nashuaworldcup Chapter 39 Eating Flies
Chapter 39 Eating Flies
Chapter 39 Eating Flies
The one-eyed man sat cross-legged, leisurely waiting for the fat man to bring him the silver.
A series of hurried footsteps sounded. One-Eyed looked up and saw a large, dark group of people. Four constables led the way, followed by more than a dozen others.
"Brother Li! It's you!" The one-eyed man smiled and quickly went to greet him.
One-Eyed glared at Wang Wenzhou. "You fat bastard, what a scoundrel! You said you were going to the bank to get silver, but you actually went to find the yamen runners!"
"Heh heh!" The one-eyed man sneered. "You fatso, you're out of luck! I know Brother Li. I've drunk with Brother Li a few times; he'll give me this much face. As for this money today, you fatso, you'll have to pay whether you want to or not!"
"Brother Li! You must stand up for me!" Wang Wenzhou saw that One-Eyed actually knew Li Hechen and wanted to play a trick on One-Eyed to vent his anger!
"Hehe..." Li Hechen chuckled foolishly, thinking to himself, "My lord, what do you want to do?"
Wang Wenzhou whispered to Li Hechen, "I'm just an ordinary person who came to you to handle a case! Don't reveal my identity!"
Li Hechen nodded in agreement, then cautiously asked, "What exactly happened?"
The one-eyed man grumbled, "Brother Li, you have to stand up for me! We've known each other for ages..."
"You son of a bitch! I don't know you!" Li Hechen quickly interrupted the one-eyed man, disclaiming his identity, "I am a yamen runner, serving in the yamen, and I would not bend the law for personal gain. What exactly is going on? Explain yourself!"
One-Eyed frowned. "Brother Li, what's wrong with you today? Just a few days ago, I arrived in Hanshan County and even had a drink with you! You patted your chest and promised that if I ever encountered anything in Hanshan County, I could just mention your name."
One-Eyed glanced at the dozen or so people behind Wang Wenzhou and suddenly realized, "So Brother Li said that on purpose because there are so many onlookers." I get it!
"Here's what happened! We came to eat, but when we were about to pay the bill after we finished, we suddenly discovered that there were so many flies in our plates! How disgusting! We only found flies in our plates after we were full. We don't even know if we ate anything!" The fat on the one-eyed man's face twitched, and he made a disgusted expression.
"The shop owner is too much! He gave us such dirty food! We just wanted to get an explanation from him! Who knew that this fatso would come up and start cursing! He even said that the flies weren't from their shop! We came here to eat, how could we bring flies with us?" One-Eyed glared at Wang Wenzhou.
"Yes! Lord Li, you have to do us justice! Finding a fly in our food is disgusting!" The one-eyed brothers chimed in.
Zhang Jiao finally understood why the fat man and her grandfather had put on that act earlier. She stood aside and sneered; the fat man was too wicked, always acting so irresponsibly.
"Isn't it my turn to speak?" Wang Wenzhou asked.
"Please speak!" Li Hechen said, bowing and scraping.
"Ah!" One-Eyed's expression changed. Who was this fat man? Brother Li was showing him such respect.
“It’s just losing money! I’ll pay!” Wang Wenzhou said.
Wang Wenzhou reached into his pocket, but had no money! He turned around and asked, "Does anyone have any silver? Lend me ten taels!"
Geng San hurriedly took out the silver ingot and respectfully handed it to Wang Wenzhou with both hands. He didn't know what Lord Wang wanted to do. He only knew that if Lord Wang borrowed silver, he would definitely repay it. Even if Lord Wang didn't repay the silver, the benefits he would receive in the future would be more than ten taels of silver.
"Bang!" Wang Wenzhou slammed the silver on the table and said, "I'll pay you back! The silver is right here. You say you've eaten flies? I don't believe you! Flies are such disgusting things, you'd spit them out immediately if you ate them! And you haven't spit them out, which means you've never eaten flies!"
Wang Wenzhou looked at Li Hechen and asked, "Lord Li, do you think I don't need to pay compensation?"
"Hmm..." Li Hechen pointed at the one-eyed man and coldly shouted, "That's right! You ate flies and didn't spit them out. Who can prove that you ate flies?"
One-Eyed blinked his big eye. "Nonsense! I've never eaten a fly! Even if I had, there's no way to prove it!"
"There's no way to prove it, is there?" Wang Wenzhou said with a smile, looking at the one-eyed man.
"How can you prove what you just ate? Are you going to cut open your stomach with a knife?" One-Eyed retorted.
"Hmm!" Wang Wenzhou nodded and said, "That's right! Here's what we'll do: there are still flies in the plate, aren't there? Each of you eat a few, eat all the flies. If you don't vomit, we'll compensate you with ten taels of silver! If you do vomit, Lord Li, what charge will you be charged with for extortion?"
Li Hechen glared fiercely at the one-eyed man and said, "Extortion, thirty strokes of the cane, and one year of exile."
"Lord Li..." Before the one-eyed man could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Li Hechen.
Li Hechen pointed at the flies in the plate and shouted, "Hurry up! Eat the flies! If you vomit after eating them, you'd better watch out!"
One-Eyed looked at Li Hechen thoughtfully, thinking, "Brother Li, what do you mean? Who exactly is this fat man? Why are you helping him so much?"
Li Hechen gave the one-eyed man an awkward smile. "Brother, it's not that I'm trying to help you, it's that I can't! Do you know who you've offended? You dare to beat the master like this! Do you know how much silver my father had to pay when I beat him last time? A thousand taels! The master is lucky you only got to eat a few flies."
"Will they eat or not? If they don't, Lord Li, you should quickly arrest them and bring them to the county office for the magistrate to judge," Wang Wenzhou said with a smile.
"Haha..." Geng San and the others couldn't help but laugh. Lord Wang was really too funny, teasing these scoundrels who wanted to dine and dash like this.
"Eat!" One-Eye beckoned to his brothers. "Come and eat!"
One-Eyed picked up a fly with his chopsticks. "Ugh!" He felt nauseous as soon as he brought it to his mouth. He quickly swallowed, forcing back his nausea, closed his eyes, and swallowed the fly directly into his mouth.
"Ugh..." One-Eyed gagged, but thankfully didn't vomit.
The one-eyed brothers also forced themselves to swallow a fly, suppressing their nausea.
Wang Wenzhou pointed to the plate and said, "There are still two flies in here. Eat them all, don't waste them!"
"Damn it, pay up!" one of the henchmen, who had no sense of propriety, cursed.
One-Eyed quickly grabbed him and whispered, "Shut up! Are you stupid? Can't you see? What money are you talking about? This fat guy is no ordinary person. We shouldn't be thinking about getting any money today. We should be grateful if we don't have to pay the fat guy money instead!"
Wang Wenzhou laughed and said, "You all have good appetites! Li Hechen, lock them all up in the dungeon for now, and I'll handle their cases when I have time. Oh, and remember to tell the jailer, Liu Yunli, to prepare separate meals for these guys. They like to eat flies. It's so cold today, flies are hard to find. Just get them some toads or something!"
“Let’s go! Do you know who this is? This is Lord Wang Wenzhou, the magistrate of Hanshan County!” Li Hechen nudged the one-eyed man and whispered.
"Ah..." One-Eye was dumbfounded. Why am I so unlucky!
Wang Wenzhou returned the silver to Geng San and said, "Thank you for today. Come to Zuihualou to see me tomorrow night, and I'll treat you to a meal."
"Sir, you're too kind! How could I let you treat me to a meal? I should be the one treating you!" Geng San said with a smile.