The anger in his heart immediately disappeared, and he asked Li Mengyue with a smile.
"Yue girl, what's wrong? If there is anything, tell the village chief directly."
Li Mengyue was touched when she saw the village chief openly showing his preference for her in front of everyone.
"Grandpa Village Chief, I have a suggestion. Mrs. Liu was wrong to cut down the waterwheel and bamboo pipes. But the waterwheel can still be used after repairs, and the bamboo pipes can just be replaced by cutting some bamboo."
"There's no need to impose such a harsh punishment. I don't need to tell you, I believe everyone knows that even if Liu endured ten blows and knelt for three days and three nights, he would definitely be dead."
At this point, the village chief still had something to say, so he asked softly, "Yue girl, what do you say we should do?"
"Grandpa Village Head, since Liu dared to destroy the waterwheel and bamboo pipes, there's no guarantee that others won't follow suit. Therefore, someone needs to be on guard at night."
"Yue girl, I know what you mean."
The village chief looked at Liu and said seriously, "Liu, did you understand what Miss Yue said?"
No matter how dumb Liu was, she could still understand the implication of Li Mengyue's words, and it would be a lie to say that she had no feelings at all.
But this did not prevent her from continuing to hate Li Mengyue.
"Li Mengyue, don't think that I will be grateful to you just because you give me some alms. It's impossible, absolutely impossible."
To be honest, Li Mengyue never cared about Liu at all, and would not take Liu's words to heart.
The reason why she suggested that Liu look at the waterwheel and bamboo pipe was that if something happened, there would be something else, and she had to be on guard.
Liu happened to come across this, so she just went along with it and did this.
She also had another consideration in doing this, which was that the village would develop more and more in the future.
In this era, it is impossible to prevent people from picking up things on the road and leaving their doors unlocked at night. It is important to form patrol teams to protect the property safety of villagers.
Of course, at present, every household in the village has little property, so when rats come, they will all leave with empty stomachs, which is unnecessary.
But she believed that it wouldn't be long before patrols would become a standard feature of the village.
She was afraid that the villagers would find it difficult to accept, so she started with Liu and asked her to be the first to guard the village's public property, the waterwheel and the bamboo pipe.
But since Mrs. Liu had said so much, it would be a bit unfair to her if she didn't do more.
"Grandpa Village Chief, I think it's inappropriate for Liu to stay by the river alone at night. Why not let Wang Lai come along?"
After dealing with Liu's matter, the village chief was worried about Wang Lai and Widow Chen. What they did was indeed wrong.
However, since he took office, he has abolished the bad habit of sinking people into the pond. Over the years, the village has maintained a good social atmosphere and no one dares to have casual relationships between men and women.
However, he also knew that men's bad nature would always exist. When everyone couldn't even get enough to eat, how could they have the time to think about other things?
The saying that when one is well fed and well clothed, one will think of sex is absolutely true.
This year their village was only slightly better than before, and someone started causing trouble.
If it is not severely punished, it will invisibly encourage unhealthy trends and evil practices.
He had no objection to Li Mengyue's suggestion that Wang Lai and Liu stay by the river at night to guard the waterwheel and bamboo pipe.
On the contrary, he thought it was a trick. Didn't Wang Lai like to find Widow Chen? He arranged more work for him during the day and let him stay by the river at night.
He just didn't believe that Wang Lai had the time and energy to look for Widow Chen.
Didn't Liu want to cut down the waterwheel, but she also asked her to guard it. This kind of inner torture is much better than beating her.
When Wang Lai and Liu heard about the arrangements for them, no matter how reluctant they were, they did not dare to refuse.
After all, the current result is much better than before, and they cannot be dissatisfied.
The onlookers had no idea that just searching for the culprit who destroyed the waterwheel and bamboo pipe would lead to so many problems.
Every day, the celebration is more exciting than performing a big opera.
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