Donkey Trouble Volume 3: Reckless Men Paying Debts 44, Diao Servant Drama Master
Good intentions are not rewarded, saving people is false, and there are a lot of bad debts, how to deal with them?
Xiao Cong'er's three thatched houses were already broken, the mother and daughter fled for more than a year, and the roof was full of holes, large and small, and the walls were also cracked with several large openings, and the purlins were crooked and almost collapsed.
Zheng En and the lazy worm first pulled out the knee-deep grass in the house and yard, and then found a stick to support the wall that was about to fall, and then climbed to the roof, straightened the purlin, and covered the hole in the roof with branches and grass. The two were tired and sweating profusely, but Xiao Cong'er sat with her mother and watched blankly, without stretching out her hand.
The lazy worm shouted dissatisfiedly: "Alas, alas, what's the matter with you, when you are the master, you don't stretch out your hand?"
Xiao Cong'er said: "You are the master, we are the servants, you didn't speak, how do we know what to do?"
"Isn't it all obvious work to clean the room, make the bed, tidy up the kitchen, and prepare for cooking?"
"Where is your mansion? Where is the living room, living room, and kitchen? We don't know, how are we going to work?" Xiao Cong'er replied.
"You're not small-eyed, why don't you work, aren't we busy cleaning up?" said the lazy worm with a finger stroke.
"This is our thatched hut, when did we sell it to you?" Xiao Cong'er asked with a straight face.
"You live in your house, we'll help you clean it up, and you still want money?
"We are your servants, what kind of work we do for you, what kind of treatment you give, you haven't said yet! If you don't pay your wages, you should at least take care of food and housing, right? The thatched hut is ours, we are your servants, and your servants live in our house, of course, there is a fee!"
Xiao Cong'er's words made Zheng En confused. He whispered to the lazy worm: "She is a little reasonable! You have kept saying that they are your servants to pay your debts, and you want people to listen to you and bring you food and wash your feet, how can you not give people a house to live in?"
The lazy insect ignored him and argued to Xiao Cong'er: "Our mansion is not here, can't we use your house to let you live first?"
"No! pots are pots, cans are cans, buying is buying, selling is selling, you can't mess around. If you want to use it, whether you want to buy it or rent it, you have to make a line!" Xiao Cong'er said seriously.
"Okay, how much is the rent? Just your dilapidated house, eight breathable, living inside and outside, two taels of rent a month, a lot, right?" said the lazy worm generously.
"It's breathable and cool, so you don't have to fan. The monthly rent is fifty taels, you can rent if you want, and you don't want to rent it!" Xiao Cong'er said seriously.
Zheng En paid off her debts, completely for the sake of her own conscience, and had no idea of letting her pay it back, seeing Xiao Cong'er begging for rent, he immediately whispered to the lazy worm: "Fifty is fifty, deduct it from the debt paid for her! What are you fighting with a little girl?"
The lazy worm had to say, "Okay, okay, fifty is fifty, and it will be deducted from the debts we pay for you, that is, the debts you owe us, okay? Little girl, let's cook, my stomach is already growling with hunger!"
Xiao Cong'er was still motionless, and asked again, "How much is the salary?"
Zheng En asked her to be a servant to pay off her debts with her work just to find a reason to be in charge, and the lazy insects on the road regarded themselves as masters, which was just casual fun, and of course she didn't think about wages. At this time, Cong'er proposed that Zheng En didn't want to say it clearly, so she would carry the burden of favor, so she casually dealt with it and said: "It's still the amount you pay for other people's work, two taels of silver per month!"
"What are you asking us to do?" Xiao Cong'er asked.
The lazy worm put up the master's shelf and said: "We will pay off your debts for you, and you will serve us as a servant, do you need to say what you are doing? Of course, it is cooking, laundry, guarding the door, cleaning, and washing our feet, folding quilts, and so on!"
"I work for other people and only do one job. As a cook, a half, a handyman, a doorman, a tael, a rough girl, and a cleaner - if you let me work part-time, I should also be paid part-time. You give me ten taels of silver a month, so that I can take care of all the work you said!"
