After Wang Lizheng heard what happened, his lungs almost exploded with anger.
The more he thought about this trip to the county, the more unlucky he felt.
First, that son of a bitch Tao Shide (the county magistrate) took another three thousand taels of silver from him, and now that son of a bitch Liu Laozhu actually dared to bring trouble on him.
"Go to Chaling Restaurant."
"Hey? Brother, wait for me."
Wang Lizheng looked at his cousin and thought it was embarrassing to be bandaged like that, "Go to Mr. Liu's house in the narrow alley and call me Liu Laozhu."
"Yes, brother, I'll go get it for him right now!"
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Liu family.
Liu Laozhu was not at his younger brother's house in the town as his younger son thought, but at his eldest brother's house in the county.
This is not because they are "stirring" and they went to the town to study it together. The result of the discussion is: yes, we can't rely on blockade.
If we rely on blockades and prevent Capt. Zhao from recruiting this and that when he recruits his men, it will be easy to press the gourd and stir up the ladle. Simply ask Wang Lizheng, who has a close relationship with the county magistrate, to help him order the recruitment list for Zhao Dashan from the source, so that he can save his worries.
Just like that, it happened that Wang Li was about to come to the county, so they all followed him into the city, hoping to get the confirmation as soon as possible.
At present, everything else is looking good, maybe staying in an inn and waiting for news.
The inn was expensive, and Liu Laozhu was reluctant to part with it. It happened that his eldest brother lived in the county, so he came to his eldest brother's house because he brought his wife and missed his parents very much.
At this time, Mr. Liu had a cold syndrome in his knees. He was lying on the kang and said to his second son:
"The harvest in the fields has not been good in the past few years, and it must be even more difficult for the people in the village. You should be honest with everyone and think more about them. Like paying taxes and grain, you almost turn a blind eye and let them Save more fine japonica rice and noodles for whole grains to fill your stomach.”
"Dad, how old are you? Don't worry about it. You don't understand what's going on here. If I fail to collect grain, the official will scold me."
He had been scolded before, like a third grandson by the grain collection officials. Every town in the county looked at him. He was so ashamed that even the house where he stayed that night was the worst. No one in the village thanked him.
"Does being scolded mean you lose a piece of meat? The worse the time, the more you can protect no one in the village from starving to death. That is true merit. Logically speaking, you are over fifty years old, so I shouldn't care about you anymore, but You have that problem, you always focus on looking at something empty, what's the use? How come you can continue to scratch it after you perform well? "
Mr. Liu has seen through that the truth is at its peak, and the old Liu family has had no official career for generations.
If one day his grandson really becomes an official, he will not worry about dying.
Because our family is like this, with no background and no background, no one will protect you when something happens.
He has no brains and cannot recognize all the words.
I asked him to say, even if he spends all his money to give gifts, he finally sneaks into the county government office and sits on a chair, can he understand what is written in the document, and can he carefully understand what the transfer of personnel means, what is the relationship between officials? Even if you say some secret words, you can't figure out who is whose. One day, if someone frames me again, I will kill the Nine Clans.
Therefore, Mr. Liu is very content now. With three sons and two sons-in-law, every family can have enough to eat.
"Don't always think about asking the villagers to thank you. Why did Lao Li choose you in the first place? He suffered the disadvantage of being illiterate and almost led the whole village to be deceived. Then I thought, even if you can read, you will be confused. You are half a man, the dwarf is the general, and you are young, so I let you be the upright one. Isn’t it because you can protect everyone when the times are bad? You always want something to thank me for."
Mr. Liu gets excited when he mentions Lao Lizheng.
That person is the great-grandson of the generation who fled famine and occupied Erdaohe Village.
Mr. Liu felt that people from Laoli Zheng and further up a few generations were the ones who had some thoughts in his heart. No wonder they could crawl over the pile of dead people. He also dares to pay to make the village better and better. Otherwise, if something happens to his second son, how about Lao Lizheng passing it on to his biological brother?
Liu Laozhu was annoyed to death, always bringing up the old man.
But what his father said next made his expression change.
"Like that river, it's so fertile, and there are so many fish in it. When Lao Li was here, you could fish just by paying a fishermen's tax per household. How did you get here? I haven't figured it out all these years. I heard your elder brother say, he The inn that I co-operate with collects fish, and I still go to Wangjiagou to buy it. Zhuzhu, I have something I have wanted to ask you for a long time. Is your eldest son being protected by Wang Naizheng? ?”
"Dad," Liu Laozhu hurriedly went to close the door.
Mr. Liu suddenly sighed and said: "Do you think your brother, your brother-in-law, and your two brothers-in-law don't know that you resorted to various means to protect your eldest son?"
"I……"
"Don't worry, they didn't blame you. After many years, I have already figured out that their household registration is not in Erdaohe, and you have no intention of doing so."
