Chapter Twenty-Nine: Digging the Fish Pond
Liu Xiqing told her about what happened two years ago, a man in Wangjia Village married a girl from Yanjia Village, and the girl ran back to her parents' house with an injury after half a year of marriage, saying that the man stole people and beat her, and the people in Yanjia Village had a bad temper, so they took people to Wangjia Village to theorize.
But the man in Wangjia Village resolutely denied it, saying that he didn't steal or beat anyone, and said that the woman who married Yanjia Village had stolen people, and the two sides insisted on their own words and argued.
The ancestral hall system of Yanjia Village is huge, and before they can distinguish who is right and who is wrong, they beat the man in Wangjia Village, and the people of Wangjia Village can't stand it, so the two villages scuffle together on a small scale and fight.
Later, the man in Wangjia Village jumped into the river and died for unknown reasons, and the people in Yanjia Village said that he jumped into the river because he had a ghost in his heart.
"Then who stole people?" asked Cheng Yangyang curiously.
"Then who knows, anyway, after that person died, Yanjia Village insisted that it was the man from Wangjia Village who stole people, and said everywhere that Wangjia Village was not, and you Wangjia Village was easy to bully, so I didn't dare to say anything, so it was over."
"Just for this little thing?" Cheng Yangyang couldn't believe it, this thing is a joke in modern times, not surprising, "What's the matter with the kidnapped little girl at the entrance of the village?"
Liu Xiqing shook his head, he had driven to his aunt's house a few times, and had seen him once or twice, and when he saw him for the first time, he also wanted to save people, but he was stopped by the people of Yanjia Village and beat him.
He didn't care about it anymore, and the little girl couldn't die anyway.
Cheng Yangyang originally wanted to go to the street to see what she needed to buy, but now her mood was all ruined, and after she ate a bowl of unpalatable noodles in the city, she decided not to buy anything first, but to go to Yanjia Village to have a look.
When she passed by the ironware shop, she thought that she might be bullied with her bare hands, so she bought a hoe and carried it on her shoulder, and strode towards Yanjia Village.
Along the way, Cheng Yangyang kept doing psychological construction for herself, and when she was still stupidly cheering herself up, there was no one on the stake at the entrance of Yanjia Village.
The fields where the rice had just been cut were bare, and she could see the neighborhood at a glance, and there was not even a single figure.
Is the penalty enough, take it back?
Cheng Yangyang threw the hoe on the ground in frustration, kicked the hoe twice, and vented his anger at it. In the end, I still had to resign myself to picking it up and carrying it away.
In the evening, after Cheng Yangyang finished telling the story to the little ghosts, she didn't slip away directly, but sat down and learned everything about the year with Chen Sanniang.
The situation is roughly the same as what Liu Xiqing said, but there are more details of the fight, according to Chen Sanniang, Wangjia Village was beaten so badly that he didn't dare to go out of the village to the city for several days.
Cheng Yangyang listened to this matter as gossip, the little girl was not found, probably home, such a young child, can he really torture to death?
Two days later, Cheng Yangyang, who was busy developing a side business, completely forgot about it, and her fish pond was about to start.
It was the same group of men who came to help, and they climbed up the small steep slope in a line with their hoes.
"Oh, Cheng girl, this house should be repaired."
They haven't been here since the last time they distributed food, and they couldn't help but persuade when they saw that the broken thatched hut in the back mountain was blown even more by the heavy rain of the previous two days.
"Let's talk about it later", Cheng Yangyang doesn't think about this now, it's a waste of time to repair this broken thatched house, if she wants to move it, it must be demolished and rebuilt!
"You're going to dig this place, aren't you?" Everyone saw that there was a few stones on the side of the stream, and everyone who did farm work knew that the stones represented the boundary division, and they probably wanted to dig up the ground inside the stones.
"Hmm", Cheng Yangyang followed with his newly bought hoe, "While the ground is still soft, I have worked hard for everyone."
Before Cheng Yangyang finished speaking, someone started to work, she found a place by herself, and the first hoe went down, Wang Xiaoshan came, carrying his rusty hoe.
"You're really here", it's too heavy to live here, his body doesn't allow it.
"I can do it too", Wang Xiaoshan ignored her obstruction and wanted to dig the ground with Wang Dafei and them.
"You wait a while!" Of course, Cheng Yangyang couldn't do such heavy work for him, "You go over there and dig a vegetable garden for me, you don't need you here."
It takes strength to dig a mud pond, and if the soil is loosened, he has to carry it out and pour it, and his legs can't do it.
But the vegetable field doesn't need to work so hard, just loosen the soil shallowly and then divide it into pieces.
"But ......"
"But what, there are enough people here, don't you see that everyone can't stand?" As he spoke, Cheng Yangyang pulled out his hoe and went to dig the vegetable field with him.
Fortunately, Cheng Yangyang did not refuse them, and dug out a layer of soil on it in one morning, but it also showed the defects of this mountainous land, and there were many stones growing in the ground.
"Come on, let's drink some water!"
Cheng Yangyang borrowed a small water tank from the third grandmother and prepared space energy water for them, but there didn't seem to be much appreciation.
"What are you bothering to do here, there is a small river next to it, we can drink it wherever we go, and we can wash our faces."
The weather is indeed too hot, and taking a shower by the way may be more useful than drinking her water, Cheng Yangyang is not reluctant, just put the water aside and drink whatever he wants.
The sun was too big at noon, and Cheng Yangyang also asked them to stop and go back to rest, and a few who refused were driven back by her, including Wang Xiaoshan.
They don't sleep, she has to sleep too! There is no door in the thatched hut, so many men are working outside, and she has to sleep in it.
"This girl is a capable person", a few villagers who went to the stream to soak in a wet body came back, saw Cheng Yangyang, smiled and nodded at her, with some satisfaction in their eyes.
"Yes, look at a female doll in someone's house, dare to do things", another villager echoed, "I knew earlier, we also picked up her sister, maybe we are more diligent."
Cheng Yangyang, who didn't want to listen to their praise, originally wanted to turn around and go back to the house, but when she heard the man say that she seemed to have a younger sister, she stopped.
"Sister?" Cheng Yangyang turned to look at them, "You mean I still have a sister?"
The servant who was asked didn't see any difference in her, and nodded while twisting her clothes, "Yes, what's wrong?
She was twelve years old when they picked her up and returned to the village, didn't she remember that she had a sister?
"Are you sure? I really have a sister!" Cheng Yangyang rushed in front of them, she had no memory of the previous master, she didn't know anything.
If the dead little girl really had a sister, then she must have to help her get her sister back and raise her.