Chapter 11 Fight him
Chapter 11 Fight him
"You don't admit it, right?" Li Changle grabbed him and said, "At the end of last month, I took pomfret to the dock to sell to Adong's family on behalf of my father, and you dragged me to sell the fish to your family.
The fish was weighed at home before it was delivered. Those weighing more than half a catty were 35 catties, but yours was 32 catties. Those weighing less than half a catty were 56.5 catties, but yours only weighed 51.3 catties. You cheated me out of more than 8 catties.
After I found out, I swallowed it for the sake of our friendship. You, a jerk, actually said I was a fool outside! And you still call me your best friend, bah! Get as far away from me as you can! "
He remembered that in his previous life, when he came home after selling fish, his father said that there was something wrong with Wang Mazi's scale. He also said that he was prejudiced against people and also against other people's scales.
Later, my father fell ill, and Anan fell ill. He was a poor and destitute man with no credibility in the village. He begged for money from everyone but couldn't borrow a single dollar.
Those good friends who usually shouted that they wanted to be good brothers for life and would stick by each other through thick and thin would stay away from him when they saw him, for fear that he would come to them to borrow money.
Only silly Awei eagerly gave him all the money he had saved for who knows how long. Only then did he understand life.
It’s better to do beautifully than to say beautifully!
You don’t need many friends, one or two sincere ones are enough!
Wang Mazi was stunned by his merciless attack and was speechless for a long time. Seeing the villagers living nearby standing there looking around, he broke away from him and rushed over with a sullen face.
"You are mentally ill! You sent a basket of fish to me for sorting and weighing. The weight will naturally be less after the water is lost! Even a three-year-old child knows this, and you still have the nerve to say that I cheated you."
"Bah! You are telling lies with your eyes open, God will punish you!"
Mrs. Li rushed forward, pointed at him and said, "Do you dare to swear to heaven that you didn't cheat Ah Le? I weighed the fish myself that day, and the weight is still recorded in the notebook.
The same fish basket, the same scale, when sent to Adong's house to sell, the difference in weight is only one or two taels at most, but when it is sent to your house, it is several kilograms different? Did your aunt make the scale?"
"Ghosts are attracted by familiarity. The more familiar the person is, the easier it is to deceive them! A Le treats him like a brother, but he treats A Le like a fat pig. Such a person is not even as good as a three-year-old child!" Zhou Ruonan also came out of the house to help.
The corners of Li Changle's lips twitched twice: They are all pigs back and forth!
The villagers who were watching also started talking among themselves.
"There's probably something wrong with the scale at Wang's Fish Shop. My fish basket weighs at least 50 kilograms when it's full, but last time I weighed only 48 kilograms at his place."
"It's the same at my house. I weighed it at home and it was more than 19 kilograms, but when I got to his house it was less than 18 kilograms. Since then, I have stopped going to his house to sell fish."
"Ah Le, you are stupid! If there is such a big difference in weight, don't sell it to his family. Just take it to A Dong's family next door! Last time I found something wrong at his house, I immediately took it to A Dong's family next door to sell it!"
"Yeah! He looks pretty smart, why is he so dumb?"
"I'm still young! I have to suffer a little to learn to be smart!"
Li Changle looked at the speechless Wang Mazi with pride, thinking it would be great to do it again.
Wang Mazi had been scolded by the Li family, and now these people told him to his face that his scales were not enough. Thinking of the deserted fish shop and Li Changle still looking smug, he wanted to beat him up to vent his anger.
He looked at the tall Li Changle, but finally didn't dare to take action. He shouted sarcastically: "You bastard, you came to me to borrow money, and I didn't lend it to you. Then you said some nonsense to slander my family. You deserve to be poor all your life!" After that, he turned around and left.
Li Changle stepped over and blocked his way. He looked down at him and sneered, "I don't steal, I don't rob, and I don't cheat others of a penny. Even if I'm poor, I'm honest.
As the old saying goes, you can be rich and poor three times in your life, but who knows what will happen in the next ten years? Are you sure you can be rich all your life? I will be poor all my life?"
He couldn't remember whether it was August or September, when Wang Mazi's brother-in-law was driving a large ship to the high seas to pick up goods and on his way back, he was intercepted by the Maritime Administration who were lying in ambush in the waters near Zhushan Island.
In a panic, his brother-in-law's ship hit a reef and sank. The cargo on the ship fell into the water and drifted to Baisha Island, which was close to Baishatou Village. At that time, many people went out to sea in small boats to salvage. After Wang Mazi's brother-in-law went to prison, the Wang family lost a strong arm. Later, more and more people knew that his family collected fish and slaughtered them, and took the weight of the fish, so the business naturally could not continue.
One of the most prominent families in Shatou Village has also become a thing of the past.
"You..." Wang Mazi saw that more and more villagers were gathering around and looked at Li Changle with a gloomy face, then squeezed out of the crowd and left.
He couldn't understand why the man who had been like a fool when he was drinking last night, and who had been coaxed into being open-hearted and good friends with him with just a few words, became a completely different person overnight.
Did he know that he wouldn't let his brother-in-law take him to smuggle goods?
Zhou Ruonan also looked at Li Changle and felt that he was really different from before. She felt a little strange, but also felt that this was good, but she didn't know how long it would last.
"Ah Le is right!" Mrs. Li sneered at Wang Mazi's back, "Mr. Wang's family is stingy and it's only because of his son-in-law's support that he opened a seafood store to sell fish. Wasn't he the same as us before? He didn't even have shredded sweet potatoes to eat."
"That's right. He's only had two days of full meals. Who is he looking down on? No one goes to his house to sell fish. How does he make money?"
"I haven't been to his store to sell anything once this year, and I won't go there in the future."
Li Changle looked around and didn't see Lin Changrong, so he took his eldest son by the hand and said, "What are you doing here? Go back and eat."
"Ah Le, did you really get a big rice fish and a big flower dragon when you fished in the sea today? Which puddle near the reef did you find them in?"
When the onlookers saw Wang Mazi leave, they all surrounded Li Changle and asked about the things they were most concerned about.
"I saw it in the big pit below the reef at the east end!" Li Changle casually found a place with many reefs and puddles.
Agen's wife next door curled her lips and said, "There are so many puddles under the rocks at the east end. Who knows which one you are talking about?"
“I didn’t see clearly which one it was.”
Li Changle spread his hands and said, "When we got there, the tide had already risen. When we got there and heard the sound of water, we realized there were fish. We were so busy catching fish at the time that we didn't pay attention to the surroundings. You go there and look carefully!"
"Forget it. There may be goods available in the morning, but they may not be available now." Agen's wife turned around and walked back, planning to pack up her things and go to Dongtou Rocky Beach after the tide went out.
"I'm back. There are still two nets that haven't been repaired yet!"
The other villagers also withdrew upon seeing this, actually they all had the same plan as her.
After the onlookers left, Mrs. Li asked Li Changle curiously, "When you were in the hospital, you said that you had paid the hospital bills. Why did you ask Wang Mazi, that jerk, for a loan?"
"I did it on purpose!" Li Changle said proudly, "If I hadn't done this, how would they know that he would even betray his friends!"
Mrs. Li glanced at him sideways, "Aren't you afraid that if you fall out with him, you won't have anywhere to play mahjong, cards or watch TV in the future?"
I heard from the eldest brother that Ah Le wanted to go to sea with the eldest son-in-law of the Wang family to make a lot of money. Could it be that he has figured it out? He is willing to fish and explore the sea in a down-to-earth manner.
(End of this chapter)