Chapter 934 The Unlucky Liang Family
Although there isn't much work, there is still some.
Sometimes, when carpenters couldn't find anyone, they would ask Liang Wangsheng to lend a hand, so Liang Wangsheng continued to live a good life.
He was quite good to Lu Erbai. Knowing that the Lu family was having a hard time, he would occasionally come and help them out.
Although the two families don't interact as frequently as they did when they were younger, they still keep in touch.
"Then why didn't my dad contact him this time?" Shu Yu thought. If there really was such a well-coordinated partner, then working with his dad would definitely be twice as effective.
Lu Dasong said, "This brother Wangsheng only has one daughter in his family."
“There aren’t any able-bodied men.” Shu Yu suddenly realized, but then frowned. “Then why did he come to me wanting to work in the county town?”
Lu Dasong sighed, "Because his family has no land left."
Shu Yu was taken aback, and stopped in her tracks. "Why?"
"The Liang family only had one daughter, so they wanted her to take care of their parents in their old age and see them off in their final days. So they brought home a son-in-law. But how many of these sons-in-law are capable? Some have so many brothers that they can't even afford to eat, while others are unambitious and have bad character. The Liang family, of course, didn't like the latter, so they found someone with more than ten brothers."
The man was brought back. The son-in-law, who was always hungry and cold at home, became lazy and complacent after his life improved at the Liang family's.
After two or three years of good times, he was persuaded by others to gamble.
"Gambling?" Shu Yu frowned.
Lu Dasong nodded. "He had a mountain of debt, so the gambling dens naturally came knocking on his door to collect. That's when the Liang family found out that this man, who claimed he was going to the county town to do odd jobs, was actually gambling himself into oblivion in the gambling dens and almost had his hand chopped off."
The son-in-law's parents had no money at all, otherwise they wouldn't have let their son marry into the family.
The gambling den's men then went to the Liang family. The Liang family's daughter had just given birth and was already very weak. When the gambling den's thugs arrived, they threatened to sell her son if she didn't pay back the money.
This frightened both mother and daughter. One was still in her postpartum period and the other was still an infant. How could they withstand such a shock?
Liang Wangsheng had no choice; the lives of his daughter and grandson were the most important thing, so he could only scrape together the family's savings. But it still wasn't enough, and in the end, he sold the land as well.
Now their family only has one acre of land left, and life has suddenly become difficult.
Liang Wangsheng could only look for work everywhere, but many people knew about this and were afraid that the people in the gambling dens would not let it go and would cause trouble for them, so they dared not approach him.
Anyway, there are plenty of young and strong day laborers, so one more won't make a difference.
Shu Yu frowned. "Where is his son-in-law?"
Lu Dasong snorted coldly, "He ran away, and I don't know where he went with a woman who ran off with the family fortune."
"He's a gambling addict, and yet women are willing to follow him?" Shu Yu asked in surprise.
"Although he is a gambling addict, he is unusually handsome. Some people are shallow and only care about his appearance. They will not care about anything else after being flattered by a few words."
It's all Liang's bad luck. When their son-in-law lived with them, he was always hungry and cold, thin and pale, dressed in rags. You really couldn't tell what a good-looking person he was.
As it turned out, after living with the Liang family for a few years, he ate and lived well, and his appearance changed dramatically, becoming a handsome man rarely seen in the surrounding area.
Lu Dasong said, "This happened a few months ago, when your family had just returned. Your father didn't know yet. He probably thought that he was busy taking care of the family's few acres of land during the busy farming season, so he didn't look for him."
(End of this chapter)
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