Yang Rui originally wanted to use Hanxiang Village as bait to cure water thieves. Since Hanlaixiang frankly proposed to ask for help from him, Yang Rui directly agreed to the convenience of the two parties.

It’s just that the reward is not the case. Since the iron ore does not come from Hanxiang Village, it is difficult to have anything to do with the current conditions of Hanxiang Village! However, Yang Rui got another useful message, that is, the existence of two other villages downstream.

"...Lieyang Village Chief needs Yanhe Village as bait, but Hanxiang Village is not good in a short period of time. The thieves have to separate two crop production cycles every time, which means they will only come to loot Hanxiang Village once in 8 days!

However, there is a systematic village dozens of miles downstream. The village is called "Linwen Village", which is much larger than Hanxiang Village. The thieves have to go over and loot every 4 days! And tomorrow morning it will be time for the thieves to loot "Linwen Village"..."

Yang Rui helped him unconditionally. Han Laixiang was both surprised and grateful, so he was naturally happy to tell Yang Rui all the information he had. If Yang Rui could wipe out the water thieves, Hanxiang Village would no longer have to be harassed by the water thieves and could develop with peace of mind.

After Han Laixiang revealed the information to Yang Rui, she took the initiative to lead Yang Rui directly to Linwen Village. Although the two of them didn't speak much along the way, they gradually gained some understanding.

"Brother Han's name means 'The fragrance of plum blossoms comes from bitter cold'?"

Regarding the introverted Han Laixiang, Yang Rui should talk more often when he takes the initiative to talk.

"Haha, Lieyang Village Chief laughed!"

Han Laixiang smiled embarrassedly, hesitated for a while before continuing, "Actually 'Xiang' is the name of my former girlfriend, and I'm called 'Wu Han'."

"Oh, so that's it!"

When Han Laixiang mentioned his girlfriend, he added the word "former" and Yang Rui felt that there might be some twists and turns in it. Don't make some bad memories or something, so Yang Rui agreed casually, and then quickly changed to other topics.

The game can be completed quickly for dozens of miles away. Although the conversation between the two was a bit intermittent, they came to Linwen Village without realizing it.

"Linwen Village: System Village. Level:?Popularity: about 500+, military strength: low..."

Players cannot get complete information when viewing the system village. Many indexes are estimated, and often they are not completely accurate. This is still the village level. If it is a system town, without special props or special skills, players cannot view their specific information at all!

As Han Laixiang said, Linwen Village has about 500 villagers, and there are no soldiers in them. It should be that after being repeatedly looted by water thieves, he has no intention of developing his military strength!

At the same time, the fences around Linwen Village have already been broken for several times, and several broken gaps have appeared, which are basically in an unprepared state. From the gaps between the broken fence walls, you can see most of the situation in the village. In addition to the large-scale crop planting, the only relatively neat building in the village is dozens of housing!

But these housing shows some problems!

Han Laixiang may not know the goods, but Yang Rui was very clear that the housing in Linwen Village was not a low-level thatched hut, but an upgraded wooden house! This shows that Linwen Village should at least be a high-end village, not a speculated intermediate village! Because only higher-end villages or above can upgrade housing to wooden houses!

Even Yang Rui's Dashan Town has just renovated its accommodation conditions and upgraded the original thatched hut into adobe house, but it still has not met the living conditions of wooden houses! The same is true for Xiamo Village. Although it has always been a high-end village, when Yang Rui accepted it, it was adobe house, and there is no condition for renovating it for the time being.

It’s not that Yang Rui can’t afford the cost of upgrading a wooden house, but that he thinks it’s a bit unprofitable! A wooden house consumes 100 units of wood, and the current population of Dashan Town has exceeded 3,500 people. In the case of upgrading a wooden house as a whole, it will cost 70,000 to 80,000 units of wood! It’s not a small number!

Moreover, Yang Rui personally thinks that the accommodation conditions of wooden houses are not much different from those of adobe houses! Therefore, although Yang Rui's territory has been upgraded to the town level, he has never renovated his houses!

Looking at Linwen Village in front of me, there are all wooden houses! In sharp contrast to its current bullied state!

Such living conditions can at least show that Linwen Village was once glorious! Perhaps it was precisely because of the emergence of water thieves that Linwen Village became what it is now.

There are many special small plot settings in the game. As long as you find it and grasp it well, it may have important uses! Just like the previous setting of Xiamo Village being harassed by bandits from Hulu Valley, which eventually made Yang Rui successfully conquer Xiamo Village, Yang Rui feels that the current situation in Linwen Village is another good opportunity!

However, when Yang Rui conquered Xiamo Village, Xiamo Village was a neutral village and was not under the jurisdiction of the Hanting Court, so it was possible to have the opportunity to be subjugated! However, this is not the case in Linwen Village now. Yang Rui learned through the following contact that although Linwen Village is also remote, it is under the jurisdiction of the Hanting Court like an ordinary system village!

"Since the water thieves are so rampant, why don't you report to the county magistrate's office and ask him to send troops to help eliminate the water thieves?" Yang Rui looked at the thin old man in front of him and asked in confusion.

This black and thin old man is the village chief of Linwen Village. After Yang Rui and Han Laixiang arrived at Linwen Village, they called for a long time before finding the trembling village chief. After being suppressed by water thieves for a long time, the black and thin old man has almost lost the majesty he deserves as a village chief!

"This... sir, you don't know anything. I, Linwen Village, had not been unable to report to the government before, and the county magistrate's office had also registered and claimed that I would send people to suppress the bandits. However, every time I went to report to the officials, I would send back this way, but I had never seen the county magistrate's office send a soldier and a soldier!

After doing this, the old man could see through it. A remote official family like my Linwen Village will not care about it..."

Encouraged by Yang Rui's eyes, the black and thin old man finally told the whole story. Only then did Yang Rui understand what the county magistrate's mansion did.

"My father-in-law, please be honest. I wonder if my father-in-law has iron ore produced in Linwen Village?"

After thinking about it, Yang Rui directly pointed out his words and asked about iron ore. Linwen Village is an NPC village after all, and if the conditions are met, it can be exchanged for corresponding rewards. There is no need to take many turns like players.

"If there is indeed an iron ore, I am willing to do a business with my father-in-law, so that the village will not suffer from this water thief in the future!"
Chapter completed!