"Father, the child has arrived. Zhou An walked to the hall and said with a salute.

"Well, you sit down. After Zhou Dacai said a word, he said to Zhou Wen: "This year, the time has come for the two villages to compete for Xiaoqinghe, who will we send to fight this time." ”

"This is a master I invited from the county, named Zhen Wufu, his martial arts are also a few masters in the county, and he was born in the Wooden Sword Martial Arts Hall, and he should have a share in the competition for the place of Xiaoqinghe. Zhou Wen just introduced this person who was wearing a long shirt next to him.

"Oh! It turned out to be a master of the Wooden Sword Martial Arts Hall, thank you for fighting for Zhoujiazhuang this time. Zhou Dacai said to Zhen uselessly and thankfully.

"You're welcome, just take people's money to eliminate disasters for others. Zhen said lightly.

Zhou Dacai glanced at Zhou Wen vaguely, Zhou Wen winked at Zhou Dacai, Zhou Dacai nodded clearly, and said to Zhou Wen: "The first quota has been determined, and who are the other two places, you can also say it." ”

Hearing this, Zhou An already understood that what Zhou Dacai and Zhou Wen were discussing was the annual river dispute between Zhoujiazhuang and Donkey Head Village.

If there is no water, the people of a village will not be able to drink water from the vicinity within a year, so they can only buy water from outside.

This river is called Xiaoqing River, which flows between the two villages of Zhoujiazhuang and Donkey Head Village, and is known as the River of Life between the two villages.

And because in the past three years, all of them were won by Zhoujiazhuang and obtained the ownership of Xiaoqinghe, so within three years, Zhoujiazhuang was thriving, and Donkey Head Village was becoming more and more depressed because it cost a lot of money to buy water.

This year, Zhou An heard rumors that Donkey Head Village had invited a master to participate in the competition, so the village chief of Zhou Wen also went to the county seat to invite a master.

After he came to the Zhou Mansion, some of them got from books, and some of them heard from the mouths of his subordinates.

While Zhou An was thinking, Zhou Wen spoke: "For the remaining places, I recommend Wang Jiaoxi in the Zhou Mansion and Zhou Qiang in the village." ”

"Needless to say, Wang Jiaoxi is known as a sword and sword in the rivers and lakes, and his strength is extraordinary, as for Zhou Qiang, he was discovered a year ago, he has a brute force, plus my one-year training, he can even fight against Wang Jiaoxi for dozens of moves, and he will not fall behind. ”

Zhou Wen has worked hard in Zhoujiazhuang for decades, working hard, managing everything, doing things carefully, thoughtfully, and everything is arranged, so Zhou Wen's work is still reliable, Zhou Dacai heard it, nodded involuntarily, and was very satisfied with Zhou Wen's arrangement: "Just do what you say." ”

Zhou An was a little dazed when he heard these three people, except for Wang Jiaoxi, who had contact with him in the Zhou Mansion, the other two had never even heard of it.

However, Zhou An still remembered the place of the Wooden Sword Martial Arts Pavilion, after all, he was a sword learner, maybe he would go to the county seat to learn the Wooden Sword Martial Arts Pavilion in the future, of course, now he is too young, and he plans to go for another two years.

"Have you sent someone to find out who the person invited by Donkey Head Village is, we can not be defeated in a hundred battles only if we know ourselves and our opponents. Zhou Wen took a sip of tea and said to Zhou Dacai again.

"Not yet, they are too strict in secrecy. Zhou Dacai shook his head and said: "But I think the person they invited is not simple, otherwise his rumors will not leak at all." ”

"It's hard to do, I don't know who they invited, this is a variable, we have to guard against it. Zhou Wen pondered for a while and said: "It seems that you can't use the competition like in previous years, if you want to change the rules, you should take the best of three games as the standard, otherwise according to the previous practice, it will not be good to lose." ”

"Well, okay, you can discuss it with Donkey Head Village when you go back. Zhou Dacai talked to Zhou Wen for a while, and Zhou Wen left.

After Zhou Wen left, Zhou Dacai called a maid, massaged him on the shoulder, and said to Zhou An: "What do you think about fighting for the river with Donkey Head Village this time." ”

"I don't have a big opinion. Zhou An shook his head and said.

Although Zhou An understood what had happened, after all, he had just crossed over, so he didn't dare to say more, for fear that something would go wrong, and besides, Zhou Wen had arranged it very well.

Seeing that Zhou An just said simply, Zhou Dacai's eyes narrowed: "It seems that after this kidnapping, you have changed a lot, and you have matured a lot, and you have a trace of the temperament of the second young master of my Zhou family." ”

Zhou An was very happy about Zhou An's change, Zhou An used to only study at home, although he was very genius, but he was too stupid, and now he is reasonable and evidence-based when he speaks, beyond his expectations.

"Let you come this time, the first is to let you know about the matter of fighting for the river, I don't think I will go, you represent the Zhou Mansion and bring some people to go. "The main Zhou Dacai asked Zhou An to go, wanting to test Zhou An's ability and see how much he changed after he was kidnapped.

Zhou An was stunned when he heard it and asked him to go, what does this mean, but it is exactly what he wants, he also wants to see what the fight between martial artists is like.

"Second, you go to Zhou Wang's house to have a look, I heard that all four members of the Dongwang family are dead, you investigate the reason. ”

There was a murder in Zhoujiazhuang, and there was no rumor of it, it seems that the news of Zhou Wen and Zhou Dacai's blockade is very good.

"Okay, now I'll go. After saying that, Zhou An left.

Zhou An came to the martial arts training ground, planning to find two family members to go to Zhou Wang's house with him, but he saw that Friday and Saturday were also practicing martial arts with a knife in the martial arts training ground, Zhou An was stunned when he saw it, didn't he send some search tips on Thursday and Friday and Saturday, why was he still practicing martial arts in the martial arts training ground on Friday and Saturday.

Then Zhou An asked about Friday and Saturday, but Friday and Saturday didn't know anything, and Zhou An immediately knew that Thursday didn't tell them, and Thursday wanted to find the benefits of the secret recipe alone.

But now Zhou An didn't say anything, look at how it was done on Thursday, if it was done well, he would not say anything, and if it was not done well, he would be punished severely.

Since he didn't go on Friday and Saturday, he asked to go to Zhou Wang's house last Friday and Saturday together.

On the way to the village, I saw the women washing clothes on the side of the street, the children playing, the old people sitting on chairs and snoring, but the men were not there.

There was only one merchant pulling a donkey cart, selling things, and on top of the cart, there were rouge gouaches, as well as all kinds of miscellaneous items, such as water basins, kitchen knives, bamboo baskets, etc.

Zhou An just looked at it and didn't buy it, just some ordinary things, which were only useful to the villagers, but not much to a rich family like him.

Zhou An came to Zhou Wang's house with Friday and Saturday.

Zhou Wang's house is in the southwest, surrounded by watermelon fields, only his family lives here, very remote, and there is an old man in his sixties guarding the door.