Donkey Trouble Volume III: Reckless Men Paying Debts 42, Reckless Men Paying Debts
Money is not a problem, the problem is that there is no money! Penniless and unclothed, how can a chivalrous man behave? How can he fight righteously?
Lu Xing's calculation is good, for Xiao Cong'er's mother and daughter, no matter how much debt they owe, they are all unable to repay, and as long as they don't get out of Lu Xing's hands, what awaits them is the same ending.
They have no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the ground, so they can only hug each other and cry.
"Is the debt with an IOU also false?" Zheng Enqi stepped forward and asked Cong'er's mother and daughter.
Still no one heeded.
The IOU was signed and drawn by Cong'er's mother, how could that set of money be innocent? What evidence could she have to say that she was innocent? She had nothing to say, but her lips trembled, and tears poured out like a burst of the embankment.
Xiao Cong'er seemed to not want people to see her tears, biting her lip tightly, and covering her face with both hands, tears overflowing from her fingers, flowing through the back of her rough hand, and there were scars left by scratches on the back of the hand.
Zheng En's heart couldn't help but tremble.
Zheng En has seen many kinds of tears, some are true feelings, some are painful venting, some are crying with joy, some are angry, and some are melancholy - but the crying of Xiao Cong'er's mother and daughter is the most unforgettable for him.
This is the kind that doesn't want it to flow out, but is squeezed out of my heart by the heavy, immobile pain and helplessness. Only the true inner sadness, but the loneliness and helplessness that cannot be told will shed such tears. Those who have not shed such tears cannot appreciate what is unfortunate.
Zheng En has an experience, because his mother flowed-
When Zheng En was twelve years old, due to natural disasters, the rent owed to Dong Da's family could not be paid in full, and his mother had no choice but to let Zheng En go to Dong Da's house to work to pay off the debt.
On the first night of going to the oil mill to pay the debt, his mother held him like this and sat all night. He knew that his mother had a lot to say, but she couldn't say anything. What do you say? Say that he shouldn't be allowed to go to work at such a young age to pay off his debts? My father is sick, and the family has not been able to open the pot for a few days, and he has not allowed himself to pay off his debts, so where does he come from to eat and drink? Do you let yourself starve to death with you? Don't be tired, hungry, hot, and frozen? If you become a slave of others, can your mother still manage it?
Zheng En understands why her mother can't say a word, it's the helplessness of the poor - they can't love if they want to love, they can't love if they want to love, they know that it's a fire pit, and they can only push their relatives to jump in!
Mom hugged him tightly and didn't say a word, but tears poured out of her eyes. Mom turned her back on her face and wiped it quietly, but the more she wiped it, the more she wiped it, and her face was full of bright tears-
This scene was engraved in Zheng En's heart, and his mother's tears also melted into his blood.
At this moment, Xiao Cong'er's mother and daughter's gently trembling shoulders while crying suddenly overlapped with their mother's back in Zheng En's mind.
He stood there dumbfounded, not knowing what to do.
He has never cared about his own consequences, but today he is not facing himself, but two sad and lonely weak girls.
Yes, with his and lazy worm's martial arts, he can let Lu Xing do whatever he wants at this moment, messing around, and it's easy to get rid of that arrears, but what about later?
He and the lazy worm can walk away, and they can use their martial arts to protect themselves and wander around. What about them? Can Lu Xing let them go? Where are they going? Are they still hiding in the mountains and living like ghosts? Not to mention that they can't hide if they want to?
Without solving the fundamental problem of debts, they will not be able to have peace. Suppressed by force for a while, but only got a verbal promise from Lu Xing at this time, is this useful?
The lazy creature probably realized this, and scratched his head blankly without saying a word.
Lu Xing, who was flattering the two of them, thought that Zheng En and the lazy worm had a hot face and a cold butt, and he was embarrassed and regretful, of course, he didn't let go of this opportunity to curry favor and sow discord, and hurriedly made up for Zheng En and the lazy worm.
