If you don't agree, do it! Roll up your sleeves, empty your property and go back to the country

Wei Zhongping lowered his head and sighed softly. When he raised his head again, his face was full of helplessness, like a poor man who didn't understand, and there was obvious disappointment on his face.

"Brother Xu, what you said is really heartless. I rushed here as soon as I heard the news, and even prepared a carriage. I didn't expect your family's money to be lost so coincidentally.

Now you're suddenly asking the brigade to pay for it, and I can't make the decision myself. But I said, I can ask the brigade to lend you the money in my name as the brigade leader. After all, saving the child's life is the most important thing. But in other words, it's public money, so it must be repaid. Pay it back with work points. Isn't that a very normal thing? If anyone in our brigade needs money urgently, this has always been the rule."

When Xu Laosan heard this and saw the approving expressions on the faces of the people around him, he suddenly became deflated.

He was not stupid and had already seen that if they continued to argue, their family would be completely at a disadvantage. Secretary Lu already disliked their family. If they offended the team leader and most of the families in the village, the entire Xu family would probably be implicated. His brothers would not let their family off.

"That……"

"No, absolutely not. We don't have many work points to begin with, and we exchanged them all for medicine money. What will we eat and drink next year? You are going to force our family to death!" Aunt Xu jumped up anxiously without waiting for Xu Lao San to nod. Suddenly she saw Xu Lai Di and pulled him over.

"My daughter is nineteen this year and can get married. If anyone can give me two hundred yuan, I will give my daughter Xu Lai Di to them right now. I will do whatever you want with her!"

"mother!"

Xu Lai Di looked at her biological mother in disbelief. Although she had thought of the outcome a long time ago, she still found it hard to believe when her biological mother treated her like a commodity and prepared to sell her to others without caring about her life or death.

"Shut up. I gave birth to you and raised you. Now your brother is like this. What? You don't want to take care of him anymore? How can you be so heartless?" Aunt Xu ignored Xu Lai'di's protest and turned to look at Pi Laizi who was hiding in the crowd not far away.

When this man was a child, he went up the mountain and was stung by bees. His face was covered with blisters. He couldn't help scratching it, and later when he recovered, his face became covered with scabies. He was lazy and careless, and would beat his parents if he was not satisfied at home. But this man, like Xu Jiabao, was the only male in the family and was spoiled to the point of lawlessness.

But he was lucky. He had two beautiful sisters who married in other counties. Not only were the bride prices high, but they also always sent good gifts to their parents' home. So his family was never short of money.

However, he was already forty years old and still couldn't get married. He had considered Xu Lai Di before, but the Xu couple wanted to keep him as a free laborer at home to serve their family of three, so they never agreed.

Aunt Xu grabbed Xu Laidie's collar with one hand and walked towards the scabby guy in the crowd.

"I don't want it, Mom, you can't sell me, you can't sell me!"

"Xu Laosan, hold your wife over to me. Don't you and your family want to stay in the Qishui Brigade anymore?" Wei Zhongping shouted angrily, looking at the Xu couple with flaming eyes.

"Captain, you still have to control me when I marry my daughter." Aunt Xu looked at Wei Zhongping indignantly.

Wei Zhongping's face turned blue with anger. He pointed at Aunt Xu and shouted, "If you marry off your daughter normally, I certainly won't interfere with you. But in our Qishui Brigade, as long as the captain is named Wei, no one will be allowed to force girls to marry, let alone openly sell them. If you dare to bring that up today, I will report it to the commune and have your family kicked out of the Qishui Brigade. If the commune doesn't agree, I'll quit as captain."

Before the eldest and second daughters of Xu Laosan got engaged, the team leader and Secretary Lu asked their wives to ask the two girls. If they were unwilling, the team headquarters could make the decision for them.

The Qishui Brigade will never allow such things as selling daughters to raise sons to happen. If you have the ability, you can remove them from the positions of brigade leader and secretary. If you don't have the ability, you can just abide by the rules.

It's just that the two girls had been tortured by Xu Laosan and his wife for more than ten years, and they didn't dare to resist at all. They said it was voluntary. Since it was voluntary, the brigade certainly had no right to interfere.

The result is predictable: each one is worse off than the other after marriage.

Many people in the brigade knew about this, and the brigade leader and Secretary Lu had no choice. They had chosen their own path, and they had offered help at the beginning, but the two girls did not need help from the brigade headquarters. So as outsiders, they naturally had no right to interfere in how their married life would be.

Now that Xu Laidi has clearly shown resistance, it is impossible for Wei Zhongping and Secretary Lu to just sit there and watch.

"Captain, I am marrying my daughter off according to the normal procedures. Why are you stopping me?" Aunt Xu turned her head and glared at Xu Laidie. The expression on her face was vicious. She didn't look like she was looking at her own daughter, but rather as if she was looking at a debtor.