The lazy insect was so angry that she almost fell off the house, Zheng En stretched out his hand to support it, thinking that he didn't plan to ask for the money for her debt after all, so he simply wrote off the account as soon as possible, so that their mother and son would no longer have to carry the burden, so he whispered to stop the lazy insect and said: "She has a nervous problem, what are you talking about with her?" and then promised Xiao Cong'er: "Ten taels is ten taels, or deduct from the account for you to pay off the debt!"
The lazy worm was so hungry that he just wanted to eat quickly, so he patiently accommodated: "Okay, just do what my junior brother said!
Xiao Cong'er still sat still: "There are still accounts that have not been settled!"
"You say, you say!" cried the lazy impatiently.
"Our mother and daughter live peacefully in the mountains, and you have smashed our house so that we have not slept all night, and you have uncovered our 'spells' and lured out our enemies, and almost killed us; my mother and I have been frightened, insulted, mentally damaged, and still have headaches!
"The house in the mountains was built by us after more than a month of hard work, cutting bamboo and wearing out our hands, cutting thatch and bending my waist, pulling kudzu and tying and falling many times, so I asked you to compensate five hundred taels of silver, isn't it much?
"We were harassed by you, and we fined you 500 taels of silver to apologize, this can't be regarded as an unreasonable demand, right? We are physically and mentally damaged, and we need to ask a doctor to buy medicine for treatment, and the medical expenses will cost you 500 taels, plus 500 taels for mental damage, this should be reasonable, right? We hid well in the mountains, and it is impossible for Lu Xing's livestock to be found, and even if we find it, we can still run, because of your entanglement, we were caught by them, frightened, and insulted, and you should compensate you for some silver, even if it is 1,000 taels, not much, right? Also, you fell into our room at that time and fainted, we could have taken a small stone and knocked lightly on your head to kill you, but we didn't knock, which is equivalent to saving your two lives.
The lazy worm thought that Xiao Cong'er had nothing to say, but he didn't expect the big head to be behind. Although he was sloppy, he didn't have any words at this time, but just screamed nonsense: "You little girl, you are too ruthless, right? We have paid such a big debt for you, but we just let you wait as a girl, and taste the taste of being a master and a servant." You didn't cook a meal, you didn't take a sip of tea, you didn't wash your feet once, you didn't even say 'master', you counted left and right, not only did you count the debts we paid to you, but you also wanted to blackmail us a lot, isn't this revenge? You're too ruthless, aren't you?"
Zheng En felt that although Xiao Cong'er's words were tricky, they were also the truth.
He and the lazy worm fell into their mother-daughter room and fainted, and their mother and daughter could have dragged them out and thrown them into the ravine in order to protect themselves. People are afraid that you will be eaten by wild beasts, and they are waiting for you to wake up, but doesn't this mean that they have saved your life? The most precious thing in the world is life, and of course you can't repay that little debt for others.
When Zheng En thought so, he felt uneasy as if he owed Xiao Cong'er's mother and daughter. While glaring to stop the lazy worm's shouting, he apologized to Xiao Cong'er and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! We owe you too much! If you count money, you can't ask too much. But we don't have a penny now, what should we do? In this way, when we work to pay off Lu Xing's debts and earn wages, will we give you back?"
Xiao Cong'er was stunned for a moment, gritted his teeth and said: "Since you know that favors are precious, and you know how to repay your kindness, I won't fight too much, the debts between us can be regarded as offset, and no one owes anyone from now on, you two let's go!"
The lazy worm is fighting and judging lawsuits, mediating and tidying up the house, busy for a day, tired and sweaty, not only with Zheng En to carry her debt of 400 taels of silver to Lu Xing, but also was trained to a pimple, and a pile of silver, the little bald head is rotten toes, and the two ends are not one head, and I really feel a little awkward in my heart. But what Xiao Cong'er said was the truth, and Zheng En's words were reasonable, although he said that he was awkward, he couldn't say anything wrong for a while, so he had to climb down from the house and scratch his head there.
Zheng En washed his hands, patted the dust on his body, bowed to Xiao Cong'er's mother and daughter, and said, "The grace of saving your life, you will repay it later!"
Zheng En turned around and walked outside the courtyard, his body seemed to be absorbed by some force, not only could not walk, but also staggered backwards. He was taken aback, and said secretly: "Oops, look away, this mother and daughter are masters!"
If you want to know what will happen next, please watch the next episode: jealousy.