Chapter 75: Getting It Straight
There is no way for the government to manage the fights of these businessmen, so Wu Qingyuan can only take advantage of the people’s will.
The Qian family’s plan will damage not only the interests of his Wu family, but also the villagers, these grains are the livelihood of their family in the second half of the year, and without these grains, they cannot survive, once the Qian family’s burning of grain is known to everyone, it will trigger public anger, and all the villagers involved will never let the Qian family go easily.
And how to disclose this news to the villagers must also be done skillfully, this matter cannot be revealed carelessly, let everyone catch them in the act to deal a heavy blow to the Qian family!
Wu Qingyuan’s return to the village to prevent everyone from guarding the grain was not small, and the Qian family naturally got the news.
But Qian Yuan did not pay attention to it, the idea they discussed was secret, Wu Qingyuan could not know, the Wu family had already pitted him several times, this time if he did not export evil acts and let Wu Qingyuan die or be ruined, he would not be willing.
Zhao Haisheng had some doubts, but after letting people inquire and observe for a few days, he was relieved to find the patrol and guard of the grain storage were just villagers, and he was a little more distracted than before as Wu Qingyuan was not wary of people watching, and continued to wait for the villagers to collect all the grain in the field before acting- since he wants to do it, he has to do a big job, and he is willing to put Wu Qingyuan to death!
On the other hand, after Wang Dafu went back, he also continued to watch the movements of the Qian family to find benefits for himself, while racking his brains to think about how to gain Wu Qingyuan’s trust.
In the end, he was so ruthless that he ran to the door of the Wu family with his wife and children and his wife to kneel and beg, and at the same time wrote the deed of sale of the family in his hand, gritted his teeth and decided to become a slave to the Wu family.
There is also no way, from being an ordinary person to a slave without freedom- no one would be willing, but Wang Dafu can no longer think of other ways to gain Wu Qingyuan’s trust. Only by handing over the deeds of life and death of his family to Wu Qingyuan, only then will he rest assured to accept him as a subordinate, because slaves will not betray their master, the slaves give birth to slaves, the master dies and the slaves die as well, becoming master and servant means they are people in the boat.
He had no other choice, although the slave had no freedom, and he even sacrificed the opportunity to take the test for scholars for at least three generations, but if his master was Wu Qingyuan, this path was not impossible.
If he didn’t turn to Wu Qingyuan now, other members of Shiqiao Town would not take him in after offending the Qian family, it would be difficult to live here, as he was unable to find a good way to make a living, and out of Shiqiao Town, life is not familiar, his family also has no good way out.
What’s more, these years, all his family members are used to living a good life, a life of swallowing bran and pickles, the white and fat son and the beautiful little girl have lost weight during this time, and his wife has also given all the jewelry away, and their relatives in the village cannot take in their whole family, and he simply cannot feed the whole family by working alone.
But if he follows Wu Qingyuan, although they lose their freedom, Boss Wu’s character will not be too bad, but there is still the possibility of being rich and noble, which is better than now wherein the family is living in a broken temple and would be living in poverty for a lifetime.
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Since Wang Dafu is so resolute and sincere, and since he really lacks people, Wu Qingyuan took the deed of sale written by Wang Dafu and looked at it, no longer hesitated, and accepted the person in a good mood.
After going to the official mansion to complete the contract, he settled Wang Dafu’s family, estimated that the Qian family’s plan is still the same, and left the town’s affairs for Amo to handle, and then took Wang Dafu and a few other slaves back to Liushu Village to wait for the rabbit to enter the trap.
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Although Old Master Qian is not very smart, Zhao Haisheng is also not stupid- it took so much money and effort to plan this, and this time, dealing with Wu Qingyuan is not only because of the resentment in his heart but also the opportunity for him to make meritorious contributions to the Qian family to continue to rise.
After a period of observation and finding the ‘loophole’ in the duty of the grain-watching team organized by Wu Qingyuan, Zhao Haisheng ordered people to start acting.
In order to protect his interests, he did not personally go into battle but went to buy a few homeless people to do the matter of burning grain, so that even if the Wu family went to sue- without evidence, there would be no way to take them captive.
But what he didn’t expect was that this time Wu Qingyuan didn’t plan to get the government involved, what he wanted was while that the Qian family could not be completely defeated yet, but they had to completely lose their reputation!
When Zhao Haisheng was looking for someone to keep an eye on the movements of Liushu Village, Wu Qingyuan naturally also found someone to keep an eye on them, and after determining the enemy’s action time, he also immediately gathered thirty villagers to watch the grain, under the pretext of preventing the ‘badger’ who stole the grain and stayed with everyone all night in the granary where the grain was centrally stored in the village.
After squatting and guarding with everyone for three consecutive days, this night, they finally arrested a few homeless people that Zhao Haisheng had found to burn grain.
“I didn’t expect that we squatted all night and didn’t catch the pig badger, but we ran into these bastards! Okay, if you want to burn our grain, Lao Tzu will kill a few of your sons first!”
The village men who had caught the homeless people burning grain were furious.
