Chapter 49: The People of the Rivers and Lakes
Xiao Ding originally wanted Xiaoya to invite Wu Langzhong to prescribe some medicine for Zhao Laixi. But after thinking about it, Wu Langzhong lives in Luoxia Village, which is three or four miles away from Luoyun Village, which is not far away, but the road after the rain is a little muddy, and he is still a little worried about letting Xiaoya go alone.
Also, if he returns to Luoxia Village at night and leaves Xiaoya alone to take care of Zhao Laixi, how can he take care of Xiaoya's thin body?
So Xiao Ding said to Xiao Ya: "Xiao Ya, you pack up your things, let's go back to Xia Village together, and then ask Wu Langzhong to help Laixi heal over there." ”
Xiaoya's personality is a bit like Li's, more than virtuous, and after encountering things, she has no idea. Hearing Xiao Ding say this, he didn't object, and found dry clothes for Zhao Laixi to wear, and found some daily things such as a change of clothes for himself and Zhao Laixi, and wrapped them into a small bag.
Xiao Ding carried Zhao Laixi on his back, Xiao Ya locked the door with a small burden, and the two walked towards Luoxia Village.
Back to Luoxia Village, I went to Wu Langzhong's house on the way. Wu Langzhong helped to see Zhao Laixi's injury, prescribed some internal medicine to replenish qi and blood, and some external medicine, and said that it was not a big deal, and it would be good to take care of it for a few days.
Xiaoya was relieved, Xiaoding carried Zhao Laixi again, and the three of them finally returned home.
After settling Zhao Laixi, Xiaoding asked Xiao'e to cook some porridge. He guessed that Zhao Laixi might not have eaten since last night.
After Zhao Laixi drank some rice porridge, he finally regained some strength. That's when we started what happened.
It turned out that when it just started to rain last night, Zhao Laixi insisted on going home, and he didn't worry about Xiaoya being home alone at night. Carpenter Li's family didn't care whether he lived or died, it was better to go, and he saved a meal!
So Zhao Laixi ran back in the rain, running in a hurry, and didn't notice that there were several people in a doorway on the side of the road to take shelter from the rain.
As a result, he ran and stepped on the ground, splashing muddy water and spraying the whole body of the people.
Those people were none other than Xue Qinshou and a few of his fox friends. They wander the streets when they have nothing to do, extort oil everywhere, and then go to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble. Unexpectedly, there was a sudden heavy rain last night, and they happened to be walking in front of the doorway, so they hid under the doorway to avoid the rain.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Laixi suddenly ran out and splashed several people with muddy water. They didn't do it now, and they didn't care if it was raining, so they stopped Zhao Laixi by breaking out of the door.
Several people dragged Zhao Laixi to the door, and Zhao Laixi apologized to these people again and again, but these people did not give up, and insisted that Zhao Laixi pay ten taels of silver per person.
Where does Zhao Laixi have silver to compensate, even if he has silver, he doesn't want to give it to them, this is obviously blackmail!
So Xue Qinshou and the others beat Zhao Laixi up and left when the rain was light.
In fact, Xue Qinshou was not the only one hiding from the rain on both sides of the street. There are also many people who don't have time to find a place to hide from the rain, so they hide under the eaves of some shops, in the door holes, and so on.
They saw the scene of Xue Qinshou and others beating people, but no one dared to come over to stop them. Because they knew that Xue Qinshou was a tyrant in Luoxia Town, and no one dared to mess with him.
I heard that he has a relative who is the master of the county seat, and even if he reports to the official, he will not be able to win the lawsuit.
The laws of this era are in the hands of the powerful, and even if the ordinary people are reasonable, as long as the mouth of the official is crooked when they reach the yamen, they will still be confused and ignored.
When Xue Qinshou and the others walked away, some well-wishers came over to check on Zhao Laixi, who had been knocked unconscious. Some people recognized him and knew that he was Carpenter Li's niece and son-in-law, so they beckoned a few well-wishers to carry Zhao Laixi to Carpenter Li's house.
