Chapter 21: The Great Harvest
Bai Youfu walked in front of Hu Qing, the village chief of Wangshui Village, who was full of meat, and said in a deep voice.
"You tell the people in your village to stop, we don't fight, we use sandbags to divert the river, each irrigates his own fields, and catches fish without crossing the line, how about it?"
How?
Of course!
Is Bai Youfu a fool?
Hu Qing narrowed his eyes and stared at Bai Youfu inquiringly.
When he was young, he was a bastard, working as a thug in casinos, cunning and ruthless.
Hu Qing thought about it, but he couldn't think of anything wrong.
With such a diversion, Wangshui Village has taken advantage of it!
Could it be that the people of Qinglu Village are instigated?
He glanced at the people of the two villages who were fighting together, and the people in Qinglu Village did have more colors than the people in Wangshui Village.
Hu Qing's heart immediately fell into his stomach, it turned out that they were really cowardly!
His fleshy face smiled heartily.
"Then it's decided, everyone stops, everyone stops."
The people who were fighting stopped, glaring at each other with red eyes, like bulls killing red eyes.
"That's the case, I have a way here, which I discussed with Bai Youfu, to use sediment to divert the river......"
"What-"
The discussion was boiling.
The people of Wangshui Village looked at the eyes of the people of Qinglu Village, and they were all surprised.
"I agree!"
"I agree!"
……
The villagers of Qinglu gradually fell silent.
Bai Duowang wiped the blood from his forehead, suppressing anger in his heart.
He knew that many people were like him, and he didn't understand what his father thought?
Isn't this to increase the morale of others and destroy their own prestige?
But they can't refute it in front of outsiders, it will be a joke for the people of Wangshui Village.
When everyone in Wangshui Village left, Bai Duowang immediately came to Bai Duofu's side.
"Dad, what do you think? I don't know, I thought you were from Wangshui Village! ”
Almost all of them pricked up their ears.
Oh, yes? What did the village chief think?
Bai Duofu twisted his eyebrows, and smoked a dry cigarette: "Don't be foolish, I know this matter in my heart, you just wait and see." ”
The village chief's tone was too tight, and everyone had to suppress the uneasiness in their hearts and carry sand and bags.
More than 300 people were working, and before noon, the downstream of the river had been diverted.
A bag of sacks packed with sediment is piled up in the middle of the riverbed, and the Wangshui River seems to have drawn 28 lines, dividing the two branches.
One is towards the low-lying Wanghe Village, and the other is towards Qinglu Village.
"Open the river pond—"
With a shout, several strong men waiting in the Wangshui River Pond immediately waved their pickaxes and hoes to dig up the mud dam of the river pond.
The water of the Wangshui River and pond, which had been accumulated for a year, poured out, and the plump fish in the river flowed down the water, jumped out, and rushed downstream.
"Fish, fish—"
The villagers on both sides of the river, waiting for the lower reaches of the river, cheered one after another, and took the prepared dustpans, bamboo baskets, and frames to catch fish.
At first, the water flow was powerful, and the water volume of the two tributaries was comparable, and everyone had a big smile on their faces.
A quarter of an hour later, the villagers of Qinglu Village had solemn faces.
When the current slows down, the fish and shrimp are gone!!
In the direction of Wanghe Village, the joy of the harvest is still loud!
"Village chief, what should I do? We trust you so much, you can't fool us! ”
"It's just that the children's clothes can't cover their bodies, and we can't live without fish!"
"My wife is still waiting for the medicine money."
"My family has no food at all."
……
Talking and talking, it almost turned the sky upside down.
"Woo woo woo ......"
Someone couldn't stand the blow, covered his head, squatted on the ground and whimpered.
The atmosphere was sluggish to the extreme.
"Ji Wan, look?" Bai Youfu looked at Ji Wan, the matter was so important that he had to be nervous.
Ji Wan's heart was slightly warm, Bai Youfu had not revealed it to others since she agreed to her plan, and she came up with this idea. This is also a disguised meaning of helping her to the bottom.
If her plan fails, in the face of the villagers' doubts, Bai Youfu will bear the brunt.
She nodded at Bai Youfu: "Don't worry." ”
Ji Wan took out a thumb-sized porcelain vase from her sleeve and walked towards the river.
All eyes are on her, is there a way?
Everyone held their breath and looked at Ji Wan expectantly.
I saw Ji Wan squatting down by the river, pulling out the wooden stopper of the porcelain bottle in her hand, holding the porcelain bottle in her hand and stretching it into the water, standing still.
That's it?
Everyone looked at each other, not understanding what Ji Wan was doing?
A layer of fine and dense sweat appeared on Bai Youfu's forehead, and the hand holding the cigarette stick was tense.
Ji Wan was also nervous, although this kind of thing had been done many times in her previous life, but in this life, she did it for the first time.
There was nothing in the porcelain vase, and she slowly overflowed the spiritual spring from her fingertips through the cover of the porcelain vase.
She had accumulated three more bowls of spiritual springs in the space, and Ji Wan felt that it should be enough to attract water and ponds.
The spiritual spring slowly spread towards the surface of the water along Ji Wan's fingertips, penetrating into the ordinary river water silently.
Suddenly, the sound of the bubbling river boiled, as if something was constantly beating the water.
In the distance, the water waves, layer after layer, sparkling under the direct sunlight.
"Oh my God—that's a fish !!"
"Miracle, miracle!"
The villagers with excellent sight exclaimed again and again.
