In the years of famine, the knife in my mother's hand is not bad either

"The head of Liujia Village, Liu Zhenggen!"

"The head of Dawang Village, Wang Dapao!"

"The town's Jia family steward, Jia Pingyi!"

After listening to the leaders giving their names one after another, Shen Qian nodded secretly.

When looking at the crowd again, Shen Qian asked:

"Besides these three, are there any other villagers?"

In response to Shen Qian's question, everyone looked around and no one answered.

Looking at this situation, Shen Qian already understood.

No outsiders!

That’s OK!

Clearing her throat, Shen Qian continued shouting:

"First of all, this spring was discovered in my Wangjia Village and belongs to our village. I think everyone agrees on this."

After the words fell, Shen Qian observed that everyone was hesitant to speak, and continued:

"Nowadays, people outside the village dare to sell a bowl of tea for 20 coins. If they come to our village to fetch water, each family will definitely get more than one bowl of water."

"In order to give the villagers an explanation, we ask Liujia Village, Dawang Village, and the Jia Mansion's housekeeper to provide an adult cow!"

As soon as she finished speaking, the crowd outside suddenly exploded!

"This woman is so dishonest! She actually took this opportunity to blackmail me!"

"It's just some water, yet you dare to ask for the oxen that plow the fields?"

"There are hundreds of us here, let's just charge in! They definitely can't stop us!"

"..."

Facing their anger, Shen Qian just stood there, with a hint of calmness on her face.

Not to mention the hunters in his own village who had dozens of bows and arrows in their hands, even if they formed a patrol team, it would be impossible to lose the battle with these people in a short time.

Besides, this is Wangjia Village!

There are nearly a thousand men over the age of fifteen in Wangjia Village!

How many people are they?

How is it possible to win?

As expected, after seeing that Shen Qian's face always maintained that calm and composed look, Liujia Village Chief Liu Zhenggen, Dawang Village Chief Wang Dapao and Jia Mansion's housekeeper Jia Pingyi looked at each other.

Silence the people who are arranged to cause trouble in the crowd.

Then Jia Pingyi, the housekeeper of the Jia Mansion, stepped forward and bowed to Shen Qian before speaking:

"I wonder if this cow belongs to each of our three families, or if we can all get one?"

"What do you think?" Shen Qian asked with a smile.

In fact, the bottom price in her heart was one, but she couldn't just hand over her trump card! From the beginning when she prepared the ox cart and asked Wang You and Wang Liang to play a set of ox carts, Shen Qian was waiting for today.

In such a large village like Wangjia Village, there must be many women who still miss their parents’ home after getting married.

They were expected to keep this secret for Wangjia Village and watch their parents and sisters die of thirst.

How can this be?

Hearing Shen Qian's question, Jia Pingyi, the housekeeper of the Jia family, thought to himself: This woman is so difficult to deal with!

And he always felt that this woman looked familiar, but... he couldn't remember where he had seen her.

After pondering for a moment, Jia Pingyi went to discuss with the two village chiefs, Wang Dapao and Liu Zhenggen.

They spoke in low voices.

Shen Qian couldn't hear it.

You can just see the constant changes in their facial expressions.

Maybe it was because Jia Pingyi had a good ability to persuade, the two of them nodded in agreement at the same time in the end!

Seeing Jia Pingyi, the housekeeper of the Jia family, walking back to her, Shen Qian couldn't wait for him to speak first.

Jia Pingyi clasped his hands together and said:

"After our discussion, we decided that we definitely couldn't take out three cows."

"After all, grain prices have skyrocketed, and the price of cattle has also skyrocketed."

"But we can provide two cows and two bullock carts, is that possible?"

Faced with Jia Pingyi's question, Shen Qian was overjoyed!

Windfall!

Not only did they give me an extra cow, they even gave me an ox cart!

However, Shen Qian couldn't show it, otherwise the other party would think that she was at a disadvantage and gave too much!

