Chen Xin walked out of the Haiphong Provincial Government Office in Dengzhou Shuicheng slowly, and walked along the east city wall to Zhenyang Gate with his own soldiers. After he entered the city, he first went to see Sun Guozhen, and the adult who had done Dutch ghosts was even more haggard, and he did not have the calm and leisure when he first took office. He was polite to Chen Xin, a castrated hero, and asked him about the incident when he fell to Wei last year, Chen Xin only said that it was because he saw Yang Weiyuan being assassinated and did it in anger, and Sun Guozhen didn't ask much about it. asked Chen Xin about the bandits a few days ago, Wei Haiwei's merit report book had come up, and he also knew, Chen Xin briefly told him about the process, Master Sun praised a few words, and gave Chen Xin a set of mountain pattern armor

After Chen Xin came out of the governor's yamen, he went to Shuicheng to meet Zhong Daotai and told him about the goods he bought, Zhong Daotai listened to Chen Xin's report with satisfaction, and did not urge Chen Xin to go to sea earlier.

In order to avoid Sun Guozhen's suspicion, Song Wenxian did not enter the city with Chen Xin, and returned home by himself.

Song Wenxian opened the door with a gloomy face, and took Chen Xin to the study, Chen Xin looked around at the door, didn't see Xiao Jiahua, closed the door of the study and proudly handed Song Wenxian a ticket, Tianjin took 20,000 taels, Song Wenxian took it without saying a word, Chen Xin asked a little surprised: "This is given by Sun Guozhen, he has to participate in both boats, more than Lord Zhong, Mr. Song is not surprised why he participated?" ”

Song Wenxian snorted, "He took my eldest son and Xiao Jiahua to his official office a few days ago. ”

Chen Xin suddenly, it must have been Sun Guozhen who noticed that Song Wenxian and himself were getting too close, Song Wenxian glanced at Chen Xin fiercely and said: "Li Song has never been like this before, he is all to help you pay New Year's greetings." ”

In fact, Song Wenxian also knew that it was not a matter of New Year's greetings, and from the beginning when they went to see Sun Guozhen together, Sun Guozhen had already regarded them as a group.

Since people have already prepared, it is not easy to eat other people's silver, Chen Xin frowned and lowered his head and thought for a while, and said to Song Wenxian: "Since Sun Guozhen is prepared for this matter, let's see when the time comes, if it is not big, don't take this risk, Xiao Jiahua is nothing, but your eldest son can't ignore it." At present, Sun Guozhen has promised to report my military exploits of beheading the bandits, and I want a guard commander to come down, and the military department has money to help me, and when I come back from Japan, I can enter the Wendeng camp. ”

Song Wenxian looked at Chen Xin and arched his hand: "It's rare that Brother Chen cares so much about the dog, you and I have been planning for a long time, but we still haven't got the 10,000 taels back." ”

Chen Xin knew what he said about the 10,000 taels he gave to Sun Guozhen last year, and comforted him with a smile: "Mr. Song, how can everything go well, let alone compete with these adults." There are many opportunities to earn money, and we can make a lot of money by going to Japan. Sun Guozhen's shape is worried, but he is more careful, but this Lord Zhong thinks he is at ease, hehe. ”

Song Wenxian still had a gloomy face, and after a while, he asked Chen Xindao: "What else do you have to do in Dengzhou?" ”

"Master Sun has all the hostages, and I will take my hostages back."

"You mean ......"

"Scar's family, this time I want to bring it back to Weihai."

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In the early morning of the dungeon, a few roosters began to crow, the surrounding fields were shrouded in a thin mist, Wang Huzi's wife Wang Lushi squeaked and opened his door, a stray dog at the door whined, quickly ran away, turned the corner of the wall and disappeared, Wang Lushi rubbed his hazy eyes, wiped a big eye feces on his hand, and then flicked it to the ground hard, and then looked up at the neighbors, several women around him also began to go out, after Tang Zuoxiang's wife came out, she saw Wang Lu's mouth, and went back to the house.

