Chapter 55 Chapter 55 Go get the money
Under the banyan tree at the entrance of the alley, a group of men were standing there huddled together, looking nervous and frightened.
Passersby couldn't help but take a few glances, somewhat puzzled.
These are all idle guys in the neighborhood who have nothing to do. They cause trouble everywhere and have no proper livelihood. Unfortunately, no one can control them. Even their families are helpless and have given up on them, leaving them to fend for themselves outside.
Ordinary people are also afraid of these idlers and will try to avoid them when they meet them.
In their minds, these idlers who have no legitimate business are very difficult to deal with. If they accidentally offend them, they will have to worry about them climbing over the wall into their homes to steal things or beating them up while they are asleep.
Don't provoke others if you can avoid it.
However, at this moment, these seemingly difficult-looking idlers were standing there in a row, looking very scared.
In front of them was a petite and thin girl.
The girl was wearing a long green dress and had a slender and weak figure. She stood under the shade of a tree. She had a pretty face, beautiful eyebrows and eyes. She was an exceptionally beautiful girl.
It doesn't look scary no matter how you look at it.
Why are these idlers acting like mice seeing a cat? They are so cowardly in front of her.
It was not yet noon, and there were not many people passing through the alley, only a few passers-by.
People who saw this scene couldn't help but feel a little strange. Adhering to the principle of not interfering in other people's business, they walked away from it and didn't stay to watch it for longer.
Yu Li said to the group of men standing in a row with a cold face: "Hand over all your gambling money."
Everyone remained still, looking at her cautiously.
"What? You want to be beaten?" Yu Li had a blank expression on his face. He pulled a branch and weighed it in his hand.
Everyone's scalps tingled and they quickly shook their heads, still looking at her, and asked carefully, "Are you really away from the boss?"
Yu Li raised his eyebrows, "Why, you don't recognize me?"
She thought that she had not changed much and her face was still the same, except for these few days, because she ate a lot and had good nutrition, her face was fuller, and when she used her supernatural powers to repair her body, her skin became whiter under the effect of the supernatural powers, but not to the point of glowing whiteness.
Her skin should be whiter in the future.
There is no way around it. The life power can repair all hidden injuries and flaws in the body and restore the body to its healthiest state.
Fortunately, because her superpowers were too weak, it would take some time to restore her body to its best condition.
This can be considered a gradual process, and it shouldn't cause the body to change too much or be too shocking.
The reason is ready. She is in the process of conditioning her body, and some changes are normal.
"Yes, a little." Wu Shouzi said in a low voice, "You have changed so much from Boss... We can't recognize you."
The others nodded quickly.
When they first met Yu Li, although she was quite pretty, she was very thin and had dark skin, the kind that comes from working in the sun for a long time. At first glance, she was not very eye-catching and was not stunning at first sight.
But I haven't seen her for a while, it doesn't seem like just a few days, but she seems like a different person.
His skin became whiter and his facial features seemed to have grown more mature. At first glance, they couldn't recognize him.
Of course, the person is still the same person, and the face is still the same face. It feels like a photo taken from a death angle suddenly becomes a retouched version.
Yu Li was unhappy, "Can't you hear my voice?"
Not only can you not recognize faces, you can’t even recognize voices?
Wu Shouzi said flatteringly: "Boss Li, we just didn't recognize him for a moment, but we can still recognize his voice."
The others smiled at her ingratiatingly.
Unfortunately, no matter how they laughed, it was useless. Yu Li coldly stretched out his hand and said, "Hand over all your gambling money!"
The group of people felt grief-stricken, but they dared not refuse to pay and could only pay the money obediently.
Yu Li took away all their gambling money without hesitation, which totaled more than four hundred coins, and threw it all into the backpack beside her.
Everyone: “…”
Not only did she take the money, she also started to settle the score.
"Where does the money come from?"
Gao was afraid that she would pull the branch from his hand, so he quickly said, "We earned it!"
The others also nodded in agreement, fearing that she would think that they had stolen it. If she got angry and wanted to slaughter them like boars, that would be too unfair.
Yu Li swept her eyes over them, forcing the group of men to not look at her, and then said, "You made money, so you all got together to gamble right away?"
No one said anything.
She said coldly: "If you dare to gamble again, I will kill you!"
Everyone's scalp tingled and they subconsciously clamped their legs together.
"Boss Li, we just got together to have a chat and gamble a little while because it's a rare day off today." Gao Sheng said in a low voice, "We didn't even go into the gambling house. Whoever wins the money will treat us to a meal. This isn't a real bet..."
