Poor Family

  Chapter 6 Intensification of Contradictions

  Leaving the ancestral hall, the father and son came to the bustling town. Li Daqi looked at the mules and horses for a while, and said to Li Yanqing: "Qing'er, Daddy has something to do, you should go back first!"

  Li Yanqing didn't say a word. After a moment of silence, he suddenly asked: "Father, are you going to give Liu Chenghong another forty pennies?"

"this....."

  Li Daqi's face was flushed with swelling, and he waited a long time to wait for Ai Ai to say: "Although his son was not bitten, he doesn't need to pay any medical expenses, but Dad wrote him an IOU, in black and white, I'm afraid it's not easy to repay the debt."

   "If Liu Chenghong gets interested one day and forces daddy to write down a hundred IOUs in black and white, will daddy pay him back?"

   "Of course not, it doesn't make sense!"

   "Then the fifty pennies make sense?"

   "This... this..." Li Daqi was so dumbfounded by his son's question that he couldn't speak.

  Li Yanqing said coldly: "Daddy can go to the patriarch to discuss the fifty pennies. If Daddy is afraid of Liu Chenghong, then I will find a way to solve it. Daddy don't care about this matter, let alone ask others to borrow money."

  Li Daqi smiled wryly. A child is a child, and he speaks so naively. What problems can a six-year-old child solve?

At this time, a flat-bed three-donkey cart slowly stopped at the entrance of the mules and horses on the opposite side of the road, and jumped off a shriveled old man. With a sad face, he threw a tattered waistcoat over his shoulder and entered the shop lazily. up.

  Li Daqi's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said to Li Yanqing: "You go back quickly! Daddy asked if there is a donkey cart to the county."

  Li Yanqing suddenly remembered something, and quickly asked: "Is Daddy going to the county bookstore?"

   "Of course I went to the bookstore. Why are you asking this?"

  Li Yanqing took out the manuscript bound with oil rope from his bosom, and handed it to his father, "Daddy, show this to the owner of the bookshop to see if it can be engraved."

   "What is this?" Li Daqi took a package of manuscripts in surprise.

   "It's the story I told Xiao Qing'er. I wrote it down as a calligraphy practice. Maybe it can be published and sold for money."

   "What a silly boy!"

  Li Daqi was amused in his heart, but he didn't want to disappoint his son, so he put the manuscript into his arms, "Okay! I'll go ask shopkeeper Luo, you study hard at home, it's not so easy to pass the imperial examination."

   "Again! I got it."

  Li Daqi told his son a few more words, and then hurried to the mules and horses. He knew Zhang Laolan who was driving the donkey cart just now, and wanted to see if he could take his donkey cart to the county town.

  Li Yanqing walked aimlessly on the main street of the small town, poverty and hatred weighed heavily on his heart like two stones.

He can completely rely on his own intelligence to slowly improve his poor family. For example, he wrote the story of Journey to the West and asked his father to engrave books to make money. You can use local methods to make some daily necessities and sell them to merchants, such as matches and mosquito coils, and you can also make a little money.

   Making money is not a problem, the problem is that he doesn't want to return the so-called 'medical expenses' to that Liu Chenghong at all. Liu Fuer's words still echo in his ears:

"I beat up that dog owner severely. I heard that even feces and urine came out, and my dad was sprayed with blood. The funniest thing was that he knelt on the ground and crawled like a dog, crawling under the crotches of the four servants... ..."

The insult his father suffered was engraved in Li Yanqing's heart like a knife. Although the three little kids were hateful, he could just give them a hard lesson, and there was no need to argue with them, but he would never let Liu Chenghong go, not only insulting and beating his father, but also He stole ten guan of hard-earned money from his father, and forced his father to pay back another 40 guan, this bad breath was suffocated in Li Yanqing's heart.

   There is also a big debt owed by his father, and his father was oppressed and had no status in the Li clan. He must reverse everything.

   An unprecedented hot blood surged in his chest, Li Yanqing bit his lips tightly, and strode towards Li Wencun. ． ． ． ．

  At dusk, Aunt Hu next door sent a message saying that his father had gone to the county town in a delivery donkey cart and would not be back until at least ten days later. Aunt Hu would take care of him if there was any difficulty.

  Li Yanqing doesn't want to trouble Aunt Hu for the time being, he still has important things to prepare.

In the yard, Li Yanqing was practicing blowing fire zippers. These were the last two huozhes he dug out from the woodshed. He lit one of the huozhes and blew them out again. Although the huozhes had no flames at this time , but you can see the red bright spot burning faintly, just like the embers in the ashes, which can last for a long time, and when it needs to be ignited, it can be rekindled with a blow.

   But blowing it requires high skill, it needs to be sudden, short, powerful, and the volume of air should be large. Li Yanqing learned to blow fire a month ago, and he is more skilled than his father.

  'Hoo! ’ Blowing it out in one breath, the fire pocket suddenly ignited.

  Li Yanqing is very satisfied with his skills, he can basically guarantee that nothing will go wrong.

   At this moment, Dahei, who was lying on his stomach sleeping at the gate of the courtyard, suddenly stood up and yelled at the gate.

   "Who is it!" Li Yanqing asked, but no one answered outside.

