Rows of green tiles and white walls stand at the east end of Yangliu Town. Occasionally there are vendors on the bluestone streets selling various products of their own.
There are many shops in the market, and the streets and alleys are orderly.
Most of the people walking were men and women wearing silk and satin.
This is the most prosperous place in Yangliu Town.
Every time Fang Lazy comes here he feels like he is inferior.
After all, compared to those who wore silk and satin, what he was wearing was too shabby. His linen jacket had countless patches on it. Even though the weather was getting colder, he still could only walk around in straw sandals.
So when he came here, people just avoided it in disgust, and even the pretentious person would cover his nose while saying in disgust, "Isn't there no one in our Yangliu Town now? Why?" Do all the shabby people come to us to beg? Look at how dirty they are, but they are just dirtying the streets of our Yangliu Town."
"Yeah, these beggars are really disgusting. They don't come here looking good. They have to make themselves dirty."
Listening to this group of rich people commenting on him, Fang Lazy didn't even dare to argue and protest with them. His already somewhat rickety back only became more rickety in response to their comments.
He didn't dare to defend himself, so he could only speed up and go to Liu Youcai's home.
And the words people were talking about on the street seemed to be poking at Fang Lazy's spine and denying his qualifications as a human being.
No wonder people often say that they should respect Luo Shang first and then respect others.
It’s not a perfect confirmation here.
Fortunately, no matter how big Yangliu Town is, it has its end. What's more, Liu Youcai's family is one of the richest families in the east end of the town, so his home is naturally located in the center of the east end of the town.
After arriving at Liu Youcai's house, Fang Lazy Man dared to raise his head and smile to Liu's servants, "May I ask if Mr. Liu is at home?"
After hearing Fang Lazyhan's words, the servant only glanced at Fang Lazyhan. Then when the servant's eyes saw Fang Lazyhan's poor appearance, his eyes immediately went up to his head.
"You, a stinky beggar, can ask if our master is at home? What's the matter? Do you, a stinky beggar, still want us to receive him personally?"
Fang Lanhan didn't expect that any of the Liu family's guards would be qualified to ridicule him at this moment.
However, the guards were indeed better dressed than him. He was wearing a cotton jacket and gray cloth shoes.
Seeing this, Fang Lazyhan felt like he was short of breath.
He was not angry at being ridiculed like this. On the contrary, he just smiled and said, "Brother, I'm not here to beg for food. I'm here to discuss something with Mr. Liu."
However, the gatekeeper had no intention of listening to Fang Lazy Man's nonsense. He looked at Fang Lazy Man up and down with disdain, "Just you? You are worthy of discussing things with our master!"
Fang Lanhan wanted to say a few more words, but the gatekeeper directly ordered Fang Lanhan to be kicked out.
"You stinky beggar! Get out of here! Otherwise, be careful with our ruthless sticks!" When he said this, the guard only moved the stick in his hand.
Seeing this posture, Fang Lazyman didn't dare to say anything more. At the moment, he had no choice but to squat at the root of the wall of Liu's house.
Where he squatted there were several old and middle-aged men dressed similarly to him.
When they saw Fang Lazy Man coming, they consciously made room for Fang Lazy Man to squat.
Although Fang Lanhan also looked down and out, he looked down upon this group of people.
Although the marriage between his daughter and Liu Youcai has not yet been completed.
But Fang Lazy Man felt that he was superior to others. He looked down on those people, and even if they tried to talk to him, he would just ignore them.
When people saw him like this, they just thought that the old man was not easy to get along with, so they stopped talking to him.
After he sat down, another little old man came to the door of Liu's house carrying a basket of fresh vegetables.
The Liu family took the vegetables in the basket and carried them in.
The little old man was waiting at the door. However, after waiting for a while, the little old man didn't seem to wait for the Liu family to come out again. The little old man then talked to the guard, but somehow, the old man and the guard The more they talked, the more excited they became. In the end, the guards actually pushed each other down the steps.
The old man wanted to get up and continue arguing with them, but the guards had already beaten the old man with sticks. Seeing the old man being beaten like that, the lazy man squatting at the root of the wall had to secretly be glad that he was not the one who arbitrarily People who go in.
At the same time, a middle-aged man squatting under the wall with him couldn't help but start talking to others.
"You are also here to ask the Liu family for money?" the middle-aged man asked first.
