The bronze cymbal is shaped like a bell and is long and narrow. It has a long handle that can be held. When it is hit with an object with its mouth upward, it will make a roaring sound that can be transmitted to a very long distance. It is a golden marching instrument that has been passed down since ancient times.
Now, the copper hammer was hung in front of the granary. Wang Tiancheng smashed the copper pestle in his hand against the copper hammer. Three harsh golden sounds pierced the air, reminding some young people who were fighting the fire in front of the granary to immediately put down their buckets and come to the copper drum.
The front array.
After just a moment's hesitation, some of the teenagers who were fighting the fire in front of the granary put down their buckets and formed a square formation in front of the bronze bell according to the usual gathering pattern.
Not all the teenagers came, some just passed the age limit, or those who were the only children in the family did not come.
"Chief's order: Go home immediately and check if the people staying at home have had any accidents. If not, keep an eye on them at home; if so, come here immediately and report. Have you heard anything?"
In front of the square formation, Wang Tiancheng shouted. His voice was sonorous and powerful, leaving no room for doubt.
"Report..." As soon as Wang Tiancheng finished speaking, someone in the square shouted.
Wang Tiancheng looked up and saw that it was Fang Yunguang, the second son of the former chief and village chief, who was shouting.
Wang Tiancheng was not surprised by this. He glared at Fang Yunguang fiercely, and Wang Tiancheng uttered one word in a cold voice: "Say!"
Fang Yunguang raised his chest and raised his head, without squinting, and questioned loudly: "According to the chief's order, can it be understood that no matter what, we must stay in our own homes tonight and cannot come to the granary to put out fires again?"
"Yes!" Wang Tiancheng said one word again coldly.
Fang Yunguang's lips curled up slightly, and his voice became more forceful, "It's what we should do when there is a fire, and it's okay for the chief to just watch with you, but now he wants to stop us from putting out the fire. What's going on with him? How could he do something so ridiculous?
order?"
"Is there any more?" Wang Tiancheng asked.
"No." Fang Yunguang said.
"Then..." Wang Tiancheng glanced at everyone, "Immediately execute the order and disperse."
"No." Except for a few people, everyone else accepted the order in unison and ran towards the village.
"Wang Tiancheng..." Fang Yunguang shouted with a livid face, "What do you mean, didn't you hear what I asked?"
"What are you guys doing here, ready to disobey?" Wang Tiancheng still ignored Fang Yunguang's words and asked directly.
The young men said nothing and retreated behind Fang Yunguang, staring at Wang Tiancheng with hostility in their eyes.
Wang Tiancheng sneered, came to Fang Yunguang, and mocked: "Do you know why I came to deliver the order? It's my third brother who knows that you will embarrass him, and he has to consider the village chief's face.
After all, he and I have different identities. However, you are really ignorant of current affairs.
Do you still think it was before? Let’s see how many people are willing to follow you now?
No one is a fool. Even if you have a father who is the village chief, he is still a little less important than my second brother. What’s more, you are so stupid? If I were you, I would obey orders obediently and still pretend.
Show the magnanimity of a young village chief."
After saying that, Wang Tiancheng chuckled twice, returned to the copper plate, closed his eyes and rested his mind.
"You..." Fang Yunguang trembled slightly, biting his lip with his teeth, and the veins in his neck were twitching.
"Young village chief, please bear with me for now. If nothing happens, it won't be too late to start another attack tomorrow. If something happens, it's obvious that it must be related to Bao Buping, and he can't shirk the involvement..."
Behind Fang Yunguang, a fair-haired young man took Fang Yunguang's tense arm and reminded him in a low voice.
Taking a deep breath, Fang Yunguang closed his eyes and gritted his teeth and said: "I understand, let's go."
Afraid of being impulsive, Fang Yunguang turned around and led the others away without even looking at Wang Tiancheng.
"Ha..." Wang Tiancheng chuckled, "At least you're not stupid enough to openly disobey me..."
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Outside Donghe Village, where Ye Qian and the other Donghe Village youths were hiding.
Looking at a car whose mouths were gagged, the Nanhe Village boy was horrified and burst into tears. There were eleven people in total. Two of them had picked up the wrong ones due to their early development. They were not members of the fruit competition, but they were enough.
Already.
As for the extra one, he was following Tong Xuenu and was caught, which was an unexpected surprise.
Ye Qian said to Liu Mingshan indifferently: "Take some people and send them to Panyun Valley as quickly as possible. I think they will soon find out when they come to Nanhe Village. If they report it, I will buy some more time. In the valley
I have given orders to people, and they know what to do.”
"I know, let's go." Liu Mingshan also knew that time was urgent and it was not time to say more. He ordered about ten people and rushed with the carriage in the direction of Panyun Valley.
Breathing out a heavy breath, Ye Qian looked at the brightly lit Nanhe Village with flames soaring into the sky, and said to Wei Junzi on the side: "I didn't expect it to go so smoothly. I thought Bao Buping would give me a big surprise."
Wei Junzi squinted at Ye Qian and said, "Do you think you are disappointed or happy?"
"I don't know," Ye Qian smiled, wondering how this small scene would give him a sense of accomplishment. He said, "I always feel that winning Bao Bu Ping won't be easy or smooth. But so far, everything has been successful.
Everything happened naturally and there was no accident at all, which made me feel very uneasy."
