April 25th, Water Fighting Day

At about five or six o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was no longer scorching, and it became a lot more approachable.

There were idle people in several nearby villages, and they all gathered around the small river that flowed through several villages.

The river is not very wide, five or six meters, and the village of Ikeda, where Xijiang is located, belongs to the middle and lower part of the river, and all the paddy fields near the river depend on this river.

However, in recent years, the rainfall has not been high, and the river does not store a lot of water, so if the water is blocked upstream, the rice fields in Ikeda Village will be affected. In addition to Ikeda Village, there are two or three other villages.

Because of the good location and the availability of more water in the upstream villages, the harvest has been much better than that of the downstream villages in recent years. The most immediate effect is that people in the villages upstream look significantly healthier and stronger than those in Ikeda.

Xi Jiang followed Wang and Li around the competition venue to watch the excitement.

Whether the village is rich or not can be seen from the faces of the villagers. In the upper villages, there are people wearing colored cotton cloth, and in the downstream villages, almost everyone has a vegetable face, and the patches on their clothes are dense.

Xi Jiang looked at the low water level in the river, and his lovely brows were twisted, worried. This year's climate seems to be hotter than last year, but the rainfall has not changed.

I am afraid that the harvest in this field is just enough to cover the taxes, and I want to have some leftovers, which is a bit extravagant.

Xi Jiang is thinking about it! The Water Festival began, and Li also explained the water festival to his two daughters at the same time.

Each of the villages through which the river passes has sent a team of ten people, and everyone has a desperate expression on their faces, and they must get a good ranking in this water festival.

The first program is a relay race.

What do croppers value most? The ability to farm the land, followed by a lot of strength. Therefore, the first game of the water festival is a group relay race, and then the points will be scored according to the ranking of the competition, and other events will also be scored.

After the competition, water sources are allocated according to the scores, and the villages with the highest scores can save a part of the river water in different time periods, and the villages with the lower scores can only wait for the water upstream.

Of course, the upstream will not go too far, and will definitely give enough water downstream to keep the crops alive, but the harvest will not be good.

Originally, it used to be a tug-of-war, but then I felt that it was not fair, and there was an element of luck in it. So, everyone agreed to change it to a relay race.

After that, there are events such as long jump, stone throwing and wrist wrestling.

Xi Jiang listened to Li's introduction, his expression was a little strange, isn't this the last world's sports meeting?

It's just that this sports meeting involves the harvest of a village and the life of a farmer's family.

Don't think that this water source is not important, the harvest is poor, and some people will really starve to death, and even if they don't starve to death, they won't survive the winter.

So, everybody is really trying their best to participate.

Soon the game began, and the signal for the start of the game was the famous loud voice of Shili Eight Villages.

A loud "start" roar sounded, and everyone ran with all their strength, full of explosive power, and must not be left behind.

The surrounding onlookers also shouted cheers to the people of their own village in the loudest voices. The scene was lively and prosperous.

This relay race is the most likely event to score points, after all, there is still a chance to break out in the short term as long as you work hard. But the others are all wrist wrestling, throwing stones, and long jumping, which is not an explosion, it depends on the overall quality of the body.

Therefore, several villages downstream are full of energy to win a good time in the relay race.

There were two dark horses in this relay race, and Ikeda Village, where Xi Jiang is located, is one of them. The two brothers, Tian Fengming and Tian Qingming, are really powerful, their speed is much faster than ordinary people, and they have recovered a lot of gaps.

The onlookers were amazed.

In addition to Ikeda Village, there is also a downstream village, where several young people are also running fast.

The results were not long in coming, with Ikedamura finishing third and the other team finishing fourth.

There are a total of more than a dozen villages participating in the competition this time, and the third or fourth place is a very good result.

After winning a good ranking, the people in the village were very happy and kept praising the participants.

"This time thanks to the two brothers Fengming and Qingming!"

"Yes! I didn't expect to win third place. ”

"Third place, as long as you work hard in the next competition, maybe our village will have a chance to intercept part of the river this year."

"It's all a credit to everyone. If it weren't for everyone's joint efforts, our two brothers alone wouldn't have won this achievement. Tian Fengming said modestly.

"Yes, listening to everyone's cheers and cheers, I am full of strength." Tian Qingming also agreed.

Seeing that the two of them did not take credit, the little discomfort in the hearts of the other eight people just now disappeared.

Soon the crowd dispersed, as there were other competitions to follow.

"Daddy, uncle, it's amazing!" Xi Jiang is in line with the person's design, and shouted this sentence at the right time.

Tian Fengming walked up to Xi Jiang, rubbed Xi Jiang's little head, looked at his eldest daughter Tian Tang, and instructed: "Today's scene is a little chaotic, don't run around with your sister, do you know?" ”

Tian Tang is already a person who is married, and Tian Fengming is not good at being too intimate with Tian Tang.

Thinking that in a few years, the youngest daughter will also be engaged and married, Tian Feng Mingxi felt a little sad, and their cabbage was about to be arched by pigs.

There are rules between villages that each person can only participate in one event except for the relay race. This is also to give downstream villages a chance to counterattack.

Otherwise, several events are all competitions in those junior high schools, which is better than a fart!

Tian Fengming signed up for the long jump, and Tian Qing reported throwing stones. They want to take advantage of this water festival to try how much they have improved and see how far they are from ordinary people.

Tian Fengming's competition is in front, and this kind of long jump is the kind of long jump that helps running. There are already people digging the soil in front of you, so be careful not to be hurt by falling.

The first to jump was a person from the upstream village, who was not tall and was a little more than 1.7 meters. It's not high, but it feels short and concise.

The man took a deep breath and began to run with a random breath, the rules of this game are not strict. Xi Jiang obviously saw that the man stepped on the line, but no one cared.

However, the man jumped less than a foot, that is, a little more than three meters. In terms of competition, it is an upper average result. The distance between the next few people is between 2.8 and 3.4.

Every time the surveyor reported the number, the people around him had to exclaim or boo.

Soon it was Tian Fengming's turn, and after looking at the results of the previous few people, Tian Fengming had a lot more grasp in his heart.

"Come on, Daddy!"

"Daddy is the best!"

Xi Jiang and Tian Tang shouted loudly on the side.

Tian Fengming glanced at his family, ran hard, and suddenly rushed out like a leopard.