Chapter 28 Are you really going to sell me?
Sanzhuzi's family returned to their own stilt houses and sat in the fire shops and said silently. Sanzhuzi's mother spoke, her shriveled mouth seemed like a dehydrated carp: "There are no crops in the field at all, how can you live in the future? You people in charge, say a word!"
Sanzhuzi's father squatted under the wall, holding his hands, hunched over like a shabby basket, and sighed long: "What else can I do? Dig wild vegetables and eat them, but if I don't help, eat grass roots and eat tree bark."
"What?" Mizuze, the wife of Sanzhuzi, originally sat on a stool, jumped up suddenly, twisted her slender waist and waved her arms like a lotus root. "I'm already eating wild vegetables this year, and I'll eat them next year? When will it be the end? Mom sells them, I'm in trouble. I've married your family, I haven't eaten a few bites of white rice. I've eaten wild vegetables every day and chewed the bark? No! I..., I'd rather beg for food!"
Sanzhuzi was already full of anger and had nowhere to vent his anger. After hearing this, he jumped up and slapped it in the face. With a bang, it made a crisp sound. Mizuze was beaten to the fire.
Shuize is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and he has never suffered such a loss. He cursed, "Damn it! Hit me? I've fought with you, I can't live this life anyway!" He rushed over, scratching his hands and scratching them. In a blink of an eye, several bloody blood grooves were left on Sanzhuzi's face!
Sanzhuzi was furious and kicked her calves, kicking Shuize into the stomach, rolling down the fire shop, holding her belly, curved, and fragrant with a cooked shrimp, which couldn't get up for a while, but she kept scolding her mouth in dirty words.
Sanzhuzi was so angry that he stood up, grabbed the tongs on the fire bed and rushed over, wanting to hit his wife. At this moment, someone outside the kitchen shouted loudly: "Hey! Sanzhuzi! Are you at home? Your mother, are there any living people at home?"
"** is the dead!" Sanzhuzi was angry and blurted out, and was about to go out to see who it was, but the kitchen door was kicked open in a heavy corner. Several people stepped in, and a burly man grabbed Sanzhuzi's collar, slapped him in the face, and knocked him down on the fire shop: "Damn it, how dare you scold us young master?!"
Sanzhuzi got up and turned around, and then he saw clearly that what he came in was his boss, Long Biao, the eldest son of Old Master Long, and the few followed him were his thugs guarding the yard and the accounting room. He suddenly felt soft, covering half of his red and swollen face, and said with a wry smile: "Master, I..."
"Stop talking nonsense!" Long Biao glanced at the people in the room with his belly, "Well, everyone is here, that's great. I am here to collect the rent. I'll pay the rent for this autumn harvest!"
The Sanzhuzi family suddenly shivered. They just thought that the crops in the fields were gone and how to live in the future. They didn’t expect to go for rent, and they didn’t expect that after being plagued by locusts just now, the owner came to collect the rent, and they were all stunned.
Sanzhuzi's father smiled with salivation and said, "Young Master, you have also seen it. Last night, we were hit by a disaster, locust plague, and all the food was eaten up. There was no place for our own food...!"
"That's your business. Don't be too verbose. I don't care about your locust plague. I only know that if you rent my land, you have to pay the rent! I don't care about anything else! -Give it aside!"
Sanzhuzi's mother also laughed and bowed with a hunched over: "Young Master, our family really has no food, our family has also suffered a disaster. There is no grain of rice in the field. It's really not to come out. Otherwise, you can do it, don't collect it..."
Long Biao raised his foot, kicked Sanzhuzi's mother over, and scolded: "Fuck! Don't collect it? Don't pay the rent for rent? Want to pay the debt? You are looking for the wrong person! - Search! Search for me carefully! Find all the valuable things for me!"
Several wolves and tigers scattered to various rooms and began to search. Sanzhuzi and his family hurriedly followed, begging while saying that there was really no food.
While the thugs were searching for the house, Long Biao squinted his eyes and looked at Shui Ze on the ground. When they came in, Shui Ze knew it was amazing and immediately stopped crying. He got up and hid behind his mother-in-law.
Long Biao looked up and down at Shuize. Although he was ragged and had a disheveled face, his face had a melon-shaped face, his eyebrows were curved, his nose was straight, and his mouth was soft and pouty. A glass of wine could be put in the concave part of the beauty bones under his neck, especially his waist was slender, but his chest was not small, and he seemed to have a lot of content. He couldn't help but swallowed a saliva and thought to himself, why didn't I notice how beautiful this young wife was before? It was still very comfortable to take it back and wash it and take a nap.
Shuize only glanced at Long Biao and knew his mind. His body was trembling in fear, and he hid behind his mother-in-law and did not dare to look up.