Yu Li: "You still want to enter the gambling house?"
"No, no, no, we don't want to!"
Gao Sheng and the others shook their heads quickly and explained hastily, fearing that she would misunderstand and brutally murder them.
They are also suffering.
These days, because Yu Li had not come to the county town or appeared in front of them, they gradually relaxed and temporarily forgot about her terrifying domination.
Without the female devil towering over their heads, they returned to their old ways and got together to gamble today.
Who knew that by such a coincidence, I would be bumped into by her and kicked.
Gao Sheng was kicked by her and fell to Wu Shouzi on the opposite side, and then knocked other people to the ground as well.
Just when I was about to get angry, I suddenly saw her face. I didn't dare to recognize her for a moment. When I confirmed that it was her, I was almost scared to death.
Yu Li glanced at them and suddenly asked, "It's almost the end of the month. Have you prepared the one or two taels of silver you want to pay as tribute?"
Gao Sheng and others stood there in a daze.
They remembered that they had followed her out of the city to rob her, but they were robbed instead and were threatened by her that they had to pay her one or two taels of silver every month, otherwise she would castrate them.
Wu Shouzi whispered, "Boss Li, you have more than 400 coins in your backpack..."
There are four hundred coins here. They just need to collect another six hundred coins. That should be enough, right?
"This doesn't count!" Yu Li said seriously.
So, she took their four hundred coins, and they had to earn another one or two ounces of silver to give to her?
Gao Sheng and others finally felt regretful.
If they had known that this day would come and they would be robbed of their money, they would not have robbed her in the first place...
No, no, no, from now on they will never rob or gamble again, otherwise she will suddenly appear one day, beat them up, steal their money, and castrate them like boars...
That's too miserable for them.
Yu Li said: "Since this is your first offense, I won't beat you this time. Next time I see you gambling, I will beat you and then castrate you!"
Everyone: “…”
As a girl, can you please stop thinking about murdering them all the time?
Yu Li ignored their expressions and said coldly, "Okay, go work and earn money, don't be lazy."
Not only were their money robbed, but they were also threatened, which made Gao Sheng and others feel very uncomfortable.
Everyone was dejected.
Just as he was about to leave, Wu Shouzi suddenly thought of something and said, "Oh, Boss Li, that yamen runner Zhu promised a few scholars that he would teach you a lesson, but you haven't been to the county town for some time, so Zhu couldn't stop you."
After hearing what he said, the others finally remembered it.
In order to please Yu Li, when they learned that the scholars wanted to find a yamen runner to teach her a lesson, they kept their attention on the yamen runner named Zhu.
But when they just got the news, they didn't see Yu Li coming to the county town.
Not only could Zhu's runners not stop her, they also didn't see her.
Since it was rare to see Yu Li now, Wu Shouzi told her the news, hoping that she would be magnanimous and stop harping on their gambling.
After hearing this, Yu Li looked indifferent, indicating that he understood.
Gao Sheng and the others were depressed. Why was Li Lao Da so calm? Couldn't he just praise them and return the money to them?
This is all the money they have saved from working hard over this period of time, and they want to go out for a drink together tonight.
**
After sending Gao Sheng and others to work, Yu Li walked into Luoyu Lane.
She first went to Gao's house in the alley and threw the money she had paid from Gao Sheng into the Gao's house. Then she went to Wu's house at the end of the alley and threw Wu Shouzi's money into the house. Then she went to other people's houses.
There was only an old lady at home in the Gao family, who was making lunch.
Hearing the noise, she walked out of the kitchen and saw dozens of copper coins scattered in the patio, and exclaimed.
At night, Gao Sheng returned home, and Mrs. Gao said to him mysteriously: "Sheng'er, someone sent money to our house today, forty-eight coins. I don't know who threw it in. Is this money for us? I stayed at home all day, and no one came to ask for money..."
Old Mrs. Gao was puzzled and felt that this matter was strange.
This money must have been thrown in by someone else. Even if someone dropped money, it wouldn't fall from the sky into someone else's house, right?
She didn't think that anyone would give them money on purpose. Judging from her grandson's previous behavior, everyone would wish him to die quickly, so why would they give them money?
Old Mrs. Gao had a miserable life. She lost her husband when she was young and her son when she was middle-aged. Later, her daughter-in-law remarried and she raised her grandson alone.
Fortunately, Gao Sheng was already ten years old at that time and knew how to go out to find food, so Mrs. Gao didn't have to work too hard alone. In addition, the house belonged to the Gao family, so they didn't have to rent a house in the county town. The old lady also had some savings, so they could get by.
