Chapter 3 Deceiving People Too Much
As soon as dawn the next day, Ah Huang, a bitch from Erguaizi's family at the east end of the village, started to scream. Dahei, regardless of his brotherhood, pulled out and got up, ran to have fun.
Without the natural warm pillow, Li Yanqing suddenly woke up from his deep sleep. At this time, his father also got up and went out.
Li Yanqing's consciousness had not yet fully woken up. He was confused and felt that his father was pushing the wheelbarrow he borrowed from Aunt Hu's house last night. In his memory, his father had to go out before dawn every morning, and it seemed that he was walking a little late today.
"Qing'er, I'm going to the town today and I won't come back at noon. There are a few vegetable buns in the pot. You can eat it if you heat it up."
"knew!"
Li Yanqing agreed in a daze, turned around and fell asleep again.
But after only a moment of sleep, he dreamed that he was tied up on a chair. His father sat opposite him for a big meal. He was smiling, but he refused to loosen his ties. In desperation, he woke up from his dream. Then he felt hungry in his stomach, and his chest was pressed against his back.
Li Yanqing got up and unexpectedly found that the sun was coming out outside. A ray of sunlight shone into the house through the treetops, making the originally wet, cold and dim room brighter.
This was the first time that the sun had appeared in ten days. Li Yanqing cheered, jumped from the kang, and ran out barefoot, and saw the golden sunshine shining on the yard, and the birds chirping on the big trees. The air washed away the dampness and coldness of the past, which was particularly fresh and warm, with a hint of earth.
Li Yanqing took a few greedy breaths of warm air, and then he was reluctant to leave to return to the room. The door of the wing room was half open, and he could see the pit that could not be filled in the corner of the house. Only then did he realize that his father said something was going to sign him up for school today.
In fact, Li Yanqing was not very interested in going to school. He could imagine that in this kind of country school, people from several villages raised money to hire a goatee-bearded Mr. Donghan, who was leading a group of children to shake their heads and memorize the Four Books and Five Classics all day long. Li Yanqing felt that the gentleman might not be better than him.
What's even more annoying is that my father took ten cents of money to pay the tuition fee, which was the hard-earned money he saved by his father every penny, and it was also a pile of delicious syrup cooked cakes. Li Yanqing sighed and filled a few vegetable buns in the broken pot into his stomach.
Just then, a smile came from outside, "Xiao Qing'er ran slowly, the road was slippery, don't fall."
Immediately afterwards, a little girl with a braided horn jumped into the yard, "Brother Ershi, my grandmother and I are here to see you."
The sunlight seemed to penetrate Li Yanqing's chest, and his heart quickly became warm.
"I'm here, ah! You wait..."
As soon as he ran into the yard, he turned around and came back to put on his shoes.
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And wearing pants.
A little girl in a flowery jacket covered her mouth and laughed, "Zu Niang, the second silly brother is not wearing pants, and he is naked ass!"
After a long time, Li Yanqing blushed and dazed. He was so stinking that he had no pants and ran out in a daze.
The grandparents and grandchildren in the yard were his neighbors. Aunt Hu and her granddaughter Hu Qing'er. Aunt Hu once raised a lot of chickens, but now there are only two hens left because a group of weasels appeared in the village.
Thanks to Da Hei who caught weasels one by one, Aunt Hu also liked Da Hei and often gave it some leftover food.
Granddaughter Hu Qing'er is three years old this year. In Li Yanqing's opinion, she is actually only two years old, but she is very smart and lively. She has a small red face like an apple. She likes to play with Li Yanqing the most. Although her mother is worried that her daughter will become a silly girl in the future and does not want her to visit her, Aunt Hu likes Li Yanqing very much. She always brings her granddaughter over and brings some food to Li Yanqing every time.
Aunt Hu took out a hot egg from the basket and stuffed it to Li Yanqing, and smiled kindly and said, "It was cooked just now, eat it quickly!"
"Thank you aunt!"
Li Yanqing took the egg a little disgustedly and stuffed it into his pocket.
Aunt Hu smiled and touched the back of his head, "What, can't you bear to eat?"
"Brother Ersha, eat it quickly! After finishing, I have one more here." Xiao Qing'er smiled and stuffed another egg to him.
Li Yanqing peeled off the eggshell and slowly ate the eggs. His nose felt sore. He had become a little too sentimental these two days.
"Brother Ersha, let's continue telling me the story! Did the Red Boy catch Tang Seng later?"
"Okay! I'll continue to tell you."
Li Yanqing pulled Xiao Qing'er and sat down on the threshold and continued to give her the story of Sun Wukong fighting Red Boy, but not long after he told it, Li Yanqing remembered another thought.
He patted Xiao Qing'er's hand, "Second brother has something to ask your grandmother, and I'll continue to tell you a story later."
