The father and daughter looked at Isiha's desolate look, and sighed in their hearts, "Then just eat it! Who hasn't been in trouble?"
"Santao, go and boil some water. The water in the soup pot has warmed up. Let's make some tea for this big brother to drink..."
Isiha sat on the steps in the yard to eat, Shantao went to boil water, and the old carpenter began to paint the half-finished coffin bit by bit. The two of them talked casually.
After all, Isiha had been trained in the capital. He was knowledgeable and eloquent. He described himself as a merchant selling Western goods. He got a batch of exquisite kerosene lamps, reading glasses, fountain pens and other foreign goods from the capital, and prepared to use them along the way. Sold all the way to Zhili!
"Uncle! I have prepared three large carts with all kinds of Tanggu industrial products, all used by ordinary people. I am going to sell them all the way along the official road!"
"Baoding Prefecture, Zhengding Prefecture, Henan... keep selling all the way, and I will go home when I sell out! Then I will have enough money to open a small shop in the capital!"
"With a small shop, I can organize a larger caravan, and I can sell to Shaanxi and Sichuan. I have connections and connections!"
"It's a pity that I encountered bandits...three carts of foreign goods were robbed, and I was left in despair..."
The old carpenter sighed, "How pitiful! In today's world, there are too many bad people..."
Na Shantao listened while boiling water. Things in the capital were so new that her ears stood up!
Isiha was making up lies while trying to trick the father and daughter. Gradually, the true identity of the father and daughter became clear!
This father and daughter are also poor people. They are not the original residents of this village. They are also new arrivals!
Originally, the old carpenter's family was in a village under the jurisdiction of Gu'an County, not far from the capital. It took the old carpenter more than thirty years to have such a daughter. Now that she has raised her to eighteen years old, it is mother and daughter who live together!
When I was in my hometown, I borrowed money to buy a batch of wood to build a coffin. As a result, the wood was burned in the water at night. Now I can't live with it!
The loan sharks were threatening her every day and the interest rates were compounded. She couldn't stand it any longer. She was so frightened that she couldn't afford to fall ill and passed away. At that time, Shan Tao was just over ten years old!
The loan shark was so vicious that he would sell the ten-year-old mountain peach to a kiln if he didn't pay any more. The old carpenter had no choice but to flee his hometown with his daughter overnight, all the way to the depths of the Xushui River!
"Hey...for the past seven or eight years, I have been living here carrying coffins for people from all over the country...but my daughter has also been implicated by me, and no one is willing to propose marriage!"
"Dad...why are you talking about this!" Shan Tao threw away the fire stick and ran into the house angrily.
Isiha asked in confusion, "I think the older girls have good character and appearance? Why is no one proposing marriage?"
"Hey... Who told me that I am a coffin maker? People dislike bad luck. Occasionally, there are a few people who propose marriage, but they are also lame, blind, and immature. I don't want my daughter to suffer!"
"Fate...this is all fate! My master said back then that those who make money from dead people will never become prosperous. This is all very important!"
"So you must accumulate virtue. I have taught girls since childhood to accumulate virtue and do good deeds... otherwise, life will be more miserable in the future!"
Isiha also sighed, "Uncle, can I ask how much money you borrowed to buy wood back then?"
"Ah... I borrowed three taels of silver!"
"Haha... Stop talking, stop talking... Uncle, you let those ruffians plot against you! If my guess is correct, the people who burned your wood are the same people who lent you money!"
"Those people are after your family's property. They want your house and land...even the life of your eldest sister!"
ah! Both father and daughter exclaimed, Shantao ran out of the house again, "Are you telling the truth?"
"I can't let you two eat for nothing. I'll help you analyze it... I've heard too many things like this in the capital!"
"There is even a group of scoundrels in the capital who specialize in making a fortune! They join forces with ruffians from the villages around the capital to look for people who are honest and easy to bully..."
"There are a few people in this industry who specialize in playing good guys. They look good and speak nicely, so you will trust them right away!"
"Look back, they gained your trust and then started to set you up!"
"If those people were to trick you... let me think about it... they would first pretend to be some big boss or big businessman, and come over to flatter you, saying that your craftsmanship is really good, and that there is a big deal coming to your door!"
"Perhaps the coffin shop in the capital will buy twenty or thirty coffins from you in one go!"
"When you see how good this big deal is, you want to do it but suddenly you find that you don't have enough money to purchase wood... In fact, this is all planned by others!"
"At this time, those good people who specialize in acting as kind people will appear... They will say... Oh, brother, your business is good. If you don't have any money, you can turn it over. I will find a reliable person to lend you money! "
"We ordinary people are afraid of loan sharks. Let alone borrowing money, they will hide away when they see the people who make loan sharks!"
"If there hadn't been such a few middlemen playing the role of good old guys, would you dare to borrow money, old uncle? With your kindness and kindness in doing good deeds, are you the one who borrowed money from usury?"
The old carpenter and Shan Tao were dumbfounded and looked at Isiha blankly.
"Because these scammers gained your trust before, you boldly borrowed money, just three taels... What a pity, you fell into a scam!"
"As soon as the wood arrived, someone came to set it on fire... What will you do if you don't pay the money? The only option is to use the house and land to cover it. Fortunately, you escaped quickly!"
"If you don't run away, let alone losing your house and land, those people would really dare to sell the peaches into a kiln!"
"Ah..." the old carpenter yelled, "You have lost your conscience! You are so immoral and you have lost your conscience!"
With just this cry, Isiha realized that he had guessed everything right. This poor father and daughter had been tricked!
Shantao hugged her father and cried, "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
"Let's sue them, sue them..."
"Daughter! How can we afford to offend those people? They all have connections with the county magistrate? Their connections can be found in the capital, we can't afford to offend them!"
"It's all because dad has no ability... In this world, it's all about killing good people! Killing good people..."
Isiha watched the father and daughter cry bitterly, and after a while he suddenly stood up, "Want to take revenge? I have a way, it just depends on whether you are willing to listen!"
"What can you do?" Shan Tao raised his head and asked in confusion.
Isiha looked at Shan Tao with a strange light in his eyes, "Let's do this! How about you become my wife, and I will help you get revenge sooner or later?"
"Ah... aren't you a good person?" The old carpenter was suddenly startled, holding a saw and bow in his hand to protect his daughter.
At this time, Isiha didn't look pitiful at all. He rushed over with a ferocious face, and with a sharp sound from the back of his hand to his shoulder blade, he slashed straight at the old carpenter's neck with a sharp waist knife!
