Liu Siqing was also furious when he thought of his father's mouth full of blisters.
"Exactly, winter is just around the corner, and it's bound to rain soon. What are you going to do with all that water you're storing now?"
"Now that the late rice has been harvested, the fields won't need water anymore. Why deliberately make things difficult for the villages below?"
"Does being downstream from you mean they deserve to be unlucky and bullied by you?"
An elderly woman holding a palm-leaf fan in the crowd immediately objected.
"Oh dear, this is terrible! Outsiders have come to our Xie family and are causing trouble."
"How dare you speak disrespectfully to our Seventh Uncle!"
"Pah! What's wrong with us blocking the water?"
"That's right, we'll intercept it, we'll intercept it."
"We haven't wasted any water. Our reservoir has a lot of fish. Won't the drop in water level affect the fish fry?"
"If something goes wrong with the fish, who will be responsible?"
"Yes, that's the collective property of our Xie family."
"Is there any national law that says water cannot be diverted?"
"When we were repairing the river and roads, why didn't we ask the small production team for help?"
"Now they know to prioritize them when it comes to water usage?"
"I'm asking you, where do you get the nerve?"
"Why should I?"
"Exactly, why should I?"
"Do you really think our Xie family is easy to bully?"
"That's right, even if the King of Heaven himself came, we wouldn't release this water today."
The onlookers from the Xie family pointed and whispered about Xiao Li'an and his group.
They talked back and forth, their united front growing increasingly heated.
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