Chapter 3: Anger and Gain
Li Meili already understood that it was not a fight. An eleven-year-old girl matures early.
But the room was small, so she could only squeeze into a bunk with the boys, Li Facai next to her, Li Happy next to Li Facai, and Li Wen lying in the corner, covered with a rotten blanket.
"If you eat too much, they're going to have diarrhea tomorrow......"
"Food, housing, money, it seems that I have to be busy. β
β...... Since you have magic, you may be able to use magic to open the spatial passage and travel back again...... But do you really want to go back?"
"I'm really curious about what the vindictive spirit looks like. β
He tossed and turned for a long time before he fell asleep.
The first to get up in the morning was Li Facai, he and Li Meili ran out to catch it, and they really caught half a bucket, no one here dared to eat insects, so they were naturally blessed. And half of this half bucket is a real monkey, and it has not yet become a cicada.
No one has diarrhea, and breakfast is still clear water black porridge and roasted.
With the roast, this meal is already too rich to be true.
After eating, Lao Bu pulled up his iron wheel car and walked to the wilderness, thirty years of glorious battles, the wilderness was full of bones, and similarly, there were countless treasures buried in Lao Bu's eyes, and Lao Bu was very proud to be able to pick up those treasures, so his steps were extraordinarily steady.
Li Meili and Li Facai stood in the courtyard, one carrying a wooden barrel and the other holding a long pole, waiting for Li Wen to catch food together.
Li Wen smiled and said, "Do you want to eat better?"
"Think!" The child was so hungry that Li Facai reflexively drooled at the mention of food.
"Then let's work first, and after we finish the work, let's go catch fish together, do you want to eat grilled fish?"
Li Facai was stunned for a moment, his eyes lit up, and he muttered, "I haven't eaten fish for a year." β
Li Meili sneered: "I haven't eaten fish for several years, big fool, but, Li Wen, your cowhide is blowing up, no matter how capable you are, we can't eat fish." β
Li Wen was stunned: "Are there no fish in the river?"
Li Facai immediately said: "Brother Li Wen, there are fish in the river, I swear, there are many fish, if you can let me eat fish, let me do anything." β
Li Meili still wanted to say something, but the stupid Li Facai secretly pulled the corner of her clothes.
Li Wen laughed, snatched Li Huanhuan's heavy sword as well, and several people worked together to clean up the yard.
I can't get used to this yard, the potholes are tattered, and the weeds are overgrown.
Li Shu also came over to help, and Li Wen naturally became a leader, directing everyone to clean up the garbage that could no longer be sold, remove weeds, and bring new sand to spread in the yard.
After three hours of hurrying, the yard was finally clean and refreshing.
The next step was to repair the fence and repair the dilapidated houses, but, under such heavy physical strength, several people were dizzy with hunger, and the morning pit porridge had already turned into a bubble of urine.
Li Facai shouted to eat fish, and Li Wen smiled: "Okay, after shaving our heads, let's go fishing by the river together." β
"Shaving ......"
"Well, shave your head, go to the river and wash it well, you smell yourself, you are about to become a stinky salted fish. β
There were no clippers, only a pair of broken scissors, or old cloth picked up from the wilderness.
Li Wen caught Li Facai and cut a bald scoop, Li Meili turned around and ran, and was caught back by Li Wen.
Li Meili is the point, her hair is like a chicken nest, greasy and smelly.
Li Shu, who is kind and delicate, is also very bad herself, let alone these children. In fact, there are few clean townspeople in the whole town, and people have become accustomed to it, especially the children, who are like mud monkeys.
Surviving in difficult situations makes people have no pursuit of quality of life.
Li Meili had little strength, and in the scolding like killing pigs, Li Wen was mercilessly pressed on the stool and cut a tomboy's head.
In her hair, Li Wen was sad to see the little white creatures crawling and lice.
Li Huanhuan took the initiative to sit on the stool, and became a bald man in a moment.
Then, Li Shu sat quietly in front of Li Wen, smiling a little ashamedly.
The ape clan is different from humans, and Li Huanhuan's hair actually doesn't need to be taken care of at all. Li Shu is of mixed race, and her hair is thicker, but it is difficult to grow too long, and it is reasonable to ignore it.
Li Wen hesitated, and Li Shu smiled: "Today is the New Year in our family." β
It turned out that most of the townspeople would only get a haircut and take a bath during the Chinese New Year.
Li Wen moved his hands and symbolically put the sides together.
Then, when the happy hour came, he was viciously held down by the three children and cut off his bald head like a dog.
Li Shu was afraid to go out, so the four children carried two small buckets and ran towards the Mulan River together.
The green satin-like Mulan River flows quietly at the foot of Xiaoxi Mountain.
At noon in early July, the water temperature was just right, and the four of them took a happy bath first, and when Li Meili ran back from the upstream, it was finally clean and refreshing.
Next, it's time to fish.
The three children, who had never fished, set their sights on Li Wen.
When Li Wen was a child, he did not go down to the river to fish, fishing, cat fishing, going to the dragon, using a hanger, or directly using a net to fish, he was very good at fishing. It's a pity that there are no tools at the moment, so we can only use the most primitive methods.
Walking along the river, Li Wen finally found a small river fork. These small forks that extend from the river, only half a meter deep and dozens of meters long, are ideal fishing spots.
Li Wen instructed everyone to work together, block the inlet and outlet of this branch fork with bank mud, and then jump into the water together, running back and forth with a sudden rumble, and in a moment the river water was stirred into a big muddy soup.
