Calculated in modern time, it takes three hours of brisk walking from Erdaohe Village to the town. It takes one and a half days to get from the town to the county.

Calculating the round trip time, even if there is a donkey cart, an ox cart, or a mule cart, a round trip will take at least three days.

After all, these means of transportation will not make you go faster, they will only make the journey less tiring.

The horse is fast, but no one dares to use that puller.

It can be said that there are no carriages in the whole town, and it is not a matter of affordability.

Here, only officials whose families have more than one person or who work at the government office are allowed to use horses.

Approval does not mean that the horse will be equipped, but if you pay for the horse out of your own pocket, you must first file for permission.

For example, Zhao Captou has an old horse that was given to him by a previous climber. When he returned to his place, the first thing he did was to register the source of the horse before he could use it.

Horses are strategic materials, and this government controls them very tightly.

It can be seen that it will take many days for Wang Laoba to file a complaint.

And it’s not like Wang Laoba can meet his cousin when he goes to the county.

The reason why Wang Lizheng bothered to go to the county seat was because he wanted to socialize with some officials with whom he had regular contact. Wang Laoba did not dare to find a restaurant or brothel to disturb him. He had to wait for Wang Lizheng's return.

What's more, he had burns on his body and had to go to the hospital on the way. Otherwise, he would not dare to touch the water and would even drink water to avoid burning the edges of his mouth.

So in these days when Wangjiagou Village was leaderless, many things happened.

Wangjiagou was still buzzing late at night.

"Exchange fish for mother."

"Then the fish is ordered, and this is not enough. What can I exchange for it, a finger?"

"This is really not your mother. No wonder you say that your daughter-in-law is not good enough. If your mother is taken away and you are still looking for fish, I think you just have a bad heart!"

"I don't have intestines but you do. If you have the ability to challenge Erdaohe, you have the ability."

The eight married-out girls who were arrested are all back, and every family is fighting with their brothers, sisters-in-law, and younger siblings:

"Brother, listen to what your wife said. She is not sure what will happen to her now. She has a grudge against your village. She needs whips, wax and oil. She has been hungry for another day. Good people will be starved to death. She is still thinking about money.

Money, give me a shout, don’t just pretend to be deaf!”

"I'm not just waiting for Li Zheng to come back, so I will have an explanation."

"If you wait for him, my mother will be in trouble. Can you afford to wait? I heard that all those bastards were beaten away. I'll happily exchange them for him with fish or money. Let's go now!"

There are also many married women sitting on the kang at home crying because their sons-in-law came back to help their father-in-law in a fight and were beaten. How could they take the men back to their in-laws' houses? Their in-laws were not allowed to tear them apart.

Isn’t that right? Many in-laws were arguing with the people in Wangjiagou Village:

"When you came to help, you didn't say you would be hurt. You said you were just trying to scare the other party by adding more people. But now you are burned like this and can't take medicine? Who will pay for the medicine?"

"We are all real relatives, how can we say such things? It's really chilling."

"Oh my god, you guys are so heartbreaking. We have abandoned all our work at home and helped you without asking for a penny of your hard-earned money. We don't even try to say thank you. At least this is hurting you. Are you going to do it?

Is there an explanation?"

"We are not the ones who hurt the person. Whoever is hurt should you go to. If you have the ability, go to Erdaohe to ask for money for the medicine."

"We came to help you, but why did we do something wrong? Why are you acting like scoundrels? We will go after whoever comes after us. Why are we looking for Erdaohe?"

"You know what you are after. I don't know who was licking my face and asking for matchmakers to come to our village to marry me. They are so poor that they want to let our village pick girls. There are a lot of poor relatives, and the years are not good.

Didn't you come here to fight the famine just to get some help so that you can have the dignity to borrow food from us later?"

"It's unreasonable. I know you Wangjiagou have a way of playing rogue."

How many families fight each other after arguing.

In addition, there were more than 30 people who were burned with firewood. They closed the door and felt unbalanced: "Why is it my house that was burned and not someone else's? Then we were burned because of the whole village. Shouldn't the village have something to do with it?"

An explanation.”

In short, when you can defeat the enemy village, the quarrels are no longer a problem. Whoever loses will be beaten, and you can find a taker to pay for money, food and firewood.

But when they failed to defeat them, Wangjiagou Village was not as united as they imagined.

All of the above experiences were experienced by a family named Liu in Erdaohe Village twelve years ago. It was also that incident that shocked the whole village of Erdaohe and made them so honest.

The family's name is Liu Yongtian, and they are related to Liu Laozhu.

Just because the third boy in the family, named Mingzi, secretly caught two baskets of fish, a gang from Wangjiagou came to visit him, smashed the pot and broke Liu Yongtian's legs.

Liu Yongtian's legs were broken to protect his son. The neighbors who came to help were also seriously injured. If they don't pay for the medicine and don't bring two chickens to visit the doctor, how can they turn against each other? Besides, there is no such thing as doing things.

.If you behave like that, who will take a look if there is any noise in the house?

Fortunately, the weather was good in those few years. The Liu family sold more grain to survive the hunger, which allowed them to attract favors to the head of the family, and they also had enough money to help injured people.

