The Ma brothers stared at her in shock, their eyes wide.
“You… you…”
Luo Xi waved her hand.
“Don’t worry about the little details.”
She had several different versions of her Mole Youth disguise, including different positions for the mole. Even she sometimes got them mixed up.
Ma Dongdong closed his mouth.
“You’re absolutely right.”
This time, besides going to the supply and marketing cooperative and the general store to buy some food and daily necessities, Luo Xi also made a trip to the recycling shop and rummaged through some useful things.
That night, they continued guarding the irrigation water.
However, just after they diverted the water toward their own fields, an angry shout suddenly rang out.
“I knew it was you!”
Guo Yuanyuan jumped in fright and almost flung the stick in her hand.
Before they could react, a beam of flashlight suddenly shone directly at the four of them.
Luo Xi narrowed her eyes and raised a hand to shield them from the glare.
It looked like things were not going to end peacefully tonight.
There were more than a dozen people on the other side.
Earlier, when they had watched the water being diverted, there had clearly only been a few people.
Obviously, the other side had also noticed something was wrong and had come prepared. Some of them had hidden nearby, waiting for them to fall into the trap.
“Ye Guoliang?” Guo Aimin frowned.
“Hmph. I never thought the people from Wushan Village would be so shameless. You actually stole our water. No wonder our fields haven’t had any water these past few days.”
Ye Guoliang’s voice was hoarse.
After several days with barely any water reaching their fields, even they weren’t stupid enough not to notice something was wrong.
They had diverted all the water toward their own fields, pretended to leave, switched off their flashlights, and then hidden nearby.
They didn’t know how many people Wushan Village had sent to guard the water, so tonight they had deliberately called over more people and hidden them in advance.
Guo Aimin wasn’t intimidated either.
“If we’re talking about shamelessness, who can compare with you? The water allocation was already decided, and everyone agreed to it. Yet every night you sneak over like rats to steal water.”
Guo Guoyuan followed up.
“Exactly. We only learned it from you people in Maotou Village.”
“So what? That’s still better than having rotten hearts like you!”
A woman’s voice rang out.
Her name was Ye Baozhu.
She was tall and heavily built, with tremendous strength. She was also an excellent fighter. She was one of the few women in the area whose family had sons yet had still taken in a husband. She was quite well known around these parts.
Guo Yuanyuan wasn’t intimidated either.
“Pah! Your hearts are rotten! Everyone in your whole village has a rotten heart!”
That infuriated Ye Baozhu.
She was strong and good at fighting. She wasn’t exactly the tyrant of Maotou Village, but she was certainly one of the toughest people there.
Now she had actually been insulted by a little girl.
She strode forward and slapped at Guo Yuanyuan, cursing as she did so.
“You little brat! Is this how you were raised? Didn’t your parents teach you how to behave? I’ll teach you how to speak to your elders!”
Guo Yuanyuan froze.
She hadn’t expected the other woman to resort to violence without warning.
Just as the slap was about to land on Guo Yuanyuan’s face, Luo Xi shoved her aside.
Guo Yuanyuan staggered two steps to the side, narrowly avoiding Ye Baozhu’s slap.
Ye Baozhu frowned after missing and looked at Luo Xi.
“Pretty quick reflexes!”
Luo Xi smiled.
“Nothing special. I just look good because my competition is so weak.”
Ye Baozhu: “……”
What was that supposed to mean? Was she saying she was weak?
Guo Aimin and Guo Guoyuan finally reacted. They hurried over and stood in front of Luo Xi and Guo Yuanyuan.
“What are you people from Maotou Village trying to do? You want to fight?”
Ye Guoliang snorted.
“So what if we beat you? You water thieves deserve to be beaten. No matter where we go, we’re the ones in the right!”
Guo Aimin gritted his teeth.
“You’re the ones stealing the water!”
Ye Guoliang pointed at the irrigation ditch.
“Right now, the water is flowing into your fields. The evidence is right in front of your eyes, and you still want to—”
Before he could finish, Luo Xi had already snatched the hoe from Guo Guoyuan’s hands.
She swung it down several times in rapid succession.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Water immediately came rushing toward the fields of Maotou Village.
Ye Guoliang: “……”
What incredible speed!
“Who are you? Why haven’t I seen you before?” he couldn’t help asking.
Luo Xi handed the hoe back to the still-dazed Guo Guoyuan and smiled, waving her hand.
“I’m an educated youth sent down to the countryside.”
She pointed at the irrigation ditch.
