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"Too much, too much!"

Ale and Xiaoxiao's two maids gritted their teeth angrily, cursing the lawless servants of the villa on the island, how they could bully the master to such an extent.

"Something happened suddenly at the school construction site this morning, and a worker was injured. Isn't the school next door to our villa? The housekeeper decided to lend them the carriage and asked them to send the injured worker to the town. Went to the hospital to see a doctor."

The servant who came to pick up Luo Xiazhi said anxiously, "We have no choice but to ask the tenant's family to borrow an ox cart to pick up the third young master and young lady."

This long-time worker is a native of Chongming, and the Shanghainese he speaks is different from what Luo Xiazhi and the others usually speak. Only through A Le's translation did he understand the cause and effect.

"Principal Gu, look, we really have a lot of fate."

Luo Xiazhi didn't expect such a thing to happen.

"Is the worker all right?"

Gu Hanlin frowned and asked.

"One arm is broken, and it's still lying in the hospital. Now the family members are making trouble at the school...Mr. Principal, let's take a quick step, it won't be good if things get big."

The school workers dragged Gu Hanlin away, and Gu Hanlin turned around and took off his hat to Luo Xiazhi, first to express his gratitude, and second to say goodbye.

"Cow! Cow!"

The young lady of the Luo family has ridden in rickshaws, horse-drawn carriages, automobiles, and trains in her life, but she has never ridden in this kind of straw-covered ox cart, so she couldn't be more excited.

Luo Xiazhi was even more indifferent, and sat on the bullock cart with a smile on his arms, looking at the surrounding scenery very curiously.

He came to Chongming Island a few times a hundred years later. At that time, there was already a Donghai Bridge. As the back garden of Shanghai, tourists who came to the island for holidays during the holidays could completely block the entire bridge.

At that time, visiting Chongming was nothing more than two forest parks and nondescript farmhouses. How can it compare to the current rural scenery, which is authentic.

Seeing that the young masters and ladies didn't care, what could they say at the moment, they moved their luggage to the ox cart one by one, followed the old ox, and walked towards Luo's villa step by step.

"Smile, my third uncle will teach you to recite a poem - a shepherd boy rides a yellow ox, and his singing vibrates Lin Yue. He wants to catch cicadas, but suddenly he shuts up."

"I want to ride a scalper!"

Xiaoxiao stepped on the straw and climbed onto the old cow pulling the cart, and there was another wave of chaos.

"Young master, please do me a favor, don't spoil the lady, please calm down!"

The three people under the carriage said with mournful faces.

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Sitting on the terrace of "Yingzhou Xiaozhu", that is, Luo's villa, looking eastward, you can see the bustling school construction site on the other side of the school.

This rural elementary school was built not far from Luo's villa, and it took about a quarter of an hour to walk slowly. It was said to be the only elementary school on the island.Due to disrepair, many students were lost.Recently, I managed to get funding from a rich man in Shanghai, and hired a new principal, so I started rebuilding the school building with great fanfare.

Xiaoxiao was thinking about her new friend, and she was arguing to go to school early in the morning. It happened that Luo Xiazhi also had the same intention. After breakfast, they each brought a straw hat and set off for the school.

The two of them brought only Ale and one servant, Qiaodi, the girl who took care of Xiaoxiao, and Aunt Lin, the mother, disliked the dirty cleaning of the villa, and called the original servants to clean it up.

The temperature on the island is lower than that in the city, and there are more shades in the trees. The two of them do not feel the heat while walking along the path, and their mood is refreshed because of seeing the greenery everywhere.

Before arriving at the construction site, the two of them didn't dare to walk away casually.Luo Xiazhi simply hugged Xiaoxiao in his arms to prevent her from running around—there are no mandatory protection measures on construction sites in this era. Didn't this hurt a worker yesterday?His carriage has not been returned yet.

However, there is a bamboo shed at the entrance of the construction site, and inside it sits a few men dressed as workers. They are bare-chested in hot weather, with only a scarf around their necks, and they rest their legs on the bamboo stool carelessly. What is being discussed intensely.

Luo Xiazhi bent down and walked in, and a smell of sweat came over his face. When several workers saw a little girl coming, they hurriedly pulled out a white vest from behind and put it on.

Luo Xiazhi didn't understand Chongming dialect very well, and only vaguely knew that what they were discussing was the accident that happened yesterday.

