The best survival in troubled times

"Then what do you want me to say that your grandson is a complainer? I will tell you when I get back. Isn't this just what I asked you to do to me?"

The village chief pointed his finger at the little girl in front of him.

"Tell you Pearl, if you talk to me like that again, I will tell your father and your mother to let your father beat you."

Pearl put down the book, stood up, and looked at the village chief in front of her.

"Uncle, you are so old, why do you always lose your temper? You don't like to hear those two words I said, and I don't like to hear those words you said. I was punished by the teacher in school, but you still don't like it when you come back. Come and talk to me.”

"Can't you learn well? You went there to learn things and knowledge, not to fight. Look at how many times you were punished after you went there for two years.

Otherwise, why don't you go with other children who are not better than you? I don't know what's wrong with your parents, so they have to let you go? "

"Uncle, if you are really serious about it, then you can provide money to let other children go. I am happy to let you pay money, and I am also happy to let other children go."

When the village chief heard this, his face turned red and he looked back at the old lady in front of him.

"Mother Pearl, what are you talking about?"

The old lady Mada glanced at the village chief.

"Brother, if you have anything to say, please speak it up. Our Pearl is much younger than Brother Qing. Brother Qing has been there for a few years. What did he get in the exam?

Our Pearl will definitely pass the exam this time. From now on, if you tell Brother Qing to keep his little mouth shut, a man who teases his wife like a woman will not be able to get into trouble in the future. "

"Okay, I won't tell you anymore. I just came to tell you that we will go to our house to drive the bullock cart together on the day of the exam."

The village chief walked out, looked back at the yard, shook his head and sighed.

I don’t know what’s wrong with my brother. He listens to his old wife about everything, but this old woman doesn’t care and is still causing trouble.

When the old lady saw the village chief leaving, she immediately smiled.

"Zhenzhu, don't be angry with your uncle. Your uncle is just talking but he doesn't mean it. It will be fine tomorrow. Let's go to your nanny's house and eat delicious food from him tonight. Let me see what your uncle dares to say."

"Mom, isn't it a little bad for us to do this?"

Pearl just blurted out those words, as if she was used to talking like that.

"If there is anything wrong with a woman, she must be more powerful, otherwise she will be bullied by others? What you did just now was so good, mother is still thinking, why are you so quiet after getting sick this time? You have to come up with this Come on, if anyone dares to criticize you, just say that if he scolds you, you will scold him. If he bullies you, just go up and scratch him. Don’t be afraid of anything, you know?"

Pearl nodded, feeling that this old lady was really nice.

"Zhuzhu, your eyes are so tired from reading. If you have nothing to do, take a good rest and get some sleep. If you are hungry, let Four Niu and Five Niu get you food. If you are thirsty, let them fetch you water. Don't do it yourself. Do you know how tiring it is?"

"Mom, don't worry, I won't be tired. If I am tired, I will take a good rest."

"Mom, if you didn't go to the fields with my father and the others, why did you come back? Why are you still covered in ashes and mud?"

When the old lady heard this, she sat on the small stool in front of the house.

"The guys in our upper village are so ignorant. They occupy the water source and don't give it to us."

"The village chief didn't go to negotiate with them."

The old lady became even more angry when she heard this.

"Negotiations are useless. Their village is like that. Whenever there is a drought every year, the upper reaches are immediately blocked. We don't have any water at all."

"Not to mention when everyone was grabbing water, who could grab it? They stayed up day and night. They actually built a dam upstream. We couldn't open it even if we wanted to."

Pearl thought for a moment.

"Mom, you and I will go take a look at the one they repaired this afternoon. Maybe we can come up with something."

"You can't go outside where it's hot and sunny. What if you go there and get exposed to the sun? Besides, those people will hurt you if you go there."

"Mom, don't you still have dad and brother to protect me? I believe they will protect me very well."

When the old lady saw the pearl, she was very determined to see it, but finally she agreed.

"Mom, I'll go with you. Anyway, I'll bring them some water when I come back."

The lady's movements were completed quickly, and Shuizhui followed the old lady.

The two of them soon arrived at the field. Pearl looked at her own field and found that the one next to her home was actually her uncle's home.

The village chief saw Pearl coming out of the yard for the first time.

"Dad, come here for a drink of water."

The old man put down his hoe, slowly walked out of the field, sat under the shade of a tree, and drank water one by one.

My brother and sister-in-law also came out of the field and sat drinking water and looking at the seedlings in front of them. Everyone felt worried.

The village chief came from his field and sat down.

"Our village has decided to open up their dam tonight and let the water flow down. Which one of your families will go?"

When the old man heard this, he looked at the three sons beside him, and all three sons nodded.

"Uncle, why do we need to use people? Can't we use something else?"

The village chief glanced at the little girl in front of him and thought to himself that he knew I was your uncle again. What did you call me the village chief before?

"We don't have anything we can use. We can't even get it if we want to."

"How can we use some explosives?"

After Pearl said this, everything became quiet.

The faces of several women turned pale. The village chief looked at Pearl carefully for a long time.

"How did you know there was explosives? Who told you?"

Pearl was quick to speak, but regretted it after she said it. She didn't know if there should be explosives in this era, but looking at it, there should be some in war.

"How come you kid can say anything? You're not allowed to say this again in the future, you know? Besides, it's not your place to say anything."

The village chief looked back at the nieces and nephews in front of him.

"If others know what I said today."

"You all should go back to your own homes and don't stay at our Lao Wang's home."

The old lady spoke faster than the village chief, and several women nodded immediately after hearing it.

"You guys go to the fields. Pearl, please leave me and your father to tell you something."

Seeing this, the sons nodded and took the woman away. The old lady sat there without moving.

"Who told you about explosives? How can you, a little girl, say such things?"

"Does this need to be said? Isn't there such a war in the country? Don't say this to me. Besides, even if I am just messing around in school, I should know something about it."

"Besides, even now when the country has just stabilized and everything is in need of improvement, everything needs to be developed."

The village chief raised his eyebrows when he heard Pearl's words. He felt that although the child was a fool, what he said was really to the point.