Good luck every time

The boss slammed the table on the kang, making it make a loud bang.

"In that case, I'll have no choice but to ask that peddler for salt! I'm sure he'll be happy to give it to me!"

After hearing this, Zhao Laonian was so shocked that he couldn't breathe.

"No! We agreed that you couldn't ask that peddler for salt."

The boss's arm muscles swelled instantly and he pointed at Zhao Laonian.

"We have such a big village and so many people who need salt. If you don't give us enough and don't let us find someone to buy salt, what are you going to do?"

"I'm telling you, today either you get enough salt for me, or you get out of here! I don't want your 400 kilograms of salt anymore! What the hell!"

Zhao Laonian was so scolded by the boss that he became very timid.

For a moment he wondered if he had arrived at a bandit's lair.

"That...that..."

The boss didn't give him a chance to react and slammed the table again.

Zhao Laonian was startled.

"Then I... I'll bring the remaining salt over in two days... I, I, I..."

The boss's expression became better now. He asked someone to weigh the salt and then check the quality of the salt. After checking it, he frowned.

"Why is your salt worse than last month? The peddler said that the salt he gave us was of official quality."

Zhao Laonian cursed the boss over and over in his heart, but after all, he was standing on someone else's territory, so he was still a little scared.

After the boss had someone weigh the salt and gave the person money to send him away, he took a handful of salt from the jar, frowned, threw the salt back, and told the children to call their grandfather to move the salt.

You can earn two guan from 400 jin.

It’s not as good as before, but any money earned is good.

Tian Laoer still had some hope.

"Brother, did he say when he'll come next time?"

The boss shook his head.

"Can't come!"

Tian Laoer is very confident in the boss's judgment.

"That's a shame. I thought I could earn a few months from him. Salt dealers like this used to earn us too much."

The boss also felt a little regretful.

"That's right! This guy is too greedy. Otherwise, how could he react in just one month? He must be reluctant to spend the money and feel the pain!"

Tian Laoer also cooperated and started a conversation.

"This guy is so stupid. How can such a person do business? He will lose money sooner or later!"

The boss sneered and looked in the direction of the door.

"He has connections! But I think he has used up his connections, otherwise he wouldn't let him do such a stupid thing."

"It's already made for 45 cents, but you still want to mix it with something, which means it's bad."

"Not doing good business and eyeing others' higher profits is greed."

"You sent it one month, and it comes again the next month, which means you are stupid!"

"If his connections were strong enough, he wouldn't have to steal Li Er's sales. He could have just told others not to give Li Er salt. But he couldn't do that, and he offended people for no reason. This shows that he is the boss and has no one behind him!"

"For a person like this who is in charge but has no one behind him, who is stupid, greedy, and evil, it is only a matter of time before he falls. I just don't know who he will fall on!"

The eldest boss started to be the head of the village at the age of seventeen. At that time, there were only about forty households in the village, and life was quite tight.

Up to now, all the 136 households in the village are, although not rich, well-fed and warmly clothed, with surplus food in the summer and no one freezing to death in the winter.

It all depends on his ability to judge people.

Li Ruyi was the person he had misjudged the most in all these years. Apart from him, he had never made a mistake before.

Tian Laoer also looked outside the door and laughed twice, as if he had already seen Zhao Laonian fall.

Zhao Laonian was so scared over there that he thought to himself, this is a shabby place, he will never come back again!

The people who came up the mountain with him to deliver salt didn't know what he had said to the boss, but since they were all hired by him, he didn't care about anything and asked him for money after they got down the mountain.

Zhao Laonian was unhappy, so he grabbed them and started scolding them, saying that they walked too slowly and that one of them spilled salt. After the quarrel, he deducted ten cents from each of them and drove them away after scolding them.

These people were also unhappy, but the landlords and rich people these days were all of similar character, and it was not the first time they had encountered such a thing.

There is no place to reason.

The county magistrate would not uphold justice for them just because someone deducted ten cents from them.

In the end, it all depends on the conscience of the owner.

After everyone left, Zhao Laonian returned home, and the more he thought about it, the angrier he became.

He was also not sure whether Mr. Tian would ask Li Ruyi for salt.

But he always felt that he had already come to this point in his career, and it would not be appropriate to close the net hastily.

Some people are like this, their plans are full of loopholes and look ridiculous to outsiders.

But they themselves are completely unaware of it and think they are in control of the situation.

To put it bluntly, it's all because of ignorance.

I don’t know that there is always someone better than me, and I just think that what I see is all.

Zhao Laonian has had a good life in recent years and has become a little inflated.

After tossing and turning at home, I finally came up with an idea.

Since there is no way to get through Uncle Chen, it’s not easy to mess with the boss either.

It would be better to start from the source. That Li Er must have gone to the county government office to collect salt. He would risk it and wait for him there for a few days. He would find a chance to follow him and see who he is and where he lives...

It has to be said that after thinking of countless stupid ideas, Zhao Laonian finally thought of a very reasonable idea for the first time.

He didn't know when Li Ruyi would go to collect salt, so he simply asked his wife to briefly describe Li Ruyi's appearance, and then went to block the side door of the county government office early the next morning.

After squatting for a day and getting nothing, he went to squat again the next day...

He stayed like this through the Double Ninth Festival and the fifteenth day of the lunar month. When the weather got chilly, he finally brought Li Ruyi over.

Li Ruyi's age was not considered conspicuous in those days when child labor was rampant, but it was rare for someone of this age to still be able to earn a salt salary and be the head of a family!

Anyway, Zhao Laonian had been squatting around here for quite a few days, and the only person who came here was Li Ruyi, a teenage head of the household driving a donkey cart.

Besides, Li Ershi and Li Shiwu are not very old.

Zhao Laonian was not sure, but he had a feeling.

When Li Ruyi went to pay the salt tax, Zhao Laonian quietly approached the driver of the mule cart behind.

Li Ershi and Li Shiwu went over to lead the donkey while the other went to move the salt. In this time, Zhao Laonian came up.

The driver glanced at Zhao Laonian and asked him.

"Is this the product from Li Er's family?"

The driver knew nothing and stretched his neck to look for Li Ruyi.

"I don't know! When the master comes, go ask him!"

Li Er, who was leading the donkey, heard the two people talking and turned around to look at Zhao Laonian.