"The worker's arm was broken, and the principal personally paid for the medical expenses. Today, he sent eggs, brown sugar and fruit as condolences to their family. But the family was very angry, saying that the school should pay for it, and asked 100 yuan for medical expenses. , otherwise we will go to the county to file a lawsuit, so that the school will not be built."

Afraid that Xiaoxiao would not be able to stand the man's sweaty smell, Luo Xiazhi quit the shed and listened to Ale's story at the door.

"100 yuan? These workers can only earn three yuan a month working here. His arms are precious!"

There are only two oceans as monthly silver every month, and Ah Le, who is already very satisfied, despises this kind of behavior.

"Principal Gu is really a good person. He actually agreed. But he came to Chongming in a hurry without bringing so much cash with him, so he discussed with them if he could send someone to send it later. Who knows the clan of this worker, It’s the common surname on our island, they thought the principal was a bully, and they actually said that if they don’t get the money today, they’ll let all the men in the clan come over and demolish the school!”

"Is there such a thing?"

Born in the future Shanghai, which is famous for its top-notch law and order, this is the first time Luo Xiazhi has heard of extortion incidents in the countryside.

"The construction site has to stop working today. Master, this kind of construction site is full of one-day work and one-day wages. There is no work today, and other workers on the construction site are unwilling to do it. They discussed that they will work until yesterday. Go to the homes of the injured workers and fight with them face to face!"

The more A Le talked, the more excited he became.Farmers on the island competed for water sources, and he had seen a lot of fertile land fighting when he was a child.Since entering the city, this is how many years I haven't met. Seeing you now, I can't help but want to watch the excitement.

"How can this be done? Is there no police on the island? Is there no one in charge?"

He just took a close look at the construction site. The original school building was small and dilapidated. The thatch on the roof was blown to pieces by the sea breeze. Safety was a problem, so the students naturally refused to come to class.After all, someone is willing to pay for the rebuilding of the school. How can they stop working because of such a trivial matter?

He knows the weather in Shanghai best. In half a month, it will be the typhoon season. At that time, this small island will be the first line to welcome the typhoon. No matter what project is going to be delayed, in case the summer vacation is over and the school building has not yet been completed what to do?

"Ale, do you know where the county government-government is?"

"The county government office, it's in the center of the island. However, it's quite far from here."

As a native of Chongming Island, A Le is still used to the local government-government-government office building called Yamen.

"Doesn't the concierge of the villa have a bicycle? It's used by the kitchen old Wang to buy vegetables every day. You go back and get my name card, the government-government-government-government-government-government-government-government-government-government-government-government-government-government-government-government-government-government..."

Ah Le kept nodding, then ran back with his legs free, "Master, wait, I'll be right back!"

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Not long after A Le left, a group of about 30 to [-] villagers "killed" at the school gate.

The leader was a saucy-looking woman, dragging a child about two or three years old. The child was naked and naked on a hot day, and looked smiling and had a big mouth.

Beside the woman was a stretcher, on which lay a man with splints tied to his hands, who were carried one after the other and placed at the gate of the construction site.

Behind them followed more than [-] men aggressively, all of them tied their hair with towels, all of them looked fierce, and they still held some hoes, kitchen knives and other household items in their hands.

"Third Uncle, this uncle has an arm injury, not a leg injury, so he can't walk? Why did he have to be carried over?"

Xiaoxiao pulled Luo Xiazhi's arm and asked.

Her clear voice attracted everyone's attention.

"Little girl, what are you talking nonsense about? The Allah man is hurt very badly (Shanghai dialect: powerful)!"

The woman widened her eyes and wanted to curse, but when she saw Luo Xiazhi standing behind Xiaoxiao, and saw two people in bright clothes, dressed like rich people, she had no choice but to swallow the dirty words she wanted to say. Next, I changed to a more civilized rhetoric.

"Oh, Xiaoxiao, you don't understand now. This kind of medicine is called 'diffusion'."

Rorschach said solemnly.

"Third uncle, what is 'diffusion'?"

Primary school students are thirsty for knowledge.

"It's just a person who originally had a bad heart, but eventually his lungs were damaged. This is called 'diffusion'. His hand was broken, but now it may have spread to his leg, so he was carried over. "

"No, no, third uncle, this should be called 'wolf heart and dog lung', 'wolf legs'!"

One big and one small sang together, no matter how stupid they were, they could tell that they were mocking the couple. Several tribesmen who came with them immediately stepped forward and surrounded the two of them.

"Little red guy! What nonsense! Are rich people amazing?"