Even if Zhao Canniang doesn't say it, the consequences can be thought of.

If the riverbed dries up on its own, it's easy to talk, but no one wants to put up with it!

The middle-aged man really hadn't thought about it.

They only think about the immediate benefits, as long as they can earn money in front of them, there is still the layer that Zhao Canniang said, if the people downstream really come over, they will really not be able to eat and walk around at that time.

Seeing that the middle-aged man didn't speak, Zhao Canniang said: "Who among you beat my Uncle Dafu, stand up by yourself, immediately go in and apologize to Uncle Dafu, you have also paid the medical expenses this time, as well as my uncle's nutrition expenses, as for the matter of the river, I will give you a way to go, that is, immediately go back to dig the river for me, if I can't see the river water in the dam in front of us tomorrow morning, don't blame us for being polite." ”

That's how Zhao Canniang does things.

Sometimes it seems to outsiders to be a little unkind.

The middle-aged man's throat felt a little itchy.

When she looked at Zhao Canniang, her eyes were completely evasive.

Zhao Canniang turned around.

"Patriarch Grandpa, Grandpa Lizheng's affairs here will be handed over to you, and I will go back first if I have other things."

She can't come out for a long time, and Mrs. Chen will be worried after coming out for a long time.

After entering the house and saying a few words to Zhao Dafu, Zhao Canniang left the village.

Back at home, Mrs. Chen was already standing at the door of the house with some worry.

Seeing Zhao Canniang's carriage stop, Mrs. Chen hurriedly stepped forward worriedly: "Canniang, you are finally back, but I am worried." ”

Mrs. Chen knew about Zhao Canniang's arrival in Zhaojiatang as soon as Zhao Canniang left.

I was very worried, I originally wanted to go to Zhaojiatang. But after thinking about it, I thought it was better to forget it, so I waited at the gate.

Seeing Mrs. Chen's worried look. Zhao Canniang felt a little guilty in her heart, but she still said, "Don't worry, mother." I know what to do, there's a need to wait outside, let's go inside! ”

Zhao Canniang took Mrs. Chen's hand and walked into the courtyard.

Chen Zhongqiu returned home in the evening, and Zhao Canniang told Chen Zhongqiu what happened in Zhaojiatang today.

Chen Zhongqiu felt that things were not so simple: "Canniang, I think there is a problem in this matter, do you want to be upstream people who simply want to intercept Heti, what is their purpose?" Worried about not having enough water in the river? What are they worried about upstream? I think they're coming for you Zhaojiatang. ”

was reminded by Chen Zhongqiu that Zhao Canniang felt that this might be very possible: "Hey, I'm a pig's brain, why didn't I think of this at the time, the people on the other side obviously wanted to blackmail us for money, because we use the most water." ”

The well water needed to wash hemp taro is not enough. At a time of several thousand catties of cleaning, the people in the village took the taro to the river to be cleaned.

Zhao Canniang frowned and said: "Why didn't I think of this in the village at the time, I thought they were just worried that the water was not enough, and I also said that I would go upstream to them to intercept the river water." ”

Chen Zhongqiu stretched out his hand and touched the hair on Zhao Canniang's ear, and said with a smile: "This matter will not be so simple, tomorrow we will bring some family members over, and I will accompany you over." ”

In the matter of Zhao Jiatang, Chen Zhongqiu wanted Zhao Canniang to make his own decisions.

Zhao Canniang nodded: "Then it's okay for you to come with me, so you don't have to worry about me." ”

Day 2. Early on, the people of Zhaojiatang sent people to say that the people of Lijiazhuang did not dig the embankment, and also sent many people to guard the embankment. Prevent them from sabotage.

This behavior further proved Chen Zhongqiu's conjecture in his heart.

Zhao Canniang asked while wearing her clothes, "Zhongqiu, why did you guess so accurately." ”

Chen Zhongqiu smiled and looked at the courtyard outside. said: "Those people's minds are actually very clear, let's bring a few more family members today." ”

Chen Zhongqiu actually dislikes these people.

took the carriage directly to Zhaojiatang.

The people in the village were already waiting at the entrance of the village.

