HPDBC Chapter 1588 Pressure
Chapter 1588 Pressure
Chapter 1588 Pressure
After being yelled at by Zhao Youcai, Lin Xiangshun and Li Dayong reacted instantly, and both of them smiled at Zhao Youcai with embarrassment on their faces.
In fact, it is very common to kill cattle and horses by mistake when hunting in forest areas. It’s just that Zhao Youcai is too famous in this regard, so when such a thing happens, he is the first person people think of.
Zhao Youcai's bean-sized eyes flashed with a fierce light as he glanced at everyone in the room, forcing away everyone's gaze.
At this time, in the outer room, Wang Meilan frowned and said to Tao Hehua: "Qin Qiang's wife, if you have something to say, just say it. Why are you howling?"
The locals are very averse to crying and howling, especially at night. It was fine now that it was daytime, but if it was night, Wang Meilan would have kicked her out long ago.
"Second Aunt, I feel so aggrieved, ah..." When Wang Meilan said this, Tao Hehua howled even louder, not only her voice became louder, but tears also came down.
She called Wang Meilan affectionately because the Qin and Zhao families had been friends since the time of Grandfather Zhao Jun and Grandfather Qin Qiang. This is what the locals call the friendship between the sons and the fathers.
The Zhao family members are vindictive and petty, but they are sincere to their friends. The Qin family members are just the opposite, they are polite on the surface, but they cheat their friends behind their backs.
That year, Zhao Jun's grandfather, Zhao Dazhu, killed a black bear that had not been weaned. At that time, Qin Qiang's grandfather's family was raising sheep, and the ewes were giving birth, so Zhao Dazhu sent the black bear to Qin's family to raise, and agreed that when they raised it and sold it for money, the two families would share half.
But as he was raising it, the bear died and Zhao Dazhu didn't pursue the matter any further.
The Zhao family is generous and not petty, while the Qin family is good at speaking and praising, which has led to a good relationship between the two families over the years.
It was not until Zhao Jun and Qin Qiang had an unpleasant experience because of Hua Xiao, and then the Tao family brought Qin Qiang to the Zhao family to make trouble, that the two families broke up.
"Alright!" Seeing that Tao Hehua was not going to stop talking, Zhao Jun interrupted and asked, "Who hit the horse? Didn't you catch the person?"
"He was caught!" When asked by Zhao Jun, Tao Hehua stopped crying and said, "He was caught, but he won't pay any money."
"Who is he? Why doesn't he want to pay compensation?" Zhao Jun asked, "Which village is he from? Don't we know where he lives?"
"He is an outsider." Tao Hehua said, "But he lives with his relatives in Yongshengtun."
"Then go find him right away." Zhao Jun said unhappily, "What's the point of you yelling in my house? Go find the one who hit your horse!"
As he said these words, Zhao Jun glared at Huang Zhongguo next to him.
Zhao Jun had thick eyebrows and big eyes. When he glared at him, Huang Zhongguo smiled awkwardly and said, "We want it, but he won't give it to us, so we want you to help us give him a face."
"I will come forward?" Zhao Jun was surprised. Huang Zhongguo nodded and said, "Yes, they all said that you know this person."
"Who is it?" Zhao Jun asked. Huang Zhongguo said quickly, "Huang Guier..."
He spoke with a hint of "er", and Zhao Jun didn't have time to react immediately.
"Haha!" Suddenly, a man jumped out from the west room, and Zhao Youcai asked Huang Zhongguo with a smile on his face, "Did Huang Gui beat him?"
"Ah. Ah!" Seeing Zhao Youcai, Huang Zhongguo nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, it's Huang Gui!"
"Hahaha..." Zhao Youcai didn't care what Huang Zhongguo and the others felt, he just laughed out loud.
But within two seconds, Zhao Youcai's laughter stopped. Wang Meilan couldn't stand it anymore and hit Zhao Youcai with a stick.
When people and horses die and you laugh out loud, they will think you are gloating over their misfortune.
In fact, Zhao Youcai was indeed gloating over someone else's misfortune. But the object of his gloating was not Tao Hehua or Huang Guozhong, but Huang Gui.
When Huang Gui came last year, he laughed at Zhao Youcai for beating Lao Niu.
Zhao Youcai was not good at speaking, so he had no way to refute it. He could only keep this humiliation in his heart.
Later, Zhao Youcai went to Wudaogou to hunt a tiger. After his success, he went to Huang Gui's house to show off. However, when he mentioned hunting a tiger, Huang Gui mentioned that he slaughtered a cow, which made Zhao Youcai very angry.
This time Huang Gui killed a horse, so he was called a horse-killing cannon. Zhao Youcai tilted his head and thought about it. As he thought, a smile appeared on his face.
"He can't not pay, right?" At this time, Zhao Jun frowned and asked Huang Zhongguo, "What did Huang Gui say?"
Zhao Jun thought he knew Huang Gui well. It was true that Huang Gui had a bad temper, but he was a man who took responsibility for his actions. Even though his family was not well off, Huang Gui would still pay for the horse even if he had to borrow money.
