"Brother Ma, um, can you do me a favor?" The eldest brother was thirty-five years old this year, three years older than Ma Fuquan, but he felt that calling him Brother Ma or calling him by his name seemed disrespectful enough, and calling him Captain Ma didn't seem intimate enough. After all, he was asking someone for a favor, so he called him Brother Ma.
After calling him that, he felt awkward and his face turned slightly red.
"Don't be so polite, just say it if you want to." Ma Fuquan didn't care what he called him. He didn't mind if he was called brother, and he wouldn't feel presumptuous if he was called brother.
"My father had a stroke because of all the food, and we don't have the money to pay for his medical treatment. I wonder if you could talk to the fourth brother, no, talk to Ding Youtian, to buy this cart of food. With the money, I can take my father to the town to see a doctor."
"Okay, you guys push the food back first. I'll go and ask around for you later when I'm free. Then you can ask Xiaoliu to come over and listen." Ma Fuquan agreed readily. He had also heard about Old Dingtou's stroke.
At the intersection ahead, Ma Fuquan turned left to the riverside, while the eldest brother and his brothers continued to push the grain cart forward. After passing Ma Fuquan's family, the brothers saw a group of people in front of them from a distance, including the butcher woman.
The leader of this gang was Tu Yidao, who led the thugs from the gambling house to rob the grain cart. It was Tu Pozi who went to inform him of the news.
The butcher's two daughters threatened to sever ties with her every time they argued, but upon hearing that their only brother, San Gouzi, had been mauled by a leopard, the sisters returned one after another. Butcher's youngest daughter, Ding Baomi, married into Dawan Village and had previously told Ma Fuquan that the peddler who had brought back a cartload of grain with Meng Lao Da and his men was the butcher's son-in-law.
Ding Baomi had brought some food to Dingjia Village to visit San Gouzi today. Passing by Meng Lao's house, she saw quite a few people gathered in the courtyard, so she leaned in to take a closer look. Seeing that the eldest brother and Ma Fu were all there, she asked around and learned that Meng Lao and his men had embezzled their nephew's food, and that the eldest brothers had come specifically to ask for it.
She returned to her parents' home and told the story to the butcher as a joke, cursing Meng Lao Da and his gang as good-for-nothings. But the butcher had a bad idea after hearing it. She lied that she was going to the town to buy salt, but actually she was going to inform Tu Yidao, just to get a bag of grain if she succeeded.
Tu Yidao and his men had been searching for Lao Wu for several days but couldn't find him. They were planning to come to Dingjia Village tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Upon hearing the news, they called a few more people to take weapons and intercept the grain truck. They were waiting at the intersection where Lao Da and his men had to pass when returning from Dawan Village.
Seeing the boss and his men pushing the grain cart over, Tu Yidao, holding a wooden stick, shouted at them, "If you know what's good for you, hand over the grain cart to avoid physical pain and save us the trouble. Get out of here!"
The older brothers didn't recognize Tu Yidao. They were not at home when he came to their house to collect the debt. When they saw him bringing people to rob their grain cart in broad daylight, they were so angry that they laughed.
"You must have been possessed by a ghost, and you've gone crazy because of poverty. You come to rob us at our doorstep, and think we are clay sculptures?" The eldest brother was not afraid at all. The second and third brothers also started to roll up their sleeves. The sixth brother ran to the side of the road and picked up a stone and held it in his hand.
They were relying on this truckload of food to treat their father's illness, so there was no way they could steal the food.
"You're the one going crazy because of poverty!" The butcher was so excited thinking about the bag of grain that was about to be in her hands that her saliva flew everywhere. She poked the eldest brother's nose with her hand and said contemptuously: "Your fifth brother owed money to the gambling house in town and ran away. My eldest nephew is here to collect the debt on behalf of their boss!"
It is only right to pay back your debts!
They hadn't split up yet, and the fifth brother ran away after owing debts. When people came to collect the debt, he offered grain as payment, which was fine.
The guys were dumbfounded.
Tu Yidao waved his head, and his thugs rushed forward, pushed them aside, and pushed the grain cart away.
"Wait!" The eldest brother came to his senses and shouted, "The cart must stay. Why are you pushing our cart away too?"
He also wanted to use a cart to drag his father to the town to see a doctor, but he didn't dare let them drag him away.
"Damn it, you peasant! This cart of grain isn't even enough to pay off your debts, and you still want to take it back? Be careful, I'll break your legs!"
Tu Yidao's stick was almost poking the boss's nose. The boss grabbed the stick and clamped it under his armpit, shouting, "You dare to try to drag the cart away?"
"Fuck you!" Tu Yidao knew a little bit about fighting and kicking, and he kicked the boss to the ground with one kick.
"Let's fight them!" Seeing this, the second brother roared and rushed forward, howling.
The third and sixth brothers also rushed over.
They were no match for the professional thugs brought by Tu Yidao. In no time, they were all knocked to the ground and screamed in pain.
At this time, the young and middle-aged men in the village either went to the riverside to help build a power station, or helped Xu the carpenter in the ancestral hall. In addition to making tables, chairs and benches, they also had to repair the houses to run the clan school. No matter how loud they shouted, no one could hear them, and even if they heard them, there was no guarantee that anyone would come to help.
Tu Yidao kicked the boss lying on the ground again, waved his hand, and ordered his thugs to push the grain cart and prepare to retreat.
Just then, he heard movement on the opposite hillside. He turned his head and saw the grass rapidly parting and falling apart, as if something was moving swiftly through the grass. Then, something shot up from the grass, and before Tu Yidao could see what it was, it pounced directly at him. His vision blurred, and he felt a burning sensation on his face, as if it had been scratched by the thing, and he felt as if something had fallen from his body.
Looking down, it was an eyeball.
"ah!"
The next second, he belatedly covered half of his face, blood oozing out from between his fingers. He screamed, his body swayed a few times, then staggered forward and happened to step on his own eyeball and burst it.
Before the thugs brought by Tu Yidao could figure out what was happening, they saw a huge snake rise into the air, spitting out a long tongue, and then it swung its tail and fell down.
For a while, cries of crying for parents were heard one after another.
Seeing that the giant snake was more than a man tall and had two heads, the thugs were so scared that they pissed their pants and pissed their shit. They didn't even bother to kill it. They got up and stumbled away, wishing their parents had given them another leg.
"Wait for me! Wait for me!" Tu Yidao reacted and chased after him, cursing and covering his face.
The butcher had already fainted on the ground.
The civet cat Guoguo licked its two front paws calmly, then jumped onto the grain cart and then onto Brother Qiu's back. It followed Jian Ning to practice martial arts every day, and no one knew what moves it had learned. Now it could stand steadily on Brother Qiu's back and majestically command Brother Qiu to go home.
The boss and his men had no idea what had happened. The scene just now happened in the blink of an eye, which was the time it took them to recover and get up from the ground.
"Why did they all run away?" the eldest brother asked the second brother and the others. They also looked confused and had no idea what was going on. But no matter what, the most important thing was to push the grain cart back.
When the brothers got home, they were all injured. When Meng asked, she learned that the butcher and her nephew almost robbed their grain cart. Meng was so angry that her triangular eyes widened and she ran to the butcher's house to settle the score with her.
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