Depressed in his heart, he ate a few bites of food casually at night, and Li Tu practiced boxing in the courtyard. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In my memory, although the farmer Li Tu is illiterate, he likes to dance with guns and sticks, and he has practiced a good style since he was a child. However, these are only known from the memories of the farmer Li Tu, and Li Tu has never verified them.

took off his mourning clothes, Li Tu stood in the courtyard with a horse step, and punched out one punch after punch according to the moves in his memory.

Taking a step left and a step back right, Li Tu hit faster and faster, and gradually made a noise in the yard. Close your fists quickly, punch hard, that posture, I'm afraid that two or three people will not suffer.

Secretly surprised, Li Tu stopped his fist and pulled out a straight wooden stick from the firewood.

Using a stick as a knife, Li Tu practiced knife skills.

Left stabbed and right split, dodging the grid, and the stick was danced by Li Tu. Memory tells Li Tu that this knife technique is passed down by the ancestors of the family, and it is said that it was passed down by the ancestors when the two Jin Dynasty clothes were crossed to the south, and the name is the White Tiger Knife Method. Li Tu looks at those moves, quiet as a virgin, moving like a rabbit, if you don't send it, if you don't send it, if you are a crouching tiger, stealth and breath and wait for the opportunity, you will win the momentum of people with one shot, and you will be forced to take people step by step, which is really a bit of the momentum of a tiger going down the mountain.

Although Li Tu was not a historian in his previous life, he had read a lot of historical travel novels. He also knew a lot about the things in the late Ming Dynasty. Traveling to the Apocalypse year, it was still a peaceful time, and the war had not yet arisen. But soon, as soon as the Chongzhen Dynasty arrived, the land of China was full of wolf smoke.

There are Houjin Iron Cavalry in the northeast, rebel peasant armies in the northwest, and pirates in the southeast are also poisonous.

The future is uncertain. In this kind of world, some martial arts will come in handy sooner or later.

After practicing for half an hour, Li Tu stopped and rested.

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At dawn the next day, with a small servant, the landlord Huang Kaichou came to Li Tu's house.

Huang Kaichou is one of the few landlords in the town, and his family has hundreds of acres of fertile land. Not only that, this Huang Kaichou was admitted to the county school when he was young and is a showman. If you are a showman, you are a well-dressed family, and you have more status in the town.

Seeing the landlord Huang Kaichou coming to Li Tu's house, the surrounding neighbors knew that something was going on and came to see the excitement. Inside and outside the small courtyard of the Li family, it was full of people for a while.

Different from other people's small hats and scarves, cotton clothes, Huang Kaichou wears a square scarf on his head, and wears a silk straight embellished, standing in the crowd looks a little extraordinary.

Li Tu's mother, Zheng, invited Huang Kaichou into the house, let Huang Kaichou sit on the main seat of the hall, and the family of three stood aside in sackcloth and filial piety clothes to answer.

can't afford to repay the debt, and the three members of the Li family are only three or four low, so they can serve the creditor.

That Huang Kaichou was not polite, he sat on the main seat in a big way, and glanced at the three members of the Li family with his eyes.

seems to have regarded the Li family as the meat in his bowl, Huang Kaichou was too lazy to greet the Li family politely, and went straight to the point at the beginning.

After taking a sip of the tea handed by Mother Li, he cleared his throat, and Huang Kaichou slammed the teacup on the table.

"Open the skylight and say something bright. My Huang family has a big business, and there is no shortage of these forty taels of silver. But there is no white pie in the sky, and no one's money is blown by the wind. ”

Not shy away from his intentions, Huang Smoke made his moves clear at the beginning.

Flicking the table with his fingers, Huang Kaichou looked around and sneered.

"Li Cheng of Qianting Town, lend me Huang Kaichou forty taels of silver, and agree to return it in March. Now that three months have passed, but the money has not been returned, what is the reason? ”

Seeing the creditor scolding, Li Tu's mother lowered her head and said with a crying voice:

"Huang Xianggong, my family borrowed your money to treat my husband's illness. Now my husband has been cured for a few months, and he is dying, you know. We have run out of money to see a doctor, where is the money to pay off our debts? ”

Although Li Tu's family is a homesteaders, they only have seven acres of paddy fields and have never been wealthy. As soon as Li Tu's father fell ill, the family spent forty or fifty taels of silver on medicine. Not only did the borrowed forty taels of silver be spent, but the family's savings had long been exhausted. Now Li Tu has nothing on him except the copper money that he used to make ends meet.

