"Eleven Lang, I went to see the spring." Ye Dan looked at Ye Chang's eyes a little strangely.

Regardless of whether this nephew really met an immortal or not, one thing is for sure, he is no longer the kid who wanted to find immortals and visit the Dao alchemy for immortality. Therefore, Ye Dan began to formalize his junior, and now there are still two things in his heart: one is to suppress him and prevent this side branch junior from threatening the status of the Changfang lineage in the future; The other is to support him with all his might, so that he can soar to the sky with the help of the power of the family.

Xiuwu has been outstanding since ancient times, and there are many local families, but Wu Zeye's Ye clan is not among them, in the final analysis, there are still no outstanding people in the Ye clan. Ye Dan used to ignore Ye Chang's existence because of his mediocrity, but now he began to look at him squarely because of his experience.

"The location of the spring is not quite right, the water over there can't flow into our fields." Ye Dan said again.

"What Sect Chief Ye said is that it can't flow from our side, and it's useless to look for spring water." Someone lamented.

Ye Dan looked at Ye Chang quietly, his expression made Ye Chang's brows furrow, and he always felt that something was wrong. Then, I heard Ye Dan say again: "When you meet immortals, don't talk nonsense, those who are blessed to meet immortals are the step to enter the body, and people like us will inevitably become the way to get into trouble." ”

After he finished speaking, he hugged his fists towards the people in the courtyard: "Fellow villagers, Eleven Lang is young and ignorant, don't you want to praise him again, lest he cause any trouble and affect you." ”

At this time, Ye Chang was surprised.

This uncle is very capable, no wonder he can sit firmly in the position of the patriarch and the village leader, just a few words, and these people were suppressed.

Who wants to be implicated?

"Muramasa, Fang Cai Shilang said that there is a way to lead water to our slope fields." But there was only a moment of silence before someone spoke. The calamity of the future is the future, but if there is no water now, everyone will have to sell their fields and land, and even sell their sons and daughters.

This news made Ye Dan's brows furrowed tightly: "Nonsense, the young man is so big, do you believe it too?" ”

"Eleven Lang is not an ordinary young man, he has an immortal point!"

"Exactly, if you change to an ordinary young man, how can you find spring water in this great drought, the boss has a spring, Muramasa, you have just been to see it!"

"It's a coincidence, it's dark at night, and you don't go back, do you have to disturb Eleven Lang's rest?"

Ye Chang felt strange in his heart, Ye Dan's attitude didn't seem to want him to help the village bring spring water. He frowned, seeing that everyone was forced by Ye Danjiwei, and gradually dispersed, he couldn't help but feel a little unhappy in his heart.

If water can't be brought in, and the ten acres of land on the slope he has not harvested, then what will he eat with Xiang'er in the second half of the year? Moreover, Ye Chang needs to use the matter of finding a spring to divert water to establish his prestige in the village, and it will be convenient to find people and do things in the future.

After everyone dispersed, Ye Dan looked at Ye Chang, and in the hazy night, his expression was a little strange.

"Eleven Lang, rest early, don't think nonsense, the matter of the spring water will end here."

"Sect Leader, I do have a way to lead the spring water uphill."

Ye Chang raised his eyebrows, his plan could not be stopped because of the sect leader's distrust. Moreover, if he could get the support of the sect leader and mobilize the strength of the entire Ye clan, then he would be able to achieve success faster.

"Eleven Lang, don't you understand what I mean, the matter of leading the spring is over here!" Ye Dan said sternly.

"Why?"

Ye Dan didn't say a reason, just stared at Ye Chang, and from the eyes of this nephew, Ye Dan found persistence. Although Ye Dan wanted to make the other party succumb with a stern look, the other party's gaze was always clear.

This kid, for some reason, is so determined now, and he won't easily change for others.

After a while, Ye Dan nodded: "I don't care about you, but you don't want to think that our Ye family will contribute a sum of money to help you." ”

With that, he left.

He walked on the front foot, and another villager came in on the back foot, asking Ye Chang for ideas. Ye Chang didn't elaborate, just asked them to bring their tools and wait for him to hear from him early the next morning.

After sending these people away, Ye Chang thought that he could finally be quiet for a while, but he never thought that Xiang'er had just started cooking dinner, and his brother Ye Shu and sister-in-law Fang came over again.

Seeing Liu Gui huddled obscenely in the corner, Fang's eyebrows raised slightly, and whispered something to Ye Shu, Ye Shu strode in front of Liu Gui: "Liu Gui, come with me." ”

Liu Gui was frightened, Ye Chang's courtyard was so lively, he shrank aside as much as possible, secretly wrote down everything that happened, and waited for the opportunity to pass the news to the third room chief. Now, Ye Shu wants him to go, I don't know why.

