"There's more than one berth here. We should all take a step back, but that master in white, oh my! He's got a bad temper! He came up and started cursing. It was so nasty!
The one in blue rushed forward and started swinging his fists. There were two young men on both boats, probably their sons, who also started fighting.
If she were to say, the people on these two boats were quite sick. Some people who came up to mediate were also beaten indiscriminately by them. Then it became a melee, with one person beating one, and two people beating a pair.
Liang Shengdi curled her lips. She was too lazy to talk nonsense to those idle and boring men. She raised the long bamboo pole she used to row the boat and pushed it into the middle of the crowd on the boat in the river below. She picked up the two people, one in white and one in blue, and threw them directly into the river.
The old man who led the fight has fallen into the water, so how can the young people continue to fight? They quickly jumped in and pulled people onto the boat, and some of them were furious and shouted at the shore.
"Who the hell is going to overthrow my dad? Are you tired of living?"
"Me! What's wrong!" Liang Shengdi put one hand on her waist and held a bamboo pole in the other. Her posture was almost the same as Mu Guiying taking command with a red tasseled spear.
"You're an old woman, you've lived your life to the fullest! Why don't you throw it into the river too? My son is short of money to build a house, so you can make up for it!"
The young man with red eyes glared at her with bared teeth and really wanted to punch her, but was held down by his father who had just climbed out of the river.
There are also some rules to follow when it comes to fighting.
When men fight, there must be grudges between them before they throw fists. As long as no one is killed, even if they are taken to the police for questioning, the fight will mostly be settled through mediation.
When women fight, it's mostly just a matter of pulling hair. People around can try to mediate and then tell them to go back. The authorities won't bother to care about you.
If a woman hits a man, then in this day and age, you have no place to complain. If you tell others about it, they will laugh at you and call you a useless man.
If a man hits a woman, if it is his own woman, then it is a family matter. Others may say a few words of gossip at most, but it has no power over them.
But if you hit someone else's woman, no one, whether privately or officially, will stand on your side.
Especially since Liang Shengdi looked quite old, a grandmother. If he punched her, no matter if she was injured or not, as long as she lay on the ground, you would go to jail and your family would be imprisoned as well. It really proved her words that she was sending money to build a house for her family.
Liang Shengdi stood on the shore and cursed without restraint.
"I've only seen turtles fighting in the water, but I've never seen humans so idle as to fight in the water!"
This sentence angered people on both sides.
"Who the hell are you scolding?"
"Damn old woman, who are you calling a cuckold?"
Liang Shengdi: "Whoever agrees will be scolded! If you have nothing better to do, go work on the farm! You're blocking the river! There are so many boats waiting behind you! If we can't sell the things on our boat, you'll have to pay us!"
"That's right! I got punched for trying to stop a fight. I must be a little sick!" A man soaking wet stood on another boat, complaining angrily.
"Why are you so angry? Don't you have a wife at home? Go back and find one! Don't take it out on me!"
The words were a bit vulgar, which made the women on the shore laugh, and the men watching in the river also laughed. But this also eased the tense situation.
The fight was over, so they could talk it out peacefully. Those who had come to stop the fight had been punched several times, and several of their clothes were soaked. They didn't want any compensation, just to make way for them. If you have anything to say, talk it out on the shore, right? What's the point of floundering in the river?
This caused a small wave of public outrage, and the people on both boats knew they were in the wrong, so they quickly packed up and moved to the side to make way. As for the previous boat position, they simply gave it up.
Seeing that they were moving, Liang Shengdi ran back carrying her bamboo pole, hurrying up because her boat was still stuck behind.
She jumped back to her boat holding a bamboo pole, and looked up to see the young man next to her giving her a thumbs up.
"Sister, you are so amazing!"
Liang Shengdi rolled her eyes. "Who are you calling 'big sister'? You look younger than my two oldest granddaughters. Call me grandma!"
"Hey! Grandma! You are so awesome!" The young man readily changed his words.
Liang Shengdi waved at him and said, "Hurry up, the road ahead is moving."
As she spoke, she slowly rowed out following the boat in front of her. Hurry up, it’s already so late, and there are so many fish, bamboo shoots and mushrooms on the boat!
As soon as she turned the bend and entered the main river channel, she went straight out to overtake the boat. She finally found an empty space in a row of boats and squeezed in.
Before she even put the hook on the boat, she heard someone calling her from the back of the boat.
"Grandma, how do you sell these bamboo shoots?"
It was the same young man from before, who parked his boat behind hers.
"You want to buy bamboo shoots?"
The young man nodded. At first he was so busy watching the fun that he didn't notice that there were bamboo shoots on the boat next to him. He only noticed it after Liang Shengdi finished her business and came back from Fu Yi. Just when he was about to ask her the price, she waved her hand and hurried the boat away.
The old lady looked very old, but she rowed the boat quite fast. He had to chase her for a long time before he could catch up with her.
"Are your bamboo shoots fresh? If they are good, I'll take them all. Please give me a discount."
If possible, Liang Shengdi's eyes might have emitted lasers. She crawled through the awning and walked forward several steps. Unfortunately, the boats here were parked at an angle, so she couldn't directly touch the edge of the customer's boat, but it did shorten the distance a lot.
"You want them all? All of them?"
"Yeah!" Shi Weijie continued to nod. "My family runs a restaurant in the city. We use a lot of bamboo shoots, whether they're freshly fried or dried. My dad was here picking them up yesterday and the day before yesterday. Did you see them?"
"I wasn't here the past two days." Liang Shengdi shook her head, then asked herself, "Shouldn't the city come from the east? Why did you come with me into the western river?"
Shi Weijie was instantly stuck. Didn't he want to get out of the house and practice cutting vegetables? Didn't he come out early and stroll around the big lake before coming to Heji? How could he be caught?
Liang Shengdi asked casually, picked up a bamboo shoot and showed it to him.
"I just dug it up at noon, it's still covered in soil! Look! It's absolutely fresh! How much did you harvest?"
Talking about business, Shi Weijie was no longer sleepy. He took the bamboo shoots and saw that they were quite fresh.
"One cent and three cents a pound, is that okay?"
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