Chapter 23: The Old Ones
Li Hao returned to the room and found that the five hundred guan was still there. He was secretly grateful, but he regretted it while he was very happy. Why did he scatter his head? He moved the money to the cellar. Now, he was stolen 1,800 guan, 1,800 guan!
Li Hao was so anxious that he didn't even have lunch. At one o'clock in the afternoon, the county government finally sent someone to come. There were three constables in total, but the head of the constable did not come. Two of them looked only eighteen or nineteen years old, and they were obviously interns.
Li Hao was very unhappy because the county government did not take the trivial matter of theft at all. He was angry and scolded the constables, asking them to go back to the county government, and even shouted that they would go to Chang'an to report to the emperor directly.
The three constables were scolded by him and ran away. After returning, they told the county magistrate Chen Anzhi about this. After Chen Anzhi heard that Li Hao was going to Chang'an to report the emperor's words, he laughed and thought that Li Hao must have been kicked by a donkey. Will the emperor accept such a small matter? What a joke? His Majesty Tian Khan is very busy.
However, the master reminded him at this time that Li Hao was the boy who quelled the plague. He was once rewarded by Li Shimin in the Golden Palace and settled in Shanghe Village, Lantian.
When County Magistrate Chen heard this, he was so shocked that he bounced off his chair and quickly ordered the sedan chair to go to Shanghe Village.
Chen Anzhi came to Li Hao's house in person. Li Hao didn't even give him a cup of tea. As soon as he met, he asked him directly: "Mr. Chen, my 1,800 guan money was stolen. 1,800 guan. Just tell me how long it will take to help me get it back."
"Uh...this..." Chen Anzhi was in a dilemma. He suddenly felt that there was a tough guy like Li Hao in his district, which was difficult to manage. At least he was too disrespectful to him. Even the minimum etiquette was not enough, and he was not even a bad review.
Although Chen Anzhi gave Li Hao a bad review and also gave him the mark of a bad guy, he still did not dare to offend Li Hao. After all, he was a person summoned by the emperor. Although he was an official, he had never even seen the gate of Tai Chi Palace. It was not like that.
Chen Anzhi tried his best to comfort Li Hao: "Don't worry, Mr. Li, my official's stolen money under his rule is my duty. I will do my best to help you arrest the thief."
Li Hao was finally satisfied with Chen Anzhi's attitude and nodded, "I would like to thank Lord Chen for this, otherwise I would really go to the emperor for help."
Chen Anzhi thrust his eyebrows when he heard this. If he really went to find the emperor, he would not be able to do this county magistrate, so he hurriedly promised again, and his chest was slapped with a loud noise.
In fact, Li Hao just scares him, afraid that he will play Tai Chi with him. As an official, he will push whenever he can, and he will drag when he can. He still knows the tricks.
After seeing Chen Anzhi off, Li Hao felt empty. To be honest, he didn't have much hope for this County Magistrate Chen. He stood in the yard and was stunned for a while, slowly looked up at the sky, with deep and distant eyes: "Does... I still want to sell poetry?" He was addicted to cheating the house and love.
Li Hao was not forced to sell poetry again, because the magistrate Chen actually caught the thief who stole Li Hao's money.
Li Hao's threat to Chen Anzhi was still very useful. In order to save his black hat, Chen Anzhi went back and gave the constables a death order to arrest the thieves within three days, otherwise they would go home to farm.
The constables were under great pressure, and all the staff were dispatched to catch thieves everywhere. The thieves in Lantian County were released from prison for two days and were beaten up again.
After repeated interrogations by the prisoners working overtime, the real murderer who stole the Li Hao family was finally found, with three people in total: Lai Si, Zhang Yu, and Chen Sanpi.
These three people are local gangsters, who usually bully men and women, and often thieves. They are regular visitors to the Lantian County Prison. They spend three or four months in prison every year. However, this time, the amount of stolen them is a bit large, with a total of 1,800 trump cards, which is more than the sum of money they stole in their lives.
Theft is just a minor crime. It can usually be released after being locked up for ten days and half a month, which is similar to detention. However, they were very lucky this time. They met Li Hao, a wealth-guarding slave, and Li Hao asked them to spit out all the money.
However, the answers of these three goods shocked Li Hao. After they stole the money, they all used it to bet. What's worse is that they lost in a row, and in just three days, they almost lost 1,800 knots.
Li Hao collapsed and searched their house, but in the end he only got 400 guan. The remaining 1,400 guan was indeed lost by them. Li Hao was so angry that he forced them to pay back the money. These three people were lazy and idle, so they could not give up. Li Hao refused to give up. In anger, they asked them to sign a contract to sell their bodies and do a hard worker for themselves until they had enough 1,400 guan.
The three guys also knew that they had hit a bad start this time, so they could only accept their fate and be prepared to be a slave for the rest of their lives. They still had 1,400 sacrificial coins. Don't joke, they won't be able to pay it back even if they die.
Li Hao had a gloomy face and brought these three gangsters back home. Through observations along the way, he found that these three were full of bad habits. Although they had sold themselves to him, they did not seem to respect him. He guessed that perhaps these three people knew that there was no hope in their lives and were ready to give up.
This is not possible. Li Hao asked them to come back to do things, not to ask the three old men to come back to mess with him. He decided to repair these three goods well.
As soon as he arrived home, Li Hao held a family meeting and announced that Lai Si, Zhang Yu and Chen Sanpi became the lowest slave of the Li family. What does the lowest mean? Everyone can scold them when they see them, or even slap them twice. They are basically the same as slaves. These three people are under the jurisdiction of Jin and help them raise chickens. He also specially weave a rattan bar and handed them to Jin in front of these three people. As long as they are disobedient, they thrust hard and thrust hard to death, and they don't have to pay their lives if they are exhausted. This is the original saying.