As a result, Carpenter Li heard that Zhao Laixi was beaten, but he was still beaten by Xue Qinshou, thinking that Zhao Laixi had caused some trouble, and was worried that he would be implicated, so he didn't even let the door in, and directly hung those people out of the door.
When these people saw it, they stared at each other with big eyes, and said in their hearts what kind of relatives this is, how can they not save them when they see death!
Everyone had no choice but to carry Zhao Laixi to the Ruian Hall of the Medical Hall.
The sitting hall of Ruian Hall is also the boss, named Liu Ruian. He woke up Zhao Laixi and told him that if he wanted to see a doctor, take medicine, and take medicine, he needed to pay money first and then treat him.
Zhao Laixi knew that he had no money on him, and the twenty yuan he left over from selling iron tools a few days ago was put at home.
Everyone saw that Zhao Laixi couldn't come up with the money, so they were all good people to the end, and they made up some temporarily, and there were dozens of articles in total. Liu Ruian took the money, checked Zhao Laixi's pulse, and threw a small packet of wound medicine over.
The people asked, "Why do you give so little medicine?"
Liu Rui'an replied: Because the consultation fee of 50 yuan was deducted, I could only catch these medicines.
The crowd was speechless. Everyone is a toiling public, because Zhao Laixi met these people when he was doing odd jobs in the town, and today Zhao Laixi is in trouble, so everyone rescued him. But they didn't want to come up with more money!
Zhao Laixi was drenched in the rain for a period of time after being beaten, and it took a lot of time to go to Carpenter Li's house. As a result, he had some excessive blood loss. His already thin body could not withstand such an injury, and as soon as he applied the medicine to the wound, he fainted again.
Seeing that it was already dark, everyone had no choice but to ask the guys from Ruian Hall to take care of Zhao Laixi, and then they all went home.
Zhao Laixi was in a coma all night and didn't wake up until noon today. It's still the guy who woke him up.
Zhao Laixi opened his eyes and saw the guy grinning, "You finally woke up, I thought you couldn't wake up." Since you wake up, hurry home, we Liu Langzhong said, if you want to die, don't die in our hospital. ”
Zhao Laixi felt that his body had some strength, maybe the little medicine last night had taken effect. He staggered up and left Ruian Hall and walked in the direction of Luoyun Village.
As soon as I reached the end of the street, I felt my mind sink and then fainted again......
He didn't know what happened when Zhao Laixi was in a coma, but he mostly listened to the guys in the medical hall and the few people who rescued him.
After hearing this, the Tian family was silent. They had also heard that Xue Qinshou was a bully in Luoxia Town. And Tian Dabao also knew that Xue Qinshou was actually the only son of the landlord Xue in the east of the village.
For most of his life, in addition to his wife, Landlord Xue took a total of sixteen concubines and gave birth to a total of eighteen girls. Only the last concubine gave birth to a son for him, which was Xue Qinshou.
Therefore, Xue Qinshou has been spoiled by his family since he was a child, and as a result, he became a ruffian when he grew up.
His family is not short of money, but when he grew up, he knew how to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble all day long without learning and squandering everywhere. Landlord Xue couldn't control him anymore at this time, so he turned to control the amount of money he spended. Otherwise, the amount of money he has at home is not enough for him to squander.
thought that taking a daughter-in-law for Xue Qinshou would make him take care of himself. As a result, after two and a half days of freshness, it was still the same. Now Xue Qinshou's son is also the age of Xiaozhu'er, but he has always been Xue Qinshou's daughter-in-law.
Xiao Ding listened to Zhao Laixi's story, and secretly calculated in his heart that when he had the opportunity to meet Xue Qinshou again in the future, he would definitely teach this bully a good lesson to relieve his anger.
Everyone comforted Zhao Laixi. Xiaoya went to the backyard to fry the internal medicine that she had just grabbed from Wu Langzhong. Li used the rice wine that Zhao Laixi bought last time to help him adjust the medicine for external application.
Seeing that there was nothing wrong, Xiao Ding got up and walked out of the thatched hut. Suddenly, I saw a man dressed in black dressed as a Jianghu person, carrying a knife on his back, riding a tall horse, slowly walking outside the courtyard gate and walking in the direction of the west......
Hey? Who is this?