It seemed that seeing the disbelief of a few people, the eldest lady sighed: "Hey, if you don't believe it, you can go outside and see if I am lying!" ”

The whole Lu'an Village is really desolate and dilapidated, every household is an adobe house, and the villagers who come and go are all patched and patched, where it looks like they have made a fortune.

"What's going on?" Xie Yuluo asked curiously: "Yuexi Ming is from here, why are the villagers here so sad?" ”

Song Changqing's face was gloomy, and when he saw this dilapidated scene, he was also puzzled by the second monk.

The two walked around the village, not only the house, but also the adults and children, all of them were full of vegetables, and some of the young children did not even wear clothes, but walked naked outside, even if some of them wore clothes, they were all patched and patched, poor and shabby.

"Bell, bell, bell...... Old and young masters, the village chief summoned everyone to the entrance of the village, and there was something important to discuss with everyone, and the bell was ...... "A young man with a gong and drum, beating gongs and drums while running, running around the head of the village, and after a while, the young and strong old men of every household rushed out one by one, either with shovels and hoes in their hands, or with machetes and kitchen knives, and they all rushed in the same direction with fierce looks.

That posture, where it looks like it's going to discuss things, it's like going to fight!

Song Changqing and Xie Yuluo glanced at each other, neither of them spoke, and ran over with the crowd.

Before we arrived at the place, I heard an impassioned voice from a distance: "We send them so many tea leaves every year, just to change the water, they even want to withhold our water, isn't this forcing us to death?" ”

"They didn't let us live, so we fought with them, and the big deal was that the fish would die and the net would be broken. Everyone, don't live! One of them, armed with a machete, shook twice in the air, looking like he was mad at the other.

"If you don't live, you won't live, what will happen to your wife and children? They're not alive anymore? Tell me about you, what the hell is this idea, how many times have I said it, don't be so impulsive! Among these villagers, there was an old man in his fifties who smoked a large cigarette pouch, his brows condensed into Sichuan characters, squatting in the crowd, smoking a cigarette sullenly.

"What then? If they don't give us water to drink, we're all going to die, so it's better to die together! The big guy said just now, he showed the strong muscles of his upper body, and when he spoke, his face was fierce, but it was difficult to hide his original kindness and honesty.

What happened to make a simple peasant man reveal the ferocity of a bandit.

Xie Yuluo and Song Changqing stood outside the crowd and heard some general information.

The villagers of Lu'an Village want to exchange tea for water.

But the people on the other side don't seem to be satisfied, and they still need to use water to shackle these people in exchange for more tea.

"Village Chief, you have something to say! This fight, whether we fight or not. If you want to fight, I'll go back and get my bow and arrows! One of the villagers shouted: "It's all big men, we from Lu'an Village, I'm afraid that they won't succeed in Qiquan Village!" ”

"You asked me to discuss with their village chief first, there is always room for this matter to turn around, as soon as it comes up, they will fight and kill, if there is really a fatality, can everyone be okay?" The village chief finally finished a bag of cigarettes, put it at his feet and shook it, then stood up and stuck it in his waist bag.

"We don't want to, but if they don't give us water to drink and kill us, they're not executioners?"

"Then the most important thing for us is to find a water source, if we have water here, why bother to eat their water." The village chief sighed and began to order: "You guys are the same as usual, now go find the water source, and I will take two people to talk to Huazi 0." ”

The crowd that was still shouting just now should have gone all of a sudden.

Xie Yuluo and Song Changqing returned to the eldest mother's house, and the eldest mother was washing vegetables.

After washing the dishes, the water lady was afraid of spilling a drop, and poured it into the vegetable patch in the backyard.

He cherished water, as if he was holding gold instead of water in his hand.

The two looked at each other and asked about the water source.

Lady Quan poured all the water into the vegetable field without spilling a drop, and when she talked about the water, she sighed twice, "This water, in our Lu'an Village, just like our blood, every drop is precious!" ”

"Is there no water in the village?" Xie Yuluo asked.

Water is an indispensable thing in every household.

"No, we only have one river here, which flows down from the mountain of Qiquan Village on the opposite side, and they will take the water for themselves after passing through their village first!"

"The water belongs to everyone, how can it be theirs?" Xie Yuluo asked with a frown.

"Who said it wasn't, but they said that the water came down from their mountains, and that was theirs. We also dug a large reservoir to store water, and at ordinary times, there is a lot of water flow, and we can still install some downstream, but in this dry season, there is not much water on the mountain, and the water that can flow out is almost gone. You go and look at the ditch down the mountain, and when the dry season comes, the river is dry. If we want water, we can only go to Qiquan Village to change it. ”

"What they want to change, it should be tea, right?" Song Changqing asked.

The eldest lady nodded: "Well, they want to exchange our tea, it used to be one or two tea leaves for ten buckets of water, but now it doesn't work, it is said that they want to exchange one or two tea leaves for five buckets of water, and we are reluctant to drink every tea we pick, and all of them are used to exchange for water." As you can see now, the village chief brought a lot of people this morning, looking for water sources, and looking for Qiquan Village. The eldest lady sighed: "But what use can it be, this water source has been looking for decades, and it has not been found yet, hey, if you can't find it again, I'm afraid that the people in this village will be killed." ”

Xie Yuluo glanced at the lady who wiped her tears with pity, and sighed regretfully.

She said, this month, Ximing is so expensive, why are the people in Lu'an Village still so poor, why is the village still so poor, it turns out that their tea leaves are used to exchange for water.

And the Qiquan Village on the opposite side should already be rich and flowing.

"I won't tell you, I'm going to go outside to see if there's any water, I'm running out of water at home." The eldest lady got up, wiped the corners of her eyes, and was about to leave.

Xie Yuluo hurriedly said: "Auntie, let's get us two buckets too, and we'll go out to try our luck." ”

Song Changqing nodded.

"What's so embarrassing about that?" The eldest lady hurriedly waved her hand: "You gave so much money, how embarrassed am I to let you out!" ”

"It's okay aunt, I'm going to continue to bother here these days, if I can help, we have to do our best!" Xie Yuluo originally planned to leave today after staying, but now that she looks like this, she doesn't plan to leave.

The eldest lady was so excited that she kept wiping her tears: "Oh, hey, okay, thank you." ”

Xie Yuluo, Song Changqing, and Deng He, the three of them went up the mountain to find a water source.