Chapter 53: Counting Casualties
The boss was about to run away, and even had a broken hand, so the other minions were instantly defeated.
Liu Fei was so excited that he shouted, "Let's fight them and get all the stuff back!"
Everyone responded in a panic, and even stripped the clothes off the horse bandit.
The sound of horse hooves rumbled, and the greedy bandits followed the leader on horseback and rushed out of the villagers' encirclement.
The greedy ones wanted to take some things before leaving, but were all kept back by the angry villagers.
Several people are dealing with one person, using hoes and sickles together.
Liu Bo rushed into the yard and asked Qin Yao if she still wanted to chase him.
Qin Yao said in a deep voice: "Chase! Of course we must chase! The thief leader must die!"
After saying that, he rushed out.
Liu Bo hurriedly called on the villagers to follow, and a group of villagers chased the horse bandits all the way to the village entrance, and then took the small road.
But two legs cannot outrun a four-legged horse and will eventually be left far behind.
Only Qin Yao chased them all the way, and finally aimed at the back of the bandit leader and shot an arrow fiercely!
She wanted to shoot another arrow, but the bandits had already turned into the valley. She raised her bow and aimed for a long time, but finally put it down.
After being hit by her arrow and having his arm broken, there is no chance of survival!
Liu Fei led two teenagers of his age and chased after them breathlessly, "Third, Third Sister-in-law, are you still chasing?"
Qin Yao looked at the entrance to the valley in front of her and shook her head.
Looking back, he saw that Liu Fei's face was covered with the blood of the horse bandits. The corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise, "Young man, you did a good job today."
Liu Fei couldn't laugh at all. He was so blood-thirsty just now that he didn't feel anything at all. Only now did he remember that he might have killed someone, and he felt a little scared.
Qin Yao saw the young man's fear, patted him on the shoulder, and went back to the village entrance together.
Liu Dafu immediately rushed out of the crowd, knelt in front of Qin Yao, and excitedly thanked her for her help.
Qin Yao helped the man up, looked at the burning backyard of Liu Dafu's house, and reminded him: "Put out the fire first."
Liu Dafu responded with a sigh, and the villagers spontaneously joined the fire-fighting team.
By the time the sun set, the fire was out.
Every household sent out representatives to gather in the ancestral hall.
Those who were unable to get in also crowded the entrance of the ancestral hall.
"Madam Qin is here!"
Someone shouted, and the village chief, clan elders, and Liu Dafu's family, who suffered the most damage, all stood up in the ancestral hall.
Qin Yao went home to change her outer clothes, told her family that the horse thieves had left, comforted the four frightened children, ate the pork, tofu and cabbage porridge that Liu Ji had diligently served her, and then went to the ancestral hall carrying a red lantern.
Liu Ji and his four children all came, but unfortunately they were not able to enter the ancestral hall.
However, because of Qin Yao, the villagers at the door gave Liu Ji a seat.
Maybe it was because of the dark night, but everyone looked at Liu Ji with a much gentler look in their eyes.
Liu Ji was flattered. When had he ever been treated like this in the village?
He didn't know what happened in the village yet. The villagers told him how Qin Yao killed the bandit leader and made him flee.
Liu Ji opened his eyes wide and looked at Qin Yao in the ancestral hall in disbelief. He didn't expect that she was not afraid of even the thief leader.
The four brothers and sisters of Dalang showed admiration. It turned out that their stepmother was so powerful!
Qin Yao sat down on the empty bench in the ancestral hall and pointed at the corpses of the horse thieves outside the ancestral hall and asked, "Aren't those corpses going to be dealt with?"
The village chief explained that he had sent someone to report to the police, but the fastest the police would arrive would be at dawn.
We have to wait for the officials to arrive before we can decide what to do with these corpses.
Qin Yao nodded to show that she understood.
The elders looked at her with kind eyes and asked her if she had any other questions, without talking about business anymore.
Qin Yao smiled and shook her head.
The patriarch stood up, and his eldest son took a notebook, paper and pen to count the losses and casualties of each family.
The atmosphere during this process was depressing, and except for the people being asked, everyone else remained silent.
It's the New Year, and no one can be happy when something like this happens.
There are a total of 42 households in the village, with a total of 218 people, including women, the elderly and children.
Six villagers died today, including two women, two elderly people and two young men.
More than half of the people were injured, 89 of them were slightly injured and 12 of them were seriously injured.
Fortunately, the old doctor is fine and is currently treating injured villagers at Liu Dafu's home.
Among the twelve seriously injured people, three were from Liu Dafu's family.
The two old people who died were Liu Dafu's parents.
Everyone in the Liu family's old house was fine. Liu Bo and Liu Fei only had minor injuries of varying degrees. They went to the old doctor to get some medicine and would be fine after taking two doses.
Zhang bowed to the sky again and again at home, thanking God for his blessing.
Old Man Liu sneered directly: "If you want to thank someone, you should thank the third brother's wife."
Zhang nodded in agreement and glared at Old Man Liu, but she did not dare to disrespect God.
Old Man Liu's eyes became moist as he looked at his home which had been raided by the bandits. He took a deep breath, suppressed his emotions, rolled up his sleeves and began to clean up.
The situation is similar for every household, except that some are just as miserable while others are exceptionally miserable.
The clan leader took stock of the situation and reported the property losses of each family.
Since the horse bandits ran away, there was basically no loss of livestock and food, but most of the silver and money could not be recovered.
Speaking of this, we have to mention Qin Yao again. If she hadn't taken the lead today, the situation in the village would be unimaginable.
Liu Dafu, in particular, thanked Qin Yao first and then the villagers in front of the elders.
He said, "If it weren't for Madam Qin and the others, my whole family would have been killed by the bandits. Now we have saved our lives and food. I want to give half of my food to the villagers who came to my house to help me, Liu Dafu."
Everyone was very excited when they heard about Liu Dafu's action. Some villagers who were afraid at the time and did not stand up regretted it so much that their intestines turned green.
Qin Yao understood why Liu Dafu did this.
One is that he really wanted to thank you.
Secondly, all the food hidden in his house was taken out by the bandits, which was equivalent to exposing it to everyone.
Usually everyone only knows that Liu Dafu's family is wealthy and most of the fields in the village belong to him, but no one knows the exact number.
Now this number is clearly laid out. At the moment, everyone is still immersed in the matter of the horse bandits and has not realized it, but after calming down tonight, they will remember it.
It's scary to think about what kind of vicious wolves would be attracted by so much food.
Now his three sons are all seriously injured. If anything happens, he will be unable to cope with it. It would be better to divide the food to avoid being targeted by others.
Moreover, in this way, those who get the food will spontaneously support his family and deter those who have ulterior motives.
The villagers had just experienced an attack by horse bandits and now needed to be appeased. Liu Dafu's move helped the village chief and elders solve this problem.
No one objected, so Liu Dafu found some trusted villagers to move the grain from his home and distributed it in the ancestral hall.
The joy of getting food temporarily dispelled the depression brought by the horse bandits.
(End of this chapter)