(Crying and shouting, rolling all over the ground for votes...)

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  In the following days, **** Liang left early and returned late every day. After returning home, he was exhausted all over, but he didn't relax his requirements for the children's homework at all. No matter how late or tired he was, he had to check their progress in person and explain the difficult parts.

  Chen Ke also ran out every day, and Erlang couldn't stop him. Seeing that the day he would return to the academy was approaching, he felt it necessary to have a good talk with his brother.

  Just as Chen Ke was about to leave, Chen Chen grabbed him and said, "You wait a minute."

  "What else do you want to go out for?" Chen Chen said with a straight face.

  "I told you there's something going on," Chen Ke said, shaking off his hand and stopping in his tracks.

  "What's going on?" Chen Teng asked suspiciously: "You've been mysterious all day, and you won't say anything when I ask you."

  "Not yet," said Chen Ke, "I'll be the first to tell you when the time comes."

  "No, you have to tell me today." Chen Chen insisted: "I'm about to return to the academy, how can Five and Six Lang manage if you're not home all day? What if something happens to you?"

  "Alright......" Chen Ke had no choice but to tell the truth: "I went out these past few days to investigate those families that owe us money."

  " Investigate them..." Chen Chen said incredulously: "What do you want to do?"

  "Nonsense! You want money, don't you?" Chen Xiao pouted and said: "Paying back debts is the natural order of things!"

  "Nonsense!" Chen Chen angrily said: "If Father doesn't come back, you're just a child, what right do you have to ask for things?!" Speaking with a serious and concerned tone: "Third Brother, haven't you realized it in these few days? Among us four brothers, Father has the highest expectations of you. Although you are naturally clever, if you don't study hard, you will also have no future."

  "I must get my money back!" Chen Ke insisted stubbornly: "Everything is caused by me, I can't pretend to be an innocent person!"

  "Third Brother, no one blames you." Chen Cheng said with a bitter smile: "Everything will be decided by Father, just focus on your studies!"

  "Can I put my mind at ease?" Chen Ke's face was as calm as water: "You come with me to a place."

  "What's going on at home?"

  "Where is Wu Lang?"

  Chen Chen then locked his two younger brothers at home and followed Chen Ke to the dock by the river outside the city.

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  The river flows slowly, so the beaches on both sides are wide and flat, causing ships to only stop at the wooden docks outside the city to load and unload cargo. The nearly two-mile distance from the dock to the warehouse is entirely covered by stevedores pushing carts to complete the transfer.

  Sanlang took Erlang and hid behind a haystack at the side of the plank bridge, his eyes scanning back and forth over the loading and unloading workers, finally locking onto one and pointing him out to Erlang.

  As he looked ahead, Erlang suddenly saw his own father. He was stunned and rubbed his eyes in disbelief, but the scene before him remained crystal clear - those hands grasping the handlebars, a harness around his neck, pushing a "cluck-clucking" rickshaw, shakily crossing the plank bridge, who else could it be?

  After weighing the pros and cons, **** ultimately decided to go to the dock to work as a porter.

  It's not as easy to get a job on the dock as one might imagine. First, you have to find someone reliable to vouch for you, then pay an initiation fee and deposit known as "down-river money", another fee for renting a pedicab called "rental car money", and also buy your own simple tools such as baskets and shoulder poles.

  After spending a day to complete these procedures, he had the right to have a fixed income and a guarantee of income. Moreover, there are basically jobs to do on the dock every day, as long as you are willing to work hard, the income is quite considerable, and it can be recovered quickly.

  But everything is difficult at the beginning. Others can push a car with 700 or 800 pounds, it seems effortless, but when it's his turn, the cart becomes hard to control, using all his strength, he still can't grasp the balance, and almost flips over after just two steps. If not for the team leader who had anticipated this, holding him steady, the entire load of goods would have fallen into the water.

  But he was a very stubborn person, if 500-600 catties couldn't be pushed, then push 200-300 catties, it's just running a few more trips.

  By now, he has basically mastered the technique of controlling this unicycle, and the goods he pushes have increased to 400 catties, making his fellow workers who were initially prepared to laugh at him secretly admire him.

  But Erlang only wanted to wail loudly, he jumped up and was about to shout for his father to come home when Sanlang pressed him down.

  Chen Ke covered his mouth tightly and dragged him to the reeds in the distance, both of them panting heavily.

  "Why block me?" Er Lang's eyes were red with rage.

  "You're still young and don't understand a man's pride." Chen Ke wiped the sweat from his forehead, his tone filled with deep appreciation for **: "A real man is one who shoulders all the burdens. Unless you have a way to lighten his load, any attempt to dissuade him is an insult."

  "I'm three years older than you..." Chen Chen said with a gloomy tone.

