Chapter 636 Negotiations
All of the people in the village suddenly became nervous. With Henride as the center, all the old people immediately gathered in the middle of the square.
"How many people?" Henride asked immediately.
"Uh... about ten." The old man who reported the news here replied.
"About ten?" Everyone was stunned. There were too few people in the ten. Could it be that the other side was here to fight?
Hearing that there were few people on the other side, the old people here breathed a little relieved. Henride took a breath and said, "Let's go and see what the other party means."
Henride took the lead, and a group of old men immediately walked towards the entrance of the village. In order to boost courage and scare others, the group of old men brought all the feces and sickles, which looked very imposing. Li Huailin and the others naturally followed behind to see what was going on.
Soon they encountered the team opposite head-on. The person who reported the news said that there were only a dozen people on the other side. The one who led the lead was the officer named Sewen who Li Huailin had met before, and there were more than a dozen guards behind him. In terms of equipment, there was no way to compare on both sides. Although the armor and weapons on the soldiers here were not very good, they could only be said to be ordinary people, but they were much better than the feces and sickles.
"What are you here?" Henride stepped forward and pointed at Sewen, who was obviously the leader opposite. There were more than a hundred people standing behind him, and Henride could also be a little braver.
"..." Sewen and others stopped and looked at each other slightly. Just when the old people here were very nervous, Sewen here suddenly bowed a lot and arched his whole body forward 90 degrees, "I'm very sorry!"
"Oh?" Everyone was stunned and looked at Sewen inexplicably.
"I'm really sorry. I'm here to apologize to everyone this time." Sewen raised his head and said, "We had never expected that the establishment of this military camp here would bring so much trouble to everyone's life. We didn't react until now. I'm really sorry. I apologize to you on behalf of the soldiers of the entire battalion."
"Oh...this..." The old people didn't know what to do now. They were originally going to fight, but the other party apologized directly. What should I do now?
"Sir, your military camp has really caused us a lot of trouble, and we are indeed very angry. We can accept your apology, but the question is how you are going to deal with this problem." Henride, who was here, thought for a moment, then came out and said.
"Yes, yes, although you apologized, the military camp is still here. What are you going to do?" A group of old men also woke up. Although they apologized, the problems in the military camp were still not solved.
"I'm here to deal with this problem." Sewen said immediately, "First of all, I'm very sorry to tell you that our military camp is really impossible to move. Due to some military reasons that cannot be disclosed, our military camp must be established here. And it can be foreseeable that we will further expand the size of the military camp in the future, and the impact on everyone may be greater."
"How can this work!" "Yes, yes." The old people here stopped doing it immediately. What's the use of apologizing? The other party actually wanted to expand the military camp. Isn't this even worse?
"Everyone calm down and listen to me." Sewen, who was here, immediately raised his hand and said. It had a special sense of majesty, which made the elderly quiet. "I know this will cause you a lot of trouble, so we decided to give you some subsidies to help you move out of here after a meeting."
"What, move away?" A group of old men immediately became in chaos, "You actually want us to leave?"
"Everyone calm down and listen to me." Sewen shouted again, "This time, we are going to give you a one-time severance allowance of 200 gold. I think this is enough for everyone to leave here and start a new life."
"200 gold..." The old people stopped talking at this moment. 200 gold is really a lot of money. I said before that the village was very poor. The whole village raised more than 2 gold. When 200 gold was spread here, each family could get nearly 2 gold. According to their spending method, it would be fine to eat it for two years. The materials of these wooden houses in the village came from the mountain. They could all be rebuilt in just two months. This is indeed an acceptable method.
"Yes, 200 gold, and I will give you cash directly. This is a plan that everyone agreed to after our meeting and discussion. After all, we have caused you a lot of trouble, and we should take out the money." Sewen looked at the old man with some intentions and immediately said more, "I wonder if you agree with this plan?"