But he couldn't refuse, he was a domestic servant.

"Sect Leader Fang is here?" Fang asked softly after Liu Gui was sent away.

"Yes." Ye Chang's heart moved, judging from his observations, the Fang clan could still be trusted, he couldn't understand why the patriarch didn't care about the matter of water diversion, the Fang clan had some wisdom, maybe he could get some answers from her. Therefore, he told Ye Dan's reaction again, and finally asked: "Sister-in-law, tell me, why doesn't the sect chief want me to go to the water channel?" ”

Because of the question answer, and because of the habits of later generations, Ye Chang stared at the Fang clan with burning eyes, making the Fang clan's face involuntarily slightly feverish. Fang Clan was a little strange, before being hit by the broom star, Ye Chang was quite shy, Mo said that staring at himself like this, even if he said a few more words to him, he would also be red-faced, but now, he showed a calmness that made Fang Clan feel weird.

This kind of calmness seems to have some strong persecution, which makes people have to follow his wishes.

"Sister-in-law?" Ye Chang found that Fang was silent, and urged again.

"Actually, it's very simple, the sect chief has taken a fancy to those slopes." Fang Shi froze and scolded himself secretly, and then spoke.

This sentence woke up Ye Chang.

Why did Wu Zepi have such a serious drought, Ye Dan, the patriarch of the village, did not actively organize the drought fight. For Lu to point out the location of the spring water, Ye Dan was not only not happy, but a little dissatisfied. Why did he tell him that there was a way to bring the water over the mountain, but Ye Dan was unwilling to provide clan support!

At this time, Ye Chang had a deep understanding of what era he was in.

The uniform land system has begun to disintegrate, and land annexation has gradually become serious. For a landlord and gentry like Ye Dan, a natural disaster is an opportunity, taking advantage of the natural disaster, he can buy other people's land and mansions at a low price, and he can raise a large number of slaves.

As for this kind of drought will also damage the interests of the children of his own clan like Ye Chang, for Ye Dan, it doesn't matter, distant relatives, if they are kind-hearted, they will reward Ye Chang for a way out, if they are ruthless, they will live or die for Ye Chang!

Anger rolled in Ye Chang's eyes.

He can't be like Ye Dan, treating human life like a mustard, especially those who are harmless to him, and even the neighbors who don't look up and look up!

His anger surprised the Fang clan a little, so he raised his eyes and glanced at him, and then lowered it again: "It's always been like this, otherwise where did our Ye clan get so many fields, it's your share of the land, and it was also bought by the clan a few years ago." ”

Ye Chang's anger suddenly disappeared.

Indeed, this is the norm in this era, and when he gets angry about this kind of thing, he loses his position - he is also a vested interest in the system.

But...... Although Ye Chang was not angry, he was still unhappy in his heart. After all, if he wants to watch others sell their children and daughters and their families die, he is very uneasy in his heart.

"Therefore, you don't want to come out again, even if the immortals have instructed you to draw water, you don't want to come out. When those fields are in the clan, you and the sect chief will dedicate the method, and at that time, the sect chief will not be able to hand over the slope field to you to take care of. "The Fang clan is the most reluctant.

"Sister-in-law...... I can't. Ye Chang struggled in his heart for a while, Fang's proposal was the most beneficial to him, but he really couldn't do this.

It has nothing to do with nobility, it just has a bottom line.

"You are good-minded, and that's how it is when you are small, if so...... It's not impossible. Fang pondered for a while.

Because the light was very dim, by this time, Ye Chang could no longer see Fang's face clearly, but he could feel that she was concentrating on thinking. Ye Chang nodded, he didn't know much about Sect Leader Ye Dan, so he really didn't have any good way to deal with it.

"If you can attract the spring water beautifully, things will be done very properly, and the sect leader will also be impressed with you. In that case, maybe the sect leader won't blame you for ruining his things. ”

"Huh?" Ye Chang was a little puzzled.

"There are no outstanding figures in our Ye family's generation." Fang Shi said in a low voice: "If it goes on like this, even the position of the village is afraid that it will be lost." ”

Hearing this, Ye Chang completely understood.

Ye Dan's perspective on the problem is no different from any clan patriarch, landlord and gentry in this era, whether it is a famine or a clansman, it must be able to bring him benefits, if it is not direct benefits, it is long-term benefits. Fang's meaning is to let Ye Chang not have any scruples and give full play to his talents, at that time, Ye Dan will think about it in the long run, and the Ye clan also needs someone to take over his position in the village.

Ye Chang has no interest in Muramasa, his current ambition is to cherish the people who care for him, and at the same time enjoy his life in this second life.

"I understand, thank you sister-in-law for your advice." Ye Chang saluted and thanked the Fang family.