What made Mrs. Gao sad was that her grandson, without the education of his parents, gradually turned bad. When he grew up, he did not find a decent job to make a living, but hung out with a bunch of idlers, stealing things, working as a thug for a casino, or helping people collect debts, all for dirty money.
She beat him, scolded him, and begged him, but it was all in vain. She couldn't get him back on the right track.
In addition, she is old and has difficulty moving, so she can't control him.
Old Mrs. Gao was in despair.
It wouldn't be surprising if she heard that her grandson had died outside one day.
Until a while ago, Gao Sheng came back with injuries all over his body, and then he began to turn over a new leaf and actually found a decent job. Although the money is not much, it is decent money, not dirty money.
Old Mrs. Gao was so happy that she couldn't express it in words.
When she saw her grandson injured, she was worried that he had gotten into trouble outside and offended someone he shouldn't have, which was why he was beaten like this.
But he didn't expect that before his injury healed, he went out to find a job and made a living.
Old Mrs. Gao hopes that her grandson will stop hanging out, work hard, save some money, marry and have children in the future, and live a good life.
For this person, a simple life is a blessing.
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Hearing the old lady's words, Gao Sheng paused in his eating.
"Are you sure it's forty-eight cents?" he asked.
Old Madam Gao nodded. "It's forty-eight cents. I calculated it several times."
Gao Sheng sat there in a daze, forgetting to eat.
After a long while, he looked at the puzzled look on the old lady's face and said, "This is the money I earned. I asked someone to help bring it back. She probably didn't want to come in and disturb me, so she just threw it in."
Mrs. Gao was startled, then she patted him gently and said with a smile, "Child, if you want to take the money back, just take it. Why did you ask someone to throw it in like this? I thought someone was sending money to our family for no reason." Then she said happily, "It's rare for you to take money back home. Tomorrow I will go buy a pound of meat and stew it for you. Are you too tired from working recently? You've lost a lot of weight..."
Gao Sheng listened to her chattering silently.
In the past, he was impatient to listen to the old lady's nagging, and he would just ignore it with one ear and out the other. When he got annoyed, he would just hide away and go to the brothel with Skinny and the others to find a girl to spend the night with.
Until he was beaten up by Yu Li, and returned home exhausted with everyone's fearful and gloating eyes, only this old lady was anxiously circling around him, calling a doctor for him, and boiling medicine for him...
Today's high school students are not so cruel as to lose their conscience.
Perhaps he will do more and more bad things in the future and finally become a scum with no moral bottom line.
But before that, someone cut off their path to evil and forced them to find a legitimate way to make a living. If they refused, they would be beaten and forced to take another right path.
Seeing such an old lady, Gao Sheng felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.
Although such days are tiring and there is little income, they are not as painful as one might imagine.
**
After delivering the silver, Yu Li finally went to Jinxian Study.
When she arrived at Jinxian Study, she found that there were quite a lot of people in the study. It was almost lunch time, and there were still many people buying books here.
That’s not right. They were not buying books. They seemed to be waiting for someone. They kept looking outside, but I didn’t know who they were waiting for.
Yu Li walked in.
When she came in, many people in the study turned their heads to look at her, then turned their heads away again.
Yu Li ignored them, walked towards the shop assistant and asked, "Is your shopkeeper here?"
The shop assistant took one look at her and thought that the girl looked familiar, but for a moment he couldn't remember where he had seen her before. In the end, he just thought that all beautiful people were the same and he might have met her by chance on the street.
"Yes, sir. What do you want to see our boss about?" asked the shop assistant.
Yu Li was about to answer when she noticed that everyone in the study was looking at her, with pairs of eyes scanning her face as if they were confirming something.
Soon they looked away, with disappointment on their faces.
These people's actions were too obvious for Yu Li to ignore.
The shop assistant saw her looking at him with a puzzled look, smiled awkwardly, and said vaguely: "Don't be surprised, young lady, they are waiting for someone..."
He didn't want to tell her that, in fact, someone had been guarding the study every day since a few days ago.
Not for anything else, just want to wait for the girl to come and collect the money.
More than half a month ago, the news that Mr. Songhe had someone send over a unique handwritten copy spread quickly, attracting many literati and scholars to come and want to buy the copy.
Although they didn't buy it in the end, these people all wanted to take the opportunity to get to know Mr. Songhe.
A year later, Mr. Songhe had someone send him another unique handwritten copy, which naturally attracted a lot of attention.
