Chapter 225 The Village is Surrounded
In the evening, after listening to Gu Taohua's work report, Tong Huaqiong learned that Gu Taohua had been cheated of five taels of silver and four boxes of snacks. She comforted Gu Taohua and said, "It's like losing money to avoid disaster."
Tong Huaqiong was not magnanimous, but the appearance of this young man did break the situation set by Aunt Cai.
Even if the purpose was not to help Taohua Dessert, the end result was that Taohua Dessert resolved the crisis, so the money and pastries were worth spending.
Besides, this person didn't intend to cheat. Didn't Gu Taohua misjudged the situation and took the initiative to give money?
Seeing Gu Taohua's frustrated look, Tong Huaqiong couldn't bear to point out her mistakes.
Gu Dashu felt sorry for his sister and said to Gu Taohua, "It's all because of your brother that your judgment has been affected. I will give you all my monthly salary as compensation."
Gu Taohua said confidently, "Brother, I will take the money if you give it to me. It is indeed all my brother's fault. If it weren't for my brother always coming up with such bad ideas in the past, I would never have thought that it was my brother who came up with the idea this time."
Tong Huaqiong knew that Gu Taohua was not really blaming Gu Dashu.
She was just a fourteen-year-old girl who was upset about being cheated and needed to divert her attention to find comfort.
Gu Dashu is the focus of this transfer.
They have a good relationship as siblings. One of them "compensates" with money and the other accepts the "compensation". This is normal help between brothers and sisters.
She had no intention or need to interfere.
Tong Huaqiong has not been idle these days. She has been closely following the former village chief Xu Yong.
Strangely, Xu Yong didn't move at all.
This surprised Tong Huaqiong a little.
Based on her understanding of Xu Yong, Xu Yong must be like a fly encountering a cracked egg when it comes to the formula of the disinfectant and insecticide.
She has been distributing antibacterial and anti-insect drugs to the villagers for many days, and Xu Yong remains as calm as a mountain.
She thought Xu Yong was observing the effects of antibacterial and anti-insect drugs.
After all, she saw Xu Yong often going into the cornfield in the early morning and evening these days.
Tong Huaqiong had no intention of keeping the recipe for the corn sterilization and insecticide secret.
If she wanted to keep it a secret, she wouldn't have distributed the medicine to the villagers for free.
She believes that people of this era should not be underestimated. Once someone knows that Qinghe Bay has this kind of medicine, someone will definitely want to prepare it.
Although the formula of this medicine is not simple, as long as someone wants to make it, it can definitely be made. It is just a matter of time.
Rather than helping others, she might as well give away the prescription.
Who is it dedicated to?
Naturally, it was presented to County Magistrate Liu.
Apart from the fact that County Magistrate Liu was the only official she knew, he was a good official who cared a lot about agriculture and would go deep into the fields every sowing and crop ripening season. She thought it would be most appropriate to give the pesticide formula to County Magistrate Liu for promotion.
When to give and how to give is a question.
Tong Huaqiong is not a saint. She also wants to gain some reputation for herself by offering the pesticide formula. It would be best if she could get official recognition, which would be beneficial to her business development.
Also, she felt that Xu Yong had been acting a little bit abnormal these days.
Her original plan was that when Xu Yong hurriedly prepared the medicine and it turned out to be ineffective, causing public outrage, she would then offer the prescription to elevate her own image through the contrast.
After calming down and thinking about it these days, she realized that she couldn't do that.
Because if people like Xu Yong are allowed to prepare the medicine, the crops and farmers will be harmed.
It is not easy for people in the countryside to farm. If the farmers have no harvest because of the medicine prescribed by Xu Yongzhi and others, it would be a serious sin.
Tong Huaqiong plans to find a suitable opportunity to go to Pingchuan County to meet with County Magistrate Liu in the next few days.
After the sterilization and insecticide was promoted in Qinghe Bay, corn cobs in the entire Qinghe Bay began to grow wildly.
