Li Xiao can always surprise people every time.

The villagers had almost arrived, and Li Xiao came out, bringing buckets of porridge out.

"Everyone came early in the morning, and it was hard work, it is estimated that many people have not even eaten breakfast, please come to the meeting today, but we can't make everyone hungry, I asked people to prepare some porridge, and some soup, everyone will eat some, after eating, we will have a meeting."

Li Xiao won everyone's favor with a few words.

Now is the critical time to fight drought and draw water, to be honest, the fields are still waiting for watering, the whole family is in battle, and it is too late to carry water, but everyone came here on purpose, and it is also very face-saving for Li Xiao.

"Saburo is such a particular person."

"yes, I've got breakfast for everyone."

"Don't say, I rushed in the morning, I went to the field to pick up more than a dozen loads of water, and then I came over, I didn't have time to eat early, I was really hungry."

Everyone sighed and started to line up.

Outside the Li family's compound happened to be a large open space left by the demolition of the old house, and at this time, more than a dozen large wooden barrels were lined up, containing steaming porridge.

It's said to be porridge, but it's actually very thick, but it's not the kind of soup porridge that can show the figure of a person and can't stand with a chopstick. The porridge is thick, and you can see the millet grains. It also has some green vegetables mixed in, which is very beautiful.

Take a bite, the taste is fragrant, and even a little salty, and the Li family actually put salt in the porridge, which is rare.

Everyone can make a big bowl of porridge, and you can also make a big bowl of soup on the side.

The soup is very white and fragrant, you can see that there are fish and pig bones in it, the Li family has specially prepared a lot for this breakfast, although there are not many fish and bones in a large barrel of soup, but after sprinkling a few handfuls of green onions, you can still see a layer of oil flowers floating on the soup.

"Everyone eat slowly, and if you are not full, you can add it again."

The villagers are also more casual, holding a porridge bowl in one hand and a soup bowl in the other, and they don't need any tables, chairs and stools after they are beaten, they just go to the side, squat on the ground, drink a sip of soup and then put the bowl aside, and start to drink the porridge in the other hand.

When everyone drank porridge soup, they all gulped and the sound was sparse, and when thousands of people drank porridge together, the sound was even more terrible.

Even a few lieutenants squatted on the ground like everyone else, eating porridge and drinking soup very contentedly.

"Saburo is really a good person."

"No, there are thousands of people, and I'm afraid that this breakfast will cost one or two stones of millet, dozens of catties of fish and bones."

"There must be, you see so much, people just make this, it will take a lot of time and a lot of people. If you don't say that the Li family is the richest man in our Blue Creek, look at this hand, it is arrogant. ”

"What is it to have money, the key is that Li Sanlang is generous and bold. There are also many landlords in our township, have you ever drunk porridge from other families? ”

Everyone's voices of discussion reached Li Xiao's ears from time to time, and Li Xiao smiled when he heard it.

One or two stones of grain, to be able to harvest so much goodwill, is worth it, although the price of food has risen now, but the people's hearts are important, the people's hearts are scattered, the team is difficult to bring, want to organize everyone to do things, people's hearts are very important.

Several lieutenants also heard it, and many of the people who drank porridge were also landlords.

Everyone didn't feel good when they heard it, but they couldn't refute it, and they were reluctant to let them come up with so much money and food at once as generously as Li Xiao.

Everyone was enthusiastic about eating a breakfast, the Li family had already prepared, and the porridge was cooked a lot.

Some people drank five or six bowls of porridge in one go, and their bellies were all high, but no one laughed at them.

At the end of the meal, there were still a few large buckets of porridge and soup left, but there was no one to eat anymore.

"San Lang, it's atmospheric."

Several lieutenants touched their bellies, wiped their mouths and smiled and came over to greet Li Xiao.

"San Lang, I've eaten all the food, let's talk about business, everyone wants to hear what San Lang has for this drought fight."

Several lieutenants didn't want to see Li Xiao's jokes in their hearts, during the drought in the past years, no one could mediate well, even if the county order came, it was useless.

Don't even look at the five lieutenant chiefs sitting together today, talking and laughing, but in previous years, when they were fighting for water, they all took their own villagers with them, and they didn't fight in groups.

In the same village, sometimes they unite to fight with other villagers upstream and downstream, to destroy the dam upstream, to defend their own dam, but they will fight with other villagers in their own village.

In short, when there is a drought, it is based on villages, clans, and townships, and there are many fights with each other, and big fights are common.

In the past, no one could solve the matter, they didn't believe that Li Xiao's breakfast could be solved by a good negotiation.

Li Xiao didn't sit down, just stood on the edge of the threshing floor, facing the villagers who were squatting on the ground and said loudly, "The drought is very serious this year, the water in the Lanxi River is about to run out, I heard that many villages are ready to start damming the water, I am very worried." ”

Everyone listened to Li Xiao quietly, and no one interjected.

This is the case, but everyone always can't find a solution, every time they fight for it, but there is no way, if they don't fight, there will be no water, and if there is no water, the crops will die, and the crops will not be harvested in one season, and then they will be hungry, and even have to be homeless, and even starve to death.

"I Li Xiao everyone should know each other, and they all know a little, my Li Xiao is the third in the family, but my father and brother have passed away one after another, and now Li Jiazhuang is the only one. In the early years, I also walked outside and saw some of the world, and now I am back in my hometown, I still hope to be able to live a good life here and live my own life. ”

"As the so-called distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, everyone is a neighbor, this is extremely rare, the current drought is serious, if according to the situation in previous years, the fight for water is inevitable, the fight is inevitable, and the dead are inevitable."

Speaking of this, many people were silent.

What Li Xiao said was the truth, and even among the people present, there were relatives who died in the water brawls over the years. This is a painful past, but now that it is facing it again, no one can guarantee that the villagers who are sitting together now, after a while, will not wield hoes and fight each other desperately.

"I, Li Xiao, don't want to see such a result, I don't want to see someone fight for water and die, I don't want to see the orphans and widows he left behind are pitiful and helpless, and I don't want to see everyone have no harvest this year and go hungry together in the summer."

"San Lang, we don't want to, but what can we do?"

An old village chief shouted with a sigh.

"I believe there will always be a solution, as long as everyone is willing to work together, then together we can get through the difficulties."

"San Lang, tell me your way, as long as there is a way, everyone will listen to you." Another old man also shouted with some excitement.