Wang Lushi also snorted, then yawned, turned around and walked out of the house with a toilet, and the wife of the Tan carpenter's family happened to go to empty the toilet and say hello to Wang Lushi, and the two walked to the dung pit together.

"Sister-in-law of the Wang family, you said that these soldiers are not there, I am really not used to it, in the past, they called that number in the morning and made people upset, you said not to call it now, but I am not used to it."

Wang Lushi changed his hand and agreed: "No, if you want to say that Lord Chen's soldiers are different, they are all spiritual and obedient, this battle is still powerful, which is like those soldiers of Tianjin Wei." ”

Tan Carpenter's wife said: "Who said no, they are here, you can rest assured that you can live here, what kind of marching and training have been carried out in the past two days, and the people are empty, and there are only some on the boat left, and the ones on the ship are not good, they love to steal chickens and touch dogs, and Ma Zidun heard that they stole several dogs and ate them." ”

"That's it, I said the lady of the Tan family, you still have to raise a dog by the chicken coop, those on the boat don't dare to come to us, the dog has to run away when it barks."

The two of them have reached the dung pit while talking, this dung pit is outside the residential area, there is a public toilet on one side of the pit, and the other side is the place where the toilet is emptied, and there is a sign standing next to the pit "Feces are not in the pit and are fined five points!" The two of them carefully stood on the edge of the pit and emptied the toilet.

The lady of the Tan family ran more than a dozen steps away, and shook the wheel to get up a bucket of water, and the lady of the Tan family shook it while saying to Wang Lu's family: "It's still easy to use, Mr. Liu's mead spiral, I can't shake half a bucket of water for half a day, and I blame my man for not doing it well, that thing is difficult to do, and my man has been doing carpentry for so many years, and he has been forced to have no tricks." Now Mr. Liu has no choice but to change it to an orange tree (Note 1) to raise irrigation wells. ”

After the water came up, the two of them washed the toilet while talking, Wang Lushi stretched his waist, raised his eyes and looked at the field outside, wheat seeds and beans were planted, and some cotton, just waiting to be watered and sprouted, and wanted to come here to see the two small waterwheels by the river in Qincun. Since the beginning of spring, there has been no rain, now by the irrigation well watering, the wellhead is too small, with orange tree to lift water is also very tired, so all the carpenters in the Qincun River to build two small waterwheels, but the water flow in the Qincun River this year is also less, when the waterwheel is repaired a little higher, the water level is often under the blades of the waterwheel, the waterwheel does not move most of the time.

"Huh? The lady of the Tan family, the waterwheel is moving, there should be water in the canal today, go and take a look. ”

When the lady of the Tan family heard this, she also hurriedly looked over, it was indeed slowly turning, and the two walked happily over there, and while walking, they saw if there was water in the canal, but it was still dry.

The lady of the Tan family walked for a while, and suddenly scolded: "Dog, I said why there is no water, stop!" You're still digging! She shouted and ran to the canal in front, Wang Lushi also saw a few people by the canal in front, and rushed over to take a look, it seemed to be people from Mazidun, the side of the canal had been opened twice, and the water was led to the pond of Mazidun.

The lady of the Tan family has a fiery temper, rushed over and grabbed a scrawny military household and scuffled, scolding in her mouth, "Tell you to dig!" "The military household is very thin, the Tan family lady is living a good life now, fat and strong, pulling the military household's hair with one hand, and constantly slapping the other party's head with the other, even beating the military household to the point that he has no power to fight back, and the Tan family lady has also been caught with several blood marks on his face. The military family was in the sky, dragging the hand of the Tan family lady pulling the hair with both hands, and the feet retreated again and again, bumped into the ridge behind him, and fell, the Tan family lady was pulled by him, and also fell to the ground together, the Tan family lady fell to the ground and still scolded endlessly, and her hands were still firmly grasping each other's hair.

