However, it was said that Li You went out of the county by boat and went to the northeast, only to see the shallow river and dry canals along the way. The low-lying places are better, and in some high-lying places, the villagers are in groups, old and young, women and children, all of whom are out to water the fields on their shoulders, all of them have sad faces, and they don't see a smile for a long time.

This and the prosperity and hustle and bustle in the county are simply two worlds, Li You couldn't help but sigh, the same drought, the city outside the city is completely different, is there already a dualistic society in Jiangnan in this era? The people in the township are like this, no wonder there will be trouble and death because of the weapon fighting that prays for rain.

When the waterway was two miles away, the water was too shallow to sail, so Li You and his men had to go ashore on foot.

This Zhu family set, most of them are Zhuang households, the degree of wealth is much worse than that of Xishui Town, and many of them live in mud-walled thatched houses, and the brick-walled buildings of Li You's uncle's house are very eye-catching. His uncle, who has more than 100 acres of land at home, employs more than a dozen long-term workers, and earns 100 taels of silver every year.

When he arrived at his uncle's house, he led his men into the door. But when he saw his cousins and cousins at home go to the vestibule to greet him, he was startled, he had never been treated like this, and he said again and again: "Kill me, how can I afford it, little brother." ”

Leaving his subordinates to drink tea in the front hall, Li You went into the backyard again, and his uncle Zhu Zhifang was smiling and playing chess with the old teacher invited by his family. This uncle is over fifty years old, but he is well maintained, his face is still shiny, he saw Li You beckoned and said: "Good nephew, now you have a chance, I saw that you were extraordinary, and others still didn't believe it." ”

Li You hurriedly took a few steps forward and bowed to his uncle, then stood up and said with a smile: "Uncle is really good at laughing, I remember when you complained that my mother would only give birth to sons, so that my cousins did not have a ready-made daughter-in-law." ”

Zhu Fang glared and said, "The kid is talking nonsense!" It is clear that your father complained first that my family would not give birth to a daughter, so that you two brothers did not take advantage of it. After speaking, he regretted it: "It's a pity! Looking at your current appearance, my uncle and I are very sorry that I couldn't give birth to a daughter, and I cheapened someone else's family for nothing. ”

After the uncle and nephew finished greetings, the old gentleman next to him also stopped playing, but stood up to salute Li You. This restrained look looks like an old boy with no reputation, just mixing two bowls of rice in the Zhu family.

After the meeting, Li You asked, "What's going on with the fight?" ”

Zhu Zhifang replied: "After a long drought and no rain, I, the people of Zhujiazhuang, carried out the land god of my place and paraded around the territory to pray for rain. ”

This matter is actually very simple, although Zhujiaji and Dachunzhuang are close neighbors, they are only separated by a dirt road, and the two villages are bounded by this road. Although they are close, the two villages are not dedicated to the same land god, and in the hearts of the villagers, the two villages belong to the jurisdiction of different land gods.

When the villagers of Dachunzhuang saw it, they felt insulted, and gathered the surrounding villagers who worshiped another land god with them, and fought with the villagers of Zhujiaji.

Li You was quite speechless, what kind of bad thing is this, it's just that the land god statue here crossed a line in the minds of the villagers, which led to a large-scale fight, and before he came, he thought it was a fight between the two sides of the water. What is the difference between this and the joke I heard in my previous life about fighting a lawsuit for a few centimetres of homestead?

Foolishness.

Li You didn't bother to ask about this matter in detail, and asked again: "Who lives from it?" ”

Zhu Zhifang sighed and said, "It's a guy named Zhu Zhili on our side. There are only two mother and daughter left in the house, pitiful, pitiful. This man was too solid, rushed to the front during the fight, and was beaten to death by the group if he was not careful. ”

This name is so familiar, Li You thought back to the time of more than twenty chapters, isn't it the person who was favored by the Yan family steward last month.

