Fisherman Fubao made his fortune by fishing

Old Mrs. Cai had a hot temper, but she had a good heart. When Li Laosan brought the boy he bought to the dinner table, she just glared at Li Laosan and said nothing.

Breakfast consisted of minced meat mixed with white pine and carrots, two dishes of pickled vegetables, one dish of mixed seaweed, and a bowl of mixed flour pancakes.

At this time, it is good enough if you can afford to eat dry food.

Zhao also cooked an egg for the old man and the child. Since Li Laosan didn't come back last night, Zhao still cooked an extra one and saved it for him.

Li Laosan took a steamed bun and stuffed it into the young man's mouth. Datou and Jiaque'er gnawed on the bun silently. They didn't even dare to reach out to take some vegetables. They were so scared that they couldn't breathe. In fact, they were now relying on the Li family for shelter. The days of wandering were too hard and they didn't want to wander anymore.

No one can tolerate this. We are not rich landlords. Who wants to have an extra mouth, especially a grown-up boy?

Buying a girl can be used as a child bride. If there are a lot of boys at home, what’s the point of buying another one?

There were a few more people for breakfast, so Zhao took a few more pancakes saved from lunch and scooped two more plates of pickles.

In the end, they were all wiped out.

In fact, Li Erlang and his friends didn't eat much. Suddenly there were four more mouths to feed, and they were all eatable teenagers. It would be strange if they were full.

This made Li Erlang somewhat dissatisfied.

Uncle San is the same. With such a poor family, he still cares about loyalty. Can loyalty be eaten? Yes, it can be eaten. He used to have a full breakfast, but now he can't even have a full meal.

Seeing that the meal was almost over, everyone's emotions had calmed down a lot. While Mrs. Cai and her husband were not angry, Cai Chengping took the initiative to ask: "Third cousin, what's going on? Tell the family everything. After all, buying someone is a big deal, and the family needs to have a clear understanding."

Li Laosan was not pretentious and said, "Shitou is my brother."

"Your brother? Where did you get your stone and tile brother?" Old man Li usually doesn't like to talk, but this time he was very angry and spoke harshly, "Your brother is at home, your brother is here!" Old man Li pointed at Cai Chengping and said.

"Bang!" Li Laosan threw down his chopsticks, turned his face away and stopped talking.

He knew why his father was always like this. His father looked down on him and thought he was just a troublemaker and a scoundrel who only brought trouble to the family.

Why can't we ever listen to his ideas!

"You little bastard! How dare you throw my chopsticks! Are you crazy?" Old man Li was so excited that he was about to go up and beat the man.

"Wow wow wow!" Li Yuer suddenly howled.

This time, everyone was stunned.

Old Mrs. Cai went up and twisted Old Man Li's waist hard, causing him to face green in pain.

"You damn old man, what are you doing! If you want to teach your son a lesson, just teach him a lesson. Why are you scaring my Fu Baoer?"

Having said that, Old Mrs. Cai quickly hugged Li Yuer into her arms and coaxed her as her darling.

Li Yuer was just pretending to cry and she would be fine soon.

Then she pouted and asked Li Laosan: "Uncle San, why did you bring people home to steal Fu Baoer's food?"

After hearing this, Shitou immediately lowered his head. He had no relationship with the Li family and he felt embarrassed to eat other people's food.

He whispered, "Third brother, please let me go."

Li Laosan held him down and said, "Don't worry, if I, Li Laosan, eat, my brothers won't eat less."

Li Yuer rolled his eyes in his heart. He couldn't even support himself, so how could he talk about supporting his brothers? Being the boss is not something that everyone can take on.

The greater the fame you enjoy, the greater the responsibility you have to bear.

Li Yuer never kept idle people, so she accepted the matter this time. After all, he was her uncle, and she couldn't embarrass him in front of outsiders.

But Li Yuer never does business at a loss. If she buys someone, she must get a value higher than their worth.

Moreover, she had to make her uncle understand one thing: people cannot do things as they please based on loyalty alone without considering the situation of their family.

After hearing what Li Yuer said, Old Man Li calmed down.

Old man Li felt extremely upset when he looked at his youngest son, who looked most like him when he was young.

When the second brother's family got into trouble, the third brother was able to get the money back to save the second brother. He was so relieved. It is said that brothers fight together in battle, and fathers and sons fight together. Brothers are still the closest at critical moments.

