kingnovel Chapter 240 Panic
Chapter 240 Panic
And the most important point is that he had actually seen through it a long time ago. Li Dajiang and Li Laosi were simply ungrateful people. Even if he spent all his family wealth on them, they would not be grateful. It would be safer for him to have the money in his hands.
"We don't have that much silver at home, only twenty-four taels." Old man Li considered for a while before speaking.
When Li Dajiang heard Old Man Li say there were twenty-four taels, he was stunned, but quickly came to his senses.
I have the impression that there should be more money in the family. Could it be that his father is unwilling to take it out?
The anxiety in my heart gradually grew. There were still sixteen taels short of the twenty-four taels. I didn't know whether the leader of the gangsters would agree.
"Then bring something as compensation. Go and search for me. Take whatever is valuable. This is what they owe me." The leader of the gangsters gave an order and several people walked out from behind him.
He first went to Jiang's west wing, and soon heard Jiang's cursing from inside.
"What are you going to do? Are you robbers? These things are mine. Give them back to me?"
Li Laosi was still lying on the bed. He watched a few thugs come into the room and steal things, and tried to stop them.
He accidentally rolled off the bed and ended up lying on his butt. He opened his mouth in pain and could only make ah, ah sounds.
The two children were still young. When they saw Jiang fighting with others for things, they not only could not help, but also burst into tears out of fear. Jiang was overwhelmed.
She wanted to take care of the child on one hand and the things on the other, but as a woman, how could she be a match for these gangsters?
Soon, the gangster snatched the bag from her hand.
He opened the bundle at random, and found clothes inside. After searching through it, he found only Li Laosi's clothes that looked okay, but they were covered in blood. These were the clothes Li Laosi was wearing today.
The gangster hesitated for a moment, but still took the clothes away. He thought he could sell them for some money after washing them, which was better than having nothing.
Hearing the noise in Jiang's room, Liu was so scared that she blocked the door with a table, and she and Li Chengcai tried hard to stop them from coming in.
A few hooligans came out of Jiang's room and ran straight to the east wing. They pushed the door with their hands but couldn't open it, so they pushed harder.
Liu and Li Chengcai, who were inside the door, were naturally not as strong as the people outside, and the door was knocked open in a few seconds.
Several hooligans rushed in and searched the east wing for a while, but they only found two taels of silver, which was secretly hidden by Li Dajiang before.
"You think you have something good? Your family is so poor, but you still act like a big shot and rent such a nice house. Pah!" A gangster spat fiercely and looked at Liu and Li Chengcai with naked contempt in his eyes.
Li Chengcai was not convinced and wanted to go up to argue with him, but Liu held his arm and whispered in his ear.
"You can't beat them, so don't do anything rash." There were only two taels of silver saved in their house, and it was all searched out at once. Liu felt like her heart was bleeding.
Seeing them taking the silver and leaving, Li Chengcai gritted his teeth in anger, but he didn't dare to step forward to snatch the silver. If they dared to come to their house to rob the silver so openly, there must be someone above them, so how could he dare to offend them?
They thought they would find something in the main room, but in the end they found nothing. So the thugs searched the west and east wing rooms as well.
Only the men's cloak on Old Lady Li looked good, but it was full of odor after being covered by her for so long.
I immediately decided not to buy it. Even if I took it to a pawn shop, I wouldn't be able to get much money out of it, and it would be too much trouble.
A few gangsters came back soon and showed the things they had found to the leader.
The leader of the gangsters frowned as he looked at what they had in their hands. Are you just giving away beggars? That’s all.
He glanced at the clothes on Old Man Li and Li Dajiang again, and winked at the person standing next to him.
That man was the right-hand man of the gang leader, and one could tell what he was thinking with just one look.
They walked up to them and stripped off their clothes. At this time, Li Dajiang and Old Man Li dared not resist and let them strip their clothes off!
The twenty-four taels of silver on Old Man Li were also searched out.
The leader of the gangsters looked at the small amount of stuff and frowned more and more. It was still a long way from the forty taels of silver he wanted.
He looked at Old Man Li with an even more sinister look: "I'll say this one last time. If you can't come up with forty taels of silver, I'll take one of your son's legs."
Old man Li's heart skipped a beat. In the afternoon, when Li Dajiang went out to look for a carriage, he felt uneasy and hid ten taels of silver.
Now in this family, the only person he trusted was Old Lady Li, so he gave the silver to Old Lady Li to keep closely.
He was almost scared to death when those hooligans entered Mrs. Li's room just now. Fortunately, because of the strong smell in the room, they came out quickly.
Since the silver has not been found, there is no need to take it out. Now he has no land and no money. Who knows how he will live in the future?
Besides, the eldest son doesn’t go out to work anyway and stays at home all day. It doesn’t really make much difference whether he has that leg or not. At worst, let him learn from the second son and weave bamboo baskets to sell for money.
"You want to kill me? My house has been searched. Where can I get the money?" Old man Li suddenly shouted sadly and lowered his head as if in sorrow, but in fact he was using the dim sky to hide the shame on his face.
"Don't blame me for being cruel and ruthless. You really brought this upon yourselves." The leader of the gangsters gave a look, and a man walked out from behind him, holding a wooden stick as thick as an arm.
Looking at the stick in the man's hand, Li Dajiang was so scared that he almost lost his soul. He hurriedly looked at Old Man Li and said, "Dad, you still have money, right? Take it out and save me!"
Listening to Li Dajiang's panicked plea, Old Man Li turned his face away in pain. He also wanted to save his son.
Although Old Man Li didn't say anything, his actions showed his attitude, and Li Dajiang's heart sank to the bottom.
He turned around and tried to run back, but the yard was so small and the thugs were guarding the gate, so where could he run to?
He was just a weak scholar, and his physical strength was no match for the gangsters. He was caught by the people behind him after running a few steps, pressed to the ground, and quickly brought in front of the gangster leader.
"Why don't you run away?" The gang leader stretched out his hand and slapped Li Dajiang on the face several times. The force was so strong that it sounded particularly clear in the silent night.
"Please, please don't break my legs. I owe you this money. When I have money in the future, I will definitely pay you back." Li Dajiang was almost scared to death at this moment. His face was covered with tears and snot, and he was shocked and afraid.
"If you run away, where can I find you? You dare to deceive me once, how dare you deceive me a second time? Go ahead."