"Don't blackmail anyone! We have clearly stated in black and white that you will be responsible for any casualties. I am kind enough to pay for his funeral expenses. If you are unwilling, then our cooperation will end here!"
"I don't want you to chop down trees, and I won't take you back. You can find your own way!"
After that, Gu Hong was about to leave.
Bao Li quickly asked someone to stop him, "Where are you going?"
"I'm telling you, don't touch me. If I were the reporting officer, I wouldn't be afraid of you!"
Hearing this, Bao Li quickly put down his hands and became flustered.
In a foreign land, he took several brothers with him, and one of them has passed away.
Yazhou is far away from Minzhou. If Gu Hong is not willing to take them, how can they go home?
They would be even more afraid if the unpleasantness was brought to court!
"Don't leave, let's discuss it again!"
"What are you discussing? I won't give you a penny more for funeral expenses than three taels!"
"His wife is pregnant!"
"She is his wife, and the child is not mine. If his wife is beautiful, I can consider raising her child for him."
Xu Ling finally saw that Gu Hong was extremely shameless.
The deceased was nearby, and in order to evade responsibility, he had already begun to play rogue with a smile on his face.
Not to mention that Xu Ling looked angry, everyone present looked at him with something wrong.
Xu Ling couldn't help but shake his head. No wonder the businessman's reputation was poor. Is it because there were such scum in the ranks that corrupted the morale?
Bao Li was almost furious with him, but for the sake of that slight possibility, he could only hold back his kind words and beg.
Someone glanced at Xu Ling, then continued to stare at the situation, and then looked back at Xu Ling after a moment.
I saw his old god watching the fun, holding a coconut and drinking non-stop, with no intention of interrupting.
I couldn't help but become anxious.
"You, you were helping me with ideas just now, why are you not talking now?"
Xu Ling glanced at the man. He was short in stature, spoke in fluent Mandarin, and was quite enthusiastic.
"Aren't I thinking of a solution?"
How can I take a piece of flesh off this businessman and make him pay honestly?
"Hey, come up with something!"
Xu Ling felt pity for this man, but he had no money and no power, so there was nothing he could do against such a shameless businessman.
Over there, Bao Li couldn't stand Gu Hong's attitude and couldn't help but start a fight with him.
Gu Hong was a businessman, but he was no match for a man like Bao Li who was used to hard work. He screamed out loud after being beaten, but he gritted his teeth and refused to pay compensation.
"Stop fighting now! Even if you beat me to death, I can't get the money out of you! Where can I get the money if I can't get the agarwood!"
Bao Li's eyes were red and he asked breathlessly: "Then how can you lose money!"
"Unless you continue to cut down trees, how about cutting down an agarwood tree for me and giving it to you after I sell it for the money?"
Gu Hong is a speculator. He originally made a little money doing business in Minzhou, but the business was not big, and he only earned hard money by hanging around. Later, when he saw someone going to sea to make money, he also thought about going to sea. By chance, he came to Yazhou and knew that the local spices were valuable and the aboriginal wood needed to be bought with money. But if he found someone to cut down trees in the forest, he would be Earn too much.
So he thought about it, went home and spent all his money to buy a boat. He also deceived a few fellow villagers and signed a contract with them in advance. He thought that everything would go well and he could rely on this to turn around. Who knew that something would happen as soon as he arrived? .
Now that all the money he had was spent on the boat, and the wood was gone, where could he get compensation money?
After hearing this, Bao Li was speechless. If Gu Hong had money and couldn't pay it out, he would seek justice for his brother even if he beat this villain to death.
But Gu Hong has no money and is a scoundrel, what else can he do?
Bao Li thought about his dead brother, and if he wanted to compensate him, he would have to cut down a tree for Gu Hong first. He asked a few other people to discuss it, but the others were hesitant.
"What if he still lies to us? What's more, cutting down trees is so dangerous, what if we..."
A trace of numb helplessness appeared on Bao Li's face.
"It's all my fault for listening to this villain's lies and taking you out of the village. Otherwise, Da Zhuang would definitely still be alive..."
"Brother Li, why don't you agree to him and let him take Da Zhuang back first? Let's go home and seek justice from him!"
Bao Li and these people were all of the same age who grew up in the same village. Except for him, everyone else was already married. He usually worked as a coolie at the Minzhou Wharf, so it was an accident that he met Gu Hong, a fellow villager.
When they met a fellow villager, Gu Hong invited him to dinner a few times and helped him find work. After two visits, he became familiar with him.
He really didn't expect such a thing to happen.
Horsepower can be seen from a distance, and people's hearts can be seen from time to time.
Bao Li understood the worries of other brothers. They also had families and wives, so how could they harm themselves again just to be strong?
"Then let's do this for now. If he refuses to give me money after I go back, I will risk my life to avenge Da Zhuang! My dear mother, just look at me a little more!"
As soon as he said this, no one answered.
Only one person interrupted: "Brother Li, hurry up, that villain is going to run away!"
Gu Hong saw Bao Li and others whispering and trying to sneak away.
Bao Li hurriedly came to catch him, but suddenly a man appeared in front of him and grabbed Gu Hong's collar, dragging him back and lying down on the ground.
"Ouch!" Gu Hong cried out with his tail numb. When he saw that the person in front of him was not Bao Li, he said angrily: "Who are you!"
Xu Ling smiled, his face full of kindness.
"I'm so sorry. I just listened for a long time and I have a few questions in my mind. I just couldn't help it, so I just wanted to ask you a few questions. Do you mind?"
Gu Hong said angrily: "Could it be that you want to meddle in other people's business and give him the money for me!?"
Xu Ling still had a smile on his face, "That's what I meant."
Everyone was in an uproar, pointing at Xu Ling, and more and more people were watching the excitement.
Xu Ling asked Bao Li to move the dead Da Zhuang to a cool place first, and then covered his face with a veil.
Only then did he call Gu Hong and Bao Li to his side.
He first asked Bao Li: "How much compensation do you plan to ask for for your brother?"
When Gu Hong heard that Xu Ling said he wanted to compensate Bao Li for him, he was not in a hurry to run away and stood aside hesitantly.
To put it bluntly, they were fellow villagers after all, and they knew everything about them. If he really didn't care whether Bao Li and others lived or died, when they returned home, Gu Hong would probably die socially in his hometown.
Unless he doesn't plan to enter the ancestral graves in this life, nor does he plan to hang out in his hometown.
Bao Li hesitated for a moment. He didn't know how much he should ask for, so he simply shook his head and said, "It would be nice to go back and explain to his family."
Xu Ling smiled and said, "For his family, no amount of money can buy his life."
"Let's do some math. How much money can your brother earn throughout the year?"
Bao Li scratched his head, "He has a farm at home, and he usually goes fishing with his father. He can earn enough to live on in a year. I don't know how much exactly."
This is the limit for ordinary people to live a good life, just to have enough food and clothing.
Xu Ling said directly: "What do you think about giving his family thirty taels as compensation?"
Thirty taels is enough to keep a family fed and clothed for three to five years, and it can buy two or three acres of land.
But Bao Li was still a little hesitant.
