Because digging a well will cost more than one or two silver dollars, if Shen Sanshi's family is eliminated, and then the other households in Liuye Village are evenly divided, then the other households will get twelve Wen.

The people present had no opinion on the matter of each family paying 12 cents, but many people had an opinion on where the well was drilled in the village.

As soon as the village chief proposed to dig the well in the middle of the village, the people who were far away from the well were not satisfied, and they only heard them say—

"It's all the same money, why are they so far away from our house!"

"Village chief, if it is really in the middle, then it is closer for my family to carry water from the river than to carry water from the well, so why did my family pool this money to dig this well?"

"So is my family. If the well was closer to our house than the river, we wouldn't have said anything, but now it's like this, and we're really not convinced to make up this money. ”

After the man finished speaking, he also said to Li Zijing: "Zijing, if the well is drilled in the middle of the village, your house is the farthest from the well, and the river is the closest to your house, you can also tell me whether you are not convinced in your heart." ”

Li Zijing smiled: "Auntie, you said that the home where my father-in-law and I live now is quite far from the well, but my mother's house is also my home, and my father-in-law and I will often go to that house to cook a meal or something, and that home is quite close to the well, so I am not unconvinced." ”

The eldest lady was also refreshing: "I forgot that there is a home in your village, so there is nothing to do with you, we are not convinced." ”

The village chief nodded: "You say so, but it's true, they all make the same money, why are they closer to others and so far away from themselves." But digging a well in the middle of the village is already the best way to take care of most people, but if it is drilled elsewhere in the village, it will not be able to take care of so many people. ”

The eldest lady said: "Village chief, we all understand what you said, but if we really fight there, the river is really closer to us, we might as well go to the river to fetch water to eat." ”

Those whose rivers were closer than their wells chimed in: "Yes! ”

The village chief said: "So, you don't make up this money?" ”

Those humanitarians: "We want to make up, but our family's money does not fall from the sky, we can fetch water from the river closer to eat, why do we have to go so far to fetch water from the well?" ”

The village chief also knew that it was unfair to those who were far away from the well, so he said, "Then you don't have to make it up, but in the future, you will not be able to go to the well to fetch water to eat." ”

The men immediately laughed and said, "Of course! We didn't scrape together any money! ”

The village chief lowered his head and calculated, before he said: "Originally, it was enough to make up 12 yuan, but now some families don't make it up, so other families have to come up with 15 yuan each." Does anyone have any comments? If you have it, you can quickly mention it, if you don't have it, pay the money to me, if you don't have the money, go back and get it, and now you will collect all the money, and tomorrow I will also go to find a well to dig a well, and this well will be dug a day earlier, and we will be able to eat well water a day earlier. ”

Seeing that no one had any opinions, the village chief began to collect the money.

Li Zijing and Gu Ruohan were not in a hurry to squeeze forward to pay the money, but waited until everyone was handed over to the village chief in a swarm, and they were no longer so crowded, Li Zijing and Gu Ruohan stepped forward and paid fifteen yuan.

What they didn't know was that when the village chief proposed that the well be dug in the middle of the village, on the other side, Shen Sanshi and Tian killed Sun Ergou by mistake.