The place where the incident happened is not very far from Qin's house, that is, five or six miles away.

The three of them had been walking for almost twenty minutes when they could already see more than a hundred people gathered in a dam not far away.

This dam is located in the mountain depression of Niutiling, so the locals named it "Nioti Dam". The dividing line between Fuqiang Village and Hongwei Village is in this dam.

Because Bazi has a flat terrain and a small river flowing through it, it can be said that the land here is quite fertile, and the yield of food grown here is much higher than in other places, so there has always been a land boundary dispute between the two villages.

For so many years, during the spring plowing season, people from the two villages would quarrel and even fight over land as big as a palm.

The township government and the police station have all stepped in to make adjustments, but to no avail. Both sides refuse to give in, and they continue to quarrel and fight every year.

However, the trend has become more and more serious in the past two years. Li An actually knows that although it may appear to be a land dispute between two villages, the deeper reason is caused by the decline in farmers' income.

In 1999, the country began to implement the "returning farmland to forest". The purpose is to protect the environment and compensate farmers for the land they occupy in accordance with the policy to ensure that farmers' income does not decrease.

The policy is a good policy, but in some places it has changed.

Especially the county and township governments in poor areas are facing financial difficulties and are all eyeing this huge subsidy.

As a result of the above-mentioned reasons for cutting expenditures and misappropriating funds, the actual subsidies that can reach farmers have been greatly reduced. In fact, the actual income of farmers has dropped.

This also led to farmers cherishing the existing cultivated land more, especially the high-quality land with flat terrain and rich water resources like Bazi. Who didn't want to occupy more, so the land dispute between the two villages became more prominent.

At the boundary between the two villages, the rice in the paddy fields had been trampled to pieces, and the boundary markers marking the boundaries of the villages had been pulled out and thrown aside.

Two groups of people in the field were standing in the north and south directions, confronting each other.

They had all kinds of things in their hands, including hoes, rakes, bricks, and stones. At this time, the atmosphere was tense and a war was about to break out.

"Folks, calm down, everyone, please take a step back and sit down and talk about anything." Wang Defu stood in the middle of the two groups of people and struggled to separate them.

Wang Defu is the deputy director and accountant of the Fuqiang Village Committee. He is thirty-seven or eight years old. He is tall and thin. He wears glasses with high myopia that are as thick as the bottom of a wine bottle. People in the village call him Wang Dizi behind his back.

"Wang Dizi, the people in Hongwei Village have bullied us, and you are still here with Xini." A young man with a short haircut and a thin face spoke.

"Wu Sheng, shut up, why are you everywhere?" Wang Defu became a little anxious.

This young man named Wu Sheng is well-known in the village for his bad temper. He is idle all day long and likes to fight against injustices. As long as something happens in the village, he will be the first to come forward.

"Why should I shut up? Last year, people from Hongwei Village secretly occupied two more ridges of our land. In the spring of this year, they secretly occupied another two ridges. I have never seen such a shameless person.

Bah!" After Wu Sheng said a mouthful of thick phlegm, he spit it at the feet of the person opposite.

"I said Gou Sheng, you just spit out shit when you open your mouth." The same dark-faced young man on the opposite side stood up and spoke. His name was Gou Sheng, which was Wu Sheng's nickname.

"Liu Hui, what are you saying, let me try." Wu Sheng was immediately irritated, and he was about to turn the wooden stick in his hand.

"Calm down, calm down." Wang Defu hugged Wu Sheng to prevent the situation from getting worse.

"Haha, you said that our village has occupied too much of your land. Where is the evidence? Or did your people see it?" Liu Hui sneered, with a look of ridicule on his face.

"You still have the nerve to say that you secretly pulled out the boundary markers. Those who do such things will have no descendants." Someone else from the villagers in Fuqiang Village spoke.

"Who said that? Stand up for me."

