Chapter 260 Feeding the unfamiliar white-eyed wolf
Author: Muzi Blue
Chapter 260 Feeding the unfamiliar white-eyed wolf
One more friend is better than one more enemy, but in the face of interests, there are several true friends.
Some people also say that a small favor becomes a noble person, and a big favor becomes an enemy.
After returning from the night banquet in Huaiyu Palace, he saw the hunchback Wu Cheng beating someone in front of the Wutou Gate of Shouyang Marquis Mansion. Wu Cheng, who was short and hunchbacked, was holding a tall and thin man who was much taller than him.
, with extremely ferocious toes, he slapped the man's face hard.
Slap after slap, shooting from left to right, the middle-aged man's face was covered in blood.
The man was obviously much taller in the martial arts competition, but he was beaten until his face was covered in blood, but he only dared to keep begging for mercy.
"stop."
Huaiyu got off the carriage and looked at what was happening in front of his house with a gloomy face. Today is the Lantern Festival. King Wu couldn't help but two three-story colorful buildings were built at the gate of the Wu family. There were also rotating horse racing lanterns and many lanterns on them.
We also made lamps with statues of mythical characters, which were very gorgeous.
Not only did it attract neighbors to look at the lights, but many people from other neighborhoods also came to watch.
The Wu family's colorful building also has many lantern riddles. Small lanterns are hung on the colorful building. As long as you can answer the above riddles correctly, you can get this beautiful lantern. If you can answer multiple questions correctly, you will get another.
There are rewards, and the top three with the most correct answers each day will also receive bonus rewards wrapped in red silk from the colorful building.
The sword maids of the Wu family were uniformed in red dresses, stood in front of the colorful building with swords on their backs and spears, looking majestic. They maintained order and could also tell puzzles to the illiterate.
The atmosphere was originally very harmonious and joyful.
Now the concierge of the Wu family is actually beating people in public, and he looks like a powerful and evil slave bullying others.
"what happened?"
Huaiyu didn't quite believe that Wucheng was using his power to bully others. After all, there were so many neighbors here, as well as family stewards, swordsmen and maids, etc., so he would not let Wucheng mess up and ruin the family reputation.
"Alang, this scoundrel bastard dares to come to our door and act wild, I will teach him a lesson."
Huaiyu looked at the many people around him, some who had arrived early and some who had just arrived, some who knew and some who didn't. They were all talking about it. If this matter is not explained clearly today, there is no telling what will happen tomorrow.
"Let him go first, and tell me clearly what's going on, louder."
"Going back to Alang, the thing is like this. Since our Wu family moved to Yongxingfang, we have been very friendly to our neighbors. Our family paid for it ourselves and hired disabled people in the neighborhood to clean the streets and watch the streets at night. We also spent money
Ten public toilets and four bathhouses were built on several streets in the square, all of which are free for the neighbors to use. Our family even donated food and paper and pens to the social studies in the square.
On the four o'clock and eight festival days, we will specially send food and salt to the orphans, widows, old and sick in the neighborhood. Whenever a neighbor's family can't make it, we will do whatever we can to help.
There are young and strong people who have no work to do. We have arranged introductions and introductions. We have also specially arranged for young people to work as waiters in the shop. They can also earn a living and learn a craft. Everyone says that our Wu family is quite benevolent and charitable.
Bar?"
Although Wucheng is a dwarf, he worked as a concierge after coming to Chang'an and gained a lot of knowledge. Now his speaking skills have improved. As soon as he said these words, many of the people watching were his neighbors and they all spoke up.
They all applauded and praised the Wu family for their always being charitable and righteous.
Wu Cheng thanked everyone and pointed at the man whose face was covered in blood.
"Let's talk about this person. This is not even a person. This person's name is Zhao San. He is in his thirties this year. He has good hands and feet for his age, but he turns out to be lazy and lazy. In his early years, his parents had to ask someone to help him.
Regarding the marriage, I also spent a lot of money to find a wife for him..."
Jianyi brought a maza to Huaiyu, and Huaiyu sat and listened. He saw that everyone had disdain for Zhao San, and some neighbors even spat at him. It seemed that this man had really asked for a beating.
If you listen carefully, Huaiyu will become very excited.
It turns out that although Zhao San married a daughter-in-law, his habit of being lazy and lazy did not change at all. Later, he learned to eat, drink, whore, and gamble. His family was quite prosperous at first. His father was a craftsman with good skills, but he couldn't stand his squandering.
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The family fortune was ruined and my father was furious.
But this guy didn't restrain himself at all, and even went a little further. He made it difficult to repay his gambling debts, had two of his fingers chopped off, and was nicknamed Eight Fingers, but he still refused to change it.