Halfway through the stirring, there were already fish that had to float up due to lack of oxygen, and the quick-eyed Li Huanhuan caught the first fish with his bare hands, and then, the second, and third, in the big mud soup, the fish who couldn't breathe rushed to the surface, and this small river fork suddenly became lively, and Li Meimei's scream could be heard several miles away.
"Oh my Godβ"
"This bigβ"
"I caught itβah, it ran awayβand give me back!"
The two small wooden barrels soon became unfillable, Li Facai and Li Joy's pants became fish, and in the river fork was a joyful feast, and the hearty laughter rang for a long time.
The harvest is very great, and Li Wen has to admire the fish in this world, there are so many perverts!
It's a pity that the happy times are always short-lived, and the bad guys are coming.
When the two fishing boats emerged from the bend of the river, when a group of swarthy men surrounded the four people, Li Meimei's face was bloodless.
This group of men is extremely arrogant and domineering, in their eyes, the river is theirs, this has been proven countless times with fists and knives, someone dares to go down to their river to fish, it is equivalent to rubbing sand in their eyes, urinating on their faces, making them extremely angry.
"Who told you to steal the fish, damn it, get over here!" someone scolded viciously.
Li Facai ran to the back all of a sudden, Li Wen was stunned and asked in surprise.
"Your river, how did this become your river?"
"Little cub, of course this is my river, you ask Xinhuo Town, which one dares to say that this river is not my Ruan San's, dozens of people in my Ruan family live on this river, which one dares not to pay Lao Tzu's tax and then go down to the river, Lao Tzu will break his leg first!"
"Pay taxes?"
It was hard for Li Wen to believe that a natural river should be taxed.
Ruan San looked at Li Wen like an idiot.
I heard that Lao Bu picked up a wild boy again, but today is the first time I have seen it. He looks white and clean, full of civility, but there is something in this kid's eyes that he doesn't like, it is a kind of new fire town, and even Ping'an County rarely sees it.
Calm, confident, and fearless, there was no trace of humility and cowering in his eyes, and the contrast with the stupid and lowly townsfolk made him very uncomfortable.
Joke, Li Wen was very angry.
A river that was born and nurtured belongs to his family, which is simply a big joke!
Seeing a wicked man kick the barrel over, the harvest of the four people fled back to the river fork.
What makes him even more unbearable is that the children are watching, how much damage this will do to their hearts, Li Facai wants to eat a bite of fish so much, for a fish, he is even willing to do anything, damn, is there any place to reason in this world!
Li Wen was so angry that he trembled.
Ruan San smiled: "Boy, it seems that you really don't know, didn't this little Nizi tell you, in Xinhuo Town, it's not just the river, the mountains and forests here, the fields, which one doesn't have a master, that West Mountain, you pick a wild vegetable or something, no one pays attention to you, you try to beat a rabbit, the Wari family, can break all your bones!"
You'll have to hand over the tax money to Old Wari before you're allowed to go up the mountain. Boy, for the sake of your ignorance, I'll let you go this time, you guys hurry up, don't let me see you again next time, in order to get this river, there are three lives in my Ruan family, and the river we fought for with our lives is our family, if you want to eat fish, you can only buy it, and pay taxes! If you catch fish again, you will die next time!"
Li Wen was moved, he glanced at the three children, and all three of them were silent. Li Meili was trembling.
She had long known that the reason why she didn't say it was just the idea of eating a bite of fish.
Creak!
Li Wen's teeth rattled slightly in his mouth, and a fury almost made him tremble.
There is no fairness in this world, the fist must be big, it must be vicious, Lao Bu's family wants to survive in this world where the strong are respected and the weak eat the strong, what kind of situation should they be humble, he and his family shrunk into the mud, and then let others trample on it, so that he has lived until now!
Come to think of it, this is actually quite normal, to survive in the gap between the two empires, the people here are already the strongest human beings in the world.
Li Wen suddenly showed a smile at Ruan San, this smile made the thirty-five-year-old fierce water bandit who had seen blood kill people, his heart trembled, with his cruel experience, this kind of smile was more terrible than a wolf with bared teeth to choose people to devour.
He even gave birth to the feeling that he had to kill this boy to feel at ease. It's a pity that he wasn't evil enough to let this feeling go away in a flash.
Li Wen smiled: "Oh, I see, I know this time, hehe." β
After saying that, he stood there, his eyes calm, with a hint of a smile on his lips, watching the Ruan family throw the last fish back into the river fork.
The men on the boat worked together to lift the fishing gear from the boat and carry the harvested fish in baskets, for fear that they would pick up food, so some small fish and shrimp were thrown into the river.
When a bunch of black water insects fell from the bottom of the net onto the beach, when some eight-legged water monsters were thrown to the ground in disgust, Li Wen's smile faded a little.
Finally, there are some gains, but fortunately, in this world, the first person to eat crabs has not yet appeared, and those water cockroaches are even sweeter than monkeys.
The Nguyen family left. The people who walked behind impatiently motioned for them to leave quickly.
Li Wen picked up the wooden bucket and walked over to load the water roaches crawling on the ground, and the man scoffed......
"What are you doing, are you eating?"
Li Wen sneered: "Yes, pick it up and eat it." ββ
"Haha, you can eat as much as you want, haha, I'm laughing to death......"
The man almost turned his back on laughter, and as he went, he shared the most ridiculous thing with his companions.
Li Wen can't take care of so much anymore, the water cockroach is still running slowly, and the eight-legged guy is almost running to the water's edge.
"Let's do it together!" Li Wen beckoned to the three children.
"I really want to eat ......" Li Meili was a little dumbfounded.
Li Facai had already rushed over desperately.
"Hurry up Third Sister, Brother Li Wen will definitely be able to eat if you catch it!"