So this is where the old man feels sorry.
His Liu family was already the best living family in the village. During the military conscription, even his eldest son's family had a boy die. Who wouldn't feel hurt when he mentioned this. And it will only be more difficult for the villagers if they don’t have enough to eat and drink, and they can’t afford to kill people.
This is such a messed up world.
"Zhuzhu, if you bring Jiang back for the people of the village, then you can send me this old bone back. Your father and I will go from house to house to apologize. If you talk about this, no one will be able to control you in the future.
Don't worry, everyone will definitely understand your desire to protect your son, and they will do the same even if they are honest. After all, we are all mortals, no one is a god, no one has any selfish motives, and you are not using someone else's son to support your own quota.
In short, our old Liu family just can't let the man named Wang lead the way. We would rather let the people in our own village hold the handle.
We can't use everyone's money to hide our own family affairs, that would be a big mistake. "
Liu Laozhu closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he made up his mind and said:
"Dad, then I will tell you the truth, just this once.
Regarding Najiang, it's not just that. There are many things in it that I don't even understand. I don't want to understand what's going on. If you tell me, I'll cover my ears.
I am an old man and a young man, and I am afraid that I will lose my mind when the time comes.
And how bad can I be? Our ancestral graves are still in the village.
I am afraid that the villagers will lose two people today and two people tomorrow, and uncover the heads that were lost that day. We are just the bankers who can't beat us, I'm doing it for their own good, so don't ask any questions! "
Mr. Liu was even more upset, mainly because this boy didn't explain anything to him.
The door was suddenly pushed open, and Pepper looked at the two men in surprise.
Liu Laozhu immediately pretended to talk to his wife and hid.
Pepper turned around and looked into the room: "Did you and dad have a quarrel?"
"No, what do you want to do?"
"I'm thinking of going to the street to buy some food for my parents and a piece of food for my sister-in-law. It's not easy for my sister-in-law to serve my parents on weekdays. You can see that my sister-in-law's hair is all white. But I don't have enough money in my pocket."
Liu Laozhu immediately took out the bag sewn in his sleeve, took out all the broken silver from the bag and gave it to his old wife and said: "Buy some materials for yourself, it's not easy to come to the city."
"I don't want to buy it. I'm well-dressed in the village, but it's a joke if I don't have a patch. I'll see if I can't buy it for you, Brother Jing, and you both have to meet people..."
"Then buy it for me and my eldest daughter. I will pass by the daughter's village and give it to you. I don't want it."
But when I went shopping for pepper, I ended up just buying some fine salt for my home. I felt so distressed for this small amount of salt that I slapped my thigh repeatedly: "Why, it's only sold for a hundred cents. It's not much cheaper than in our town, and it's not enough for anyone to live."
And what she bought was not the best-quality refined salt among salts. The refined salt cost one hundred and twenty coins.
The waiter said kindly: "It's been raining heavily this year, and everywhere is waterlogged and it's hard to get salt. Not to mention that it's extremely expensive to transport it to a remote place like ours. I advise you to buy it as soon as possible. The price may increase next month."
When Pepper was paying, he saw that the store was organizing people to load bags of salt onto the mule cart outside. He said with a bit of acidity: "Not every household has to buy salt in a ration every year. Why does this family just buy it based on the cart?"
"Mom, that's fishing salt."
I understand fish salt and pepper.
The imperial court knew that it was difficult for ordinary people to pickle fish. Wouldn't it smell bad if the fish was not pickled? The transportation time on the road was long, and what should I do if I wanted to eat fish in a city that was neither close to the sea nor the river.
For this reason, among the types of salt, there is the worst quality fish salt mixed with red sand, which costs only three pennies a pound.
"Oh, it would be great if we could eat fish salt directly. We country people wish we had to eat three bags of noodles to eat just one pound of salt. We really can't afford it. If we don't eat salt, we have no strength."
Life is hard.
The waiter hurriedly said: "Don't think so. I won't let you buy fish salt because you don't have any fish. I just told you what I know recently. If you cook with fish salt, you will die more than thirty years ago."
"That's all I said, thank you, kid."
When Pepper carried the salt packets out, he was still thinking that if the price really went up, he would tell his old sisters when he returned to the village that those who had extra money at home should not keep it.
She realized that money was useless and it was best to exchange all the money for food and salt and save it to avoid having to pay the same price every month.
As a result, when I looked up, I saw Liu Laozhu being kicked in Kuandianzi Village across the street. He was kicking Liu Laozhu several times on the street in front of the restaurant.
And Li Zheng, who was chatting and laughing all the way to the county town, was just like the monkey. At this time, all of them were glaring at her old man angrily.
Pepper burst into tears and cursed as he ran: "What are you doing? You old guys are crazy!"