Rizheng is talking to everyone. It means that everyone should calm down and solve today's affairs, and don't be impulsive or anything like that.

After Li Zheng finished speaking, he walked to Zhao Canniang and Chen Zhongqiu's side: "I have already made today's matter clear to everyone. Everyone knows what to do, and when the time comes, you pay attention to your own safety, and maybe there will be a fight. ”

Zhao Canniang nodded: "We all know, try to let our people not do it first, and you send more people downstream to invite people from nearby villages to come, and everyone will make trouble together when the time comes." ”

Of course Zhao Canniang will not be so stupid, just like what I said yesterday, there are more than a dozen villages in the lower reaches of this river, and there will be more people who are willing to come out and make trouble when the time comes.

The women and men of the village each had a farming tool in their hands.

It is not far from Zhaojiazhuang to Lijiazhuang, and it takes about a quarter of an hour to walk.

The place where the other party built the embankment is in the middle of Lijiazhuang Village, which is also the reason why the people of Zhaojiatang waited until everyone else built the embankment before they found that there was no water.

Because it is located in the middle of the village, if the people of Lijiazhuang don't say it, the people of Zhaojiazhuang don't want to know.

In a hurry, everyone took the ridge road next to the river, Zhao Canniang and Chen Zhongqiu walked together, Chen Zhongqiu was afraid that Zhao Canniang would fall, so he reminded him every once in a while.

Because of the high economic value of taro, the people of Zhaojiatang have dried up the fields to plant taro, and the annual income is much stronger than growing grain, so in this season, in the field, there are seedlings of taro that grow very well.

The river has been completely dried up, and occasionally you can see a large pit dug in the middle of the river, and only a little water can be seen inside.

The villagers who walked in front said: "Recently, the sun is big, the river has been dry for a long time, and there can be a little water at first, until the water is getting smaller and smaller, we dug these big pits in the middle of the river, if it weren't for the relatives of the flower girl in the village, and saw the embankment built by Lijiazhuang in the river in front of the village, we still can't find the reason for the lack of water." ”

Zhao Canniang was still a little surprised when she heard this, she didn't expect Lijiazhuang's mouth to be so tight.

Chen Zhongqiu walked behind Zhao Canniang and also heard these words. couldn't help but say: "The people of Lijiazhuang seem to be very ambitious, and the people of a Zhuangzi are all jointly calculating your Zhuangzi." It seems that the other party's plan is not a day or two. ”

Zhao Canniang nodded when she heard this.

"It really wasn't something we had planned for a day or two, but now we're dealing with things. Wait for it! There's always going to be a good show. ”

Zhao Canniang's voice was a little cold.

A quarter of an hour or so won't be long.

In the distance, Zhao Canniang could already see a large number of people gathered on the river beach.

Chen Zhongqiu walked to Zhao Canniang's side and gently helped Zhao Canniang forward.

Most of the people in Lijiazhuang stood on the embankment, and they all looked at the people of Zhaojiatang coldly.

The river is very deep and very clear, and the dam is about two meters high, and the water in the river is naturally more than two meters deep, you must know that in such a dry day. What does it mean to have such deep water.

It is really not a matter of a day or two for the other party to intercept it.

Zhao Canniang saw at a glance the middle-aged man who stood on the embankment and came out to talk to Zhao Canniang yesterday.

The middle-aged man looked arrogant, the clothes he was wearing had a lot of patches on them, the middle-aged man's trouser legs were also half-pulled up, there was a lot of mud on them, and he was also holding a shovel in his hand.

It looked like they were reinforcing the embankment, and the men next to them were dressed similarly.

"I told you yesterday that this matter is not over." The middle-aged man looked arrogant.

Zhao Canniang left early, she didn't know what was happening later, and heard the man's arrogant words. Zhao Canniang couldn't help frowning and looked at the middle-aged man.

Chen Zhongqiu asked Li Zheng on the side: "Did anything happen after Canniang left yesterday?" ”

Li Zheng nodded and said: "It is true that something happened after Canniang left, the man who injured Zhao Dafu lost the silver, and he was very unwilling, so he quarreled with us." We also learned that the young man who injured Zhao Dafu, the middle-aged man who talked to Canniang, was father and son. ”

Li Zheng said this, Zhao Canniang knew that the next thing must be unpleasant.