There was an old woman in the family who was paralyzed on the hospital bed and had no money to buy medicine for treatment. She relied on her wife to help others with weaving, embroidery, and laundry to support the elderly and children. All the household chores depended on her.
After the Wu family came, they took pity on Ms. Zhao Qian. Not only did her daughter-in-law Ms. Zhao Zhang keep accounts and get medicine at Qianjintang, but she also went to the house for free clinics several times.
Not to mention that when food was expensive before, he also lent him family food.
On the four o'clock and eight festival days, some people would always send some firewood, rice, oil and salt to his family. Even though his boy was still young, he made an exception and was sent to the shop to work as a waiter.
Originally, Zhao Sandang would be extremely grateful for such kind-hearted help from the Wu family, but he was just a scoundrel. Years ago, his mother finally died of a long-term illness and had no money to buy a coffin for burial, so the Wu family borrowed the money.
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Then, starting from the end of the New Year, because the Zhao Qian family disappeared, some of the grain and oil assistance originally given to the Zhao family during the New Year was no longer given this year.
This was normal. The share was meant for the orphans, widows and disabled people. Besides, the Wu family was just neighbors, not his father, so there was no reason to keep helping such a bastard.
But Zhao San was actually angry and dared to scold the Wu family outside.
This bitch was recently being chased for gambling debts, so he directly agreed to sell his wife to a bachelor and a scoundrel. He agreed to give the scoundrel three years to pay off his new gambling debt, and agreed to pay off his new gambling debt within three years.
, his wife Zhao Zhang was with him, and the children they gave birth to during this period also belonged to the scoundrel. Three years later, Zhao Zhang still returned to Zhao San's family, and the other party was responsible for Zhao Zhang's food and clothing for the past three years.
After signing and pressing fingerprints, the scoundrel got the wife's pawn contract, and specially invited Zhao San to have a drink and would come to pick him up tomorrow.
Zhao Sandian sold his wife and drank a few ounces of cat urine, so he no longer knew what was going on. When he was returning home, he passed by the Wu family and saw the beautiful lanterns in the colorful building. So he came up to say a few auspicious words to ask for help
A reward.
Everyone in the Wu family knew what Zhao San was doing, but no one wanted to pay attention to it. As a result, this guy became so angry that he actually started to openly scold the Wu family because of his drunkenness.
Although Wu Cheng was just a concierge, he always regarded himself as a loyal servant of the Wu family. How could he be spoiled?
Usually, when many powerful officials come to Wu's house, they have to be polite to his concierge and even give him a reward. Therefore, in Wu Cheng's eyes, he is much nobler than Zhao San.
If Zhao San dares to bark at the Wu family, he will naturally go up and bite him.
He went up and beat him until his face was covered with blood.
Zhao San was quite arrogant at first, but was woken up by Wu Chengji's slaps. He didn't even dare to backhand, he just kept begging for mercy.
After hearing the details, not only Wu Huaiyu spat at him, but even the three aunts, seven mothers, eight aunts and six grandmothers around him, including the girls and daughters-in-law, all expressed their disdain and began to curse and accuse him.
Previously, someone went to report to Mrs. Zhao Zhang that her husband had been beaten in the Wu family. She had just come with her children to plead for her husband, but they heard that her husband had sold her to pay off his gambling debt.
Mrs. Zhao Zhang collapsed and sat on the ground crying, lamenting the injustice of fate and the suffering of human life.
The Wu family used to give the Zhao family firewood, rice, oil and salt, lend money to his family, buy medicine on credit, and even help him bury his mother, but now they help him with a white-eyed wolf.
Just because I would give his family some grain and salt during the Chinese New Year in the past, but I didn’t give him any more this year, he actually dared to scold the Wu family.
A typical example of favor and hatred for rice.
Zhao San is a typical scumbag who cannot be saved.
There are such people both in ancient and modern times, and there are many of them.
Huaiyu asked Jianyi to help Zhao Zhang up, and then asked Wu Cheng to pull Zhao San to him.
"Zhao San, are what Wu Cheng said just now true?"
Zhao San had been so arrogant just now because of his drunkenness, but now he was trembling with fear, because in the Tang Dynasty, there was a crime of scolding, that is, the crime of (li).
Concubines, concubines, and husbands will be punished with eighty sticks. Children, grandchildren, parents, and grandparents will be hanged, and those who dare to beat will be directly beheaded. Uncles, uncles, and parents of the concubine will all be apprenticed for one year, and the master of the concubine will also be apprenticed for one year.
A subordinate officer who curses a superior officer will also be sentenced to imprisonment.
People who scold officials are also guilty and must be punished. The bigger the official who scolds, the more severe the punishment, ranging from three years of apprenticeship to ninety rods.