Unexpectedly, he sold himself. Knowing this, he felt worse than anyone else. It was not the third brother's fault, it was all his fault. When he was young, he could only divide the family business with his wife's dowry. When he was old, he had to rely on his son to sell himself to save his life. This was like cutting his heart with a knife.

This isn't the third brother's fault; it's because he's useless as a father!

The third brother ran away and sold himself. In the final analysis, it was all because he, as a father, was useless.

When Li Laosan got the chance, he began to tell the story.

Shitou, the boy brought back by Li Laosan, has a complicated family. It is still the same old-fashioned family tragedy that can be seen everywhere from ancient times to the present: if there is a stepmother, there will be a stepfather.

Shitou's mother was his father's first wife, who was tall and strong. Shitou's father had never liked her and had never been nice to her. In addition, she had a wicked mother-in-law who would bully her daughter-in-law. Shitou worked like a cow at home all day long, serving the whole family, but she still didn't get any good treatment and was often abused by Shitou's father.

Once, Shi Tou Niang was beaten so hard that she had a miscarriage. The evil mother-in-law also scolded her for raising an empty nest, refused to buy her medicine, and did not let her rest. She forced her to wash clothes by the well in the middle of winter. After she came back, Shi Tou Niang caught a cold and died a few days later.

After a few months, Shitou's father brought home a second wife and a daughter. They didn't look like village women, and there was not a single callus on their hands. It was obvious that they were not hardworking people.

Shitou's stepmother is a sweet-mouthed person with a bitter heart. Just a few words from her can cause Shitou and his father to quarrel. The more the stepmother tries to persuade his father, the angrier he gets. She always beats Shitou without asking any questions.

As time went on, the father and son became enemies. Now, Shitou's father no longer considered Shitou his own son.

Later, the stepmother gave birth to another child, and Shitou's father took Shitou even less seriously. Shitou was at the age when he was growing up and could eat, but the stepmother tried to withhold his food rations. At first, he resisted and went to his father to complain. The stepmother would always pretend to be pitiful in front of his father, crying and instigating him, but in the end, Shitou was the one who was wrong. Not only did he not get any food, he was also beaten.

Over time, Shitou became completely disappointed with his biological father. Once, when he was beaten severely, he ran to the town, where he was locked in the woodshed and starved for several meals. Shitou felt that he had no way to survive.

Just at this time, Li Laosan appeared. Because of a piece of cake, Shitou became Li Laosan's younger brother. Since then, Shitou has been following Li Laosan, and the two have a deep relationship.

This time, he had to hide back home after escaping from the human traffickers.

He slept in the woodshed every day and had to find his own food, but he didn't dare go out, for fear of being caught by human traffickers again and causing trouble for his third brother. Who knows how much his third brother paid to get them out this time.

So he had to endure the sarcasm of his stepmother and the bullying of his brothers.

But the good days didn't last long. A matchmaker came to the village to buy people, specifically targeting teenagers, and each cost five taels of silver.

His stepmother whispered in his father's ear and urged him to sell him out.

Of course Shitou would not surrender. Who would have known that his stepmother was so cruel that she put drugs in the water he drank. The drugs were given by a matchmaker and were specifically used to deal with those disobedient boys.

Shitou looked like his mother, tall and strong. The dose of medicine prepared for an ordinary boy was not enough to completely knock him out, so he staggered and ran to the tribe leader to report.

Shitou's father and stepmother had privately discussed selling Shitou secretly and then saying that Shitou ran away on his own.

The stepmother thought that Shitou often ran away from home and the villagers knew about it. The matchmaker said that a child who was sold would never come back. There would be no evidence after death, so who would know whether he ran away or was sold.

There had never been a case of selling children in the tribe, and the tribe leader did not allow it, but his father insisted on selling them.

It happened that at this time, Li Laosan came to see him. When he saw that the stone was going to be sold, he refused to allow it no matter what.

The two sides started arguing, but no one could do anything about the father selling his son.

As the dispute continued, Li Laosan and his companions did not leave that night and stayed overnight at the home of a kind-hearted elder of the Stone Tribe.

Isn't it just for money that such a cold-blooded father wants to sell his own son?

Isn't it just money? He has it! Li Laosan touched the silver hidden in his chest. After buying some things, there was less than five taels left.

He immediately made a decision that he would buy his brother back.

At dawn the next day, they first talked to the clan leader with the help of the elders. With the clan leader's mediation, they bought the stone for five taels. Both parties signed and sealed the indenture. Li Laosan also signed an IOU for eight hundred coins. The debt was not owed to the stone's father, but to the clan leader.

Just like that, Li Laosan brought the person back.