Seeing that this woman was so powerful, several other Ma Zidun military households next to him hurriedly came up to pull away, but the other woman stopped doing it, screaming and scolding and pounced on the Tan family lady, and also grabbed the hair of the Tan family lady, and said in her mouth: "You dare to beat my man!" ”

Wang Lu's couldn't help but say, and also rushed over to join the war group, two-on-two fighting, to say that Wang Lu's and the Tan family's lady's shrew boxing has a very high attainment, after a long period of actual combat testing, even grabbing and biting and fighting, the other two of the other two were suppressed and beaten, and several other Mazidun military households saw that their own people were suffering, and came up to pull Wang Lu's two people apart, and the wife of the military household was beaten to the point that her mouth and nose were bleeding, and her hair was scattered on her face, like a ghost.

The lady of the Luo family was not afraid of this ghost at all, she threw away the remaining strand of hair in her hand, although she was tired and panting, she still kept scolding in her mouth, "Just, you, these people in Mazidun, are the most shameless, make a waterwheel, let you make wood, just take two branches, let, let you go out, you can't walk two ways." She shook her pole and said confidently: "Who made this waterwheel, my man made it, now that there is water, you have people, do some things like stealing chickens and dogs, it's really shameless, you are shameless as a man, and a woman is ......shameless."

The wife of the military household was gasping for breath, holding a vicious breath in her chest, listening to the Luo family's lady still scolding, she suddenly grabbed the hoe on the ground and smashed it over.

"Ahh Help me! ”

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"Mr. Liu, go and see, someone is stealing our water!"

Liu Min came to the workshop early in the morning and took the two guns from yesterday for inspection, and the two craftsmen guarding the workshop were accompanying him at night, and Xu Yuanhua rushed in and shouted.

Wang Huzi happened to be on duty in the workshop yesterday, and he hadn't gone back yet, so he jumped up immediately, picked up a hammer and said to Liu Minyou: "Mr. Liu, this pockmarked dun is too deceitful, saying that they don't want to repair the water wheel together, and now they will steal it when they have water." ”

Liu Min has a headache, the canal has to pass through the familiar land of Mazidun, they dredged the diversion canal to the Qincun River, then began to divert water to open up the wasteland, there has been no rain at the beginning of this year, the water level of the Qincun River is also very low, finally there is water, Mazidun came to make trouble again.

Liu Minyou put down the gun pipe and said to Wang Huzi: "Don't go to join in the fun, I'll go and see, the gun pipe is smaller than the original error, and it is done well, and the ruler and measuring tool will be calibrated every two months in the future." Wang Huzi, you are responsible for the verification, and if you find that the tools used do not match, you will deduct a penny. ”

After that, he took Xu Yuanhua out, and when he arrived at the side of the canal, there were a lot of farmers on his side, and there were already seventy or eighty displaced people recruited after the beginning of spring, plus the original five guarantee households, there were already more than 100 households, and the newly repaired houses would soon be full again.

Although these peasant households have no wages here, but they have food and housing, and their lives are several times better than their original homeless people, and they heard that the land here has been opened up, and they may have to be divided into farming in the future, and everyone is full of hope, and now these people in Mazidun actually dare to come to grab water, and these peasant households are all the same enemy, and they rushed over with a hoe to support.

Liu Minyou hurried to the outside of the crowd, the crowd was already screaming and scolding, and the crowd was surging, only to hear a woman crying inside, "Guys and neighbors, you talk about this reason, they just steal water, and they want to beat people, look at my head, look, this blood doesn't stop, I can't live......

Liu Minyou quickly separated the crowd and squeezed into the middle of the circle, only to see the lady of the Tan family covering her head on the ground, Wang Lushi supporting her on the side, there was still some blood on her face, Tan carpenter and several craftsmen caught a man and a woman in Mazidun, more than 100 people in Mazidun were standing opposite, also holding a wooden stick and hoe, and Gong Pingkang was persuading on the side.