“You and I both know what’s really going on with this water, so let’s not bring up evidence and all that nonsense.”
“Why don’t we just go back to the original arrangement and divide the water equally? That way, everyone can save themselves the trouble of coming out here every night. Right?”
Ye Baozhu naturally disagreed.
“Right about what? Our village is bigger, so of course we should get more water. Besides, you’re just an educated youth. What does this have to do with you?”
Luo Xi glanced at her.
“Since I’ve been assigned to Wushan Village, I’m naturally a member of the Wushan Village brigade. My household registration is here too.”
“What, are you planning to change the country’s policies and go against the state?”
Ye Baozhu was rendered speechless.
For a moment, she couldn’t think of a response.
Her anger only grew, and she raised her hand and swung it toward Luo Xi.
Guo Yuanyuan’s pupils contracted.
“Look out!”
Before she could finish speaking—
Bang!
Ye Baozhu’s body staggered.
Under the dim yellow flashlight beam, everyone who hadn’t had time to react saw a thin trail of blood slowly trickling down from Ye Baozhu’s forehead.
The entire scene fell silent for a moment.
Even Ye Baozhu herself hadn’t quite figured out what had happened.
All she had felt was a dark blur flash before her eyes, followed by a heavy blow to her head and a wave of dizziness.
She raised a hand and wiped her forehead.
When she looked at the blood on her fingers, a scream tore through the night.
“Ah! Blood!”
Luo Xi, however, calmly reassured her.
“Don’t panic. Don’t be scared. I know what I’m doing. It’s just a little blood. It’s nothing serious.”
Guo Aimin’s heart pounded.
Good heavens, and she calls this nothing serious?
For the first time, he realized that this little educated youth was definitely a ruthless one.
A headache immediately started pounding in his temples.
His instincts told him that there was no way this matter was going to end peacefully.
“Ah! I’m going to beat you to death, you bitch!”
Ye Baozhu finally snapped back to reality and charged at Luo Xi.
“Stop!”
Guo Yuanyuan and the other two hurried forward to stop her.
Ye Guoliang and the others also strode forward.
“You really think our Maotou Village is easy to bully?”
The scene instantly descended into chaos.
Even the flashlights were knocked to the ground, plunging the entire world into darkness.
Amid the melee, Luo Xi brought a brick down on Ye Baozhu, knocking her to the ground.
Before Ye Baozhu could react, Luo Xi had already climbed on top of her, swinging the brick over and over.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
She wanted to focus solely on beating Ye Baozhu, but the situation wouldn’t allow it.
There were only four people from Wushan Village, which meant each of them had to deal with three or four opponents from Maotou Village on average.
Ye Guoliang had already disliked Luo Xi from the beginning.
He saw her repeatedly beating Ye Baozhu and swung his fist toward Luo Xi’s back.
Hearing the movement behind her, Luo Xi rolled across the ground, barely dodging Ye Guoliang’s punch.
Ye Guoliang couldn’t stop his momentum.
His fist landed directly on Ye Baozhu instead.
A shrill scream rang out.
Realizing that he had accidentally hit his own teammate, Ye Guoliang was furious.
He turned around and charged at Luo Xi.
But the moment he turned—
A black, heavy object came flying straight at his face.
Bang!
Ye Guoliang’s vision instantly went black, and a wave of excruciating pain struck him.
Before he could even recover, another burst of pain erupted from his body.
Luo Xi was terrified.
She was afraid of pain.
She was afraid of getting beaten.
So she had to strike first.
But she also didn’t dare to hit too hard. If she accidentally killed someone, that would be troublesome.
Ye Baozhu had just struggled back to her feet when, under the faint light, she saw Ye Guoliang being pinned down and beaten.
She shouted,
“Get over here! Beat this little bitch!”
On the other side, Guo Aimin and the other two were completely outmatched and were being beaten down.
Even Guo Yuanyuan was getting hit.
Someone even took advantage of the chaos to grope her several times.
Furious, she let out a roar and went all out, swinging her stick recklessly.
When it came to fighting, even a fearless person could intimidate those who were afraid to die.
Her completely reckless style—acting as though she didn’t care about her own life while desperately trying to take someone else’s—actually scared the several men surrounding her into backing off.
But everyone there came from farming families, and they all had plenty of strength.
One man seized the opportunity and grabbed the stick Guo Yuanyuan had swung at him.
Just then, hearing Ye Baozhu’s shout, two men immediately ran toward Luo Xi.
One of them was even carrying a stick.
He raised it and brought it crashing down toward Luo Xi’s back!