Chapter 57 The old village chief’s plan

Thinking of her small spatial courtyard, Qiao Ran thought that before going down the mountain, she would find an opportunity to collect these things again. Maybe they could be used in the future?

When everyone heard Qiao Ran's words, they all felt that she was the most reliable.

The old village chief nodded: "The method Ran Yatou said is very reliable, so let's do this. Seal the cave first, and then set a fire in the stronghold. It doesn't matter whether it can be burned or not. We can't find it anyway. Just bring it to us."

Everyone nodded in agreement. Anyway, they had no better way.

Qiao Ran looked at other places in the cave and asked, "Besides these weapons, is there anything else?"

Qiao Erhe said: "There is also a little rice, flour, grain and oil, some cloth and clothes, some looted items, and some porcelain that looks like goods."

Qiao Ran asked: "Don't you have any gold, silver or jewelry?"

In the novels and film and television dramas I read in my previous life, didn’t those bandits’ villages contain countless gold and silver treasures robbed?

The protagonists made a fortune by destroying a bandit's den. Can they also make a fortune themselves?

However, before she could think of anything, she heard Qiao Erhe reply: "Yes, there are, but very few. These bandits are very poor. After searching the entire village, they only had more than 300 taels of silver, including rice and noodles." I don’t know how many houses were robbed to get a dozen bags of rough brown rice.”

So poor?

Qiao Ran couldn't help but be disappointed. Why was this different from what she knew?

Not to mention a treasure house full of treasures, boxes and boxes of gold and silver jewelry, at least there must be thousands or tens of thousands of silver notes, right? There must be tens of thousands of kilograms of food, right?

Really, why would you be a bandit if you are so poor?

No wonder when these bandits saw them eating snake meat, they all looked like reincarnations of starved ghosts who had been hungry for tens of thousands of years. They grabbed everything without caring about anything.

It seems that not only are these bandits unable to eat meat, they are also almost unable to eat coarse flour and brown rice.

Qiao Ran couldn't tell whether she should sympathize with these bandits or not.

Although Yunzhou Prefecture was relatively less affected by the drought, it was still affected to some extent.

The bandits couldn't steal any food, so they probably used all the money they robbed to buy rice and noodles, so the entire village was extremely poor.

Qiao Ran suggested: "There isn't much rice and noodles here, and it's hard to divide them up. We've been living in the village for the past two days, so let's take these rice noodles and cook them for everyone to eat!"

The old village chief nodded: "Girl Ran, this is a good suggestion. Let's eat these rice noodles together. As for the money, cloth and other items, let's distribute them to each family on a per-capita basis!"

Qiao Ran had no objection, she was not short of money anyway.

Grandma gave her half of the banknotes that were found on Wang Yuanwai's body last time and let her keep it for herself.

Qiao Ran put the banknotes in the space, and later took the time to go into the space and count them. The total denomination of those banknotes was more than 5,000 taels.

Including what was left with grandma, their family had tens of thousands of taels of silver.

For the Qiao family, this kind of money was something they could never hope for in their lifetime, but now they can get it so easily.

Grandma doesn’t know the amount of those banknotes yet. If she knew, she might not even be able to sleep well, right?

Qiao Ran thought a little narrowly.

The old village chief asked the villagers to move everything out of the cave except for the six boxes of weapons, and then found some stones and wood to seal the entrance of the cave.

When everyone heard that they could share money, cloth, clothes, etc., they all came out happily and gathered on a flat ground in the village.

The old village chief counted the money and materials, and then distributed them according to the number of people in each household.

Almost every household is very happy. Being able to get these properties for free is equivalent to picking up for free!

However, there are still some people who are dissatisfied. The Qiao Dewang family feels that they should have more family members, while the Wang family feels that they have suffered a lot due to their small family.

The two families muttered a few words, but the old village chief heard them.

The old village chief glared at them and said, "No one in the village has any objections. Why are you two the only ones with so much trouble? If you are not satisfied, just return it and I will share it with others!"

Upon hearing this, the two families quickly gathered the money and belongings in their arms, turned around and left, for fear that the village chief would take it back again.

The old village chief had a headache. Qingshui Village was not from the same clan. It turned out to be a village made up of people who had fled, so there were people with all kinds of surnames.

But after so many years, under his leadership, the atmosphere of the whole village has become better and better, and the people in the village have become more and more united, even more united than people of the same clan.

But there are two troublemakers, the Qiao Dewang family and the Wang family. The good atmosphere of Qingshui Village cannot affect them. They are so selfish and hateful that they want the villagers to drive these two families out of Qingshui Village.

However, the old village chief was kind-hearted and felt that everyone had fled and it was not easy.

If we drive them out, wouldn't they become refugees?

It's just that as the old village chief gets older, he feels more and more powerless.

In the past, he could still control the two families, but now during the escape, the selfishness and greed of the two families became more and more uncontrollable and were clearly revealed.

The old village chief is already looking for a new village chief. He wants to find a young man who is smart and wise, can lead everyone to live a good life, and can control the villagers and make everyone more cohesive.

From what I have observed over the past few days, the village chief originally wanted Qiao Sanhu or Qiao Sihai to be his successor.

Qiao Sihai is the only young man in the village who can pass the Tongsheng examination. He has read so many books and is very measured and organized in what he says and does.

If he were to be the village chief, he should be able to use the knowledge he has learned to lead the people in this village to be better and more positive.

However, Qiao Sihai is too young, and some people in the village may be dissatisfied. The old village chief is also afraid that it will affect his ability to continue studying and take the imperial examination.

Qiao Sanhu is in his early years, he is young and strong, he has learned some literacy under the influence of his younger brother, and he is also smart, so he should be more suitable to be the village chief.

However, in recent days, looking at the words and deeds of this little girl Qiao Ran, the old village chief suddenly felt that no one was more suitable to be the village chief than Ran Yatou.

Not only did this girl learn so many skills from the old fairy, but after she regained her consciousness, she seemed to be smarter than everyone in the village and could always come up with some solutions that no one could even think of.

And she is tough, yet able to convince everyone.

When such a person becomes the village chief, the future of their village is simply unlimited.

Well, he would have to talk to Ran Yatou later and ask her if she would like to be the village chief.

It's just that now everyone is on the way to escape, and when they arrive at their destination, there is still the problem of whether they can find a good place to resettle, and there are still many problems that need to be solved after resettlement.

If he asked Ran Yatou to take over his duties at this time, wouldn't he feel like he was irresponsibly throwing his hat behind?

Well, it does seem unkind.

Otherwise, I'd better work hard for a while, and after everyone settles down, I can hand over the burden to Ran Yatou and let her lead everyone to live a better life!