"He...he...didn't say anything." Huang Zhongguo's hesitation made Zhao Jun very suspicious, and he immediately asked, "How much money do you want from him?"
"We..." Huang Zhongguo subconsciously looked at Tao Hehua, and Tao Hehua quickly said to Zhao Jun: "We want one thousand yuan."
"One thousand yuan?" Zhao Jun glanced at Tao Hehua. He didn't believe what this woman said. If it was one thousand yuan, then there was nothing wrong with the price. But Zhao Jun saw the eye contact between Huang Zhongguo and Tao Hehua and felt that there was something wrong.
"Okay, don't get angry." Zhao Jun thought for a moment and said, "It's just a thousand yuan. I'll give it to you on behalf of Huang Gui."
As soon as Zhao Jun said this, Tao Hehua and the other three showed signs of joy on their faces, and then they heard Zhao Jun continue, "After that, I'll go get the car and pull the horse from the mountain to my house."
"No, no..." Huang Zhongguo had just said "no" twice when he was glared at by Zhao Jun and was silenced.
"Nothing? Didn't you ask for a thousand yuan?" Zhao Jun said, but Tao Hehua said, "One thousand is horse money. It's still a delay for Zhongguo to work. Shouldn't you give him two yuan?"
Tao Hehua's words made everyone in the room frown. Zhao Youcai beat the ox three times, but he only paid for the ox.
"How much do you want for your package?" Zhao Jun asked. Tao Hehua said, "What money do you want? Just leave the horse to us."
When Zhao Jun heard this, the corner of his mouth twitched and he was speechless.
If Tao Hehua said this 20 or 30 years later, there would be absolutely no problem. Killing a horse for someone else is a loss of money, not a purchase of a horse. The horse should be given to someone at the price it was bought for and the value it is worth, and then the horse should be left to the person.
The same is true if you take legal action.
But it’s different now. Compensating money is equivalent to buying dead cows and dead horses. The Zhao family compensated three cows in this way.
Zhao Jun certainly couldn't let Tao Hehua have her way. If he did this this time, what would happen if his father went out to beat Lao Niu again in the future? This kind of compensation would only cost him an extra 500 or 600 yuan.
Thinking of this, Zhao Jun waved his hand at Tao Hehua and said, "Alright, I can't control this matter. You can sue wherever you want."
"I..." Tao Hehua was speechless for a moment, but she came to her senses the next second. The first thing this woman did when she came to her senses was not to reason with Zhao Jun, but to throw a tantrum. She sat on the ground, raised her hands, and when her hands fell on her legs, she cried out: "Oh my second brother... huh?"
As soon as Tao Hehua shouted, Qin Qiang grabbed the collar and pulled her up.
Tao Hehua was a little confused when she stood up, but when she saw Xing San standing at the door of the west room, she was suddenly startled and her eyes instantly brightened.
Xing San is old and his eyes are a little blurry. He squinted at Tao Hehua, which put a lot of psychological pressure on Tao Hehua.
Tao Hehua hurriedly shifted her gaze, but when she looked towards the east room, she saw Jie Sun standing at the door with her fists clenched and a fierce look in her eyes.
Tao Hehua felt her legs go weak, but she still said, "Then our horse was killed, so you have to pay for it, right?"
"Who said no compensation?" Zhao Jun said unhappily, "They want to compensate you, but you are blackmailing them!"
"I..." Tao Hehua was speechless, and then she heard Zhao Jun continue: "If you agree, I will make the decision for them and give you an extra fifty yuan."
"What can you do with fifty yuan?" Huang Shuhua said this. Although they lived in the same village, Zhao Jun was not familiar with Huang Shuhua, so he said bluntly, "Forget it. Go find whoever beat your horse."
"Aunt Zhao!" Huang Zhongguo was not stupid. When he saw that it didn't work with Zhao Jun, he looked at Wang Meilan and said, "Look, why don't you add two more?"
Wang Meilan is generous, but not a big shot. After hearing what Huang Zhongguo said, Wang Meilan looked embarrassed and said, "The winter sports are over, and the prices of cattle and horses have dropped. You should stop while you are ahead."
"Uncle, aunt." Qin Qiang spoke up at this time. He said to Zhao Youcai and Wang Meilan, "Please give me a favor and add another fifty. Make it an even number, 111."
Zhao Youcai and Wang Meilan looked at each other, and Wang Meilan turned back to Qin Qiang and said, "Okay, you go up the mountain and pull that horse to my house, and I'll give you the money after that."
"This..." Qin Qiang turned to look at Tao Hehua after hearing this. Wang Meilan saw this and said, "What do you mean, you are just thinking about asking for money and leaving the horse behind?"
"No, no, that's impossible, Second Aunt." Tao Hehua said hurriedly, "What's our problem? We can't borrow a sled now, and we can't get the horse back."
After hearing what Tao Hehua said, none of the three members of the Zhao family said anything. If it were any other family, Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan would definitely take the initiative to give them all kinds of conveniences. But against Qin Qiang and Tao Hehua, if it weren't for the death of Tao Ersheng and Tao Sansheng, Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan would have kicked them out long ago.