"What are Brother Qing asking?"
"Auntie, does my father owe a lot of debts outside?"
Last night, my father's words made Li Yanqing know one of the reasons why they lived a poor life, and that his father had to pay off his debts.
Aunt Hu sighed, "Your father owed Mr. Li a lot of money. When your mother passed away, she bought a cemetery, a coffin, and a funeral. It is said that she spent 500 stags of money. They all borrowed it from Mr. Li, so your father went to raise horses for Mr. Li to pay back the money. Sometimes he had to go to the county to copy books for the bookstore to earn money, and he was also a father and a mother. It was really not easy to pull you over four years."
Li Yanqing was speechless. He had been confused about why his father was obviously from the Li clan, but he had to work as a servant. It turned out that this was the reason. He thought that his father had saved ten guans of money for so many years, and five hundred guans of money would have to be returned until the year of the Monkey and Horse Month.
Aunt Hu looked at this miserable child with sympathy. It was 500 jin! There was such a high interest rate every year, and the father and son could never pay it back in their lives.
Xiao Qing'er next to him raised her red face and said, "Zu Niang, let's pay back the money for the second stupid brother!"
Aunt Hu touched her granddaughter's braid with affection, "Silly child, our family can't afford to pay so much money!"
At this moment, the gate of the courtyard slammed open, and Xiao Qing'er's father Hu Da came in with a man on his back, covered in blood.
"Dad!"
Li Yanqing suddenly stood up, and he recognized the person on Hu Da’s back, which was his father Li Daqi.
"Brother Qing, help your father into the house quickly, I'll go and invite the doctor!"
"No need to invite me, I'm fine..." Li Daqi said weakly.
Li Yanqing hurriedly stepped forward to support his father, but saw that his father's eyes were blood-blocked, his chest was covered with blood, and his mouth was covered with blood, and his face was very pale.
"Uncle, what's wrong with my father?"
"Let's help in the house first."
The three of them helped Li Daqi into the house and let him lie on the kang. Li Daqi breathed a long sigh, "Fortunately, I was not beaten to death, and I, Li Daqi, are still alive."
"My mother actually vomited blood. Who is so cruel?" Aunt Hu asked her son angrily.
"I was beaten by Butler Liu. For some reason, I heard that I even snatched the money from the big guy."
The blood suddenly surged over Li Yanqing's head. He turned around and ran out without saying a word.
Li Daqi suddenly became anxious and said with difficulty: "Dalang, stop him, he is still a child!"
Hu Da rushed out of the room, and saw Li Yanqing rushing out of the woodshed, holding a sharp hatchet in his hand. He stepped forward and hugged Li Yanqing in the waist, "Are you crazy? Put the knife down!"
Li Yanqing struggled desperately, "Let me go and let me kill that bastard!"
Hu Da was extremely strong and could hold a cow. No one could compare with him within a radius of 100 miles, but he felt that he could not hold the child. This child did not have such great strength before! He couldn't help but feel secretly shocked.
But Li Yanqing was still young after all, and the hatchet in his hand was snatched by Hu Da. Hu Da pressed his shoulder heavily and stared at his eyes and said, "A gentleman is not too late to take revenge, and a real man will never show off his ability for a moment. Do you understand?"
The blood that gathered above Li Yanqing's head gradually disappeared, but the hatred in his eyes became deeper. He nodded silently and turned to Aunt Hu and said, "Auntie, take Qing'er back first, she is still young."
Qing'er stood aside and was stunned. At this time, she heard that the silly second brother wanted to go home by himself, and she couldn't help but pout, "I won't go back!"
Aunt Hu remembered something and slapped her head: "Look at my memory, there are medicines for injury at home! I actually forgot, Qing'er, go back with Zuniang to get the medicine."
Xiao Qing'er was taken back by her grandmother unwillingly. Li Yanqing calmed down for a moment and said to Hu Da: "No matter what, I want to get the money back. It was saved up by my father bit by bit and cannot be stolen by them."
"Don't ask for it!"
Li Daqi walked to the door with difficulty, held the door frame and panted, "Da Hei bit his son, that was the medical expenses he paid for."
"He's talking nonsense!"
Li Yanqing became angry again, "When did Dahei bit people? Hei didn't bit his son at all."
"I took the initiative to compensate him, so you... don't ask for it."
Li Daqi was shaking and could not stand any longer. Hu Da hurriedly stepped forward to support him, "You are internally injured, don't move, go to bed and lie down quickly, don't worry about the stupid brother, although he is young, he understands the truth."
"Dalang, don't teach him to take revenge. The hatred is too deep and will harm him in the future."
Hu laughed, "I understand, you should lie down and stop talking."
Chapter completed!