Wangjiagou Village planted the banner of Erdaohe Village, and also set up oilcloth tents exclusive to Erdaohe Village, one next to another, in a row. There are ten of them in total, and they are set up on the upper slope of Wangjiagou Village.
Just look at each oilcloth shed and there is a big pot, there is food, there are two rows of benches in the rest area, and there is a pile of wooden bowls.
A rope was pulled up in the shed, and various dry rags, dry firewood, and a brazier were hung on it.
At this time, mugwort was burning in the brazier, gourds and ladles of water were floating in the bucket, and people inside were busy passing torches out continuously.
When it gets dark, the torches sent out from these sheds burn brighter and brighter than those held by others.
Zhao Dashan had a middle-aged subordinate named Shuangquan. He couldn't bear it anymore and stood outside the shed and asked loudly:
"You two are living in Wangjiagou, Erdaohe? How come you even brought mugwort and water with you?"
In the shed, Da Hongzi was cooking porridge for the men who went down to the river, and they had to drink the hot porridge after a while.
The people in their village had already thought about it and wanted to eat wherever they could, so they collectively collected food and went to Wangjiagou to cook. If I don't borrow someone's house from Wangjiagou, I won't be able to even burn firewood to heat my own home, let alone have a hot meal after a day's work.
When Da Hongzi heard this, he was not angry at the officials who had swords on their waists.
What are you afraid of? Their village is no longer the past, with people they know and people above them.
It was the leader, and she knew it all too well. He was Xianghua's eldest nephew, and he wanted to be Xianghua's in-laws.
So Da Hongzi also replied loudly: "This is not to prevent a major epidemic after a major disaster. Even if the rain stops, I heard it will be even more scary, isn't it? Burning moxa makes us feel at ease in our shed."
In addition, when I was going out to sell fish in the past two days, I had already exchanged a lot of good mugwort leaves picked before and after the Qingming Festival in each village. I was worried that if I was too close to Wangjiagou, I would be infected if something happened in Wangjiagou.
As for water, of course you have to bring it yourself, Da Hongzi told me:
"Emma, adults, please come down. The water from the well in Wangjiagou is not drinkable. Please help them quickly. There are manure tanks used to fertilize the land, and many huts have collapsed. Think about it, the feces and urine of livestock and poultry and human feces and urine are mixed with the river water flowing up into the well... Tsk, tsk, we Erdaohe people don't drink it."
These words made all the government officials stunned and paused in unison.
So what will they drink later?
The officials had a hunch that they would borrow things from Erdaohe Village later.
When they arrived at the dam, the government officials were even more shocked.
Who said there is a lack of rescuers here?
It can be said that there are huge crowds of people here and the torches are brightly lit.
Wait until you take a closer look, listen carefully...ah, lack.
Because more than half of the strong labor force did not participate in the rescue, they only focused on catching fish, shouting slogans, and working in full swing.
You say they did it right? Comparing the miserable situation in Wangjiagou, I always feel that the other side is crying, and it seems a bit inhumane for you to be busy making money here.
But you want to say that what they did was wrong? No matter what, Wangjiagou's rescue effort was not delayed.
And this team is particularly conspicuous and impressive.
Zhao Dashan observed the Erdaohe team, from fishing to transportation, and then to changing groups of people to go down the river. When Wangjiagou was about to block the cave where they were, the people of Erdaohe village did not delay Wangjiagou's rush to repair the dam. We will immediately evacuate in a well-trained manner and go to the next broken bank to continue fishing.
It can be seen that all processes are coordinated with each other.
Zhao Dashan stopped a fish picker from Erdao River and asked where Aunt Xu was.
The other party replied that her aunt was leading people to help Wangjiagou check out the embankment breach points at night, and Erdaohe had found all the water gushing points.
In other words, it can also be interpreted as that his aunt is leading people to find fishing spots.
Zhao Dashan: "..."
Zhao Dashan has heard that after every flood, more than ten thousand or even tens of thousands of catties of fish will be lost. It’s gone.
Looking at the scene in front of me, I don't know whether I should be grateful that Erdaohe is able to live a good life. After all, it is better to fish it up and save less losses than to lose it. In addition to the fish washed down by the current from the town and county, all the fish passing through this water area are blocked by Erdaohe Village downstream.
Zhao Dashan still had the illusion that he saw a certain regular logistics army.
Even for the Huo family army, with a little more training, the strong men of Erdaohe Village can be taken away to work as logistics leaders and transport grain and grass without any problem.
For normal tasks, Zhao Dashan felt that he might be able to do it directly without training.
When Wang Laoba heard that Capt. Zhao and his men were here, he hurriedly ran to complain to Zhao Dashan: "Capt. Zhao, I didn't lie at the prison, did I? You saw with your own eyes that they Erdaohe Village Ming robbed you? Run away from us. The village is acting tyrannically. This does not mean that you are robbing our village of money. Our whole village hopes that you will provide justice."
It can be seen that Zhao Dashan came here this time to not only lead people to rescue.
At noon today, the town hall looked for him and said that people from Erdaohe Village came to Wangjiagou to cause trouble and fish.
When the town pavilion came to talk to him, Zhao Dashan thought that it was just a small number of Erdaohe villagers who came to pick up fish when the water was out, and it was nothing serious.
So when I entered the village just now, I was shocked that it was not just a small group, but all the villagers in Erdaohe Village.
…
Zhao Dashan deliberately found a deserted place to talk to the accused Liu Laozhu and Aunt Xu.
Liu Laozhu's trouser legs were still rolled up. When he heard that he had been accused, he said to Zhao Dashan angrily:
"Why are you suing us? Do you know that their village should thank our eight generations of ancestors?
