The northernmost part of the rice fields in the north of Hecun is adjacent to a small embankment running east-west. It is indeed like a small road, but it is slightly higher than the rice fields by about one meter. To the north of the road is the fields belonging to Lucun.
The fire seemed to be caused by the withered grass on the embankment. At this time, some villagers had surrounded both ends of the embankment. They were using shovels, sickles, branches and other things to beat the flames caused by the withered grass on the embankment. Everyone knew that once
The fire spread. It wasn't the rice in the family's field that was burned down. It was "more."
And immediately to the south of the small embankment where the fire started was the rice field of Xu Zhengyang's family!
The rice field of Xu Zhengyang's family is rectangular. It is long from east to west and wider from north to south. The north side of the rice field is close to the small embankment, and the west side is next to the path that runs through the farmland in the north of Shuanghe Village. On the west side of the path is a drainage canal; the eastern part of the rice field is
There are several lotus root fields. At this time, the lotus leaves and lotus root stems have fallen and turned yellow. There is no fear of fire in the moist lotus root field.
When Xu Zhengyang and his father hurried to the rice field, they saw that the fire had ignited a small part of their rice field, and there were crackling sounds from the raging fire.
The villagers in the two villages were just fighting at both ends of the small embankment where the fire was burning to prevent the fire from spreading. However, no one dared to rush into the fire, and no one chose to cut a road in the rice fields on both sides of the small embankment to prevent the fire from spreading.
Spread, causing greater losses. The reason is very simple. Who has the right to damage the rice fields of my wife's family to protect other families' rice fields, other than whose own fields are the fields? And some villagers have begun to go down to their own rice fields to harvest in a hurry against the ridges.
Therefore, when the fire burned to their side, Qi Tu was able to cut a road in his rice field, blocking the spread of the fire and saving his rice.
People are helpless. This field is far away from the village. Who will bring pots and buckets when they go out to harvest rice? If they go back to get it, the rice may be burned up. However, some villagers will bring shovels when they come, and occasionally consolidate the fields.
Used during Kui time.
We all know, well, the people in Shuanghe Village also know that Xu Neng is an honest and honest person.
But today, when Xu Neng hurriedly rode his bicycle to his home field with a nervous look on his face, and saw that the fire had rushed into the rice fields, he showed unprecedented courage and heart in vain. He waved his sickle and loudly ordered to follow him.
The son who came: "Cut the south! Cut a road! Hurry!"
Before the voice fell, Xu Neng had already rushed into the rice fields with his sickle.
Xu Zhengyang rushed in without hesitation, waved his sickle and started harvesting in a hurry.
Cut the south!
The villagers who were busy and panic-stricken harvesting in their rice fields were startled. Xu Neng and his son wanted to mow the south side of their rice fields and cut a road instead of calling on the villagers to help put out the fire and protect their homes.
of rice. This means that he has to abandon his own rice that is ripe for a good harvest and keep the rice fields of other families further south!
Xu Neng was like crazy, swinging the sickle very fast, reflecting a frightening cold light under the reflection of the firelight and the morning sun.
Xu Zhengyang also waved his sickle quickly. From the corner of his eye, he saw other stunned villagers in the fields and dumbfounded villagers on the roadside. He couldn't help but waved his sickle angrily and shouted: "What are you doing standing still? Come down quickly."
Help! You can feel at ease after everything is burned? Hurry!"
The sound shook all directions, and even the billowing smoke and the puffing tongues of fire seemed to be frightened by Xu Zhengyang's furious momentum, and the speed of the fire spreading southward seemed to be much slower.
one, two, three,,
The villagers moved. They all hurriedly ran into the rice fields of Xu Zhengyang's family and harvested rice close to the south. They were even more energetic, trying to get more for the Xu family when the fire burned.
Soon more than twenty people poured into the rice fields. Some were harvesting from east to west, some were harvesting from west to east, some simply cut in and harvested in the middle, and some villagers followed the harvesters.
Behind them, the cut rice was quickly bundled into bundles and carried out; several villagers with shovels rushed to the path to the west of the rice field to dig ditches quickly, hoping to dig out the rice field and the surrounding area when the fire spread.
Water canal. Use iron bars to pour the little water in the drainage canal little by little into the rice fields. Some people have even begun to dig ditches in the rice fields.
The more people, the more powerful!
