Chapter 94 Night Watch

"Crazy! Crazy! It's okay if Shen Qing is crazy, but why should the Guan family be crazy too? His family doesn't have much land and doesn't rely on the land for food. Even if the corn can't survive the heavy rain, what does it have to do with him?" Zhou Chuncao shouted loudly on the dirt road next to Shen Qing's thatched cottage.

Her second daughter-in-law, who is also her niece, Zhou Tian, ​​smiled sarcastically, "Oh, she must be a burden to his daughter! Think about it, if Shen Qing wants to leave, how can her second son Xiangxi not leave?

Going west, Guan Li is seventeen or eighteen, right? And she's engaged, so who would want her if she doesn't leave?

"If Guan Li wasn't his daughter, would Guan the Carpenter have moved away with his family for no reason? In my opinion, daughters are born to collect debts!" ​​Wang Fugui followed with a spat.

"You can't say that. So many girls have gotten married, and I haven't seen the whole family move out with them. This has nothing to do with having a son or a daughter."

"Could the carpenter believe it?"

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The crowd was silent for a moment, and then the woman at the back suddenly said, "Well, I'm thirsty. Let's go back and dry the vegetables."

"Yes, yes, yes, I remembered that the duck eggs haven't been pickled yet."

"This morning I saw the Zhao brothers and the Hong family go to the city to sell food, so I went home as soon as possible to talk to the head of the family."

The villagers who were originally crowded on the dirt road were soon reduced to just a few.

Zhou Tian looked around blankly and asked blankly, "Mom, what do they mean?"

You wouldn't all believe it and go back to make preparations, right?

Zhou Chuncao snorted, "Don't listen to their nonsense. Why rush to sell the grain when you already have it? The price might go up later, and then they'll cry.

The Guan family is fine, but the most ridiculous thing is the Feng family and the village chief's family. They don't even want to plant corn just because they dream of it. If Shen Qing loses his land and walks away, won't they be left with nothing if they don't plant their own land? "

"They can't even drink the northwest wind! Haha, forget about them. Let's go and weed the fields of Captain Sun's family. If the rainstorm doesn't come or the impact is not big, they will really become the laughing stock of our village." Wang Fugui seemed to have seen the shameful looks of Shen Qing and Carpenter Guan's families returning home.

At the same time, a thought flashed through his mind. He swallowed hard, licked his lips, and asked, "You said our village chief also believed it so firmly that he didn't even plant his fields. If this gets to the ears of Captain Sun and then to the county magistrate, will the position of village chief of Jiangyang be replaced?"

He's the head of a village, who wouldn't want to be one? It's so impressive, he's been wanting to try it for a long time!

Zhou Chuncao and Zhou Tian's minds raced. They looked at each other, then turned around and walked back.

Wang Fugui rented the land of Captain Sun and cultivated crops there, so he could talk to Captain Sun. Their Zhou family also rented the land of Captain Sun's family, so they could talk to him as well!

If the man in their family goes to report this matter, wouldn't the position of village chief belong to the Zhou family?

After Wang Fugui finished speaking, he looked at the expressions of Zhou Chuncao and Zhou Tian and knew that something bad was going to happen!

How come he can't keep secrets from his mouth?

He couldn't stay any longer and rushed back immediately.

Every household in Qili Village was suddenly busy. The Wang and Zhang families were busy going to Captain Sun's house to file complaints, while other families were busy selling grain, drying vegetables, fish and shrimps, and pickling duck eggs, chickens and ducks... It was no less busy than during the busy farming season.

Mr. Jiang and his family seized every opportunity to make tofu and malt sugar to earn money, and at the same time they were busy preparing all the things that could be used to resist the flood, not daring to waste any time.

They just hope that the rainstorm will be delayed, and delayed, so that they can earn more money and have a richer family.....

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Jiang Xiangnan bent a thin branch into a circle, tied it to a long thin bamboo pole with weeds, and stirred up several spider nests until the circle was covered with spider webs. Only then did he feel satisfied and tried to catch cicadas.

In the woods, the sound of cicadas chirping was incessant and gave people a headache. Jiang Xiangnan had a good eye and steady hands, and he could catch one with a circle of his hands.

He quickly retracted the pole, pinched off the wings of the cicada on it, threw it into the small bamboo basket he carried with him, and continued to repeat the same action.

After a while, the bamboo basket was half full.

He weighed it, felt it was enough, and returned with a smile.

He randomly found a raised stone to sit on, pulled out thin branches from the tree, strung the cicadas with their heads and tails cut off on them one by one, strung five on each branch, and put them in the makeshift stove hole to roast.

After a while, the fragrance wafted out.

In the stream over there, Jiang Xiangbei rolled up his trouser legs and sleeves and waded into the water to find a suitable place to place the trap.

Jiang Xiangdong and Jiang Xiangxi did the same thing, except that they were searching for snails on the sides and under the rocks.

Shen Qing sat on a straw mat, feeling the cool breeze from the forest and watching her sons work. The more she watched, the more she felt that there was hope for the future.

"Mom! This is for you, eat it, it's so delicious!"

A string of black roasted things was thrust in front of Shen Qing. Shen Qing's brows twitched, and he felt like taking back what he had just said!

But thinking that he had finally become diligent and couldn't dampen his enthusiasm, he could only reach out to take it and complimented him against his will: "Not bad, it smells good."

At the same time, she brainwashed herself, thinking that she had earned money and had meat to eat. If she were hungry, she would probably scramble to eat the roasted cicadas!

Eat, eat, what are you picky about when you have something to eat? Be a mother who doesn't spoil the fun...

"Then I'll go catch some more! I'll give them all to you, mother!" Jiang Xiangnan, who was recognized, was full of fighting spirit and wanted to catch all the cicadas in the forest.

Shen Qing's brows twitched, and all the reasons he had brainwashed himself with were thrown out of his mind. He hurriedly stopped her, "No need! You've been tired for so many days, take a good rest."

Jiang Xiangnan shouted without even turning his head: "I'm not tired, I don't need to rest."

Shen Qing coughed to cover it up and changed the subject: "Come on, let's discuss the night watch."

Jiang Xiangnan paused, turned around and asked blankly, "Night duty?"

He looked at his eldest, second, and fourth brothers in the river and asked, "Shouldn't we wait until they all arrive together?"

Shen Qing shook his head. "No, they have to catch the bus and can't catch up on sleep during the day, so they are not counted."

It's not just about driving the car. If there is real danger, the eldest and second eldest brothers must rush forward. Only with sufficient sleep can they have enough energy, so they can't stay up late to keep watch.

It's not just the men, Huo Bing, Jiang Yu, Guan Li and the others are also not able to do it. They have to travel during the day and are also responsible for three meals a day, so they can't do it either.

Guan Xiaoshan, who was on the other side of the straw mat, quickly raised his hand: "Auntie, can I do it? I've been sleeping in the car all day, so I can keep watch at night."

Shen Qing felt that Guan Xiaoshan was indeed a very suitable candidate.

The purpose of being on night watch is to detect danger and prevent being targeted and attacked, while everyone is asleep and unaware of it;

The second thing is to add firewood to the fire - the fire cannot be extinguished in the wilderness, mainly because as long as there is a fire, wild beasts will not dare to approach.

However, "One person alone is not enough. You will easily get sleepy at night. It is inevitable that you will doze off at times. You need at least two people to cooperate."