Chapter 2895 Have you reported it?

How did the village chief know which mountain the bandits were on? He could only say: "In the mountains nearby, every time there is a harvest or during the New Year, they will go down to grab things. A few days ago, they came down again and asked us to

Each family provides five bags of wheat. If there is less, they will kill someone."

"We don't have much farmland to begin with. With five bags of wheat, our family's work has been in vain for half a year. If the court wants to pay taxes, we won't be able to leave even a grain of wheat."

Bai Shan asked: "How many times have they gone down the mountain? I mean, how many times have they encountered them in your village?"

"Three times!" said the village chief: "After the Double Ninth Festival last year, not long after we paid our taxes, they ran down at night and robbed eight families living at the entrance of the village and at the foot of the mountain. Another time was during the New Year period.

Time, that time people came down in the early morning, drove out all the people in the village, and then plundered a lot of things."

"This is the last time, but they only came down with five people to inform us to prepare wheat," the village chief said sheepishly: "The people in the village are blind and do not recognize noble people. I wonder if the county magistrate is here to see you."

Carrying a knife, I thought bandits were coming down, so..."

Bai Shan comforted him and said: "This county knows, and you are not to blame for this. Do you know the number of people who went down the mountain the last two times?"

The village chief thought for a while and said: "I didn't know this the first time. It was night, and only eight families were robbed. But I heard from them that there were about three or four people in one family, and they all had knives. It was scary.

Later that time, oh, I was too panicked and didn’t count much, but there were at least a hundred people, right?”

Lieutenant Dong's face was ashen and he was the first to say: "It's impossible. If there are more than a hundred bandits in the county, I won't know anything about it."

The village chief was not sure at first, but after hearing what he said, he changed his mind and said, "That's seventy or eighty people?"

Bai Shan frowned and asked, "Has the village chief heard of any other villages that were robbed?"

The village chief patted his thigh and said, "There just aren't any."

He said: "These bandits have targeted our village for some reason. I asked people in other villages and they all said they didn't find any bandits."

"Does the mayor know about this?"

"I know," he said, "I reported it to the district chief during the Double Ninth Festival last year. Then I was robbed during the Chinese New Year, so I reported it again."

He turned around and said to County Lieutenant Dong in embarrassment: "After the Chinese New Year, I went into the city to look for you. At that time, I happened to see you patrolling the streets with the government servants. I wanted to go up and redress my grievances..."

Seeing that he stopped talking, Bai Shan raised his eyebrows and asked, "Then why didn't you come forward?"

The village chief hesitated for a while, then gritted his teeth and said, "It was the village chief who found me and pulled me back, saying that he had reported it to the county magistrate Gao Sheng and left, and the adults in the government office were busy.

It’s very true that even if we have to do things, we have to do them one by one. If we urge them like this, we may not be able to urge them without telling anyone, and we will also offend the adults in the county government, which will definitely make it more difficult in the end.”

Lieutenant Dong County jumped to his feet and said: "Fart, what county government dares to look down on such a big thing as banditry? Sir, there are always people slandering us."

Bai Shan pressed his hand on him to tell him to calm down.

The village chief was startled, but belatedly reacted, "I don't know, sir...didn't the village chief report it to the police?"

Bai Shan did not make a direct conclusion, but asked with a smile, "This time the bandits came down from the mountain and asked you to prepare wheat, did you report it to the chief?"

The village chief nodded blankly, "I'll report it. This is a big deal, how can I not report it?"

"A family with five bags of wheat has lost most of the year's harvest. If they come down again during the autumn harvest, we won't even have rice. Then how can we survive?"

It was precisely because the bandits had a huge appetite this time that the villagers were so excited that they ran out with hoes and kitchen knives.

Bai Shan understood and said to the village chief: "This county will make the decision for you. We will stay in the village for these two days. Don't worry, it's okay if they don't come. If they come, then this county will let them

There is no return.”

Regardless of whether this is true or not, the village chief and the others are relieved a lot.

Bai Shan said: "I see that the wheat in your field is also ripe. It's better to ask people to harvest the wheat. It will be left in the field until it is ripe and the ears will fall off. It will be wasted."

The village chief responded immediately.

In the past, the enthusiasm for harvesting wheat in the village was not high. Because of the bandits' message, they looked at the wheat in the field as if it was their own, so they were passive and slow in work. While looking at it, they were heartbroken, and they just didn't want to brave the bright sun.

Go harvest.

Now with Bai Shan's promise, the villagers are full of love and pity when they look at the wheat in their own fields. Regardless of the fact that the sun is shining, they go home to say hello and go straight to harvesting with their sickles.

The village chief also had a lot of land at home, so he asked his sons to cut wheat and his daughters-in-law to free up their rooms.

Manbao asked Xibing to help, and then she assigned a place to Wen Tiandong and said, "You can go to the free clinic."

It was under a tree not far from the village chief's house. There was shadow at the moment, and many children were playing there. There was also a large open space, which was really nice.

Wen Tiandong went back to the village chief, asked him for a table and some chairs, and then took the village chief's hand and introduced them to the medical department.

The village chief didn't want to hear it, he still wanted to go to the county magistrate to ask about the bandit suppression.

There are so many mountain bandits, and it's definitely not possible to rely on them alone, so is the army outside the mountain? Do you want to call them into the village?

Otherwise, if the bandits suddenly came down from the mountain, would it be too late for the soldiers to enter the village?

At the same time, he also needs to calculate the grain reserves in the village. When the soldiers and government officials come to suppress the bandits, do they have to provide this grain?

I wonder if they eat much?

Although heartbroken, the village chief also knows that if the bandits are suppressed, today's expenditure will only be once. If they are not suppressed, their village will not have a good life every year.

But Wen Tiandong pulled him so close that the village chief couldn't get away.

When Man Bao saw Wen Tiandong holding the village chief, he turned around and hurried back, found Bai Shan and said, "There are bandits on the mountain. Should we mobilize troops from the county?"

Bai Shandao: "I am discussing with Lieutenant Dong Xian."

He said: "If you encircle ten, attack by five. If there are at least a hundred bandits as the village chief said, then we will need at least five hundred soldiers."

County Lieutenant Dong: "...Sir, our county government has only forty servants, including the guards you brought."

Bai Shan nodded, "There are two hundred people there, including the two inspectors. Counting us, there are only two hundred and fifty people."

Dong County Lieutenant asked: "Do you want to ask for help from Qingzhou City?"

Bai Shandao: "Check it out first, but this matter really needs to be reported to Qingzhou City, and someone will come and study the ink."

Daji went to the luggage to find pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

Bai Shandao: "In addition, we have to send someone back to the county government office to check whether the incident of bandits was really not reported."

If it hadn't been reported, I'm afraid the matter would still have something to do with the head of the neighborhood.

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