Li Erniu, who put down his bowl and was about to leave, was stunned when he heard Cao Meng's words, "This is just an ordinary breakfast, why did it become a decapitation meal?"
Cao Meng looked at the food in the bowl and said, neither humble nor arrogant, "You are a good person, but you don't have to worry that I can't bear it. I'm not afraid of death."
Li Erniu was a simple and honest person, so he didn't quite understand the meaning of Cao Meng's words. His face was full of questions, "What do you mean?"
He looked quite fierce, but I didn't expect him to be so kind-hearted. In order to prevent me from being scared, he was still lying to me up to this moment.
Cao Meng sighed with emotion, and then said: "I heard from the old people in the village that the meal before a prisoner is beheaded will be very rich, so I guess this is my decapitation meal."
This time, Li Erniu understood and said, "What are you thinking about? This is just an ordinary breakfast, not a rich one."
Ordinary breakfast?
Not considered rich?
Cao Meng felt that his brain was a little unable to react, "Don't be kidding me. There is no one who only eats rice and gravy for breakfast. Even the village chief's family doesn't eat so well."
In fact, it is not surprising that Cao Meng misunderstood. What he usually eats is brown rice mixed with various things. Only during the harvest and New Year days can he eat pure rice.
As for rice with greasy gravy, he couldn't even think about it, let alone serving it for breakfast.
Li Erniu looked serious and said to Cao Meng: "I'm not kidding, this is what we have for breakfast. This is what our benefactor forces us to do."
Jiang Yifeng's appearance appeared in Cao Meng's mind, "You mean, all this rice was provided by your benefactor?"
Li Erniu shook his head, "It was provided by our benefactor at first, but later some people were lazy at work, so our benefactor gave us money according to our workload and let us go to the shops to buy food."
Cao Meng couldn't help but ask: "How much does such a big bowl of white rice and gravy cost?"
Li Erniu replied: "Six copper coins...three copper coins for rice and three copper coins for gravy."
Cao Meng exclaimed, "One share is six copper coins, and two copies are twelve copper coins. It's so expensive."
For the two of them, breakfast would cost twelve copper coins. Even if they had only one meal for lunch and dinner, it would still cost twenty-four copper coins.
The problem is that their family can barely save a tael of silver throughout the year. According to this way of eating, it is not enough for two months.
When he thought of this, Cao Meng hesitated for a few seconds and pushed back his share, "Just one share for the two of us."
"That's not okay."
Li Erniu shook his head and pushed the meal back, "You will have to go to work on the coal mountain later. This is physical work. If you don't eat enough, your body will not be able to bear it."
Cao Meng, who was fearless, said with a voice like a mosquito, "I...I don't have money to eat such expensive food."
"It doesn't matter if you don't have money. As long as you work, I will give you a salary." Li Erniu continued: "My benefactor said that our coal village will not take advantage of you. The coal you dig every day will be deducted from Laifu's share, and the rest will be What you lay down belongs to you.”
Hearing this, Cao Meng's face lit up and asked, "How do you calculate the salary for coal mining?"
"Eight copper coins are worth one hundred catties of coal. Laifu can dig about one thousand five hundred catties a day. I'll give you one thousand and four cents. Anything over one thousand four hundred catties belongs to you."
"One hundred catties and eight copper coins. If I dig two thousand catties a day, I can earn... earn..."
Cao Meng clasped his fingers and tried to calculate how many copper coins he could earn, but he was so poor at arithmetic that he couldn't calculate it for a long time.
"It's forty-eight copper coins. Why are you stupider than me?" Li Erniu saw that Cao Meng couldn't calculate the result for a long time, so he casually gave the answer.
"Can you figure it out with such difficulty?"
"What's so difficult about this?"
Li Erniu asked back and continued: "My husband taught me such a level of calculation half a month ago. I'm relatively stupid."
Cao Meng raised his eyebrows and said, "Is there still a gentleman in your village?"
"Of course."
Li Erniu puffed up his chest and said proudly: "This is what our benefactor found for us. During the day, he is responsible for teaching children how to read and write. After dinner, he will spare an hour to teach adults how to read and arithmetic."
Having said this, Li Erniu looked at Cao Mengyao, "By the way, your sister has reached school age and has to go to school."
Cao Meng said embarrassedly: "It costs too much to study and read. I...our family has no money."
“Don’t your family even have money to buy pens and ink?”
"This is true, but..."
"As long as you have money to buy pens and ink, the teacher's lectures are free, and the paper will be provided by the benefactor."
"How can there be such a good person in the world?"
Cao Meng was stunned and asked in an incredible tone.
The reason why he thought it was fake was entirely because the Jiang Yifeng in Li Erniu's mouth was so perfect that it seemed fake.
Without going too far, let's take their village as an example. Even if all the villagers are of the same race, many people miss their family's fields and homes after their parents die.
Even his fellow villagers were like this, let alone an outsider. Anyway, he didn't quite believe that Jiang Yifeng was so good.
"Yes, he is the benefactor."
When Li Erniu talked about Jiang Yifeng, he seemed to have endless things to say.
Ding ding ding…
However, at this moment, there was a sound of tapping metal outside.
Li Erniu heard the sound and said hurriedly: "It's almost time to go to work. You two hurry up and eat. Then you and I will go to work. Your sister... I will go home and let Daya take her to the private school. You don't have to Worry about him."
"Da Ya?"
"My brother's child is slightly older than your sister."
"Thank you!"
Cao Meng thanked him from the bottom of his heart. When he saw Li Erniu about to leave, he hurriedly said: "Hey, I want to ask, is the life of the person who was stabbed by me in danger?"
Li Erniu stopped, and two cold gleams flashed through his eyes, "If it weren't for my benefactor's medical skills, Laifu would have died yesterday. He hasn't woken up yet, but my benefactor said he is no longer in danger."
"I'm sorry. I just wanted to protect the villagers. I never thought I would hurt him so seriously." Cao Meng apologized sincerely. "If his parents or relatives are angry, they can beat me. I will never fight back."
"well!"
Li Erniu sighed and said with a wry smile: "Laifu's family members died during the flood. He was the only child in the family, so... he no longer has any family members."
"How can it be?"
Cao Meng's heart trembled and he looked at Li Erniu, "Then... that person told me that Laifu has a family, parents, and younger brothers and sisters."
Li Erniu shook his head, "My benefactor said that just to make you think twice before acting too recklessly, otherwise it will lead to big mistakes."
As soon as these words came out, Cao Meng froze on the spot, tears pouring out uncontrollably.
thump!
He knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing and apologizing, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
