"Brother Li has been wandering on the street early in the morning. Aren't you afraid of wasting your time for studying?"
Zhou Zixiu spoke casually, and as soon as he finished speaking, he was attracted by the excitement next to him.
Li Yuan didn't care and followed him towards the lively place.
The relationship between the two is not equal, and there is no real friendship. In his previous life, he used him as a springboard to get to know the rich and powerful, and always supported and coaxed him.
Zhou Zixiu, on the other hand, values his status as a scholar and spends some time with him as he pleases. If he can become a scholar in the future, he will think about the Zhou family to some extent. If not, it doesn't matter. Anyway, the Zhou family has a big business and doesn't care about this investment at all.
The closer I got, the louder the noise became.
"You loser, my family washed your clothes out of pity for you, but now you want money after washing your clothes, bah!"
"Ms. Wu, this dress was obviously in good condition when I gave it to you last month. But in the past half a month or so, you suddenly said it was damaged."
The woman's voice was a little weak and was quickly covered by the woman opposite.
Li Yuan heard that it was his mother in this life, so he pushed his way through the crowd and walked inside.
"Stop talking nonsense, get out of here and don't delay my business." Mrs. Wu slammed the meat knife on the chopping board, rolled up her sleeves and came to drag the woman.
The woman was thin and small, so she fell backwards after being pulled by her.
Li Yuan said with a cold face:
"You still want to take action if you don't pay the money you owe?"
"What happened if I just took action? Who asked her to block my stall and delay my business? Are you responsible?"
Madam Wu put her hands on her hips and said to him fiercely:
"I advise you to get out of here. My boss will come soon and he won't be as easy to talk to as I am."
"You haven't paid for last month's laundry yet." Mother Li was a little anxious and her voice was slightly louder.
At first she wanted to settle the accounts one by one, but Mrs. Wu insisted on letting her keep accounts and said she would settle the accounts once a month. We were all neighbors, so she agreed.
I just didn't expect that Mrs. Wu would have such thoughts. Seeing that her family was orphaned and widowed, she wanted to default on the debt.
"What money? Do you have any evidence? I think you, an old woman, want to extort money from my business."
Wu yelled, not even using the excuse of washing damaged clothes, and wanted to refuse the bill directly.
Mother Li was also very angry. She took Wu's hand and wanted to take the string of money hanging from her waist.
Previously, Hu Laoer wanted to give her the money directly, but Mr. Wu snatched it away and took away Hu Laoer. The bunch of money around her waist was just enough for her to wash their family's clothes for a month.
Mrs. Wu was tall and she pushed Mother Li out as soon as she raised her hand. He shouted loudly: "Shameless old guy, trying to steal my money..."
Li Yuan supported Li's mother and kicked her on the pork stall. This time, the pork stall was overturned, and there was a huge commotion. The shouting Wu finally fell silent.
Li Yuan said coldly: "Do you, the Hu family, want us, the Li family, to be less willing to default on our debts?"
Wu was frightened by his cold eyes and shook her head.
"Then pay."
Mrs. Wu took off the string of copper plates from her waist, stretched out her hands and was reluctant to give them out.
This is 500 Wen. How can it cost so much just to wash clothes? It must be Mrs. Li, the widow, who saw that her pork stall was doing well and wanted to blackmail her.
She won't give him the money today to see what the Li family can do. Widow Li is a sick woman who can't even walk without breathing, but she can still beat her.
Li Yuan is a scholar who has the best reputation. At the age of 20, he has not even been admitted as a scholar, and he still pretends to be a scholar all day long.
Pooh!
She won't give it today.
He immediately sat on the ground, slapped his thighs and started shouting: "Help, the scholar in Widow Li's family is going to beat someone up, is there any justice..."
Not far away, the Hu brothers heard my mother's cry and rushed over. They indiscriminately greeted Li Yuan with sticks.
Li Yuan dodged Hu Da's wooden stick sideways, pushed Li's mother to a safe place, turned around and kicked Hu Da's hand, and immediately knocked the wooden stick out of his hand.
Hu Da folded his arms and shouted angrily: "You are all dead, why don't you come over and help!"
The remaining three brothers of the Hu family rushed forward with wooden sticks. Li Yuan grabbed Hu San's arm and dragged him over to block him. Hu Si's wooden stick just hit Hu San's back...
The battle ended quickly. The four Hu brothers lay on the ground and wailed. The people watching were stunned. After a while, a burst of warm applause broke out.
"The boy from the Li family turns out to be so powerful, he really hides his secrets."
"This time the Hu family kicked the iron plate. I didn't expect Li Yuan to be so thin and capable of hitting."
"Well done. The Hu family is so tyrannical because of their many brothers. They sell meat without a lot of money. I can't bear to see them anymore."
"That's right, if it weren't for the fact that I couldn't beat a few of their brothers, I would have wanted to beat them."
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Li Yuan took a breath while holding the pork stall, and looked at Wu:
"Can I settle the money now?"
This body is too weak. It seems that he needs to strengthen his training.
Wu was unwilling to give in and threw the money away from a distance.
Mother Li turned around from the shock and quickly picked up the money.
"Just wait for me!"
Hu Da covered his injured arm, pointed at Li Yuan's face with a fierce look and said harsh words.
"Okay, I'll wait."
Li Yuan replied casually, walked up to Mother Li, took the basket from her hand and left.
The onlookers immediately made way out of the way and looked at Li Yuan with light in their eyes.
The Hu family is a typical person who bullies the weak and fears the strong, especially Hu's mother, Wu, who has bullied others on the basis of her son over the years.
All the other stalls selling pork in the county were beaten by his family so that they no longer dare to sell it. They are the only ones doing this pork business. Others dare not tell anyone who is short of money, for fear that the four brothers from the Hu family will come knocking on their door.
It was so satisfying to finally get spanked today!
"Brother Li, Brother Li!"
Zhou Zixiu caught up with him panting, and while panting, he put his hand on Li Yuan's shoulder.
"Brother Zhou, is something wrong?" Li Yuan turned sideways calmly, avoiding his hand.
He wasn't used to hooking up with others, and his relationship with Zhou Zixiu wasn't that good either.
"It's okay. I wonder if Brother Li is free now. I have something to ask Brother Li for advice."
"Xiao Yuan, go ahead. Mom still wants to go to Dongjiekou."
Mother Li thought they were going to discuss knowledge and immediately made excuses to leave.
Although she had tried her best, she still could not give her son a better life. She tried her best to avoid appearing in front of her son's classmates for fear of embarrassing the child.
Li Yuan's words were interrupted by Mother Li, but he didn't say anything. His mission today was to walk around the streets, and it didn't matter who he was with.
"Brother Li is so secretive. I didn't expect you to be both civil and military."
Zhou Zixiu looked at him with bright eyes, completely different from his cold and casual look just now.
"Brother Zhou, is there anything else?"
Li Yuan walked forward slowly. His physical fitness was too poor. Although he won the fight just now, his thighs were slightly weak and his fists were so hot that they hurt.