But obviously, what Huang Kaichou wants is the Li family's helplessness. His face sank, Huang Kaichou slapped his hand on the table and said loudly:

"I don't care if you spend the money for treatment or elsewhere. What does this have to do with me? Could it be that your family is ready to repay the debt? ”

Huang Kaichou suddenly turned to the courtyard to look at the lively people, and said loudly,

"You say, is there any reason in this world that you owe money and don't pay it back?"

Hearing Huang Kaichou's question, some people in the lively crowd began to discuss.

"Borrowing money is meant to be repaid."

"There is no such thing as borrowing money for nothing."

Seeing that everyone agreed with his opinion, Huang Kaichou proudly crossed one leg. Fingers tapped again on the table.

"Li Tu, I heard that you went to Gangwei Town to borrow money from your uncle. Have you borrowed it? ”

This Huang Kaichou is a talented man, and his family is powerful. Since he was uneasy and kindly focused on the Li family's fields, it was natural that someone would follow the situation to report to him. Not only did he know that Li Tu was borrowing money, but he even knew who Li Tu was borrowing money from.

Seeing that Li Tu didn't answer his words, Huang Kaichou laughed and said

"Hey, I didn't borrow it!"

"On weekdays, people say that you are a nerd, you see that you are not stupid, and you know to borrow money from your uncle. But your uncle is not a rich man, and he has his own account, how can he give you the silver so easily? You say, don't you? ”

seemed to greatly appreciate Uncle Li Tu's stinginess, Huang Kaichou patted his thigh and said loudly,

"Folks, I'm not trying to force your family to death. Don't you still have seven acres of paddy fields in your family? ”

Huang Kaichou's words made Li's mother tremble.

If you should come, you still have to come, you can't hide, you can't run away. This Huang Kaichou is here today for these seven acres of paddy fields.

"If you can't pay the money, you will use the water field to pay off the debt!"

Huang Kaichou said loudly.

Sure enough, in the end, it was. Hearing this, the crowd of onlookers chattered. This Li family's paddy field, I'm afraid it won't be able to be saved. The only remaining homesteaders in Qianting Town are afraid that they will become extinct.

Seeing everyone discussing, Huang Kaichou smiled and slowed down.

"The paddy field has paid off the debt, I still let your family share the seeds, as long as you pay the rent every year, the rest of the harvest will still belong to you. It's kind of giving your family a way out. ”

Hearing this, Li Tu's mother shook her body and almost couldn't stand steadily. His eyes were red again, and tears flowed down.

Huang Kaichou said easily, in fact, this is far from a matter of paying the rent and being fine. The Li family's seven acres of paddy field will have a harvest of about fifteen stone of rice a year, and if it becomes the Huang family's tenant field, the rent will cost at least seven stones. There are eight stones left, where is there enough food, clothing, housing and transportation for the three members of the Li family?

As long as this paddy field is returned to the Huang family, one of the Li Tu brothers will definitely leave home to do long-term work.

Not to mention the money and goods that the two brothers will need to marry and have children in the future.

The peasant family is so thoughtful. If you don't have the money to marry a wife and don't pass on the lineage, how can you be worthy of your ancestors and ancestors.

This Huang Kaichou made a calculation, he wanted these seven acres of paddy fields to make the Li family completely bankrupt.

This truth is straightforward, even a ten-year-old child understands it.

Standing and standing, Mother Li couldn't control her emotions anymore, and cried out on the table.

As soon as her husband died, there was no backbone in the family, and she owed a lot of debts, and Zheng already felt that the family would not be able to hold on. Now that Huang Kaichou has explained his words, she suddenly felt that a catastrophe was coming, and she could control her tears.

Li Tu, who was standing next to Zheng, was expressionless and did not speak.

Li Tong, the younger brother who was standing at the bottom, saw his mother crying, and couldn't help but step forward and shouted loudly.

"You've long been in love with my paddy fields! When you lent money to my father, you calculated that you wanted my family's land! ”

Hearing this, the crowd chattered again.