The news that Yu Li and the shopkeeper had signed the agreement that day also spread. Knowing that Mr. Songhe would send someone to collect the silver in half a month, they began to think about it.
When they learned that the only handwritten copy had been auctioned in the city and someone would come to collect the money soon, they stayed in the study every day, trying to block the people sent by Mr. Songhe and then find Mr. Songhe himself.
On that day, both Mr. Yan and Mr. Fang had seen Yu Li with their own eyes and had contact with her.
Everyone learned about Yu Li's appearance from them, so these days they have been waiting for a very thin girl, who is said to be thin and dark.
These features are quite obvious. According to Yan Xiucai, they have never seen such a thin girl before and they can recognize her at a glance.
The shop assistant thought to himself that the girl who brought the unique copy was indeed quite thin, and this feature was too obvious.
He looks like a poor person from the lower class struggling to make a living.
Everyone thought that she was only commissioned by Mr. Songhe to help deliver the rare copy, and had nothing to do with Mr. Songhe himself.
As for the girl in front of him, she had fair skin and was taller. Most importantly, although she was also thin, she was not as thin as the girl that day.
Her temperament is also very unique, which makes people able to spot her in the crowd at a glance, and it is impossible to confuse her with the poor people at the bottom of society who are struggling for a living.
Even though she was wearing a simple blue dress, it was hard to conceal her calm temperament.
It shouldn't be her.
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Yu Li didn't know what the shop assistant was thinking, nor did he pay attention to who those people were waiting for. He said, "I have something to ask the shopkeeper. Please let him know."
The shop assistant was about to answer when he saw the scholars waiting in the study and said, "Why don't you come with me? The shopkeeper is in the backyard."
The shop owner has been having a headache recently. The shopkeepers are open for business and the guests who come are the guests, and it is difficult to chase them away.
But it’s not a solution for these people to come here and wait every day.
The shopkeeper was reluctant to show up in the store, because whenever he showed up, these people would surround him and ask him all sorts of questions. The most common question he asked was whether Mr. Songhe had sent anyone to collect the silver, and they would ask the shopkeeper to help introduce them.
The shopkeeper was extremely helpless.
Mr. Songhe chose to send the unique handwritten copy to Jinxian Study to sell, but that does not mean he had any friendship with the other party.
He really didn't know who Mr. Songhe was or where he lived, so how could he introduce him to them?
The shop assistant was smart. He knew the girl wanted to see the owner. He didn't know what she wanted, but with so many eyes watching her in the shop, it would be inappropriate to let her wait here. It would be better to let her go in and find the owner directly.
Everyone in the world looks at people, and shop assistants are no exception.
The main reason was that Yu Li was pretty and looked thin and weak, and he was worried that she would be scared by those scholars.
The shop assistant took Yu Li to a room behind the study.
This is a clean room with a lot of miscellaneous books. The shopkeeper is here, doing the accounts.
Seeing the shop assistant bring in a beautiful young girl, he was a little confused and asked, "Who is this girl..."
Yu Li said nothing and took out the note from his sleeve pocket.
When the shopkeeper saw the receipt, his expression changed and he looked at Yu Li in surprise.
He asked the shop assistant to go out, took the receipt and looked at it. He found that it was the receipt he had written more than half a month ago. The words on it were in his handwriting, and there were his own signature, seal, fingerprints, etc., as well as Yu Li's fingerprint, which could not be forged.
The shopkeeper asked with a smile, "Why isn't it the girl who brought the rare book last time?"
To be honest, for someone who he had only met once, no matter how good the shopkeeper's memory was, after more than half a month, he could hardly remember what the girl looked like.
His impression of Yu Li was similar to that of Yan Xiucai. He did not look at her carefully at the time and only remembered that she was thin, nothing else.
In the end anyway, you'll have to rely on a receipt to get the money, so it doesn't matter if you can't remember what the person looks like.
Yu Li was silent for a moment, then said, "Shopkeeper, I was the one who delivered it that day."
Shopkeeper: “…”
The shopkeeper also fell silent.
He couldn't help but glance at Yu Li, and after looking at her a few more times, he began to feel that she looked familiar.
It seems that the girl who sent the unique copy over was indeed her, but she didn't look like this at that time, right?
It's like a girl changes a lot when she grows up. She suddenly grows up and becomes so beautiful that people can't recognize her. And it was only half a month later, maybe only twenty days at most?
Can a person be transformed so completely in such a short period of time?
Is it because I'm not that thin?
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