However, there is a prerequisite for scolding, which is that the scolding must be done in person, not behind the back.
If Zhao San dared to scold the Wu family, even if Wu San slapped him in the face, it would be a minor offense.
Although he is not guilty of cursing an official, he can't escape the crime of provoking quarrels and causing trouble.
"I just drank a few glasses of wine and got drunk. I was confused and gibberish. I really didn't mean it..." Zhao San was so frightened that he knelt down in front of Huaiyu and slapped himself hard with his bow left and right.
Face.
It would be too easy for Marquis Shouyang to kill a scoundrel like him.
"I asked you if you just scolded me, and my parents and ancestors, etc.?"
"Damn it, little one. I was confused for a moment. Marquis Wu should just treat him as a fart..."
"Answer me!" Huaiyu's voice was low, but Zhao San was trembling, "Damn it, I was in a daze for a moment and insulted Marquis Wu..."
Wu Cheng came up and said, "Alang, let me pull this bitch aside and beat him to death with a stick."
Huaiyu asked Jianyi to call an outsider in the mansion.
"Does the gangster Zhao San owe us money?"
"Going back to Alang, the scoundrel Zhao San's family had previously borrowed three bushels of millet from our family, and they agreed to pay it back after spring, which is about to expire. In addition, his mother had seen a doctor and received medicine before, and she still owed Qianjintang more than 10,000 yuan, not counting the medical expenses.
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Also, his mother died of illness before and had no money to buy a coffin. Our family also borrowed money to buy a coffin for the funeral. She also owed more than 5,000 yuan, some of which have expired and have not been repaid."
Wu Huaiyu looked at the shivering Zhao San without any sympathy.
poor person must have something mean.
The Wu family had been very helpful to the Zhao family in the past, and it was also for the sake of the neighbors. The newly wealthy Wu family was also willing to spend some money in exchange for a good reputation, but it was not expected that the Wu family would be insulted and provoked like this by the white-eyed wolf.
Even drunken behavior is unacceptable.
Today, Wu Huaiyu also intended to use the scoundrel Zhao San to show the neighbors that although the Wu family is kind, it cannot be provoked casually.
"The laws of the Tang Dynasty still stipulate debts?" Huaiyu asked.
The foreign steward immediately said loudly, "According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, any debt that violates the contract will not be paid, and the value is more than one bolt of silk. If the violation is twenty days, there will be twenty floggings, and one grade will be added after twenty days. The crime will be punished by sixty or thirty rods."
A horse will be added to the second class, a hundred horses will be added to the third class, and each order will be compensated!"
The steward also carefully explained this legal provision to the neighbors in vernacular.
If the debt is more than one bolt of silk, if the debt is not repaid within 20 days after the due date, the person will be punished by being whipped and beaten with a stick twenty times. After another twenty days, the beating will be continued, up to sixty times. If the debt is too much, the punishment will be sixty times.
, and the crime will be increased to one hundred pieces of silk, and the crime will be increased by three levels.
Of course, once the fight is over, the debt will continue to be repaid.
If you still refuse to pay back the money for more than a hundred days, you will be sentenced to one year in prison.
The whipping means beating with a stick, while the apprentice means forced labor, which is free of charge.
After one year of reform through labor, the debt still had to be repaid.
Being a dishonest old man in the Tang Dynasty is actually more costly.
A piece of silk is enough to be put on the list of dishonest people.
Zhao San is seeking death today, committing both a sin and an unpaid debt.
Regardless of which one, Zhao Xin was in big trouble. Zhao San kept kowtowing to beg for mercy and even slapped himself. Suddenly, something fell out of his body.
"Alang, this Zhao San stole the colorful silk flag from the colorful building of our family." The hunchback Wu San had sharp eyes and recognized at a glance that the colorful silk flag that fell out was the colorful silk flag from the colorful building of the Wu family, because there were talismans and seals drawn on the silk.
It was painted by Wu Huaiyu himself.
Stealing things was called theft in the Tang Dynasty and was one of the six crimes of stolen goods.
The crime of theft is calculated according to the value of the property stolen. The value of the property is one bolt of silk and a staff of seventy. If the value exceeds five bolts of silk, the person will be imprisoned for one year. If the value exceeds fifty bolts of silk, the person will be exiled for three thousand miles and serve three years of hard labor.
"This is made of fine colored silk from our family, and then Alang personally painted it with cinnabar and other seals and consecrated it. It is extremely precious. This dog slave actually dares to steal it. What a courageous dog!"
Wu Huaiyu personally painted a fine silk flag with talisman seals, which has long exceeded the value of the silk itself. It is said that it is worth three or five bolts of silk, which is normal.