Mr. Zhao, you should know that if there are too many dead fish and dead livestock and livestock are not disposed of in time, there will be a plague after the flood, and one village after another will be affected by the plague.
Your aunt and I led the villagers to rob fish in the heavy rain. We were doing them a favor and lost their conscience.
So what, if the fish had to be washed up and no one had time to catch them, and they would all die after being left there for two days, how about letting their village be mixed with feces and cause a plague?
We, the boys in the village, use our bodies to protect them from the cold flood water and prevent the fish from dying. We think that we can't lose so many fish in vain. If we lose so many fish, we have to go to other counties. Isn't that a waste of money?
That's why I rushed over here, wanting to catch the fish while it was flapping, and exchange it for a few full meals, and also give some fish to people in other villages, so that everyone can eat cheap fish during the Chinese New Year. Is this wrong?
Besides, if we don’t catch it now, it will disappear in a flood. We live by the river and will not be able to catch fish for many days. This river surface will look like a person is sick, and it will take a while. What will we eat and drink? ! "
The more Liu Laozhu talked, the angrier he became, thinking:
The old man in Zhenting preferred Wangjiagou without asking any questions.
I prefer it, there is a time to eat melons.
Either that old guy from Zhenting wants some benefits.
This is really true when no one is working hard to salvage the fish. They would rather let the fish stink and catch the plague than let others enjoy it or eat it.
When the fish was caught and they found out that it was a good thing that could be exchanged for money, they became jealous again and began to talk about this principle and that rule.
Liu Laozhu looked disappointed, shook his head and said:
"Captain Zhao, I have some things to say to your aunt that I can tell you from the bottom of my heart.
I would like to ask, if Wang Li is not in the village at this time, and he has not come back yet, has the town pavilion asked him?
Zhenting does not hold Wang Lizheng accountable, so does this talisman conform to his principles and rules?
He is sitting in the correctional office with a fat belly. He doesn't care about those who should be in charge and blindly cares about those who shouldn't. He has the ability to torment us suffering people. "
Now Liu Laozhu has completely realized one thing, that is:
The bigger the officials are, the more they deceive people.
It will only trap more people.
Liu Laozhu was so angry that he squatted on the ground, "You know, Du Xin, without a good official to make the decision, do you think this life can still be good?!"
Zhao Dashan was speechless.
He found that Liu Lizheng was no longer as sneaky as before.
Mrs. Xu took over: "As for that Wang Laobao suing us for stealing pigs and beating people, that's not stealing, and the people he beat are not people."
Mrs. Xu started by talking about how many men were injured in the village where firewood was burned. Wang Laoba took people to Erdaohe twice to cause trouble. Should they be compensated?
Hand the confession sheet written by Wang Laoba to Zhao Dashan.
It was no secret that she went to each village. Mrs. Xu said that Wang Laoba bullied a good girl because someone saw him running away from the sorghum field with his trousers on. The girl's family was destroyed and her innocence was turned around and she was hanged with a rope. The girl who was bullied came from a poor family, but the Wang family was powerful. Although her parents came to make a fuss, some of her immediate relatives who were not separated from the family decided to collect some money privately out of conscience, so these relatives changed their story and said it was a misunderstanding.
This can all be investigated, and there are more than one or two things. How many years of tyranny is that? There is a lot of sneaking around.
"He's just not a good guy."
Mrs. Xu knew that Zhao Dashan was under pressure. His superiors were all more senior than him, and he had only been transferred from outside for two months and did not understand the situation in each village.
She is just very disappointed with the world:
“Da Shan, you saw that our village did catch a lot of fish.
But you don’t know that among the 114 households in our village, not one of them is willing to have a serious meal of braised or stewed food.
It was like this poor villagers who were able to get by, but Liu Lizheng and I were suppressing them, and they didn't take advantage of them to take advantage of Wangjiagou's chickens and ducks.
To put it bluntly, why was the imperial court fighting on the border? If you don't have anything to eat or drink, then you come to rob, and then you fight, right? Then why are there so many uprisings and bandits in bad times? Those people were so anxious that they couldn't control themselves.
But we, the illiterate people, didn't take anything. Do you know how difficult it is to reason with people who don’t have enough to eat and not to steal their meat? But they controlled themselves.
You know what it feels like every time you see those people who do all kinds of evil and live a good life, while those of us who are poor still have to persuade ourselves to be kind? "
"Aunt..."
Mrs. Xu waved her hand to stop Zhao Dashan and listened to her.
She was suddenly very discouraged and wanted to tell the truth:
"If we are still being sued like this, and if we can still be sued, then we might as well stop the internal conflict. This is what I mean.
I wonder if you understand what internal friction means?
That is to say, if I don’t teach Tian Xin to be kind, it won’t be good anyway.
If you don’t teach us village boys to be good people, what will you do if you are internally dissatisfied? There is no benefit at all from being so aggrieved, so as long as you can live a good life, you might as well just go against them without saying anything. No wonder those bad people can live a good life, just lose their conscience! "
Liu Laozhu stood up with a swish and said: "I, my special mother, will take the lead in stealing the chicken right now."
"Hey, Liu Lizheng, auntie."
In fact, Dashan felt aggrieved when he heard it, "You have to believe that he is a good official, and there are bigger and better officials. It is true, don't be discouraged. I won't talk about it for a long time, aunt. I will ask the ordinary villagers of Wangjiagou and get it." The testimonies from several companies prove that you have been using your bodies to help them block the river mouth, and I can make the decision for you. Not only can this fish be caught, but I will also make suggestions..."
Liu Laozhu suddenly said: "Then I suggest you let the town pavilion award us an advance payment of fishing salt." There are so many fish that have long been out of salt, and every household is waiting.
(End of chapter)