"Get up, get up! The two heroes are not for fame or profit, they are busy, waste time, preside over justice, and mediate for us. I see the hero's face, I will cancel the money that was fined you, and I don't want the interest on the borrowed silver, and the principal has also been reduced by one hundred taels for you, which is equivalent to the two heroes repaying three or four thousand taels of silver for you, and you don't even kowtow, and you don't even say the word 'thanks', and your shelf is too big, right?
The thugs also hurriedly added firewood: "Get up and kowtow to the two heroes!"
"Get up, get up, say thank you to the two heroes!"
"The grace of dripping water, when the spring reciprocates, the hero gives you a jar of water, and you can't even give up a drop of spit to say the word 'thanks', it's too unconscionable, right?"
"I really have no conscience, I don't know what to do!"
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Xiao Cong'er's mother and daughter still hugged each other and cried, without saying a word.
Lu Xing was secretly happy in his heart, and provoked even more vigorously: "Two brothers, have you experienced it yourself at this time? These poor and uneducated people are very good! You just give them a big face, and they treat them as ass! No matter how kind you are to them, they will also treat them as donkey livers and lungs! Even if you give them great favors, they will also treat them as falling from the sky! The two brothers are chivalrous and righteous, and there are many things that should be taken care of in the world! What should you be busy with, don't waste time for these lowly people who don't understand human feelings, don't know how to be grateful, and don't pay their debts!"
Seeing that Zheng En and the lazy worm were still in a daze, Lu Xing thought it was a tacit acquiescence, waved to his entourage and said, "Take them away, take them away first, don't let them make the two heroes angry here!"
Two thugs were just about to obey the order to step forward to fight Xiao Cong'er's mother and daughter, and Zheng En's slap had already been thrown on Lu Xing's face.
Lu Xing turned around a few times like a top before he stood firm and asked in a daze, "Where did Lu offend his brother?"
"Lao Tzu is listening to their mother and daughter tell their grievances, what are you shouting?"
"She, did they speak?"
"They say that you are a bad guy who is not benevolent to the rich, one thing in front of you and one thing behind your back, and you won't enter the Hades Palace in your restaurant if you die!" Zheng En seemed to see the suffering scene of Xiao Cong'er working in the restaurant, and seemed to hear her accusation of dripping blood while sobbing. This is the subconscious communication of the same kind, and it is the resonance of the deep soul of the working boy and the working man.
"She, they, when did she say it?" Lu Xing asked confusedly.
"You didn't hear such a high voice, your ears are stuffed with donkey hair?" The lazy worm didn't know what Zheng En meant, so he just played a majestic role.
Lu Xing was inexplicable, and for a while he couldn't figure out if he really didn't hear it.
"Since she doesn't want to pay off your debts, you don't want to dwell on it!" Zheng En continued.
"Okay, as long as she repays my principal, I promise not to let her go to work for debts again! I will ask the two brothers to be the masters and collect debts for me!" Lu Xing didn't dare to resist, so he could only deal with it softly.
"Who's going to collect your debts? We're here for you!" said the lazy worm.
"Yes, please judge the two brothers!" Lu Xing bent his waist like a fried prawn, and covered up the difficulty with respect.
"We pay you the money they owe!" Zheng Eun's thoughts blurted out.
"You, you two - still?" Lu Xing thought that he had lost his eyes, and opened his mouth wide in shock, but when he saw the lazy worm quietly pulling Zheng En's shirt and Zheng En's hands touching his body, he knew that they were penniless, and immediately changed his face, and said with a smile: "Okay, the two brothers do good deeds and help others, I look at the face, and then reduce it by one hundred taels, which is considered a rebate for the brothers! No, it is not a rebate, and it is said that the rebate damages the reputation of the two people, and it should be the labor fee that they deserve! The labor fee is not noble, it should be regarded as a brother's respect for the hero, and the etiquette of filial piety!"
Lu Xing's entourage also saw that Zheng En and the lazy worm had empty pockets, not to mention three hundred taels, even if they couldn't get a penny, so they followed and coaxed:
"The two heroes are chivalrous and righteous, and they return the silver for others, which is really a noble style!"
