Chapter VI: Contradictions Intensify
Leaving the ancestral hall, the father and son came to the lively town, Li Daqi looked at the mule and horse shop for a moment, and said to Li Yanqing: "Qing'er, Daddy still has something to do, you can go back first!" β
Li Yanqing didn't say anything, he was silent for a moment, and he suddenly asked, "Daddy, are you planning to give Liu Chenghong another forty yuan?" β
"This ....."
Li Daqi's face was swollen and red, and he said after a while: "Although his son was not bitten and does not have to pay any medical expenses, his father wrote an IOU to him, in black and white, I am afraid it will not be easy to repay the debt." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ ο½ο½ο½ο½β
"If Liu Chenghong is interested one day and forces his father to write an IOU of 100 times, in black and white, will his father also pay him back?"
"Of course not, it doesn't make sense!"
"Then the fifty yuan makes sense?"
"This.... This...."Li Daqi was so speechless when he was asked by his son.
Li Yanqing said coldly: "This fifty guan Qian daddy can go to the patriarch for comment, if daddy is afraid of Liu Chenghong, then I will find a way to solve it, daddy don't care about this matter, let alone ask others to borrow money." β
Li Daqi smiled wryly, a child is a child, and he is so naΓ―ve when he speaks, what problem can a six-year-old child solve?
At this moment, a flatbed three-donkey cart slowly stopped at the door of the mule and horse shop across the road, jumped a shriveled old man, with a bitter face, threw a tattered shoulder to his shoulder, and entered the store lazily.
Li Daqi's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said to Li Yanqing: "Go back quickly!" Daddy asked if he had gone to the donkey cart in the county. β
Li Yanqing suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked, "Is Daddy going to the county bookstore?" β
"Of course it's going to the bookstore, what are you asking for?"
Li Yanqing took out the manuscript tied with an oil rope from his arms and handed it to his father, "Daddy, take this to the owner of the bookstore to see if he can carve it out." β
"What is this?" Li Daqi took a bag of manuscripts in surprise.
"It's the story I told Xiao Qing'er, I wrote it down when I practiced calligraphy, maybe I could sell it for money."
"What a silly boy!"
Li Daqi was amused in his heart, but he didn't want to disappoint his son, so he took the manuscript into his arms, "Okay! I'll ask Shopkeeper Luo, you study hard at home, it's not so easy to get into the imperial examination. β
"Here we go again! I know. β
Li Daqi told his son a few more words, and then hurried to the mule and horse shop, he knew Zhang Laofu who had just driven the donkey cart, and saw if he could take the donkey cart he delivered to the county seat.
Li Yanqing walked aimlessly on the streets of the town alone, poverty and hatred weighing on his heart like two stones.
He can rely on his own intelligence to slowly improve the poor family situation, for example, he wrote the story of Journey to the West and asked his father to carve books to make money, which is a very good way, and it is also suitable for his father's specialty, he can even use local methods to make some daily necessities and sell them to merchants, such as matches, mosquito coils, etc., and can also make a little money.
Making money is not a problem, the problem is that he doesn't want to return the so-called 'medical expenses' to that Liu Chenghong at all, and Liu Fuer's words still echo in his ears:
"I beat the dog owner hard, I heard that even the feces and urine were struck, and my father was sprayed with blood, and the funniest thing was that he knelt on the ground to learn the dog to crawl, and crawled under the crotch of the four family members....."
The insult suffered by his father was engraved in Li Yanqing's heart like a knife, although the three little children were hateful, they could teach them a hard lesson, and they couldn't deal with them, but he would never let Liu Chenghong go, not only insulted and beat his father, but also robbed his father of ten times of hard-earned money, and forced his father to pay back forty times of money, this evil breath was held in Li Yanqing's heart.
There is also a lot of debt owed by his father, and his father was oppressed in the Li clan and has no status, he must reverse them all.
An unprecedented stream of blood surged in his chest, and Li Yanqing bit his lip tightly and strode in the direction of Li Wencun.....
At dusk, Aunt Hu next door sent a message that his father had taken a delivery donkey cart to the county seat, and it would take at least ten days to come back, and if there was anything difficult, Aunt Hu would take care of him.
Li Yanqing doesn't want to trouble Aunt Hu for the time being, he still has very important things to prepare.
In the courtyard, Li Yanqing is practicing blowing the fire fold, this is the last two fire folds he turned out from the firewood room, he lit one of the fire folds, and blew it out again, although there is no flame in the fire fold at this time, but you can see the red bright spots faintly burning, just like the embers in the ashes, it can be kept for a long time, and it can be rekindled by blowing when it needs to be ignited.
However, it requires a high degree of skill to blow it, it needs to be sudden, short, and powerful, and the amount of air supply must be large, and Li Yanqing learned to blow the fire fold a month ago, and he is more skilled than his father.
'Whew! With a single breath, the fire burst into flames.
Li Yanqing is very satisfied with his skills, and he can basically guarantee that nothing goes wrong.
At this moment, Dahei, who was sleeping at the gate of the courtyard, suddenly stood up and yelled at the gate.
"Who!" Li Yanqing asked, but no one outside answered.
Li Yanqing stepped forward and looked out through the crack in the door, there was no one outside, he was about to walk away, but Da Hei was prostrate and whispered fiercely at the door like a beast.