"What happened behind the scenes?" Zhao Canniang asked.

Li Zheng glanced at the middle-aged man with some disgust and said, "The middle-aged man said." If they want to dig the dike, we have to pay fifty taels of silver. If there was no silver they would not have chiseled it, saying that it was a payment for their wages. ”

Zhao Canniang laughed when she heard this: "They are really thick-skinned. I really think I'm something. ”

Chen Zhongqiu also sneered, he had never met such a person for so many years, daring to shout for silver like this.

"If they dare to ask for it, they will also see if they have the opportunity to spend this money."

Zhao Canniang nodded.

"Let's delay first, don't rush to quarrel with them, and wait for the people from the next few villages to arrive."

Zhao Canniang will not let the people above her Zhuangzi be stupid enough to fight with the people of Lijiazhuang.

Zhao Canniang believes that the people in the Zhuangzi next door will not be as good as them.

The people of Zhaojiatang now have all the money, and they will not be so impulsive to do things.

"I'm going to tell you about it."

After Li Zheng finished speaking, he whispered to everyone to tell everyone.

The patriarch had already gone to the front, and by this time the people on both sides had already stood in line.

The people in Lijiazhuang are obviously not easy to deal with, and they are standing on the embankment one by one, looking at the people in Zhaojiatang with fierce eyes.

"Tell your patriarch or Lizheng to come out." The patriarch was also angry in his heart, and his tone of speech was no better.

The middle-aged man, who should have been the leader inside, laughed when he heard the patriarch's words: "Don't talk nonsense, if you give the silver, we will immediately dig the river for you, if you don't give the silver, unless it collapses over our corpse." ”

The middle-aged man spoke loudly.

Chen Zhongqiu sneered, stepped forward and looked at the middle-aged man and said, "You just have to play tricks, I want to see how long you can be cross, don't think that we can't clean you up, because we don't want to dirty your hands on you." ”

The middle-aged man didn't know Chen Zhongqiu.

Squinting his eyes, the middle-aged man said to Chen Zhongqiu in a cold voice: "You are from there, and we don't need you to be an outsider to call the shots of our grievances between Lijiazhuang and Zhaojiatang." ”

Chen Zhongqiu laughed, and the family standing behind Chen Zhongqiu stood up, pointed at the middle-aged man and said, "Pay a little attention to me." Don't mess with people you shouldn't mess with. ”

Chen Zhongqiu didn't get angry with the middle-aged man, but looked at the man with a somewhat gloomy look and said, "I don't want to say anything else." I advise you to dig the levee while the matter is not too big yet. If something really happens, you will have to suffer by yourself. ”

Chen Zhongqiu will mention a little bit, and he won't say anything else.

Zhao Canniang pulled Chen Zhongqiu to stand aside, and the scene suddenly became deadlocked.

The people of Lijiazhuang gradually came to the river dam, men and women, old and young, all of them looked fierce and vicious.

There are obviously not as many people in Zhaojiatang as there are in the other party.

A stalemate is a stalemate, and the people of Zhaojiatang do not fight with each other, but just stand on top of the river dam.

Little by little, time passed. The man who ran to ventilate the news has returned.

"It's done, the people from the four nearby Zhuangzi have already taken people to walk here, and it is estimated that they will be there soon."

The person who spoke was a young man in the village, and Zhao Canniang just felt familiar and didn't remember the name.

Li Zheng and the patriarch nodded.

Zhao Canniang's heart also let go.

In fact, the contradictions between Zhuangzi and Zhuangzi are only these, I heard that in the past, there would be trouble every year during the drought.

People who live upstream naturally have to pick up a lot of stool, and those who live downstream are often the ones who cry the most.

The people of Lijiazhuang didn't dare to do anything when yesterday's incident happened. None of them are stupid, if they are in such a stalemate, there will be nothing to lose, if they really hurt people. When the time comes, I will have to pay the silver out, and the middle-aged man lost Zhao Dafu a tael of silver yesterday, and now the child is in pain.

If it weren't for the fact that the patriarch said that he would give him the money when the time came. He might really regret dying.

