Dad, we are so stable, should we do something?

On the morning of the second day, Magistrate Tian took his sons to the county government office. There were not too many official duties today, so Magistrate Tian sent all his older sons out to inspect. Tian Yuze was still young, so Magistrate Tian let him look after some chores in the county government office, but he didn't really do anything.

Tian Yuheng and Tian Yuyu followed Huang Xianwei and his team on a tour of the county, and unexpectedly they encountered some trouble.

"Sir, please come with me quickly. Something happened in our village and everyone is fighting." Suddenly, when they were patrolling the streets, several villagers ran over from somewhere, grabbed the county guard and asked them to help seek justice.

"Just tell us what's going on quickly. Why are you still making such a fuss? Who started the fight?" Perhaps it was because Magistrate Tian had been in office here for a long time and his subordinates were very friendly, so many people dared to come forward and make such a fuss. Although County Wei was unhappy, he was not angry.

"It's spring ploughing season now, and it hasn't rained much in the past few days. It rained the day before yesterday, but not much. The village upstream of us diverted the river water, leaving us downstream without water again. This is when a fight broke out. Without water, everyone went to the dam to get it, but it was too far away and no one wanted to go.

So they started fighting over the water. Sir, please come with us. When we came, more and more people gathered over there. We were afraid something bad was going to happen. "The villagers came here in the village's ox cart. Fortunately, the county town is not too far from the village, so they can come here to ask the adults to judge. Now they are afraid that they have already started fighting, which would be terrible.

Every year, the two villages often fight over water issues. Last year's fight was particularly fierce, and some people's heads were bleeding. They were afraid that something like last year would happen again, so they came early to ask the adults in the county to stop it.

"Okay, let the people lead the way, and we will follow them." County Magistrate Huang is also an old hand. These things happen all year round in the county. It's just that they haven't encountered such a thing in the first year after County Magistrate Tian came. Today is the first time. Tian Yuheng and Tian Yuze have only dealt with some farm affairs before, and they have heard about it. If a fight really breaks out today, it will be the first time they have seen it.

When they arrived at the scene, they really started fighting, but fortunately, the fight just started and no one was injured.

"Stop, let the officers handle the case." County Magistrate Huang shouted, and the other officers went up to surround the man and drew their swords. Now everyone stopped.

The Muramasa of the two villages came over from the side.

"You are the Muramasa, why do you let your villagers fight here and not stop them?"

"Sir Huang, we have no choice. Those people upstream are so abominable that they intercepted the water from our downstream. Even though it rained the day before yesterday, there has been no water in the past few days. The weather is getting hotter and hotter. How can the seedlings that have just been planted survive?" Jiang Cunzheng from Xiazhai Village downstream spoke first.

“What do you mean we blocked the flow? This canal has never been opened before. A few years ago, due to the severe drought, we thought it was difficult for everyone, so we opened a new channel to divert the water to your downstream. Since then, we have not complained and have been helping you.

But this year you are different. It is obvious that there is less rain and not much water, but you actually say that we cut off your water supply and even wrongly accuse us. Our kindness at the beginning has been regarded as cruel and treacherous in your eyes.

Then why should we care about your livelihood downstream? The water originally belongs to us upstream, not to you downstream. You can dig a deeper pond to store water downstream. Why are you taking advantage of us?" Hecun, who lived in Nanshan Village upstream, was dissatisfied with the other party's ungrateful behavior and accused them.

The villagers of Xiazhai Village were not happy with this and immediately cursed, "He Cunzheng, can you please stop lying? The water in this river was flowing downwards before the drought, and you blocked it with something to divert it to your village. If it hadn't happened during the drought and everyone had discovered it, why would you have let the water flow?

This year you have less rain, and you are trying to cut off our water supply. Don't you feel guilty for lying?"

He Cunzheng was not afraid either. He instigated the people in his own village to start a new round of quarrels with the villagers downstream.

"Okay, all of you shut up. It's just a water flow. We are all from the neighboring village and have relatives on the other side. If we fight, we will only hurt our own people.

There is also this water, you take me to see it. "Huang Xianwei was angry, and no one dared to say anything else. The two villages were leading the way in front.

"Isn't there a stone tablet for Nanshan Village? When was it made?" Huang Xianwei was a little confused when he saw the stone tablet. He had heard that the water was indeed shared by the two villages, but this stone tablet looked very old. It was clear that the river flowed upstream, and it didn't seem to flow downstream.

"My Lord, this stone tablet was passed down from our ancestors and has been here all the time." "This is the boundary, which separates us from the upstream and downstream. No one went downstream before, and we opened up the downstream for them." He Cunzheng from Nanshan Village hurried over to explain.

"There is a stone tablet here. The water flowing downstream is newly opened, so it belongs to people upstream. What are you downstream people fighting for? Just go to the dam and get it yourself." County Magistrate Huang felt that there was no problem with his own interruption. He was still in a hurry to patrol the streets, so he thought about going back like this.

Seeing that Huang Xianwei was a little annoyed, the villagers from the downstream village didn't dare to speak up. They wanted to wait until they left and then take it back themselves, without the adults intervening.

"Sir Huang, wait a moment, you forgot, the people in the downstream village just said that the water from upstream was also diverted, and they also diverted it from the mainstream." Tian Yuyu saw County Magistrate Huang was about to leave, and hurriedly reminded him to prevent him from handling the case hastily again. County Magistrate Huang usually catches thieves and is not very good at solving cases. He would not normally intervene in today's matter, but seeing that the two young masters were here, he could not refuse. He had to let people see the strength of his right-hand man.

"Oh, yes, Yu Yu is right. Let's go to the mainstream and take a look." Seeing that Tian Yu Yu helped him to make up for it, Huang Xianwei naturally continued and went along with it.

When they reached the mainstream, they saw another stone tablet of a downstream village. Huang Xianwei was a little confused and asked, "Jiang Cunzheng, why is there a stone tablet of your downstream village here?"

"Sir, this stone tablet was also passed down by our ancestors. In fact, we were from the same village upstream and downstream, but there was a fire that year, and the whole village was burned down. Only a few houses and land downstream were left. Everyone moved downstream, and the people upstream now were migrated from other lands."

In fact, County Magistrate Huang had only been working in this county for a short time earlier than County Magistrate Tian, ​​so he was not very familiar with the specific conditions of these villages.

"Look, there is historical evidence to support this. I think it was indeed the fault of you upstream. Now I ask you to open the blocked river. This river should be shared by several villages, not just your village." Huang Xianwei felt that he had made it clear this time and was very happy.

The villagers did as Huang Xianwei said. After they had opened the channel, Huang Xianwei took his people away.

However, no one expected that a villager from the upstream village, who had his head broken by the downstream village last year and had no way to get revenge this year, secretly opened a hole in the embankment and diverted the water to the downstream village. As long as there was a heavy rain or flood one day, the water from the upstream village could be shared, but the downstream village would definitely be flooded.

It was also because of this small gap that many people were killed.

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