There is no need to ask, a few minions of the Ma family must have gone to find trouble with the Zeng family's mother and daughter, so the Peng family sisters and the captain all agreed very much with Liu Ziguang's proposal, and several people quickly returned along the same road.

When I arrived at the thatched house, I saw a few evil slaves playing prestige, and the first squinted-eyed guy raised a piece of paper with words written in his hand and shouted: "Don't be ignorant of the surname Zeng, it is natural to repay debts, and if you can't take out the money, you will take your daughter to settle the debt." ”

Zeng Cheng stood at the door of the grass hut with angry eyebrows, and scolded angrily: "When have we borrowed the Ma family's silver, don't make something out of nothing!" ”

The guy who took the IOU smiled proudly, raised the paper in Yang's hand and said, "Why is such a good-looking little lady's brain not good, who lent you the silver in your mother's illness last month?" You won't be unrecognizable by your own autograph on it. ”

"Mr. Feng, the teacher in the neighboring village, lent me twenty taels of silver to catch medicine, how did it become your Ma family?" Zeng Cheng remembered that last month, his mother was seriously ill. Fortunately, the new teacher Feng Wencai from the neighboring village took the initiative to borrow silver to her, and in a hurry, she was unwilling to accept the help of unfamiliar people so she had to accept the silver, and wrote an IOU on the spot with the pen and ink of the private school, indicating that he borrowed Feng Wencai twenty taels of silver, and the paper was clearly his own handwriting, but how did Feng Wencai become Ma Wencai? The clever Zeng Cheng immediately understood, "It turned out that you deliberately designed a trap, and there was something wrong with the ink." ”

The guy holding the IOU grinned: "Yes, Feng Wencai is Ma Wencai, Ma Wencai is the name of our young master, today the young master sent me Ma Fu to come, just to tell you that this debt will have to be recovered today, you have to give it, you have to give it, you have to give it if you don't give it, there is silver to pay back the silver, and there is no silver to take people off." Little lady, what do you say yourself? ”

The standard takes advantage of people's danger and robs while the fire is fire, this ancient version of Yang Bailao's story makes Liu Ziguang very unhappy, he resisted the anger of drawing a knife to kill, and stepped forward and said: "Your name is Ma Fu, isn't it just twenty taels of silver, uncle, I gave it, go back and tell your young master, don't bully people with two stinky money." ”

Ma Fu squinted at Liu Ziguang, and sold the other party's catties, seeing that he was dressed as a person with some status, but he was not a local, he should be a passing boatman, and he had a plan in his heart at that time.

"This master, I'm sorry, our young master got this debt because of the donkey's rolling, and now it is with interest...... Well, I'll do the math, now the profit is a total of eighty taels of silver, are you out? Ma Fu is lion opened his mouth widely, wanting to scare Liu Ziguang away.

"It's obviously twenty taels of silver, but how long has it taken for it to become eighty taels? Even usury doesn't make such sense! Zeng Cheng questioned Ma Fu. There were already tears in my eyes.

"Cut, our Ma family originally started by lending, how high the interest rate is is reasonable, if you don't believe in this evil, you can go to Huai'an County to beat the drum and voice the grievances, see how the county master beats your board!" Whether it is to shock the government or solve it privately, the Ma family is 100% sure that to deal with two helpless poor fishermen, it is not a three-finger pinch snail ----- hold it steadily.

"Isn't it just silver, I gave it!" Liu Ziguang stretched out his hand to the second lady, "Take the silver ticket." Because Liu Ziguang didn't have much silver on his body, he knew that Peng Jingwei, a little money fan, always had a lot of gold and silver on her, so he asked her directly for money, but in the eyes of outsiders, it seems that the second miss is Liu Ziguang's maid ring, because the current situation needs to be consistent with the outside world, the second miss is still very cooperative and took out a silver ticket and slapped it in Liu Ziguang's hand.

Liu Ziguang took the silver ticket and glanced at it, and stuffed it directly into Ma Fu's hand: "Ma Fu, you have a good look, it's a hundred taels of silver tickets, grandpa admits it!" The silver ticket of Anhui Rishengchang ticket number, you don't need to find money for the extra twenty taels, and the accounts of your Ma family and Zeng family's mother and daughter will be written off. ”

Ma Fu was furious, there was really that blind person who dared to go against the Ma family, took the silver ticket in his hand but put the IOU away, and pointed at Liu Ziguang with slanted eyes and said: "Friend, the strong dragon still doesn't suppress the head snake, I don't care which way you are mixed, if you take care of this matter today, I'm afraid you will cause big trouble for yourself, Huaiyin Ma family is not good, I laughed at the silver ticket, just if I haven't seen you, let you go, and disperse." The next few housekeepers also clenched the knuckles of their fists. Deterred Liu Ziguang and them.

"I've seen a scoundrel, I've never seen such a scoundrel, you lions opened your mouth to ask for eighty taels of silver, and we endured it, but we can't pay off the accounts with the money, it's too shameless, right?" Peng Jingwei couldn't help but jump out and question Ma Fu.

Ma Fu just wanted to talk back, but Liu Ziguang interjected: "Very good, we don't want one hundred taels, it's all for your funeral expenses." "What funeral expenses?" Before Ma Fu could understand it, he was kicked away by Liu Ziguang, and fell straight into the mud, full of mud, embarrassed, two family members hurried over to help, and the other two family members who didn't know what to do waved the horse whip to beat Liu Ziguang, and were also kicked over by Liu Ziguang twice, Ma Fu couldn't stand up over there, Liu Ziguang's strength was relatively large, and it is estimated that the ribs have been kicked off.

