Li Xiangdong walked up to Liu Dagai, who was fast asleep, and chopped the axe in his hand down on his head!

"Aaaaaah~"

Before anyone else could react, Liu Dagai cried out in alarm, his body went limp, and he knelt on the ground.

Li Xiangdong smiled, "Awake?"

Liu Dagai nodded vigorously, "He's awake! He's awake! I'm going to beat this little brat right now!"

Liu Dagai stood up, looked around, walked to the stove, picked up the fire poker, and smacked Liu Gou Dan'er's buttocks hard!

"Ah—hiccup—"

Liu Gou Dan'er was first beaten, then frozen for half a day, and was already extremely weak. Then Liu Da Gai gave him a hard slap, which made him faint from the pain.

With a scream, Shan Yongju pounced on Liu Dagai, and the couple began to fight.

Both of them were holding their breath, so they fought quite fiercely, and no one intervened.

Finally, Shan Yongju's face was swollen like a pig's head, covered in bruises, and her eyes were narrowed to slits.

Several chunks of flesh were gouged out of Liu Dagai's face by fingernails, and it was bloody and terrifying.

Upon seeing her parents' condition, Liu Yuxiu fainted.

According to Li Xiangdong's observation, this time he was truly dizzy.

Liu Shuangliang's parents seemed quite affectionate. They exchanged a glance, one of them holding their son down while the other started spanking him hard.

The wailing and howling went on for most of the day, making the onlookers outside tremble with fear.

Finally, after signing an IOU for 1,000 yuan, the Liu family members returned home looking disheveled and limping.

And so, a perfectly good wedding ended in a rather anticlimactic way.

......

The rumors spread like wildfire throughout Huichuan County.

In less than a month, the whole county knew that there was a murderous god in Lijiapo who would chop people up with an axe at the drop of a hat.

Even more so, he spoke as if he had witnessed it himself.

"Oh my, my neighbor's second aunt's niece married into Lijiapo. She saw it all! That killer chopped people up with an axe like chopping melons and vegetables, one after another!"

"The blood in the courtyard was everywhere! It scared the bride to death on the spot!"

The rumors were so outrageous that Li Xiangdong replaced the man-eating monkey as the new representative of stopping children's night crying.

......

Huang Guimei and Factory Director Yan went to Yanjing City to visit relatives for a month and were unaware of what had happened before. They came to deliver books and exam papers to Li Zhen.

Who knew that he would hear a lot of rumors along the way, and only after asking Li Xiangdong did he learn the whole story.

Huang Guimei hugged Li Yan, who had recovered considerably, with heartache. "I finally managed to gain some weight! And now she's lost it all again! Those heartless beasts!"

Factory Director Yan said sternly to Li Jin, “Brother, Xiang Dong is right to do this. We’re all old men, what don’t we understand? In this world, it’s either the East Wind prevails over the West Wind, or the West Wind prevails over the East Wind. We’d rather have a fierce reputation than let others bully our own people!”

Li Jin knew that Director Yan was speaking up for Li Xiangdong, and was afraid that he would blame the child. "Brother Yan, I know. I was blinded by my own perspective before, but I won't do it again."

In fact, whether in the countryside or the city, at work or at home, where is the law of the jungle, where the strong prey on the weak, not present?

If rural people are all honest and kind, then why would the practice of raiding fields and exploiting the poor occur so frequently and be so difficult to eradicate?

So if you want people to always be kind, then don't give them the opportunity to do evil.

Li Xiangdong has already shown kindness before, and this time he has established his authority. It is believed that all the people of Lijiapo will be convinced of his authority from the outside to the inside.

The most obvious evidence is that Aunt Niu and Li Wanshi, who used to always jump out and try to get attention, now avoid Li Xiangdong whenever they see him.

......

This year, Huichuan County experienced torrential rains in the summer, but as a result, winter came and it was dry and cold, with not a single snowfall.

The land was cracked in many places, but fortunately the planted wheat seedlings all sprouted, lush and green, and looked very cute.

This year's wheat fields in our village

Does it look like chives?

As December arrived, the four fish ponds and two shrimp ponds in Lijiapo had been dug and were lined up right next to the Baiyang River.

This location was chosen as the aquaculture pond because the Baiyang River can provide sufficient water for the pond, meeting the requirements for flood control, drainage, and water inflow/outflow.

Another point is that the land where the pond was dug is clay, which has good water retention capacity.

If you dig a pond in sandy soil, the water might leak out in just a few days after you fill it.

This plan includes three ponds for raising adult fish and one pond for raising fish fry.

Each adult fish farming pond is 9 mu in size, and each fry farming pond is 4 mu in size. They are all rectangular in the east-west direction with a length-to-width ratio of 2:1.

The bottom of the pond is flat and slopes slightly towards the drainage side to facilitate fishing when the pond is drained.

Some people think that a 9-acre pond is too large and inconvenient for fishing.

To reach a consensus, Li Xiangdong showed them the book "High-Efficiency Pond Fish Farming".

Although they are illiterate, they cannot understand what is written in the books.

Li Xiangdong had no choice but to explain the contents of the book to them.

"If the pond is too small, the water quality will easily deteriorate, which is not conducive to the growth of fish. If the pond is too large, it is not easy to cover the feed evenly, resulting in uneven feeding and fish of different sizes, which will affect sales."

"Everyone, no one in Lijiapo has ever raised fish before. If we want to run aquaculture well, we must first learn the relevant knowledge. Remember, talent is always the primary productive force."

Well, the great man who coined this phrase hadn't actually said it yet, but Li Xiangdong adapted it first.

Now the brigade cadres are used to following Li Xiangdong's orders, and Li Jin has no complaints about this; in fact, he is quite proud of it.

Throughout history, who hasn't hoped their child would surpass them?

At this meeting of the brigade headquarters, three things were signed. The first was that Guo Daming was selected as the technical person in charge of the fish ponds and shrimp ponds.

This was Li Xiangdong's suggestion. Guo Daming is young and energetic, educated with a junior high school education, serious and down-to-earth, and has a strong sense of responsibility.

Whether in the joint defense team, or when promoting watermelons and purchasing wheat seeds from farmers, his performance was impeccable.

The proposal was passed unanimously.

Next, taking advantage of the off-season for farming, Guo Daming will select a team and intensively study relevant breeding techniques.

The second thing is to build a pig farm.

The two hundred wild boars that Luo Yonggang and Bai Yulong sold to the Lijiapo Brigade have grown up.

The wild boars used for breeding and the local sows produced many healthy piglets.

Now the pigsty is full of big, fat pigs crammed together and little pigs fighting for food.

Therefore, building pig farms is imperative.

The third thing is to develop canned pork and make winter vegetables.