Otherwise, who will farm the land?
Who does the housework?
Who washes their clothes and cooks for them, mother and son?
Thinking of this, Wang Laoliu endured the pain and got up, reaching out his hand to his mother, Li Sanmei.
"Mom, give me five hundred yuan!"
What do you need money for?
Li Sanmei was just feeling sorry for her son being beaten, but now she's starting to worry about her savings.
Although Wang Laoliu was a hoodlum, he was completely obedient to his mother. Apart from spending money on cigarettes and alcohol with his brothers, he gave all the rest of his earnings to Li Sanmei.
However, Li Sanmei was very stingy. She was reluctant to spend a single penny of the household allowance her son gave her, saving it all herself. In the past, the family's daily expenses were covered by the money Jiang Cuicui earned from farming and raising pigs, and the vegetables were also grown by their own family.
So even though her son ate free meals for a year while he was in prison, Li Sanmei actually lived a pretty comfortable life at home. She had all the money in her own hands, and she had Jiang Cuicui, who was like a hardworking ox, obeying her every command and even earning money to support her.
Upon hearing her son ask for money, Li Sanmei jumped up as if she had been stung on the butt by a bee.
"Damn it! Those people from the Jiang family came and took that little bitch Jiang Cuicui back. Does that mean our eight thousand yuan is just going down the drain?"
At this moment, Li Sanmei completely forgot that Jiang Cuicui had been married into their family for so many years, working as their free nanny, sleeping with her son, and even working in the fields to earn money for the family. The eight thousand yuan was enough to cover all those years of nanny fees.
However, selfish people are mostly like this; they only remember their own contributions and cannot see the contributions of others.
It must be said that these two are truly mother and son. With a gloomy expression, Wang Laoliu explained to his mother, "I asked you to give me five hundred yuan. I'm going to town to find some brothers and go to Langshan Town to demand an explanation!"
"The Jiang family accepted our dowry and married our daughter off to them. It's been so many years, and they haven't even laid a single egg. Now they want their daughter back? What kind of logic is that?"
“Yes! Make the Jiang family pay back the money! We don’t want Jiang Cuicui, that barren hen! Go and get back the dowry money we gave you, and Mom will find you a new wife. Our Wang family can’t die out.”
“Son, listen to your mother’s advice. No matter how beautiful Jiang Cuicui is, you can’t keep her! She’s just a hen that doesn’t lay eggs, all looks and no use. Do you want to make our Wang family line die out?”
Speaking of this, Wang Laoliu's expression also turned sour.
He firmly refused to believe it was his problem, after all, he had always been very normal in bed.
Therefore, it must be that Jiang Cuicui is infertile!
He used to feel sorry for her not being able to have children and even planned to adopt one from a family with many children in a couple of years. But Jiang Cuicui showed no mercy and just left!
Wang Laoliu felt that he had wasted his sincere feelings.
Since we can't keep the people, we definitely have to get the money back!
Hearing that her son needed the money to find someone in Langshan Town to help him get back the bride price from her family, Li Sanmei, unusually generous, gave her son six hundred yuan.
"Keep the five hundred yuan to treat them to a meal, and use the remaining hundred to buy them a few packs of cigarettes."
With money in his pocket, Wang Laoliu rode his electric scooter all the way to Caishi Town.
After the former boss was imprisoned in a crackdown on organized crime, his gang scattered like birds and beasts. Since they all had criminal records, they couldn't find any decent work in town and just drifted through life. When Wang Laoliu shouted that he was treating people to dinner at a small restaurant that night, more than a dozen people came in a flash.
The boss was trembling with fear, worried that he had been dragged into some kind of gangster gathering. He pretended to be doing the accounts, but was actually eavesdropping behind the bar.
As a result, he heard the familiar name "Jiang Xiaoman" from Wang Laoliu's mouth.
The boss stopped shaking.
He wanted to go to the kitchen, grab an axe, and hack that damned Wang Laoliu to death!
That's Jiang Xiaoman! The little god of wealth, famous far and wide in Langshan Town!
The boss's sister-in-law married into Langshan Town. They used to be dirt poor, but ever since Jiang Xiaoman, a college graduate from Langshan Village, returned to his hometown to start a business and set up several cooperatives, wow! I heard that his sister-in-law's family earned more than 300,000 yuan last year!
My wife's younger sister married into a family with two brothers. Because they were poor, the two brothers and their wives often quarreled. But ever since everyone started working with Jiang Xiaoman in the cooperative, their family has more able-bodied men. Every time they go up the mountain to pick tea leaves, mushrooms, and wild vegetables, they can pick more than other families, and naturally they earn more money.
