"Everyone, please be quiet!"
Li Zheng raised his hand and pressed it down, and the angry villagers shut up.
"Dahe Village and Guihua Village live next to each other. After a dispute over the boundary issue more than 20 years ago, the two villages have coexisted peacefully for more than 20 years. If Dahe Village takes the initiative and goes to the county magistrate, the one who will suffer Everyone in our village." Li Zheng said slowly, "But we in Dahe Village will never allow anyone to steal our food!"
"If we can't fight, what should we do?"
"We can't let Guihua Village steal the food and then fight it back, right?"
"The people in Osmanthus Village are not good people!"
There were some in the crowd who were angry, and there were also those who looked unhappy.
The two villages are close to each other. Many people are married from Guihua Village, or have daughters who are married to Guihua Village. Naturally, they do not want conflicts between the two villages.
"Are you going to have a falling out with Osmanthus Village based on just one word from Sister-in-law Zhao?"
"There are some rogues in Guihua Village, but not everyone is unreasonable. If they attack them rashly, we in Dahe Village will be at fault."
"What if Sister-in-law Zhao heard it wrong?"
Cheng Wanwan said: "It is better to set up a patrol team, and send one person from each household to take turns on duty. Once there is any abnormal movement in Guihua Village, it will not be too late to fight back."
Li Zheng thought this was a good idea, but before he even nodded, someone refuted it.
He was the most lazy and lazy Zhang Lai Lai in the village. He stood on the ridge of the field with his hands behind his back and sneered: "There are a lot of things waiting to be done in the fields. Whoever has free time takes turns to be on duty? You bitch, just say it and find it for everyone." It’s a bad job, and if someone as honest as Li Zheng agrees to this idea, I would also wonder if Sister-in-law Zhao, a widow, has hooked up with Li Zheng!”
In one sentence, I poured dirty water on two people.
There were more than fifty people in the house. When they heard this, their beards stood up in anger, and they wanted to kick Mr. Zhang into the rice field.
Cheng Wanwan sneered: "Li Zheng agreed to my idea, just because he hooked up with me. If everyone else in the village agrees, wouldn't everyone have an affair with me?!"
Zhang Laitai looked arrogant: "Except for Li Zheng, it is impossible for anyone else to agree!"
"This is a great idea, why don't you agree?" Old Man Zhao walked out, "Our eldest daughter-in-law proposed this idea for the sake of the whole village. In order to avoid laziness, Zhang Lailai made malicious speculations. Our Zhao family has recorded this account. .”
Cheng Wanwan was slightly stunned.
Unexpectedly, at this time, the Zhao family would believe her unconditionally.
Old Man Zhao gave her a firm look, and then continued, "Decades ago, everyone in Dahe Village was named Zhao, and for several generations they were a family. Everyone was of one mind and there were few conflicts. But for more than a dozen Over the years, there have been more and more people with foreign surnames, and there have been more and more disputes among the villagers. The establishment of the patrol team this time will be regarded as a matter of the Zhao family, and people with foreign surnames do not need to participate. Of course, the patrol team established by the Zhao family, I will only protect the Zhao family’s food.”
Li Zheng nodded: "Later, the Zhao family will have a meeting at the Zhao Family Ancestral Hall."
"Li Zheng, this can't be done!" An old woman who looked to be in her 70s or 80s stood up and said, "Zhang Laiyi doesn't agree. That's his business alone. The rest of us didn't say we wouldn't agree! Although my family's surname is Zhu, I have lived in the village for fifty or sixty years and have long been a part of Dahe Village. How can I back down at this time? Although my grandson is young, he is smart, so let him join the patrol team!"
The old woman pushed out a boy named Zhu Huzi. He was really smart.
The Zhu family was also miserable. They fled to Dahe Village many years ago. Not long after, the pillar of the family, Old Zhu, died suddenly. His three sons and two daughters also all fell ill and died. In the end, leaving such a little grandson was all thanks to Mrs. Zhu. Pull and grow.