Liu Laozhu didn't expect that Pepper was on this street. Wasn't he going to buy fabrics?
His face was red, embarrassed and anxious, he stopped Pepper and said, "Go home quickly."
"No, these old immortals, no matter who they are kicking, they are all upright, why do they have more than others?"
Pepper's nose was full of tears, and he insisted on going up and scratching Kuandianzi Village.
She never thought that her man would be bullied like this:
"My old man is over 50 years old. Why do you want to roll your legs as much as you want? Do you think there is no one in my old Liu family? Have you forgotten that my eldest uncle is in this county?" I’ll go find Brother, please let them wait for me!”
What kind of eldest brother are you looking for? His eldest brother, Liu Laozhu, is just a county restaurant owner.
Privately, he partnered with others and secretly opened an inn on the road to Fucheng. He, his brother, and his two brothers-in-law had to raise the share capital together. How about living in a shabby house in a narrow alley? Ten years ago, if he really had the ability, he would have changed his residence long ago. Just being able to move the fish in the past two years is also helping the boss to make some money.
So Liu Laozhu was anxious and thought to himself: The villagers looked out at the people walking out and saw that everyone was awesome, but Pepper, you don’t know what’s going on? The eldest brother is not as rich as our family, so he is just a donkey manure egg. The surface is bright, so why bother with him, or he will lose his job.
"Stop making trouble and go home quickly. We are just having fun."
It's crazy if Pepper can believe this.
She tried her best to break away, turned around and was about to shout to the street, everyone come and judge, it was right and wrong, but she didn't expect to meet a ghost.
Pepper's first reaction was to scratch Wang Laoba's bandaged face: "You are bandaged like a kid, grandma, who are you? Why are you pulling on me!"
This scratched Wang Laoba until it immediately turned into a gourd of blood, which made everyone on the street laugh, and also attracted many people to stop and ask questions.
Wang Lizheng upstairs was very angry again.
I remembered that the county magistrate told me to have a long head when doing things in the future, and that my daughter-in-law’s aunt’s cousin-in-law is currently working as an aide to the magistrate. I also sent someone to give him a message when I came to the county this time, telling him to squint as much as possible in the future, which is a bit dazzling. Don't do anything.
Because the imperial court is going to send a new Zhenbei general here, wait for them to find out the new general's background, and don't make trouble.
In the end, he just wanted others to embarrass Liu Laozhu first, but he didn't expect that it would attract so many people to watch the fun.
Well, Liu Laozhu, you and I are really at odds with each other.
Afraid that the mad woman would continue to shout and make a fuss, Wang Lizheng had to send someone down to send a message to Kuandianzi Lizheng, asking him to admit that it was a joke and leave quickly.
…
In a single room of a restaurant.
Wang Lizheng met Liu Laozhu alone.
He used the lid of the bowl to scrape the foam from the tea leaves, and took a few sips slowly, which made Liu Laozhu sit on pins and needles before he said: "I have finished the things you asked me to do before I came here. I think the government officials have been busy and have expanded the recruitment list." Send it to town.”
Liu Laozhu felt relieved immediately, as long as it was done.
As for why he kicked him, it really doesn't matter, as long as he can save his son and not get kicked... Isn't that what parents are? They want to kill for their children and dare to do it. Alas, it just makes my wife see it and it is a little upset.
What man doesn’t want to be a great father and a great man when he comes home? You should coax your wife well later, and don’t talk about it when you get home.
In addition, I was also yelling at Wang Lizheng in my heart: You seem to only do things for me, but you didn't do those things for Lizheng? What kind of bastard are you pretending to be?
But Liu Laozhu was very grateful, with his butt only touching the edge of the chair, and his eye circles were red: "Brother Wang, strangely, we follow you and are convinced. You are so interesting to me. Really, I don't even know what to do." Thank you."
"Oh, is it.
Now you, Erdaohe Village, are so arrogant.
While I was not at home, they set down fishing nets, grabbed the river surface, set fire to dozens of firewood stacks in my village, and almost set my oil shop on fire.
They kidnapped us for fish and hurt my Wang family more than a hundred times.
I heard that he even said that if he couldn't get the paperwork, he would fish for fish every day, so he would just fish it for me.
Liu Laozhu, let’s not talk secretly..."
Liu Laozhu stood up suddenly, with cold sweat on his forehead. He thought to himself: Don't explain to me, so he hurriedly said loudly:
"Brother Wang, I don't know anything outside.
Don't worry, I'll go back to the village to deal with them. I'll ask them to fish out the fish and bleed it. Then I'll send it back to your village without killing it, just pickle it directly.
You dare to rebel, Brother Wang, you don’t have to say anything, just watch my performance! "
While he was talking, the person had already rushed out and couldn't shout back.
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