lcionline Chapter 176 Coarse grain coupons, fine grain coupons, let's search for them quickly!
Chapter 176 Coarse grain coupons, fine grain coupons, let's search for them quickly!
There's an unwritten rule in fights in the Xing'an Mountains: once the other person falls to the ground and admits defeat, the fight must stop. If someone dies or causes a major incident, it's hard to cover it up.
Li Ju'an knew that Zhang Fengzi was not someone to be trifled with, and he usually avoided contact with the people of Wangxingtun, keeping to himself. But now that Fang Yinzi from Wangxingtun had stormed into Lijiatun and even beaten Sun Weimin, he couldn't just sit idly by.
Li Ju'an shouted for the hunting dogs to come down.
Big Tiger is perceptive, and Dog's eyes darted around; it was clever, protective of its master, and knew when to shut up.
The lead dog stepped back, and the other dogs followed suit, taking two steps back as well. They remained alert and poised to attack, growling and whimpering, ready to charge into battle at any moment.
Zhang Fengzi's cotton-padded jacket was flying everywhere, and his cotton-padded trousers were torn open, exposing the soft flesh around his waist. The hunting dog was measured in its bites, biting wildly, but only at his clothes.
Li Ju'an pressed the muzzle of a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle against Zhang Fengzi's face and shouted, "Are you coming to Lijiatun again?"
"Brother, I'm done for. I'm not coming, I'm not coming."
Lu Zhiqiang yelled at him, "Get out!"
Just as Zhang Fengzi was about to get up and leave, Li Ju'an called out to him, "Getting out of here isn't that easy. Leave your things behind."
Zhang Fengzi glared angrily, his eyes red, and shouted through gritted teeth, "What the hell do you want?"
Li Ju'an stepped on his chest and felt under his tattered cotton-padded jacket, where he pulled out a stack of grain coupons.
As people who distribute money, they have quite a lot of stuff on them, all of which are money they obtained from distributing money in various villages or from seahorses.
Some debtors couldn't repay their debts and could only use receipts as collateral.
Li Ju'an searched and pulled out 10 provincial grain coupons, each worth 10 jin, totaling 100 jin. He also had 8 oil coupons worth 1 jin and 3 bolts of cloth coupons.
Zhang the Madman kept cursing and swearing. Li Ju'an ignored him, told Lu Zhiqiang to keep an eye on him, and turned to search the other two people who had left marks.
Big Tiger and White Mastiff, along with their hunting dogs, stared menacingly at him. With his Type 56 pistol constantly at the ready, his two underlings didn't dare to utter a sound.
He also found 20 grain coupons worth 10 jin each, totaling 200 jin, and 10 sugar coupons worth 1 jin each.
He didn't want the IOUs either, but stuffed all the tickets into his cloth bag before kicking Zhang the Madman away, completely satisfied.
When had Zhang Fengzi ever suffered such humiliation? He not only failed to get the money, but was also beaten up by the people from Lijiatun and had so many warrants confiscated. He was furious and his eyes turned red.
Li Ju'an patted his face with a thick stack of grain coupons and said, "Why are you glaring at me? We don't cause trouble, but we're not afraid of trouble either. If you're not happy, then go ahead and do it."
Zhang Fengzi was choked, unable to exhale, and felt a surge of anger rising within him. His money laundering was an unethical and shady business, not something that could be openly discussed, and he couldn't very well report it to the police. The receipts he had worked so hard to collect had just been stolen. What could he do but feel resentful?
He glared fiercely, then led his two henchmen, limping away from the village and down the mountain.
Li Ju'an then unloaded the bullets from the toy gun on the ground, tossed it to Lu Zhiqiang, and said, "Let Lu Wenqian play with it later. This homemade gun isn't very good; it's just for the kids to play with."
The two men's fight completely offended the people of Wangxingtun.
But neither of them were afraid of trouble. They were ready to fight when trouble came up; everyone has a fiery temper when they're young.
Sun Weimin was in so much pain that he couldn't get up from the snow. He opened his bruised and swollen eyes, his eyelids drooping so much that he couldn't see anyone clearly, and he kept groaning in pain.
Li Ju'an shouted at him, "Sun Weimin, look what you've done! What a mess you've made!"
Upon hearing that it was Li Ju'an, Sun Weimin, still stubborn, retorted, "What does this have to do with me? I was looking for someone to hunt bears and ran to Wangxingtun to borrow a dog. I didn't get the dog, and Zhang the Madman tricked me and even swindled me out of my money."
With the end of the year approaching, Li Ju'an and the Lu family were not short of money.
But the Sun family was short of money for the New Year.
