bookrandom Chapter 239 Self-defeating
Chapter 239 Self-defeating
"No, it's a misunderstanding. What are you looking for? Those two carriages?" The leader of the gangsters seemed to see through Boss Li's thoughts and snorted disdainfully.
"There is no carriage." Old Li shook his head like a rattle, denying it vehemently.
"Oh, then what are you, your family, doing standing in the yard with all the bags? Looking at the stars?" The leader of the gangsters looked at the bags in the hands of several people in the yard.
"We are not going to see the stars, we are going home." The youngest girl, Niu Niu, said naively with her big innocent eyes.
The whole family fell backwards in shock at this sentence. Jiang covered her little daughter's mouth with her hand, her eyes showing panic. She said dryly, "The child is talking nonsense. I will take her back to the house now."
Then she called Niu Niu and Li Xiaobao without saying anything, and dragged them back into the house. She realized that something bad was going to happen, so it would be better for her to hide with the two children.
"Li Dajiang, have you forgotten my warning?" The gang leader narrowed his small eyes dangerously.
"No, really." Even at this point, Li Dajiang still refused to admit it, but there was a slight tremor in his tone that he didn't even notice.
"In all these years, you are the first one who dares to refuse to pay the rent to me. Hello, you are really nice." The gang leader said it lightly, but to Li Dajiang's ears, it was like a devil's sound piercing his ears.
He was in a state of extreme tension. He remembered that the last time this happened was when he was dismissed as the magistrate of Chengyang County. He was also scared at that time.
"Who the hell are you? How dare you break into a private house? I'm going to report you to the government and have you arrested." Li Chengcai didn't know what had happened. When he saw someone bullying his father like this, he stood up in a rage to speak for his father.
"Asshole, what nonsense are you talking about? If you don't know how to speak, don't speak. Go back to the house." Li Dajiang became furious when he heard his son's words.
Although he was scolding Li Chengcai, he saw the leader of the gang out of the corner of his eye. With the light of the torch, he could clearly see the gloomy expression on his face.
Boss Li knew that he couldn't escape this time, so he said to Liu: "Take him back to the room and let him reflect on his mistakes. Don't let him sleep tonight."
"Okay." Liu was frightened when she saw these gangsters. Besides, she couldn't help much, so she hurriedly took her son back to the house.
"You go back to your room too." Boss Li sent the old woman back.
Because Li Laosi and Li Laotai were bedridden, they did not come to the yard to wait. They originally planned to get on the carriage as soon as it arrived.
Now there are only Old Man Li and Li Dajiang in the yard.
Old man Li was also very scared, but he pretended to be calm. At this point, the knife was at his neck, and he had no choice but to pay the money.
"Young man, we want to leave, but we will definitely send the silver to you before we go. It just so happens that you come just when we were about to do so." Helplessly, Old Man Li could only explain dryly.
"Haha, you come to deliver money to me late at night, do you know where I live?" The leader of the gangsters is not stupid, on the contrary, he is very smart, otherwise how could he lead more than a dozen people.
Old man Li choked and could not utter a word.
"We don't know, but we can always find out by asking around." Boss Li took over the conversation and said carefully.
"There's no one on the street, why are you asking ghosts?" said the leader of the gangsters, and then a dozen gangsters holding torches laughed together.
Seeing that things were getting worse and worse, Old Man Li made up his mind that he must not offend this local tyrant. Even if he was reluctant, he had to pay the money to settle the matter.
After thinking for a while, he said tentatively: "Young man, we are only staying here for a few days. If we charge a month's rent, it may not be appropriate. How about this? I don't have 20 taels for half a month's rent, but I can still afford 10 taels."
Hearing what Old Man Li said, the gang leader sneered as if he had heard a huge joke.
"I rented out the house. Even if you don't live in it for a day, you still have to pay me one month's rent. I said it was twenty taels this afternoon. How dare you do this to me? Do you think I have no temper?"
"It's so cold now. You should be at home sleeping with your wives. Why did you come here to stop you? I have to give you guys some money for drinking, so I doubled the rent to 40 taels now."
"What? Forty taels?" Li Lao Da and Li Lao Si both stared in disbelief.
"Yes, that's forty taels. Hurry up and take out the silver. I'm not interested in talking to you here." The leader of the gangsters seemed very impatient.
"Young Master, we are just ordinary farmers, how can we have forty taels of silver?" Old Man Li almost cried this time, he regretted it! If he had known this earlier, he would have given him the silver, and there would be no such troubles.
"If you don't have anything, then take something to pay with. I'll eat anything and I won't suffer any loss." The leader of the gangsters looked at the two of them with a sneer on his face.
"Young man, we really didn't have it." Boss Li had a bitter face. What he said this time was true, but the gang leader didn't believe it at all.
"Li Dajiang, I warned you before, don't play tricks on me or I'll take your leg. Do you think I'm kidding you?"
The gang leader said sinisterly, and took a look at his legs. He didn't care whether Li Dajiang had money to give him or not. He dared to play tricks on him, and he must pay the price.
When Li Dajiang heard this, he suddenly remembered that he had long forgotten the warning given by the gang leader when he left in the afternoon. Now he brought up the matter again, what did he want to do?
A feeling of uneasiness slowly arose in my heart, as if something bad was about to happen.
"Master, we will give you silver, all the silver, please forgive me." Li Dajiang's voice trembled unconsciously, he was really scared. Just looking at the face of the gang leader, he was a vicious person, he could definitely do this.
"I'll spare you, but I'll give you forty taels of silver, not a penny less, or I'll pay you with one leg."
"Dad, how much silver do we have? Please take it all out quickly." Li Dajiang was so scared that he was about to cry.
Old man Li had not expected that things would come to this point. He was in a dilemma for a moment, and even if he took out all the silver, it would not be enough for forty taels.
Besides, if all the silver was taken out, what would their family eat and drink? The capital is so far away from Jiunu County. And although the leader of the gangsters said that, he might just be trying to scare them and get them to take the silver.