Chapter 127: The Battle of the Ridges
A young daughter-in-law ran over panting, gasped with her palms on her knees, raised her hand to touch a handful of sweat, and said urgently: "Auntie, Aunt Tan is digging your ridge for some reason, we can't persuade you." ”
"Who?" He Shi looked up, still a little confused.
"Aunt Tan, dig the ridges of your open field." The little daughter-in-law said again.
"Crazy, what is she doing digging ridges?" He stepped on the ridge in a few steps, stretched out his two feet and took turns to pluck in the field water, swept off the dirt on the footboard, and pulled his shoes and angrily carried the hoe to find Tan's theory.
This little daughter-in-law is the second daughter-in-law of the Liu family, who is good friends with the He family, and when she passed by, she saw that the Tan family was crazy and had to dig the boundary ridge between her and the He family. Seeing that He was gone, she slowly followed.
"Hey, mother-" Li Cong beckoned, he wanted to chase after him and didn't worry about the cow, after all, it was too far away, and he couldn't see it at a glance. When Li Cong was in a dilemma, a child passed by, and hurriedly asked him to call Dashan.
From a distance, He saw a group of three or five people pointing at the ridge near his paddy field, and some people were talking loudly, and He suddenly became angry. Didn't provoke her, who knows what madness she had again? If you don't deal with it for a lifetime, you won't deal with it for a lifetime, and some people are born to resist each other.
"Tan, what are you crazy about, what are you doing digging my ridge?" He stood on the ridge of the upper level and shouted.
Tan Shi stopped his hand, but crossed his hands on his hips, and roared back with great momentum: "You are also blind, which eye saw me digging your ridge?" I'm digging my side. ”
He calmed down for a moment, and after just one glance, he was furious again. The originally one-foot-wide ridge is only one palm wide, and some places have been directly dug up. Water from her family's paddy field is slowly flowing to Tan's field. She pointed to the ridge and said, "This is obviously the ridge shared by our two families, and you have to fight for such a little place." Is there nowhere to bury the coffin? ”
In the countryside, destroying people's crops is the same as killing people for money. In He's eyes, Tan's digging ridges is like cutting off people's livelihoods, and it is no wonder that He is vicious at the exit.
This is a curse to die in his own family, Tan stomped his feet in the paddy field and scolded back: "If you want to die, you will die first, and your old lady will not be able to die if you die." Even if I die, my Tan family will not lack such a place to bury coffins to dig other people's ridges. Bah! I don't know which shameless old man dug the ridge first, but the blame fell on my head. Keep your dog's eyes open. I'll keep all the marks of your hoe over there, and you know who will do it first, lest you say I'll deduct for you. ”
When He heard such a reversal of right and wrong, he spit out a mouthful of phlegm and flew straight towards Tan's, threw the hoe into his paddy field, and the person also slid directly down the slope into the paddy field, facing Tan and said: "Bah, it's really a dog can't spit out ivory in his mouth, is the old lady digging the ridge?" Take a look at it. The old lady just hoeed the grass that grew too long on my side. Are you so blind that you can't see how hard this hoe is exerting? You ask who here doesn't scrape a little ground when they hoe the grass. It's not the first time that the old lady has hoeed the grass, you crazy woman is just looking for trouble! ”
Of course, Tan knew that He only scraped off a layer of soil when weeding, and the grass on both sides was obviously different in height. There is also hard stubble, and besides, she was originally here to hoe the grass. They are all croppers, and they can hoe weeds. It's adjacent, and it's not fun to quarrel. But if there is no yesterday's incident. The Tan family will not think crookedly, and now almost all the people in the tunzi have spread all over it. It's just that she can't shout out loud and eat this dumb person hard. While she couldn't swallow this evil breath, she also had a deep grudge against He. But seeing this situation today, Tan's mind couldn't help but think: Your daughter-in-law's distant relatives bullied my daughter, and you came to take advantage of my family, is it true that our family is a soft persimmon at your disposal?
"If you hoe the grass and scrape a layer of mud, hoe the grass and scrape a layer of mud, won't all the land on my side be scraped to your side over the years?"
Although every time you plow the field, you will use mud to stack the ridge again, but the ridge is also often overwhelmed, like the ridge of the boundary between the two paddy fields, usually no one will go to the yard.
He Shi was stunned for a moment, then shook his hand back, and then crossed his waist and said: "You are just unreasonable, did your mother say a word when you were hoeing grass in previous years?" The old lady has been digging the ground for so many years and has not seen a golden lump, and she will be rich in mud after scraping a little bit a year? Phew! You're shameless! How much food can be planted in such a big place as this broken ridge, even if it is all dug up, it is not enough for the ration of my chickens, can the old lady need such trouble? Without this, didn't the old lady feed the family, the son married a daughter-in-law, and there were several grandchildren, who starved to death? The second child in my family is still the shopkeeper of the rice shop, and the old lady just eats old rice and eats rice, and it is not uncommon for you to have this little land. ”
"Your family is wealthy, and it is also deducted little by little, and it can be seen from this little thing that you love to take advantage. From top to bottom, there is not a single good thing in your house, inside and out. Tan spat at the field.
