Chapter 1709 Stealing Water
Seeing this, Fan Xingchang explained: "Azhe, we naturally saved water, and His Majesty also built a well for our village, but we have also used up what we saved, there is no more water in the well, and now there is still a little bit left. , but it's not enough for the whole village. If we don't come to you, we will only die of thirst."
"Why is this? How can it be reduced so quickly?"
"Is such that…"
It turned out that in order to make the water in the well last longer, the Lizheng in Linshan Village stipulated every day how much water a family can draw, as long as it is enough to cook, and it is enough to not die of thirst.
Take a bath or something, I don’t even dare to think about it, the body stinks and it stinks.
As for the high-yield rice in the fields, they can only be left to fend for themselves.
But some people are reluctant to give up their hard-earned high-yield rice, or their own ordinary rice. Those people work together, and every day when the whole village falls asleep, they quietly go to fetch water for irrigation. The water used every night is more than the whole village. There is more water to eat and drink in the village for three days.
Lizheng thought that the water in the well was originally low, so the daily recovery was slow, and the water required by each household was reduced every day, and he also asked each household to try to cook meals that required a small amount of water.
After a period of time, I found that the grain in the village was basically dry, but the rice in several households was still green and the fields were wet, so I suspected that someone was stealing water in the middle of the night.
The ??li was calling all those households in front of him and questioning them, but they insisted that it was the rain that fell and had nothing to do with them.
Some say that their ancestors appeared and helped them, and it only rained in their homeland.
Lizheng also had no evidence. Seeing their sophistry, there was no way to take them, so he had to let them go first, and planned to catch the thief in person at night, and come and get the stolen goods.
It's just that those people were very vigilant, and they were afraid of being discovered. They actually sent special people to guard near Lizheng's house. Every time Lizheng went out, those people ran back home, and after Lizheng returned home, they went out again. steal water.
After repeating this a few times, Li Zheng knew that he was being targeted, so he slowed down for a few days, wanting them to relax their vigilance and stop getting up in the middle of the night to arrest people.
Until a few nights ago, Li Zheng got up again and went to the well, and before he got there, he heard a sound over there.
Coincidentally, the people who were sent to monitor by those households relaxed their vigilance, thinking that he had given up the idea of ??catching the thief because he had not been out for the past few days.
After all, I supervise every night, and I have to get up to work after sleeping very little during the day. No one can stand it, so I fell asleep that day.
Li Zheng arrived at the well that day, and happened to see those people who were stealing water.
Rizheng was terrified, and immediately rang the gong next to him. Those people had no time to stop them, so they could only let the villagers surround them.
The people in the whole village were very angry when they saw that the well water was much less, but they still did not return the water they used up, and they had no money. Write it down for now and settle the account later.
And those wells have been used for a few days. Each time they go, they can only fill half a barrel, which is enough for several households to eat and drink.
Gradually, the entire Linshan Village began to be in chaos, and fights over water happened every day.
There are also those who sell their daughters and sell their daughters, fleeing from the mountains to the mountains, to go to their relatives to go to their relatives.
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