"Xu Laidi, I want to ask you, I want to marry you off now in exchange for the betrothal gift to pay for your brother's medical treatment. Do you agree?"

Xu Lai Di trembled all over, hunched his shoulders, and shook uncontrollably, his face full of panic and timidity. He slowly raised his eyes to look at his biological mother in front of him, opened his mouth, and suddenly thought of the words he had heard these days.

Women are never born to be cheap!

Why should I sacrifice myself to give a better life to those scumbags who bully me, beat me and scold me!

Big leaders have said that women hold up half the sky, which proves that we women are never worse than men.

If no one loves me, then I will love myself. There is no one in this world who is more reliable than myself, so why should I sacrifice myself for others?

If a woman is not ruthless, her status will be unstable!

"I, I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to!" Xu Laidi shook off Aunt Xu's hand that was grabbing his collar, took two steps back, turned around and knelt in front of the captain, "Captain, I don't want to, they want me to marry a leper, I don't want to, I don't want to."

"Alright, kid, get up quickly. This isn't popular these days. Don't be afraid. There are so many uncles and aunts here to help you!" Li Cui'e quickly squeezed over and helped Xu Laidi up. "Don't worry, kid. No one can force you to do something you don't want to do."

"Xu Lai..."

"Shut up right there! If you dare to say another word, I'll send you and your good-for-nothing son to the hospital today." Li Cui'e pushed Xu Laidi into the arms of Liu Hongying, who had just come running over. She turned and pointed at Aunt Xu, "Xu Hong, you'd better take a good look at your son. If you keep on talking, he won't need to be taken to the hospital. We can just send him straight up the mountain."

I don't know if this couple really loves their son or is just pretending to love him. They still have time to complain here. If it were her son, she would have no money and would have sold the house and land to pay for her son's medical treatment first. How could she have time to think about her daughter?

The face of Pi Laizi in the crowd was also very unhappy. It was his mother's idea to fall in love with Xu Laidi. He looked down on the kind of woman who had nothing and was dry and uninteresting. He married her home just to keep her to serve him.

But now being rejected in public made him feel very embarrassed. He glared at those people from the Xu family, turned around, pushed the crowd away and left.

Xu Hong and Xu Laosan hurried back to Xu Jiabao. Seeing that their son's complexion was getting worse and worse and he had started to have a high fever, they were so scared that they started howling again.

At this moment, Zhou Jianwei suddenly rushed over, took a cold look at Xu Jiabao lying on the ground, then turned to the team leader and shouted, "Uncle Wei, you must not lend money to Xu Jiabao. Even if it's work points, you have to pay it back on the spot. Don't let them drag it out."

Wei Zhongping frowned slightly. Ever since Zhou Jianwei was fired from his position as scorekeeper after the last incident, he had been staying at home all day and hadn't come out for a while. Now looking at this kid...

He had an unshaven beard, a pale face, and hair like a chicken coop. He used to have a handsome appearance, but now he looked decadent as if he had aged ten years in an instant.

"What's going on? Why are you here?" Secretary Lu frowned and looked at his nephew seriously.

After the last incident, Secretary Lu found out the next day that it was all his sister who had tricked Zhou Jianwei. Not only that, she even wanted to drag their family into the water. Since then, Secretary Lu has never cared about his confused sister again.

"Uncle Wei, my uncle. Xu Baoqiang was playing cards outside and owed someone over 200 yuan in two nights. Last night, he didn't pay back the money and even beat someone up. He was simply being retaliated against, or perhaps beaten by a debt collector. Not only has this nothing to do with our brigade, it has also seriously affected our brigade's reputation. Such a person does not deserve our brigade's assistance, let alone borrowing our public funds."

"You're talking nonsense, this is impossible!" Aunt Xu looked at Zhou Jianwei in shock and anger, and she looked like she wanted to rush up and scratch his face until it was covered in blood.

"Whether I'm talking nonsense or not, just look at this and you'll know!" Zhou Jianwei pulled a piece of paper from his pocket and unfolded it, then held it up in front of the team leader and Secretary Lu. "This is the IOU I found. It clearly states when and where Xu Baoqiang borrowed money to play cards after losing. It has not only Xu Baoqiang's handwritten signature but also his fingerprints. If you don't believe me, you can compare them."

Bai Nuo stood on tiptoe and stretched his neck to look at the IOU curiously.

Is this such a coincidence!

"Second brother?" Bai Nuo turned his head to look at Fang Meng.

Fang Meng lowered his head and chuckled softly, then whispered into the little girl's ear, "The IOU was seized from An Rong. I left it next to Zhou Jianwei's pillow last night."

A smile flashed in Bai Nuo's eyes, and he tilted his head back and asked in a low voice, "How did you know Zhou Jianwei would come over?"