freenovelworld Chapter 48 Using the destruction and overturning of the car as blackmail!
Chapter 48 Using the destruction and overturning of the car as blackmail!
Fertile land can yield 20% more grain than dry land!
It must be because the eldest son of the Shen family only received four acres of dry land after the division of the family property, and he was envious of the large amount of grain that the other family's fertile land produced, so he refused to help them.
Shen Xiaotang glanced coldly at Li Liangtian, "My father is illiterate. It's just a lucky guess that he came up with this idea. Instead of looking for my father, you should go to the literate, respected, and capable elders in the village."
If all else fails, you can pray to the gods and Buddhas for rain!
Hmph, Li Liangtian is no good either.
He bullies the weak and fears the strong, and because he has three sons and ten acres of fertile land, he is used to looking down on people.
Even if Liangtian and Zhongzhongtian did meet the conditions for using the overturned vehicle, she would never let her father build one for these people for nothing!
Li Liangtian had finally managed to get everyone to come to the door, but he was still resentful for not getting any solutions. When he heard Shen Xiaotang rambling on and on, he immediately scolded her angrily.
"When adults are talking, what right does a little brat like you have to interrupt? Go cool off somewhere else!"
Shuanzhu said, "Qingchuan, we all live in the same village. If the crops in the fields all die of drought, how can you live with yourself?"
He cursed inwardly, "Pah... what a rotten thing, no humanity at all!"
Shen Qingchuan looked troubled. Did he not want to help?
Even if you ripped his brain out, he still wouldn't be able to come up with a solution!
“If I had a way, why would I hide it? My father still has sixteen acres of fertile land there. Even if the family has separated, it was all planted and cultivated by me and my wife, Fengniang, bit by bit. It has all our hard work!”
Liu couldn't help but speak up for her husband, but was interrupted.
Aunt Chunhua looked distressed. "Fengniang, we really have no other choice. Your dry fields have been flooded, but our good and medium-sized fields are almost parched. Please help persuade Qingchuan. No matter if your idea works or not, you have to try."
The villagers became agitated, shouting, "That's right! It's easy for you to talk when you're not the ones suffering. You've solved your own drought problems, but you don't care about the lives of everyone else..."
"Quickly, we need to think of a solution..."
The villagers were all talking at once, and with people like Li Liangtian stirring things up from below, the scene suddenly became chaotic.
Xiaoyu, who was hiding in the house, was so frightened that she covered her mouth and cried. She wanted to speak up for her parents and older sister, but she had a stutter!
Seeing that no matter how she explained, these people wouldn't believe her, and they were acting like cornered dogs, Shen Xiaotang felt a little scared.
So she took her father's hand, made him lower his head, and whispered the message to him.
"Father, these people are probably going crazy with worry. I'm afraid they might do something drastic. We can't let them destroy our new home that we've worked so hard to build. You and Mother, hold on for now. I'll go and ask the village head for help!"
"Remember, these people were brought here by me. Don't waste your breath arguing with them. Let me persuade them!"
Surrounded and interrogated, Shen Qingchuan momentarily lost his mind and forgot how to ask the village headman to calm things down.
"Okay, be careful!"
"Uh-huh."
She originally wanted her mother to invite the village head, but her mother was an adult, and being surrounded with her father, it would be difficult for her to squeeze out.
Moreover, since the father couldn't offer a solution, these desperate villagers wouldn't let the mother leave.
Forget it, let her go and ask the village head!
Shen Qingchuan released his daughter's hand and looked up at his father.
“Father, you know my temperament better than anyone. I would never lie to you. Instead of leading everyone here, why don’t you go to the village head and respected elders and ask them to come up with a solution together?”
Mr. Shen glared at his eldest son, feeling somewhat disgruntled.
He was just following the villagers to ask questions, so how did he become the one who brought them here?
He turned to look at Li Liangtian and Shuanzhu, and said in a deep voice, "It's done. We've asked him, and that's all he can do. He can't think of any other solutions. Everyone, go your separate ways and do what you need to do. Don't crowd around him."
In the past, his words would have carried weight, but three months ago, the family split up, and because of the matter of taking from the family's descendants, his and his wife's reputations were ruined. In addition, the crops in the fields are about to die from drought, and everyone is anxious. Who would still think of giving him, a school teacher, any face?
Li Liangtian and Shuanzhu exchanged a glance, then gritted their teeth and said, "You're father and son, so of course you'll side with your own son. You're both acting in concert now, so who knows if he'll give you advice in private? Today he has to come up with a solution for everyone, right, everyone?"
Shuanzhu immediately chimed in, "Yes, of course you'll side with your own people!"
The villagers were stirred up again, and the scene became chaotic once more.
Finally, Li Liangtian and Shuanzhu put their heads together and led the villagers in a large group to the dike on the other side of the dry field.
Shen Qingchuan and Liu Shi turned pale with fright and quickly chased after them.
Mr. Shen sighed, thinking to himself, "What kind of mess is this?"
In the end, they had no choice but to go and stop them.
Upon hearing the news, villagers from both aquatic and dry land areas rushed over.
A calculating glint flashed in Li Liangtian's eyes. Though his argument was unjustified, he said defiantly, "Qingchuan, no one knows the pain until they are punished. Your dryland has solved the drought problem, so you can finally get a good night's sleep. We asked you for help, and you refused without even thinking about it. I think you clearly don't want to help!"
"Since you're so heartless, don't blame us for being ruthless too. If you don't come up with a solution for us today, we'll ruin this whole operation and make sure there's no harvest at all—we'll all have a total crop failure!"
"Liangtian, don't be impulsive. Let's talk this out. This vehicle was hard-won, and it's not just for me to use. How can you destroy it just because I can't think of a solution?"
Shui Sheng and the villagers who had dry fields here arrived just in time, all of them panting heavily from exhaustion.
Hearing that Li Liangtian wanted to destroy the overturned vehicle, he immediately became furious.
"Li Liangtian, if you dare to ruin our car today, we will not let you off!"
"What have we done to offend you, you heartless scoundrel? I think you're just jealous and can't stand to see us doing well, so you're deliberately trying to ruin things!"
Li Liangtian sneered and said in a sinister tone, "Enough nonsense. If Qingchuan doesn't come up with a solution for us today, let's see if we dare to ruin this car!"
The villagers of Liangtian and Zhongzhongtian chimed in, "We didn't mean to damage the car, but Qingchuan refused to help, and he forced us to do it!"
Some villagers disagreed with such an extreme approach, but their voices of opposition were too weak to be effective.
Unable to think of a solution, Shen Qingchuan became so angry that his eyes turned red and his head was buzzing. He could only squat on the ground, holding his head in his hands.
The villagers in the dry fields were so angry that they gritted their teeth, rolled up their sleeves, and stepped forward to fight.
"Li Liangtian, if you don't move aside, don't blame us for being impolite!"
Shuanzhu somehow produced a torch and immediately handed it to him!
Li Liangtian stood beside the overturned vehicle, holding a torch that was burning fiercely.
"Heh heh, the crops in the fields are almost totaled, do you think I'm going to be rude? I'll count to three, and if Qingchuan doesn't come up with a solution for our fertile land, I'll burn this overturned cart down!"
The two groups of villagers instantly became tense, rolling up their sleeves and ready to fight!
"three two……"
"Let's see who dares to burn it!"
A loud, angry voice rang out, startling everyone who turned to look.
He's the village head!
He actually came at this time, accompanied by Boss Shen's daughter, Shen Xiaotang!