"This..." The old men were a little at a loss. Some people obviously moved, but they were embarrassed to agree now, so everyone looked at Henride, wanting him to make an idea.
"Sir, we need to discuss it a little bit to see if we can accept your plan. Do you think I can give you an answer tomorrow?" Henride said here after thinking about it.
"Of course this is OK. For such a big thing, everyone must discuss it. So that's it. I'll do it again tomorrow morning, but everyone will tell me the result. What do you think?" Sewen said.
"Yes, we will definitely give you an answer tomorrow." Henride on the side also nodded and said.
"Okay, see you tomorrow." Sewen nodded, and then slowly left with a dozen soldiers.
Just now Sewen left, and the old people here immediately started to discuss.
"Let's leave, but I've lived here for more than 40 years, and now I'm suddenly asking me to leave..."
"But if the subsidy of 200 yuan is indeed a very good condition..."
"This is our village, I don't want to leave."
"But every family has a lot of money to pay for 200 yuan. You can also send some money to my son..."
Some people agreed, while others disagreed. Of course, there are reasons on both sides, and no one can convince anyone, so at this time everyone could only look at Henryde.
"Okay, don't argue for now," Henride said. "It is indeed very sincere to subsidize 200 yuan, but many people, including me, don't want to leave this land where we have lived for more than 40 years. No one can discuss this matter. I think we should ask Mrs. Weisna's opinion, are you right?"
"Yes! We all listened to Mrs. Weisna." The old man below was right when he thought about it. Mrs. Weisna was still a relatively trustworthy person.
So everyone quickly gathered at the door of the village chief's house. Mrs. Weisna had just fallen asleep, but after listening to Henride's retelling here, she couldn't sleep anymore, so she walked out of the house with a crutch.
"You...you bastards! Ahem..." Mrs. Weisna was so angry that her body was trembling, and she shouted to everyone, "What is this place? This is the land we have lived in for more than 40 years. Before, it was a wasteland. My husband Green and everyone were here to open mountains and dig up the soil. It took so much time to build the village. Now it has been slowly growing to this scale. You actually abandoned it for a little money. Have you forgotten what happened for 40 years ago?"
"Look at this village, every house and every piece of land is built bit by bit by bit. Over the past ten years, more than a dozen of your former comrades have passed away one after another. They are buried under this land. Think about it yourself, are you worthy of them? If they know that you sold the hundreds of gold coins of the land they have fought for to others, can they let you go? A few years later, will you have the right to meet them when you go downstairs?" Mrs. Weisna's breathing was so angry that Henride next to him immediately patted Mrs. Weisna's back to help her get calm.
The old people were also a little ashamed, especially the old people who agreed to leave before, who lowered their heads and dared not look at Mrs. Weisna.
"I... will never leave no matter what. Even if I have only one life left, I will fight with them to the end. This is our land, how could it be taken away by these outsiders?" Mrs. Weisna shouted.
"So too!" A few old men here who didn't want to leave immediately shouted, "We also have to fight to the end!"
Seeing that most of the people had agreed to Mrs. Weisna, the remaining few old men who had agreed to think about it, and it was indeed the case. So they shouted: "Mrs. Weisna, let's listen to you, fight to the end, and our land must not be given to them."
"That's natural!" Mrs. Weisna said immediately, and after that, she turned to Li Huailin and the others here, "I'm very sorry, I'm going to make you laugh. These people are old and have more concerns. Please don't mind. We will definitely fight to the end. Please help us. I'm here to thank you."
"Okay, Mrs. Weisna, we will definitely help." Hongyue here also said immediately.
"Okay, then everyone will continue to prepare for the battle. We will reply to them tomorrow and will never move out." Henride said here.
"Okay!" a group of old men immediately shouted in unison.
"Bored!" Li Huailin here suddenly said, "It's too boring!"
"Oh?" Hongyue and the others next to him looked at Li Huailin strangely, for some reason why Li Huailin suddenly said this.
Chapter completed!