The Zhu family, old and young, shared ten kilograms of jade bamboo shoots handed over to the Zhu family yesterday, and divided them forty or fifty kilograms among the Zhu family. In addition, Hu Zi also dug some for himself, adding up to more than eighty kilograms. So much. The food can last two people for one or two months. How could Mrs. Zhu agree to have this food taken away by the people in Osmanthus Village? So I was the first to express my opinion.
Aunt Wang had experienced the pain of food being stolen, and she spoke for the second time: "The idea proposed by Dashan Niang is indeed a good one. Our family will let Daddy Ni do it."
"And in our family, the child's father is tall and thick. People in Guihua Village will definitely not dare to steal food!"
"Our family has a large population, so we can arrange for two people to be on duty!"
People with foreign surnames expressed their opinions one by one, and Zhang Laigui's face turned livid with anger.
These garbages all hold the Zhao family's stinky feet and deserve to be ostracized in Dahe Village.
He couldn't say anything, so he rolled up his sleeves and left.
Li Zheng asked everyone to quiet down and called Tiezhu to register names.
Tie Zhu is probably the most literate person in the village. He didn't learn to read specifically, but he worked for a year as a restaurant owner in the town, so he learned a lot about it.
He spread out a piece of straw paper, holding a brush in his hand, and wrote his name on the paper.
"Wang Yongcheng signs up."
"Zhao Dashan signs up."
When Cheng Wanwan signed up, she couldn't help but twitch when she saw the words Tie Zhu wrote on the paper.
This character is uglier than a dog crawling. It is written left-handedly and right-handedly, as if dividing families one stroke at a time. The word "大山" is written in a twisted way.
The key is that the villagers are still praising: "The word "Tiezhu" is so well written, the only one in Dahe Village."
"The Li Zheng family is going to have a scholar."
"Speaking of scholars, the Chengjia Village next door is the most outstanding. The eldest grandson of the Cheng family has passed the Tongsheng Examination."
"What is Tongsheng?"
"I don't know, it's just that it's very powerful."
Many people on the side glanced at Cheng Wanwan.
Cheng Wanwan's surname was Cheng, but she had a falling out with the Cheng family, so they didn't have much to ask.
Tiezhu still couldn't write many words. If he couldn't write, he would draw a circle. After everyone in the village signed up, the paper was filled with large and small circles.
Cheng Wanwan turned her head. Fortunately, she was not a teacher, otherwise she would have been unable to help but step forward to correct her.
She turned around to leave and saw a child standing not far away.
It was Zhang Dagang, the son of Zhang Laiyi, who snatched rabbits with Sidan last time. He stood there alone, his expression hidden in the shadows, and he could not see any emotion.
He stood for a while, then turned and left.
Cheng Wanwan returned home, walked straight to the room, and then clicked on the trading mall.
People from Osmanthus Village didn't know when they would come over, so she had to buy something to defend herself.
She looked around and chose a short knife.
This knife is very well designed and can be folded and hidden in the sleeve. It is the best weapon for self-defense.
She took the knife and swung it from the corner of the table, and it was able to cut off the corner of the table. No wonder it cost five hundred coins, it was really worth it.
"Mother..." Zhao Sanniu pushed the door open and came in. When he was about to say something, he forgot all about what he was going to say when he saw the short knife in her hand. His eyes lit up, "Where did this knife come from? It looks good." Sharp!"
After being seen, Cheng Wanwan didn't hide it, and said calmly: "I picked it up in the alley last time I went to town. It's really sharp."
Zhao Sanniu couldn't control his love for this knife. He stared at the knife with his eyes and kept rubbing his hands.
Cheng Wanwan held his forehead and said, "I gave it to you."
"Thank you, mother!"
Zhao Sanniu took the short knife and went out.
Cheng Wanwan finally bought herself an electric shock ring, which could stun an adult with a one-time discharge. The price was one tael of silver.
She reluctantly bought it, tied it with a rope and hung it around her neck for self-defense.