Originally, in the past few days, everyone proposed to Wu Qingyuan that guarding the granary all night felt redundant, in previous years they also collected grain, as long as they took precautions, those small animals that steal food were not a problem, but this year Wu Qingyuan asked them to guard like this, which was really a waste of time and energy.
But they didn’t expect that the pig badger they guarded against for a few days were not caught, but they caught a few bastards who wanted to burn their granaries, which made everyone angry, they were busy and tired for most of the year and finally harvested and waited to earn silver to celebrate, these people actually wanted to burn their grain and cut off their lives, they should be beaten!
The villagers selected by Wu Qingyuan to see the grain are all among the best in the village, plus they work all year round and have no lack of pure brute force, how can a few homeless people who are starving all day withstand such a beating, and they were all knocked unconscious.
“Stop, they are all homeless people in the town, they suddenly came to burn our grain. It must be instructed by someone, first arrest these people, a few of you go to wake everyone up, we must immediately interrogate overnight and quickly find out this person, otherwise, since he can’t burn this time, and will come next time.”
When the fight was almost over, Wu Qingyuan came forward to tell everyone to stop, and first teach these people a lesson but they can’t beat people to death.
“Yes, yes, Boss Wu is right, let’s go, let’s go and wake everyone up and ask.”
As soon as he reminded them, the angry villagers also reacted, just now they were angry and forgot, these homeless people did not ask them for food but came to burn food, there must be someone instructed.
Damn, who the hell is so unconscionable!
The villagers who were woken up were as angry as the villagers who watched the grain after they knew what happened, they were very angry. For the Qian family and the Wu family, these were silver taels and business losses, but for them, these were their entire livelihood, their lifeline.
With the village chief in charge, everyone gathered in the ancestral hall of the village and at the door, and the lights were bright at night, and the interrogation began noisily.
The people who were bought were always the most likely to defect, and the few homeless people who had woken up were tied up and still in the middle of the crowd, looking at the villagers around them who were eager to chop them with knives, and they did not dare to resist at all, and sold the Qian family after just a few seconds.
“It’s none of our business, it’s that Uncle Zhao who told us to do it, don’t hit us, it’s none of our business…”
Several homeless people with blue noses and swollen faces shrunk together, and they were frightened.
“Uncle Zhao? Who is this Uncle Zhao?” The village chief continued the interrogation with a calm face.
“It’s Master Qian’s new treasurer, Zhao Haisheng, right! His name is Zhao Haisheng! He said that Mr. Qian asked us to burn grain, and if it is burned, he would give us silver, but if we didn’t agree, Mr. Qian wouldn’t let us beg in Shiqiao Town, uncles, we were forced…..”
Although before coming, Zhao Haisheng coerced and lured everyone so that even if something happened, they couldn’t talk nonsense, but who knew that they were so unlucky to be caught and interrogated by the villagers of the whole village. In the face of life and death, who can still care about Zhao Haisheng’s threats, pushing the responsibility to save their own lives is the right thing to do, it’s not that big of a big deal that they won’t be in Shiqiao Town in the future, homeless people can live wherever they go, that is, they will just have to re-familiarize themselves with the territory.
A few homeless people explained the matter without reservation, but the surrounding villagers’ faces became more and more ugly, and they gritted their teeth one by one.
It turned out to be Zhao Haisheng! It’s the Zhao family! They’re from the same village but they want to hurt everyone so much!
No wonder, a few days ago, Zhao Dasheng and his wife also showed off to everyone that their son was present, and they all did things for a rich noble, and their daughter was also married to the rich noble of the county as a wife, and they finally raised their eyebrows, and said they were going to move to the town.
They were really in a rush and had already moved out-it was so that they couldn’t be dragged.
“Village chief, this time you can’t protect the Zhao family anymore, this family is really full of black-hearted people, those grains are grown by us for half a year, and our family is counting on those grains to live, fortunately, it was discovered in time, if we didn’t find it, won’t we all have to go to the streets to beg this year?”
“That is, village chief, we don’t care about you usually protecting Zhao Dasheng and his wife, if you don’t give us an explanation this time, we won’t allow it!”
“And the Qian family, this matter was allowed by Mr. Qian, let’s not rent the Qian family’s field, we want to abandon those fields, let’s rent Boss Wu’s field in the future…”
The villagers were so emotional that they all made a fuss, at this moment, they simply hated the Qian family and the Zhao family, grain and crops, there were people who wanted to burn their grain, and they must be punished by the heavens!
The village chief’s face is also very ugly, there is such a bad person who is his relatives, where will his old village chief’s face be put in the future? How else can he establish prestige in the village? He has married a relative of the Zhao family, and he has really garnered bad luck enough for eight lifetimes!
“Everyone tie up these guys, and bring these people, let’s go to the town now to find Old Master Qian and the Zhao family to the judge!”
Without Wu Qingyuan’s instigation, the village chief immediately slapped the table to organize the villagers to go to the town to make trouble, daring to cut off everyone’s life, they would have to give an explanation!
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Thanks for the translation 😊
As a defendant of farmers family. I felt what the villagers is feeling. People like Zhao haisheng really is heartless. No word can describe it