As the fire gradually devoured the mature rice in the rice field and gradually spread to the harvesting crowd, a three-meter-wide, east-to-west dug path appeared in the rice field. And this small path full of rice stubble
On the road, three ditches with the width of a spade blade were dug, and several people from the west were splashing water from the ditch with their spades.
The water trickled down and flowed into the three narrow ditches on the path between the rice fields.
The fire was blocked.
The blazing flames burned everyone's face and body. People stood on the periphery of the fire and watched the fire burning quietly. Except for a small amount of rice on more than three acres of land that was robbed to the field road, there was absolutely no remaining rice.
Most of it was completely burned. Months of hard work were wasted!
Xu Zhengyang and his parents stood on the road, staring blankly at the fire burning and the thick smoke rising.
To the north of the small embankment, the fire in the fields of Lu Village has ignited the rice fields of five or six families, and the fire is still spreading. The villagers are panicking and beating the flames everywhere; Xu Neng rushed across the small embankment with a sickle and ran towards the stranger.
In the rice fields of Lu Village villagers, more Shuanghe Village villagers ran over,
It was already past ten noon when the fire was completely burned out.
In Shuanghe Village, only the rice fields of Xu Zhengyang's family were lost, while in Lu Village, more than five families' rice fields were burned, and several other families also had part of their rice fields lost.
People were standing or sitting exhausted. Everyone's face was black and white.
Xu Zhengyang squatted by the canal, lowered his head and pondered, "Why can't his magical powers have any effect at this time? This is Shuanghe Village: The land of Liu is so fierce! How can the powerful Danpi's willpower be like this?"
"The sacrifice is not selfish, the child is of no use", Bo reminded in his mind: "Without divine power, it is difficult to defeat the power of the five elements of nature and the way of heaven" 0
Oh. Xu Zhengyang sighed softly, metal, wood, water, fire, earth, the five elements! I don’t know when the divine power will be able to break through the constraints of the five elements.
Liu Bin and Zhang Hao walked over in silence. Zhang Hao took out his 1.51 pack of cigarettes. He took out one and handed it to Xu Zhengyang.
Xu Zhengyang was stunned for a moment, then took it with a wry smile.
Liu Bin took out a lighter and lit it for Xu Zhengyang.
Their rice fields are adjacent to Xu Zhengyang's rice fields. Just now, they also participated,,.
When country people are busy farming, they don't care too much about fires caused by smoking, because everyone is very cautious when smoking. After all, everyone is worried about causing a fire.
"Zhengyang, I'm sorry, Zhang Hao squatted down and said softly.
Xu Zhengyang smiled: "That's nonsense.
"I haven't had a drink in some days," Liu Binhan said with a smile, with a trace of guilt in his eyes.
"Tonight, come to my house. Xu Zhengyang chuckled, stood up and clapped his hands, "I just want to talk to you about something these two days.
The two were stunned for a moment, then smiled and nodded in agreement.
At the junction of the embankment and the drainage canal, a fierce dispute suddenly broke out between the villagers of Shuanghe Village and the villagers of Lu Village.
Xu Zhengyang turned around and saw his mother Yuan Suqin arguing with several villagers in Lu Village: "A dog bites Lu Dongbin and doesn't know a good heart. The people in our village tried their best to help you put out the fire. In turn, they bite us."
Have your consciences been eaten by dogs?
"Don't curse! So much rice in the fields has been burned. The arsonist has to stand up and compensate everyone for their losses?" A man on the other side said angrily with his eyes wide open.
Zhang Hao’s father, Zhang Ziqiang, yelled: “Then you’re going to assume that it was people from our village who set the fire? Who knows if it was you who shouted “Catch the thief?”
A man in his thirties, wearing only a vest, immediately retorted: "You didn't set the fire, but you would be so kind as to help us put out the fire?"
Liu Bin's father cursed angrily: "Damn, you can really say such nonsense!"
After a few words, the anger of both parties was aroused. Their faces were red and their necks were thick, and their veins were bulging. They were holding the sickle tightly in their hands, and there were strong signs that they were about to take action.
Three policemen from the police station who had arrived earlier quickly stepped forward to stop the two parties from fighting.
Speaking of this kind of thing, I can't blame the two sides for being very angry. The Lucun side is naturally angry because the results of months of hard work were burned in the blink of an eye. The Shuanghe Village side is even more angry. I kindly helped you put it out.
