After He Laoqi finished reporting the case, the three of them walked out of the yard together, called Lidong over, and announced in public that the captain of the village protection team would be handed over to Lidong.
Lidong was overjoyed when he heard this appointment.
After all, being the captain not only brings you a small amount of money, but you are also highly respected by the villagers. It can be said that you gain both fame and fortune.
Seeing Lidong accept everyone's congratulations, the township leader Zhao Chunqiang said with a smile, "Chen Lidong, you have to work hard and don't embarrass Brother Xiaobei."
The words are both implicit and direct, that is, you can sit in this position thanks to Chen Xiaobei.
Of course, Lidong understood. He looked at Chen Xiaobei with a grateful expression, and then patted his chest, "Brother Xiaobei, no, please don't worry, Chief Xiaobei. I will definitely live up to my mission."
The news that Chen Xiaobei became the head of the village quickly spread in the village.
As night falls, the doorstep of his house becomes the busiest place in Hetou Village.
Many villagers brought more or less things from their homes to express their feelings in the future. Some brought a few eggs, some brought some vegetables, and some brought grain. But Chen Xiaobei took all the things given by everyone.
If I refuse, I don’t want it from anyone else.
As the saying goes, if you take advantage of someone's soft hand, you will have a short mouth. If you accept something now, it will be difficult to carry out work in the future.
After the crowd dispersed, Chen Xiaowen timidly came to Chen Xiaobei.
Chen Xiaowen blushed and handed over a bundle of wild vegetables. Perhaps feeling a little embarrassed, he lowered his head and whispered, "Brother Xiaobei, congratulations. My family, my family really can't afford it..."
Chen Xiaobei smiled and patted his shoulder, "It's okay, as long as you do a good job in the Houcun team, nothing else matters."
After seeing Chen Xiaowen off, Chen Xiaobei comforted Cui Hongyu and Chen Qiaoer for a few more words before leaving the courtyard and walking under the big locust tree.
I have become the village chief and resigned as the village guard captain. There will be very few opportunities to work night shifts in the future. I have to go and see the team members who once fought side by side tonight.
Lidong, who had just become the captain of the village protection team, seemed very excited. He was sitting under the big locust tree and bragging to everyone. More than a dozen people gathered around him, listening with great interest.
Seeing Chen Xiaobei coming, everyone immediately stood up and greeted each other.
But Chen Xiaobei discovered that many of the people watching were not village guards.
Lidong pointed at these people and said to Chen Xiaobei with a smile, "Brother Xiaobei, they also want to join the village protection team. Look..."
As soon as Lidong spoke, these people immediately echoed, "Yes, yes, Xiaobei Lichang, just accept us, we don't want wages."
Chen Xiaobei suddenly laughed. The captain had the final say to expand the number of members in the village protection team, and it had nothing to do with him. However, it was obvious that these people who wanted to join the village protection team came for him.
He suddenly remembered the conversation he had with Liu Rumei, about helping Liu Rumei see Qingniu Mountain.
"Brother Li Lidong, with so many people, we can't use them just for one village. I think it's better to send some people to set up a checkpoint at the foot of Qingniu Mountain."
Upon hearing this, Lidong and the villagers present were confused. They couldn't figure out what the use was of setting up a card under Qingniu Mountain.
"Xiaobei is so long and the mountain is so big, how can we see it?"
Chen Xiaobei smiled slightly, "Just keep an eye on the road from our village into the mountains."
"This is something Zhao Xiangzheng specifically explained to He Captou just now." Chen Xiaobei knew that he couldn't explain it in just a few words, so he might as well just say it was an arrangement from above.
Sure enough, after hearing what he said, no one raised any questions.
The Beginning of Winter went smoothly. Early the next morning, a clearing was opened outside the village at the foot of Qingniu Mountain, and someone began to build thatched huts.
Sanqiu also specially wrote a wooden sign with the three characters "Qingniu Mountain", which looks a little elegant.
After greeting everyone, Chen Xiaobei went into the mountain.
Chen Xiaobei is already very familiar with the section from the foot of the mountain to the mountain temple.
Every time he walked, Chen Xiaobei would stop to look at the scenery around him and try to remember it.
In this way, if you see big changes in the surrounding scenery in the future, someone must have been here, and you have to be careful.
Sun Jian and others had been waiting at the mountain temple for a long time. When they saw Chen Xiaobei coming, they all pretended to greet him enthusiastically.
Sun Jian even came forward and handed him a large piece of roasted lamb leg affectionately, "Come, brother Xiaobei, eat something first, and then we set off."
Chen Xiaobei took the leg of lamb, and Sun Gui handed over a bottle of wine.
When things go wrong, there must be monsters. Faced with excessive enthusiasm, Chen Xiaobei chose to refuse. He did not pick up the wine bottle, "I don't drink, just eat some mutton."
While eating mutton, the group headed towards the mountain on a familiar road.
Chen Xiaobei found that these people had very good memories, especially Sun Gui, who was leading the way. He could accurately walk on the right route without any pauses at several forks in the road. This made Chen Xiaobei
I kind of wonder if they have walked this road more than once.
Back to the fork in the road where Chen Xiaobei deliberately chose the wrong one last time.
After some pretentious thinking, Chen Xiaobei finally chose the right route.
Continuing forward, Chen Xiaobei still adopted a mixed strategy of right and wrong. Some went right at once, and some had to go around once or twice. After struggling until it was almost noon, he only took three or four forks in the road.
Continuing forward, the mountain road becomes much smoother, and there are even small terraces on both sides of the road.
Of course, the terraces are full of weeds.
In some terraced fields, weeds kept swaying before they could get closer.
Sun Jian suddenly shook his hand, and a short sword shot out. Then a hare jumped three feet high, rolled and struggled on the ground, and soon became lifeless.
Come to think of it, this place is inaccessible and overgrown with weeds, so it wouldn't be a happy home for hares.
At this moment, Sun Gui suddenly pointed in the distance and shouted, "Look, it looks like a wolf."
Just look in the direction of his finger, right? About three or four miles away, on a raised rock, squatted a gray wild wolf.
Perhaps sensing that they had discovered it, the wild wolf suddenly raised its neck and let out a long howl into the air.
When we describe a sound that sounds unpleasant, we would say it is a ghost crying or a wolf howling. To be honest, this wolf howling is really unpleasant.
Hearing this howl, Chen Xiaobei felt his calves trembling. Sun Jian and the others were all highly skilled in martial arts, but as for him, he had no power to restrain a chicken.
What if the wolf rushes over and they all run away?
There aren't even trees around.
Apparently, Sun Jian and others were a little wary of the wolf's appearance, and they immediately ran to a small pile of rocks nearby with higher ground.
You can see further from here.
What surprised them was that the wild wolf just howled, then slowly turned around and ran away.
They waited for a while, but the surroundings were still quiet and there was no sound.