HLnovel Chapter 239: The Situation Has Changed 3
Chapter 239: The Situation Has Changed 3
Gu Wenxuan smiled and said, "You are so thoughtful."
The other party no longer takes their wages and has no obligation to help them take care of the house.
To take a step back, even if the other party is still taking their wages and helping them take care of the house, they would not do anything to make them disregard their own lives and the lives of their families.
After talking to the couple face to face for a few minutes and agreeing that the house would be handed over to them for care in the future, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou gave them one month's wages in advance and let them go home.
The two were so moved that tears welled up in their eyes, and they thanked Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou profusely.
Gu Wenxuan waved at them, and then ran to the street with Bai Jingzhou and others to find food.
There were not as many shops open in the county town as before. Gu Wenxuan and the others walked on the street for a while and finally chose a small restaurant to have dinner with only a few customers but with a strong aroma of food wafting out of the restaurant.
This is a store that Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou have visited several times. Although it seems that the business is not as good as before, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou feel lucky that the familiar faces they have seen here before are all busy in the store.
This means that the family that opened the restaurant all survived the previous chaos.
What Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou didn't know was that the shop owner's father and mother had passed away not long ago. It's just that because the two old people were old, they had never appeared in the shop in front before, so they had no idea that there were actually two such old people in this family.
They were different from Bai Jingzhou's grandparents. The two old people died to protect their grandson who was in his early teens.
At the moment, their little grandson, who was in his early ten years old, was sitting under the stove helping his mother to light the fire as usual. He was as well-behaved and silent as ever, and the way he lowered his eyes as he added firewood to the stove made it impossible for Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou, who only took a quick glance, to see that he was actually full of grief.
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The next morning, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou, who did not want to let their families continue to wait anxiously, left the county town early with the patrol team members who had come with them to the county town to inquire about the news.
Jiajia Village is farther from the county town than Baijia Village. In order to avoid going hungry on the road, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou not only bought a lot of steamed buns, steamed cakes, fried dough sticks, millet porridge, and soy milk for everyone as breakfast, but also bought traditional cakes such as hemp leaves, fried dough twists, walnut crisps, and mung bean cakes that can be eaten cold in this weather.
The patrol team members who came with them to do business brought pancakes, dried meat and honey water. They went to a restaurant in the county town and ate white flour noodles and big meat buns. When they left the county town, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou actually spent money to buy a lot of delicious food for them.
This kind of treatment made the patrol team members want to follow these two people all the time and let them do whatever they wanted.
They are not greedy. Well, they are greedy actually. But besides that, what they value more is the generosity of Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou.
Even though they are all ordinary people who can hardly read or write, they can still tell who is good to them and who is not, who is a good boss worth following and who wants to skin them alive and draw their blood.
Everyone was in a state of anxiety, wanting to perform well in front of the wealthy man who was generous with his money. However, everything went smoothly on the return journey, and they arrived at Jiajia Village without doing anything.
After hearing from them that the situation outside had been settled and the court had begun to appease the people, the people from the two villages all hurriedly wanted to move back to their homes.
They are not disgusted, but objectively speaking, the accommodation conditions in this shelter are really not that good.
Although the house was solid, it was not as spacious and tall as their own house, not to mention the yard. Although they were all neat and square, each one was only the size of a palm, and was clearly a small pigeon cage.
They could understand that Gu Wenxuan did this so that more people could have a place to live, and they were indeed willing to compromise for the sake of safety when they were taking refuge, but now that they had a choice, they of course still wanted to live back in their own home.
Gu Wenxuan ignored the villagers of Baijia Village who were excitedly discussing when to move back to the village. She went to Bai Lizheng and said, "The situation in the village is not good. Grandpa Lizheng, you'd better send the patrol team to take the strong laborers from each household back first."
Apart from anything else, at least the houses and courtyard walls have to be repaired, the corpses lying in the village and the bones of unknown origin have to be buried, the broken household items that can no longer be used have to be cleared out, and the mansions and houses that have been devastated by the disaster have to be cleaned up again...all of these have to be done first by the players with strong hearts.
Bai Lizheng is not like the young people in the village. He has witnessed some cruel scenes. Gu Wenxuan only mentioned it briefly, and Bai Lizheng guessed what the current situation of his village is.
He sighed and said, "I understand. I will arrange for someone to go back."
After a pause, he continued, "Then I'll leave this to you and Jingzhou."
Gu Wenxuan nodded, "Don't worry, Jingzhou and I will definitely protect the elderly, the weak, the women and the children in the village."
Her family has her father and second uncle. As for Bai Jingzhou's family, Bai Jingzhou will stay to protect the elderly, the weak, women and children in the village, and the other patrol team members will definitely help him take care of his family and his grandparents' home.
As for his eldest uncle and second uncle's families, he has several cousins who have joined the patrol team and have seen blood and killed people, so he doesn't have to worry too much.
The day after Gu Wenxuan and the others returned to the shelter, Bai Lizheng organized people to return to Baijia Village.
The people of Jiajia Village left the shelter earlier than them. Those whose houses and walls did not need to be repaired or cleaned moved back to their own homes on the same night that Gu Wenxuan and others brought back the news.
Those whose houses and walls need repairing and cleaning, like the villagers of Baijia Village, can only stay in the shelter for a while.
Those who came to Baijia Village and Jiajia Village to seek refuge with their relatives also basically left the shelter with their relatives.
No one knows what the current situation of their respective homes is, but they still have to bite the bullet and go back to face the mess left after the turmoil.
Among the first group of people who left the shelter, the one who had the best relationship with Gu Wenxuan's family was Gu Wenxuan's cousin Gu Yonghe's family, and the one who had the best relationship with Bai Jingzhou's family was Bai Jingzhou's uncle Ningda's family.
Ningda's parents were getting worse and worse because they were frightened in two large-scale battles, the time when they fled from Baijia Village to Jiajia Village, and the time when those stragglers and refugees attacked the shelter.