Liu Ziguang has been taking the Sven route recently, he didn't have a sword or a sword, but he tucked a long dagger in his boots, and he was pulling out the dagger and walked up to lift one of Ma Fu's legs, ready to pick his hamstring.

"No." Peng Jingrong hurriedly stopped Liu Ziguang, this is no better than an iron factory, and there will definitely be trouble if a serious crime is committed at will, and even if these people are killed, it will only bring more trouble to the mother and daughter of the Zeng family.

Liu Ziguang also realized this, viciously took the dagger and swiped it on Ma Fu's feet a few times, then searched out the IOU from his arms, and then threw him into the mud, "You can't afford so much funeral expenses, in addition to paying off the debts of the Zeng family's mother and daughter, let you take care of the rest." If I let me know that you still dare to come to find trouble, I will definitely destroy your Ma family. Suddenly, he saw the mud spots on his body, and remembered that they had splashed dirty clothes on their horses just now, and forced all the members of the Ma family to roll in the mud for a lot before letting them go.

Ma Fu was already speechless in pain, and as soon as he was put on the horse by the family, he was ripped off by Liu Ziguang, "Guys who don't have quality, don't ride horses, lead the horses away!" A few mud monkey-like family members had to carry Ma Fu on their backs, leading the horses to stagger away, and a bold family member asked: "Dare to ask a few of them where the sacredness is, and we can go back to explain to the young master." ”

"Go back and tell your young master, we are from the Peng family of Liguo Iron Factory, if you want to find the field, whether it is Xuzhou Mansion or Huaiyin County, we will accompany you." The second lady will never miss the opportunity to speak on such an occasion.

The family members left in a gloomy manner, Zeng Cheng hurriedly came over to thank him, and said a blessing to Liu Ziguang, Liu Ziguang waved his hand again and again and said that it was appropriate to draw a knife to help when the road was uneven. returned the IOU to Zeng Cheng.

At this time, even Mrs. Zeng, who had been in the house, came out to thank her, it turned out that she had just recovered from a serious illness and could not see the wind, so she easily did not leave the house, only to see Mrs. Zeng's pale face, and her face was very similar to her daughter, all of them were finely carved facial features, but the vicissitudes of time left many traces, and her temples were already a little white, and she gave Liu Ziguang a thousand blessings. Liu Ziguang hurriedly returned the salute, and Peng Jingwei leaned on her sister's ear behind her and said: "You see that Mrs. Zeng's posture is so elegant, and her demeanor is so good, even the court wife is nothing more than that." ”

After this incident, the distance between the two sides was shortened all of a sudden, Zeng Cheng made a pot of snow water simmering tea to entertain them, sat and talked, talking about Ma Wencai, that is really a tyrant in Huaiyin County, his father made a fortune by loan sharks in his early years, and now runs several casinos, and also occupies a good water area of Hongze Lake, it should be when Ma Wencai went to the lake to play, he took a fancy to Zeng Cheng, and later asked someone to send a dowry to come over, and directly said that the Ma family wanted to buy a concubine, of course, Mrs. Zeng refused. The Ma family was unwilling to do such a low-tech thing as robbing relatives, so they played a small trick, taking advantage of the Zeng family's urgent need for money, sent a western seat pretending to be a teacher in the neighboring village, and lent Zeng Cheng twenty taels of silver under the pseudonym Feng Wencai, and then removed the Feng character and changed it to a horse character, and naturally became the creditor of the Zeng family.

Fortunately, Liu Ziguang has a lot of background, and maybe the Ma family will sell the National Railway Factory to save face, and they will not come to harass them again for a while. The mother and daughter of the Zeng family couldn't repay it, so they invited Liu Ziguang and his entourage to have dinner again, and several people agreed after calculating the travel time.

Zeng Cheng sent Liu Ziguang and his party out for a long time, and stood on the hillside for a long time, watching them. A few people returned to the ship without mentioning it.

When they came again, it was not four people, but they were followed by more than a dozen entourages carrying a sedan chair, the two small sedan chairs did not sit on people, filled with rice, white flour and soybean oil, pork, Huai salt, a few bottles of soy sauce vinegar, two pieces of muslin, living in a small fishing village to buy these things is still very troublesome, only when the merchant walks through the village and town can he sell a few copper plates, the whole cloth is even more unthinkable, can only sew and mend old clothes. It is also difficult for ordinary people to eat meat oil and meat, these are all taken by Liu Ziguang from the boat, and there are several boxes of good rouge gouache osmanthus oil, all of which are the best products for the Peng sisters' own use. Ordinary small cities can't buy such good cosmetics at all, so they specially used them for Zeng Cheng. Since they don't take cash, they try to give some practical daily necessities. Liu Ziguang and the two sisters both think so.

The group walked to a place a mile away from the residence of the Zeng family's mother and daughter, and across the hill they saw a wisp of light smoke rising, and the captain said happily that the Zeng family had already begun to cook for us. But when they crossed the hillside, they saw only a thatched hut that had been burned down and a mother and daughter sitting on the ground weeping.

It turned out that it was not cooking smoke, but the smoke after the mother and daughter's only shelter was burned.