After walking on the dirt road for a while, Wang Laizi came to the wine shop owned by old man Geng in the village.
Old man Geng was holding a bamboo wine basket, skillfully taking out the wine from the wine vat and serving it to the customers.
"How much does green wine cost today?" Wang Laizi asked old man Geng. Seeing that the other party ignored him, he couldn't help but repeat it loudly.
Old man Geng seemed to have just discovered Wang Laizi: "It's the eldest son of the Wang family. You haven't been here for a long time."
Wang Laizi snorted coldly and looked sideways at Old Man Geng.
Old man Geng said slowly: "It's still the same price, a hundred cents per dou."
Although he was talking, he never glanced at Wang Laizi again, obviously not thinking that he could afford it.
Wang Laizi snorted coldly, he really wanted to buy wine today.
He took it out into his arms and suddenly thought, would it be unsafe for others to see such a large ingot of silver? It would be better to cut it at home and use it later.
But seeing that Old Man Geng didn't care about his arrogance at all, Wang Laizi only felt a sense of depression blocking his chest.
Damn it! I’ll give you some money tomorrow and slap your snobbish face!
So he turned around and left angrily.
Old Man Geng's customer was a middle-aged man from a neighboring village. He asked curiously: "Is this the man from the Wang family?"
Old man Geng nodded and said: "He came here and asked ten times, but he still wouldn't buy it once."
The man looked around and whispered, "I heard about him, his mother-in-law and that guy from the Golden Tiger Gang..."
Old man Geng's eyes widened: "We don't want to talk here. Just take the wine and leave quickly, leave quickly!"
The man had no choice but to leave angrily.
However, it was said that after Wang Laizi left the wine shop, he continued walking along the dirt road towards Shenjia Village.
After a while, he came to the stone bridge connecting the two villages.
There are many stalls on the stone bridge, with various men, women and children selling rice, vegetables, meat and eggs. However, the business is not very good, and only a few people ask the price.
Although food prices have dropped a bit recently, they are still much higher than the previous normal prices, and people still have to live a tight life.
When Wang Laizi first came here, everyone's eyes turned to him. The strange thing was that no one spoke.
Wang Laizi was a little confused. He walked to a stall at random and asked curiously: "Cheng Laoer, you don't work as a coolie anymore, and you come to sell things?"
The stall owner Cheng Laoer is also from Liujia Village. He is tall and powerful. He said angrily: "There are too many workers at the dock, and now the payment is getting less and less. I just complained a few words and was kicked off."
Come out."
Wang Laizi looked at the goods on Cheng Laoer's stall. They were basically fish and shrimps, and they were obviously bought from the river.
"Why is there still an old turtle?" Wang Laizi asked in surprise.
This old turtle is gray-brown in color and is bigger than the largest bowl in the house. Its limbs are covered with veins like old tree bark.
Wang Laizi keenly discovered that one of the old turtle's feet was injured and only one of its five claws was left.
"I was lucky enough to catch this old turtle. The soup is a great supplement." Seeing that Wang Laizi seemed to be interested in this old turtle, Cheng Laoer tried his best to sell it.
"How much?" Wang Laizi asked.
"We are all neighbors, so I will charge you half a tael of silver!" Cheng Laoer said loudly.
"Half a tael of silver is not expensive. After all, this turtle only weighs five or six kilograms. According to the current meat price, it's still a profit." Wang Laizi thought as he stared at the old turtle. The more he looked at it, the more he liked it.
Especially when he saw the old turtle's injured foot, he suddenly felt a sense of sympathy or sympathy for the same patient? He hadn't felt this way for a long time.
He touched his arms, but taking out the silver ingot like this, was it too conspicuous?
Wang Laizi was a little confused.
"What's the problem, Dalang? Just tell me." Cheng Laoer hadn't opened his shop today, and it was rare to find someone interested in his turtle, so he asked hurriedly.
Wang Laizi was a little embarrassed and said: "I don't have any money at home."
"What's this? I'll go to your house later and get it with you." Cheng Laoer said proudly.
They are all from the same village, so he is afraid that the usually cowardly Wang Laizi will default on his debt? At worst, he can just ask Wang Sun to get it.