Long Biao said to Mizuze in a daze: "Little lady, how old are you?"
Sanzhuzi's mother helped to answer: "Master, this is Sanzhuzi's wife..."
"I know! I asked her how old she is!"
"Twenty-three." Sanzhuzi's mother helped.
Long Biao frowned: "I'm a little older, but I'm better than nothing."
Sanzhuzi shivered and asked with a smile: "Master, you... what are you saying, I... why can't I understand..."
"You will understand after a while." Long Biao replied lazily.
After a moment, the searchers came back and shook their heads together: "There is nothing valuable, it's all rags. There is no grain of food."
"I have thought of it." Long Biao walked forward a few steps lazily, walked to Shui Ze, pulled away the old woman blocking in front, looked at Shui Ze up and down with her eyes, grabbed her arm, pulled it over, and gently stroked her arm. It was quite smooth and felt good. She couldn't help but smiled lewdly, and she smiled so hard that Shui Ze was furry.
Long Biao turned to Sanzhuzi and said, "I can't afford your rent this year, so I have no choice but to send you to the yamen for punishment. However, you have a way to avoid the pain of prison. Do you want to know?"
Sanzhuzi cried with a sad face, feeling a sense of something wrong, but he had no choice but to nod, looking at Long Biao pitifully.
Long Biao pulled Shui Ze's arm in his palm: "Here, you can pay off your wife's debt. Although my family still loses this way, but who made us from the same village? My old man is the most compassionate one, so let you take advantage of it."
"No," Sanzhuzi cried over and pulled Mizuze's other arm, "Master, I can't sell my wife. My family still expects her to give birth to..."
Long Biao smiled coldly and let go of Shuize: "It doesn't matter! I won't force you. Come and send him to the yamen to meet the officials!"
The thug rushed up with shouts, pressing the three pillars down, and tied them up in large numbers.
Sanzhuzi's family suddenly felt like a soul. Everyone knew that any farmer who owe rent was sent to the yamen was considered a troublemaker. He was first beaten with a hundred killing sticks, then put on heavy shackles, handcuffed and shackled, and escorted to Shitoushan for service, and was released after three or five years. More than half of the work was exhausted and starved to Shitoushan. Those who could come back were almost disabled. Although some people were in hard labor, they could not exempt the rent from the family. When the next year, they would still have to collect the new and old accounts together.
Sanzhuzi is the pillar of the family. If he is arrested and sent to hard labor, the family will be completely covered. Sanzhuzi's parents all knelt down and kowtowed, begging Long Biao to show his noble hand. However, Long Biao was indifferent and shouted: "Take it away!"
"Wait! Young Master, wait!" Sanzhuzi's father stopped him crying and said to Sanzhuzi: "Son! Sell your wife! Take care of your side first!"
Sanzhuzi's mother also advised her son: "Yes, your father is right. If you are reluctant to let go now, when you are caught, your wife is not a hard-working person, and sooner or later she will be kidnapped! She was empty at that time!"
Shuize had a pale face and was trembling. She had heard that many of the people who paid off their daughter-in-law would be ruined by their boss and sold to the kiln. She used to secretly laugh at those miserable people, but unexpectedly, this fate fell on her. She was very scared, and her original ferocity had no shadow at this moment.
Sanzhuzi felt that his arms tied to the back were about to break. He couldn't help moaning. Thinking of his parents' words, he finally gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! Master, I'll pay my wife for the debt!"
Long Biao's mouth showed a smug smile that he didn't want to hide, "That's right! Let him go, come and write down the contract for selling his body!"
The accountant quickly took out paper and pen and wrote a contract to pay off the debt. Sanzhuzi was trembling and wanted to press his handprints. Shuize shouted heartily: "Sanzhuzi! Do you really want to sell me?"
Sanzhuzi cried and said, "I have no choice. If I don't sell you, I have to go to work hard labor. Who will take care of me at home?"
"I'll take care of you!"
"Take care of your mother!" Sanzhuzi cursed, "You said just now that you would rather go to beg for food than follow my family to suffer! Are you going to beg for food and running away with someone? Sooner or later! I won't sell you now, and I will regret it to death in the future!"
When Shuize heard this, he stopped crying. He pointed at Sanzhuzi and cursed: "Sanzhuzi, push me into the fire pit. I'm going to be a fairy! Your mother sells it. You have sores on your head and boils on your anus, and you have been cut off by thousands of knives..." A series of dirty words were endless.
Sanzhuzi didn't say anything back and pressed his handprint!
Long Biao waved his hand, and the thugs pulled Shuize, who was still cursing, out and carried him away.
Chapter completed!