Chapter 138: Li Zicheng
Li Zicheng was born in 1606 in August of the 34th year of Wanli in Mizhi Village, Shaanxi, was originally a post guard of the Ming Dynasty Imperial Court Station, responsible for taking care of horses and passing official documents, because of the loss of official documents was dismissed by the government, the work of the civil servant iron rice bowl is gone, his heart is very depressed, who can blame him, blame himself for not working hard, the urgent official documents, the court is anxious to want, but his own dereliction of duty to get it gone, the boss of the department did not send him to the police station to be dealt with, it is already an extrajudicial grace.
Li Zicheng came home in a gloomy manner, and his wife Han Jin'er saw that he was such a man who was hanging around at home all day long, so she asked why he didn't go to work? Li Zicheng wanted to hide it at first, but after a long time, he couldn't hide it, Li Zicheng told his wife Han Jin'er about the layoff, and when Han Jin'er heard this, he glared at him in confusion: "Is it not right? Isn't there compensation for being laid off? This job is your father's job, how can you say that it will be gone if you don't have it? The public must have paid you money, what do you say about the money?"
Li Zicheng couldn't say anything, if he said that he was fired for dereliction of duty, how embarrassing it would be, Li Zicheng was very face-saving, he thought about it: "Jin'er, my baby Jin'er, isn't it money? The public did pay me ten taels of silver, I first lent it to Huang Ergou in the neighboring village, and I will go to him now to ask him for it back," Han Jin'er looked at Li Zicheng hatefully: "A useless man, he can't even keep a job, go and go, give me the money and ask for it back, our family will not be able to open the pot soon,"
It is natural for a man to be beaten by his wife if he has no money to support his family, this is a natural thing, Li Zicheng went out of the house and saw his nephew Li Guo: "Go over, go, accompany your uncle to do something," the same is Li Guo, who has no job, and when he saw that his uncle, who had been a civil servant, asked him to go and do something, he greeted him: "Uncle, what are you going to do with your nephew?" Li Zicheng lowered his voice: "Stupid." What else can I do? Of course, I drank alcohol," Li Zicheng was very depressed, and wanted to go out and drink some wine to relieve himself, but he had no money at hand, so he asked Li Guo if he had any money? Li Guo said even more: "Uncle, my nephew hasn't touched any money in his year, and now he has forgotten what the silver is."
What should I do if I don't have money? Li Zicheng secretly thought, doing business? I don't have the capital or the ability, I work as a coolie? I don't want to move, and I can't endure the hardship. Pick up garbage? Damn, whose idea was this? Lao Tzu has also been a civil servant, we can't afford to lose that person, think about it, think about it again, I don't believe that a living person can suffocate urine to death, "ding" the head flashed, there is. I borrowed from a loan shark.
>> Accompany my uncle to borrow usury," his nephew Li Guo saw that Li Zicheng was going to borrow usury, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop him: "Uncle." The usury is absolutely unacceptable, it is a man-eating ondol, and the interest is the algorithm of the donkey rolling, and we poor people can't afford to pay it back......," Li Zicheng heard. Annoyed: "What kind of poor poor man, is my uncle a poor man? That's called a breeze on his sleeves, do you understand? Who is required to repay the loan sharks? What a fool!"
Li Guo is a simple and unemployed young man, he doesn't want to be a new generation of gnawing old people, and he follows his uncle who has been a "big official", maybe, maybe he can really make a name for himself, Li Guo chose to follow his uncle for the first time to do a career decision. Li Zicheng went through the local tyrants and rich gentry in his mind in his mind, as if the money of Ai Juren's old man is best to borrow, Ai Juren, his full name is Ai Zhao, he relies on someone in the yamen, and raises a lot of underworld Laipi, so he dares to borrow anyone's money, he sent cruel words, it is natural to repay debts, who dares not to pay back, cut off his hands and feet, and cut off his head.
A large-scale mansion built on a large scale, the mahogany square table of the hall was piled up like a hill of copper coins, Ai Juren squinted his small eyes, and smiled from ear to ear: "Hehe, hehe, I didn't expect there to be so much income in the year of the Great Wilderness," two little maids stood behind him and kept beating his shoulders and knocking on his back, "Oh, my old waist, I overworked it again last night, Xiaohong, my hand is a little lower, by the way, this is it, wow, so cool, so comfortable," Ai Juren screamed happily.
At this time, the housekeeper came in from outside the door: "Master, Li Hongji said outside the gate that he wanted to borrow money from the master of Juren," Ai Juren heard this, and his fat round face was a treacherous smile: "Hurry up, please," Xiaohong, who was standing on the side, saw it, and felt a chill in his heart. Ai Juren took advantage of Xiaohong's lack of ideas, and grabbed her little hand: "Hehe, little baby, wait a few days, after that tigress returns to her mother's house, I will do it for you, hahaha, are you looking forward to it?"
When Xiaohong heard this, she almost fainted, and since she was repaid to the old man's mansion of Ai Juren, she was afraid that there would be this day. Li Zicheng took Li Guo and strode into the house, straight to the point: "Master Juren, I want to ask you to borrow money, do you see if you can borrow money?" "Yes, how can you not?" I don't know how much Hongji wants to borrow?" Li Zicheng stretched out five fingers, "Five pieces of money?" "No, it's fifty taels of silver!" Ai Juren snapped up from the Taishi chair: "What? Fifty taels of silver? Is your life worth fifty taels?"
"Why don't you dare to borrow it?" "Why don't you dare to borrow?" But the loan period is three days, and the interest will be calculated at 30% every day, and after three days, the interest will be 100 taels of silver, and you will use your old house and wife as a mortgage, do you still dare to borrow?" "That's good, deal!" After getting the money, Li Zicheng took Li to the tavern to drink.
Maybe he drank too much, Li Guo told Li Zicheng about the rumors in the village: "Uncle, I heard that Han Jin'er and Gai Hu in the village have a ......" Li Zicheng listened, angry, the most jealous of men is to be cuckolded, "Dong Dong Dong" Ten bowls of rice wine are in the stomach, Li Zicheng is already unconscious, Li Guo carried Li Zicheng home, Han Jin'er scolded Li Zicheng according to Li Zicheng, but after searching for the silver from him, he turned from anger to joy.
Three days later, Li Zicheng was still drunk and dreamed of death, and a few days later, the Mizhi County Ya came to take people, and immediately shackled Li Zicheng to take the street, ready to behead him after the autumn, and was rescued by Li Guo, Li Zicheng thought of the broken man as soon as he got out of prison, and went home and killed Ai Ju and Han Jin'er with a kitchen knife, and then, Li Zicheng, a murderer with two lives on his back, absconded overnight with his nephew...... According to eyewitnesses, Li Zicheng, a suspect in the heinous prison escape, robbery and murder, fled in the direction of Ganzhou, Gansu Province in the middle of the night...... (To be continued......)