To be honest, when the Chief was lying on the roof of his house, watching the water levels rise continuously, he felt incredibly hopeless.
He was so grateful when he saw An Jiuyue and was secretly excited to be finally rescued.
However, when he noticed how all the people in An Jiuyue's raft were the old, the women, and the young, he thought that it was important to rescue them first. The children were the future of the village.
Meanwhile, the women and the elderly did not know how to swim, so they had to be saved first.
"All of you talked about how you are the pillar of your family, with many family members relying on you for food. But in the end, all of you want to be the first to escape when there is danger. Many of you are sons, fathers, and husbands. How can you act like this?"
He was infuriated. None of these grown men could compare to a young woman like An Jiuyue. He was so speechless that he could only chastise them.
"You b*stards still have the cheek to complain about Jiuyue? Jiuyue left her two children behind and came to save you! That's already good enough! What else do you want?
"Did you all think that you're so important to Jiuyue that she is obliged to save you? What are you going to do about it if Jiuyue didn't come to save you and you're swept away by the flood instead?"
That's right. The treehouse that An Jiuyue lived in was far from the village. If she had not been paying attention to the situation in the village, she would not have been able to come down in time to rescue them.
The only reason why An Jiuyue noticed the flood in time and rescued them was because she genuinely cared for them.
"Husband, how can you say such things? It's only right for An Jiuyue to come and save all of us! The people in our village have been taking care of her all these years.
"She would be an ingrate if she didn't save us! Look at how you're speaking of her so highly. You'll let it get to her head!"
Aunt Kang was clearly unhappy to see her husband praise An Jiuyue highly.
She immediately exclaimed sourly, putting An Jiuyue down with her words. I'm not going to let that young widow have it easy. Otherwise, that lass might even demand to stay inside our village.
An Jiuyue, that little b*tch, has the face of a vixen. If she moves into our village, she will taint countless men, especially my second son.
She's living on the mountain now, yet he's already awfully charmed by her. I'm not going to let her leave the mountain and live in our village!
"Shut up!"
The Chief did not spare his wife either.
"Can you explain why I heard that Jiuyue came to our house to look for me yesterday? Hm?"
He was not aware of this at first. He found out from the village's Junior Officer when they were on the raft together just now. He had sighed over the fact that they had been unable to transport all the village's grain into the cave in the mountain.
"I…"
Aunt Kang's face paled when she heard the Chief's words.
"Why would you hear that? No, there's no such thing."
There was no way she was going to admit it. She denied it but guilt was written all over her face. She was determined to keep this from him. Unfortunately, she was unaware that the more desperate one wanted to hide something, the more likely it would be exposed.
"Chief, I know about this."
A woman who lived next door to the Chief recalled hearing An Jiuyue come by to look for him yesterday.
"When Jiuyue came to find Aunt Kang yesterday, I was picking vegetables in the yard. I heard her voice."
Her precious Bao'er had almost been swept away by the water just now. If it were not for An Jiuyue, her precious son that she had looked forward to having would have been gone. Her mother-in-law would bully her again.
She had to repay her kindness and tell him everything she knew.
"Jiuyue seemed to be here to talk about the Cascade River, but Aunt Kang couldn't stand Jiuyue and chased her away. She scolded her so badly! I heard everything."
"You—"
Upon hearing this, the Chief looked at his wife angrily.
This fool is such a hindrance!
If she had told me about this when I returned yesterday, the village will not have suffered such heavy losses.
Although he might doubt An Jiuyue's words and not follow her advice if he had found out earlier, at the very least, he would be the one to blame instead.
However, the past was in the past, and it turned out that his wife was at fault for not telling him the truth. How could he not be angry?
"Mother, how can you do that? This is a big matter. It's better to believe it than not to ignore it!" The son of the Chief said unhappily, noticing the guilt on his mother's face.
If they had known in advance, they could have organized people to store food on the mountain. They wouldn't have been caught off guard.
"I… I didn't know either."
Aunt Kang did not know that she was wrong. She felt that An Jiuyue had harmed her deliberately.
"Everyone knows that that little b*tch is always seducing men. How would I know why she came to our house? Maybe she was here to look for your younger brother."
She was enraged as she thought about how An Jiuyue had gone to the Junior Officer's house after coming by hers yesterday. If the village's Junior Officer had not known about this, she could have insisted that An Jiuyue never came.
"I think she's trying to harm me deliberately. If she hadn't come to my house, there wouldn't have been so much trouble. She came to set me up me on purpose because I didn't agree to her relationship with your brother."
That's right. If An Jiuyue was not at our house yesterday, I won't have to be scolded by my husband in front of so many people today.
Does she think I want to be in this situation?
"You—"
The Chief was so angry he almost vomited blood.
The entire village is completely flooded, and we have no food at all. How can she not realize her mistake?
"Things have already turned out like this, and you're still spouting nonsense. When did An Jiuyue ever come to our house to look for our second son? Never! If you dare to tarnish Jiuyue's reputation again, I will punish you!"
"We're lucky that we're close to the Junior Officer."
Some people secretly heaved a sigh of relief as they looked at Aunt Kang.
Aunt Ju had told them yesterday that they should not wait for the Junior Officer's return before taking action. Hence, they carried a lot of grain into the cave in the mountain.
It didn't matter if they weren't sure if there was going to be a flood. It would only take them some effort to carry the food up to the mountain anyway. If the flood really destroyed all their crops, everyone would starve. Nobody would want that.
"Logically speaking, even if a flood may not occur, we should still be on guard. I didn't expect Aunt Kang to hide this matter just because she opposed An Jiuyue."
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