How much damage did the fire save for your village? Why do you treat your good intentions like a donkey's liver and lungs?
Of course, this kind of thing has a starting point. After all, the people in Lucun are not really so heartless to this extent.
The origin of this origin comes from the man wearing a vest, the guy who just said the damn thing. Well, he set the fire. After a dispute with the neighbor, he was dissatisfied and filled his head with anger.
, when I was passing by someone else’s field, I took a break to light up my cigarette, secretly lit the cigarette case and threw it into my neighbor’s rice field below the embankment.
So the fire burned quickly.
But when the fire got bigger and it turned into a catastrophe, he was also afraid. After all, when he passed by the small embankment, there were already many villagers busy in the rice fields. If someone said that he happened to be passing by when the fire started,
Thinking about the conflict between him and that family just now, wouldn't it be possible to put suspicion on him? That would be terrible." That's why he called "thief catcher" and said some instigating words among the villagers in Lu Village.
The villagers in Lu Village who had lost their rice were angry, but because of his nonsense, they came to the villagers in Shuanghe Village to question and find the culprit.
So the previous dispute broke out.
Seeing that the two sides were getting more noisy and excited, and the three police officers seemed to be unable to control themselves, Xu Zhengyang hurried over. He pulled his parents behind him and shouted loudly: "Everyone, please be quiet."
On the small embankment, it immediately became quiet.
The villagers on both sides looked at each other in surprise, and then looked at Xu Zhengyang. They didn't understand why this young man just said a word, and everyone would listen to him and calm down?
Even Xu Zhengyang himself felt a little strange, but he had no time to think about it now. He said calmly: "Everyone is angry when the rice is burned, but we can't just quarrel with each other mindlessly.
I even had to start a fight, "Does it work?"
The villagers on both sides looked at each other. After thinking about it carefully, it was really unnecessary to be so noisy and even start a fight. Especially the villagers in the walking village felt a little guilty. After all, the people from Shuanghe Village had been
You helped them put out the fire. How come you are such an adult and you are not as good as a young man who knows how to count?
The three policemen knew Xu Zhengyang, especially Wang Yue. They were also familiar with Xu Zhengyang. He patted Xu Zhengyang on the shoulder, expressed his gratitude and admiration with his eyes, and then together with the two policemen, he persuaded the villagers to disperse.
Xu Zhengyang narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the perpetrator.
The other party noticed that Xu Zhengyang was staring at him. He suddenly felt guilty, but said stiffly: "Then according to what you said, all the rice that was burned was in vain? Can the police find out who set the fire?"
"Can Zhengyang not allow Wang Yue and others to explain, so he nodded and said.
The man became more and more guilty, snorted coldly and said: "What a fart!"
"Lu Haichao" Xu Zhengyang narrowed his eyes and called out coldly.
The other person was stunned, how does this young man know my name?
After Xu Zhengyang waved his hand and attracted everyone's attention, he said to Lu Haichao with a calm expression: "Do you smoke?"
"Why are you asking this?" Lu Haichao asked in surprise, and then felt that Xu Zhengyang's squinted eyes seemed to be able to see through his heart and lungs. He immediately avoided Xu Zhengyang's gaze with a guilty conscience, "What will it bother you if I smoke or not?
What happened?"
Xu Zhengyang snorted and said coldly: "You still have a pack of unopened cigarettes on you? When you came to the field before and went to this small embankment, you lit the last cigarette in another pack."
I think some villagers saw you lighting up a cigarette, where is the empty cigarette case?"
When Lu Haichao heard this, he immediately became flustered and argued: "Throw it away. It was so hot just now. It has been burned to ashes a long time ago. Where can I find it?" Lu Haichao suddenly realized why he was so obedient.
You have to answer whatever you ask. Isn't it obvious that you have a guilty conscience? So he quickly said: "Why do you ask these questions?"
"That's right, you threw away the cigarette case." Xu Zhengyang turned around and glanced around the crowd. Seeing everyone looking at him blankly, he sneered and said, "But you lit the cigarette case and threw it in."
In the rice field by the small embankment, this family had a dispute with you when they got up this morning?"
"You're talking nonsense!" Lu Haichao's eyes showed a look of horror, and he said to everyone: "Don't listen to him making up nonsense, he is slandering people!"
