Chapter 277 2 Hard Choices

"Ran Ran, you finally came out! How about it, no one is giving you a hard time, right?"

"Girl Ran, have you found the person? Do we still want to go to Huangshan County?"

"Is Mr. Mo easy to talk to? Is he willing to help us? Where will we be placed?"

"Sister, are you tired? I brought warm water for you to drink!"

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As soon as Qiao Ran came out, she was surrounded by Qiao Erhe, Qiao Dong and several men in the village. Everyone asked or cared about her.

Qiao Ran didn't know who to respond to, or Qiao Erhe, who felt sorry for her niece and raised her hand to signal everyone to calm down.

"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious! Let Ran Ran take a breath! This city gate is not the place to talk. Let's go over there and talk over there."

Only then did the others realize that it was not good for them to be so eager, so they all hugged Qiao Ran and walked towards the people of Qingshui Village.

Back in the team, Qiao Dong quickly handed the warm water that he had dried in his hand and poured into the leather water bag to his sister to drink.

"Sister, this is boiled water that my family specially boiled for you. It has been dried to make it warm. Drink some to warm yourself up!"

Chen Huiniang also waved to her daughter: "Ranran, come here quickly! The charcoal in the stove is still burning, come here quickly and light up the fire!"

The weather was cold. After Qiao Ran entered the city, the Qiao family quickly found some stones and soil to build an earthen stove.

Chen Huiniang and Qin Madam prepared a pot of boiling water, let it cool down a little, and then put it into a leather water bag to keep it warm, so that Qiao Ran could drink warm water when she came back.

Qiao Ran had actually drunk a lot of tea and eaten snacks, but she didn't refuse the family's concern for him. She took the water bag and walked to the earthen stove, unplugged the water bag, and drank several sips of warm water. boiling water.

Qiao Ran was surrounded not only by the Qiao family, but also by many villagers, including the most anxious old village chief.

Although everyone was anxious, no one urged her, they just looked at her expectantly.

Qiao Ran did not disappoint everyone. After drinking the water, she immediately said:

"Grandpa, the village chief, I took the jade pendant and found the housekeeper in Mr. Mo's house, but Mr. Mo was not in the capital at this time. Housekeeper Zhou took me to Mr. Jia, the general judge of the government office."

"According to Butler Zhou's wishes, there are several plots of land around the capital where we can be accommodated, but Lord Tongpan seems to have some unspeakable secrets and is unwilling to arrange us together."

"In the end, Master Tongpan only gave us two choices. One is to split it into several larger villages, but they are far apart, or even in different counties."

"The second option is that we can have the whole village together, but the allocated space is not very good."

When Qiao Ran said her first choice, she saw disappointment and resistance on everyone's faces.

When he mentioned the second choice, his eyes were filled with hope again.

"Really? We don't need to be separated and we can still be in the same village?"

"That's great! I really don't want to be separated from everyone, especially the Qiao family."

"Yes, yes! My family doesn't want to be separated from you. We have experienced so many things along the way. We are really closer than a family! How can a family be separated?"

"What place? Qiao Ran, please tell me where that place is?"

"Yes, no matter where it is, as long as we can still be together, as long as we can follow your family, we are willing!"

"Yes, we have suffered all the way here. What kind of hardships have we not endured? As long as we can find a place to settle down and prevent us from being separated again, we will be very satisfied."

"Girl Ran, tell me quickly, no matter where you are going, as long as you go, we will follow you!"

Before the old village chief could speak, the villagers were already eager to express their unwillingness to separate.

The old village chief paused his crutch and motioned for everyone to be quiet:

"Stop making any noise and listen to what Ran Yatou has to say!"

Everyone also wanted to hear the answer, so they all stopped talking.

Under everyone's expectant eyes, Qiao Ran told everyone about the situation of Devil's Valley where Butler Zhou and her popular science.

"That place is called Devil's Valley. It's not far from the capital, but you can tell from the name that it's not a good place."

When they heard the words "Devil's Valley", everyone was stunned and felt inexplicably that this was not a good place.

The anxious man was about to ask something, but someone around him grabbed him and signaled him to listen carefully to what Qiao Ran said.

"I heard that there are deep valleys and dense forests, and there is a poisonous miasma all year round. Most people can't come out after entering. Those who come out will go crazy and say they saw monsters inside. It doesn't take long before they suffer from vomiting and diarrhea, internal organs are damaged, and the whole body is ulcerated. Death."

"hiss!"

There was a gasp from the crowd.

This is too terrible!

Such a miserable death is horrifying just to think about it!

The irritable young man couldn't wait to ask: "What do you think, Qiao Ran? We can't go to that poisonous valley, right? Wouldn't it mean that we would die if we went there?"

The others didn't speak, and they all wanted to hear what Qiao Ran meant.

Qiao Ran did not answer, but asked everyone: "Then what do you all mean? Do you want to be resettled in different villages, where you can have a place to live, and have fertile fields and wasteland for planting, or do you want to go to an inaccessible place where you need to cut trees and grass?" To open up wasteland and have a poisonous and miasmatic Devil’s Valley?”

This question knocked everyone down.

Although they were relocated to different villages and could no longer be together, there was still a way to survive.

It’s just that it may take a long time to integrate into those villages in the future. It is inevitable that they will receive some glares and difficulties in the early stage. After all, they, foreigners who have fled from famine, will definitely take away the original fields and homesteads in other villages. Excluded by the indigenous people.

And if you don't want to separate, you can only go to the Devil's Valley, which sounds terrible.

They had never seen how terrible the miasma was, but just hearing the rumors told by Qiao Ran was already terrifying.

Both of these choices are so difficult! Why can't there be a third option?

While everyone was struggling, someone in the crowd was already voting with a show of hands.

"Sister Ran, no matter what you choose, my family will follow you anyway!"

Everyone turned around and saw that the person speaking was actually Miss Wu Qianqian who had joined halfway.

She looked at Qiao Ran with firm eyes. Mrs. Wu and Mrs. Wu beside her also nodded in agreement. It was obvious that they had made a decision early in the morning. No matter where Qiao Ran went, they, the Wu family, would follow her.

Although the Wu family has sold off all their property, they are now the richest family in the eyes of everyone. They can move to the city as businessmen to buy a house to settle down, and then open a few shops to continue doing business.