After unlocking the material space, I raised my younger siblings in a farmhouse.

Chapter 129 Unlucky Lin Youcai

The third branch of the Lin family was unlucky, and the first branch of the Lin family was not much better off.

That day, the people in the Lin family's main room were also awakened by Lin Chengyu's screams, but Lin Youcai did not let his son go over to find out what was going on. Instead, he chose to lean against the wall and eavesdrop.

Lin Youcai learned from the conversation on the other side of the wall that his third brother's family was either injured or sick. He was afraid of being harassed by the people from the third room, so he asked them to stay and take care of their family. He was even more afraid that the third brother would ask them for money.

So Lin Youcai quickly made up his mind and asked his daughter, son-in-law, son and daughter-in-law to pack up and leave.

It just so happened that they just came back to stay temporarily and didn't bring much stuff with them, so they quickly packed a few bags. In order not to be discovered, they quietly left through the back door.

After avoiding people all the way to the fork in the road at the entrance of the village, Lin Youcai parted ways with his daughter and sons-in-law.

It was from this time that Lin Youcai began to have bad luck.

The family of three walked less than a hundred meters when Lin Youcai's cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles cracked. After two more steps, the entire sole fell off.

In order to reach the town, Lin Youcai took out a belt from his bag, tied the soles and uppers of his shoes together, and walked five kilometers in this way.

They finally met an ox cart with an empty carriage on the road. Lin Youcai waved to the cart to stop and planned to pay to rent a cart to take them back to town.

I don't know what happened, but stones kept getting into the shoe that was tied. There was only a thin layer of socks between his foot and the shoe, so it was no different from stepping directly on the stones.

He had to stop and adjust his shoes every time he walked for a while. Even so, the frequent stepping on stones made the soles of his feet suffer. He really couldn't stand it anymore and planned to pay for a ox cart to go back.

The old man driving the ox cart was responsible for picking up and dropping off people. When he saw someone wanted a ride, he naturally had no reason to refuse. He stopped the cart and spoke with a smile.

"It's not far from the town. I won't cheat you. Two copper coins per person will be enough."

Lin Youcai nodded in agreement. The price was reasonable, so he reached into his pocket, intending to take out his purse to pay. However, he searched left and right but couldn't find his purse.

Lin Youcai's face changed. He asked his wife and son to search the bag he was carrying, but his purse was not found.

Lin Youcai felt that the purse must have fallen on the road when he was tidying up his shoes, otherwise it would not have disappeared out of thin air.

He asked his son to pay the fare first, and they went back to find the purse by ox cart. However, the driver disagreed, saying that he had to go to town to pick up passengers and could not waste time just for a few copper coins.

Lin Youcai was extremely anxious. There were eight taels of silver in the purse. If it was really lost, he would be heartbroken. So he gritted his teeth and increased the fare from a few copper coins to one hundred coins. This price was more than what the old man earned from pulling a cart of people.

The old man driving the car nodded in agreement. Lin Hanhai took out a string of copper coins from his bag and handed them to the old man. After the old man counted them and confirmed that the number was correct, he turned the ox cart around and asked them to get on.

Lin Hanhai helped his mother onto the ox cart and sat down. Lin Youcai followed closely behind and urged the old man to drive faster.

Before he could finish his words, the ox cart broke into two parts, the wheels broke free from the body of the cart, and rolled away. The people sitting in the cart also fell heavily on their butts.

The scene suddenly fell silent. Uncle Hu, the owner of the ox cart, was the first to react. He glared at Lin Youcai in frustration and roared.

"My car! What did you do? How did my car become like this? You have to pay for my car!"

Lin Youcai had just climbed up from the car bed and was rubbing his sore butt. When he heard the old man asking him to pay compensation, he immediately became unhappy.

"Hey, are you being unreasonable, old man? I just got in your car and it fell apart. I was injured. I haven't asked you for compensation yet, but you have the nerve to ask me for money? I think you are deliberately blackmailing me."

The old man was not to be bullied. "Bah! I, Hu Laosan, have been in the bullock cart business for so many years, and there has never been any problem. I bought this cart last year. I pick up and drop off so many people every day without any problems. But the cart broke down right after you got on. Who else should I blame but you? Pay me! If you don't pay me today, no one is allowed to leave."

"I'm not going to talk nonsense with you! I have something else to do, don't waste my time here."

After saying that, Lin Youcai no longer cared about the angry Grandpa Hu, and hurried back with his wife and son, searching as he walked, praying in his heart that the purse must not have been picked up by someone else.

Uncle Hu was furious when he saw that the people just left like that. There were three of them, and if a fight really broke out, he, an old man, would definitely not be their match.

Besides, although the car was broken, the wheels and other parts were still intact. If he just left it here, when he came back later, the things would definitely have been picked up by others, and he would suffer a great loss. Therefore, he could not leave now.

Uncle Hu looked at the three people with a resentful look on his face as they walked away with their backs hunched. Then he began to look for tools to see if he could fix these things. He then asked the ox to pull them into the county to find a carpenter to see if they could be repaired.

Uncle Hu cursed as he moved things: "I'm so unlucky today, running into these bastards. I'd better not let me meet you again, otherwise I won't kill you. I don't believe Hu..."

Lin Youcai and the others had already walked far away, so they naturally did not hear Uncle Hu scolding them. At this moment, his focus was entirely on finding the purse.

They walked all the way back, their eyes were popping out, but they still didn't find it. Lin Youcai was unwilling to give up, so he took them back to the village.

He walked along the village road while searching, entered his home through the back door, and turned the house upside down, but still couldn't find the lost purse. Lin Youcai had to believe that the money was really lost.

Lin Youcai changed into a pair of old shoes with a gloomy face and went out again.

The old shoes were a bit tight and the soles were worn thin, making them very uncomfortable to wear, which made Lin Youcai even more unhappy.

They didn't find the man's wallet, but they didn't forget the reason why they went out today. They didn't dare to delay any longer, so they closed the doors and windows and set off again.

The family of three returned to the place where they met the coachman before and found a group of people gathered there.

Lin Youcai was not in the mood to join in the fun at the moment and planned to bypass them and go back to town. At this moment, an angry voice rang out, attracting everyone's attention to them.

"It's this family that destroyed my car! They still don't want to pay for it. Catch them and don't let them get away!"

The old man pointed at them and said this with a trembling hand, then leaned back and fell to the ground.