NOVEL NEXT Chapter 34 Stealing Water
It was getting light at Maoshi, and Mao Xi was preparing to go to Lihua Town. He saw Brother Chunsheng and several middle-aged men in the village holding hoes and heading up the river.
Recalling what Brother Chunsheng said last night about people from neighboring villages secretly changing the course of the river, she guessed that someone must have come to steal water again.
Although he couldn't fight, Mao Xi didn't hesitate at all. He took the hoe and followed Brother Chunsheng up the river with his mother-in-law.
Upon seeing this, Xiaodouzi took Ajiao and Dahuang and ran to find Luda.
"Uncle Lu, the water thief is here again!"
"What! I'll go with you right now." After saying that, he also took an ax with him.
Upstream of the river, Chun Sheng and his uncles had already filled in the illegally modified river mouth.
"It's only been a few days, and they came to steal water again! They must have dug it secretly while everyone was sleeping!" Old Uncle Liu said.
"Uncle, how about we take turns guarding here from now on!"
"Brother Chunsheng, the water channel has been restored. They will definitely come again later. Let's wait on the edge." Shu Xi suggested that everyone squat in the bushes first and wait for the water thieves to show up and catch them directly.
Sure enough, within a quarter of an hour, two leading men appeared, followed by a group of people with hoes in hand, as if they were coming to openly grab water.
Seeing that the mouth of the river they had secretly altered had been filled in, the two men directed the villagers to prepare for excavation.
Luda rushed out with an ax in his hand and shouted sternly: "Where are you from, a water thief who dares to change the river course privately!"
Brother Chunsheng, Mao Xi and other villagers followed Luda, also holding farm tools. The two sides were at war with each other, as if they were about to start fighting in the next second.
The man who led the village next door stood up: "We are from Wujia Village. Who said this river water belongs to you? We dug the river channel ourselves. Wherever the river flows, the water belongs to whichever family!"
"You are so unreasonable, big brother. This river originally flows to our Liujia Village. You changed the course of the river upstream and it all flows into your village. Wouldn't the crops in my village have no water source? Are you stealing water?" Shu Xi shouted at the other person.
"I'm too lazy to talk nonsense with you, so I'm going to change the water channel. What can you do to me?" After saying that, Wu Long, his younger brother Wu Feng, and a group of Wu family villagers behind them, took hoes and started digging soil to change the water channel.
How can the villagers of Liujia Village agree? The whole village's crops are irrigated by the river water. If the water source of the river is cut off, it is simply unrealistic to have to go to the official canal to carry water far away.
Lu Da was so strong that he snatched the hoes of the leaders Wu Long and Wu Feng, and knocked them to the ground with two punches. He stood in the river bed that was about to be diverted, his eyes wide open, and he yelled and said in shock: "Grandpa is here, you guys Don’t even think about changing the river course privately!”
The people from Wujia Village were frightened by Lu Da and took a few steps back, but they did not give up. As long as the people from Liujia Village were not around, they would step forward to dig.
The two sides faced off like this, until the sun rose three poles, but there was still no result.
Because of this matter, Liuxiang Snacks did not open early this morning. Seeing that the villagers were about to fight with the neighboring village, Goudan hurriedly ran to find Mu Zhiyuan.
At that time, Mu Zhiyuan and Li Zheng from the two villages arrived at the upper reaches of the river, and made a final judgment on the matter: Wu villagers should no longer steal water, and the Wu family should prepare their own water ponds during the rainy season and slack seasons for the use of people, livestock and cultivated land. The two villages Each uses its own river and each consumes its own water. People from other villages are not allowed to privately change the river course and carry water across villages.
After that, a stone tablet was erected at the branch of the river, with inscriptions on it and the inscription at the head of the tablet: "It will be passed down to future generations."
After this incident, Liujia Village expanded the pond and water diversion channel in front of the ancestral hall to ensure water supply for villagers during the dry season, so that water could be stored for their own use during the rainy season.
Mao Xi and Chen returned to the fields to check their crops. There was a severe drought this year, and rice and other crops were not growing well.
"It depends on the weather, the uncertainty is really high." Shu Xi sighed, opened the virtual universal mall again, bought some rice, noodles and food, and stored them in the space.
"This is not enough, we need to plant some more dryland crops!" She chose in the mall.
<Ding~ Corn, wheat, and cassava were purchased successfully. ＞
Mao Xi used the land where peanuts were originally grown to plant corn, wheat, and cassava.
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Since the stone monument was erected in the Liujia Village river, people from Wujia Village have no longer come to secretly change the river channel to divert water in the middle of the night.
People in Wujia Village also followed the example of Liujia Village in digging reservoirs. If there was farmland that needed watering, they would fetch water from nearby official canals.
Wujia Village originally had a stream flowing into the village, but this year there was a severe drought and the river dried up and bottomed out. Two brothers, Wu Long and Wu Feng, saw that secretly changing the river course in a neighboring village would relieve the danger of their own dry fields, so they encouraged the villagers to change the river course and steal water.
Now that the stone monument has been erected, the villagers dare not commit the crime again, but the two Wu brothers are too lazy to carry water for a long distance and are ready to opportunistically find another way.
The two went to the water storage embankment of Guanqu and secretly made a small opening with farm tools, hoping that the water from the reservoir would flow out and flow into their vegetable fields along the dry ditch.
Unexpectedly, the reservoir was high, and the dike that had been tapped changed from a small opening to a large opening. Finally, the water burst the embankment and flooded half of the fields in Wujia Village. All the nearly mature crops in the Wu brothers' own fields were also flooded.
Wu Long and Wu Feng suffered for themselves, and they were really the "crouching dragon and phoenix chicks" of farmers.
"Ah Shu, have you heard that the two brothers from the Wu family opened the dike, but the dike burst and half of the village's fields were flooded."
As soon as Mao Xi's family returned to the village, Brother Chunsheng told her the big news of the day.
"Isn't that the water storage embankment of the official canal? How dare they destroy it!" Shui Xi was also surprised. This drought and flood disaster has caught up with the entire Wujia Village.
"Now the whole village of Wujia Village is busy repairing the dam! Hahaha..." Chun Sheng felt that God had given him a bad breath.
"Brother Chunsheng, our village has dug a pond, so we won't be afraid of dry seasons anymore! Li Zheng said, do you want to dig another well?"
"Wells are also being dug, and Brother Lu Da has gone to help. Our village's food has grown so well this year, so we can't reduce production due to the dry season. The ancestral hall has just been built, and the clan has little money. Now each family takes turns digging ponds and digging. well."
We depend on God for food and clothing for ourselves!
Mao Xi opened the virtual universal mall again, and it showed that it was still being upgraded.
She was just about to stock up on more food to calm down the panic, but suddenly she remembered that Mr. Yuan said that day that coconuts from the South Island could also be bought at the pier, so she decided to set off on a different day to purchase some.
Mao Xi packed the food for the store early in the morning, brought two days' worth of dry food, rented a carriage, and prepared to go with Lou Lan'er.
Nalan Jue came to Liuxiang Snacks and saw Mao Xi sitting in a carriage. He stepped forward and asked, "Ah Mao, where are you going?"
"I'm going to the dock to buy some goods. Mr. Nalan, I heard that your family does business at the dock?"
"Okay, Ah Shu, you go first. I happen to have to go do some work too. Let's meet at the dock."
Goudan, who had been selling roasted sweet potatoes nearby, heard that Nalan Jue was also going to the dock, so he trotted to Jiafu and prepared to find Mu Zhiyuan to receive the reward.