Although the village head is also a villager of Qiaoxi Village, he has a semi-official status after all.
Therefore, the villagers generally tolerate him and accept his management.
But Zhou Yuan is different. He is not from this world and naturally will not be bound by local rules.
Besides, he has been selected to serve in the military and will not live in Qiaoxi Village for long, so why would he care about the likes and dislikes of the village head?
"Hehehe..."
After a few rooster crows, Zhou Yuan came out of the yard carrying a chicken with a broken neck.
"Uncle Da Huang, we are in for a treat tonight.
You helped me prepare this chicken, so feel free to eat it. I'll take the blame, and you won't suffer any loss."
"This, this, Shitou, you did this all by yourself. It has nothing to do with me."
Zhao Dahuang hurriedly caught the chicken thrown by Zhou Yuan, and he wanted to slap himself in the face.
Why was he so greedy? He was dragged into the car by this brat without noticing.
"Look how timid you are. If you continue like this, I will eat it all by myself and won't even leave you a mouthful of soup."
"No, now that you're here, how can you miss me?
Let's go quickly to the slope at the east end. My teeth are not good, so let's stew it in a clay pot."
"Okay, get some more salt and a piece of ginger, and I'll go dig a hole for firewood first."
In the dark night, two sneaky figures ran from the north to the east of the village and stewed chicken with the help of simple tools.
At this moment, Zhao Dahuang suddenly felt that Zhou Yuan was not crazy. This kid might be taking advantage of his madness to gain benefits.
"Shi Tou, I finally see that although you are a bit weird, you are not stupid at all.
Now it's just the two of us. After we eat the meat, you find a stick and hit me with it. I'll fall down and you'll run away.
This way I can be considered as being worthy of you. You call me uncle, and I can't treat you like a deadbeat."
"No, Uncle Huang, I really want to go to the military camp and take a look."
"What? You want to go and you're always making trouble, you've already earned a bad reputation, and you're actually going to serve. What are you trying to achieve?
There's something wrong with you, kid. Why are you suddenly so conscientious? "
"Look at what you said, I have always had a conscience.
As the saying goes, the crying child gets candy. If I don’t make a fuss, how can the village take care of me like this?”
Zhou Yuan's words were always a mixture of truth and lies, and he really wanted to run away at the beginning.
Now I don’t want to run away, not because of my swollen conscience, but because of the continuous generation of skills.
He didn't want to hide in this poor village. Here, let alone eating meat, he was lucky to have enough bread to fill his stomach.
He needs more resources and a wider space.
Therefore, he planned to serve in the military to see if he could get a position in the barracks, so that he could understand the situation in this world and strengthen himself with the help of the barracks resources.
“You are really something, Shitou. They say you are stupid, but I think you are the smartest.
You're lucky to have come at a good time. When I was a kid, every household was starving and everyone was scrambling for military service spots. I wouldn't have let you mess around like that."
"That's what I meant. I was only teasing you because you insisted I go.
If you guys rush to go, maybe I'll give it to you."
"Do you think I'm a fool? Who would believe your nonsense?"
Although Zhao Dahuang is quite old, his hands and feet are extremely nimble. Zhou Yuan didn't have to lift a finger to add firewood and fan the room. He really was like a kind elder.
"Uncle Da Huang, I want to discuss something with you. You don't have to go to the military service this time. Let your son go instead.
If you fall down on the road with your old arms and legs, you will never come back.
I promised to carry Ergou back, but I can't carry you. People are worthless when they leave their hometown, and so are ghosts. It's better not to die in a foreign land."
Zhao Dahuang, who was fanning the fire, fell silent for a rare moment after hearing Zhou Yuan's words.
He stroked his rough hands and wanted to say something, but only a few words came out of his mouth.
"Shi Tou, the meat is cooked. You have good teeth, so eat it quickly, otherwise it will get burnt.
Just leave me some soup, I'm useless, my stomach can't handle this greasy stuff."
"Okay, I'll leave you two chicken feet to chew on."
"You are really something. You don't even understand polite words. I think you are really stupid."
Zhao Dahuang didn't want to talk about his family affairs, and Zhou Yuan didn't ask too much. He picked up a thin branch, broke it into chopsticks, and started eating meat happily.
When Zhao Dahuang saw that this kid was not polite at all, he was afraid that if he acted too late, he would not be able to eat a piece of decent meat.
So he broke off a branch and reached into the jar. He was lucky and fished out a piece of good meat with skin. The greasy chicken skin stung his eyes.
"Eat, Uncle Huang, don't be polite to me. Tomorrow, when you learn how to steal chickens, you can treat me to a meal."
"Then you can't eat it. We can't learn your tricks."
With a flick of the chopsticks, the chicken fell back into the jar. He then dug out the chicken head. The withered old man held the chicken head and began to chew it happily.
Zhou Yuan glanced at Zhao Dahuang who was sucking the chicken head, and considerately helped him pick out a chicken claw.
"Uncle Da Huang, have another piece of chicken hand to replenish your energy. If you can't bite it anymore, just let it go."
"My teeth are fine, but you don't even have a single word."
After eating chicken and drinking chicken soup, Zhou Yuan lay on the grass and observed his attribute panel. He did not smile with satisfaction until his health bar began to rise.
About an hour later, his health bar recovered from 91% to 97%.
Most of the chicken fell into Zhou Yuan's mouth, but the health bar that recovered was not much and the recovery speed was very slow.
After all, the chicken was too thin and his 'food supplement' skill level was too low.
"Um?"
Zhou Yuan looked towards the river in the east and sat up suddenly.
"What's wrong, Shitou? Are you not full? Want two more?"
"Uncle Da Huang, please clean up the crime scene later. I'm going to take a bath in the river."
"Why are you running away again? Didn't we agree to serve in the military together? Hurry up and give me a stick, otherwise I won't be able to explain myself."
"I'll be back in a minute. There's no point in lying to you."
Zhao Dahuang looked at Zhou Yuan who was quickly blending into the night, sighed heavily, and then slowly started gnawing on the bone.
Zhou Yuan was not lying. He had just accidentally caught a glimpse of two broken health bars, which were moving towards the stone arch bridge.
The shape of the blood strips was obviously human, not the thin and short blood strips of poultry.
In the middle of the night, why are two people with low health running to the river? Are they going to duel or jump into the river?
Zhou Yuan hesitated for a moment, but decided to follow and see. It was not that he wanted to meddle in other people's business, but he was the only one in the entire Qiaoxi Village who talked about killing people and actually took action.
He was worried that someone would use his name to kill people secretly, and he would end up taking the blame.
When he approached the stone arch bridge, he found that one section of the blood bar entered the river and disappeared, while the other section of the blood bar remained motionless.
He did not rush forward to check who the health bar represented, but waited silently, ready to see who this health bar would eventually belong to.
But what he didn't expect was that not long after, the person who jumped into the river floated up again, met up with the people on the shore, and walked slowly towards Qiaoxi Village.
Zhou Yuan did not track people, but only the moving health bars, so the distance between them was relatively far and he was not discovered by the two.
"Hmm, it's Ergou's family. Didn't Ergou just get married and he must be so busy that his legs are weak?
How can you run to the river in the middle of the night? Are you bored at home and want to have some outdoor sex to boost your energy? "