bookrebus Chapter 29 Fool or Madman?
Chapter 29 Fool or Madman?
Xia Shengsheng originally wanted to use the excuse of buying pancakes to inquire about Liu Da's whereabouts or where he lived.
I wanted to find his house and buy his wood carvings.
But what Xia Shengsheng didn't expect was that Liu Da actually hanged himself!
After Liu Da died, the house he lived in was smashed to pieces by loan sharks, and almost nothing was left that could be sold for money.
Later, his neighbors felt sorry for him and pooled their money to bury him and his wife together.
Xia Shengsheng suddenly felt the preciousness of life and the sadness of the times.
Watching the old lady telling Liu Da's life story in a moving voice and wiping the tears from her eyes from time to time, I felt that this moment passed very slowly.
"You don't know, I watched Liu Da grow up, and we used to live in the same alley!
Poor him, when he was a teenager his father got a strange disease and no amount of money was spent to cure it. Later, in order to treat his father, they sold the ancestral home and moved farther away.
But we all know everything about his family.
At that time, his mother couldn't stand his father being a burden, so she ran away with someone else and never came back since then.
Poor Liu Da, he was only a teenager and had to earn money to support his family and pay for his father's medical treatment.
Even though he has this craft passed down from his ancestors, only wealthy people would spend money to buy this thing.
Who among us ordinary people would spend a dozen or so coins to buy a wooden lump? What's the use of carving it well?
Later, business was in a downturn and Liu owed a lot of money to pay for his father's medical treatment, so he worked as a laborer for others during the day.
I have to beat the night watch, get up early and go to Yexiang, and even the time for sleep is pieced together here and there.
Over the years, he has done all the dirty and tiring work. In order to get his father's medical treatment, he asked many people for help and suffered a lot.
His father was also an unlucky man. He dragged his son for seven or eight years before passing away.
If you ask me, it’s better to die early for a disease that is obviously incurable. Liu Dadao will feel more at ease.
But at least I'm no longer a burden to Liu Da, which is a good thing after all.
Liu Da also paid off his debts and married a wife within five years after his father left.
He thought good days were coming, but he didn't expect that just one year after getting married, his wife fell seriously ill with tuberculosis!
That is an incurable disease!
His wife's family broke off all ties with his family because they were afraid of being implicated.
Liu Da, this silly boy, started to borrow money everywhere to treat his wife's illness.
Everyone has a hard time these days. Who would dare to lend money when they know it’s a waste of money?
Liu Da had no choice but to borrow usury, and the interest on usury was really fatal.
His wife borrowed high-interest loan from Liu Dagang, but the money was gone before she even spent it.
After the funeral was over, which was only two or three days later, we wanted to return the silver, but the money was not ours to decide.
After paying back the principal, I paid ten taels on the left and eight taels on the right. How come I can’t pay it back?
If he didn't pay it back, those bastards would bring a group of people to beat Liu Da up until he agreed to pay it back.
In order to pay off the high-interest loan, Liu Da started working day and night again. Last year, he accidentally fell from the beam and broke his leg.
I could only pick up the skill of wood carving again to barely make a living.
Even so, the loan sharks still didn't let him go.
He keeps causing trouble every other day! Liu Da couldn't stand it anymore, so he just disappeared like that...
What a poor child! "
After listening to the old lady's story, except for Liu Ercheng who was sighing and feeling depressed, the other children all started wiping away their tears.
Liu Da is a kind and responsible person. I didn't expect that such a good person would be oppressed by life into this state.
"I remember last time I heard someone was familiar with those loan sharks and could help mediate. Isn't that possible?"
Xia Shengsheng still remembers what everyone said during the last discussion. Although he felt that the method was unlikely to succeed at the time, he didn't know exactly what went wrong.
"Alas! It was too late! After the incident that day, the child went home and committed suicide. I went there to persuade him for a long time that day!
Who would have thought? Oh! Actually, it's okay. He's still happy even if he's gone. Liu Da has lived such a hard life. It would be better for him to go to the underworld and ask for a job early. Maybe he can live a better life! "
When Xia Shengsheng took the children away, no one was in the mood to go shopping anymore.
The children were no longer as excited as when they first arrived in the city and saw the prosperity everywhere. Instead, they were in a depressed mood.
Xia Shengsheng was also quite sad. Not only was she sad about this era, but she was also unable to help Liu Da at all because of the encounter that day!
If she could have given Liu Da more money at that time and asked him to pay back the loan shark, would that have saved a life?
But in reality, there is no regret medicine, nor so many ifs!
Liu Da was just a passer-by in everyone's life. Even to some children, he was not even a passer-by because they had never seen him.
Changing your life for someone you've never met is really putting the cart before the horse.
Xia Shengsheng tried to reignite the children's interest and change their mood.
Take them for a walk, telling jokes and entertaining everyone along the way.
"Let me tell you a story! Once upon a time, a mother said to her eldest son: My son, I saw your younger brother took the smallest apple. Did you tell him that he could choose freely as I told him?
Her child replied: Yes, Mom, I told him to either take the smallest one or nothing, and he took the smallest one.
Hahahaha!
Don’t you think it’s funny?”
Xia Shengsheng looked at her children with a bewildered look on her face, and felt like using her trump card!
"A girl named Xiaoli said to her mother: The puppy is licking her hand, how cute!
Her mother corrected her and said: Child, a puppy's hands are called paws, and human paws are called hands.
Ha ha ha ha……"
"A teacher often taught us in class: When you see others' shortcomings and misfortunes, never laugh at them.
One day, a student said to the teacher: Today in the private school, a child fell into a puddle, and everyone laughed, but I didn’t laugh.
"You did the right thing," the gentleman praised.
Then he asked, "Who fell into the puddle?"
Xiao Ming replied: It’s me…
Ha ha ha ha……"
Along the way, Xia Shengsheng attracted everyone's attention.
I saw a woman with several children.
The woman seemed crazy, talking to herself and laughing.
Her children looked at the woman with great concern.
Only after Xia Shengsheng laughed did she feel embarrassed.
I could only laugh awkwardly a few times and walked forward in a depressed mood.
Liu Yiyi and Liu Ercheng looked at each other and suddenly seemed to understand something!
They all stopped and stood there laughing.
When Xia Shengsheng turned around, she saw four children standing there holding their stomachs and laughing wildly.
Why did she suddenly feel as if she had given birth to four fools?
Really! It’s better not to laugh!
The passers-by who had been paying attention to the mother and her children sighed deeply.
It turns out that madness is hereditary...