The two brothers have a wonderful relationship now. Their two sisters-in-law take turns taking care of the children at home, while the other goes into the mountains to collect wild produce to earn money. With many hands making light work, the family earned more than 300,000 yuan last year, and each family received more than 100,000 yuan at the end of the year. They didn't even have to stop farming, so it was pure profit!
His wife's younger sister has already come back and told his wife that she plans to work with his family this year. They will contract a mountain to grow wild mushrooms and raise hundreds of hives of native bees. They can earn over 100,000 yuan a year. Why would he need to open a small restaurant?
Now that good-for-nothing Wang Laoliu actually wants to cause trouble for Little God of Wealth?
No wonder that damned Wang Laoliu has never been able to make a fortune. He even wanted to find someone to beat up the God of Wealth. No wonder the God of Wealth can't make him rich!
Thinking of this, the shop owner's eyes lit up, and he secretly slipped out with his phone to call his brother-in-law.
Anyway, they're going to close down this year and work with Jiang Xiaoman on the cooperative. So, having his brother-in-law inform Xiaoman to be wary of Wang Laoliu is a way of giving his future boss a heads-up.
However, to the shop owner's surprise, he wasn't the only clever person.
Wang Laoliu had been in prison for a while and hadn't had a chance to hear Jiang Xiaoman's name yet, but everyone else who was released earlier knew about her.
Upon hearing that the person he was going to beat up was named Jiang Xiaoman, and after making some inquiries, it turned out to be the same Jiang Xiaoman who lived in Langshan Village. The group of cronies looked at each other, and either pretended to be drunk or said they suddenly remembered they had something to do at home, and ran off without even taking a cigarette.
In the end, a loyal friend pulled Wang Laoliu outside and secretly told him about Jiang Xiaoman's background.
"Brother, it's not that we don't want to help you, we really don't dare! You don't know this Jiang Xiaoman, even our county party secretary has shaken hands with him! He's even taken a photo with national leaders at the Great Hall of the People!"
What is that?
Wang Laoliu was stunned for a moment, then shook his head to shake out the cheap liquor in his brain, which startled him awake.
"National leaders?"
"I only heard him say that he had a cousin who worked in the county public security bureau."
What is that?
Now it was the brother's turn to sober up from the alcohol.
You know they have relatives in the county public security bureau, and you still dare to lie to us and ask us to help you beat someone up?
Haven't you had enough of the free meals you got in the past two years?
The brother felt that his good intentions had been wasted, so he didn't even bother to say goodbye and just ran away.
This Wang Laoliu is not a kind person; it's best not to hang out with him anymore.
Wang Laoliu was both angry and afraid.
What angered me was that I had treated him to a meal for nothing.
What's worrying is that Jiang Xiaoman has such a powerful background; his family might really never get their 8,000 yuan dowry back...
In Langshan Village, Jiang Xiaoman received a phone call informing her that Wang Laoliu had gathered a group of thugs in Caishi Town and was planning to cause trouble for her. Before Jiang Xiaoman could even react, Shan Yan's expression turned grim.
Has he been keeping a low profile these past two years?
Everyone knows that Jiang Xiaoman is protected by his mountain cliffs. How dare this Wang Laoliu make a move on his brother?
"Let him come!!" Shan Yan sneered.
"What do you mean, 'come here'? At times like this, we should trust the country and the law. Is Caishi Town some kind of country within a country? A lawless place?" Jiang Xiaoman pressed down on the rock and decisively made an off-site call for help to Secretary Sun.
At this hour, Sun Zheyuan was indeed still diligently writing materials for his superiors in the office. Hearing that some thugs wanted to cause trouble for Jiang Xiaoman, Sun Zheyuan cursed them a couple of times, feeling both amused and exasperated.
"What good is it for you to call me? Why don't you call the Party Secretary right now? Local officials have more power than county officials! I can send the Public Security Bureau over, but it's not as convenient as the town police station. You call the Party Secretary and tell him that some local gangsters are trying to extort money from you. Don't say anything else, and don't involve your aunt. Got it?"
Jiang Xiaoman nodded vigorously and immediately called Dang Yimin.
Dang Yimin was quite surprised to receive the call. In his memory, Jiang Xiaoman had always been a very sensible person who wouldn't bother her superiors during their rest time. Why would she suddenly call him so late at night? Did something really happen to her?
Something really did happen!
