Chapter 11 Zhongmen Village is also in trouble
The family was busy until after noon. Fortunately, this was a shady spot on a hillside, otherwise Su Chunlin and his wife would never have been able to hold on.
"Girl, I think we should dig somewhere else." Su Chunlin dug deeper and deeper, and Han had already chosen another target and ran away.
In order not to expose her flaws, Su Tai immediately nodded in agreement, "Dad, you can change it, but you have to wait for my mother to choose a suitable place before changing it. Anyway, you have nothing to do. You can continue digging. What if water comes out?"
"Haha! Your father has had no luck since he was a child. How is it possible?" Su Chunlin just laughed at himself when he realized that the soil he had just shoveled was wet, and his eyes widened in shock.
Su Zhan excitedly grabbed a handful of soil and shouted, "Dad! There is water!"
Su Chunlin came to his senses, picked up the shovel and continued working without saying a word, "Dig! Dig hard, Xiaomo! Hurry, ask your mother to call your uncle and the others to help."
"Okay!" Su Tai ran away excitedly.
After a while, Han arrived with a group of villagers from Zhongmen Village.
After everyone saw the pile of wet soil with a high water content on the ground, they all cried with joy. Without Su Chunlin opening his mouth, two strong men climbed down on their own initiative and took the place of Su Chunlin and Su Zhan to rest.
As soon as Su Chunlin stood up, he was hugged tightly by his father-in-law, "Okay, okay! After all, you are my son-in-law, and you are so awesome!"
Han Yan nodded vigorously at the side, "Dad is right, if we dig out water this time, my brother-in-law will be the great benefactor of our whole village."
All the villagers nodded in agreement.
Su Chunlin was so praised that he almost couldn't find Bei. He glanced at Shen Yi aside and quickly pulled him over, "Actually, I hit it by mistake. If Shen Yi hadn't said that we could dig here, I wouldn't have put down the shovel."
"You are all benefactors of our Zhongmen Village." Zeng Kuan affirmed Shen Yi's contribution in one sentence.
There are so many people in Zhongmen Village rushing to dig holes, so that water can come out of the wells without the sun setting.
The villagers of Zhongmen Village were immersed in joy and insisted that Su Chunlin and his family stay and reward them.
Unable to refuse such hospitality, Su Chunlin pulled Shen Yi to stay with him.
Before they went back the next day, they took a look at the well. After a night of accumulation, the water in the well was crystal clear. It looked like the well in Dongmen Village had a small amount of water. If the fields were not irrigated, it should be able to support the villagers' daily draft. .
The home of the head of Ximen Village.
Gao Zhi couldn't sit still after learning that water was dug out in Zhongmen Village. "Is the news true?"
Gao Zhi's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Liu, nodded gloomily, "My mother-in-law's sister said it. It can't be false. If only we had followed suit and dug wells, it would have been a waste of time."
Gao Zhi shouted impatiently, "Are you blaming me?"
Mrs. Liu snorted, "I blame you for what happened? If it hadn't been for your bad idea, my son wouldn't have been hurt!"
Yes, one of the injured villagers on this trip was Gao Zhi's son Gao Qiang. Liu always liked to express his anger, but now that he learned that water had been dug out in Zhongmen Village, he completely exploded.
"Shrew! Unreasonable!" Gao Zhi yelled angrily.
Liu was furious and put her hands on her hips to fight Gao Zhi.
At this moment, Gao Qiang walked out of the house with the support of his wife, "Mom and dad, please stop arguing. What we want to think about now is how to get water. Or we can learn from Zhongmen Village to dig wells."
The reason why their village has been able to survive for so long is because every household has hid young and old in the water rush. However, no matter how much water is stored, it will eventually be used up. If this continues, their village will not be able to survive for a few days.
Gao Zhi's old face was a little embarrassed. Gao Qiang sighed, "Dad, I know you are afraid of losing face because of what happened before, but now you are so unhappy, how can face be so important?"
"I think your father just wants to save face and suffer the consequences!" Mrs. Liu scolded Gao Zhi angrily, then turned her back to Gao Zhi and sulked.
Takashi was still hesitant.
Several villagers suddenly rushed in, "Village chief, I heard that water was dug out in Zhongmen Village! Let's dig out too!"
Gao Zhi looked at those people angrily and said, "You can dig if you want."
Everyone got the word right and started working immediately. Only then did they realize that no one in the village knew how to dig wells and didn't even know where to start.
Mrs. Liu went out to inquire around, but when she came back her face was dark.
Seeing her expression, Gao Zhi couldn't help but feel his heart skip a beat, "What's wrong? Didn't I agree to dig the well? What happened again?"
Mrs. Liu sat down angrily and shouted: "It's not a good thing done by the Xiong family and the Mo family! Do you know who dug the well in Zhongmen Village?"
"Who?" Gao Zhi suddenly had a bad feeling.
Ms. Liu shouted anxiously, "It's Su Chunlin, the family whose engagement was annulled by Xiong Kai! The other one is Shen Yi, the family the Mo family regretted marrying. Do you think it's a coincidence?"
Gao Zhi was completely dumbfounded, "How... how could it be such a coincidence!"
"I think this is retribution! Even God can't stand it! You damn old man, just keep doing it! You'll bring down the entire Ximen Village!" Mrs. Liu was so angry that she couldn't stop talking.
Gao Zhi's eyes flickered, and he avoided Liu's sight with a guilty conscience.
He knew that Xiong Kai had gone to Dongmen Village to break off the engagement with great fanfare, and Mrs. Liu also persuaded him to stop it, saying that it couldn't be done like this, it was unkind.
But he was at a disadvantage because he was fighting for water, and deliberately turned a blind eye. As a result, Xiong Kai really broke off the engagement as he wished, and he was also angry, but the head of Dongmen Village also completely fell out with him.
Later, there was a quarrel in Dongmen Village, and the two villages almost had a mortal feud that could not be reconciled.
As for the Mo family's divorce, the Mo family is different from the Xiong family. The Xiong family are outsiders and there are not many people with the surname Xiong in the village. The Mo family is a native villager in Ximen Village. There are many relatives in the village. In addition, Mo Chunxiang's betrothed person is Shenjiazhuang, and Shenjiazhuang is not in Qingsha Township. If he is offended, it will have no impact on him. It is even less possible for him to stop him. He never expected that his connivance would cut off the livelihood of Ximen Village.
"Then what should we do now?" Gao Zhi suddenly panicked.
Mrs. Liu rolled her eyes, "You know you are anxious now? There is no point in being anxious! Fortunately, our relationship with Zhongmen Village has not been at loggerheads. We hurriedly went to give Zeng Kuan gifts and say good things, and asked Zeng Kuan to help talk and see, and maybe Turnaround."
"Oh. I'll go right away!" Gao Zhi was so panicked that he had no idea. He would do whatever Liu said.
When Gao Zhi led a group of villagers to Zhongmen Village, he saw a group of men guarding the well, while women lined up to take turns fetching water.
The water lifted from the well is so clear without any impurities.
The people in Ximen Village were all stunned.
After Zeng Kuan found out, he stepped forward to stop the villagers of Ximen Village who wanted to approach, "What are you doing in our village?"
Seeing Zeng Kuan's unkind tone, Gao Zhi had to look away and spoke in a sour tone, "Village Chief Zeng, congratulations! You really dug out the water!"
(End of chapter)