Chapter 30: Struggle and Choice
Li Laotu looked at the treasures around the secret room, and his face was cloudy
Li Laotu's eyes showed a longing gaze for a while; After a while, he showed a struggling gaze; For a moment, there was a guilty gaze.
Clearly, he was tempted by the treasures of the chamber! However, the Fang family's kindness to him made him struggle in his heart now, and he couldn't make any choice for a long time.
Li Laotu looked at the two boxes of gold bars, and the light in his eyes became even worse, and at the same time, he thought in his heart.
"If only I could take these two boxes of gold bars with me, no! Just take a little away, then I will have no worries about food and clothing in this life, and I can also ask for a wife, buy a large piece of land, have a family again, and be a rich man in the countryside! ”
"It's just that the master and the young master are so good to me, and I'm too ungrateful to do this, what should I do!"
Li Laotu remembered that if it wasn't for Fang Tianhao's take-in, he would have starved to death or froze to death!
Li Laotu is not from Baozhuang, or even from Lexian. He was originally a rural farmer in Yibin, with two acres of land at home, a considerate wife, and two tiger-headed sons for him. The family, relying on the two acres of thin fields and Li Laotu's idle time, went to the landlord's house in the village to do short-term work to earn some wages. Although it is not said to be rich and expensive, it can also mix a whole family with food and clothing, and the family is also happy.
At that time, Li Laotu's idea was to live like this for the rest of his life!
However, there are unpredictable circumstances in the sky, and people have blessings and misfortunes.
After a bandit, his wife was humiliated, and with his wife's stubborn character, he was unwilling on the spot. As a result, they were forced to commit suicide by the bandits who beat the autumn wind, and their two sons were also tortured and killed by the bandits, not only their family, but not many people survived in the whole village.
The so-called bandits are bandits who are wandering around committing crimes, and this kind of bandits are the most vicious, because they are not local bandits, and they don't need to remember those local feelings at all.
Because, the mobility of the bandits is very strong, and the government can't even exterminate them if they want to, and even, some county orders have colluded with the bandits, and the county orders cover from above, and the bandits go to plunder and rob the money, and the county orders also have a copy.
As the saying goes, bandits are like combs, soldiers are like fences, and if bandits cross the border, it will be the result of a combination of the two.
Li Laotu happened to go to the county seat that day to run errands, and he didn't stay at home, so he survived, but when he returned to his home, he was like dead, carrying the old fire hammer in his family, and went around looking for bandits to take revenge, but was stopped by the surviving villagers in the same village.
Fortunately, he was stopped, if Li Laotu really went, it would definitely be dead without a burial, you know, those bandits have just left, with Li Laotu's footsteps, they can definitely catch up with these bandits, but not to take revenge, but to deliver food!
Afterwards, Li Laotu was heartbroken and buried his wife and son, packed up the family's money, and left his hometown, wandering all the way, and his life was miserable. It's not that he didn't want to stay in his hometown, but almost all the villagers in his village have been killed, and if he stays there alone, he will be killed sooner or later by the people of the nearby village, and then come to encroach on their fields.
Rather than stay there and be killed and then have the land occupied, it is better to give up the land and go out to find a way to survive for yourself.
It's just that this way of life is very difficult to find, and along the way, discrimination between regions and indifference between people have made Li Laotu tortured. If it weren't for his strong will to survive, he would have died halfway through!
When Li Laotu wandered around, he was a beggar, but he was beaten up by the local beggar on the grounds of robbing their business, and he was not allowed to beg in that place, and he also went to the city to work as a helper, but the owner saw that he was not a local, and after Li Laotu finished doing it, he didn't give him a penny, so he drove him away.
Li Laotu dared to be angry about this, but he didn't dare to speak! I had to leave the city in disgrace and go to the countryside to beg, and continue to wander on this route.
Because, people in the countryside are always hotter than people in the city, and sometimes when they meet kind-hearted people, they can still have two mouthfuls of hot food to eat, so as not to starve to death on the road, so wandering around, Li Laotu came to Baozhuang.
Back then, Fang Tianhao was recruiting a nurse for the Fang family, and from that time on, what was offered was a salary of one or two silver a month, and this crazy attraction made everyone in Baozhuang go to grab this job.
Li Laotu also learned the news from the mouth of Baozhuang, and he was immediately surprised, and sighed in his heart that the Fang family was really rich! With the hope of living a stable life, Li Laotu also went to Fang's house to snatch this eye-catching job.
You must know that when Li Laotu was serving the two acres of thin fields in his village before, it was only three or five taels of silver a year, which was still a good time, and when the year was not good, even the food and clothing of the whole family became a problem.
Now, the Fang family offered one tael of silver for a month, and that year was twelve taels of silver, and I heard that the Fang family still took care of food and housing, which could not help but make Li Laotu's heart move.
Li Laotu arrived at the Fang family's house, and saw that the people who came to snatch the job were lined up in a long line, not to mention a thousand people, Li Laotu heard the news that the Fang family only recruited two hundred nursing homes, so that he was very unconfident that he could get this job, but he didn't want to give up, after all, there was still a hope, he hoped that the heavenly master could be kind, so that he could stand out in the competition of everyone in this treasure village and get this job.
However, God didn't show kindness, but Fang Tianhao was kind.
Fang Tianhao looked at Li Laotu's shriveled and thin body, he didn't think about recruiting him at that time, according to Fang Tianhao's standards, the nursing home recruited this time must at least be physically strong, like Li Laotu's body, it is estimated that even holding a gun will be a problem!
However, when Fang Tianhao heard Li Laotu's foreign accent, he was puzzled, how could a foreigner come to Baozhuang? Fang Tianhao couldn't help but ask Li Laotu.
Fang Tianhao's question immediately hooked out Li Laotu's grievances over the years, and he cried with snot and tears on the spot to explain to Fang Tianhao.
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Li Laotu's experience made Fang Tianhao very sympathetic to him, and he couldn't help but sigh in a deep voice: "They are all duckweed in troubled times, hard-working people!" ”
On the spot, Fang Tianhao personally made the decision and recruited Li Laotu into the Fang family.
In this way, Li Laotu has been working in the Fang family for 20 years. During this period, there were many people who came and went, but he was alone, because he was helpless, so he had to stay in Fang's house all the time. In the end, he got mixed into the position of the head of the nursing home.
Li Laotu has been in the Fang family for many years, he has felt the kindness of the Fang family, Fang Tianhao is also good to him, when he first entered the Fang family, Fang Tianhao asked someone to send him a set of clothes, so that he could change the rags on his body.
Moreover, there is no need to worry about hunger in the Fang family, someone will make the meals, and the clothes will be washed by other subordinates of the Fang family, and they, the nursing home, are only responsible for training and protecting the Fang family.
Such a comfortable day made Li Laotu's tired heart, which had been wandering for many years, begin to relax, and sincerely regard himself as a member of the Fang family.
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The candlelight around the secret room was still erratic.
However, when these candles were reflected on Li Laotu's face, that face was no longer hideous and distorted.
Rather, a smile full of memories, a real smile!!
"Master, young master, I'm sorry, I was thinking nonsense just now, I still have to be in the Fang family for the rest of my life, but I haven't seen the young master marry a wife and have children????????????????????????????????????????????????
Before Li Laotu's self-muttering was finished, a figure jumped in at the entrance of the secret room, which startled Li Laotu.
When he looked closely, it turned out to be Fang Mu, who was looking at him with a smile on his face.
"Uncle Li?????????????????????