31 Persuasion 3
(Daily daily: rolling all over the ground for recommendations, asking for collections!) )
The person who came is called Wu Yongkang, he is the village Lizheng, it seems that the old man is a fairy wind and bones, gentle and amiable, Shi is actually forced to buy and sell behind his back, and he is always indispensable to take advantage of people's danger, he is a veritable bully rich man in the village, a typical ancient Huang Shiren. Don't talk about deducting the hard-earned money of the family's long-term and short-term workers, take advantage of the difficult problems in the village and need money, borrow money to help people with a kind look, turn around and charge high interest, that is, usury, if the villagers really can't pay it back, they will forcibly take other people's fields to offset the account.
If it's so hateful, why doesn't anyone clean him up! Then I have to talk about his other identities, in addition to being the head of the village, he is also the patriarch of the Wu family, the largest family in the village, almost 1/3 of the people in the village are surnamed Wu, and he is relatively smart, and he treats his own family members differently from foreign surnames, and knows how to use a little favor or something to win people's hearts. For example, whenever he paid taxes and grain, as Lizheng, he secretly colluded with officials from the county to manipulate and seek personal gains, but he would not attack his own family, only targeting foreign surnames in the village. He will lend money to the clansmen when they need money urgently, but the interest rate is much lower than that of outsiders, and he will be appropriately tolerant for a little time, and will not be overly coercive. So although he was scolded by people with foreign surnames behind his back, and everyone gritted their teeth at him, he was still very popular in their own family, and he also knew that those people could be provoked and which people could not touch, and he had always done his job steadily.
This old guy has always been unprofitable, and it seems that he has come to fight some bad ideas today, Li Tianyang thought to himself.
"Grandpa Wu, you said this as if I was going to harm everyone, I'm only a few years old, and I'm not as bad as you think!" l Li Tianyang wiped the tears on his face and looked at Wu Yongkang pitifully.
"Old man, I'm not saying that you're going to hurt everyone, I'm just saying that you're too young to think about things so thoughtfully. At times like this, you have to listen to the words of old people like us, as the so-called family has an old man, if there is a treasure, in my opinion, let's donate some clothes and food to give them a few families, if they really wait until they run out of food, can't they still come to me? Is that what I'm using for decoration in this hall? In terms of my family wealth, there is no problem in helping their dozens of people. Wu Yongkang's face was upright, and people who didn't know thought he was a good person.
Wu Yongkang's family was also badly damaged, but he was not distressed, but secretly happy. The more of this kind of catastrophe, the more he can make a fortune and reap the land, he knows it very well in his heart. Seeing the fire at the edge of the village, he not only did not worry about how many things would be burned, but hoped that the fire would burn a few more families, and he would take the opportunity to collect a few more pieces of land.
Therefore, at night, Wu Daofu came to him for help and asked him to organize people to rescue the villagers as Li Zheng, but he was scolded away with an old face.
During this night, while directing his subordinates to hurry up and rescue their own food and money, he estimated in his heart how much land he would be able to collect after this earthquake, thinking about a better future, he only felt that this devastation was as if it was heaven on earth.
Land is as important as life for rural folks, and without land, what do you use to support your family, so who will sell the land to do this killing of chickens and eggs until the last saving moment. Who wouldn't know that loan sharks have a bad reputation? But Wu Yongkang was willing to do this dirty business in order to be able to justifiably snatch the land from the villagers. His lifelong wish was to buy all the land in this village and leave an iron-clad job for his children and grandchildren.
Until a member of the Wu clan suddenly came over and told him that Li Tianyang wanted everyone to concentrate food and resist natural disasters together, and asked his old man to see if it was worth joining. The old fox, who was good at budgeting, felt that his eyes were dark, this was to grab food in his rice bowl, no, this was to smash his rice bowl directly!! He had already made a wishful thinking and was willing to let Li Tianyang do this, if it was Li De, who was still afraid of him, what would a stinky little hairy child use to fight him.
Wu Yongkang rushed over in a hurry, and just saw that Li Tianyang was moving with affection for everyone, and he knew that he was reasonable, so he quickly interjected and interrupted Li Tianyang.
"Yes, God, you know what kind of person I am, after all, we still have 2 children at home, it doesn't matter how many hungry adults are, but when children officially grow up, they can't be hungry! I think it's better to forget it, at most we all have to think of a way, squeeze the rations again, and donate more to them, what do you think? Zheng Erniang was also quite embarrassed, she didn't want to watch the villagers starving, and she was worried about her own children.
Other people also followed suit, not wanting their own food to be donated, and the food felt safe in their own hands.
"I know what people are worried about? In fact, I have a rough estimate, although our village is not a land of fish and rice, but the rice and other grains of rice in two seasons a year are actually enough for all of us to eat, and our fathers also bring some grain back from time to time, otherwise the winery in the village would not have been making wine all the time, and there are a few families in our village who are not full of food. Li Tianyang has been thinking about how to impress everyone, but it is too difficult.
"Hehe, don't you fool us into your thief ship, and you don't participate like just now, then won't we all really become big fools?" Zhang Laosi continued with a strange look.
"That's right! Tianyang, you have to know how old you are, and the adults in your family are not here for such a big thing, have you done it?" Wu Yongkang seized the opportunity and immediately followed the topic.
The people around thought about it, yes, although Li Tianyang seems to be quite courageous, he also relied on his methods to save so many villagers yesterday, but after all, he is only 5 years old, where can he be the master of their family, isn't this just to persuade us to be the boss of this wrong? No wonder their gang doesn't know where to go now! Thinking of this, the dissatisfied voices in the crowd became louder and louder, and everyone was about to disperse.