20demayo Chapter 371: It will Cost you your life.
Chapter 371: It will Cost you your life.
Chapter 371
Hu Cong discovered that these barbarians were becoming more and more capable, and everything was proceeding according to his train of thought.
"I can advance you all one month's wages ahead of time to purchase food for your families."
Hu Cong did not consider himself to be a philanthropist. It was impossible for him to give food to those people's families for free. However, after they had taken the medicine pellets, he could advance them one month's wages ahead of time.
That way, these people would be able to go and buy the things they needed.
The barbarians who had voluntarily stayed behind had originally only hoped they wouldn't go hungry. Normally they would save up as much food as they could and find ways to send it back home.
They hadn't expected that not only would they have wages, but they could even get one month’s wages in advance. For them this was like a godsend.
Being able to bring some food back for their families, let alone being asked to take some kind of poison, even if they had to die on the spot, it would have been worth it.
"We are willing to take the poison and be loyal to you forever."
"Yes, we are willing..."
Seeing that these people were being treated so well, those who had hesitated earlier regretted it.
"I also want to stay."
"Me too."
It must be said, Hu Cong was quite selective in choosing people!
These people had hesitated for a moment instead of immediately stepping forward, so Hu Cong had already eliminated them.
Hearing that there were good conditions now, they stepped forward again. Hu Cong did not want people of such moral character.
He completely ignored those people and carefully counted the number of people staying behind - forty-five in total.
Although it was five fewer people than he had expected, it didn't matter.
The people he needed had to be of guaranteed character.
Hu Cong called the forty-five people who were staying behind to one side, then went to He Zhiran to get the medicine pellets.
When He Zhiran heard that Hu Cong was using this method to keep a group of barbarians behind, he approved of his approach.
He could not possibly detain all of these barbarians, right?
Even with Meng Huaining’s wisdom, when encountering something like this he still felt utterly bewildered.
At this time, Mo Chuhan had already settled those veterans who had come to join them together with his seventh elder brother. For now they were living in the house that had previously belonged to the Cui family.
The Cui family had been richer than the other two families. Basically all of their houses were brick houses. Although they were still a far cry from the
new courtyards the Mohists had built, at least they could block the wind and rain.
In the future, after the brothers had earned some money, they would consider rebuilding proper houses for their subordinates.
The two Mohist brothers knew Meng Huaining was still at the foot of the mountain dealing with the barbarians. After they finished settling the veterans, they came over here to find him.
Seeing the worried look on Meng Huaining’s face, Mo Chuhan went up and asked,
“Brother Meng, have you encountered some difficult problem?”
Meng Huaining gave a bitter laugh and talked about his concerns and how he had dealt with the barbarians.
Such a situation - Meng Huaining had thought of it, and so had the Mohist brothers.
It wasn’t that they were being overly worried. Originally, from what the villagers had told them, the barbarians coming to raid numbered at most a couple dozen people at a time.
If they discovered it in time, the barbarians wouldn’t even be able to steal anything. Instead, they would be given a beating.
If that really was the case, the Mohists would of course not be worried.
But accidents could always happen in any event, just like today when several hundred barbarians came, and one of them was even such a frightening commander.
If a similar situation happened again, it would still be something very troubling.
It would give anyone a headache to have their homes encroached on like this.
Moreover, Ninth Brother and Ninth Sister had even more plans. The number of domestic poultry and livestock raised at home would grow more and more. If these were not well protected and destroyed by the barbarians, it would be an irreplaceable loss.
Although Mo Chuhan and Mo Yuance had some countermeasures in mind, at most they could only do so to protect their own family, and perhaps they could protect Xiling Village.
As for all of Yuncheng, they were afraid they did not have that kind of capability, and did not want that kind of capability either.