After listening to Jiang Xiaoman's complaints, Dang Yimin was so angry he laughed.
This Caishi Town! No wonder they squandered such a great opportunity!
They can't even control a few petty thugs in their own jurisdiction. When they went to the county to meet with the local officials before, they still had the nerve to ask Langshan Town to help Caishi Town get rich together.
Make a fortune my ass!
Do you know that the thugs in your town are planning to gang up on the God of Wealth?
I think you guys are more interested in losing money than getting rich.
"Alright, is it really worth you making a special call in the middle of the night for such a small matter? Don't worry about it. You guys focus on your business. If the town can't even manage its security, who will dare to invest in Langshan Town in the future?" Dang Yimin hung up the phone in annoyance.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He first called the head of the town's police station and asked him to send two people to Langshan Village to be stationed there for two days. He had all the reasons ready:
I heard that some thugs are trying to sabotage the investment attraction efforts in Langshan Town, and they even dared to threaten investors? This needs to be thoroughly investigated.
Then he made a phone call to the top leader of Caishi Town and complained in a sarcastic tone. Needless to say, just the sentence "I heard that a bunch of thugs in your town are trying to extort Jiang Xiaoman" made the secretary of Caishi Town furious.
He was just thinking of forming a group to try and get Jiang Xiaoman, this god of wealth, to see if he could persuade Jiang Xiaoman to expand the business of several cooperatives to their Caishi Town.
If people in Langshan Town eat meat, surely it's okay for them in Caishi Town to have some meat soup too?
Before he could even extend his foot to woo the God of Wealth, someone in his own backyard was trying to sabotage him? Could he tolerate that?
There's no need for the victims to file complaints anymore. As the top official of a township, if he wants to organize a special crackdown on organized crime within his jurisdiction, does he need to consult with the neighboring township?
That evening, Wang Laoliu and the group of thugs who had eaten with him were arrested and taken to the Caishi Town Police Station.
"I'm innocent!"
That bunch of thugs are practically innocent.
Honestly! When they heard that Wang Laoliu was going to deal with Jiang Xiaoman from Langshan Town, they all ran away faster than rabbits. They didn't even think about helping Wang Laoliu.
People in their line of work are very superstitious. In Langshan Town, there are rumors that Jiang Xiaoman is a lucky star, and that the old shaman said it himself. Some young people think it's superstition, but they believe it without a doubt.
Sigh~ People with low levels of education are indeed easily brainwashed by feudal superstitions. Back when they followed their boss, he would always ask a fortune teller to choose an auspicious day before mining or blasting mountains. According to that half-blind old man, there are some people in this world who are born with the destiny of the Purple Star. Even if they come from poor mountain villages, they are like dragons trapped in shallow waters, destined to soar to the sky sooner or later.
Although the old man has passed away, the thugs still remember his words and apply them to Jiang Xiaoman. Holy crap! Isn't this their Ziwei Star of Langshan?
Who the hell dares to go against the Purple Star?
That's like going to the outhouse with a lantern in hand—it's practically suicide (to shit), isn't it?
The police officers at the police station had dealt with this group of people quite a bit. Seeing them swearing oaths and wishing they could stay a hundred and eight thousand miles away from Jiang Xiaoman, they secretly found it amusing. After the interrogation, they went back and reported to their superiors, saying that this matter was probably just wishful thinking on the part of Wang Hui, also known as Wang Laoliu, who thought that bringing a group of brothers to the neighboring town to help him beat someone up was as commonplace as before.
Little did they know, Langshan Town was no longer the poor, desolate mountain village it was a few years ago. Believe it or not, if they dared to lay a finger on Jiang Xiaoman, tens of thousands of people in Langshan Town would fight Wang Laoliu to the death.
If everyone spat at that point, they'd drown Wang Laoliu.
"Alright, release everyone else. Lock up Wang Laoliu for two days. The higher-ups have repeatedly emphasized in meetings that all townships should strengthen the rectification of the business environment. If we don't teach Wang Laoliu a lesson, who will dare to invest in our Caishi Town in the future?"
"Nobody dares to invest now..." the police station chief muttered to himself.
Although his family wasn't from the area, he married a local woman, which was practically equivalent to settling down in Caishi Town. His wife had always hoped that, like in Langshan Town, rural women could earn over 100,000 yuan a year right at their doorstep.
The dream was beautiful, but unfortunately, the God of Wealth was scared away by a scoundrel like Wang Laoliu.
Thinking of this, the director cracked his knuckles and decided to go back and interrogate Wang Laoliu more carefully!