The other party refused directly: "Forget it, Lao Wu, I appreciate your kindness. I still have things to do. I still have work to do in the fields, so I'm going to get busy."
Wen Laowu squatted on the threshold, thinking about how to repay others. Should he give money directly in person? He couldn't explain this clearly. If word spread, he would be afraid of causing trouble to Li Shuhua.
The next day was the day to go to the market. Li Qing was carrying a load, preparing to pick some of the vegetables grown in the fields to sell in the town.
"Li Qingqing, are you going to the market? By coincidence, I'm going too. We'll have someone to brag about along the way." Wen Laowu said.
"Okay, let's go." Li Qing thought, it's just a journey anyway.
Li Qing carried the burden, walking for a while and resting for a while.
Wen Laowu took the initiative to show his kindness and even helped Li Qing pick a ride.
Halfway through picking, Wen Laowu said: "Oh, I'm tired of picking. Let's sit here and take a rest."
Here is a small stone bridge with a history of hundreds of years. It is at a three-way intersection. The two of them were sitting on the railing of the bridge and resting.
Li Qing wrapped the tobacco leaves and handed one to Wen Laowu.
Wen Laowu waved his hand, saying no to the cigarette.
Li Qing was smoking a cigarette comfortably, and seriously advised Wen Lao Wu: "Lao Wu, look at you, you have been drinking all day long, your daughter and son-in-law don't recognize you, and your wife has divorced you. From now on, you will still be
Drink less and do something serious."
"Yeah." Wen Laowu nodded: "I remember."
Then, he stood up and said to Li Qing: "Wait here for a while, I'll go pee and come over."
He turned to this corner, avoiding the eyes of passers-by, and took out a small cloth bag from his waist, which contained a stack of ten-dollar bills.
He rubbed the small cloth bag on the ground, stained it with a lot of soil and leaves, and pretended that it had just been taken out of the ground.
Then, he mysteriously took the small cloth bag, ran back, and whispered to Li Qing: "Li Qing, look, what is this?"
"What is this?" Li Qing probed.
"Money. This is all money." Wen Laowu lowered his voice, with a look of surprise on his face: "I just went to pee over there and noticed something was wrong with the dirt pile under the tree. When I dug it, I found such a small cloth bag.
There is a lot of money in here, almost a thousand yuan."
One thousand yuan... Li Qing couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
"Well, everyone has a share. Let's share half of it between the two of us." Wen Laowu directly added the money to five and divided it.
Li Qing wanted to refuse.
Wen Laowu said: "Oh, anyway, this is the money that was picked up. Who knows who it belongs to? Maybe it was those robbers who stole it and hid it here. Who would be a serious person who would hide money under a tree in this wasteland?
?Don’t let this ill-gotten wealth go to waste.”
Li Qing listened to Wen Laowu's advice and accepted the money with peace of mind.
Yes, serious people, who would hide money under a big tree in the wild for no reason? It must be those robbers and thieves who stole it. It doesn't matter if you divide it yourself.
Li Qing stopped going to the town to sell vegetables. He happily took the five hundred yuan he received and went home. He also made an agreement with Wen Laowu not to tell anyone about this.
"That's right, you definitely can't tell outsiders about this. Then it will be troublesome if everyone comes to claim it. After all, no one's name is written on the money, who knows who it belongs to." Wen Laowu said.
In short, such an ill-gotten fortune allowed Li Qingqing to make a small fortune, which solved the problem of his children going to school. It also gave him some skills and gradually made him rich.
After Wen Laowu settled his grievances, the relationship that should be broken has been broken, and the kindness that should be repaid has also been repaid.
He is going back to the capital.
He didn't reveal a word about what happened to him in the capital.
In the past, he liked to brag and show off in front of everyone, just to gain everyone's respect and recognition.
But after living in the capital for such a long time, going in and out of all high-end places, and being followed by big bosses of multinational companies like Mrs. Baoer, Wen Laowu's pattern and knowledge have slowly opened up.
Making a fortune in silence is the main theme.
Making a fool of yourself is something only poor people like to do.
Besides, when he came back from this trip, he had been warned a thousand times that it was best not to mention anything about the capital.
Otherwise, you will be in endless trouble in the future.
Think about it, when the time comes, everyone in the village will come looking for him, one asking for help, another asking for help, and even his relatives will all come to ask for help...
Wen Laowu felt that in the past few decades, no one had helped him. Apart from endless jokes and ridicule, nothing good had ever happened.
So, now that I am going to be prosperous, I don't need to let these villagers know.
Why do you use the trope of going up to a rich woman and pretending to slap her in the face? All you can do is say YY.
Originally, Wen Laowu wanted to give the house at home to a relative of his, so that it could be regarded as a relative of everyone.
Unexpectedly, he just walked to a relative's house and saw that Fourth Sister Wen was also at the relative's house.
Seeing Wen Laowu coming over, the Fourth Sister Wen and her relatives all said to Wen Laowu: "Wen Laowu, what are you doing here? There's no way to borrow money. I'm telling you, we'll just do it ourselves."
They are relatives, and brothers have to settle accounts clearly."
When Wen Laowu heard this, he forgot about it and pretended that he had never been there.
He turned around and walked away neatly, thinking to himself, just keep this old house here and don't give it away to anyone.
In the future, when I get old or have a falling out with Mrs. Ball, I will have a way out.
In the future, even if I return to my hometown to worship my ancestors, I still have a place to stay.
After thinking about it, Wen Laowu was particularly open-minded.
He found a big lock and locked the house neatly late one night.
From then on, the villagers did not know where Wen Laowu was.
Some people say that when debt collectors came to the house in the middle of the night, Wen Laowu ran away overnight without even having time to put on his clothes.
Some people say that because Wen Laowu had nothing and was so poor that he couldn't think of anything else, he ran to the Yangtze River and committed suicide.
Li Qing felt a little unreliable when he heard these rumors.
It was clear that Wen Laowu had just picked up so much money, and if he divided 500 yuan among himself, he could still live a good life for a while. Even if he had to pay off his gambling debts, he could still cope with it for a while. How could he not think about jumping into the Yangtze River?
However, Li Qing did not dare to say this in public.
This was an agreement with Wen Laowu that this matter would be kept secret and would not be spread to anyone else.
In short, Wen Laowu completely disappeared from this village.
In the village, there was gradually no talk about him.
Only those people under the big banyan tree at the head of the village would mention him when they were having nothing to do and bragging about setting up the Dragon Gate Formation.
"Well, back then, Wen Laowu was actually a handsome young man."
"Obviously he has such a good daughter and son-in-law, but in the end, he committed suicide by himself."
"It's a pity. Alas, I don't know where he is now. However, his life is worth it. He once had such a beautiful wife, a daughter who is a college student, and a son-in-law with a household worth ten thousand yuan. How can he be better than