The plump ears of corn indicate that Qinghe Bay can finally usher in the autumn harvest.
Seeing that the medicine had no side effects in the cornfields of Qinghe Bay, Tong Huaqiong decided to go to Pingchuan County and hand over the formula of the disinfectant to County Magistrate Liu.
She planned to ask Village Chief Liu Tielian to accompany her.
After all, the village chief knows the situation in the village best, so bringing him along would be more persuasive.
Based on Tong Huaqiong's understanding of County Magistrate Liu, he would not rashly accept the formula. He would definitely come to Qinghewan in person to see the growth of the corn fields and witness the effects of the pesticides with his own eyes.
If that's the case, it's exactly what Tong Huaqiong wants.
Because she did not have in-depth knowledge of agronomy and was not sure whether the formula of the medicine could be used in corn fields in other towns, County Magistrate Liu came to Qinghewan in person to see how the medicine worked. This way, he could take the lead in promoting the medicine, and any problems that occurred in the future would not affect her.
Early in the morning, Gu Dashu harnessed the donkey cart and took Tong Huaqiong and the village chief to Pingchuan County.
The donkey cart arrived at the entrance of the village but could not move forward as Qinghe Bay was surrounded.
A large number of people holding shovels, sickles and hoes came from all directions, blocking the entrance to the village.
It would have been fine if they didn't see Liu Tieshan, but as soon as they saw Liu Tieshan, everyone stopped immediately.
Liu Tiejian took a quick look and said to Tong Huaqiong, "These people are from the neighboring villages."
Qinghewan and the neighboring villages have many relatives, some have lands connected together, some go hunting together, and some go out to work together, so they look after each other. Therefore, there are many acquaintances in each village. Liu Tielian took a look at the familiar people and knew that they were all villagers from several villages near Qinghewan.
It was obvious that these people had bad intentions.
As a native ancient farmer, Liu Tielian knew too well the disputes between villages.
Farmland, ditches, marriage... may all lead to disputes, and even escalate into fights and gunfights.
It could be so serious that someone could die.
As the village chief, Liu Tielian felt uneasy when he saw this situation.
Let’s not talk about anything else, just say that at the beginning of last spring, Qinghe Bay and the neighboring Guazhou Bay had a quarrel over water sources for irrigation.
The village chief at that time was Xu Yong. Not only did he fail to calm the situation, he also took advantage of the fact that there were many children of the Xu family and escalated the situation, leading to a fight between the two villages.
To this day, when villagers from Qinghe Bay and Guazhou Bay meet each other, their eyes are no longer eyes and their noses are no longer noses.
When Liu Tielian saw that the people standing in the front were from Guazhou Bay, alarm bells went off in his heart, wondering what the purpose of these people coming to the village was.
It was the first time that Tong Huaqiong saw so many people holding tools and looking like they were going to cause trouble.
Although Tong Huaqiong, a modern person, has never experienced such a situation, she knows that in addition to being simple and honest, the countryside is also accompanied by the law of the jungle. Disputes and quarrels can be seen everywhere even in the modern times where she lives, let alone in the modern patriarchal era.
Tong Huaqiong and Liu Tielian looked at each other, neither of them understanding why these people came to Qinghe Bay to cause trouble.
Could it be that the corn fields in Qinghewan were growing so well after using the pesticides she provided, that several surrounding villages came to grab the pesticides.
Liu Tielian shook his head slightly. He was not sure why these people came to Qinghe Bay.
I haven't heard of any conflicts between the people in Qinghewan and the people in the neighboring village in the past few days.
Liu Tielian looked at the big barrel of pesticide on the donkey cart, raised his head and looked at Tong Huaqiong. He and Tong Huaqiong were thinking the same thing.
I'm afraid these people are here for pesticides.
Liu Tielian's eyes flashed with a hint of cruelty. If you speak nicely, he can give it to you. But if you try to snatch it away by force, don't blame him for being rude.
The people in Qinghewan are not so easy to bully.