"Mr. Tian should be asked to make a report to the county government and commend him!"
"Hurry up and cash it out, it's a great merit!"
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The lazy worm secretly tugged at Zheng En's sleeve, as if he had something to ask, but Zheng En ignored it, as if he was still thinking about the problem of no money.
Seeing that the two were embarrassed, Lu Xing secretly felt proud, and pretended to be even more forced: "If the two brothers are tight on money now, I will bring the people back first, when will you help them when it is convenient, will this be okay?"
If Lu Xingruo takes people away, it is equivalent to the two brothers always telling the donkey to pull off the grinding system and run around empty, how can the lazy worm agree? It is also in a hurry, he jumped to stop the entourage, and shouted: "Who said that we are short of money, we have a lot of silver!"
"Where?" asked Lu Xing.
"—but they're all foreign debts, and they need to be recovered!" replied the lazy worm.
"Who dares to owe the two heroes silver, they really eat the guts of a bear's heart and a leopard!Little brother, who do you say, and we will also help you ask for it?" Lu Xing saw that the lazy worm was cheating, and his face was sarcastic.
"It's the two of them!" the lazy worm pointed to Xiao Cong'er's mother and daughter, serious.
"They also owe you money?" Lu Xing was puzzled.
"Yes, they owe us money, too. Since they have paid the debt to you, they are your people, and you have to bring people, and you will pay back the money they owe us!"
Lu Xing was stunned when he saw the lazy worm say this, his brain turned around, and he laughed easily. He thought that Zheng En and the lazy worm had been fighting against him because he was extremely poor and wanted to blackmail a few taels of silver. "Fuck, I said, these two two people have been provoking me to find trouble, and they are doing it, but they want to blackmail a few taels of silver!
Lu Xing only hated himself for understanding this late, and he was humiliated by a lot of tricks and humiliation, so he hurriedly remedied: "Hey, the two brothers have an idea and say yes earlier, look at how tired it is to turn around this big circle!"
In order to show his generosity and satisfy the two, he helped the lazy worm calculate: "How much money do they owe you?" I'll start with an estimate. If you judge for them, if you ask a lawyer, I am afraid that it will not work if you lose ten taels of silver; if you come out to fight for them, although it is a misunderstanding between the brothers, they must also pay for this labor fee, and it will be counted as ten taels! In addition, tea and entertainment, travel and accommodation, and meals must also be subsidized, and at least ten taels of silver must be counted. Thirty taels in total, a lot! They are my people, and I should pay this money in advance! How about it, two heroic brothers?"
"Far from it?" said the lazy worm.
"How far is it?"
"One hundred and eight thousand miles!"
"How much money do they owe you?" Lu Xing put on a generous face.
The lazy worm counted with his fingers: "Our brothers tried their light skills on the mountain, playing volley swallows, but we didn't expect them to build an illegal building under the cliff and build a grass house, causing us to break through the roof and fall in." One hundred and eight pieces of skin were scratched on our bodies, and three hundred and sixty hairs were rubbed off. We will make them pay a hundred taels of silver for a piece of skin, and we will pay them a gold bar for a hair of hair. They put a skull in the house, and a toad in it, which frightened us both of us into a nervous disorder, and we still can't tell the difference between east and west, north and south. We smart people were scared into fools, and it will be a problem to find wives in the future, so we want them to compensate them for fright expenses of 14,000 taels, medical expenses of 25,000 taels, living expenses and nursing expenses of 36,000 taels, 47,000 taels of wife buyers, 58,000 taels of mental damage, and 69,000 taels of fines for illegal construction.
The lazy worm counted, and turned his face to Xiao Cong'er's mother and daughter: "I didn't count much, did I?
Xiao Cong'er and her mother were grieving for death, how could they have the heart to play with him, of course they ignored him.
The lazy worm turned to Lu Xing: "They don't have any money, what should they do? Why don't you take the people away and settle the accounts for them?"