In rural areas, scolding someone for annihilating their children and grandchildren is more serious than scolding a mother. Liu Hui's face suddenly turned cold.

"What did I say? Hit me if you can." Another young man stood up.

Liu Hui pointed at the young man with a sullen face and said: "Where did you come from, you bastard? If you say one more thing to me, I will tear your mouth apart."

The young man was not convinced either, so he stretched out his face and said, "Huh, try it."

As soon as the young man finished speaking, Liu Hui rounded his arms and slapped the young man on the face.

But who would have thought that the young man was not the one who was bullied, so he slapped Liu Hui on the forehead with a brick after being slapped.

This incident sounded like a clarion call for battle. Someone in the crowd shouted: "The bullies in Hongwei Village are bullying others, fight!"

Someone on the opposite side also shouted: "Come on, if we retreat, we will lose."

The two groups of people started fighting together in an instant, with sticks flying and curses coming out. The situation was getting out of hand.

"Stop fighting, stop fighting, everyone, please calm down." Wang Defu shouted loudly. Unfortunately, the crowd was so excited that no one took him seriously.

In this moment of crisis,

"touch~"

A deafening gunshot resounded in the sky above Bazi. Everyone present was shocked by the gunshot and stopped, turning to look at the place where the sound came from.

I saw a fair-skinned young man wearing sportswear and holding a musket in his hand slowly walking over.

"Article 292 of the Criminal Law stipulates that if a crowd fights, the ringleaders and other active participants shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or surveillance. Does everyone want to join the bureau and eat jail time?

All spread out!"

As soon as Li An arrived at the scene, he took the lead and talked about the legal provisions. Although his voice was not loud, everyone present could hear it clearly.

Some people in the crowd have silently put down their hoes and sticks. People are still afraid of going to jail.

Liu Hui, who had been slapped on the forehead, stopped immediately. He stopped just after he was beaten. The revenge had not been avenged, so how could he let it go?

He pushed through the crowd and walked in front of Li An. After looking up and down, he asked in a bad tone: "Where did you come from? Why are you here?"

Li An also looked at the dark-faced young man in front of him, and said with a sneer: "I am Li An, the resident cadre of Fuqiang Village. Do you think I am qualified to take charge?"

Liu Hui rolled his eyes when he heard that it was a cadre stationed in the village, and then said: "You are a cadre from Fuqiang Village, so you will definitely speak for the people in your village."

He turned around and said loudly to the people behind him: "Don't be frightened by him. As the saying goes, good words never punish the public. If we don't recover this place today, people from Fuqiang Village will ride on our heads in the future."

Shit and pee, everyone come on."

Instigated by Liu Hui's words, "The law does not punish the public," the crowd behind him began to move again.

"Let's see who dares!" Li An's voice became louder this time, his sharp eyes swept over everyone, and he carried a pressure that could not be ignored, like a high mountain, which made everyone dare not act rashly.

Li An finally focused his eyes on Liu Hui. His cold eyes made Liu Hui take a step back and stuttered: "You...what do you want to do."

"Let me tell you, those who incite the masses to cause trouble and cause serious social disorder will be sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years. You have already received it now."

"That's all you say, don't scare me." Liu Hui looked at Li An's clear words and felt a little guilty at this moment.

"I'm scaring you. I just informed the police station in the village. When the police come, they will know if what I said is scaring you." After Li An finished speaking, he took out the mobile phone in his pocket and shook it.

"Tch, the police will believe what you say when they come. All of us have proven that it was the people from your village who acted first." Liu Huiqiang said with support, and winked at the villagers behind him.

"Yes, it was the people from Fuqiang Village who did it." The villagers from Hongwei Village began to boo.

"Bah, Liu Hui, if you don't want to be shameless, you were the one who hit people first." Wu Sheng, who was behind Li An, retorted loudly, not to be outdone.

"You were the first to attack!"

"You are so stupid, you lied to others and killed your whole family."

"...."
Chapter completed!