Back to the dock…
Seeing that it was still a while before dinner, Liu Shen thought about going back to his residence to take a shower, but before he even took off his clothes, he saw Hu Dahai helping an injured porter back to his residence.
The porter's body was bruised and bruised, and he staggered when he walked. Judging from the scars on his body, it looked like he had just been whipped.
Hu Dahai obviously also saw Liu Shen and called out: "Brother Shen, come over and help him."
Hearing this, Liu Shen also ran over to lend a hand. Looking at the bruises on the porter's body, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Huzi, are you violating heaven's rules?"
The injured porter took a breath from between his teeth and muttered viciously: "I violated his mother's rules. I didn't read the almanac when I went out."
"Nothing committed?"
Hearing this, Liu Shen secretly gasped and said, "Then Team Leader Xu is too cruel, isn't he?"
"It wasn't Bantou Xu who beat me..."
Hu Dahai on the side sighed and said: "It's the Young Gang leader."
"Young Gang Leader?"
Liu Shen was slightly startled when he heard this.
He knew that the only person in his profession who could be called a young gang leader was Zhang Shichen, the only son of Chishui Gang leader Wannian.
He had never met Zhang Shichen, but he knew that this man had a bad reputation in Heyang County and was a real second-generation ancestor.
He is an uneducated person, full of bad ideas, and also has a bad habit. He likes to harm women from good families.
When I was out managing the Chishui Gang's property, I didn't know how many good families were robbed and raped secretly.
There are countless deeds in Heyang County such as despicable prostitutes kidnapped good girls, forced good girls into prostitution and sold them into brothels, and beat to death the relatives of good families who came to ask for explanations.
He has been taken away by the government so many times, but his father Zhang Wannian has a lot of hands and eyes in Heyang County and often wipes his butt, and he is still at ease to this day.
Liu Shen frowned slightly and asked, "The Chishui Gang owns a lot of properties. How could someone like him come to a place like the wharf where birds don't shit?"
"you do not know?"
After Hu Dahai finished speaking, he also remembered that Liu Shen, like himself, had been given a few days off after taking over Team Leader Xu's private work, and it seemed that he had not been at the dock during the day in recent days.
He looked around and made sure there was no one around before he said softly: "I heard someone said that Zhang Shichen committed another crime a few days ago. After being fished out by his father, he was beaten up and beaten. His father even committed suicide. Order him to go to the port here to reflect for a year."
"I see…"
Liu Shen glanced at the injured Huzi and asked thoughtfully: "Then Huzi is in trouble?"
"you do not say…"
Hu Dahai sighed and said: "Zhang Shichen came to the dock with a lot of anger. In addition, the bonds of sale for us people are all with the Chishui Gang, and he didn't treat us as human beings. After coming to the dock for two days, Several people have been whipped by him for bad luck, so it's a lucky break that we have had a break these past few days."
"..."
Liu Shen was silent when he heard this.
The floods four years ago caused many people to lose their homes. Naturally, there are also many people who want to make a living from Caobang.
And the Chishui Gang is not a charity. Seeing that there are many people who want to eat this food, they take advantage of the situation and make a condition - they have to sign a selling contract before they can eat this food.
The deed of betrayal is naturally objectionable, but under the circumstances at that time, there were many people like Liu Shen who had no choice but to sign the deed of betrayal.
And if you want to redeem the deed of betrayal from the Chishui Gang, the price is clearly stated and you need thirty taels of silver!
As far as a porter’s monthly salary is concerned, he would have to save for four to five years without getting sick or having any disasters, and without spending extra money!
A flood, a contract of betrayal.
If you want to survive, you have to put on the shackles and work like a cow or a horse;
If you want to regain your freedom, you have to work exhaustingly for the Chishui Gang for five years!
Most of the people who are still working at the dock are working in the Chishui Gang. At best, they are here to work as coolies, but at worst, they are servants of the Chishui Gang.
The young gang leader of the Chishui Gang came to the dock. Not only was he in a bad mood, he whipped someone, but even if he beat him to death, the government wouldn't ask any questions...
