Flying Clouds in Another World

Chapter 158 The reason, Lao Can!

When Gao Jinda saw Liu Feiyun looking at him, he smiled awkwardly at first, then said to the refugees kneeling on the ground: "You have all seen what happened to that lazy woman! You also know who I am! Why don't you quickly line up and wait for the prince to select you!"

Now the refugees hurriedly stood up, lined up, and waited there quietly, but some of them were uneasy and looked around!

Gao Jinda saw that most of the refugees listened to him obediently, so he said to Liu Feiyun: "My Lord! The people in Liu Shantang! Not all of them are good people who need help! For example, that lazy woman just now, look at her face, she looks pale!"

Liu Feiyun thought about it and realized that it was indeed the case. He couldn't help but ask, "Why is that?"

"People like her are used to being lazy and greedy. They are not willing to be refugees and seek a living, nor do they want to find a proper business in the county. They are not even willing to marry a man and live a simple life like an ordinary person. Although Liu Shantang only provides food and nothing else, people like this lazy woman have their own way of making money!"

"Your Liu family provides food, but not ready-made food. You only give these refugees some grain to cook by themselves. Also, the houses in Liu Shantang are always damaged and need to be repaired from time to time. Your family naturally lets these refugees do the work by themselves, and only provides some materials such as wood boards! But people like the lazy woman can profit from it. For example, she received ten kilograms of rice but only cooked three kilograms, and she received ten pieces of wood boards but only used three! She naturally sold the rest for the money and kept it for herself! She doesn't care if other people starve or freeze because of this! As long as no one dies, it's fine!"

"That's fine, but they don't usually work. They only pretend to work when your family comes! What's even more hateful is that they bully the old and the young, beat and scold the helpless, and take it out on others when they are not satisfied. What's the point of buying such people, my prince?"

After listening to Gao Jinda's words, Liu Feiyun finally understood the cause and effect! At the same time, he sighed: No matter which world it is, as long as there are people, there will be disputes and there will be rivers and lakes!

But Liu Feiyun thought about it and realized that it was wrong! When did this tall gentleman become so chivalrous and kind-hearted! He asked Gao Jinda with a smile: "Brother Gao! When did this trivial matter in the refugee camp enter your eyes? Shouldn't you only have eyes for graceful ladies?"

Gao Jinda blushed slightly, and hurriedly pulled Liu Feiyun to a secluded corner, lowering his voice and saying, "Ahem! That! That! Wasn't it last night when my little Seventeen and I were doing that... that! I saw the old injuries on her body! After asking, I found out about all this! It just so happened that I came here today, so... that... ahem, who knew that lazy woman would come to my door on her own!"

Liu Feiyun suddenly realized, and at the same time, his face turned red. He also laughed softly: "Brother Gao! Although you are older than me and stronger than me, you still have to... still have to be restrained! Don't let your body become depleted and cause... that! You know!"

Gao Jinda first had an expression that said, "You are indeed a fellow traveler," but then his face darkened and he stopped talking in anger!

Liu Feiyun knew what was going on, but he didn't say it. He then asked Liu Shihu and Si Mingrui to work with Gao Jinda and a group of yamen runners to screen these refugees, and in the end, they really screened out 20 to 30 people.

However, what he did not expect was that among these refugees, there were as many as thirty or forty people who gave up the opportunity to enter the Liu family. Among them were the families of the previous children, as well as some who had never expressed a desire to enter the Liu family from the beginning to the end.

These dozens of people are all elderly, sick and disabled.

I only heard an old man say: "I am already very old, I can't walk or work anymore! I won't cause any trouble to the Liu family! Two meals of porridge a day are good enough here!"

Another old man said, "Yes, yes! What use would it be for us old bones to enter the Liu family? We would waste food while alive and stink up the land after death! No, no, no! As long as my children and grandchildren can have a way to survive, I will be satisfied! I will be at peace even after I die!"

"A blind man like me is even more useless! I am already very satisfied that the Liu family allows me to live a miserable life here!"

"I can see it, but my hands were broken when I was burning colored glass last year! I'll be a useless piece of shit even if I go!"

Liu Feiyun felt mixed emotions when he heard what these people said! Who wouldn't get old? Who wants to be disabled?

However, he suddenly seemed to have thought of something, and looked at the old man who had just spoken, and asked anxiously: "Old man! What did you say just now? Have you ever burned colored glaze?"

The old man was also startled, and answered subconsciously: "Yes! I have burned glass!"

"Is it the pottery-based colored glaze or the translucent colored glaze that is fired there?"

"Pottery colored glaze? I have never fired this before. The kind of colored glaze I have fired before is the slightly transparent kind, but it can only vaguely let some light through, it can't be considered translucent!"

"Really? That's great! Old man! You must come back with me! I'm in need of someone to make colored glaze! I wonder how many years you've been doing this?"

"Ah?... Oh! I've been doing this for almost my whole life, at least forty years! But my hands... can't do the work anymore!"

"But old man, you have eyes and a mouth, you can command others to do things! It's settled! Someone come! Bring the documents of selling your body!" Liu Feiyun said happily.

Then he casually asked the blind man next to the old man: "Blind man, are your eyes naturally like this, or..."

"Alas! Don't be afraid of being laughed at by the prince! My eyes were blinded by poison when I was preparing the sachet!"

"Preparing a sachet? What sachet? Could it be that your eyes were fumigated by poison?"

"Exactly! As for the sachet? It's the sachet that the women of noble families like the prince often carry with them!"

"Oh! You must be quite familiar with the principles of combining fragrance ingredients?"

"I know a thing or two, and I've been doing this for 20 to 30 years!"

"In that case, you should come back with me! Someone, bring me another document!"

Liu Feiyun got excited and asked these old people and the disabled one by one. He actually found more than a dozen skilled craftsmen among them! There was even a Confucian scholar among them. When asked, it turned out that he was well-read and familiar with all kinds of classics, history, and collections, and all the theories of various schools.

"Mr. Zhou is actually a great scholar!" Liu Feiyun was really shocked!

"I am only blind, but not old. I am only over fifty years old, far from old. What's more, I am only blind in one eye and lame in one leg! What, Prince, do you also want to buy me, the rotten Zhou Banxia? You may not be able to afford it?"