LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 82 The Yuan family makes things difficult for them
Yuanjiawan.
Although Yuanjiawan is named Yuanjiawan, it is not just the Yuan family that lives here. There are also several families such as the Chen family and the Sun family living here. There are more than 2,000 people who have lived here for generations. It is a large village.
The reason why this place is called Yuanjiawan is just because Yuan Wenjing passed the exam and became a capital official more than thirty years ago. The Yuan family became the first-class family in the village, and the village was named Yuan.
Yuan family.
Yuan Hongjie looked at the boy and Yuan Zhongming in front of him, kicked the boy to the ground, pointed at him and cursed: "You can't handle such a thing! What's the use of raising you!"
The boy raised his eyes slightly and glanced at him, and said timidly: "Then, then... the people in Liujia Village have found the water source, and they will stop making trouble. I, my servant, can't let them make trouble anymore! I'm a servant doing things. It’s not good, please forgive me!”
Seeing that the boy dared to talk back, Yuan Hongjie stepped forward and kicked him again, "You're useless!"
It turned out that this morning, Yuan Hongjie was walking on the road at the head of Yuanjiawan Village. Looking at the cracked paddy fields and the curled and yellowing mulberry leaves, he was filled with melancholy.
It has been more than two months since he returned to this remote country from the capital. Thinking of his father's instructions before leaving, he not only failed to complete it but also messed up the matter. He couldn't help but feel uneasy and thought about packing up and returning to the capital now!
But if he goes back in such a mess now, he will inevitably be punished by his father and ridiculed by the mother-in-law at home. But if we don’t go back, the drought will get worse and worse, and there will be refugees fleeing everywhere, and it will definitely not be safe on the way back!
At this time, several hurried villagers passed by him.
One complained: "Damn, I really want to take my whole family to escape. In such a big village, with more than 200 households and three major families living there, no one is willing to dig a well!"
"It's not all the fault of the Yuan family! They rely on someone in the family to be an official in the capital. When there are areas in the village that need help, they never send anyone to help! They always say that their family opened that school and admitted students to study for free. You are already contributing to the village, so you don’t need to participate in anything else!”
"That's right, especially in recent years, their family has gone too far! The year before last, they didn't work on the road construction, so they gave them ten taels of silver! Last year, they didn't work on the bridge construction, but they still gave them ten taels of silver! Today they have to dig a well, and they Still no work, but still paying ten taels of silver. Seeing this, the two big families of Chen and Sun also paid ten taels of silver each and stopped working!"
"What can we do with these thirty taels of silver? With so many households, we need to dig at least ten wells. But how can we, from a small family, dig them! Who can we find to dig these thirty taels of silver? !”
"We in Liujia Village dug together, but after five or six digs, we couldn't get any water. I'm so worried! If we can't dig in the next two days, our village will be without water! What will we do then?"
He does not mean that.
Yuan Hongjie suddenly felt that the time had come to make Yuan Chuyi bankrupt and even stop her from opening her teahouse and inn.
When he returned to the Yuan family, he immediately asked Yuan Zhongming to find some people from the Yuan family's branches.
The villagers in Liujia Village are worrying about the several wells dug in the village. Someone nearby complained: "It's really unfair in the world. Our village is about to run out of water, but there are still people in Xishan Village who open tea sheds and inns and sell water to make money. The money flows into their pockets like running water!"
"Yes, the folks in this village actually don't care about our life or death and take life-saving water to sell it for money! Let's go to them and ask them to give us the water!"
"But I heard that the man in that family is a high official!"
As soon as their topic came up, they immediately aroused dissatisfaction among the villagers, and everyone said:
"Since someone in their family is an official, they should take care of the life and death of us people first! How can we waste water and make such dirty money in such a drought! Let's go, let's go find them!"
"Go now. Today is the day when their new inn opens. Let's go and make trouble with them now. If they want to do business, they will definitely give me the water! Otherwise, they won't be able to do his business!"
The group of people headed towards Xishan Village, and sure enough they saw a large inn that had just opened with firecrackers set off, and guests were still coming in and out.
"Look, they are indeed opening a shop to sell water to make money. Let's go find them!"
"Go find them!"
The inn on the first day of Yuan Dynasty was quickly surrounded by people from the Liu family. However, as soon as Yuanchu knew their purpose, he quickly took people with them to their village and solved the problem of their village not being able to dig water.
Yuan Hongjie could not have imagined that he had spent so much effort to get people to go to Liujia Village to fan the flames, but Yuan Hongjie had actually resolved the crisis with just one trip to Liujia Village on the first day of the new year!
Yuan Hongjie kicked the boy several times in a row. Yuan Zhongming saw the corner of the boy's mouth bleeding and couldn't stand it any longer. He stepped forward and said, "Sir, it's time for Yuan Chu to come over to visit the grave today. What preparations should we make?" ?”
Yuan Hongjie looked at the sky outside, snorted coldly, and let the boy go, "It's already this hour today, and the hour is almost over. They will probably not come. Tomorrow is the last day to worship at the grave. They should You won’t come until tomorrow! No matter what, you have to lead people to block the road into the village. They cannot let their siblings enter the village, let alone the family cemetery!”
"Yes! I will take people to guard it right now."
Yuan Zhongming did not dare to disobey Yuan Hongjie's words. In this Yuan family, he is the person with the lowest status, not only because he is a bride-in-law, but also because the three children he has with the Yuan family's second wife are all girls! This made it even more difficult for him to hold his head high in the Yuan family. In addition to obeying the patriarch, he also had to listen to the instructions of the uncles and junior men in the clan!
Yuan Zhongming led people to guard the intersection into the village. Sure enough, he did not see Yuan Chuyi and his siblings arriving until dark. Knowing that they would not come today, they led people to block the road early the next morning. At the entrance of the village.
This time they got it right. At about four o'clock, a carriage came towards their village from the direction of Xishan Village, followed by more than a dozen tall horses. The person sitting on the horse was actually wearing armor and had a sword hanging from his waist. of guards.
The people in Yuanjiawan saw the Yuan family blocking the village entrance and knew that their family wanted to prevent the three siblings who had been expelled from the family from coming back to worship their ancestors. People from the whole village, regardless of men, women, old and young, all crowded into the village entrance. Watch the fun.
Before Yuan Chuyi arrived, he knew that he would definitely get into trouble when he came here, so yesterday he asked Xuan Yue to go to the border and mobilize ten of Xiao Jing's personal guards at the border, and asked them to come to Xishan Village overnight. Escort them to Yuanjia Bay.
Seeing that the road into the village was blocked, Xuan Yue spurred her horse forward and shouted loudly: "Princess An is going to the ancestral land of the Yuan family to pay homage to her late father. Everyone else, get out of the way quickly and don't stop her!"