So Shen Qian frowned, then turned around and whispered to Wang Dakuo, the village chief of Wangjia Village.

Wang Dakuo looked at Shen Qian who turned around and looked at him, his face confused.

But then Shen Qian's weak, mosquito-like voice came into his ears:

"Uncle Dakuo, you have to put in some effort in your performance."

"Huh?" Wang Dakuo didn't understand at first.

Then Shen Qian's voice sounded again:

"Frown."

“Shake your head.”

"Yes, I'm thinking about it."

"Count five numbers silently, shake your head and sigh."

After doing what Shen Qian asked, Shen Qian turned around.

He said to Jia Pingyi, the housekeeper of the Jia Mansion:

"We originally wanted three oxen and three carts, but we are limited by the small number of people in the Jia family."

"The two cows agreed!"

"But for an ox cart, we want an ox cart with four extra wheels!"

"I wonder if that's okay?"

Faced with Shen Qian's proposal, the housekeeper of the Jia family didn't even think about it.

I agreed immediately!

After all...four wheels can't buy you an ox cart.

After all, he paid too little!

"Then please go back today." Shen Qian saw that the deal was done and said to the people gathered outside the village:

"Come tomorrow with the oxen and the cart."

"And to prevent more people from sharing our water, I hope you can send the young and strong villagers to help patrol the area outside the village to prevent those who might try to take advantage of the situation and steal the water!"

"Aren't you going to let us catch some to take back today?" Wang Dapao, the village chief of Dawang Village, asked with dissatisfaction as he watched Shen Qian driving them away.

"In a transaction, how can the seller be given the goods first?" Shen Qian asked back, which made Wang Dapao lose his temper immediately.

As the people outside the village dispersed.

Suddenly, a dissatisfied voice came from the strong man in the village:

"Wang Shen!"

"Hey! How can you let go of the water?"

"That's our village's only source of water! If it dries up, won't we die of thirst?"

"..."

Shen Qian listened to everyone's complaints.

Shrug:

"If you don't want to share it, then you should take care of the women at home."

“If someone hadn’t leaked the news, how could these people know about the mountain shade of our village and find the water source?”

"And we can certainly refuse to give in today and avoid a fight, but next time, it won't just be the 200 or so young men from these three villages who will come, but more than a thousand young men from the seven or eight surrounding villages. What will happen if a fight breaks out then?"

"We will also have to give up the mountain spring for sharing, and the villagers will not benefit, and people will die."

Seeing Shen Qian's response, some men blushed immediately.

Dawang Village, Liujia Village, and Jia Mansion!

Many people from these three parties are related to them.

Especially Jia Shan, an old hunter, lowered his head in guilt.

He was the one who leaked the news of finding a mountain spring in the village to the Jia family.

Just when the village chief was about to ask everyone in the village to disperse.

Shen Qian said:

"The one who is in charge of the family and keeps his mouth shut should come to the ancestral temple tonight."

After saying that, Shen Qian didn't care about the questions from the crowd behind her.

Not at all!

Go straight to home!

arrive home.

Xiao Qi just brought back some fodder, and when he saw Shen Qian, he shouted excitedly:

"Auntie!"

"Well done!" Shen Qian patted Xiao Qi's head and praised him.

Then he went to his room, found the needle and thread and started working!

The interlayer lining cannot be taken lightly!

On the other hand, Xiao Qi, who was praised by Shen Qian, had stars in her eyes!

Night time.

Every household prepared dinner and waited for the head of the household to finish dinner and then go to the ancestral hall.

There was only one house where no fire was lit.

Shen Qian walked out of the room, stretching her neck while shouting:

"Miaomiao, aren't you cooking tonight?"

Facing Shen Qian's question.

Wang Miaomiao's door was closed.

Not even an answer.

Seeing this, Shen Qian frowned slightly.

"If you don't do it today, you won't be able to touch the food in the house in the future!" Shen Qian threatened bluntly!