"Is there a rabbit out there? Want to improve our food? β
Li Yanqing opened the door with a smile, wanting to see what made Da Hei so nervous, but as soon as he opened the door, there was a 'whoa' from outside! With a wild roar, a huge reddish-brown mastiff pounced.
Li Yanqing was taken aback, he didn't have time to react, he was thrown to the ground head-on by the mastiff, and the mastiff opened Bai Sensen's fangs and bit him in the face.
At this critical moment, the big black roared and pounced, biting the mastiff's neck, the mastiff was in pain, and bit back, Li Yanqing seized the opportunity, rolled over, got up and ran a few steps, and grabbed the firewood knife next to the firewood stack in his hand.
This mastiff is huge, twice as big as the big black, just like a red wolf, fierce and abnormal, the big black can't beat it, it is pressed under it, and bites 'tuck! Ji! 'Scream.
Li Yanqing picked up a thick firewood stick and smashed it hard, and it was smashing on the head of the mastiff, and the mastiff stared at the blood-red eyes, "Wow! With a wild scream, he threw down the big black and pounced on Li Yanqing.
But Li Yanqing's shot was faster than it, only to see the firewood knife flash, one front paw flew out, blood splashed, the mastiff screamed, the body rolled to the ground, Li Yanqing was very agile, stepped on its neck with one foot, held the knife with both hands and slashed it fiercely, 'Click! Half of his head was cut off, and the mastiff twitched twice on the ground, and then he never moved again, and blood flowed all over the ground.
"Good boy, dare to kill my dog!"
Several people poured in from outside the courtyard, the leader was a tall and fat man, his face was like the bottom of a pot, his beard was unkempt, he looked like a two-legged wild boar, a pair of goldfish eyes bulged out, and the horizontal flesh on his face made his appearance extremely hideous, Li Yanqing recognized who he was at a glance, and he was an enlarged version of his son Liu Fuer.
This person is Liu Chenghong, the big housekeeper of the Li Mansion, he heard that Li Daqi was going to the county, lest he escape from the account, so he wanted to come over and knock and knock, but his dog ran a little faster and had died in the hands of this little bastard, so angry that he jumped like thunder, and the protruding goldfish eyes burned with rage.
The four family members behind him looked at the children in the yard in surprise, the housekeeper's fierce dog even dared to fight with wolves, and was actually killed by a little kid, this child is amazing!
Li Yanqing was also a little confused in his heart, killing the dog just now was out of instinct, but the speed of the claw splitting was so fast, the knife was clean and neat, and it was quite orderly, could it be that he had practiced martial arts before?
He calmly looked at a few uninvited guests, and shouted to Da Hei: "Da Hei, come here!" β
Da Hei's front leg was bleeding, and he limped behind the little master,
"Li Daqi dog thief, get out of here!" Liu Chenghong yelled viciously into the house.
"My dad isn't here, you guys get out of here!"
"Get out?"
Liu Chenghong laughed angrily, and approached Li Yanqing step by step with a cruel smile, "You little puppy killed Lao Tzu's dog, you think it's over, how can you explain to Lao Tzu?" β
Seeing him approaching, Li Yanqing rushed forward and slashed at his fat belly head-on, this knife was fast, if it wasn't for Li Yanqing just warning him, Liu Chenghong would have been disemboweled.
Liu Chenghong's face changed in fright, he took a few steps back, and shouted left and right: "It's the opposite!" It's the other way around! Grab me and hit me! β
Four family members came up from all sides with whips, although Li Yanqing had the advantage of speed, but after all, he was a six-year-old child, how could he be the opponent of four adults.
At this moment, someone outside the door suddenly roared: "You bully a child, and you have to be shameless!" β
A strong man walked in from the outside, holding an ash wooden whistle stick, it was the neighbor Uncle Hu, just now Aunt Hu found out that something was wrong, and hurriedly found her son.
The four family members all knew him, and they withdrew one after another to protect Liu Chenghong, and one family member whispered to Liu Chenghong: "He is the desperate San Lang Hu Sheng, a famous hard idea." β
Of course, Liu Chenghong knew that Hu Sheng was powerful, and he estimated that his subordinates couldn't beat this person, so he snorted coldly, "I don't fight with you, we have a reason to go all over the world." β
He pointed at Li Yanqing, "This little bastard killed my dog, I'm going to find him to settle this account!" β
Li Yanqing glared at him angrily and said, "If you let the dog rush into my house and bite me to death, I will find you to settle this account!" β
Hu Dayi waved his hand and didn't let Li Yanqing speak, he blocked Li Yanqing with his body and said: "Steward Liu, we are all people who understand, although it depends on the owner to beat the dog, but the owner doesn't care about the dog, and the dog has to die, and the other party is just a six-year-old child, you can't say this anywhere, don't you say?" β
Liu Chenghong nodded, "You're right, I shouldn't have to deal with a little kid, I'll settle accounts with him." β
Liu Chenghong took out a note from his arms, raised it and said: "This is an IOU written by his Lao Tzu, written in black and white, and he also pressed his handprint, owing me Liu Chenghong fifty yuan, saying that he would pay it back within a month, and today is also within a month, Lao Tzu will pay off his debt today!" β