Chapter 155: Li Daheng
On the night of the candles in the cave room, the lights are swaying, and the incense breeze is slightly smoky, which is very intoxicating.
This Mengfei shared many wonderful plots of "The Story of Stones" with his new wife, and even admired his own talent when he talked about it.
The bride Tang Shuqin has actually read this "Stone Record" countless times, and many of the scenes in it are naturally vivid, but listening to Zhang Mengfei, it is a different realm.
The two of them held hands with each other in front of the flickering lantern, snuggled together, and told some touching storylines in "The Story of Stones", but they were also tired of it.
Naturally, Runzhi also participated in this Mengfei's banquet.
At the banquet, in the noble position of Runzhi, this Meng Fei had to invite Runzhi to do something "to take a seat".
It is also a custom to say that the "upper seat" generally refers to a seat facing the east side of the sea, and by sitting on such a seat, other relatives and friends can know at a glance that the person is either a person of high moral standing and old age, or a noble person who is a noble person who is a noble guest.
Runzhi was naturally reluctant, and just chose a round table alone, which avoided the so-called difference in seats.
Runzhi and a few housekeepers happened to get together at a table.
At the banquet, just as everyone was eating high-chested, suddenly from the housekeeper of Zhang's mansion outside the door, an old man with a slightly rickety appearance walked in, and something seemed to be said on Zhang Mengfei's ear.
As soon as it was over, suddenly a woman in her thirties with two children of eight or nine years old, a boy and a woman, all appeared at the wedding banquet crying, and all the guests were surprised at once.
On top of the grand wedding banquet, the sudden appearance of such a thing is undoubtedly very heartbreaking, and it is very disrespectful to the host's family.
Even some superstitious people will attract huge bad habits.
"What's wrong with you, crying and crying all of a sudden, is there anything wrong, but it's okay to talk about it", Run knew, while motioning for the woman to walk towards the door, "So, do you think it's good, let's go to the door and talk about your affairs, this official will handle it for you"
The woman glanced at Runzhi and found that it was Runzhi who was dressed in the Lin Luo silk that could only be passed down by the official family, and several of the people who followed him were wearing fast-catching uniforms, and they had already guessed that this person must be an official, so she followed his footsteps and walked to the door, and the housekeeper closed the door.
This Zhang Meng Fei had already rushed out, and said, "Don't you see the general of Zhengdong and the governor of the two provinces, Lord An!" ”
Although the woman did not know much about this official position, she seemed to be a big official when she heard the name, so she immediately knelt on the ground with the child.
Runzhi hurriedly asked people to help the woman and the child up, and said:
"No courtesy, no need to be polite when you see this official,,。 What is your name, where do you live, why did you come here today to cry and cry, I don't know what grievances there are, you come carefully, this official will be the master with you."
When the woman heard this, she gave a brief account of her situation, and poured out all the tragedies that had happened to her.
It turns out that this woman with a little charm is still alive, her name is Li Huihua, and she is a village woman dozens of miles away from here, and she is the tenant of this Meng Fei's family.
Because her father-in-law and mother-in-law died one after another two years ago, Li Huihua's husband, Li Daheng, is an honest and very filial person, in order to bury his dead parents, he did not hesitate to sell his only land, and borrowed a lot of money from relatives and friends, which was used to ceremoniously invite many Taoist monks to come to handle the funeral.
For a time, Li Daheng's behavior was once reduced to a beautiful talk in the local area.
After the funeral, in order to repay the silver taels of relatives and friends, Li Daheng began to be very harsh on his relatives at home, and even calculated how many grains of wheat he ate every day, how much salt and how much oil he used.
This Li Daheng himself is also very sad, because he has long been accustomed to transferring the financial pressure due to debts to his family, so that the long-term pressure at home is very great, and he is also depressed, and he actually suffers from migraine, as long as he scolds, it hurts, so the number of scolding is slightly less.
Here, Li Daheng began to look around for good opportunities to make money.
At this time, this Li Daheng met Zhang Mengfei's housekeeper, this rickety old man Wang Si.
Wang Siban had heard of this behavior for a long time, and she also sneered at this person.
It happened that Zhang Fuhao vacated a large area of barren land that had been barren for a long time and was uncultivated, so this king turned this land into a fertile land and leased it to this Li Daheng to grow wheat at a high tenant rent.
Since then, Li Daheng has become a tenant farmer in Zhangfu.
According to the unspoken rule of tenant farmers and landlords in the rural areas around Yanjing at that time, if something happened in the family, the tenant farmer who could not afford to fight a lawsuit often did not go directly to the government, but directly to the housekeeper of the big proprietor to which the tenant belonged, and asked him to come forward to assist him in solving the problem on his behalf.
In order to repay the high tenant rent specially set by the Wang housekeeper, Li Daheng spent almost all of his time in addition to the busy farm work to help the Wang family build a new building, specifically responsible for picking up heavy soil and carrying huge logs.
Finally, one time, after Li Daheng weeded and fertilized from the field, because he was worried that the owner still had a few logs that had not yet been carried to the designated position, if the owner knew, he would be fined wages, so Li Daheng rushed to carry the wood non-stop.
When Li Daheng Zhangfu was carrying the wood, because Zhang Mengfei's father's concubine came back from the outside, he desperately shouted to let the sedan chair man lift it faster, and then directly the sedan chair and the huge wood collided together, and finally because Li Daheng was already exhausted, he was directly rolled off his shoulder by this huge log, and hit his head, so he passed out on the spot.
Everyone saw that Li Daheng was dressed very tattered, and they didn't care about him lying on the ground, internal cerebral hemorrhage plus long-term exhaustion, plus no one paid attention to him for a long time, and finally died in Zhang's mansion.
Zhang Fu just sent someone to report to the official, waiting for the arrest to arrive, and let them dispose of it, for fear that it would cost a lot of extra silver taels to treat this tattered man.
When waiting for the people from the government to come to inspect it, this Li Daheng had already stopped his heartbeat, and even his limbs had already become cold and stiff.