Chapter 70: Little Wolf Cub
Song Ruize entered the shed with wet hair.
As soon as they came in, the men who were originally talking together immediately stopped talking. They returned to their seats, pretending to be busy, but not looking in Song Ruize's direction.
Song Ruize turned a blind eye to their behavior. In fact, when he was first assigned here, these people went to the dam head to make trouble, saying that they didn't want to be assigned to the same shed with him. In the end, they were punished by the dam head and then they behaved themselves.
They told Batou that he was a coffin son, unlucky, and asked him to find a place to live alone. Batou didn't live with Song Ruize, so he didn't care whether he was a coffin son or not, he would deal with whoever caused trouble.
These people were not from the same village as Song Ruize, so of course they didn't know about his affairs. After all, he became famous in a short period of time, so much so that almost all the workers in the dam construction project had heard of his name, and they had to thank the people who worked hard to promote him.
Song Ruize returned to his bed and noticed something was wrong as soon as he got into bed. He touched the straw under the pillow, and the thing that was originally placed there was gone.
"Who took it?" Song Ruize looked around coldly.
Everyone pretended not to hear.
Jiang Qibin, who was sleeping next to him, opened his eyes dazedly: "Brother Ze, what's wrong?"
"The medicine is gone."
Jiang Qibin quickly reached under his pillow and pulled out a medicine bottle from the straw pile. He thankfully said, "It's still there."
But soon, he realized that Song Ruize was talking about his medicine bottle being missing.
He sat up slowly and looked around: "Whoever took it, take it out quickly. Brother Ze's medicine was given to him by his sister."
“We didn’t take it.”
Perhaps it was because Song Ruize's aura was too strong and too oppressive, which made them feel afraid. Facing Song Ruize's frightening gaze, one of them expressed his opinion.
"Your cousin was here just now." Another person said, "We saw him taking something out from under your bed, but we didn't see clearly what he took."
Song Ruize stood up.
"Brother Ze, calm down and don't be impulsive. It's so late now. If you cause trouble, the dam head will definitely punish you." Jiang Qibin advised.
Song Ruize pushed away Jiang Qibin's arm that was blocking him and strode outside.
The others looked at each other, each with a look of gloating in their eyes.
"See?"
"How can a good show be staged without audiences?"
Unlike the others who wanted to watch the show, Jiang Qibin was very anxious, but his leg was injured and it was still painful to get off the ground. He tried to get off the ground, but he didn't dare to use any strength on his injured leg.
"Brother Ze...Brother Ze, calm down..." He patted the useless leg, "You are really useless at the critical moment."
The shed where Song Tiegen lived was not far from Song Ruize's, with five sheds in between.
It was already late at this time and everyone was tired after a long day, so they were all resting in their own sheds.
Song Ruize went to find Song Tiegen, and the people in his shed followed him. Not only did they follow him, they also called out to the people in several nearby sheds, just to watch the fun and stir up trouble.
At this time, Song Tiegen was lying on the bed, and another young man from the same village was applying medicine to him.
"Tie Gen, this medicine is not cheap, your mother is really willing to spend it."
Song Tiegen's eyes flickered, but he did not refute what he said.
This medicine is really useful. I moved rocks all day today and broke a large part of my waist. It was very painful. As soon as I took this medicine, the stinging feeling was relieved a lot.
There was a noisy sound coming from outside.
Tang Tianli, who was applying medicine to Song Tiegen, heard the noise outside and said, "Why is it so noisy?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Song Ruize lifted the rag curtain and rushed in, his wolf-like eyes fixed on Song Tiegen.
"Ruize, why are you here..." Tang Tianli saw Song Ruize, and then looked at the frightened Song Tiegen.
When Song Tiegen saw Song Ruize appear, he immediately sat up and looked at him alertly: "What are you doing?"
Song Ruize's gaze rested on Tang Tianli's hand.
Tang Tianli still held the bottle of medicine.
"Is my medicine effective?" Song Ruize asked coldly.
"Your medicine?" Tang Tianli was surprised. "Tiegen, isn't this the medicine your mother bought for you?"
Song Tiegen said with a stiff upper lip: "I'm injured, what's wrong with borrowing it?"
"I agree?"
"I'm your brother. I'm injured now. Can you lend me your medicine?"
"Borrow? That's stealing!"
"Bullshit, I don't have anything I want, why do I need to steal from a bastard like you who was born by a mother but not raised by one?"
Tang Tianli quickly put down the medicine bottle and swiftly returned to his bed, away from the two men.
Song Tiegen really doesn't remember a fight. Even though he always suffers losses every time he provokes Song Ruize, he still likes to provoke him.
Song Ruize sneered: "If you are so disdainful, why do you steal from me? Can't you even afford medicine for a little beast born by a big beast like you?"
"Song Ruize, you dare to scold my parents. They are your uncle and aunt..." Song Tiegen slapped the bed angrily and got off.
"Are they worthy?" Song Ruize said coldly, "You used my things, I give you two choices: one, buy it with 150 coins. Two, knock out all your teeth. Originally I wanted to cripple one of your hands, but I thought that wouldn't be cheap for you, so it's better to just cripple all your teeth."
Tang Tianli and everyone in his work shed was frightened.
They tiptoed toward the door.
As soon as I lifted the curtain, I saw many people watching the show gathered outside.
"Can we fight?" someone asked.
"Song Tiegen is a coward, there's no way he can fight."
"One hundred and fifty coins, half a month's wages, Song Tiegen won't give it to me."
"What's going on?" Yang Baotou, who was on duty today, appeared.
The others stepped aside and let him in.
Yang Baotou looked at Song Ruize with sharp eyes: "Why are you here again? Why are you always causing trouble?"
"He stole my things." Song Ruize said calmly, "If there is any trouble, it should be him."
"Brother Yang, I'm his cousin. I hurt my waist today because I overexerted myself. It hurts so much. He happened to have some medicine, so I took it. How can this be considered stealing?" Song Tiegen complained aggrievedly. "He also threatened me, saying he would knock out all my teeth."
"Song Ruize, I've heard of your name. You're a troublemaker. Since you two are brothers, and he's injured and wants to borrow your medicine, do you need to be so persistent?"
"If I don't want to, then that's not possible." Song Ruize did not give in.
"Isn't that even what I asked for?"
"no."
"Okay, very good." Yang Baotou said angrily, "Tomorrow you will be responsible for carrying soil. I will add another 100 loads of soil to your task. If you can't complete it, you won't get to eat."
"My medicine..." Song Ruize said coldly, "No matter what happens tomorrow, he has to give me an explanation today."
"Do you really want to knock out all his teeth?" Yang Baotou said with a dark face.
"I gave him two choices: either pay me back the 150 cents, or I knock out all his teeth."
"Tell the accountant to transfer 150 wen from Song Tiegen's wages to Song Ruize's account and give it together with the wages."
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