Gong Baihu saw that Liu Minyou was coming, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and came over to Liu Minyou and said, "Mr. Liu, you are here, you see what happened." ”

Liu Minyou saw the blood on the forehead of the lady of the Tan family, and said angrily to Gong Pingkang: "Gong Baihu, when the waterwheel was repaired, it was clearly said that our land is far away from the river, and it is inconvenient to carry water. ”

Gong Pingkang felt a little unreasonable, and said with some anxiety: "Mr. Liu is angry, these are all Qiuban soldiers who have just returned from Jizhen (Note 2), and they have just arrived, so I blame them for not having time to tell them about it." ”

Xu Yuanhua said angrily next to him: "It's just stealing water, and you have to beat people, this hoe can kill people." ”

Gong Pingkang knew that Chen Xin's background could not afford to offend, not to mention that there were more than 200 soldiers who were very murderous, but fortunately he was not here today, so he didn't dare to offend Liu Minyou, and apologized again and again: "This matter really shouldn't be." Mr. Liu has a large number of adults, so don't be familiar with these farmers. They went out in July and August last year, and now they are back, and they can't eat and sleep well over there, and they are pitiful, and they may have to go to Jizhen in July and August this year, and they all want to have more food, and their families will be able to survive the winter. ”

Liu Min saw him apologize, and he was a little relieved, and saw that the military household on the ground was indeed skinny, and he looked at him with a pair of eyes that was scared, and he couldn't bear it, so he waited to persuade his own people. Who knew that the wife of the military household on the ground suddenly scolded sharply: "You outsiders, you occupy our land, and you want to rob the water, and you shrew, obviously beat people first, and ripped off so much of my man's hair, you deserve to be beaten." ”

When the people on the other side of Mazidun heard this, they also shouted and scolded, and a few young people rushed over to grab people, but they were blocked back by the farmers here with hoes, Gong Pingkang was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, pushed this one away, and that one ran over again.

A young military household in Mazidun avoided Gong Pingkang and scolded here: "You outsiders, not only grab water, but also rampage in the bay, that big boat has knocked over our fishing boat twice, obviously you don't want us to fish." And to rob us of water, there is such a bully. ”

Liu Minyou also knew about it, Scar took some people to practice in the bay, and indeed knocked over the fishing boat twice, Liu Minyou said to the man: "This little brother, the collision with the boat was not intentional, and all the people were rescued, there are schools of fish and shrimp in this bay, why don't you let you fight." ”

The young man didn't give up, "Then you compensate the fishing boat, twenty taels for one fishing boat." ”

Xu Yuanhua came out and said angrily: "You need twenty taels for a broken fishing boat." ”

"What do you call a broken fishing boat! Don't try to deceive us, Ma Zidun ......" The wife of the military household on the ground wants to interject again. The lady of the Tan family, who was also sitting on the ground, interrupted her with a scream, "I bullied you, you can't do things, you can't scold, you can't beat, you can't, and you can't get fat by the fields." ”

The wife of the military household screamed, got up and pounced on the lady of the Tan family, the two fought again, the young military household over there saw it, and the noisy and shouting rushed up, and the two sides pushed each other, Liu Minyou and Gong Pingkang were both dissuaded in the middle, and they were squeezed by the crowd, and they had already received several punches and kicks. Liu Minyou shouted for the Tan family lady to stop, but the audience was full of voices, and no one listened to him.

The lady of the Tan family gained the upper hand again, pressed the woman under her and beat her, and a pockmarked dun military household opposite Liu Minyou shouted again and again, "Sister! He happened to be blocked by Liu Minyou, he looked at Liu Minyou and stopped. suddenly waved the hoe in his hand and smashed it on Liu Minyou's head.

Liu Min was caught off guard, he was beaten, his head was dizzy, and he was shaking, Xu Yuanhua saw it, grabbed him, and shouted with all his might: "They beat Mr. Liu, they beat Mr. Liu!" ”

Several farmers around heard it, all shouted together, and came up to help Liu Minyou, and Wang Huzi who came from behind arrived just in time with the craftsmen, and saw that Liu Minyou was injured, and took a look, this Mr. Liu is the most modest on weekdays, although he is dead when he does things, but he is very good to everyone in the pier, and also teaches children to read and write, no one is disrespectful in the pier, and the people of Mazidun actually dare to beat him.

"Fuck you!" Wang Huzi shouted, took the lead in waving the iron heart stick in his hand, and hit the people on the opposite side of the Ma Zi Dun......

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Note 1: Orange tree, a water lifting tool using the principle of rods.

Note 2: The Weihai Autumn Class arrives in September and returns in February of the following year.