Half an hour later, Yang Chengyi led Chai Yan and Yuan Yuan to the small village he mentioned.
Yang Chengyi led the donkey and followed Chai Yan. He looked at the village and said, "Mr. Chai, this is Qiangang Village."
"Yes." Chai Yan nodded, and he and Yuan led the horses and walked towards the village.
At this time, Qianggang Village was full of joy, and every household was celebrating the New Year. Every villager they met while walking in the village would nod friendly to the three of them.
"Uncle, how can I get to the village chief's house?" Chai Yan stopped a villager.
When the village uncle saw that Chai Yan had a kind face and that he was dressed as a scholar, elegant and polite, his attitude improved a lot.
"Here, do you see the tallest tree in the distance? The house under the tree is the village chief's house." The uncle kindly pointed the way to Chai Yan.
"Thank you, uncle."
Chai Yan thanked him and walked along the village road to the big tree.
The village chief is an old man in his sixties, but he has a very strong body and a strong voice. He does not resist when strangers come to him. Instead, he warmly welcomes the three of them into the courtyard to sit down and drink tea.
Yang Chengyi's donkey may have smelled the aroma of food, and before entering the yard, it began to scream miserably, "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa".
Chai Yan asked politely: "Village chief, do you have fodder for my horse and donkey..."
"Yes, yes..."
Before Chai Yan could finish speaking, the village chief nodded in agreement, and then shouted inside: "Old lady, come out!"
Not long after the voice fell, an old woman came out of the room.
"Old woman, you take the guests to the back to feed the animals," the village chief said.
"Hey." The old woman agreed and prepared to lead the people to the back of the house.
Chai Yan nodded to Yuan Yuan, who immediately understood and led the two horses to follow the old woman's footsteps.
Yang Chengyi's donkey didn't need anyone to pull it, but followed the two horses on its own, as if he knew there would be food wherever the horses were.
When Chai Yan saw that Yang Chengyi was not moving, he wanted to move him away: "Mr. Yang, please go and help..."
"Ah?" Yang Chengyi was stunned for a moment, then nodded repeatedly: "Oh, okay, okay..."
Seeing Yang Chengyi also go to the back of the house, Chai Yan said to the village chief: "I have something I want to discuss with the village chief. Can you lend me a moment to talk?"
The village chief smiled and asked: "Sir, what can't you say here?"
Chai Yan smiled slightly, took out a waist badge from his arms and handed it to the village chief. The village chief's expression paused, and then he took it and looked at it.
Seeing this, the village chief's expression suddenly changed: "Wu...Wude Si..."
"Shh!" Chai Yan made a silent gesture and said in a suppressed voice: "Village chief, please don't make any noise..."
"Yes, yes..." The village chief's attitude has changed significantly, and he immediately stood up and said: "Please come to your room, sir!"
Chai Yan stood up and warned: "Village chief, it's better to call him Young Master."
"I understand, sir... please come inside!" The village chief returned the badge to Chai Yan and led Chai Yan into the house.
In the livestock shed behind the house, Yuan Yuan was feeding the two horses with the help of the old woman, while Yang Chengyi was responsible for feeding his own donkey...
The donkey happily ate the fodder hard, but Yang Chengyi couldn't be happy. Not only did he look melancholy, but he also felt uneasy in his heart.
Yang Chengyi was unwilling to go into the city with Chai Yan and his wife. Chai Yan and his wife were the people that the Tieshan Gang wanted to deal with. If the Tieshan Gang saw him with them, wouldn't they also suffer disaster?
Thinking of this, Yang Chengyi became more and more anxious. In the blink of an eye, he saw the donkey eating happily. He was so angry that he immediately threw the fodder in his hand on the donkey's face and cursed in his heart: You are a stupid donkey, you are stupid.
Donkey! If you hadn't been stubborn on the road, how could I have met these two evil stars? I would have entered Yaozhou City by now! Stupid donkey, stupid donkey...
Unexpectedly, the scene of throwing away the fodder was happened to be seen by Yuan Yuan. Yuan Yuan said in a cold voice: "What are you doing, venting your anger on the donkey again?"
Yang Chengyi was so frightened that he hurriedly stroked the donkey's head, turned around and said with a smile: "No, no, no, no... there were flies just now, I, I, I... I was chasing the flies away...
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"Nonsense! How can there be any flies in this winter?" said the kite.
"Uh..." Yang Chengyi was stunned and said with trembling mouth: "Then, that, that...that's a bug, me, me, I...I said it wrong, it's a bug.
, not a fly..."
Seeing Yang Chengyi's appearance, Yuanyuan whispered a few words to the old woman. The old woman nodded slightly, put down the fodder in her hand, and left.
"Come here." Yuan called.
"What...what?"
Yang Chengyi immediately became nervous, thinking that she would not want to hit me again.
"Come here!" Yuanyuan frowned and shouted again.
Yang Chengyi had no choice but to obediently walk up to Yuanyuan with his head hanging down.
Yuan said: "If you have anything to say, just say it, and stop venting your anger on the donkey!"
Yang Chengyi was silent for a moment, then summoned up the courage to say: "Chai...Mrs. Chai, I, I, I...can I..."
"No!" Yuanyuan refused without waiting for him to finish.
Yang Chengyi was stunned immediately, thinking to himself, didn't you ask me to say it? Why did you block me back as soon as I said it?
Yuan Yuan finished feeding the fodder in his hand and said seriously: "I know what you are thinking, but this matter has been decided and cannot be changed! If you complain even more, I will not be polite!"
Yang Chengyi did not dare to speak. At this time, he only had three words in his heart...
tigress!
When Yuan Yuan saw this, he said again: "We are just going into the city with you. We haven't made anything difficult for you or asked you to do anything else. Why do you have to worry like this?"
Yang Chengyi said with a bitter face: "Mrs. Chai, you don't know, those people from the Tieshan Gang..."
Yuan Yuan was immediately displeased and interrupted: "...Why, you forgot what I just said?"
Yang Chengyi swallowed the next words back into his stomach, lowered his head and dared not speak.
A quarter of an hour later, Chai Yan walked out of the village chief's home, with the village chief following him respectfully.
Chai Yan came out and saw that Yuan Yuan and Yang Chengyi were already waiting in the yard, so he walked straight over.
Before Yuanyuan could ask, Chai Yan smiled and said: "Madam, I just discussed it with the village chief. Our horses can be left here for foster care. You can come and pick them up at any time later."
The village chief who was following him immediately answered: "That's right! Madam, please rest assured that the old man and his family will take good care of the horses and nothing will go wrong."
Yuan Yuan nodded slightly: "Then you'll have a hard time."
Chai Yan raised his hand and showed a banknote, stuffed it into the village chief's hand, and said calmly: "Village chief, take this money and buy the best fodder for the horse..."
"This...this is impossible..." The village chief's first reaction was that he didn't dare to accept it, he couldn't accept it.
But Chai Yan pretended to be angry, so the village chief had to accept it.
Chai Yan glanced at Yuyuan, turned around and said, "By the way, village chief, I have one more thing to trouble you with..."
The village chief was flattered that Chai Yan was so polite, so he hurriedly raised his hands and saluted: "Young Master, just ask me..."
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