Wei Junzi crossed his arms and said pointedly: "Isn't this bag very powerful?"
Ye Qian smiled and said: "It's not that powerful. Among his peers, I have never seen anyone more stable than him."
"Oh." Wei Junzi nodded in understanding and asked, "When will we leave?"
With the corner of his mouth raised, Ye Qian said: "There is one last thing. After we finish it, we will go to Panyun Valley."
With that said, Ye Qian asked Tong Xuenu who was standing next to him: "Have you already taken that amputation finger?"
"Yes..." Tong Xuenu nodded with a pale face.
She took out a piece of rag from her arms, opened it, and found a piece of her little finger hidden in it.
Ye Qian frowned and looked at the little finger, which was completely white and had a purple-black blood scar from the incision.
This is not what a fresh little finger taken from a living person should look like.
Fortunately, the deceased may have died of starvation. Even though he had been dead for a day, there were still no purple spots on his little finger.
If you deal with it, you can still get through it. Ye Qian thought to himself.
After taking the rag, Ye Qian put his steps on the ground, stretched out his hand to his elder brother Zhao Gao, and said: "Brother, dagger."
"Here." Zhao Gao took out a dagger from his sleeve and put it in Ye Qian's hand.
Taking the dagger, he raised his left hand and placed it on the tip of his little finger. Ye Qianyun gently drew the dagger on his fingertip, and blood gushed out and dripped onto the little finger.
"Second brother, what are you doing..." Zhao Gao exclaimed.
Throwing the dagger to his elder brother Zhao Kai, Ye Qian didn't even frown and said as if nothing had happened: "I just need some blood, don't worry, um, it's almost done..."
The blood flowed very fast, and within a few words, the entire little finger was soaked in Ye Qian's blood.
Passing his hand to Zhao Kai, Ye Qian said calmly: "Brother, help me stop the bleeding."
After gouging out Ye Qian's eyes fiercely, Zhao Kai squeezed his younger brother Ye Qian's hand, used the weak Qi in his body to seal the four hemostatic acupuncture points between his fingers and wrists, and said angrily: "Don't be so stupid in the future, since I'm here
, there is no reason for you to do such a thing."
Ye Qian smiled and looked at the wound that was gradually coming under control without saying anything.
Picking up the rag, Ye Qian handed it to Tong Xuenu and said, "What you did earlier was beyond my expectation. Now, take this to Fang Yunguang, the young village chief of Nanhe Village, and tell him that everyone is in Panyun Valley.
And asked him to tell Bao Buping that he would send someone to pick them up before seven o'clock in the morning, and we would have a showdown in Panyun Valley. We don't have much patience."
"Yes." Tong Xuenu put away the rag wrapping her little finger and said, "I'll go now."
"If..." Ye Qian said before Tong Xuenu turned around and left, "If you complete this matter as well as before, after it is completed, I will take you to the state school."
"No." Tong Xuenu nodded numbly, bowed and left.
Looking at Tong Xuenu's leaving figure, Ye Qian murmured: "Tong Xuenu, Fang Yunguang, don't let me down..."
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"There are ten people missing. Eight of them are members of the Fruit War. The other two are less than twelve years old. They must be too chaotic. They are not familiar with them. They kidnapped the wrong people. They are really brave..."
Under the bronze hammer, Wang Tiancheng glanced at the queue in front of him and sneered, then said to a corner beside him.
Under the soaring firelight, this corner was still shrouded in darkness, giving people a cold feeling.
When a figure walked out of the corner, the corner looked somewhat normal.
The person who walked out was Wang Tiancheng's third brother, Bao Buping, the chief of Nanhe Village.
Seeing Bao Buping walk out, Wang Tiancheng continued, "There is also a boy from the Bai family, eleven people in total. Not to mention the county, even the entire state and county have never heard of such an exaggerated kidnapping incident. I would like to see it.
How will they end up..."
Bao Buping looked at the anxious, angry and panicked men and said calmly: "Now is not the time to talk about it. Let's think about how to save people."
Wang Tiancheng said matter-of-factly: "Of course, report it to the county, otherwise what else can we do? Besides, this kind of matter is beyond the scope of what we can handle. The adults don't know yet, but the matter cannot be hidden, we must tell them and hand it over to them."
They handle..."
"Leave it to them, haha..." Bao Buping had a cold look on his lips, "Leave it to them, we will lose..."
Wang Tiancheng was silent. He knew very well that his third brother Bao Buping was always gentle with others and always humble and courteous, but that did not mean that he was gentle and had no desire to win.
On the contrary, the third brother Bao Buping has a stronger desire to win than anyone else, but his ambition is as high as the sky. However, he happened to meet the more talented second brother Wang Chengcai, and was overshadowed by his sharpness, making it difficult for people to discover Bao Buping's advantages.
.
Now being inexplicably forced into this situation by Donghe Village, the third brother Bao Buping still has not come up with a feasible solution, let alone a counterattack. If it is left to the adults to deal with it, it will indeed mean that the third brother Bao Buping will be completely defeated, and the defeat will be completely useless.
The power to fight back.
Wang Tiancheng knew that this was something his third brother Bao Buping could not tolerate.
After thinking about it, Bao Buping hesitated and said: "But, we have no evidence to prove that Donghe Village did this. In other words, if it was not done by Donghe Village..."