"What's wrong?" Du Mei raised her porcelain white face, and there was a smile on the corner of her eyebrow.

"Lao Wangzhuang's came to grab water!" Du Tao dropped the basket in a panic and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Every family sends a laborer to take the guy to the mouth of the dam!" Du Huaibing struck the gong all the way and shouted loudly in the village.

"You look at Juniper, I'll go!" Hearing this, Du Mei picked up the hoe in the corner of the wall and hurried out of the yard.

"Ahh Du Tao stomped her foot, she regretted what she had just said.

"Plum ......" Xu Shi heard the commotion outside the courtyard, and hurriedly came out, and saw Du Mei holding a hoe and leaving without looking back.

"Where's the plum?" Du Zhong poked his head out of the courtyard with a shovel and asked.

"Uncle Zhong, my sister has gone to the dam mouth!" Du Gui seemed to have seen a savior, and rushed to the door and said.

"It's still a step too late, I just thought about letting Du Shu go for her." Du Zhong said with annoyance.

"What can I do?" Xu was dazed, and his heart was pounding with fear.

"Erjin's family, don't worry, I'll go over now, and I'll definitely protect her." Seeing that Xu's face was pale, Du Zhong couldn't help but say comfortingly.

"She, Uncle Zhong, thank you." Xu hurriedly saluted, and his heart was a little settled.

Dujiagou is a century-old family, close to Shewu Mountain and Sheshan Lake, living by the mountains and water. Sheshan Lake is the source of water for ten miles and eight townships. Back then, in order to benefit the neighbors, the ancestors of Dujiagou dug a big ditch, and the surrounding villages could share the water source in the years when the wind and rain were good.

Droughts in summer are common, and the ancestors of the Du family built a dam to protect themselves. The dam was built four or five stories high, and the dam was opened to release water depending on the severity of the drought. It has been like this for many years, and gradually an unwritten rule has formed.

Half a month ago, because the water in several nearby villages was cut off one after another, it had been released twice in succession. Since each village wanted to keep more water for themselves, and each intercepted the next part, when they arrived at Laowangzhuang, which was the farthest away from Sheshan Lake, the water became more and more tense, and now it has reached the point where people have no water to bathe, and livestock have nowhere to drink water.

Although Wang Genfa, the old patriarch of Lao Wangzhuang, is alive, he is no longer in charge, and his son Wang Youcai is in charge. He was in his early forties, unable to withstand the pry of the young students in the village, and led a group of young people who did not know the height of the earth to forcibly open the dam and release water.

On the mouth of the dam, on one side stood more than 20 young and vigorous young and vigorous young people holding shovels in Lao Wangzhuang, they were surrounded by a middle-aged man, and on the other side stood more than 100 men, women and children in Dujiagou, they were holding shovels, hoes, dung spoons, sickles, and even brooms.

Du Zhong found Du Mei in the crowd, frowned, and said, "Who told you to arch to the front, stand in the pile of women!" ”

"Uncle Zhong, it's going to be fine." Du Mei put his hand on the pergola and looked to the other side.

"It's not certain, you don't see them all holding shovels, and they look at the posture of playing with their lives." Du Zhong pulled Du Mei behind him.

"Sister Meizi, come here." The eldest girl pulled her clothes from behind.

"Hey, why didn't you go sell herbal tea today?" Du Mei stepped back to the women and asked in a low voice.

"The lotus leaves and honeysuckle have all run out, I wanted to pick lotus leaves today, but I didn't expect this incident to happen again." The eldest girl frowned, lowered her voice and said.

"The bitter gourd in the field is not dry, it doesn't bloom anymore, I think it's better to forget it, don't sell herbal tea." Du Mei remembered the fleeting thought of yesterday, and seemed to have a new idea.

"Then how can it be done...... the eldest girl was anxious, Du Mei trusted her and entrusted the stall to her, she was better and closed the business

Finish.

Before she could finish speaking, she heard Du Huaibing's solemn voice in front of her.

"On the other side, who is the leader?" Du Huaibing stood at the front of the crowd and shouted to the opposite side.

"We are from Lao Wangzhuang, no one is leading, we want water, we want to eat and bathe!" A burly man on the opposite side shouted in a loud voice.

"Half a month ago, we have released water twice, which is enough for ten miles and eight towns, why don't you have it!" Du Huaibing straightened his waist and said with his hands down.

"The water is blocked by the villages upstream, how can we have it!" Another man with his arms open and his big belly baring out yelled impatiently.

"You should negotiate with the villages upstream, even if you smashed the dam and released the water today, you won't be intercepted?" Du Huaibing said impatiently.

"What you said soundly, what village doesn't use water as money now!" The leading king said angrily.

"You're a kid from Wang Laogen's family." Du Huaibing saw it at a glance.

"Lizheng, do you know my father? Don't blame us for being unreasonable, we are also forced. Now that he was recognized, Wang Youcai had to take a step forward to speak.

"Anyway, you still admit that I am the Lizheng of ten miles and eight towns, there is something that cannot be discussed, and you have to use force!" Du Huaibing's tone was not angry and arrogant.

"It's difficult to get water in our village, is it useful to just play with words?" A tall, lanky man questioned.

"That's it, standing and talking doesn't hurt your back!"

"A full man doesn't know that a hungry man is hungry!"

……

There was an uproar on the other side, the crowd was angry, and there was an order to smash the momentum of the dam.

