0p0 Chapter 176 The Neighboring Village is Causing Trouble
Chapter 176 The Neighboring Village is Causing Trouble
Shen Yuan and Su Wanwan are now the weather vane of the entire village. When they heard that castrating piglets can make them grow faster and fatter, the village head Liu Daping immediately castrated the two pigs in his home.
But the person he was looking for was his cousin, Doctor Liu.
Doctor Liu was forced to do business. It was the first time he did such a thing and he sighed for a long time.
Before I could even get comfortable in my job, I was asked to go to another place to castrate piglets.
There were six piglets at the beginning. Shen Yuan's family got two, the head of the village got two, and another wealthy family in the village also got two.
Dr. Liu was a good doctor, but he was forced to become a veterinarian.
Zhao Qinghai, who lived in the headman's house, was also happy when he heard this.
However, farming and livestock are inseparable, so he still ran to Shen Yuan's house to ask about the situation without any hesitation.
After listening to Su Wanwan's explanation, he actually felt that it made a lot of sense and immediately wrote it down.
From then on, the few piglets in the village also became the focus of the Agriculture Bureau.
After all the sweet potatoes were planted, Su Wanwan's reward for making a curved plow was finally delivered.
Not only were there the wastelands that Su Wanwan had pointed out, there were also ten acres of fertile land and two hundred taels of silver.
Tongxu County is not a poor county. Due to the development of the soybean economy, on the contrary it is very rich. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for the magistrate of Xu County to hold on for so many days.
However, no matter how rich you are, you will soon run out of money.
The two hundred taels of silver were also scraped together from various sources.
But Xu Huaiyuan thinks it's worth it.
Under normal circumstances, he would give more rewards.
Not to mention anything else, just the farm tools made by Su Wanwan will be his political achievement when reported.
Not to mention sweet potatoes.
At this time, Xu Huaiyuan had not yet thought that Su Wanwan would give him more and bigger surprises in the future.
After obtaining the wasteland, Su Wanwan immediately started preparing to build a soy products workshop.
What is most in demand nowadays is, of course, labor.
Although Shen Yuan had difficulty walking, he was not idle. He asked someone to go to the town to make the flat iron pans needed for the bean product workshop.
Then I went to find Uncle Liu to do other things I needed.
Just wait until all the sweet potatoes are planted and then call the villagers to start work.
After planting all the sweet potatoes, Zhao Qinghai took his two apprentices back to the county town.
After all, it is impossible to live here forever, so just come here to check and record every once in a while.
It was already mid-June and there was still no sign of rain.
More and more refugees are pouring into Tongxu County. Although relief food has arrived a while ago, it is still a drop in the bucket.
Xu Huaiyuan was so worried that he couldn't sleep every day. He even decided to wait for another ten days. If it still didn't rain, he would open the city gates and let the refugees go south.
We can't all starve to death here.
He has tried his best.
Feeling anxious, he wrote another letter to see if he could release the soybeans stored for the war horses.
After all, the war horses on the border are not short of food yet, otherwise the imperial court would have come and taken away those soybeans long ago.
Things always have to be prioritized.
The words he used this time were somewhat harsh, and he was prepared to be scolded or even dismissed.
After listening to Zhao Qinghai's work report, Xu Huaiyuan couldn't help laughing when he heard about pig castration.
Mr. and Mrs. Shen Yuan are really capable of making trouble.
The haze of the past few days seems to have lessened a lot.
He only hoped that the sweet potatoes could be successfully grown and the yield would be as Shen Yuan and his wife said.
By then, his merits will have offset his mistakes, and he might even be able to escape the disaster.
On this day, the sound of gongs in the village rang out again.
Everyone was shocked. How could wild animals come down the mountain in broad daylight?
In order to protect the sweet potatoes, the villagers are now particularly alert. When the gong sounds, everyone picks up the knives at home.
"Mom, could the wild boar have come down the mountain again?"
When Xiao Yue'er heard the sound of the gong, she hid behind her father.
Xiao Yunyi was very brave and quickly ran to the gate and looked through the crack.
"No, there's nothing outside."
He shouted at the top of his voice.
"It's definitely not a beast in broad daylight. Either there are refugees here, or someone else is causing trouble. Let's go and take a look."
After Shen Yuan finished speaking, he stood up with the help of a cane. Su Wanwan nodded and went over to support him.
Although Shen Yuan's leg was injured, the village still arranged for people to patrol every day.
Especially now there are sweet potatoes and a pond that seems to never run dry.
Sweet potatoes and ponds are the key objects they need to protect.
Sure enough, before I reached the pond, I saw a group of people standing there.
Each of these people was holding a bucket in their hands, and they were all eyeing the water in the pond covetously.
They are villagers from Wanggang Village not far from here.
"Shen Zhao, go back and get my bow and arrow."
Seeing this, Shen Yuan thought about his legs not working well, so he asked Shen Zhao to go back and get the bow and arrow.
When Shen Zhao heard this, he ran home without asking any questions.
At this time, the two teams by the pond were already on the verge of a fight.
"Liu Daping, our Wanggang Village and Daliushu Village drink water from the same river. The water in your pond is also taken from the river and stored there. Why don't you let us use it?"
Wang Gensheng from Wanggang Village squinted his eyes and looked at the water in the pond, wishing that this pond was in his own village.
"You also said that we picked it out and stored it ourselves. The water in this pond belongs to our village and has nothing to do with you."
Liu Daping is obviously a conciliatory person and he still wants to reason with them.
"Even if you picked it up yourself, it is still water from the river. The water in the river flows from our Wanggang Village to your Daliushu Village. This pond water is our share."
The villagers of Wanggang Village were in a commotion. If a few men from Daliushu Village hadn't stopped them, they would have probably gone straight into the bucket.
"Fuck you, you are in the upper reaches and you think you are right! You are nothing during the spring irrigation period. You want to block the flow of water and prevent us from irrigating the land. Who gives you the face to ask for water at this time?"
Zhang Cuihua put her hands on her hips, almost laughing at the shameless people.
When she said this, the villagers of Daliushu Village became angry:
"It's just a shameless thing."
“Why didn’t you say the river water belongs to everyone when you blocked the river?”
.......
Everyone started cursing, and a gleam of light flashed in Wang Gangcun's eyes.
"I heard that your pond can replenish water automatically, which means it was given by the gods. The gods are merciful and definitely not just given to your village. Everyone who sees it can have a share. If you take it for yourself, you will definitely anger the gods."
"Liu Daping, we are doing this for your own good. Be kind. The gods will only grant you a constant supply of water if they are happy. Be careful not to anger them and cut off your water supply. The gain will not outweigh the loss. The water can be replenished automatically anyway. Are you going to watch your fellow villagers die?"
Villagers of Daliushu Village: ...
Ancient people believed in gods the most, and the villagers of Daliushu Village were kind-hearted. After hearing these words, they were actually a little shaken.
Su Wanwan looked around and thought that a bucket of water might really be able to save an entire family. If they were all good people and fellow villagers, it would be reasonable to give them some water.
But she also understood that Wanggang Village was not a good group of people. They relied on their location upstream to do such vicious things as blocking the flow of water. There was nothing to sympathize with them.