There was nothing to say all night, and early the next morning, Ye Chang had not woken up from his dream, and there was a noise outside. Ye Chang opened the door with sleepy eyes, and saw nearly 100 men, women, and children waiting outside with tools.

Seeing him come out, everyone began to greet him, some called Eleven Lang, some called Eleven Brothers, and some relied on the old man to sell the old and call the Eleventh Nephew. Ye Chang smiled on his face, and he was not too troublesome, and greeted them one by one. His appearance made everyone feel like a spring breeze, and there was a request for him, and everyone had to say a lot of words.

Hearing that Ye Chang hadn't eaten breakfast yet, they took out their dry food one after another - they were going to go out to do manual work today, and everyone had prepared some dry food. Ye Chang naturally refused, he began to distribute people while drinking corn porridge, and after a while, he picked out eight older ones according to their age, and then divided the hundred or so people into eight groups, the old and weak and the women who had no strength were divided into two groups, and their role was to provide logistics and do some chores. The young and strong are divided into six groups on average.

He made such a big noise here, naturally someone quietly told the third room Changzhi side, hearing this, Liu suddenly jumped up: "Ha, ha, this little animal is really unreliable, he was stupid when he was provoked, and he really went to draw water...... We went to see it yesterday, and there was no water there! ”

Ye Neem also had a happy face: "Even if it is successful, there will be no good fruits, the patriarch's mind is the same as ours, and he wants to take this opportunity to collect all the fields scattered among the families, and he leads the water to it, which is to offend the patriarch!" ”

Hearing this, Liu was even more proud: "I want to go back to my parents' house, and then let my father be the master, I don't believe it will not work out this time." ”

The two of them were thinking that the sect chief would be angry because Ye Chang sabotaged his annexation land plan, but Ye Dan, the head of the Ye clan, did not have much anger at the moment, on the contrary, his face was more surprised: "Ye Chang really arranged it like this?" ”

"Exactly."

"I didn't expect it......"

Ye Dan muttered to himself, Ye Chang's assignment was in good order, which made him very surprised, you must know that Ye Chang had never been in charge of people and things before-Guan Xiang'er's little girl was not counted.

"You follow them, and then see, if there is any change, or any progress, come and report to me quickly." Ye Dan commanded again.

The person who was sent by him to inquire about the news was a distant brother of Ye Chang's generation, named Ye Xun, and after hearing this, he answered, and then ran to Ye Chang's house again. But when he arrived, he found that Ye Chang's house was empty, and there was no one left.

He expected that everyone had already rushed to their destination, so he chased after him outside the village, and sure enough, he saw a group of people walking forward in a scattered manner outside the village. He followed behind, and heard the crowd either shouting loudly or whispering, and at first the crowd was scattered and scattered, but gradually eight teams were formed.

The elders who were picked out by Ye Chang may have been instructed by Ye Chang to gather the manpower of their group from time to time, so although they were scattered, they were not out of order. In Ye Xian's eyes, there is nothing unusual, but if Ye Dan is here, he will find something unusual.

It is already a great thing that the people of the countryside are accustomed to being casual, and they can go out to work together in this way, and still be able to maintain this degree of order.

Ye Chang kept paying attention to the situation of each group, and those who came from the era of socialized mass production naturally understood the importance of labor discipline. But these people who are accustomed to the economic life of small farmers want to immediately strictly abide by labor discipline like the workers of later generations, it is absolutely impossible, and Ye Chang does not think that he has this kind of aura on him, which can make them change qualitatively.

All he did was keep an eye on the eight leaders he had singled out. According to the prior agreement, the spring water is limited, so irrigation has come first, and whether the eight leaders can restrain the people in their hands is directly related to whether his own family can give priority to irrigation, which is a matter related to the life of the family, and no one dares not to be cautious.

Therefore, although the eight people were older, they didn't dare to go against Ye Chang's wishes, and racked their brains one by one to restrain their group. In this way, Ye Chang did not spend too much energy, and the itinerary that originally took the boss's time was also greatly compressed.

The first thing they did was to dig a gully on the slope, which made Ye Xian, who came with him, feel a little bored: the water was still a few miles away, and there were a few hills blocking it, so it was too funny to start digging a gully here.

The young and strong laborers are responsible for digging the trenches, and the old and weak are responsible for laying aside the excavated soil to form a loess road. Because of the use of the method of segmentation, everyone worked very quickly, and it didn't take long for one group to finish their work first, and everyone was already talking and laughing and sitting on the side.

"Fourth Uncle Cui's group won the first place, and when the water was drawn and the water was divided, the fourth uncle's group added five points first." Ye Chang announced the reward in time: "According to our agreement, the most detrimental water is arranged according to points, which group has more points, which group can get priority, everyone has to work hard!" ”

The rest of the groups immediately agreed.