After rebirth, the Queen and I are on the run.

Chapter 877 Finger Severance Punishment
"What's inside?!" the Fifth Chieftain asked, his long sword already pressed against the box. He hooked it towards him, seizing control of the box, and then asked Aunt Alan with a cold smile, "It's not poison inside, is it?"

"Ha," Aunt Alan laughed angrily, "The Third Chieftain already wrote to tell you what's inside, otherwise would you have immediately taken action to snatch it?"

"You've already robbed it, why are you afraid it might be poisoned? Wu Wu, you're really afraid of dying!"

“Your branch is surnamed Wu, which is the surname and lineage of people from outside the mountains. Yet you still slander people from outside the mountains at every turn. You even hate your own ancestors.”

Chief Wu roared, "You woman, watch your mouth, or else..."

"Otherwise what? If you really don't want to live, my son and I will die with you. I'm just afraid that you despise outsiders but love to enjoy the good things outside the mountains, and you won't be willing to die!" Aunt Alan didn't give them any face, and her eyes were full of ruthlessness.

The Fifth Chieftain felt a chill run down his spine. He recalled how they had tried to assassinate Aunt Alan before and after she became the chieftain, but each time it was their own people who died. He dared not retaliate any further.

After all, if pushed too far, Alan is really willing to fight them to the death!

He looked at the second chieftain's son, Liuge'er: "Ge'er, check if there's any poison on the box."

Liuge'er had already been released by Mengzi, and at this moment she took out a leather medical kit...

He applied a medicinal liquid to the box, and after the liquid did not change color, he nodded to the second chieftain: "Father, it's not poisonous, you can touch it."

The second chieftain then said, "Fifth brother, open it and see what's inside."

"Hey, Second Brother." The Fifth Chief opened the box, inside were one hundred specially made household registrations for the mountain people, and five letters of recommendation.

One letter from the Duke of Yan, one from the Provincial Administration Commission, one from the Capital Government, one from the Regional Military Commission, and one from General Liang.

"Second Brother, there's another stack of silver notes, dozens of them!" The Fifth Chieftain was shocked and hurriedly went to count the silver notes.

The second chieftain ignored him and looked only at Aunt Alan: "What else can the imperial court outside the mountains give us? Where is the deed to the house that the Duke gave us?"

Ha, what a treacherous fellow, always eyeing only valuable things.

With a thud, Aunt Alan slammed several house and land deeds onto the table: "Here are the deeds for the house and shop. The shop is now operating normally. If you're not comfortable with that, you can take your special household registration to the mountain goods shop in the capital to take a look."

"Second Brother?" The Fifth Chieftain was intrigued.

According to the Third Chieftain, it was a shop comparable to a palace, making a fortune every day.

The second chieftain didn't speak, but his tone softened: "Ah He's wife, you have to go and negotiate with that Qin girl. She looks down on us mountain people. We've been waiting for her to come and negotiate, but she's never come once, as if we don't exist."

The Qin family girl was even more arrogant than that bitch Alan, and she left them hanging for almost two months.

If this place weren't outside the mountains and there weren't so many soldiers guarding it, they could have easily sneaked into the Qin family and given them a painful lesson.

Ha, you idiot.

Haven't you taken any action?

He carried out the mission but was almost mistaken for a spy and shot to death by a hail of arrows. He was also poisoned, suffering from intense itching and pain all over his body, and it took him half a month to recover.

Unable to win, yet still wanting to continue enjoying the benefits offered by those outside the mountains, they stopped causing trouble and obediently waited for Aunt Alan and the others to return.

"Heh, Second Chieftain, Sister Xiaomi doesn't look down on us mountain folk. She's our savior. The prescription for the skin disease was given to us by Old Man Xun." A-Ling sneered, "Don't you really know why she gives you the cold shoulder?"

Ah Ling didn't give them any face either, and told them about how they tried to break into the Qin family at night but were surrounded at the street corner.

