After finally planting the seedlings, we are faced with the situation of having no water for irrigation.
The daily workday also became a daily routine of carrying water, with five loads of water equaling one work point.
Su Che's shoulders were rubbed raw by the carrying pole.
"I told you not to work too hard. Now it looks like this. Such a large piece of skin has been rubbed off." Wen Li scolded him while applying medicine to him.
"Isn't this just thinking that the more we can do, the better. Only when the harvest in the village is good will our family be safe.
Think about it, the villagers are hungry one day and full the next, but we have food every day and are fully fed. If this continues for a long time, it will only attract attention."
On the surface, Cheng Fangyi was the only one in the Su family who ate commercial grain, and not many people in the Su family worked. However, the Su family members had plump and rosy faces, which formed a sharp contrast with the majority of the villagers who were pale and thin.
If the village's grain production drops sharply, it is likely to cause unrest, and the Su family is likely to be pushed to the forefront.
If he wasn't worried about these problems, Su Che wouldn't want to work so hard.
"If we don't tell anyone, who would know that we have food at home?"
"Then do you think our children look like they have no food at home?"
Wen Li thought that the children in her family were all so cute and beautiful that they were indeed very eye-catching.
"Then just do your best. There's no need to rush. Even a workhorse wouldn't take a break after eating."
As the days passed, the weather became hotter and hotter.
Seeing the water level in the river dropping sharply, the villagers began to secretly store water at home.
Water tanks, bathtubs, anything that could hold water was put to use.
There were no young wives washing clothes by the river anymore.
Wiping your body once every three to five days is considered cleanliness. The whole family takes turns using a basin of water. After you finish taking a shower, I'll take over.
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On a dark and windy night, the people of Houhu Village sneaked into the territory of Shuixiang Village.
"Captain, are we really going to do this?"
"What else? Watch our seedlings die in the ground?"
If there were any other way, we wouldn't have come to this point. After all, "stealing" water is not an upright thing.
"But it would be bad if the people in the water village found out."
"If you know, then you know. The worst that can happen is that I'll get scolded. If you want to blame someone, just blame our bad luck in Houhu Village. We happen to be located below the water village, and even if we drink water, we have to drink what they leave behind."
That being said, the only water flowing into Qianhu Village and Houhu Village is the one-meter-wide river, which comes from the big river in Shuixiang Village.
The large and small lakes in Houhu Village all rely on supplies from Qianhu Village.
Saying this is just to find an excuse for myself.
Following the order from the captain of Houhu Village, the young men began to fill water into the large water tank on the mule cart.
On the way back, the team leader sat in the front driving the mule, and the young men followed behind carrying buckets of water.
As soon as the water was brought back to Shuiqu Village, it was carried by the women waiting in the fields to water the crops.
But this amount of water is far from enough.
The team leader of Houhu Village saw that it was still dark, so he asked everyone to go again.
Some young men felt that picking twice was not enough, so they went there secretly for the third time, but were discovered by the people in the water village.
The young men were full of youthful energy and started fighting with others after just a few words.
The people in Shuixiang Village are naturally not pushovers, and the people from the two villages started fighting each other.
If the village chief hadn't arrived quickly, everyone would have taken action.
"Alright, alright, you're in your thirties or forties and you're still as impatient as a young man. Do you really think you can get away with just hitting someone with a stick? If something goes wrong, it'll only harm your family.
Maodan, take someone to find out which village those people are from and what they are doing sneaking into our village."
They are all carrying buckets of water, I'm afraid they are here to steal water.
Water is as precious as food nowadays. If there really is a water grab between villages, he will naturally not give in. After all, it is a major matter concerning the livelihood of the entire village.
Not long after, Maodan came back with a few young men.
Everyone's face was filled with anger.
Not only did they steal the water from their water village, but they also blamed the water village for the lack of water.
The people of Qianhu Village blocked the water outlet. Not only did they not dare to argue, they also blamed Shuixiang Village.
"How could Houhu Village, a damned village, do such a cruel thing?"
"That's right, they want to irrigate the seedlings, and we need to do that too."
"That's right! The rice seedlings are all wilted. I'm not optimistic about the harvest this year."
"No, I'm going to talk to the village chief. This is too much of a bully."
"That's right, let's go to Houhu Village to seek justice."
People shouted for help, and soon a group of people gathered at the entrance of the village, each holding a hoe and a sickle in their hands, and they were going to Houhu Village to seek justice.
"I'll see who dares to go."
The village chief ran all the way here and his throat was about to smoke.
What a troublesome bunch. There is no witness and no physical evidence, and there is nothing we can do even if they refuse to admit it.
If we go to their door in such a high-profile manner and they find evidence of us, and ask Shuixiang Village to compensate for the water, then we’ll be in trouble.
If you have that much time, you might as well think about how to get water to your own village!
"Will it be of any use if you knock on their door? If you have the time, you might as well build some water cellars and store water before them. Leave a few people at the village entrance at night, and as long as they don't fetch water from our village, they can do whatever they want."
The people from Houhu Village, having tasted the sweetness, came again the next night.
"Run, run."
The person walking in front saw two big torches standing at the entrance of Shuixiang Village, and several people patrolling there with weapons. He quickly crouched down and shouted to the people behind to leave.
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