Soon after the sketch was drawn, the villagers took the lime powder, along with a few village cadres, who had originally come to mediate the dispute, but when they arrived, they did not see the situation reported by the village cadres, and they thought that the villagers had reconciled automatically.

Just as they were about to call the village chief to inquire about the situation, they saw several villagers who were hurrying home to get lime powder.

As soon as I saw Lu Chen's township cadres, he hurriedly stepped forward to say hello, and reviewed that their work was not done well, and the speed of action was late, which made Lu County tired, Lu Chen waved his hand and said: "I have been to Shishui Township at the beginning of my tenure, and I also know that these two villages are a little far away from the township and the road conditions are not good, if you can understand the difficulties of your work, it's okay." ”

"Thank you for your understanding." The township cadres said one after another, and they also breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts.

Next, Lu Chen personally used lime powder to draw a number of round or square patterns in the water source area of this mountainside, and then said to the two village chiefs: "You two should hurry up and organize the villagers to dig a pit in the area demarcated by lime powder, with a depth of five meters, and then open a channel on one side of each pit to lead to the canal with a depth of one meter." ”

As he spoke, Lu Chen used lime powder to draw two lines of different widths on one side of each square circle pattern to connect the trenches that flowed towards the village, and once again emphasized that the depth of these connecting trenches was one meter.

In the midst of everyone's confusion and amazement, Lu Chen said: "It's okay here, you go down with me." ”

Walking all the way down the mountain along the waterway, Lu Chen used lime powder to draw patterns of different shapes, sizes and widths next to the main waterway from time to time, and explained the depth of excavation of each pit and each forked waterway one by one, and the two village chiefs hurriedly wrote it down with paper.

After walking half the way, an elderly villager finally suddenly understood, only to hear him exclaim: "County Magistrate Lu, you are distributing water to our two villages through these deep pits and forked waterways." ”

Lu Chen smiled and said, "Exactly." ”

"County Magistrate Lu, I remember that the elders once said that our two villages also used this method a long time ago to distribute water in the season of water shortage, but I don't know when no one took care of it, and the ditch was abandoned and slowly buried by mud and rocks, and it became the current situation." The old man sighed.

Lu Chen smiled and said: "That's right, I found some traces of the waterway when I was in the field before, and I guess that the ancestors of your two villages used this method to distribute water sources before, so I surveyed all the way up and found that there were more and more traces of the waterway, so I drew lines according to those traces, and asked you to dig to try the final effect, and now I am more confident after you confirm it." ”

"County Magistrate Lu, absolutely useful, absolutely useful." The elder villager nodded vigorously.

"In this case, then the two of you villages will work together to re-dig the former waterway, and there will be no more conflicts over water sources in the future, and it would be better for everyone to live in harmony." Lu Chen said that the villagers should be in unison.

"Okay, there's still half of it undrawn, let's move on." Lu Chen said loudly, and then continued to walk down the mountain, the villagers followed behind him and discussed in the village group, no one would have thought that they were still looking at each other angrily and tense in the field before?

Finally drew the remaining half, standing on the ridge, Lu Chen clapped his hands and said to the two village chiefs: "The rest is what you have to do, all the reservoirs and waterways should be paved with cement and arranged for special maintenance, I think as long as the maintenance is good, you can share the water peacefully in the future." ”

"Lu County, we absolutely believe it." Without waiting for the two village chiefs to speak, the elderly villager spoke first, and then the villagers echoed loudly.

"Okay, then there are the Lao folks." Lu Chen said to the villagers.

"County Magistrate Lu, how can we bear what you say, this is originally a matter of our interests." The elder villager smiled bitterly.

Lu Chen stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Old man, I think you are the most suitable to be the maintainer of the waterway, and it is also good for your health to go up the mountain when you are idle on weekdays." ”

"County Magistrate Lu, I'm glad to do it." The elder villager nodded.

Lu Chen turned his head and said to the two village chiefs: "The old man is serving everyone, how about the two of you villages together to pay him a salary?" ”

The two village chiefs said yes that it was necessary, while the elderly villager said: "County Magistrate Lu, there is no need to pay me a salary, I am willing to do this work on a voluntary basis, and didn't you just say that going up the mountain often is good for your health?" ”

Lu Chen shook his head and said: "I don't agree with the practice of providing services on a voluntary basis, which not only violates the laws of the market economy, but also easily has a negative impact on people's work enthusiasm." ”

The elderly villager was silent for a few seconds and then said, "County Magistrate Lu, I don't know any laws of market economy, but since you said that there are so many bad things, then I will listen to you." ”

Lu Chen said "um" and then said to the villagers: "Folks, how much should you pay the waterway maintenance staff?" ”

The villagers looked at each other for a while and then reported the number, the amount ranged from three hundred to six hundred, don't look at only a few hundred quick money, but the work of maintaining the waterway is actually very easy, carry a hoe along the waterway to go a trip, see that there are debris on the waterway as long as you clean it out, as for the damage to the waterway, the maintainer only needs to report to the village, and he does not need to pay for repair, even if the lowest three hundred yuan, an average of ten yuan a day walk, in the countryside is still good.

After the villagers finished speaking, Lu Chen said: "Then let's compromise, four hundred and five per month, do you have any opinions?" ”

"No opinion", "County Magistrate Lu, just according to what you said", "County Magistrate Lu, we agree", ...... the villagers said one after another.

Lu Chen nodded and said to the two village chiefs, "Then start the implementation after the excavation and repair of the waterway." ”

"Yes." The two village chiefs replied at the same time.

At this time, the party secretary and the head of Shishui Township also came, and after hearing about the waterway and the maintenance staff, the secretary Qiao Shuqing immediately stated that the money for digging and repairing the waterway and the wages of the maintenance staff were all borne by the township.

Wang Shang, the head of the township, also hurriedly said that this should have been a problem that the township should have solved for the villagers, but because he had not found a solution before, but now the blessing of Tuolu County has found a way, so it will naturally have to be solved immediately.

Hearing this, the villagers were overjoyed and looked at Lu Chen, who nodded and said, "That's fine." The villagers immediately cheered, not having to pay from the village means that they don't have to pay for it, who is not happy about such a good thing?