Just when the chief felt that the old face couldn't hold up, Liu Xiancheng spoke: "Miss Lin is right, the water source of Quxi Village is not easy to come by, if you want a water source in Fangjia Village, you can't let people send water to the door in vain, right?" Fang Lichang, if you want water, you go back and discuss it with the villagers, don't steal it again. ”

Call!

Liu Xiancheng's words are tantamount to judging today's matter.

This water is the stuff of Quxi Village, and if anyone uses it without the consent of the people of Quxi Village, it is stealing or robbing.

Fang Lichang died of depression.

Why was it reasonable for the people of Quxi Village to dig the embankment in Da'an Village upstream at the beginning of the year? Now they come to dig the embankment in Quxi Village, are they stealing or robbing?

Now Liu Xiancheng, who represents the county government, has spoken, and he doesn't dare to refute it.

He looked at the depressed villagers, bowed down to Liu Xiancheng and said, "Lord County, I'll discuss it with you when I go back, but our village is too poor, and we may not be able to get two hundred taels of silver for a while." ”

Liu Xiancheng said: "Quxi Village is benevolent and righteous, people didn't say that they would want silver immediately, if your village is willing to share the money, then let Quxi Village release water for you to use first, and when the autumn harvest comes, everyone will buy the grain and send the money to Quxi Village." ”

Liu Xiancheng looked at Li Chang and Lin Qianqian.

Lin Qianqian: .....

She's not the lieutenant, what do you want her to do?

The chief came back to his senses for a while, nodded and said: "Lord County Cheng is reasonable, so let's do it, but Fang Li has to make a note, don't forget about it when Fang Li has a lot of nobles." ”

Liu Xiancheng nodded.

Fang Lichang's face was very unsightly.

The lieutenant said this, who did he think he was?

He quietly glared at the chief a few times, and the chief smiled on his face, as if he didn't see it.

If Fangjia Village wants to use water, it has to pay two hundred taels of silver.

If the two hundred taels of silver belong to the village public middle school, then how can their village spend it, haha.

Now that Fang Lichang is staring him out of a hole, he also thinks it's not a big deal.

"Okay, that's all for today, everyone is gone, stop fighting in private, otherwise you will all be dragged to the county office to play the board." Liu Xiancheng waved his sleeves and left with a few officials, not taking a single cloud with him.

Fang Li sighed and beckoned the villagers to go back.

Suddenly, an old man spoke: "Captain, make a decision now, do you want to buy this water?" If there is no water for the rice in our village, it will die of drought, so if we want to buy water, we should make a decision as soon as possible, and the rice will be able to drink water sooner. ”

As soon as the old man's voice fell, the people of Fangjia Village echoed one after another.

"Yes, this silver is not immediately needed, when we harvest in the autumn, we will naturally have silver, and buying water now is equivalent to investment."

"That is, there is no autumn harvest without water, and we will starve to death without autumn harvest, although two hundred taels of silver is a little more, but if this water can be supplied to our autumn harvest, we will not lose it."

"Also, I don't know when this drought will be troubled, if there is a drought next year or the year after, Quxi Village only said that it would cost two hundred taels of silver, and did not say how long the water will last, that is, it can be used for many years, and two hundred taels of silver can ensure that we use water for a few years, no matter how it is calculated."

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Fang Li Chang listened carefully to everyone's words.

He said loudly, "In that case, let's vote by raising your hands." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, almost all the people on the Fangjia Village side raised their hands, and the hulala crowd all raised their hands, only Fang Qingsong and his two classmates stood stunned.

However, there are three of them, two of them are not from Fangjia Village, and one is a scholar, and they don't care about farming at all.

Therefore, Fang Lichang automatically and consciously ignored them.

Fang Lichang said: "Everyone has no opinion, then we will buy this water." ”

This is followed by a series of actions.

Fang Li made a note and promised to send two hundred taels of silver to Quxi Village after the autumn harvest.

(Fang Lichang is also illiterate, of course he can't make a note, the note was written by Li Chengxuan, and then Fang Qingsong read it, and finally Fang Li pressed the handprint.) ）

After receiving the note, the lieutenant chief smiled and beckoned a few people to dig the embankment.

The people of Fangjia Village cheered and ran home with the current.

Fang Qingsong glared fiercely at Lin Qianqian, who was surrounded by people from Quxi Village, several times, and then walked back to the village.

His two classmates, Qian Tuobo and Wu Congjian, saw Fang Qingsong return to the village with an ugly face, they were embarrassed to follow, and they were even more embarrassed to come to the crowd in Quxi Village to talk to Lin Qian.

The two had no choice but to go back to the county along the road.

The people of Quxi Village saw that the people of Fangjia Village had gone back, and they slowly dispersed.

Zhao Ding stretched his waist and said with a smile: "Little demon girl, I'm going back to Mingzhou, and I will have the opportunity to come to see you again in the future." ”

Lin Qian nodded dispensably.

Zhao Ding looked at her perfunctory expression, and an inexplicable anger appeared in his heart.

He snorted coldly and walked away.

Lin Qianqian suddenly said, "Wait." ”

Zhao Ding was inexplicably happy in his heart, and looked back at Lin Qianqian with a silly smile.

"Where's the antidote? Haven't you gotten it right yet? Lin Qianqian asked.

He can go anywhere, but the antidote should be given to her, right?

Zhao Ding's face immediately darkened, and he said angrily: "Antidote, antidote, do you see that I only think of the antidote, can't I think of anything else?" ”

Lin Qianqian was puzzled: "Something else?" What else? ”

Zhao Ding was so angry in his heart.

He left without looking back, leaving only one sentence: "You just wait, the antidote." ”

Lin Qianqian ruthlessly reminded him: "Don't forget, if I die, you will also die of poison, I still say the same thing, when you give me the antidote, I will give you the antidote." ”

Zhao Ding ignored her at all and strode towards the entrance of the village.

As he walked, he suddenly felt funny.

Why is he so strange lately, why does he always unconsciously regard Lin Qianqian, a country girl, as his closest person? I can't help but lose my temper with her, what the hell is wrong with him?

Lin Qianqian didn't know Zhao Ding's entanglement, she turned around and went home.

Fangjia Village started to buy water, and several villages upstream and downstream of Quxi Village followed suit.

There were more than 1,000 taels of silver in the village at once, and the chief laughed so much that he couldn't see his teeth all day long.

The whole village followed suit, because the chief said that the money was shared by the village, and at the end of the year, everyone discussed taking a part of it out and dividing it.

The villagers have all calculated, after the autumn harvest, the village has more than 1,000 taels of silver income, even if the chief only takes out half of it, then everyone can almost get a tael of silver, which is a huge amount of money.

You can receive the money, but you have to keep doing the work.

Quxi village agreed to supply water to several villages, but now the flow of water from the mountains is not enough.

The lieutenant chief arranged for Father Lin and Lin Dashu to lead people to build a few more waterwheels, and also organized the villagers to increase and deepen the ditch to divert water, so that the water on the mountain could be supplied.

The people of Quxi Village are full of energy every day.

Going up the mountain to dig canals, going down to the fields to take care of the rice fields, chopping firewood and digging konjac for silver, everyone is busy every day, but everyone is happy because they feel that life has a rush in their hearts.