boyutpedia Chapter 196: Rat Shit in the Village
Chapter 196: Rat Shit in the Village
In addition to the families of Li Laosi and Li Laoliu, Han Dajiang's two older brothers, one younger brother, and Bai Yu's older brother Bai Feng, unfortunately also had the turn to serve in the army this time.
In order to avoid being dragged down by Han Dajiang and Bai Yu, they couldn't wait to separate from their brothers who were injured in the service, but they forgot that after the separation, they would become a new and independent household and would be arranged into the service sequence according to the new account.
It just so happened that the authorities had increased their conscription efforts this year, and the number of conscripts was almost twice that of previous years, so these four companies were all included at once.
When they heard that their family was also among the soldiers serving in the army, their first reaction was to question the head of the village. After being blocked by the head of the village with reasonable evidence, they began to think of ways to raise money.
Naturally, they set their sights on Han Dajiang and Bai Yu, who were considered weak targets in their eyes.
Although these two people were injured before, they have recovered now, and because of Bai Jingzhou's extra support, they are actually living a pretty good life.
Han Dajiang's brothers and sisters went to find his mother, Han Lao Po, and instigated her to force Han Dajiang to serve for one of them, and then take out silver money to pay the service fee for the other two.
"He doesn't need to sell his land or house for his brother. He just needs to tell the Bai family. It's only a few dozen taels of silver. The Bai family is so rich, he will definitely be able to borrow it immediately."
Mrs. Han was so confident that she agreed without hesitation. However, Mr. Han became wary because his sons suddenly approached them in a sneaky way.
Old Mrs. Han wanted to avoid him and put pressure on Han Dajiang to force him to agree to find a way to solve the problem for his three brothers. However, she was secretly followed by Old Man Han and caught in the act.
Old Mrs. Han, who was in the middle of a tantrum, was beaten out of Han Dajiang's house by Old Mr. Han with a broom. Their other three sons were also severely scolded by Old Mr. Han.
Finally, the old man warned his three sons, "If you want to borrow money, go and borrow it yourself. If you can't borrow money and don't want to serve in the army, just sell your land. If I find out that any of you have divided the family property and are still trying to take your brother's wealth, don't blame me for finding Bai Lizheng and driving his family out of the village."
After failing to harm Han Dajiang, the three men had to find another way to raise the money for the military service.
According to rumors in the village, the three families actually had savings. In the early years when the four families had not yet separated, the three families had actually saved some private money. Only Han Dajiang's family was so stupid that they didn't save even a penny of private money.
As for the shortfall, two of the families chose to sell their land, while the other family chose to borrow from his father-in-law's family.
The Han family's farce was interrupted by old man Han, but Bai Yu's brother Bai Feng caused his parents and his second and third brothers' families to call a doctor again.
The incident started because Bai Yu paid two taels of silver to help his younger brother Bai Yi collect the money for military service.
Bai Feng believed that since Bai Yu paid two taels of silver to help his brother Bai Yi pay the labor service fee, Bai Yu should treat him equally and also pay him two taels of silver.
He also asked his parents to give him ten or eight taels of silver. Although he had no evidence, he insisted that his parents must have hidden some private money when they divided the family property, otherwise Bai Yi would not have had the money to pay the labor service.
As for what Bai Yi said, that the money was earned by him working day and night to dig herbs, Bai Feng refused to believe a word of it.
He believed that it was their parents who were secretly giving money to Bai Yi, so he kept clamoring for his parents to give him ten or eight taels of silver.
Of course his parents wouldn't give him money. Not to mention that they didn't have any. Even if they did, Bai Feng had already distributed it away in such a disheartening way. How could his parents possibly give him their hard-earned money?
They insisted that they had no money to give him. Bai Feng and his wife were of course unwilling to accept this. In order to force them to take out money, they easily gave up their pride.
They were yelling, throwing things, pushing people, and making a huge noise in the yard that belonged to his parents and his two younger brothers.
They have the greatest resentment towards Baiyu, and Baiyu is also the main victim they target.
The problem was that Baiyu had not fully recovered yet, and he could not withstand the joint pushing and shoving of the couple.
Seeing them heading towards Baiyu, Bai Yi and his parents rushed over to stop the fight.
What they didn't expect was that Bai Yu's sister-in-law deliberately exerted force and slammed into his mother hard.
His mother was deliberately knocked down by his sister-in-law, and fell with a dull thud. Bai Yi was so angry that he pushed his sister-in-law with his backhand, but he just pushed casually in anger, and the force was not strong. His sister-in-law just took two steps back and did not fall down.
Bai Yu didn't care that he was still being pinched and twisted by Bai Feng, and was about to go over to check on his mother.
His elder brother Bai Feng refused to give in and held onto Bai Yu, refusing to let go. This got their father so angry that he picked up a carrying pole and hit him hard on the back.
The old man even shouted loudly for the head of the village and the elders of the clan to come and seek justice. The couple then became frightened. They looked at each other and began to kneel down and cry, pretending to be pitiful.
The others had no time to pay attention to them. Although Bai Yu's mother had climbed up by herself, judging from her grimace of pain, she had obviously fallen quite hard.
The old man waved his carrying pole and ruthlessly drove away Bai Feng and his wife, then asked his youngest son to take some silver and go to Bai Jingzhou's house to ask for a doctor.
The old lady's face was pale, but she still gritted her teeth and said that she "didn't feel any pain".
She said to Bai Yi in a voice that was obviously weak: "Don't go. Don't waste your money."
She had to keep the money in the family to pay the military service fee for her third son, but she couldn't really let her third son go to serve in the army.
But the problem was, seeing her like that, the father and his two sons didn't dare to let her endure it on her own.
Bai Yi didn't listen to the old lady and went to ask Bai Chong or Bai Jingzhou with red eyes.
Bai Jingzhou was not at home, but Bai Chong was quickly invited over by Bai Yi.
After a thorough examination, he found that the old lady had indeed fallen and was injured, but fortunately her injury was not serious. She would recover if she rested in bed and took some medicine for a period of time.
But the old lady insisted on not taking the medicine. She was in charge of the family's money, and she knew that their current financial situation was barely enough to pay the labor service fee for her third son. If she spent money on the medicine, it would be difficult for her third son.
Bai Chong knew what she was thinking and felt sorry for her, so he didn't charge her for the medicine. He only said that the medicine he prescribed for the old lady were all ordinary herbs that Bai Yi had dug up before.
"Don't worry about eating it. Once you have taken care of your body, you can continue to take care of the family affairs. As for the medicinal herbs, you can ask Bai Yi to dig them up and return them to me next year."
The old lady cried and thanked Bai Chong, and the old man, Bai Yu and Bai Yi also thanked her.