Chapter 115 116 Reason for Theft

Li Yu looked at Old Man Hu, "Then please tell me, what is the reason? Do you come to our village to steal frequently?"

Old Man Hu looked at Li Yu, then at the few men still hanging on the cowshed, as well as the men on the ground who had been beaten with bruises and swollen faces. He gritted his teeth and made up his mind, pointing to the men hanging on the cowshed, "As long as You promise to let them down and stop pursuing their theft, and then help us pull out the arrows and let us apply some medicine and bandage them, and I will tell you the reason, old man."

Li Yu thought for a moment, "I promise you to let them go first, and I will decide whether to pursue them after I hear your reasons. Also, I hope you are not just talking casually to fool me."

"Don't worry, I will never fool you." Old Man Hu said.

Li Yu asked Ruyi who was waiting on the side to lower the men from the wooden stakes in front of the cowshed. The men hung in pain in front of the cowshed for several hours. They were already extremely weak. When he saw Li Yu and Ruyi was still frightened, so Li Yu and Ruyi split up and pulled out the arrows from the legs of those people, causing several people to scream in pain.

The women from Hujiacun rushed forward, holding the handkerchiefs in their hands to wipe the wounds.

After looking at it, Li Yu sighed in his heart. After thinking about it, he stopped them and said to them: "You can't wipe the wound like this. Please wait a moment."

The women were stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Old Man Hu, "Uncle, look...

Old Man Hu thought to himself: They even have bows and arrows. They must know how to treat wounds for better results. He nodded to the women, "Just listen to this girl."

Li Yu told Ruyi, "Ruyi, go home and pour a pot of wine."

After hearing this, Ruyi drove the mule cart to get the wine. Li Yu looked at Old Man Hu and said, "Old man, it's your turn to fulfill your promise."

Old Man Hu took a step forward and said in a low voice: "Girl, it was Ye Juren who hired us to come to your village to steal. Originally, he wanted us to come at night and destroy the food in your fields. We know how difficult it is to grow some food." , I didn’t agree to him. He just asked us to come to your place to steal things again. After the monkeys visited the site, they said that you had more than a dozen cows and some livestock. He asked us to steal the cows and he would buy them with money. , otherwise we wouldn’t dare to steal cattle, and there would be no place to sell them!”

"You damn bitch," Chen Yaohui jumped angrily after hearing this, "It's Mr. Ye again. I told him he's not a good guy, but he's waiting for us here!"

Li Yu thought to himself: No wonder Ye Juren was so quick to send someone to compensate Ye San for wasting money from the lotus pond. He thought that if he apologized and admitted his mistake, we would not be wary of them. He went through so much trouble, and it was definitely not for revenge. We will definitely pay him back. Have other motives.

Li Yu looked at Old Man Hu, "I don't think why he did this, just to get revenge on us, right?"

Old Man Hu sighed, "I guess he is interested in your field. It's also because you have taken care of the village so well that even we are jealous of it. Look at the rice and livestock in your field. How eye-catching it is! If we had half as much harvest as you, we wouldn't do such dirty things."

Li Yu looked at Old Man Hu and thought to himself: It is better to have one more friend than one more enemy. If the villagers in Hujia Village really didn't steal because they were too lazy to eat, then let them go.

"I can let them go right away, and you won't have to pay any compensation,"

Old Man Hu looked at Li Yu and was about to bow to thank him. Li Yu raised his hand to stop him, "Don't thank me yet. There are some things I won't say."

Old man Hu looked at Li Yu in confusion, "Girl, please speak, old man is all ears."

Li Yu looked at the people in Hujia Village and said loudly: "No matter what you say, I don't think it can be a reason for you to steal. Have you ever thought about future generations? Do you want to continue stealing like this from generation to generation? You can't even You dare to steal, but you don’t know how to change, change your thinking, change the way of farming. Natural selection, survival of the fittest, since those fields are already like that, you can’t wait for them to If you change, you should find ways to make it more suitable for farming and produce more valuable things so that you can live better instead of stealing and robbing."

After listening to Li Yu's words, the villagers in Hujia Village and Fengming Village all thought: We can only change them, we can't wait for them to change for us, yes! Those things are dead, but people are alive! How can we just wait for it to change on its own?

Old man Hu burst into tears when he heard this, and knelt down in front of Li Yu with a plop. Li Yu was startled and quickly helped him up, "Old man, please get up quickly, you are going to hurt me like this."

Old Man Hu looked at Li Yu and said with choked sobs: "Girl, our Hujia Village used to be a good place in Fengming Town.

It rained heavily for several days that year, and flash floods destroyed all the fertile farmland. All that was left in the village was the hillside land. The hillside land could not hold water and could only grow sorghum and chestnuts. It was difficult to make ends meet for a year. You also have to pay taxes to the Yamen.

Everyone really couldn't survive anymore, and they had no other ability, so they started stealing. Please give us some advice, girl, on how to grow food on sloping land.

As long as there is food to eat, who would be willing to do things that harm one's moral character? Nowadays, children in the village cannot even get a daughter-in-law. A married girl cannot even lift her head in her husband's family. In the past, a daughter-in-law who married in could not even get a daughter-in-law. Dare to reply. "

Chen Yaohui and Chen Gui sighed after hearing this, alas! We farmers rely on good fields and good weather. God will reward us with food to eat. If the weather is bad, we have to beg for food.

The people in Hujiacun all looked at Li Yu eagerly. The man who yelled the most fiercely lay on the ground and looked up at Li Yu, "Girl, please come to our place and have a look. Help us find a way. Even if it doesn't work, We don’t blame you either.”

Chen Yaohui looked at Li Yu and said hesitantly: "Xiaoyu, why don't you go help them and see if there is any other way."

Li Yu thought for a while and nodded, "I can help you see if there is any other way. If there is, it will definitely not be achieved overnight. You will have to work hard to gain anything. But some of you must have been used to it. Now, it’s up to you whether you want to change this lifestyle of getting something for nothing.”

Old Man Hu sighed and said, "Girl, being a thief is not that easy. To be honest, we have regretted it a long time ago. It's just that our reputation has been ruined, so we broke the pot."

At this time, Ruyi had already helped the men clean their wounds and apply medicine. She came over and said to Li Yu, "Girl, you have already treated their wounds."

"Okay, you record a confession and have them sign it, then let them go!"

Li Yu said to Old Man Hu again: "Old man, if Ye Juren comes to find out about you, just say that we let you go because we were scared by you. I will wait for you at home at midnight the next day. You can ask someone to come over." I’ll go to your place to take a look and help you think of a solution.”

Old Man Hu saluted gratefully and said: "Okay, I will reply to him as you said. Thank you for your magnanimity, girl."

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