An old man with a few sparse beards next to him nodded, "Yes, a few days ago I picked up a load of carefully selected lotus seeds to sell. Our lotus seeds were carefully selected and plump, so the ones we sell are better than Other families are expensive. The price they negotiated with me at that time was ten cents per catty. A total of twenty catties was two hundred dollars. That was my family's monthly expenses. As a result, after I entered his house with a load, they suddenly My face changed. Not only did they not give me the money, they also said that I was selling shoddy goods to them. I wanted to argue with them and asked them to take out the lotus seeds. The worst I could do was not sell them to them. , but who would have thought that they would not even take out a lotus seed, so they arranged for more than ten nursing homes to surround me, and they also led a few vicious dogs to scare the old man. They said that if I don’t want to, old man, I can get out. If they want to unleash their dogs to bite people, old man, I am no match for them. At that time, I had no choice but to leave first."
After saying this, the old man sighed, "The more I thought about it afterwards, the more I couldn't swallow it. Moreover, my grandson has a high fever and is waiting to see a doctor. I have to get the money back even if I am bitten to death by a dog today!"
After saying that, the old man glanced at the middle-aged man again: "Young man, what about you? Why are you guarding the wall of Liu's house?"
Hearing the old man's question, the middle-aged man only said, "My father is a mason. A few days ago, my father came to their house to repair the roof and tiles of their house. Unexpectedly, the beams and pillars in their house were broken." , no one warned me at the time. My father stepped on the beam and fell down. His heel was shattered. Now he can’t even walk, and he can’t do what he used to do. But it’s been several days since the incident. , except for what they had promised when my father was sent back, now they actually refused to give me even a penny. I came to them to ask for money, but they said that it was only my father's carelessness that caused the matter, and they refused to compensate. He wants us to pay for the tiles and walls of his house, do you think this makes sense?"
After hearing what the middle-aged man said, the old man just sighed.
Another fat old man looked at these two people and said, "In your situation, the Liu family will probably not give you money. The Liu family is famous for being stingy."
Seeing the fat old man speaking, everyone naturally focused their attention on him.
"What about you? What's going on with you?" the middle-aged man asked.
The fat old man who was asked just said, "I, I am the vegetable farmer of the Liu family, the kind who grows vegetables for them. We used to help him grow vegetables, and we could keep some of them and sell them for rice, but who knows what they are doing?" We suddenly found out about this a few days ago, and they asked us to hand over the money we used to secretly sell vegetables. Where can we get it? Now we can only beg them for mercy, and use my granddaughter to pay off the debt."
After hearing what the fat old man said, everyone discovered that there was a timid female doll standing behind the fat old man. This doll looked to be only seven or eight years old, and she was obviously still young.
Everyone looked at the bewildered girl and felt that their own future and destiny were as helpless as that girl's.
Some people couldn't help but complain, "This Liu family is really not a human being but a beast. How could the Liu family go so far?"
Unexpectedly, this man's comments only made other people excited.
"The Liu family are fraudsters. They are really despicable! We should let the government confiscate all their property."
Everyone scolded the Liu Youcai family to pieces with every word they said.
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The lazy people here didn't bother to hear what they had gone through, let alone what happened to them.
However, when he heard these people scolding Liu Youcai, Fang Lazy couldn't sit still.
Although his clothes were still patched, his family often ran out of food and drink.
However, Fang Lanhan felt that he was different from the rest of them.
His daughter was going to marry Mr. Liu, and he and Mr. Liu would be members of the same family.
So when he heard that his family was slandered by a bunch of idiots, Fang Lazy Man couldn't bear it.
After being scolded by the watchdog at his family's doorstep, he may not have the courage to retort, but he still has the courage to bark at these mud-legged people.
"Don't talk nonsense, which daughter of the Liu family is committing fraud? It's because you don't have a good eye, okay? Their family has a great business, which is the result of the efforts of three generations of their ancestors. They already have a good conscience, okay! Sometimes, okay? You should also look for your own reasons, okay? The land you grow vegetables on was provided by others, so it would be wrong for you to sell it. And that roof tile was not pushed by your father, it was your father who fell it himself. How can you rely on your father? And that lotus seed seller, you said you picked good goods, does that mean it’s good goods? There must be some reason why they don’t pay."
Hearing Fang Lazyhan's words, everyone just stared at Fang Lalanhan with a kind of confused silence and angry eyes. Obviously, no one expected that Fang Lazyhan would actually say such unconscionable words.
"It's true that we are farming on the Liu family's land, but we also put in the work. We clearly agreed before that the garden would provide 60% of the vegetables to the Liu family, and we would handle the 40% ourselves. Later, they changed their minds without authorization and the harvest arrived. There were seven of them and three of us, and later it became another of nine and one of them. Now we don’t have any left, but we still have to live!”