Wang Laizi thought for a moment and nodded.
He asked Cheng Laoer for a rope, looped it around the old turtle's belly, held the other end in his hand, and walked back slowly like a dog.
On the stone bridge behind, many people had extremely strange expressions on their faces.
Wang Laizi walked halfway and met another person. This man was tall but had a crooked mouth. He was Xia Waizui from Liujiacun.
When Waizui Xia saw Cripple Wang, he sneered, "Hey, isn't this General Wang?"
Wang Laizi also sneered when he saw him: "Isn't this Mr. Xia?"
"Why did General Wang buy a lame old turtle? It looks a bit like you."
Wang Laizi was furious and said sarcastically: "This old turtle is probably a widower, how does he look like me?" But he was mocking the embarrassing fact that Wizui could not win over his mother-in-law until he was thirty in the summer.
Waizui Xia was also furious, and the two broke up unhappy.
"Bah! You have the nerve to laugh at me even though you have a green head." Seeing Wang Laizi walking away, Waizui Xia spat on the ground and cursed.
"If you have such a crooked mouth, you will never be able to get a wife in your life." Wang Laizi on the other side couldn't help cursing.
What Wang Laizi hates most in his life is that others call him lame. He is also the crooked Xia who even looks down on himself.
No matter what, I can win over my mother-in-law, but what about you?
On the way back, he didn't know if it was an illusion. He found that many women seemed to be pointing fingers at him. Although he couldn't hear clearly what they were saying, he expected that they didn't have anything nice to say.
Wang Laizi was born with low self-esteem and a sensitive heart. At this time, he was even more angry: "These damn tongue-tied women!"
When he returned home, he became increasingly angry as he thought about it.
What are they talking about? Are they talking about my legs, or is my mother-in-law embarrassing me?
At this time, Mrs. Wang and Sun just finished digging wild vegetables from the black bear forest and returned home humming folk songs.
Carrying a sack on her back, she was busy with work, but her natural beauty could not be concealed at all, and she was a beautiful sight in the village.
Wang Laizi didn't hit her during this period, which made her feel quite good.
Seeing the happy Wang Sun family, Wang Laizi was furious.
I am angry here, why are you happy?
The anger in my heart seemed to have found a vent, so I went up and gave Wang Sunshi a slap in the face!
Snapped!
Wang Sun covered her face and dropped the sack on her body, scattering wild mushrooms all over the ground.
"Why did you hit me, officer?" Wang Sun asked aggrievedly.
She had worked hard all day and wanted to go home and have a good rest, but unexpectedly she got this kind of treatment.
"I want to hit someone when I feel unhappy! Why, I can't hit you anymore?"
After saying this, Wang Laizi went up to punch and kick Wang Sunshi. He was not as tall as Wang Sunshi, but he looked a bit funny.
Wang Sun had tears in her eyes: "I make cows and horses for you all day long, why do you treat me like this?"
Wang Laizi sneered and said: "The cows and horses must be whipped with whips from time to time, otherwise they will not be able to go to heaven?"
Wang Sun's eyes were filled with tears, but she still bent down to pick up the scattered mushrooms. After all, this was tonight's ration.
But Wang Laizi didn't even look at her, raised his head proudly, and leisurely led the old turtle out for a stroll.
For several days, Wang Laizi took the old turtle out for a stroll early every morning. He also forced Wang Sun to dig snails in the fields at night so that he could feed the old turtle.
This morning, Wang Laizi walked out of the door as usual.
Not far away, several children from the village saw him and sang a song with laughter:
"The lame king, the lame bastard!
The lame bastard likes the lame bastard Wang, and the lame bastard Wang is the lame bastard!
I don’t know if it’s the cripple who’s leading the bastard, or the bastard who’s leading the cripple.”
"Made little brat! Let's see if I can't beat you to death!" Wang Laizi was furious and led the old turtle to chase these children, but he couldn't catch up.
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On the other side, the new flag commander Liu Mang arrived at the helm of the Golden Tiger Gang.
He made an appointment with the gang leader to come to watch and learn Tiger Boxing today, and he was looking forward to it.