It is said that although these seven acres of paddy fields are not very fertile, the price is at least 70 taels.

But at the critical time of repaying the money, where will the Li family find someone to sell? If you are in a hurry to sell, it is also a cheap sale, and you can't get the price.

What's more, the end of the Ming Dynasty was the end of the world, the government was chaotic, and the people were snobbish and turned against each other, where was there still room for the existence of legal principles. Huang Kaichou is a person with a status in the town, and he is a figure who is very familiar with the father of the servant. Since it is the meat he is eyeing at him, where do others dare to get involved in it and buy this field?

So the Huang family wanted to use the forty taels of debts to take away the Li family's seventy taels of property.

Li Tu stood in the hall and said nothing. He only lamented that the chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty had eroded from top to bottom to the grassroots level. As soon as I crossed over, I encountered such a thing, which was really a good lesson.

Hearing Li Tong's words, Huang Kaichou slapped his hand on the table and said loudly,

"Who wants your farm?"

"Pay off your debts! Unalterable principle! I just want my silver. If you can pay me back with forty taels of silver, where can I look at your family's acres of rotten land? ”

This Huang Kaichou not only wants to get people's property, but also to distinguish everywhere and occupy the moral high ground. Hearing this, Mother Li only felt that there was no way out, she just cried non-stop.

Seeing such a tragic scene of the Li family, the onlookers also seemed to have some sympathy. Gradually, no one in the crowd spoke, and it gradually fell silent.

For a while, the originally lively scene became quiet.

Mother Li also felt the change in the atmosphere around her, gradually stopped sobbing and raised her head.

"Huang Xianggong, can you give a few more days?"

Feeling that the atmosphere was a little depressing, Huang Kaichou put down one leg crossed in his knees, and said:

"You and I have no grievances, and we have nothing to do with each other. When your husband came to my house to beg for money, I saw that your husband was seriously ill, but it was a pity that your family had no money for treatment, so I had this debt! ”

"If it weren't for the fact that your husband was seriously ill and there was no cure, how could I be kind enough to lend you money? My family is not charity, how can I borrow money from others casually? ”

"A few days ago, blacksmith Liu Si wanted to repair the beams of the house and asked me for a loan, did I lend it to him? Not really! Cao San, who sold vegetables last year, borrowed money from me to buy a shop, did I lend it to him? Not really! ”

"I lent it to you, it was my kindness. How can you be bitten back by your family and said that you are deliberate? What a conscience of heaven and earth! ”

This Huang Kaichou tried every means to distinguish himself, and he insisted on saying that his evil deeds were good deeds.

After a pause, Huang Kaichou squinted his eyes and said:

"I also kindly promised you that in the future, these seven acres of land will still be rented to you, why don't you know what to do?"

This last sentence is Huang Kaichou's ruthlessness.

Zhangzhou Mansion is a place with a lot of people, and there has always been only an extra population, and there is no vacant land. The fact that the Li family's paddy field was occupied by the Huang family has become a foregone conclusion, and the Li family really has to think about their livelihood in the future. If there is no tenant farming in the future, the family will really be desperate.

Huang Kaichou's last sentence, obviously to shout injustice, was actually to beat the Li family and threaten not to give the land to the Li family for farming.

I felt a sigh in my heart, where did Mother Li dare to confront Huang Kaichou. She wiped her tears and said in a trembling voice,

"The child is ignorant and speaks ridiculously, Huang Xianggong don't take it to heart!"

Seeing that Mother Li was soft, Huang Kaichou sneered, knocked on the table with his fingers, and said with a smile:

"I will not persecute you, and you will visit your relatives and friends again to see if anyone can lend you money to pay off your debts. If someone gives you money, you pay back my money, and I don't have to compete with your few acres of thin fields! ”

"Alright! I'll give you three more days! After three days, if there is no money to pay me back, I will bring someone to collect the land. ”

After saying the last sentence, Huang Kaichou flicked his sleeves and suddenly stood up from the chair.

Seeing Huang Kaichou's methods, the onlookers were secretly frightened and afraid. Seeing Huang Kaichou coming over, the crowd hurriedly made way of a passage.

With the little guy, Huang Kaichou strode out of the courtyard of the Li family.