Xu Zhengyang sneered and said: "Slandering you? Your rice fields are far away from here? They haven't been burned? Then why do you just eat carrots and worry about nothing, and come over to instigate others to question us in Shuanghe Village after the fire is over?".
"I, this is a person from our village. Why don't I help?" Lu Haichao still argued unwillingly, but his nervous expression and evasive glance in his eyes clearly told everyone that he felt guilty.
The few people who had previously had their rice fields burned and were instigated to come to Shuanghe Village to question the villagers also looked at each other a few times and realized something in their hearts. Yes, didn't they just listen to Lu Haichao's words?
Would you be angry and come here to find someone to question?
The villager whose family had a conflict with Lu Haichao knew Lu Haichao's character even more clearly, so when he looked at Lu Haichao, his eyes were filled with angry flames.
Xu Zhengyang said coldly: "Lu Haichao, do you really think you are hiding yourself and no one will notice?"
"I, I didn't, I didn't." Lu Haichao dodged Xu Zhengyang's cold eyes, but unfortunately he couldn't avoid the doubtful and angry eyes of everyone. He became more and more guilty and frightened, and his voice lost confidence.
By this time, everyone knew from Lu Haichao's behavior that he was the perpetrator.
"Lu Haichao, you bastard!" The middle-aged woman in the family of four who had had a dispute with Lu Haichao before spat in Lu Haichao's face, yelled and waved
A slap scratched Lu Haichao's face.
It might have been more beneficial for Lu Haichao if he had been quibbling back at this time, but he felt guilty and became more and more frightened after being exposed. As a result, after being spat on and scratched by the woman, he actually took two steps back without daring to fight back.
, and didn’t even dare to argue about anything.
Now, everyone completely believed that Lu Haichao was the one who set the fire!
People gathered around and cursed angrily. The women scratched, spat and smeared the woman, while the men simply beat them with their fists and kicked them with their feet.
What's more, they directly waved the sickle to kill him. Fortunately, Wang Yue and three other policemen stopped him in time. They grabbed the sickle, shouted at everyone, struggled to push through the crowd, and rushed in to protect Lu Haichao.
To prevent Lu Haichao from being beaten to death by a group of people. You must know that if this situation is not stopped in time, Lu Haichao can easily be beaten to death by the angry crowd.
Seeing that everyone was about to rush up and beat up Lu Haichao, Xu Zhengyang loudly advised: "Everyone stop, the police will investigate clearly. Let the arsonists be punished as they deserve. Our losses will also be compensated!"
After everyone listened to Xu Zhengyang's words, they all stopped in confusion and watched angrily as Lu Haichao was taken into a police car by three policemen, and then the police car roared away.
At this time, Xu Zhengyang had already turned around and comforted his parents who were still stunned: "Go back. You don't have to work hard on the rice in the north this year. Oh, and grab some." At this point, Xu Zhengyang said to Liu Bin: "
Binzi, help me drive your Sanbengzi to bring the rice back and forth."
"Okay, wait a minute." Liu Bin agreed, hurried to the roadside, got on his bicycle and sped towards the village.
The family of three walked to the small pile of rice piled up on the path, smiled bitterly, sighed and shook their heads.
Xu Neng took out his cigarette and walked up to a few gentlemen, spreading the cigarette and chatting with them. Yuan Suqin told her son that there was nothing to do and she went back to make lunch.
After his mother left, Xu Zhengyang sat on the floor, took out Yuxi cigarettes and handed one to Zhang Hao, and lit one himself.
Zhang Hao sat down next to Xu Zhengyang, smoked a cigarette and said a little apologetically: "Zhengyang, brother, I feel guilty. It's really embarrassing to think about it. Haha, I feel jealous about my brother."
"Don't talk about this.
"Xu Zhengyang waved his hand to interrupt the other party's words, and said with a smile: "I'll give you a brief explanation first. I've found a job for you guys. It's not confirmed yet. I'll call and ask when I get back later."
"What job?" Zhang Hao looked happy.
"We'll wait until I have a good deal with them. It depends on whether they need anyone." Xu Zhengyang said with a smile, "But don't worry, I will always find some good work for you."
Zhang Hao felt more and more guilty. He lowered his head and smoked a cigarette and said, "I won't say any more polite words."
Not far away, the villagers of Lu Village gathered together in groups of three or five, looking at Xu Zhengyang here and talking about it...