"I'll take you to the villages and talk about it, and let them release some water." Du Huaibing was silent, disdainful of the fanaticism on the other side of the dam, which seemed to be about to set the prairie on fire.

"Just listen to what you say, don't try to fool us!" The burly man didn't believe him at all.

"Their water is also limited, as far as you are concerned, it is only fifty steps and a hundred steps, for the sake of the endless water source behind, they will be accommodating." Du Huaibing said confidently.

"This ......," Wang Youcai hesitated.

What Du Huaibing said is not unreasonable, if they don't talk to the villages upstream, even if they rob the water today, they will make wedding clothes for others, and the upstream will stop the water, they still have no water, so not only do they become wicked people, but they also don't get any benefits.

After listening to Du Huaibing's words, seeing that the leader was silent, the twenty or so young people had no idea, and they all looked at each other.

More than 10 years ago, your father came to my house to borrow half a bag of millet to survive the famine, and my father didn't say a word, even the pocket was given to him. Why is it that now, our generation is going to meet each other? Du Huaibing said in a deep voice.

"No, no, we're okay, if you can really convince other villages to release water, we don't want to make trouble." The king has a wealth and a loss, and said with a weak heart.

"Then it's decided, don't let so many people follow, not go up the mountain to fight wolves. I'll just go with you and keep it settled. Du Huaibing knows that he will accept it when he sees it, he is a lizheng, and he is in charge of the source of the water source, and other villages will give him some thin noodles.

"Alright, alright, I'll come back to you after lunch." The king got the promise, turned around and took his men away.

"It's all gone." The breath that Du Huaibing was holding on to was dissipated, his head was soaked with sweat, and he loosened the clenched fist behind his back. Du Mei looked at Du Huaibing and felt that it was not easy for him.

Dujiagou people are in groups of three or five, dragging the guys,

Muttered and walked away. Although a group of them didn't do anything, they gathered around it with momentum and the confidence of the patriarch's speech.

The big girl is still struggling with the topic just now: "I can't help but sell it, the stall can't be closed." ”

"You rest at home for a few days first, and when I make arrangements, we will still open and do business." Du Mei has no bottom in her heart for the time being, but after today's events, she is already very sure that she has to make another deal.

"Shall we go back to town tomorrow?" The second stunned saw the two of them walking side by side and talking, so he squeezed through the crowd and walked in front of them.

"Sister Meizi said, don't do it." The eldest girl glanced at him and said.

"That's it!" The second stunned screamed regardless of it, attracting the side of others.

"What are you yelling about!" The big girl blushed and glared at him.

"It's just that I won't do it for the time being, now it's hot and there is a shortage of water, you should serve the two acres of land at home first, and don't confiscate it when the time comes." Du Mei didn't have a good face to show him, and said coldly.

"Okay, okay, then you must call me in the future." The second stunned man was like a dog skin plaster, recognized Du Mei and stuck it.

"I'm afraid you'll be tired and tired." Du Mei glanced at him.

"I can eat any hardship, anyway, I have to follow you." The second stunned stammered flatteringly.

There was such a scene, and in the afternoon, everyone in the village rested. Ye Qing came under the big sun, Du Mei was sitting in the room, writing and painting with a pen, and when he heard the movement, he hurriedly came out to open the door.

"Thirty stone of rice has also arrived." Ye Qing's face was flushed, and he said happily.

"I'm not in a hurry to send it at this time." Du Mei fetched water to wash him.

The strong man was still the same as last time, silently moving the sacks to the old house one by one.

"I have an urgent matter, and I'm here to tell you." Ye Qing washed his face and said refreshedly.

"What's wrong?" Du Mei can't think of anything that shouldn't have happened lately.

"Didn't you say last time, as long as there is food, you want it, but now there is such a thing, but the amount is too big, I don't dare to make the decision for you." Ye Qing was afraid that the partition wall would have ears, so he entered the kitchen with tea.

"How big?" Du Mei said with great interest.

"I will go directly to Qinghe County to receive the grain according to what you said today, which Cheng thought, the steward asked me if I still wanted, it turned out that the shipowner still had 500 stone of grain and no buyer, but this time it was the young owner, the Huizhou people, who couldn't stand the heat here and wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible." Ye Qing told Du Mei the news of the inquiry in one breath, lest something be left behind.

"As far as you can see, are they grain sellers, or are they sold on their own from the Grange?" Du Mei pondered for a while, pursed her lips and asked.

"I don't look like a grain dealer, who has a fixed sales channel. My thirty stone was found for me by the steward at the wharf, and I think the owner of the ship asked him to sell it. Ye Qing thought about it and said.

"Are those 500 stone all rice? What is the quality? Du Mei thought for a moment.

"I didn't ask exactly, it should be fine to feed the ducks, but you don't want so much." Ye Qing saw that she was intentional and said in surprise.

"We have a water grabber here this morning, it can be seen that the drought in the field is urgent, and seeing that the price of grain is going to grow wildly, if the quality of these 500 stone grain is good, I plan to cooperate with him for a long time and open a grain shop in Sheshan Town. It's convenient for home use, and you can also earn money. Du Mei didn't hide it from Ye Qing, and told her plan.

"Where did you get all that money?" In the past, Du Mei kept the money in Ye Qing, and he still knew how much money she had. 2k reading web