Liu Shen has been working here for four years, taking on private jobs and working as a young man. However, because he often spends money to buy books, he has only saved eighteen taels of silver so far, which is only 30 taels of silver that the Chishui Gang clearly marked as a redemption price. Capital is still some way off...
Xu Shi talked about the matter of selling one's body, and the three people who were in the same boat sighed and secretly cursed the Chishui Gang for being evil-hearted.
Liu Shen sent Huzi back to the room, chatted with Hu Dahai for a while, and left after seeing the meal.
He went to the dining hall to fill his stomach, went back to his room, locked the door, and then took out the wooden knife hidden under the bed and studied the "Crazy Demon Knife Technique".
The matter of selling himself out was a thorn in his heart. Every time he thought about it, he was motivated!
During the next few days of rest…
Liu Shen went to Tongda Hall to visit Yuan Xiaofei and Yu Hong during the day, and then went to the Song family's properties with his 'good friend' Pei Xueyan to check the accounts.
I would practice swordsmanship when I returned to my residence at night, and my life was extremely fulfilling.
After several days of hard training day and night, he soon discovered a new problem - his sword skills had no moves, but no internal force to drive them!
The wooden sword in Liu Shen's hand was swung according to the "Crazy Demon Sword Technique" move. On the surface, it looked vigorous and powerful.
But only he knows that this sword technique without the blessing of internal force is just a harvest technique...
Looks good but looks useless...
The ordinary moves in "Crazy Demon Sword Technique" are like this, and the ultimate killing move "Heaven and Earth Lives Together" that requires concentration of energy and energy on one sword cannot even be used!
Sora has skills, but no mana.
He was so worried about this that he stopped thinking about tea and food. Even when he was sleeping, he was thinking about where he could get an article on internal energy cultivation...
Early the next morning.
Liu Shen went to Tongda Hall to visit Yuan Xiaofei and Yu Hong as usual, and then waited until noon to see Pei Xueyan, who had arrived late.
"Is the eldest mistress happy today?"
"Is it that obvious?"
"I can't say it's obvious. I can only say that the smile on the eldest mistress's eyebrows is almost overflowing."
"It's really a bit..."
Seeing Liu Shen looking at her playfully, Pei Xueyan hurriedly found a mirror to take a closer look, then raised her eyebrows and smiled: "Then guess what happy event it is?"
"Well, it's a bit difficult..."
Liu Shen pondered for a while with his eyes slightly focused, and muttered in his mouth: "In the past few days, we have found three problematic shopkeepers, and the young lady is always on time, but today she is late."
His voice paused, and then he smiled as if he had realized something: "If my prediction is correct, these three shopkeepers should have been personally sent to the government by the young mistress this morning. As for the happy event, it was probably the young mistress who found it. After using Mr. Song’s method of asking for advice, the old man agreed with your idea! Isn’t that right?”
"It seems you..."
Pei Xueyan gave him a charming and angry look, acquiescing to the matter, and then said in a pretentious manner: "Sometimes I really want to open your head and see how many things I don't know are hidden inside."
"Then young lady, you may be disappointed."
"Huh? Disappointed?"
"yes."
Liu Shen joked in a teasing tone: "You have shown so much of Mr. Liu to my young mistress. If you open my head and see my empty head, how can you not be disappointed?"
"I don't believe your nonsense..."
Pei Xueyan snorted coquettishly. Although she said she wouldn't believe his lies, she felt very satisfied in her heart.
The two were inseparable for several days...
Although Pei Xueyan is the eldest mistress of the Song family, she doesn't put on any airs when getting along with her;
Although Liu Shen was just a dock porter, he was neither humble nor overbearing when dealing with him.
The two of them both had a good impression of each other, and both wanted to get close to each other. Naturally, the 'friend' relationship was very stable and very fast.
"hungry."
Liu Shen sat down at the table unceremoniously and said, "Hurry up and ask someone to get some food. I just have something I want you to help me with."
"oh?"
Pei Xueyan's eyes lit up when she heard that he was asking for something from her. After asking someone to prepare a banquet, she asked expectantly: "Tell me, what's the matter?"
"..."
