"How much hardship have I suffered when I married into your Li family?"
"You've just started to look forward to your life, but you don't know what your last name is? Are you going to fight for your life?"
"Why don't you just die?"
"Now that it's like this, it's dragging us down."
"Aha!"
"Tomorrow I will take your son and remarry, and let you, a murderer of a thousand cuts, starve to death here!"
Lao Li was lying on the bed, looking gloomy, and turned a deaf ear to his mother-in-law's curses.
It would be great if I could not be so impulsive at that time...
Even if it’s the second one to rush forward, that’s fine.
These days, several doctors have seen him, and they all said that he can only lie down for the rest of his life.
I can only lie down...
When he thought that his disabled self would make his family, which had just improved, plummet to a worse level than before, Lao Li's heart was filled with regret.
Unfortunately, it's too late to say anything.
"Excuse me, is this Li Quanan's home?"
A male voice suddenly came out, causing the curses to stop abruptly.
"Are you...Master Xu?"
The mother-in-law suddenly became at a loss.
Sir Xu?
Lao Li's gray eyes finally gained some color.
"No need to be polite, I came to see Lao Li. How is he?"
"He... Sir, please go in alone."
Squeak, the door to the back room opens.
Lao Li reluctantly turned his head and showed a smile that was uglier than crying at Xu Chong who walked in: "My lord, please forgive me, I... I can't stand up anymore."
Xu Chong sighed secretly, moved a stool and sat next to the bed, "I was so seriously injured, I'm lucky to be alive."
"That's what the adults said."
Lao Li felt bitter for a while, "I didn't know you were here..."
"This is your disability benefit."
Xu Chong's right hand stretched out from under the sleeve of his robe and placed a money bag on the edge of the bed, "Not much, only one hundred taels."
"..."
Lao Li rolled his eyes and focused on the money bag.
"You can use this money to make a living. With three shifts taking care of one and two, it's not difficult to make ends meet."
Xu Chong said to himself, "In addition, if you need help, ask your mother-in-law to speak to the patrolling brothers, or come directly to the Yamen to find me."
"Thank you...Thank you, sir..."
Lao Li's voice was astringent and his throat was uncomfortable.
Not to mention Canglong County, even if you look at Daqing as a whole, there has never been a term for disability subsidies.
Only those who die in the line of duty and die completely will receive a pension.
And it is far from reaching the standard of one hundred taels.
One hundred taels of silver...
If Xu Chong hadn't paid for it out of his own pocket, he would have dared to twist his head off.
"You deserve this, no need to thank me."
Xu Chong stood up and said, "If there's nothing else, I'll leave first."
"Wait...wait!"
"Hmm? Is there anything you need?"
"I...I want to ask the adults to do me a favor."
"You said, I will try my best to satisfy you."
"My lord..."
Lao Li glanced outside the house, gritted his teeth, and lowered his voice: "Please give me a good time, sir!"
"..."
Xu Chong remained silent.
He deliberately remained indifferent, but in the end he couldn't maintain it.
"My lord, my lord!"
When Lao Li saw that Xu Chong was silent, he suddenly became anxious, "I have become a useless person. I can't do anything except wait for death, and I have to drag my wife and children down..."
"If that stinky bitch can keep her word, why bother sir?"
"But I know that she is a sharp-tongued person. Even if she is dragged to death, she will not really abandon me."
As he spoke, Lao Li began to choke, "I, Lao Li, are useless. I have suffered for her half a life, how can I let her continue to suffer?"
"Please give me a happy life, so that that stinky woman can remarry with peace of mind and money..."
"Sir, in the past I was too blind to see the mountains, so I might have offended someone."
"But please see that I was injured because of the Yamen, can you help me one last time?"
"My lord..."
Before he finished speaking, there was a shrill wail, like a cuckoo crying for blood.
Lao Li's wife rushed in like crazy, pushed Xu Chong away, and slapped Lao Li hard on the face.
"Death?!"
"You really want to die?!"
"I have suffered with you for half my life, and I gave you a son for the Li family. You owe me so much, have you paid it back? Have you paid it back?"
"Okay!"
"You want to die, don't you?"
"Die, all die!"
"I will take your son to be buried with you, which will cut off the incense of your Li family!"
The slaps fell on Lao Li's face one after another, but they became weaker and weaker. Finally, he fell on Lao Li's chest and cried loudly.
"Do you know... Wa'er said that you are a hero who fights rebels? You are a hero!"
"He said that when he grows up, he will fight against rebels and become a hero like you."
"You've died a hundred times for being a coward. What do you want my baby to do?"
"Baby..."
Lao Li was shocked in his heart and burst into tears, "Yes, yes, I am a hero, I am a hero."
The will to die was replaced by the desire to live.
Xu Chong knew that he didn't have to do anything else, so he closed the door and left quietly.
His arrival completely aroused the only conflict between the couple.
Soon, this conflict was completely resolved by the word husband and wife.
The small house is no longer gloomy, but full of hope and warmth.
After Xu Chong left, he went to Dongshi to buy two pots of sweet-scented osmanthus wine and went to the suburbs alone.
Mr. San has one more neighbor.
Liu Xiaoqing.
Xu Chong placed one of the jugs of wine in front of the grave and sat next to him holding the other jug.
"Liu Er, Liu Er, you are really stupid. You are the stupidest in the whole Canglong County."
"Haha...a good official?"
Xu Chong said, raised his head and drank most of the wine in the pot.
"Do you know how unworthy your death is?"
"First of all, I am not a good official."
"How can there be any good officials in this world?"
"It's all about benefiting yourself at the expense of others."
"It's just hurting you, and it has no benefit to me."
"Secondly..."
"No one remembers what you did."
"You used one life to save a hundred lives."
"But those who were rescued don't remember this."
"They only knew that they were involved in a siege against the rebels."
"And your death was even attributed to wanting to monopolize the credit, so you were executed by the blood-clad guards."
"Is it ridiculous?"
Xu Chong smiled and drank the rest of the wine.
Not long after Liu Er died, it was dawn.
Just like when Xu Chong conducted the experiment, all the government officials who knew about it instantly lost consciousness.
When I woke up again, the truth had been hidden due to the influence of cognitive barriers, and everyone's perception had completely changed.
Except for Zhao Liu who was still sad about Liu Er's death, the others were even full of contempt.
Liu Er?
Oh.
That servant with three surnames who first fawned over the county magistrate, then fawned over Dian Shi, and finally fawned over the blood-clad guards.
You deserve to die.
"Heh."
"I guess you are scolding and jumping down there right now?"
Xu Chong shook his head, stood up and threw the wine bottle out.
"For the sake of me bringing you wine, it's okay to curse a little, but don't go too far."
"It's time to drink soup, it's time to reincarnate."
"Choose a good family background in your next life."