After seeing off King Poole, Su Nian and his wife buried the new golden ball as it was before. King Poole was right. They now had a lot of friends, and they had to say hello to their friends before leaving.
Just after they had restored everything to its original state, there was a knock on the gate of the courtyard. However, the person who came was not a friend, but Shi Kun, who had always disliked Chu Beichen.
"Chu, have there been any guests at your house?" Shi Kun's eyes searched the yard like searchlights.
The patrol's job is to walk around and take a look, so Shi Kun was not surprised at all to see someone coming in and out of Chu Beichen's house. Chu Beichen didn't know what to say to this old acquaintance. It seemed that people with different ideas cannot work together, so Chu Beichen didn't pay much attention to him and just nodded lightly.
Shi Kun saw a lot of horses in the yard. "Oh, Chu, you are not still angry with me about what happened last time, are you? We are old friends and you didn't even ask me to come in and sit with you?"
Since the other party said so, Chu Beichen gave him some face. Getting along between men is not as simple as black and white.
"Then please come in!" Chu Beichen stepped aside.
This was Shi Kun's first visit to Chu Beichen's home. He walked around the yard and looked around, then pointed at the horses and said to Chu Beichen, "I didn't expect you still kept these wild horses. These guys consume too much fodder. You might as well sell them!"
Since they had different ideas, Chu Beichen had nothing to say and could only smile.
Shi Kun felt bored and sat down to take a sip of tea. "Chu, I've always wanted to have a frank talk with you. I've been thinking seriously about our relationship these past two days. We could have been very good friends. What caused us to become enemies?"
Chu Beichen thought for a moment, "Shikun, do you think I'm a threat to your position? In fact, you should realize that in any industry, if you don't advance, you will retreat!"
His meaning was very clear. If Shi Kun didn't work hard and just muddled through, even if Chu Beichen didn't surpass him, anyone else who came could potentially surpass Shi Kun.
Shi Kun gave a bitter smile. "Your current group of men are easy to lead. They just came out of the cedar forest and their hearts are still relatively innocent. You can lead my men. They usually don't work hard, are cunning and cunning, and are good at vying for fame and fortune!"
"If I hadn't done my utmost to gain benefits for everyone, the position of team leader would have been long gone for me!"
That's true. Chu Beichen understood the wickedness of human nature better than Shi Kun did. "I think you should have a more appropriate way to deal with this kind of conflict!"
Shi Kun sighed, "How can it be that easy? By the way, you have so many wild horses in your yard. If you don't need them, can you lend me two?"
"Borrow?" Chu Beichen smiled, "How do you want to borrow it?"
"I'll come and pull a horse in the morning and return it to you in the evening. I need some work at home and need a horse's help!" Shi Kun said very naturally.
In an era when labor was underdeveloped, working animals such as cattle and horses were equivalent to means of production. Wanting to borrow other people's means of production without being responsible for raising them was an extremely selfish act, equivalent to robbing others' money.
So Chu Beichen shook his head and said, "I don't lend you my horse!"
Shi Kun's eyes widened. "You are so selfish! You don't ride horses during the day, and these horses are just sitting here idle. What's wrong with you lending them to me?"
"Not really," Chu Beichen lost his patience to continue talking to Shi Kun. He stood up and said, "Please go back. I have some things to take care of at home!"
This means it’s time to send the guest away. No matter how unhappy Shi Kun is, he has to leave.
Originally, he thought that he could borrow a horse based on his face, but he didn't expect Chu Beichen to not fulfill his wish, which made Shi Kun very frustrated.
After returning to his team, someone informed Shi Kun that the person who went to Chu Beichen's house might be an important figure because they saw King Pool's car.
But the subordinates couldn't see clearly who the big shot was.
Even so, this was enough to make Shikun jealous.
Seeing Shikun's bad face, his men, remembering that they hadn't gained the upper hand in the last fight, fanned the flames and said, "Captain, these barbarians are too arrogant. We must let them know how powerful we are!"
Shi Kun narrowed his eyes, "I thought so too. If we don't teach them a lesson, they won't know who's the boss!"
"This is what we should do!" Shi Kun called his men over and explained everything in a low voice.
The subordinate agreed.
Today, Chu Beichen was called away by King Pul, so the bearded man led everyone to continue the patrol. In the afternoon, when they went to a store, the owner took the initiative to greet them and took out some snacks, saying that they were for them.
This situation has occurred during previous inspections.
Some of Big Beard's men wanted to take it, but Big Beard remembered that Chu Beichen had once told him not to take other people's things casually, so he stopped his men.
Seeing that the group was about to leave, the shop owner blinked and forcefully stuffed the snacks into the backpack of the last member of the team.
The last team member was relatively younger. Somehow, he became greedy when he thought of the sweet and fragrant snacks. He thought that since the bearded village chief didn't allow him to collect them, he could just eat them without letting him see.
They had not walked far when another team of police caught up with them. The bearded man greeted them politely, but this team of police said that someone had reported them for extortion.
The bearded man was very surprised. They had just inspected the store today, and he clearly didn't accept the things the store owner had given him just now. He didn't know where the charge of extortion came from.
The new patrolman said he wanted to conduct a simple search so that he could give an explanation to the informant.
The bearded man was calm and let the other party search him, not noticing that he had a little brother whose face was covered with sweat.
As a result of the search, snacks were found in the bearded brother's backpack.
The policemen were very sorry. "We caught him red-handed. We are so sorry. We have to take this guy away!"
The brother said to the bearded man, "Village chief, go investigate! It was the owner of that shop who forced the snacks into my backpack!"
Seeing the policemen taking his brothers away, the bearded man's face turned black. He called the rest of the people and turned back to look for the shop owner, but found that the door was locked and the owner had run away.
Now, the bearded man also realized that he had been tricked.
He didn't bother to patrol anymore and hurriedly took his men home to find Chu Beichen, ready to ask Chu Beichen for help, because he heard that the laws in Nan'an were very strict.
In his brother's case, if he were convicted of extortion, he would be sentenced to a long prison term, which would probably delay their return to Cedar Grove.
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