The village chief and the village elders had already started discussing whether to organize the youth in the village to patrol together, to guard against an attack from mountain bandits taking everyone by surprise. Now that Murong Shuangshuang brought it up, the village chief and the elders immediately decided to speed up the process and promptly organize the young and strong villagers to patrol the village.
Yu Family Village, although remote, had a sizable population due to people from different surnames living together, making it the largest among ten or so nearby villages, with over a hundred households where every family was thriving.
This was an era of helplessness, with a high human mortality rate, especially a staggering infant mortality rate. To continue the lineage, humans instinctively, like animals, adopted the method of having more children. Even though it was not easy to raise them, having more children ensured that at least a few would survive.
