Xiaoqian put the pancakes in front of her, and said, "Think that the river dam is made of paper, if it breaks, it can be broken, eat it and go to school."
Now Man Bao doesn't need someone to pick him up and go to and from school. After breakfast, he goes to school by himself with a small bookcase on his back.
As soon as he walked to the intersection in front of the school, he saw Mr. Zhuang standing on the side of the road looking this way. Man Bao immediately ran over, raised his head and asked, "Sir, are you waiting for me?"
Mr. Zhuang smiled slightly, turned his gaze away, patted her little head and asked, "Why is the village so lively?"
"The village chief asked everyone to hold a meeting. I don't know if they are going fishing again."
Mr. Zhuang couldn't help being happy when he heard it, and the worries in his heart were washed away by her childish words.
Mr. Zhuang settled down, led Man Bao back to the classroom, and arranged for her to study before going back to the small courtyard. He thought, what happened, he would know by the end of school at the latest.
Man Bao also knew after school, because as soon as he got home, the family was discussing who would serve in the military this year.
It is said that yesterday afternoon their chief was urgently summoned to Jiangding Village upstream, where he was scolded by the county magistrate because of the breach of the dam.
Of course, it wasn't their village chief who was scolded, but their village chief was incidental. The most miserable one was the village chief who was in charge of Jiangding Village. It is said that he had already been sent to prison by this time.
But the embankment was also broken when people grabbed it. Originally, there were three villages between Qili Village and Jiangding Village. The head of the village came to look for the head of the village early in the morning.
The head of the village felt that the county would issue a military service order in the past few days at most, so the notice was given in advance so that the families could be prepared.
Last year, Zhou Zhoulang served in the military. According to the sequence, it should be Zhou Dalang's turn, but unfortunately, this year, Zhou Zhoulang will be a young man.
Oh, by the way, he can still divide the land after he becomes a adult. Old Zhou has already inquired with the village chief, and is planning to give the village chief a gift so that the land he has divided will be better.
So the topic of discussion today is, should Zhou Dalang go to serve in the military, or Zhou Zhoulang
Zhou Zhoulang, who returned happily with money in his pocket and an empty basket on his back, met everyone's piercing gazes as soon as he opened the door. He felt a little flustered.
Subconsciously, he took out the bag on his shoulder and said, "I'm not greedy for money. If you don't believe me, ask the fifth and eldest sister. They will remember today's account."
Zhou Xi pushed him away and walked in, asking, "What's wrong?"
Everyone gave Zhou Zhou Lang a look of contempt, and looked away, Zhou Zhou Lang said: "Isn't the dam upstream broken? The county may have to issue a service order."
Zhou Xi couldn't help but said, "Isn't that in Jiangding Village? Why did they come to our village?"
Old Zhou said: "They are all on the same river, they are not good, can we be good?"
He said: "Fortunately, the summer and autumn floods are over now. If it had broken open two months earlier, all the crops in the field would have suffered, and I'm afraid the house would have been damaged."
Zhou Zhou Lang said: "I remember that the dam in Jiangding Village was built five years ago, and it was the elder brother who went there at that time. Why did it break?"
Zhou Dalang frowned and thought for a long time, then hesitantly said: "Is it because of the lack of wood?"
Zhou Zhoulang felt that the current atmosphere at home was very unfriendly to him, so he quietly walked up to Man Bao, squatted beside him, handed her a letter, and inquired by the way, "If you serve, you will serve, why are you stare at me?"
The letter was written by Miss Fu, Man Bao happily accepted it, and explained to him, "Fourth brother, you will be a adult this year."
Zhou Zhoulang opened his mouth wide, clenched his bag tightly and asked, "So, so I'm going to serve in the military?"
Man Bao thought for a while and said, "It is logical to say so."
Otherwise, it would be too cheap for the fourth brother to take the turn from the eldest brother.
Zhou Zhoulang rolled his eyes and asked Man Bao in a low voice, "If I go to serve in the army, what will happen to the ginger and yam in the field?"
Man Bao: "There are fifth brother and sixth brother, they are very powerful now, no matter how bad they are, there is second brother, he will help."
"Then if I go, will my family still go to the side to set up a stove to stew meat soup?"
"It should be possible," Man Bao thought for a while, and comforted him: "Don't worry, fourth brother, if you go, I will definitely let the eldest brother and the others go to the side to set up a stove to cook soup."
Zhou Zhoulang felt much better, and gave her the bag, "Here, count the money today."
Man Bao decided to read the letter first. Anyway, Dad and the others are still discussing things now, and they are not in a hurry to count the money.
In fact, Miss Fu Er wanted to write a letter to Man Bao yesterday, but the letter was not delivered because Zhou Zhoulang and the others changed a place to sell ginger, but this morning, as soon as the girl heard the cries outside, she sent the letter to sent out.
In the letter, she re-wrote the books she had read recently and what she had learned, and then mentioned that their family liked the dried fish she gave her, and shared with Man Bao the gossip she had heard.
After all, she was taken aback by magistrate Fu at the time. She was only ten years old. Although she was very sensible, she still couldn't help crying afterwards.
It was her mother who comforted her and said that it had nothing to do with her, so she felt better, but she still asked people to find out what happened.
Of course, County Magistrate Fu wouldn't talk to her daughter about this, but this morning her father came home exhausted, and she still knew what happened from her mother's nagging.
A section of the river dam broke down. Fortunately, it is not the flood season. Except for some fields in Dingjiang Village, other villages are not flooded.
Now that the autumn harvest is over, Dingjiang Village has lost some vegetables and no crops. It's just that the fields with the deepest water will become unbalanced in fertility, and may turn from good fields to poor fields.
Fortunately, the river dam is also broken, and it has to be repaired.
Miss Fu Er said that her father had lost his temper because it cost money to repair the embankment, and it seemed that the county government had no money.
Miss Fu Er just gossiped about this kind of thing and didn't go into details, but Man Bao still couldn't help but widen his eyes and let go of his thoughts. If there is no money, the county magistrate won't ask them again, will he
At this time, magistrate Fu was also thinking about this issue.
He didn't want to issue another service order this year, and let the villages clean up their own water conservancy and open up the land for Cheng Ding.
But now it doesn't work.
But how to send this
Which village's Laudin should be smoked, and which village's Laudin should not be smoked
Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is, what about the materials used to build the embankments
The county has not applied for the construction of the dam with the state government, so this part of the money has not been allocated this year.
County Magistrate Fu's teeth itch with hatred when he thought of this. The dike that was broken was built when he was the county magistrate. It just so happened that it was built a year before he left office.