The powerful minister favors the small farmer's wife alone

Chapter 62
As soon as she entered the door, she saw that the atmosphere in the house was a bit dignified. Su Xiaocao, who came to open the door for her, said in a low voice: "Sister, the water source over there may be drying up soon. Someone from the government said in the morning that from tomorrow onwards, the water in our village will be drained." Everyone only gave half a scoop of water. Fortunately, there is water in our well, otherwise there would be no water to drink."

Su Xiaoye frowned. She had already guessed that if it didn't rain, the water source in the village would dry up one day, but she never thought it would come so soon.

And because of the lack of water, the people in the village will also be dissatisfied with the matter of transporting water and selling it to the county seat. But if the water is not sold, there will be no money to pay the workers who repair the dam. I don't know if the construction of the dam can continue.

Sure enough, in the afternoon, when Su Xiaoye heard a commotion at the water source, standing on the ladder, Su Xiaoye could see someone pointing at those soldiers and scolding: "The water is from our village, and I don't even have enough to drink it. If you want to sell it to the city people, if you are greedy for the money, you will not be afraid of thunder."

Someone explained to him that the money for selling water was to pay the people who built the dams, and the man was even more angry, "Fix the dams! The river is dry, so what's the use of building dams? I think it's those officials who changed their minds." It is a means of searching for people's fat and people's anointing."

The soldiers were not good-tempered, and they became angry when they heard the man swearing. Several people came up to silence him, and someone tied him up with a rope, finally calming down there.

But in Su Xiaoye's view, if it doesn't rain, there will be more such things, and even a bigger crisis has been buried.

When Su Ling and Su Chang came back in the evening, they were both downcast, and handed Su Xiaoye a large bunch of copper coins, saying that they were wages these days, and asked her to keep them.

But when she asked why, she just sighed and made Xu Zhixiang anxious. After asking for a long time, Su Ling said: "The above said that the villagers will not be allowed to receive water here in the future, and they will be distributed door to door. We don't need to record there, let's go back first." Waiting for the letter."

Xu Zhixiang also showed distress when she heard the words. Before, her two sons got favored by adults and gave them a job. Although she didn't have much contact with the villagers, she heard the envy and jealousy towards her from the people passing by outside the courtyard.

This time, the errand was gone all of a sudden, and those jealous people in the village didn't know what to say.

But Su Xiaoye said with a smile: "My lord asked you to come back for your own good. Dividing water was a good job before, but now that water is getting less and less, distributing water is a job that offends others. Whoever has more and who has less will have to be punished." It’s not a bad job. I just thought it’s too ostentatious to go to Jishan County to sell fish, and it’s too far to go to Liu’an County alone. If you don’t work on errands, you can go to Liu’an County with me.”

Hearing this, the two brothers showed joy, but Su Ling said, "Now that my second brother and I are not on errands, why do you need to run around with us? Let me and second brother sell fish in the future. You just fix the backyard at home."

"That's right, sister, you can embroider and cook at home, and my eldest brother and I have to do outside work." Su Chang also nodded.

But Su Xiaoye quit. She wanted to go to Liu'an County, not just to sell fish, but also wanted to do something big. If she was not allowed to go, where would she get the money to buy the spring water device?
"Brother, I haven't been to Liu'an County since I grew up. I heard that it is very lively there, so please let me go and have a look. Maybe you can find something I want to buy."

Hearing what Su Xiaoye said, Su Ling didn't refuse anymore. Who told her that this is his beloved sister, and it's okay to take her out to see the world.

However, Liu'an County is so far away, he can't let his sister just walk there.

(End of this chapter)