the whole place fell silent. Everyone looked at each other, so quiet that even the wind blowing by their ears was so clear.
After a long time, Patriarch Zhou laughed again, this time it was not a mockery but a sneer.
He laughed and said, "What did you just say? Say it again!"
"I said I'm here to break your stinky rules of the past few decades. Don't create so many things on a good piece of land. Wouldn't it be better to re-divide it to make it more convenient for the villagers on both sides?"
Patriarch Zhou's expression immediately became serious. He stared at me and said, "Boy, who sent you here to say these things?"
"No one sent me here, I came here myself. I just think it's not good for you to break the rules!"
A fat man stood up, raised the sickle in his hand, and said fiercely: "Chief, stop talking nonsense to this kid, let me bleed some blood for him, and he will obey."
Another big man also stood up and said: "Chief, let me do it!"
Everyone was booing. It seemed that I had touched their bottom line and made everyone angry!
The old face of Patriarch Zhou became more and more ugly. He raised his hand and said, "Don't worry, let's wait for him to continue talking. I'll see how he performs today."
I took a deep breath and was about to continue talking when Cheng Xiaohu pulled me again and whispered: "Stop talking, why don't you just kneel down and beg for mercy? You have to make things bigger?"
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I ignored Cheng Xiaohu and continued what I just said: "We are all farmers and we all make a living by farming. There is no need to make you live in a life-and-death situation. It is not easy for everyone to make a living together. I know that all the land in the back mountain is
You are from Shuanglong Township, but you have land from Yulin Village in your village. Don’t you think it’s very inconvenient?”
"Boy, don't talk nonsense! Do you think everyone is as unreasonable as you people in Yulin Village?"
Patriarch Zhou raised his hand again to shut up the man, and then motioned for me to continue.
I looked at everyone cautiously and continued: "So, why don't we break this broken rule and reorganize all the land to make it more convenient for everyone? Isn't this good? Think about it and think about it carefully."
After Patriarch Zhou heard what I said, he laughed again, still sneering, and said, "It's interesting!"
I also laughed and said, "I've said all I have to say. You can beat or kill me if you want. I promise I won't resist!"
"Okay! Then I'll pay back the kick you just gave me, and go to hell!" The man who I kicked just now came towards me with a grunt.
Before I even got close to me, I was stopped by Patriarch Zhou. He said calmly: "Stop! I think what this guy said seems to make some sense."
Clan Leader Zhou’s words made me breathe a sigh of relief, and everyone started talking about it.
After a while, Patriarch Zhou came closer to me and said, "But this is not my decision. If you insist on doing this, do you dare to go to a place with me?"
"What are you afraid of?" I asked.
"Okay, come with me!" As soon as the Zhou clan leader finished speaking, he turned and walked away.
I immediately prepared to follow them, but Cheng Xiaohu grabbed me and said, "No, don't go with them, there is no return for this trip!"
"They wanted to kill me. They killed me just now. Don't worry! It's okay." I patted his shoulder and said.
Cheng Xiaohu looked embarrassed, and he had no choice but to stand up and prepare to follow me, but Patriarch Zhou turned around and stopped him sharply: "I didn't ask you to follow me, go back by yourself!"
"Zhou, Clan Chief Zhou"
"Don't you want to go back?" Chief Zhou's sharp eyes immediately shot towards Cheng Xiaohu.
Cheng Xiaohu looked embarrassed, and I said to him seriously: "Don't worry, Brother Xiaohu, I will definitely come back alive!"
After saying that, I went with Patriarch Zhou and got on his tractor.
His men tied up my hands and feet, but I didn't resist.
Even if they want to kill me, they have already killed me just now, so I am not afraid at all.
On the way to take me back to their village, Chief Zhou asked me some more questions.
Ask me where I come from? Why would I want to make peace?
Only my head could move my whole body. I shook my head and replied, "Maybe you don't believe it, but I don't even know where I come from or who I am."
"really do not know?"
"I've already been like this, so why am I lying to you?"
Then I told how I was rescued from the river by the two Cheng Xiaohu brothers. I said it was probably because I had been soaked in the water for a long time, or maybe I had been severely injured before I fell into the water.
I have lost my memory now.
Clan leader Zhou was dubious, but he didn't ask me any of this. He just asked me why I, an outsider, wanted to come to negotiate peace?