Wei and Jin cooks

The few villagers were a little hesitant. They originally wanted to pretend to be refugees and work for a winter, get paid, and then quietly come back in the spring of next year.

But after hearing what Jiao Dalang said, they became a little afraid, fearing that Zhao Hanzhang would not let them go and would punish them.

"Why don't you wait first, and when I go back and ask our county master, if she still wants someone, I will come to pick you up?"

"Let's go with you. If she doesn't want us, we'll come back." What if he leaves and never comes back?

"Yes, yes, there is someone to take care of you on the way."

Jiao Dalang couldn't think of anything to object to, so he could only agree, but said: "I'm going back today, you have to follow me faster."

Although they are from two counties, their villages are not far apart and can be reached in half a day's walk.

Jiao Dalang and others dug the canal near their village, which is not very far from here.

As soon as he agreed, the villagers got together. After discussing for a while, you called your family members, and I told my relatives. After a while, many people came over.

When Jiao Dalang saw so many people gathered, the older one could be his father, and the younger one was only eleven or twelve years old, he felt a little weak for a moment.

If he brings so many people back, the county will not be so angry that he will be thrown out of Xiping County, right?

But these people had been hungry for a long time. At this time, they were all staring at Jiao Dalang. He didn't dare to ask them to stay, so he could only swallow his saliva and lead them to Xiping County.

Zhao Hanzhang hasn't left yet. The reason why she came here specifically is to inspect; secondly, because there is little water in this area, and whenever drought occurs, these villages are the most severely affected areas in Xiping County.

So she specially dragged Professor Fu over to find the best place to dig a reservoir or a well.

The canal they dug now is connected to a small river, but according to Li Zheng, the small river does not have much water and has poor water storage capacity.

When there is a lot of rain every year, the water in the river will overflow and flood the farmland next to it. When there is a drought, the water in the river will quickly dry up.

Zhao Hanzhang walked by the river, stretched out his feet to step on the mud by the river, and playfully used a wooden stick to pick up ice cubes in the water.

Fu Tinghan walked around and came back, standing aside silently and watching.

Zhao Hanzhang turned around and was startled when she saw him. The wooden stick in her hand hit the river out of control, and the cold water splashed. She smiled sheepishly and explained: "I haven't seen the frozen water in a long time."

"A thin layer of ice will break with a gentle knock," Fu Tinghan said: "I have seen it. The river bed of this river is too high, and a thick layer of silt has accumulated. Instead of spending a lot of effort to build a reservoir, It is better to dig this river and dredge the river channel, and the water storage capacity will increase."

Zhao Hanzhang nodded, "The dug river mud can also be used as fertilizer, but there are too few people. I'll see where I can find more people."

Nowadays, building houses, digging water canals in various places, and construction of iron mines are major events that go hand in hand, and consume the most manpower and material resources. If they didn't have a glaze workshop, no one would dare to do so many things together with such a big deal.

At this time, all the manpower available in the county was used.

The two of them were looking for labor everywhere, thinking that they couldn't find any manpower, so they squeezed in from Shangcai's manor, maybe they could get some manpower.

Just as he was thinking about it, a man came running from a distance, panting and waving his hands and shouting, "County Lord, County Lord..."

When he reached the front, he breathlessly pointed in the direction of the village behind him and said: "County Lord, Jiao Dalang has brought many people back. The village chief is furious and wants to drive Jiao Dalang's family out of our village."

Zhao Hanzhang raised his eyebrows, "Didn't Jiao Dalang go to pick up his cousin?"

"Yeah, it turns out he brought back a lot of people, all of them from Shangcai's side, saying they wanted to come over to work."

But they don’t have enough work to do, so why should they be allocated to people in Shangcai?

Jiao Dalang is really good at eating both inside and outside.

Zhao Hanzhang asked: "How many people did he bring back?"

"I haven't counted, but I guess there are seventy or eighty people."

Zhao Hanzhang was surprised and happy, "So many?"

Fu Tinghan murmured: "I was so sleepy that I brought a pillow."

Zhao Hanzhang thought so, so he grabbed Fu Tinghan and left.

When the two of them rode back, they saw two groups of people blocking the entrance to the village and confronting each other. I don't know who said what. The other group of people shouted loudly: "If you don't give us a way to live, then no one will live!"

Zhao Hanzhang tried his best to suppress his smile, rode forward with a sullen face, and shouted: "What's the fuss about?"

When the village chief saw Zhao Hanzhang in the crowd, he immediately stepped forward and saluted, "County Lord, you are here to judge. These Shangcai people are determined to steal our jobs from Xiajiao Village."

The smile between Zhao Hanzhang's eyebrows completely disappeared. She glanced condescendingly at the director, until he lowered his head in fear, and then raised his eyes to look at the people who were looking at her quietly.

I saw these people with yellow and thin faces, fear on their faces, and uneasiness in their eyes. They ranged in age from twelve to forty years old.

Touching their mournful eyes, Zhao Hanzhang's face softened slightly and asked: "Where are you from?"

Everyone pushed me and I pushed you, and finally Jiao Dalang's cousin Qian Jin was pushed out.

He knelt in front of the horse and replied tremblingly: "Hui County Lord, we are all from Shangjiao Village, Shangcai County."

Zhao Hanzhang asked with interest: "Is that river over there called Jiaohe coming from your village?"

Qian Jin agreed, "It flows down from the mountains not far from our village, and the river also passes through our village."

Zhao Hanzhang said: "We drink the same river water and are connected by blood. What are the upper corners, the lower corners, the outer village and the inner village?"

She looked at the chief sternly and said in a deep voice: "Don't say you have a friendship like a river, even if you don't, they are also from Jin. I, Xiping, have even taken in people from outside Runan County. How can we separate them if we can't tolerate them?" Relatives more than twenty miles away?"

When the people in Shangjiao Village heard this, they knelt down one after another and kowtowed to Zhao Hanzhang on the horse, "Girl, please save us, we really can't survive anymore."

Zhao Hanzhang hurriedly dismounted and helped the people up. Seeing their weak faces, which were also full of sadness, he turned around and said to the chief: "Go and let people make fire and boil water, make some batter for them, and let the brothers eat first." ."

The mayor went reluctantly.

Zhao Hanzhang squinted and watched as his back disappeared. As soon as he turned around, he smiled again. He pulled the oldest person in Shangjiao Village and said, "Let's go, let's sit down in a leeward place and talk."

Zhao Hanzhang came forward to keep the people in Shangjiao Village, and the people in Xiajiao Village immediately tolerated them.

Originally, although the two villages were from two counties, they were very close to each other, so many people were related.

When the village chief asked them to stop the people from Shangjiao Village, they were not very willing, but because the village chief said that the work was done for them, there was nothing left for them here. In addition, it was the village chief's order, so they stopped them. .

The misunderstanding was resolved at this moment, and several relatives immediately crowded over to look for their relatives.