Chapter 16: The Rabbit Is Anxious to Bite (Part I)
"I don't care what kind of good and lowly people are, as long as the heart is good and knows filial piety", it is no wonder that Tang is careless, I really haven't felt this kind of roundabout struggle between women in my previous experience, "But if you want to talk about the Cowherd and Weaver Girl, they are better off than us mortals."
"Oh, that's a strange thing you say."
"Madam, you think, it's not like the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can't get together once, isn't there a Queqiao meeting once a year, they are immortal in the sky, although there is only once a year, in fact, it is equivalent to never parting. Think about it again, even if we mortals can find something we like, how many days can we stay together? There will always be a day when people will die. Thinking about it this way, the Queen Mother originally wanted to punish them, but instead it fulfilled them, even if they could only see them once a year? As soon as Jinfeng Yulu meets, it will win countless in the world! As long as it is truly affectionate, a meeting is more intoxicating than ten years of ruthless people."
With Tang Que's eloquence, Lan Cao'er's gaze that fell on him again was really stupid, and the light smile on the poisonous widow's face could no longer be maintained.
But before she could speak, she heard a sudden sound of hurried footsteps at the second gate outside, and then saw the porter Wang Laosan running around the wall in a panic towards the study.
"Wang Laosan, you are so bold, who allowed you to enter the second gate?".
"Husband...... Madame forgives the sin, it is really an emergency in the Tang account, and I rushed to report the ......."
"What?" Hearing this, Tang Que, who was originally sitting loosely, suddenly tensed up, "Tell me quickly, what happened to my family?" ”。
At this time, Wang Laosan didn't talk nonsense, "I just came back from the river, it seems that your father and the Chen family in the east of the village fought in the paddy field."
"What does it look like, is it or not", Tang asked in the gap, and the man got up and began to walk out.
"I ...... I haven't seen your father either, but I just heard that the lively people said that the Tang family and the Chen family were fighting, and said to hurry up and find Tang Cheng, I can't help it."
"Third child, thank you!" Before the words fell, Tang Que had already run out quickly, and Lan Cao'er's anxious voice came from behind him, "Tang Cheng, be careful."
Tang Que ran in a hurry, while secretly scolding himself for being too careless, as soon as he heard Wang Laosan say that his family was fighting with the Chen family in the riverside paddy field, he already knew the reason for the incident in his heart.
The reason is that the acre of paddy field, in the mountainous area of Shannan East Road, "seven mountains, two rivers and one field", the number of paddy fields is very small, because it is few, it is particularly special and precious, the paddy field not only has a stable yield, but also can produce rice. In this mountainous area where wheat is the main crop, if anyone has an acre of rice-producing paddy fields on the river beach, it can make people blush to death. Even when the daughter-in-law in the mountains marries, the most proud sentence when the mother's family boasts that the daughter is married is "what is good or not, whether it is bad or not, it is always a family that can eat rice".
This is also the reason why Tang Zhang's family would rather sell themselves than sell that acre of paddy field, with this acre of paddy field, even if the family is broken like this, he can still afford to speak in front of the matchmaker, "We are also people who can eat rice, counting seven or eight villages up and down the Shuanglong River, there are only four such families."
Both sides of the Shuanglong River originating from the Dajian Mountain in Jinzhou are peaks and cliffs, but when they reach the upper reaches of the village, the water potential is calmer, and thus a piece of fertile oily river beach paddy field is silted out, a total of only more than 12 acres, belonging to four families, of which Liu Lizheng and the poisonous widow each have five acres to form an integer, as for the other two acres belong to the Tang family and the Chen family in the east of the village.
As early as when Tang Cheng was seriously ill, Liu Lizheng and the Chen family had several hearts to buy this mu of paddy field, but they were all rejected by the Tang family, they would rather sell houses, cattle, slope land, and even sell people than sell paddy fields, this paddy field is easy to sell, it is difficult to place! You don't have money to buy it.
The so-called puff is not guilty, but he is guilty. In this village, the paddy field that produces rice in people's hearts is the wall, according to the situation that the Tang family has two generations of men in a row, in fact, this paddy field is really difficult to keep, a few days ago Tang Que knew these situations when he had some ideas, but then he was tired and stinky to death, plus he was busy with schoolwork and making money during this time, so he forgot about this stubble, but he didn't expect that something really happened today.
