Joe's Farming

At a corner of Taoyuan Town Pier, four teenagers of about fifteen or sixteen years old were staring enviously at the people eating at the snack bar opposite, silently chewing on the steamed buns in their hands.

A young man in his twenties came over and gave each of them a meat bun.

"Don't look at it anymore. I'll take you to eat after we get paid. I've asked around. There's a set meal with one meat, one vegetable and rice. It's only 18 cents."

Li Ming said happily to the four teenagers.

"Really? Then when will we get paid?"

One of the boys with small canine teeth asked.

Li Ming frowned. He asked the foreman today and the foreman said that he would only pay half a month's wages for a full month's work.

The money he had now was the advance the foreman said he had given him. This year, many more people came to the dock to look for work, and their wages were reduced from 20 cents to 15 cents. Even so, they had to work first before they could get paid.

Li Ming sighed: "It's almost there, it's almost there."

If only the third in command were here, they would definitely be living a better life than they are now.

It’s a pity that in order to cover them, the third in command led the pursuers away alone. I don’t know whether he was caught or not, and whether he is still alive or not.

"Brother Ming, Xiao Tao and his friends are helping people build houses in the village. Although they don't earn as much as we do, they can still have enough food every day. How about we go too?"

Li Ming had thought about changing his job, but they had already worked at the dock for twenty days and were reluctant to give up the wages they had not yet received.

If Qiao Yu knew about this, he would definitely tell them: Sunk costs should not be involved in important decisions.

The foreman was obviously bullying these outsiders, most of whom were young teenagers. Maybe the wages had already been squandered by the foreman.

A few people ate the buns and rested for a while before being called by the foreman to continue moving the goods.

Wang Jie saw Wen Ge'er staring at the dock opposite, so he asked him what he was looking at.

Brother Wen pointed at a few young men who were moving goods across the street.

"I've noticed them for a long time. They just eat two steamed buns every day and drool over the food in our store."

Wen Ge'er has lived a hard life, so it is easier for him to pay attention to these people at the bottom of society.

Wang Jie asked in confusion, "The dock workers should earn a lot of money every day. They work for so long, so it's not difficult for them to come to our store for a meal. Maybe they give all their wages to their families."

Wen Geer nodded: "Maybe."

After they finished talking, the two of them continued to do their work, not noticing that one of the teenagers accidentally fell and the goods they were carrying were scattered all over the floor.

The foreman immediately ran over angrily, cursing, "You clumsy fellows! I hired you to work, not to make trouble!

Hurry up and get it back for me. If it's broken, you have to compensate me, you idiot!"

Li Ming quickly helped the man up, and then said to the foreman in dissatisfaction: "Brother Zhang, Xiaogang didn't mean it. Don't curse so harshly..."

When the foreman heard this, he got angry and kicked him.

Li Ming and his friends originally came from the village, where the strong are respected and fighting is common.

He dodged the foreman's kick easily.

The foreman was stunned. At this time, more and more people gathered around. The foreman felt that he had lost face. He originally just wanted to scare the strangers, but now he was so angry that he directly waved his fist at Li Ming.

Li Ming never expected that he and his brothers worked diligently here and did nothing, but were treated like this by the foreman.

He had been tolerating the foreman for a long time, but now seeing that the foreman was furious and wanted to beat him up, he decided not to tolerate it any longer and clenched his fists, ready to meet him head-on.

In the blink of an eye, a shadow came flying over and kicked the foreman who was about to confront him away.

The foreman was kicked a full ten feet away, and fell to the ground, holding his arm and unable to get up. He screamed miserably, probably because of a broken bone.

Li Ming and the four teenagers saw the newcomer and shouted happily, "Third Master!"

Because the villa has been busy with too many things recently, Ling Lie's plan to find his brothers has been postponed.

Finally, when there was nothing to do in the villa, he asked Qiao Yu for two days off to go to the town. His brothers were different from him. Their cooking skills were terrible. Even if there was no shortage of food in the mountains during this period, they would still starve to death.

So Ling Lie guessed that they must be hiding secretly in docks, kiln factories and other places, selling their labor to make a living.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he found the dock, he saw the foreman bullying them. He was so angry that he kicked him.

Ling Lie retracted his foot and waved his hand: "What Third Master? Stop yelling! Call me by my name."

Li Ming and the others didn't dare to call Ling Lie by name, so they immediately changed their words: "Brother Ling, I'm so glad you're okay."

The foreman on the ground was still howling, "Hey, you guys from other places, I took you in out of kindness, but you dared to run wild at our Taoyuan Town dock.

My hand is broken! I'm going to report you to the police! They'll arrest you and put you in jail!"

Most of the people around were locals, and they began to talk at this moment.

"These outsiders are so abominable. They steal our jobs and bully us locals."

"That's right, it's all their fault for being too cheap. My wages have been reduced."

The foreman's companion shouted, "Wait a minute, kid! We're going to report this to the police! Don't run away if you dare!"

At this time, a clear voice came: "Go and report to the police. We saw that this person was the first to attack. My husband, I, and the people in our store can testify to this."

Ling Lie turned around and saw him at the potato banquet.

He is his employer’s childhood friend and also the manager of their employer’s snack bar, Li Wen, also known as Brother Wen.

Wen Ge'er and Wang Jie nodded to Ling Lie, signaling him not to panic.

Behind Wen Ge'er were the waiters from the snack bar and some old customers, all of whom were looking at the foreman and his companions with serious faces.

When the snack bar opened, the county magistrate personally attended and presented gifts, and the entire Taoyuan town knew about it. So even though the snack bar's booming business had snatched away business from many dock shops, no one dared to do anything behind the scenes.

"You bullied others first, you deserve to be beaten." A customer said loudly.

"That's right. What's wrong with being a foreigner? I'm from another place too. Aren't there enough foreigners working on the docks?"

Ling Lie's mind was clear now. He knew that he was lucky today as he happened to meet his family, otherwise he would be in trouble.

He said to Wen Ge'er somewhat embarrassedly: "Well... these people are all my brothers. I came out this time just to find them. I didn't expect to cause you trouble..."

"We are all family, no need to trouble you." Wen Ge'er interrupted.

Wen Ge'er looked at the foreman who had already stood up and said, "Although you were wrong to start the fight first, you are also injured, so we won't make things difficult for you. I will send someone to take you to the clinic right now, and we will pay for the expenses. Let's just leave it at that for today, is that ok with you?"

The foreman stiffened his neck and said, "Why is it like this? Who do you think you are?"

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