On the ridge behind me, I could already see someone running over from a distance. Those who came had clubs in their hands.

When Zhao Canniang saw this, she was overjoyed.

I don't know who arrogantly shouted: "You just wait to be beaten!" ”

The middle-aged man stood a little taller. Looking at the situation, I can see it more clearly, and when I see that there is still there, isn't that the person from Zhuangzi next door?

The middle-aged man had realized that something was wrong and hurriedly ran down the embankment.

Old man Li, the patriarch of Lijiazhuang, stood not far away, and he didn't see the situation in the distance.

"The patriarch is not good, something big has happened, and the people from Zhuangzi next door are also here." The middle-aged man said with a panicked face.

If only the people from Zhaojiatang could still deal with it, and now that the people from Zhuangzi next door are also here, things will not be easy to handle.

"Boss Li, are you scared? When you first did this thing, you jumped the highest, and now you have your tail between your legs, what are you afraid of, are you still afraid that you won't be able to fight, Lao Tzu has experienced a lot of big and small things, what scenes have not been seen, take Lao Tzu to the front to see. ”

Old man Li's face was fierce.

It can be seen that he must have been a very good character when he was young.

Boss Li took Old Man Li to the top of the embankment.

Old man Li looked at the people in Wujiatang next door who had already walked closer with an arrogant expression.

"Old man Wu, what are you doing here, this is our matter with Zhao Jiatang."

Old man Li spoke very arrogantly.

Zhao Canniang looked at Old Man Li suspiciously, and the patriarch on the side explained: "This is Old Man Li, the patriarch of Lijiazhuang, a very fierce person, who slept in mass graves when he was young and went to the Black Mountain Cliff. ”

The Black Mountain Cliff is ten miles away in the deep mountains, and it is said that many strange things have happened there.

Zhao Canniang listened carefully and couldn't help but look at Old Man Li twice.

Old man Li looked to be in his fifties, exuding a gangsteric aura all over his body, his eyes were bright, not at all like a person in his fifties, but he gave people the feeling that he was only a little closer to the edge of forty.

The people of Wujiatang didn't believe what the people of Zhaojiatang said, but now that they saw the embankment in front of them, the people of Wujiatang became angry.

The leader of Wujiatang is also an old man, because he should know Old Man Li: "You dead old man, I just said why is it so weird this year, the riverbed dried up so early, it turned out that you were making trouble, and you actually blocked the river on the embankment, we Wujiatang have to go to the mountains a few miles away to pick up the draft recently, you bastards." ”

Old man Wu looked angry.

If you do something like this, you will be angry!

There are so many people in the upstream who don't put down the water, so that the people downstream don't even have water, let alone irrigate the farmland.

But no one can tolerate man-made things.

Zhao Canniang stood aside, dodging from a distance, she knew that she might fight without saying two words.

Old man Li heard the roar of Patriarch Wu and sneered: "I said that you people in Wujiatang should not care about this matter, this matter is our grudge with Zhao Jiatang." ”

Patriarch Zhao also walked to the front at this time, and said to Old Man Li with a smile: "Old Man Li, do you want to tell me what grievances there are between us?" Didn't you just see that the people above our Zhuangzi have made money and made a fortune! ”

Patriarch Zhao said that he was heartbroken, and Old Man Li looked his face to the other side.

Patriarch Zhao continued: "Old Wu, you come to evaluate the theory, you also know about planting hemp taro at the beginning, I was the first to go to their Zhuangzi. ”

Several nearby Zhuangzi are planting hemp taro, when Zhao Dafu was the first to go to Lijiazhuang to ask everyone to plant hemp taro, several people in the nearby Zhuangzi know.

Patriarch Wu nodded, signaling that he knew about it.

Patriarch Zhao continued: "When I asked them to plant, they didn't plant, but now I see that people from all over the country have made money, and they are envious, who do you blame for this matter?" No one is to blame! ”

Patriarch Wu is fairly fair.

The scene was very quiet when Patriarch Zhao spoke, so the words could be spread far away.

Just as Patriarch Wu was about to speak, behind the crowd, a middle-aged man's voice came.

"It's just themselves to blame." (To be continued......)

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