In Futian, Tang Que was wearing a pair of seven-eared grass shoes, that is, straw sandals, because they looked loose after wearing them for a long time, and it was very inconvenient to run fast now, no, the shoes on the left foot fell off again.
"Fuck you!" Tang Que was in a hurry to smoke, and he still had the heart to pick up shoes and wear them again, so he simply kicked the straw sandals on his right foot away, and ran towards the river with bare feet like a gust of wind.
From a distance, he saw that the ridges on the edge of his paddy field were full of black crows and crows, and after Tang Que saw this, his hanging heart was a little looser, which at least showed that the matter was not over, and it also showed that there should be no major problems in the personal safety of his family.
Tang Que couldn't care about anything at this time, jumped off the paddy field on the side of the road and ran all the way, and when he took a body of muddy water to look at the crowd, the scene in front of him turned his impatience into anger.
The acres of paddy fields below have become muddy ponds, the rice that is ambushed is east and west, and on the west corner of the paddy field, Tang Zhang, who is covered in mud, crawls on the man who has fainted and protects him, and beside him, a forty or fifty-year-old woman who is also covered in mud and water is grabbing Tang Zhang's hair to pull her up, and there are two seventeen or eighteen-year-old sturdy postnates beside her, one pulling his leg and the other pulling his arm.
Across the Tang and Zhang families, standing on the other side was the man in charge of the Chen family, with a bruised face, he was supported by the youngest third son, and kept stretching out his feet to kick the old Tang under the Tang Zhang family. On the ridge on the side of the field, several old people in the village were talking about persuasion, but none of them really went down to the field to pull it.
After Tang Que glanced at the situation in the paddy field, it was really difficult to describe the feeling in his heart, but in the later life, he had been "mixed" for a while, and knew that it was just a vain to rush up recklessly like this, so he clenched his squeaky teeth and retreated.
At this time, there were very few people in the countryside who read books, and it was a fart to really encounter such a thing related to the fields, and the rural people were more realistic than anyone else, and they recognized that there were many people and the clan was powerful. In the final analysis, it is a fist. Because of this, there are often fights between the two ethnic groups in the countryside. Of course, it's not that it's unreasonable, but if it doesn't make sense in the front, it will start, and then talk about it after the fight.
But not every family in the countryside is a big clan, there are always small families with small surnames, if so, in the case of no strong relatives at home to provide foreign aid, generally speaking, there are only two ways, one is to be honest and low-key, and at the same time be honest and mix a good person; As for the other way, there are people in the family, the kind of stunned people who dare to play with others, and can really play with their lives, if they occupy this article, they can also protect the family with their murderous name. If you don't get these two things, then there will be a time when you will be angry and suffer.
The Tang family is the old surname in the village, and when Tang Cheng's grandfather was born, there were as many as seven brothers, all of whom had big shoulders and round waists. At that time, the Tang family was well-known in several nearby villages, and no one dared to mess with it, and this mu of paddy field was placed at that time. It's a pity that when it comes to the next generation, the male is not prosperous, and the brothers in the seventh room only left Tang Cheng and his father as a male root. Fortunately, at that time, the prestige of the older generation was still there, and the old Tang family married many daughters, and there were many children and daughters, which was also a big help, and it was precisely by virtue of this that the stability of the Tang family for nearly 20 years was maintained.
At this time, the average life expectancy of men was only forty-six years old, and with the passage of time, the older generation of the Tang family died, the old ones died, and the children and daughters slowly faded away. The power that can be borrowed from the clan is getting smaller and smaller, and this is all due to the low-key life of the Tang and Zhang families, and they keep their peace with a smile on their faces, but today this method will not work, this paddy field is too eye-catching.
There was a person in the crowd who saw Tang Que, and was about to dodge sideways to let him pass, but in a blink of an eye, he slipped away and shrank back, and after being stunned, he couldn't help but secretly curse that the Tang family had a cowardice, looking at the one-sided situation in front of him, and then thinking about the majesty of the older generation of the Tang family, it was inevitable that he would have a lot of feelings.
It's just that before he finished feeling it, he saw Tang Que, who had just retracted, rushed out from behind the crowd in the northwest corner, it was indeed rushing, he ran fast, and he was holding a long shovel in his hand.