  Li Yanqing stepped forward and looked out through the crack of the door. There was no one outside, and he was about to walk away, but Dahei crawled on his body and groaned ferociously towards the door like a wild beast.

   "Is there a rabbit outside? Want to improve our food?"

  Li Yanqing opened the door with a smile, wanting to see what made Dahei so nervous, but just as he opened the door, a voice came from outside, 'Aw! ’ With a roar, a huge reddish-brown mastiff rushed in.

  Li Yanqing was taken aback. Before he could react, he was thrown to the ground by the mastiff. The mastiff opened its white fangs and bit his face.

At this critical moment, Dahei roared and rushed forward, and bit the mastiff's neck fiercely. Stepping forward, he grabbed the hatchet next to the firewood pile in his hand.

   This mastiff was huge, fully twice the size of Dahei, like a red wolf, extremely fierce, Dahei couldn't beat it, and was crushed by it, biting it like a 'jeep! grumble! ’ screamed.

  Li Yanqing picked up a thick stick and threw it hard, right on the mastiff's head, the mastiff stared at the blood-red eyes, 'Aw! ’ With a wild cry, he left Dahei and rushed towards Li Yanqing.

But Li Yanqing's shot was faster than it. With a flash of the hatchet, a front paw flew out, blood splattered, the mastiff screamed, and his body rolled to the ground. Hold it by the neck, hold the knife in both hands and slash it fiercely, 'Crack! ’ Half of the head was cut off, the mastiff twitched twice on the ground, and then stopped moving again, blood flowed all over the floor.

   "Good boy, dare to kill my dog!"

Several people poured in from the yard, the leader was a tall and fat man with a face like the bottom of a pot and unkempt beard and hair, he looked like a wild boar standing on two feet, a pair of golden fish eyes protruding from the outside, and the thick flesh on his face made him look good He became extraordinarily ferocious, and Li Yanqing recognized who he was at a glance, as if he was a magnified version of his son Liu Fu'er.

This person is Liu Chenghong, the chief steward of the Li family. He heard that Li Daqi was going to the county, and he was afraid that he would run away and repay his debts, so he wanted to come over and beat him. Unexpectedly, his dog ran a little faster and died in the hands of this little bastard. He was so angry that he jumped into a rage, and the bulging goldfish eyes burned with raging anger.

  The four servants behind him looked at the children in the yard in surprise. The steward's fierce dog dared to fight even wolves, but was killed by a little kid. This kid is amazing!

  Li Yanqing was also a little perplexed. Just now he killed the dog out of instinct, but the speed of chopping the claws was fast, and the knife was neat and neat. Did he practice martial arts before?

  He looked at the uninvited guests calmly, and shouted to Dahei: "Dahei, come here!"

   Dahei's front legs were bleeding, he limped and hid behind the little master,

   "Li Daqi, you bastard, get out!" Liu Chenghong yelled viciously into the room.

   "My father is not here, you get out!"

"go out?"

  Liu Chenghong laughed back in anger, approaching Li Yanqing step by step with a smirk, "You little **** killed my pet dog, you think it's fine, how do you explain to me?"

   Seeing him approaching, Li Yanqing rushed forward and slashed at his round belly with a knife. The knife was so fast that if Li Yanqing hadn't just warned him, Liu Chenghong would have ripped open his stomach.

  Liu Chenghong's face changed greatly in fright, he took a few steps back, and shouted to the left and right: "It's reversed! It's reversed! Catch me and beat me!"

  Four servants came up from all sides with whips and sticks. Although Li Yanqing had the advantage of being fast, he was a six-year-old child after all, so how could he be an opponent of four adults.

   At this moment, someone outside the door suddenly shouted: "You are bullying a child, you are shameless!"

  A strong man walked in from the outside, holding an ash stick. It was the neighbor Uncle Hu. Just now, Aunt Hu found something wrong and hurried to find her son.

  The four famous servants all knew him, and they retreated one after another to protect Liu Chenghong. One servant, Ding Fuer, whispered to Liu Chenghong: "He is the famous tough guy who is desperate for his life."

  Of course Liu Chenghong knew that Hu Sheng was powerful. He estimated that his subordinates could not beat him, so he snorted coldly, "I won't fight with you, we have reason to travel all over the world."

  He pointed at Li Yanqing, "This little **** killed my dog, I want to settle the score with him!"

  Li Yanqing glared at him and said: "You let the dog rush into my house to bite me to death, and I will ask you to settle this account!"

Hu Dayi waved his hand to prevent Li Yanqing from speaking, he blocked Li Yanqing with his body and said, "Butler Liu, we are all sensible people, although beating a dog depends on the owner, but the owner doesn't care about the dog, and the dog has to die, besides, the other party is just a A six-year-old child, you can't justify this wherever you go, don't you think?"

  Liu Chenghong nodded, "You're right, I shouldn't argue with a brat, I'll settle the score with him."

Liu Chenghong took out a note from his pocket, raised it and said: "This is an IOU written by his father, in black and white, with his fingerprints on it, he owes me Liu Chenghong fifty pennies, and he agreed to pay it back within a month, and it's the same today." Within a month, I want him to pay off the debt today!"

  (end of this chapter)