"..." Aunt Alan trembled with rage, drew her sword, and pointed it at the Second Chieftain, demanding, "Whose idea was this? Don't you know that people from outside the mountains value their reputation most? You even dared to break into the Qin family at night! The Qin family has so many women..." With a hiss, Aunt Alan cut her palm with the sword, knelt down, and swore an oath to the mountain god: "I, Alan, the chieftain of the Eighth Village in this mountain, swear to the mountain god and all the spirits of the mountain that I will protect the safety of the Qin, Jiang, Xu, and Qiao families—my benefactors—with my life. Anyone who dares to harm my benefactors will face my wrath to the death!"

Ah Ling also pulled Ah Hei down to kneel and made the same vow.

The second chieftain's face darkened.

The Fifth Chieftain flew into a rage, pointing at the First Chieftain who had remained silent: "First Chieftain, aren't you going to do anything about it? Are you just going to let them side with the outsiders?!"

The old, sturdy chieftain finally moved, his gaze fixed on the fifth chieftain, and he said coldly, "Even in the mountains, breaking into the homes of villagers with young women at night will result in being tied up and tortured."

He then looked at the second chieftain: "The Qin family didn't kill you, not because the Qin family lacked the ability, but because the government troops outside the mountain pleaded for your lives."

The second chieftain remained silent.

The chieftain waited a while before continuing, "If you want to cooperate, to continuously exchange for resources from outside the mountains, to have houses and shops in the capital, and to have the imperial court outside the mountains continue to provide convenience, then we should honestly talk to the Qin family."

A-Ling: "Grandpa, Xiaomi said she's not getting involved anymore and that we should talk to the court outside the mountains ourselves."

She started speaking sarcastically: "You think the Qin family is some pushover? A bunch of people came out wanting to take advantage of them. Now look what's happened, the Qin family is ignoring us mountain folk, are you satisfied now? Ha!"

Aunt Alan asked, "Who suggested breaking into the Qin family's house at night? Step forward and face the punishment!"

The son of the Fifth Chieftain shrank back in fright and hurriedly looked at Liu Ge'er.

Unfortunately, Liuge'er had learned a lot from the Second Chieftain and didn't even give him a glance, clearly intending for him to bear the burden alone.

“It’s Wu Liuying,” Ahei said.

"Heh, it really is you." Aunt Alan charged straight at Wu Liuying, kicked him over with a bang, then pressed his back down with her knee, grabbed his right hand with one hand, and slashed with a dagger.

Whoosh, the thumb was sliced ​​off and fell to the ground.

"...Aaaaah! You vile woman, how dare you cut off my thumb!" Wu Liuying cried out in pain, cursing Aunt Alan, and begged the Fifth Chieftain for help: "Father, Father, save your son, help your son avenge himself!"

Aunt Alan brandished her long sword and sneered at the five chieftains, "I'm acting according to the mountain rules. If you want to protect him, you'll be accomplices and you'll be punished too!"

"Little Six, Little Six!" The Fifth Chieftain held his son's severed finger, his face pale, and angrily rebuked Aunt Alan: "My son was just curious about what the new main street looked like at night, so he wanted to go and see it. He never intended to harm the Qin family. Alan, give me back my son's thumb!"

Aunt Alan ignored his barking and looked at the Second Chief, asking, "Second Chief, do you intend to maintain good relations with the outside world, or break ties with them altogether? Give me a straight answer."

A-Ling added, "Anyway, our First Village, Master's Eighth Village, Aunt Wen's Tenth Village, and those mountain people who want to get treatment for dermatitis, all need to continue to have contact with the outside world."

Third Chieftain: "..."

Don't forget me, our Third Village will continue to interact with people from outside the mountains.

"You vile women, you've gone too far!" the Fifth Chieftain roared in fury.

The second chieftain stopped him: "Calm down, don't kill each other over a small conflict... Internal strife is something the mountain god, the old sorcerer, and the ancestors will never allow."

"Second Brother, what about Xiao Liu's finger?" the Fifth Chieftain shouted. "You are his cousin, you have to stand up for him."

The two chieftains, Erwu and Wu, are cousins.

The second chieftain said, "Little Six broke the rules of the outsiders, so he naturally has to be punished. This severed finger is a lesson for him."