The three gangsters were so scared that their faces turned green on the spot. They put away the little ones in their hearts and lamented that they were suffering.
After handing these three gangsters to Jin, Li Hao hid in the room and started counting his assets. There were still nine hundred guan left. The land purchase matter was temporarily put on hold. The family's expenses were basically about ten guan per month. It would take about eighty guan to expand the chicken farm and hatchery. It would cost a lot of money to rent shops, decorate, stoves, kitchen utensils and other various equipment. After careful calculation, nine hundred guan was enough. For his chicken fork bone plan, Li Hao felt tired. Alas, why did the protagonists easily make a fortune when they read time travel novels before, but they had all kinds of ups and downs when they came to him.
The three gangsters were first shocked by Li Hao's cold attitude. They were very serious and obeyed the rules. Jin was kind-hearted and did not arrange any heavy work for them. She asked them to feed chickens. She did the hard work of cleaning the chicken coop by herself. She was busy like a top every day. Li Hao did not really treat these three gangsters as slaves. They would still give them a salary of 100 cents a month to increase their motivation to work.
It is said that the country is easy to change and nature is hard to change. Some people just can't be too nice to him. These three gangsters have such virtues. Seeing that Jin's temper is good, Li Hao takes good care of them and his courage gradually becomes bigger. Every day when he has nothing to do, he hides in the corner of the chicken farm and gambles secretly. After all, they are three bad gambling ghosts, and it is not so easy to get them to quit gambling.
At first, they did it very secretly, but later they became more and more courageous. More than a month later, they were discovered by Jin. Jin warned them not to gamble, and then told them the truth. The three pirates agreed lip service, but they continued to gamble afterwards.
More than ten days later, Jin found out that they were gambling again, so he told Li Hao about this. Li Hao was very angry and came to the chicken farm with Jin. He happened to meet these three guys gambling and Li Hao caught him right away.
The three gangsters were now depressed and stood in front of Li Hao in a row, not daring to speak. Li Hao looked at their gambling tools on the ground. They were very simple, a bowl, a small stone, and a small wooden stick. The way to gambling was also very simple. One person sat on the banker, grabbed a stone and held it with a bowl, and then asked the other two people to guess the odd or even number, and the winner and lose one. If only one person guessed, then the dealer did not win or lose. If both of them guessed, the dealer lost two shares, if both of them couldn't guess, the dealer won two shares.
After seeing this simple gambling tool, Li Hao sneered at them and asked, "Do you dare to play with me a few times?"
The three gangsters couldn't believe their ears. The main gambled with them. They were so joking. Even if they were the head of the family, they were just fourteen-year-old kids. They dared to bet with them, such old gambling sticks. Is this uncomfortable? Or do you think there is too much money?
Zhang Yu is very good at being a human being, grinning and said, "Young master, don't be fine. You are still young and are not suitable for playing with this..."
"What? I look down on me?" Li Hao looked at them sneered.
"No, absolutely not." Zhang Yu shook his head into a rattle.
Before he could finish his words, Li Hao squatted down and grabbed a handful of stones, held them in a bowl, and said, "Bet a bet for fifty cents, come on."
The three of them looked at me, and I looked at you. Unexpectedly, Li Hao was serious. Zhang Yu first reacted, looked at the remaining stones on the ground, and shouted: "Single!"
Chen Sanpi shook his head: "I guess it's an even number."
Lai Si thought for a while and said, "It's an odd number."
"Then I'll open it." After Li Hao said that, he lifted the bowl and used a wooden stick to divide the stones into five piles. Finally, he counted twenty and even numbers. Zhang Yu and Lai Si lost. Chen Sanpi won. Li Hao gave Chen Sanpi fifty folks. Zhang Yu and Lai Si obediently handed over fifty folks to Li Hao. In this way, Li Hao won fifty folks.
A new round began again. This time, all three of them guessed it was odd, because they clearly saw Li Hao put only nine stones under the bowl, and with their many years of experience, they could count them at that moment. However, when the bowl was unveiled, there were ten stones below. All three of them were stunned. Each of them had no choice but to hand over fifty cents. Chen Sanpi had no money because his money had lost to Lai Si and Zhang Yu these days.
Chen Sanpi withdrew, only Zhang Yu and Lai Si were left with Li Hao, and played five more games. No matter how they guessed, Li Hao would not lose. As long as Lai Si and Zhang Yu guessed differently, Li Hao would not win or lose. As long as they guessed the same, Li Hao would definitely give the opposite result.
They also gradually discovered that there seemed to be clues in it, but they couldn't see where there was a problem.
Of course they couldn't see it, because Li Hao had practiced it, of course he had never practiced gambling, but he had practiced magic. He had practiced magic for more than half a year to pick up girls, but he didn't expect it to come in handy now. This is just a simple trick in magic. Li Hao just hides a stone in his hand, and throws it under the bowl with his little finger the moment he opens the bowl, and then he can change the number of stones, so Li Hao will never lose with them.
In the end, Lai Si had no money anymore, so only Zhang Yu continued to bet with Li Hao. In fact, Zhang Yu was only more than 40 cents left. He didn't believe in this evil and bet them all.
This time, Li Hao only put three stones under the bowl. All three of them could see clearly. Zhang Yu naturally guessed the odd number. Then when Li Hao uncovered the bowl, there were obviously four stones under the bowl.
Chapter completed!