At dusk, Zhang Rui slowly climbed up from his broken bed. The sunshine at dusk always makes Zhang Rui feel uncomfortable. In the past, he would have turned on the LED lights early. But I probably won’t see it again in this life, so I can only learn to get used to it.
Just as Zhang Rui was about to go out, he met Li Si and others who were coming to find him. Li Si saw him getting up, said a few words to him and prepared to leave again. When Zhang Rui saw this, he asked him what was going on. Li Si told him that the previous Zhou family did not attend the banquet, and he was going to ask the old man what was going on.
It turned out that the old man who was beaten by Lei Bao, the grandfather of the Zhou family, took his family back after Zhang Rui dealt with Lei Bao. When Zhang Rui announced that he was inviting the whole village to dinner, his family didn't know about it. Later, someone went to tell the family, and the old man kicked the visitor out.
The person who informed him thought that Mr. Zhou thought he was lying to him, so he called two more people who knew about it, but the result was still the same.
Not only that, he didn’t even let his two sons pick up the rice later. You must know that according to what Zhang Rui said later, every family is considered to be one family after they get married. His family, including his, is counted as three families, so his family will be alone. There are fifteen kilograms of rice.
There are five children in his family. The eldest son has two sons and a daughter, and the younger sons have two younger sons. In addition to the eldest son, who is seventeen years old, and the younger son, who is sixteen years old. There are also three children who can receive six kilograms of rice.
Together, we can get 21 kilograms of good rice. It is almost impossible to exchange it for copper coins at the current price of rice. This is a lot of copper coins, and you may not see them in a lifetime? How stupid you are to not let your sons get it!
After Li Si heard about it, he was also ready to ask what was going on! After all, it is relatively rare for poor families in this era to have a sumptuous dinner with wine and meat. Rich people generally don't invite poor families to banquets. After the meal, they can share some leftovers only if they have some connections. If a poor family makes a banquet with some meat, it is very good. Therefore, many poor people may not be able to have such a good meal for most of their lives. How stupid would it be to not eat for free?
After Zhang Rui heard the villagers' eloquent stories, he decided to go and have a look.
The village is not very big, and it is not dark yet. A group of people soon arrived in front of the Zhou family's house.
The Zhou family's house is somewhat similar to a courtyard house. Sit north and face south, with the gate to the south. The roof is made of wood, which is better than straw. The eldest family lives on the southeast side of the house, and the eldest family lives on the southwest side of the house. Mr. Zhou lives in a house on the northeast side, with a kitchen on the northwest side and a large woodshed next to the kitchen.
There is a rainy season here in Guangxi, and sometimes it rains for more than a month at a time, so most houses must prepare firewood rooms to prevent there being no firewood for cooking during the rainy season.
The eldest brother Zhou Tong and the second son Zhou Tiezheng were sitting outside the door looking worried. Several children were also running back and forth from home to the banquet place, talking about meat that they had hardly seen before, and they had to save their saliva for the scent. The two wives were wiping away tears and complaining to each other about the old man and their own miserable lives.
Since they married into the Zhou family, they have had a good meal there. Or what I usually eat is a little better than some people. But from what the children said, there was a whole basin of meat that they might not have the chance to eat in their lifetime. Thinking about it, neither of them had eaten meat for a long time.
Even if they don’t eat, they should let the children eat! It is the time when the child is growing up, and there is nothing delicious that he usually wants to eat. It's rare this time that Sixth Brother has the ability, so he invites everyone to have a nice meal together. The whole village went to eat, so our family was still missing? I don’t know what the old man is thinking.
Listening to his wife's complaints, the eldest and second son of the Zhou family had nothing to do. They all went to persuade the old man several times, but every time the old man drove them out without saying anything. Even if the wife talks to the children, it will be useless. Finally, he threatened that if they dared to eat, he would hang himself and let them eat his own flesh. After saying such harsh words, the two sons and daughter-in-law were helpless.
At this time, Zhou Tie, who was sitting facing the door, saw a large group of people following Zhang Rui and Li Si coming towards their home. He quickly called the eldest brother next to him, and the two wives followed him out of the door.
"Uncle Zhou Tong, Uncle Zhou Tie, Aunt Tong, Aunt Tie." Zhang Rui greeted them from a distance.
"Brother Six, let Brother Six and all the fellow villagers laugh." Zhou Tong said helplessly when he saw that Zhang Rui was so capable and greeted him and others so politely.
"Yes! It's rare that Sixth Brother invites everyone to have a nice meal together. My old man has done this and bothered everyone to come over. I'm really sorry." Zhou Tie also said helplessly.
"It's okay, the old man may have some ideas! How about I go in and see the old man?" Zhang Rui said calmly. Then he gave a salute to the people around him and said, "Then I'd like to trouble all my fellow villagers to wait here for a while."
Everyone felt light on their faces. They respected Zhang Rui so much for such a capable person. He was worthy of being a disciple of a fairy professor, and he spoke like Wen Quxing descended to earth. So everyone agreed to Zhang Rui in a hurry.
Zhou Tong left Zhou Tie and his two wives to receive everyone, and then led Zhang Rui to the door of the old man's room.
"Dad, Brother Six is here to see you. Dad, please open the door!"
"Hey!" The door opened. Mr. Zhou saw Zhang Rui and his eldest son at the door of the room. He quickly invited Zhang Rui in and asked his son to go to the gate.
After Zhang Rui entered Mr. Zhou's room. Mr. Zhou then closed the door. The room was a little dark. Although there was a window at the door of the room, and some sunlight could shine in, the lighting was still insufficient.
Looking at Mr. Zhou in the dim light, he could vaguely see the redness and swelling on his cheek that was beaten by the thunder leopard. Before Zhang Rui could recover, Mr. Zhou knelt down directly in front of Zhang Rui.
"Brother Six, I know you are very capable and not an ordinary person. Please let our family go!"
"Old man, what are you doing! Aren't you going to shorten my life? Besides, I haven't done anything to your family!" Zhang Rui looked at Mr. Zhou kneeling on the ground, was shocked and quickly helped him up and said .
Mr. Zhou doesn't think about it very much, but he has Zhang Rui's strength. He could only stand up. After all, it was a bit embarrassing for such an old man to kneel in front of a child he knew.
"It's true that you haven't done anything to my family now, but who knows what will happen next. Why would you treat the villagers to such a good meal for no reason? Especially in this difficult time."
"Then I saved my life by killing bandits and made some money. Shouldn't I treat the villagers to a good meal? As the saying goes, not returning home if you are rich is the same as walking at night in brocade clothes." Zhang Rui defended
"Here's the problem. You earn money by killing bandits. You have to know that there are dozens of bandits directly on the mountain. They want to know that you killed their people and the whole village celebrated. Do you think they will let it go?" People from our village?”
"It seems that Mr. Zhou is a perceptive person. But do you think if your family doesn't go to eat, they will think that you haven't eaten?" Zhang Rui looked at Mr. Zhou and said a little embarrassed, but he was also very grateful that he didn't go out. Nonsense.
"That's why I'm waiting for you here. Where do you want to put the people in the village? Can't you give them a way to survive?" Mr. Zhou asked angrily.
"It's not that I don't give them a way to live, it's that they don't give the villagers a way to live. The world doesn't give us a way to live." Zhang Rui replied a little excitedly
"Yes! This is the world!" After hearing Zhang Rui's words, Mr. Zhou muttered in a daze.
"Then how are you going to deal with the dozens of bandits in Zhilian Mountain? You must know that they are not something that villagers like us who have not had enough to eat all year round can deal with them." Mr. Zhou looked directly into Zhang Rui's eyes and asked.