Now Liu Yongtian has passed away. When he died, his broken right leg was still limping when he walked quickly.

Tonight, his old wife was working on paving the gravel road, and at the same time she was running away from work. She often stopped what she was doing, and only when you got close could you hear her muttering: "Old man, can't you relieve your anger?"

Then he muttered: "Mingzi, my old son, where are you going to work? Mother knows that you are ashamed of your family, so after harvesting the grain, you rush ahead of your eldest and second brothers to earn copper coins. Stop working now and come back."

Look, our village has been beaten to a pulp by the village opposite, so you should come back and hit us with a few sticks to vent your anger, otherwise they won’t have a chance to cause trouble if you don’t turn around.”

The other women who were laying stones with her pretended not to hear and did not urge them to work faster, knowing that Mingzi's mother was feeling aggrieved.

It must have been more than ten years since I woke up after half a night's sleep, and I would have been fussing and vomiting, "Why don't Wangjiagou die from the plague?"

Anyway, if it were them, they would be scolded like this, and they would also step on the villain and curse them during the New Year and festivals.

In stark contrast to the chaos of Wangjiagou, Erdaohe Village was also brightly lit at this time, but they were busy working.

On Bashang, a team of old ladies and daughters-in-law lit oil lamps, and they were paving gravel paths for the fishing boys.

The new ship under the dam is being tested to see if it leaks: "It's done, Fourth Grandpa."

While the fourth uncle kept saying yes, he motioned to the boy carrying the stretcher to quickly send him back to the village entrance. The second boat was only half-finished and he had to stay up late to make it.

Because the Liu family's three boats will carry 6,000 kilograms of fish off the shore the day after tomorrow at the latest.

They must gather together the five fleets belonging to the village when the Liu family boat leaves.

And when we cast the net again tonight, Erdaohe Village finally no longer has to hide and tuck in. It's like being a thief last night, praying for water splashes and not making a sound.

On the river, including the newly built sixth boat, there were torches, and the men were casting nets and shouting slogans.

They still have to collect the 6,000 kilograms of fish species they want for the Liu family within two days.

They have designated species, not all fish are required, and the prices are extremely low, so it's not suitable.

But everyone discussed it and decided that the boat boss had offended Wangjiagou for their village. At least this time, no one could run away with an empty boat. Everyone, don’t think about cost-effectiveness and storage, just wholesale it to the Liu family in one go to save worry.

Besides, this time of fighting with Wangjiagou is not suitable for every family to go out to sell fish in a cart.

When they heard the lively chanting coming from the Erdao River, there were also many small fishing boats casting nets on the Wangjiagou side. They pretended not to hear it and continued working with their heads down. Some of the timid ones even deliberately moved their fishing boats farther away.

Go ahead and set the net as far away from the Erdao River as possible.

Didn’t you see the archers on the boats on the Erdao River?

But Te Niang was exaggerating. The arrow feathers were the kind that set fire to them. When they hit their boat, they caught them again. Erdaohe finally got a taste of the sweetness of setting fire.

The Wangjiagou fishermen cursed in their hearts.

Even the person who came to exchange the hostages smiled apologetically, but in his heart he hated Erdaohe to death.

"Hey? Don't hit me!" Why are you throwing those fried rice packets in the middle of the night?

Fourth Uncle and the others lit a fire at the entrance of the village and were hammering wooden wedges into the hull of the boat. When they heard the sound, they turned to look at the cart of fish being pushed by someone.

The visitors were also surprised. They didn’t expect that it was already midnight and there were so many people working together in Erdaohe Village.

Together, that's what makes them puzzled.

You must know that in their village, each family does its own thing.

The fourth uncle raised his chin to the boy in front of him and asked him to see how many kilograms of fish there were.

Butai Daddy stepped forward and frowned: "You want to trade for you and me for just this basket? You are just kidding!"

"No, it's not easy for us as farmers. The fish we catch have been sold long ago. You don't know how difficult it is for us to put together this basket."

Before the person on the other side could finish crying, the fourth uncle said without raising his head: "This is not a place for bargaining. You just set fire to the village when you entered the village, but you didn't think about how difficult it is for everyone to be farmers. You are as cruel as bandits."

Butai Daddy immediately raised his hoe and shouted: "Get out of here!"

"Others, we..."

The fourth uncle then raised his eyes and looked at that family: "Go back and tell those seven families that our village will not blackmail you one by one, but four baskets of fish are worth one person, no less. If you agree, we will exchange it, if you don't agree, we will exchange it."

Pull down."

The fourth uncle felt that the eldest niece of the Xu family was right, so he exchanged the eight people for more than thirty baskets of fish, and gave the twenty baskets of fish to Guan Ertu as medical expenses.

You can't mix up the medicine. It just so happens that Erbald's family doesn't have any strong laborers to earn work points, which is different from the eldest niece's family. When the eldest niece's family comes back with food, warehouses and money, they can each get ten work points. Those are all good boys, let's do it today

After the fight, how many people missed Youcang.

And without work points, how can the Ertu family save fish and pickle it for the winter? And next year when the spring is not there, who knows what the situation will be like next year.
To be continued...