"Oh, then Aunt Tan, what are you?" A voice emerged from the crowd.
"Of course the old lady is not a thing." Tan Shi replied without thinking about it.
"It turns out that Aunt Tan, you also know that you are not a thing." Yang Liu pushed aside everyone and walked to the front to look at Tan with a smile. She was originally going to deliver water, but she didn't expect to hear such a good show, it was really exciting. Sure enough, one mountain does not tolerate two tigers, and one tun can accommodate two shrews.
Many people in the crowd covered their lips and snickered. Seeing this, everyone else understands that the Tan family is making trouble unreasonably, but what does it matter to them? It's not been a day or two since these two families don't deal with each other, and they haven't fought a war of words or never fought before, and they are all a little tired. Pinch, pinch hard, it's best to fight to look good.
Yang Liu said again: "Mother, you stand up first, it's cold in the water." ”
Tan came back to his senses and began to chatter again: "What did I say, I'll just say that your Li family doesn't have any good things." As a junior, dare to say that about the elders"
"If Aunt Tan thinks I'm wrong, I'll make amends to Aunt Tan here first." Yang Liu's short body is blessed, "but" Yang Liu changed his words, "As an elder, we don't respect the old and sell the old, so why do we juniors respect it?"
Since Aunt Tan thinks that our identities are not equal, it is better to let Sister Qiya come out and talk to me. ”
Yang Liu pointed to Qiya in the crowd.
There is no privacy in the tunzi, only after a while, Qiya also got the news, dropped the embroidery work in his hand and rushed over. She didn't want to come out, but Yang Liu pointed to it, she just didn't want to come out and had to stand in front of people.
"No, you're older than Qiya, don't you know how to bully Qiya?" Tan refused without thinking about it.
"Then according to Aunt Tan's meaning, do you have to call your married daughters back to talk to me, but they are older than me, aren't they obviously bullying me?" Yang Liu smiled softly, and what she said was not weak, she continued: "I have only heard that there is reason and is not loud, but I didn't expect that reasoning is also divided into ages, but I have a long experience today." Everyone knows what is going on, and we don't say much, so as not to be said to be more people bullying less, we just win others and say a big call, as if we are bullying others. Mother, do you see how we do it? ”
"I still have to think about it." Li Cong also arrived, and separated from the crowd: "Mother, in front of all the villagers today, let's go to our own side to catch the three-foot ridge." ”
For what, the palm-sized ridge actually quarreled, and Li Cong was also angry, he didn't believe that he caught this three-foot-wide ridge and the family could still beg for food.
"Okay, the fifth has the final say." He didn't hesitate, picked up the hoe and began to yard the ridge in Gaoli. Li Cong also buckled the mud with his bare hands and carried it.
"Aunt He, don't be like this, it's my mother who is stunned. I'll make a compensatory deal with you on behalf of my mother. Qiya hurriedly made amends.
"Qiya, it's none of your business."
"Code, why not code? I saw that after I dug the ridge of my house, no one jumped out and said that I scraped other people's mud and manure my own pocket. He only agreed to Li Cong at first, and didn't think so long-term. Now that I say it, I think it should be more coded. Immediately quickened the movement of his hand.
Tan was so angry that she stared at her, where did she think that things would evolve like this. It's just an opportunity to embarrass He, and now it's getting more and more out of control.
Qiya stood there in a dilemma, she knew that even if she didn't say anything about her mother, she would know that she was standing up for a man, but Tan's expression was too flat, and Qiya thought that if she didn't pursue it, Tan's would let it go. Who knows
"Mother, Aunt He......"
"Qiya, give me the hoe." Tan stretched out a hand to Qiya.
No, my mother wants to dig up the ridges of other people's yards? Then you can't become a mortal enemy? Qiya stood still, shook her head vigorously and said, "Mother, don't." ”
Tan glared: "Give it to me, let's do it too." "Anyway, it's all torn, and I don't care about this. How wide their yards are, they also follow how wide the yards are. In the end, she won't say a soft word, why do they take advantage of them and want them to continue to succeed?
A child's eyes widened, watching both sides stack their ridges in their own paddy fields, and the plums in their hands fell off in shock.
Plop, plop twice, these two plum trees in a clump finally became the boundary trees recognized by both families for generations.
Because of this incident, the six-foot-wide ridge has become the most famous symbol of Lijiatun, and it has also become the place where children like to play and settle disputes privately with neighbors, so as to remind and educate future generations to be lenient. (To be continued......)
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