While Qiao Huaping was chatting with Guo Tailin, Village Chief Lu came in together with representatives from Bishui Village.
Logically speaking, the representative from Bishui Village should be Mo Gensheng, but Mo Gensheng was still poisoned by a centipede and scorpion bite and was lying in bed unable to get up. How could he survive?
That's why the man who came here right now was a man from Bishui Village with a sinister face and some white hair.
Qiao Huaping couldn't help but take another look.
The original owner had this person in mind, and his name was Qiao Yanrui. After all, he was related to the Qiao family.
This man's father and Qiao Huaping's grandfather are cousins. After all, old Qiao has to call Qiao Yanrui his second cousin, and Qiao Huaping has to call Qiao Yanrui his second uncle.
Qiao Yanrui was serious about his words and spoke straightforwardly: "Let me tell you, Lao Lu, our two villages have been in contact with each other for so many years. I don't know how many girls and wives they have married to each other. The ancestors of the two villages have long been indistinguishable from each other...
If you act too ruthlessly, aren't you afraid that your ancestors will scold you below?"
These words really hit Village Chief Lu's weakness.
Village Chief Lu's expression changed, he was speechless, and his expression also showed some hesitation.
Qiao Huaping secretly thought, this Qiao Yanrui actually has some brains.
Why is the power of village clans so strong these days?
In fact, it is directed at the ancestors who are very different from each other.
Having grown up in this village for generations, they will associate themselves with this village in their hearts. This is the so-called sense of identity.
Qiao Yanrui pointed directly at the key point of "identity", which reminded Village Chief Lu of his ancestors, making it easier to convince Village Chief Lu to take them on the road together.
Village Chief Lu cursed something in a low voice and took a long breath: "Second brother Qiao, you did this first and it was unethical. Even when I went down to see my ancestors, I had the right to say it - you first took away our Liujin Village."
The news was given to the bandits, and the leader of your village planned to kill Mrs. Qiao and her family in our village - tell me, how can we safely take you on the road together?"
"This is all in the past. The people in front did it. We can't let all of us Bishui Villagers take the blame." Qiao Yanrui paused, his eyes falling on Qiao Huaping, "...and the Mo Gensheng incident.
?That's his personal grudge against my third niece. Just think, we people in Bishui Village can't protect ourselves, so how can we have any spare time to harm others?"
After all, Qiao Yanrui looks much more stable than Mo Gensheng.
When Village Chief Lu heard Qiao Yanrui's words, he couldn't help but nod his head a few times. There is indeed some truth in what he said...
When Qiao Yanrui saw it, he was looking for someone to pursue the victory, and he sighed: "We people in Bishui Village just want to be alive right now. Lao Lu, just don't worry, we will definitely not look for trouble."
Promising not to look for trouble is quite plausible.
In addition, Qiao Yanrui's behavior is easier to accept than Mo Gensheng's previous behavior, where he relied on Shangliu Jincun for his confidence.
Village Chief Lu was shaken badly this time.
The rest of the people in Bishui Village took the time to lobby the people in Liujin Village around them.
After all, the people in Liujin Village were soft-hearted. After listening to the sincere words of the people in Bishui Village, they couldn't help but hesitate a little, and their objections were no longer so serious.
For a time, it became an irresistible trend for people from Bishui Village to go on the road together with people from Liujin Village.
A trace of unnoticeable pride flashed in Qiao Yanrui's eyes. His expression was much calmer than before, and the sinister look on his face was almost gone. He patted Village Chief Lu on the shoulder, as if he wanted to settle the matter:
"...If that's the case, then let's make an agreement..."
Qiao Huaping suddenly said: "Wait."
She got up from the bench.
Village Chief Lu was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly said: "Ms. Qiao, what do you have to say?"
Qiao Yanrui frowned slightly, obviously dissatisfied: "She is a woman, what can she say?"
Qiao Huaping saw it and ignored Qiao Yanrui.
What made him even more dissatisfied was what happened next.
"It should be noted that our two villages also passed by each other before," Qiao Huaping said slowly, "... everyone must have remembered that there were unpleasantness almost every day at that time, so the two villages finally split up and went their separate ways."
Following her words, the people in Bishui Village didn't look very good.
If they had gone on the road with the people from Liujin Village, they would not have been so embarrassed when they encountered bandits later, let alone so many people would not have died...
The people in Liujin Village couldn't help but think of the days when the two villages had been on the road together, and their expressions didn't look very good.
Those "troublesome things" at that time are still vivid in my mind!
"Let's not talk about other things. This shows that there are still some conflicts between our two villages." Qiao Huaping said unhurriedly, "What if those conflicts break out again this time? Split it again?"
"
Village Chief Lu nodded in agreement and looked at Qiao Yanrui following the questions Qiao Huaping asked at the end of his words.
Qiao Yanrui frowned, cursed in his mind, and then said: "...We in Bishui Village have few people at the moment, only two hundred people in total. If we talk about conflicts, they are definitely smaller than before. In this special period, we all show courtesy to each other.
You think they all come from the same ancestor, and there aren’t that many life-or-death conflicts, right?”
Qiao Huaping sneered inwardly.
When Qiao Yanrui said "exercise courtesy to each other," he actually meant that the people of Liujin Village should be more tolerant.
Village Chief Lu also figured it out. He looked at Qiao Huaping hesitantly.
Subconsciously, he was already waiting for Qiao Huaping to make up his mind.
"Not only this," Qiao Huaping did not answer Qiao Yanrui's question directly, but slowly asked another question, "Are you dependent now, or are you just traveling with us? If you are dependent, what should you do? If you are traveling together, what should you do?
So what, these all need to be discussed and a charter can't be simply settled... You can't open your lips and say that you want to go on the road with us people from Liujin Village. All trivial matters have to be done.
It’s up to us, the people in Liujin Village, to worry about it. There is no such reason.”
Qiao Yanrui almost collapsed, his face changed!
Village Chief Lu nodded repeatedly upon hearing this, that's how it should be, that's how it should be!
Qiao Huaping was still worried that Qiao Yanrui and other people from Bishui Village would not look ugly enough, so she added, "There is no basis for the above-mentioned regulations. Anyway, the old scholar Guo is here. When the time comes, the key points must be implemented.
Write it clearly in black and white on the paper; then there is no need for anything else, just let you people from Bishui Village take your fingerprints."
Village Chief Lu almost screamed!
Qiao Yanrui's face turned livid: "Qiao Sanya! Are you planning to treat us as thieves?!"
Qiao Huaping smiled and said: "How can it be? This agreement is just to give us a guarantee in Liujin Village. What, you are not even willing to give us a guarantee?"