Everyone's hearts suddenly quickened! Almost arched to the throat.
I couldn't wait to run a few steps and rush to the front of the fish.
They watched schools of fish come in pairs, more than they could count, and they all grinned silly, and walked back.
Bai Youfu almost had the same hands and feet, pacing back and forth by the river, his face smiling like a chrysanthemum.
After the Xie family was shocked, they looked at Ji Wan excitedly, their faces full of pride.
This is their Xie family, what a face today!
Ji Wan felt everyone's grateful gaze at her, pursed her lips and smiled, her mood brightened, and she reminded her crisply.
"Hurry up and catch the fish! I have a limited amount of time to attract fish and shrimp. ”
A word woke up the stunned and smirking crowd.
"What are you doing in a daze? Wait for the fish to jump into your arms on its own? Hurry up, all move—"
The village chief Bai Youfu roared, full of energy, and his face was full of red light.
"Right now, right now."
The middle-aged men grinned and rolled up their trouser sleeves, lifted the bamboo baskets, and jumped into the water.
The fish in the water were not surprised by the villagers of Qinglu Village, and they shook their heads and tails one by one, like pilgrimage, and gathered in the direction of Ji Wan.
There are so many fish!!
The villagers bent down, as long as they put the bamboo basket in their hands into the water, and then lifted it up, they could get half of the bamboo basket alive fish and shrimp.
The daughter-in-law, mother-in-law and children were on the shore, smiling and smiling, taking the fish full of bamboo baskets, running home quickly, and after a while, replacing them with empty bamboo baskets and handing them to the men in the river.
Wanghe Village.
The villagers who were fishing for fish, holding dustpans, hunched their backs, groping in the water.
Hu Qing, the village chief who commanded on the bank of the Zhanzi River, scolded the villagers in the river with his hands behind his back.
"Mother, you're all lazy, aren't you? Asleep in the water? It's been a long time, you count by yourself, how many fish have you caught? ”
The villagers of Wangshui Village also caught a big fire when they caught fish!
What about fish?
Where have they gone?
Their eyes were almost on the surface of the water, but the considerable number of fish just now seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.
A kid from the Ji family smashed the dustpan in his hand into the water, took off his coat, and wrung the water hard.
"Village chief, it's not that we don't want to fish, it's that we really don't have any fish."
Hu Qing hung thick eyebrows and snorted angrily.
"I believe in your evil spirit, and my brain grows maggots? No fish! When Lao Tzu is stupid? How much do you catch per year? Damn, isn't it a cucumber? Undershoot stuff! ”
"Village chief, if you don't believe it, come down and take a look, Ji Liuzi is right, there are really no fish." Someone mourned his face.
"No fish?"
Hu Qing frowned.
If only the lazy Ji family said that there was no fish, he would not believe it.
But the people standing in the water all looked at him with no fish on their faces, and the problem was serious!
Hu Qing took off his shoes, jumped into the water, took the dustpan and bent down to catch fish.
No, no, or no......
He was stunned, stood in the water and muttered, "It shouldn't be...... How so? ”
"Village chief, I heard the sound of fish shouting from Qinglu Village." A child said Ai Ai.
", how could it be! If we don't have any fish here, it will definitely be even worse over there! Could it be that the fish on our side can run to their side by themselves? Hu Qing sneered.
"Huh? There are fish! Someone shouted.
Everyone looked fixedly, and sure enough, there was a fathead fish weighing four or five catties rushing down from the upstream quickly.
The villagers of Wangshui began to grasp the dustpan in their hands and waited for it.
Suddenly, the fathead fish, a carp, stiffened, desperately turned back and went upstream.
They were dumbfounded.
"Chasing—"
Whether they are standing in the water or looking at the water on the shore, the villagers who are looking at the water pull their legs and chase after the fathead fish, they have a hunch that they can find the reason why they can't catch the fish by following the fathead fish.
The fathead fish swam fast all the way to the '38th parallel'.
Its tail slapped the water hard, and the fish jumped up and rushed into the tributary leading to Qinglu Village.
On the tributary leading to Qinglu Village, there are schools of fish, densely packed, crowded with each other, and from time to time fish are squeezed out of the tributary of Qinglu Village and squeezed into the tributary of Wangshui Village.
Soon, the fish that had been squeezed out desperately turned back, rushed into the fish, and continued to advance towards Qinglu Village.
Seeing this scene, the villagers of Wangshui were all stunned.
Why is this happening?!
"It must be a conspiracy! It must be a conspiracy! Hu Qing's son Hu Chenggong yelled angrily.
Hu Qing's eyes were gloomy: "They are a yang scheme, things are already like this, the most important thing now is to figure out, how did the people of Qinglu Village do it?" ”
His face was ugly and he looked at Hu Chenggong.
"I'll leave this matter to you. The rest of the people, hurry up and take advantage of the fact that the people in Qinglu Village don't know, let's get these fish back. ”
The villagers of Qinglu, who were fishing for fish and had a sore back, but had not finished fishing, asked a few children to run errands and go upstream to see how many fish there were.
Xie Dazhuang led Xie Hutou to take over the errand.
The two walked all the way up, and suddenly saw people from Wangshui Village fishing upstream.
Xie Dazhuang's little face suddenly sank.
He grabbed Xie Hu's head, who was about to rush out, and quietly retreated, waiting to make sure that the people in Wangshui Village would not find them, and then pulled his younger brother and ran back.
"The village chief, the village chief, the people of Wangshui Village are upstream from our tributary, fishing for our fish!"