This is obviously not trying to blackmail a few taels of silver, but to prevent people from taking people, and the confrontation with his needle-point, Lu Xing was so angry that he couldn't fight hard with his fists, and he was so angry that he didn't dare to resist: "Two brothers, now it's the master who owes the debt, and it is the grandson who collects the debt, and it's hard to get the debt! Not to mention their old lai? Your account is too big, and my brother is too timid to take it! Otherwise, I'll take the person away and let her work in my restaurant, and the wages will be repaid to you first, okay?"
"No, one hand of money and one hand of goods, the silver is picked up by you to bring people, if you don't have money, get out of the way and go cool, don't talk to Lao Tzu here!"
"That, that's okay, listen to you! We will keep people, and you will ask them to repay us! Please collect the debt!"
"We want our debts, when we want to ask for them, do they have anything to do with you?" said the lazy worm.
"Brother, irrelevance is irrelevant, but they also owe me money. You can recover the money they owe you so that you can repay the money they owe me on their behalf?" Lu Xing had to follow in circles.
"The accounts they owe you are transferred to us, and we owe you them, and they are no longer relevant to them! Don't be verbose, I'm annoying!"
"Oh, it's not appropriate to smash my brother's head, right?" Lu Xing felt that letting the two of them take the account was similar to blowing ashes, and refused with an uncomfortable face.
"Why is it not appropriate? We will pay them back, and they will pay us off as girls. This is called triangular transfer, do you understand? idiot!" The lazy worm pointed at Lu Xing's nose and shouted.
"That's right, it's a triangular transfer! Do this, the one hundred taels of silver that you were fined just now are all blown, and the four hundred taels of silver on the contract is not less than one of you, and they don't have to work for you, we also have a call girl, the best of all three, no one suffers, what do you think?" Zheng En followed the lazy worm's words and said the mature decision brewing in his heart.
"It's angry when friends talk about money!" Lu Xing could only entertain in vain.
"It is only natural to repay debts. Since she has become our girl, we should pay off their debts!"
When Lu Xing heard this, he thought that Zheng En and the lazy worm were looking for an excuse to forcibly take Xiao Cong'er's mother and daughter away, and he didn't dare to get angry, so he only held back his face and stammered speechlessly.
"Fuck, my junior brother told you your innocence, you're just haha, why should you tell you a joke?" the lazy worm scolded.
"Can you be polite when your brother speaks?" An entourage saw that the master was embarrassed and wanted to ask for some mercy for the master.
"In the face of a pack of biting dogs, can politeness work except for bricks? In the pigsty, you bow to the pigs, can it understand?" said the lazy worm.
"This, this, this is the old book, also, also four hundred taels of silver, the two brothers are out of the house, how, how, how-" Lu Xing was silent for a long time, but he still couldn't say a word.
"Don't mess around with half-cooked hot taro in your mouth, agree or not, you make it clear!" cried the lazy worm with the rack to be used.
Zheng En stopped the lazy worm and said to Lu Xing with a smile: "I'm afraid we don't have any cash, right?
"If you can't take out the debt, give it to him in the Year of the Monkey!" the lazy worm roared.
"The brother who owes the debt is not happy, it is better to pay in cash!"
Zheng En stopped the lazy worm while turning to Lu Xing, and told the fool all the ideas that he had already thought of: "In this way, aren't you short of manpower? We don't compete, you can just give it!"
"No, you stupid, why don't you compete?" The lazy worm said to Zheng Enxun: "We are a big man, strong and strong, no matter how much we work or fight, one person is more effective than her!" turned to Lu Xing and the gang and shouted: "Just take the food bag and say, my junior brother can carry four bags alone, you tell her to try, she can't carry half a bag." If we have eight of us, we should be eight times her salary! When it comes to fighting, she is even worse. She can't even beat any of you, and I can make you all lie down by myself. You say to yourself, is it appropriate for you to pay less?"
For more information, see the next episode: Imitation of the nobility.