Chapter 347: The Village (2/2)

The women passed them a bowl of water each, with a sweet smile. Ye Chong took a sip. Although the water was a little muddy, it was exceptionally refreshing that Ye Chong gargled it like the others. The women seemed very pleased by their reaction.

Old Jalopy was having conversations with the villagers nearby.

”So why are the child-abductors this active today?” asked Old Jalopy.

”That was a question for us too. It was the first time we encountered this. If it weren't you and your group, those children might never see their parents again. Sigh, those abductors raided our village just because we have a weaker defense after the other major villages reinforced their security. But well... sigh, we are also as harmless as you can see. If there are some people who would consider sparing their kindness protecting us, we won't be under a plight like this. I guess we would have to send these two kids to the larger village afterwards, since both of them would never have a bright future staying with us.” One of the elderly expressed. The villagers were seemingly grim as well.

”Don't feel bad about it,” comforted Old Jalopy. ”You can't force things to happen. At least the villagers are alert enough to see us. Things would be totally different if that did not happen.”

”I had heard similar things happening in the neighboring villagers. The Wang family had informed us about the abductors days before. That was why, well, we tried hard to prepare. We would be sending the kids to Wang family maybe tomorrow. At least the family has good fighters to protect them while teaching them techniques to protect themselves. Unlike somebody, the family would be in favor of taking these kids, since they were the one eyed by the abductors at least...” Added the other villager, with somehow an undertone of Ye Chong taking those kids along.

Old Jalopy was feeling a little awkward of the situation, ”Well don't look at their skills, they are still kids, they won't be considering apprentice that soon.”

”Wei! How could you speak to our guest like that?”

The villager whose name was Wei responded in embarrassment, since he himself was well-aware of how inappropriate his words were.

”Hahaha... Don't mind that, we are just having small talks!” Old Jalopy tried to keep the rage down as he made a drastic turn in the topic, ”Speaking of Wang, may I ask who are the Wangs? I remembered no one of the Wang family 30 years back when I traveled here?”

”So you've been here 30 years ago? Well, we moved here only 20 years ago. The former villagers here had migrated to somewhere else when we came. And the Wang family joined the area on our second year here. The family is a very huge one I must say, 800,000 of them I heard? I have no idea why they moved here. We have also hardly spoken to each other, though I must say the place had become quieter ever since their arrival. Nobody would dare to challenge the area and our days got brighter,” he said.

”This big? 800 grands of them? Such family...” Old Jalopy was astonished by the figure.

”Isn't it unbelievable? And the family had talents, lots of them. There was once a group of thieves around 300 of them scurried somewhere nearby and it only took around 50 of the Wangs to slaughter them on spot. They are surely merciless when they wave their offense, no one had survived on the day. We even travelled to the Buffalo Hill and we saw an extremely large sack laying there. And not one single thief was seen around the village ever since.” One of the villagers told the tale expressively.

”Okay...” Old Jalopy frowned. It seemed like a chore to deal with this family.

”Well don't worry!” The elderly saw the worry in Old Jalopy's brows, ”The Wang family usually shows no concern towards the outsiders, as long as the outsiders behave. Nothing would happen! And the Wangs are rather friendly in nature. They would likely offer their help whenever we asked for it. Also, the village of the Wang family is the largest market you could find within the area. Whatever you need, you could get it there. If you want something sold, you could approach them too, they have fair prices you know, way better than those heartless merchants. So we would get everything to the Wang family market from time to time.”

”That's great.” Nodded Old Jalopy vigorously, ”Now they sound quite friendly. I'm sorry but there *are* in fact some nasty clans out there so...”

And that was when a man's voice rang by the door, ”We were informed that the village has been under an attack of the Abductor, so the Wang family sent 5 of us for assistance.”

Wow, when Wang family was mentioned, they had come.

The elderly went to the door and saw 5 men standing in a row.

Ye Chong was shocked. All 5 of them were fairly armed with a green suit as their uniform. They seemed reliable and strong.

Ye Chong could tell by a glance that those men possessed some skills.