As Tao Hehua finished speaking, the room fell into silence. Tao Hehua looked at Zhao Jun, then at Wang Meilan, and then her eyes met Xing San's sharp gaze.
Tao Hehua's heart skipped a beat, and she hurriedly said to Zhao Jun, "Xiaojun, you have a car, so I thought I'd trouble you to go and pull the horse back."
Zhao Jun looked up at Tao Hehua and asked, "Just pulling the horse?"
"Then..." Tao Hehua said with a bitter face, "My Ersheng and Sansheng are still in the mountain. Can you help bring them back?"
As she spoke, Tao Hehua clasped her fists towards Zhao Jun and said, "Just think of it as my third sister-in-law begging you."
"Who the hell are you calling Third Sister-in-law?" Before Zhao Jun could say anything, Xie Sunshi stepped forward from the door of the east room and pointed at Tao Hehua, saying, "Stop trying to get close to us!"
Tao Hehua glanced at Li Sun, then looked at Xing San cautiously. Seeing that Xing San did not move, Tao Hehua felt slightly relieved.
At this time, Zhao Jun shook his head and said, "We can't take them. Our car is for transporting goods and people."
Even though Zhao Jun said so, Tao Hehua still didn't give up and said, "Xiao Jun, then we can give you the money to hold the car, isn't that okay?"
There is a custom in Northeast China called "pressing the kang with money".
This kang money was originally a marriage custom. In the early years, transportation was slow and it would take more than one day for a bride to arrive in another place after getting married.
Whether staying at a friend's or relative's house, or staying in a hotel, before leaving, they would leave two coins on the kang where they had stayed, just like giving them a bag of wedding candy, so that they could share in the good luck.
Later, the turmoil of the Republic of China and the eight-year war of resistance against Japan displaced many people. After the society stabilized, some elderly people hoped to return to their hometown before they died.
But when I returned to my hometown, the old house was gone, or it was sold a few years ago. At this time, there are rules for whoever you want to live in, after all, there are taboos about the dead.
It is hard to refuse a relative's words these days. Because of the favor and face, you cannot refuse. After the person dies, the family will leave money for the bed.
Leaving this money means that all the taboos regarding a person's death have nothing to do with this family.
In the forest area, there is a special custom called "pressing car money". This is when a mountain dweller dies in an accident in the mountains and his family borrows a car or sled to pull the deceased down the mountain, they have to pay a car money to the family that provides the car or sled, which also means not to touch taboos.
These days, neighbors are more concerned about personal relationships. Unless someone like Qin Qiang has offended the Zhao family, it would be too embarrassing to refuse a villager or hamlet who comes to ask for help.
Xie Chen's liberation army has killed five or six people, and he no longer cares about it.
When Zhao Jun heard Tao Hehua talking about the money for the carriage, he called out to Jie Chen from the west room, "My little minister!"
"Hey, Jun brother!" Xie Chen responded and came out of the west room. He heard Zhao Jun ask, "Xiao Chen, you also heard us talking. He said he would give you money for the car. Will you do it?"
Xie Chen smiled when he heard this, looked at Tao Hehua and asked, "How much can you give?"
Pressing the kang and the car is not for making money, just for the sake of fun. When I used the first set of RMB, it cost 10,000 yuan to press the kang and the car in Yongan Forest District. When I changed to the second set of RMB, it was always one yuan until Zhao Jun was reborn.
Tao Hehua was stunned by Jie Chen's question, and at this time she must have thought of her two younger brothers, she burst into tears and said: "Little brother, no matter how much money you want, I will give it to you. Just bring our two brothers back, you can't let them spend the night in the mountains? Or they will be eaten by yellow foxes or something like that?"
After hearing what Tao Hehua said, Xie Chen sighed and then looked at Zhao Jun.
"Alas!" Zhao Jun also sighed, and then called out: "Xiaochen, let's go, I'll go with you."
Since his rebirth, Zhao Jun has been at odds with Qin Qiang and his wife and the three brothers of the Tao family, and it is still the same today.
But the loss of two lives is indeed a pity. In addition, Zhao Jun wanted to quickly settle the matter and let Tao Ersheng and Tao Sansheng rest in peace as soon as possible to reduce the impact of their deaths on the spring hunt.
After saying that, Zhao Jun went into the house to get his gun and leggings.
Wang Meilan invited Qin Qiang and the other three to sit in the east room with Zhao Youcai, and she went to the west room and said to Zhao Jun, "Son, do you have any money?"
"Don't worry, Mom." Zhao Jun said, "Just give them to them when you come back."
Zhao Jun said this because he had no money. When he came back from Hebei two days ago, Zhao Jun still had money in his pocket, but he had to help Zhao Youcai pay for the old cow.
When they divided the profits from the golden bear gall, Wang Meilan gave Zhao Youcai a bonus, but Zhao Youcai did not return it to Zhao Jun...
I'll take a nap, and I'll update that chapter in the afternoon.
(End of this chapter)