At this time, I heard someone shouting in front: "Zhu Bo! The village entrance is about to fight again! ”

When Li You heard this, he took his subordinates and hurriedly walked to the entrance of the village, accompanied by his uncle. Sure enough, I saw dozens of people from each of the two groups of villagers confronting each other, but fortunately they didn't make a move.

A servant got Li You's order, stepped forward and stood in the middle and shouted: "The county government is here, you must not act rashly!" ”

The two groups of people, the villagers of Zhujiaji saw that the patriarch came with tolerance, and they were all overjoyed, and even a few could recognize the leader of tolerance as the patriarch's nephew; On the other side, I couldn't help but feel a little nervous, and some of the timid ones had already shrunk back.

Li You also made a difficulty, he thought that he had finished the fight, but he just came to close the end of the transaction, but he didn't expect to bump into the tense scene. If you don't want to be poked in the backbone, Zhu Jiaji will inevitably be partial, but if it provokes the anger of the people of Dachunzhuang and causes chaos, it will also be a troublesome matter.

But when he saw a person coming from the direction of Dachunzhuang, he saluted in front of Li You and said: "The contemptible surname is Fang, and he is the steward sent to this Dachunzhuang by the Yan Mansion in the city. He didn't know Li You, so he just called Mr., but he guessed a few points in his heart, and he stammered first.

Surname Fang? The steward of the Yan family? Li You knew in his heart that this was the Fang steward who instructed Fan Wu to frame him, and he didn't know why he was driven to this village. No wonder the master couldn't find you, you sent it to the door, and at that moment Li You smiled and said: "There are many Zhuang people in Guizhuang, I don't dare to reprimand, and I bother to preach and preach." ”

The officials on both sides were puzzled, not knowing what medicine was sold in Li You's gourd.

Steward Fang walked to the crowd of villagers in Dachunzhuang, the entire Dachunzhuang was a tenant of the Yan family, where was he afraid of these villagers, and reprimanded: "You Diao people! I don't take care of the fields, I only know how to fight indiscriminately, it's obviously lazy and slippery, and I also provoke tolerance to ask, and it's about to disperse! ”

In fact, what Steward Fang said was sincere, the land god or something, and he had nothing to do with him, an outsider. But these farmers fought and fought, affecting the farm work in the field, and this was what he was most concerned about. It is already miserable to be assigned to the village to be a village leader, and if the income handed over is less, it will be even worse, and the steward is afraid that he will not have to do it.

Li You saw that Steward Fang really reprimanded the tenants, and was secretly happy in his heart, and walked to Steward Fang's side and said: "They are not doing nothing, after all, the land lord collided with each other, and it is understandable."

Steward Fang snorted and said disdainfully: "Foolish people in the countryside, what kind of land master, use a bird." ”

Li You peeked at the tenants of Dachunzhuang, and they were all angry, and they dared not speak out. Feeling that the time had come, he pressed Steward Fang's shoulder on the spot, and said to his hand: "Take this guy for me!" Someone took out a rope and tied the steward Fang, and he was afraid that he would shout indiscriminately and block his mouth.

It's really pleasing on both sides. The villagers of Zhu Jiaji said in their hearts that they were really their own people, and they took down the other party's stewardship when they came up. And the villagers of Dachunzhuang just got angry, and some people came forward to relieve their anger, which was also secretly cool, not to mention that the steward of this party usually did not welcome him to see him in the village, and he didn't care about anything, and they had nothing to do with it, and they were arrested when they were caught, and the left and right were just another steward of the Yan family.

Li You bowed his hands to the crowd on both sides and said, "Villagers, give face to the next one, don't fight." In this great drought, when we should focus on livelihood rations, do we have endless fighting spirit, leaving the fields alone and waiting to starve to death in the next year? In the future, the land grandfather should pay attention and don't cross the line again. ”

The villagers who can fight for the land god are actually quite simple in another sense, and both sides feel that Li Tolerance from the county is very face-saving, so they naturally want to give Li Tolerance face, so they dispersed.

―――――――――――――――――――――――――The sea is all water, the officials have to endure it, and they have to push it if they recommend it, and it's really sad to think about it."

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