Sun Weimin has been making a lot of reckless moves lately. In his attempt to manipulate the market, he borrowed a lot of hunting dogs, which resulted in many of them getting injured. His father, Sun Quande, has been following him around, losing money everywhere.
He watched enviously as Li Ju'an made a fortune selling bear bile last month. He finally managed to get a black bear, but lost the lead dog he had borrowed, along with four or five other borrowed help dogs. The owner was demanding compensation from him.
He could only rush to sell the bear bile to pay off the money he borrowed from the dog, and then settle down to have a good New Year.
But the price of bear bile dropped before the Lunar New Year, and Sun's mother advised him, "Why are you in such a hurry to sell? Wait until you need the money." Selling before the Lunar New Year would mean losing money, and if he waited until after the New Year, there would be more merchants coming to buy bear bile, and the price would be higher. Every penny saved is a penny earned.
But Sun Weimin didn't listen to his mother.
After selling bear bile and getting the money, he continued to borrow money to get dogs to hunt for animals, and found two or three more bear farms, one of which was still a bear.
The sight of bear gallbladders thrilled him. Last time, he had organized hunters to harvest gallbladders, but he hadn't made much money from selling too many, and after the profits were divided, he was left with very few. This time, he had learned his lesson and specifically paid people to go into the mountains with him.
But this time the bear was tough. He failed to kill it and was even injured. He lost his lead dog, and the help dogs cost money. Plus, hiring people cost money, so he ended up losing more than he gained, suffering a huge financial loss. The money he'd invested in the bear bile last time wasn't even enough; he had to ask his mother for her own savings.
Sun's mother grumbled and cursed, but she loved her son dearly and was afraid that Sun Quande would beat him, so she could only help cover it up. Little did she know that Sun Weimin was a stubborn man. The more he couldn't get the prize, the more he kept thinking about Xiong Bicang, and he even considered borrowing money or a dog to get it.
As a result, he was targeted by the people who left the mark, and Zhang the Madman came knocking on his door.
The two men pulled Sun Weimin up, and he continued to mutter indignantly, saying, "That bastard surnamed Zhang is just trying to outsmart me."
“Sun Weimin, have you learned your lesson? If your father finds out, he’ll beat you up.”
Sun Weimin cursed and said, "Let him beat me up if he wants. Anyway, if I see that Zhang guy again, I'll beat him up again. If I can't stand him, I'll take him down."
The two first took Sun Weimin back to his home.
When Sun's mother and Sun Quande saw Sun Weimin's battered and bruised appearance, they knew their son had gone out to fight again. He had been brought back.
Lu Zhiqiang dropped the person off and was about to leave, since the two families didn't get along.
Sun Quande looked at his son's expression—his face was tense, his eyes were hard, and he was furious. If there weren't outsiders present, he would have beaten him up. But when he saw Li Ju'an and Lu Zhiqiang, his expression softened, and he called out to them with a smile, "Come inside, it's quite cold outside."
Li Ju'an waved his hand and said, "No need, Uncle Sun. Sun Weimin was seriously injured. We just happened to run into him on the road and brought him back. My mother is waiting for me to come back."
Upon hearing this, Sun Quande realized it was true. That troublesome brat had gone out and caused trouble again, and his arch-enemy, the Lu family, had even sent him back. He'd be too embarrassed to even go to the Lu family to thank them; how could he possibly face the Lu family patriarch?
He quickly called his wife to go inside and get two cases of deer antler velvet wine, and said with a smile, "Li Ju'an, you and Lu Zhiqiang run through the mountains every day, you should drink some deer antler velvet wine."
"Uncle Sun, you're too kind. This is no way, I can't accept it."
"Oh, Mom, just accept these two. We'll see each other more often in the future."
Deer antler and fetus wine is not just wine made with deer antler, but also includes deer fetus. Its medicinal effects are stronger than those of deer antler wine.
Li Ju'an didn't stand on ceremony anymore. He and Lu Zhiqiang each carried a case of wine, put it on a dog sled, and started carrying it back.
After the two had walked away, they could hear Sun Weimin of the Sun family wailing as his father beat him.
Lu Zhiqiang shook his head and said, "Do you really believe that Sun Weimin went to Wangxingtun by borrowing a dog?"
"Otherwise what?"
"You don't know about the mess in Wangxingtun? I've heard that the new Party Secretary there kept four or five female educated youths there."
Upon hearing this, Li Ju'an perked up.
In the 80s, educated youth could apply to return to the city one after another, but many female educated youth stayed in the villages to get married and have children instead of returning to the city. There are many stories behind this.