  "Otherwise, I wouldn't have looked for you." Chen Ke turned his head and gazed deeply at Chen Chen: "How is it? What do you think?"

  Chen Chen was silent for a moment, then finally said with a determined face: "Speak up, what do you want to do?"

  "We are creditors of eleven households, six of which are in Qing Shen County. I've been investigating these six households for the past few days." Chen Ke finally revealed his true intention.

  "How about it? Is there any chance of getting our money back?" Chen Teng's attitude changed greatly as he began to hold out hope.

  "What a pity, there isn't." Chen Ke shook his head with some emotion. He had thought that those old debtors were just pretending to be poor and wouldn't repay even if they had the money. But after observing them for several days, he discovered that every household was indeed facing difficulties... either they really couldn't afford to cook a meal or the creditors were sitting in a room full of people, with no one willing to repay.

  Although it is the worst news for creditors that debtors are so poor and difficult, on the bright side, this at least shows that Song Dynasty people still value integrity.

  No money is not scary, what's scary is having money but still not paying back.

  "The old man doesn't want to return the money because he doesn't want to add insult to injury. We can't go against his wishes." Chen Xiao smiled and said, "So we're sending charcoal in the snow!"

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  The next morning, **** went out and told his two younger brothers to stay at home and he would bring back delicious food for them at noon.

  But Rokurō was determined not to be confined again and tightly grasped the hands of his two brothers, insisting on going with them.

  Chen Chen looked at Chen Ke, although he was the lead actor today, but San Lang was the director.

  "Bring them along." Chen Ke smiled and said: "Just consider it a warm-up exercise."

  Rokurō immediately cheered up.

  One of them led his younger brother out the door, and Chen Ke first took them to the Pan family's carpentry shop on Front Street, saying he had ordered something inside. Just as they were about to step inside, Chen Chen grabbed him with a start: "Third Brother, we only have 150 coins."

  "Don't worry, it's free, they'll even owe us money." Chen Ke said, then pulled Liu Lang into the store. The storefront wasn't big, so Er Lang and Wu Lang didn't follow them in.

  Passing through the front store with its neatly arranged goods and furniture, one sees the owner, Pan Mujiang, leading two apprentices in doing woodworking in the courtyard.

  Seeing someone breaking in, Pan Mugong was not only not annoyed, but instead showed a happy face and said: "Sanlang has arrived, quickly sit in the front."

  "Uncle Pan, this is my younger brother Liu Lang." Chen Ke made Xiao Liu Lang greet Pan Mujiang.

  Xiao Liu Lang obediently followed suit.

  "Alright," said Pan Mugou with a smile as he patted Xia Liu's head, and handed him the small wooden sword, saying "Take it and play."

  Kogoro had no toys and was gazing longingly at Sanro.

  "How much?"

  "It doesn't matter about the money, just a small trick." said Pan Mugong with a bright smile.

  "Thank you, uncle." Sanlang thanked him himself and also asked Rokuro to thank him.

  "No need to be polite, no need to be polite." Pan Mugong took out a set of keys from his pocket and walked towards the counter: "Speaking of money, your official hat chair has been ordered more than ten times, this time I lost. He opened the drawer, took out five strings of iron coins worth ten taels: "This is your five taels of silver, and the items you wanted are also ready for you. When you go out later, don't forget to let the neighbors be witnesses."

  Although he said he lost on the surface, his face was filled with a heartfelt smile: "Sanlang, next time you have such a drawing, come find me to fight again."

  "Who knows if it can still be thought of? I'll try my best." Sanlang held the money in one hand and picked up a wooden box from the corner with the other, saying: "Is this it?"

  "Indeed, it took me two days of hard work to make this." Pan Mujiang asked curiously: "What do you want with the things in this ironwork shop?"

  "Strike while the iron is hot." One sentence almost choked Pan Mugong to death.

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  As soon as Chen Ke arrived at the door, the surrounding shopkeepers poked their heads out and asked with a smile: "Third Master Chen, did you win or lose?"

  The reason why wealth shouldn't be shown off, Chen Ke naturally knew, but there are rules to follow. If you win money, you have to show it to everyone, to prove that the loser isn't welching on their debt. He could only raise the iron coins he had won high in the air, and the crowd erupted into cheers, as if they were the ones who had won the money.

  "Second Brother was originally puzzled, but seeing this he suddenly understood: 'Third Brother, you're actually fighting with someone?!'"

  "Don't be so surprised." Chen Ke threw the money at him and said, "Speak up front."

  The Song people were fond of gambling by nature, from the emperor and high-ranking officials to ordinary citizens, almost everyone was involved. What is referred to as "guan pu" is a kind of game where people use any object as stakes to gamble on winning or losing.

  For example, all goods of vendors on the street are almost all available for sale and can be exchanged, as long as both parties to the transaction have no dispute over the chips.

  For example, a clay pot that holds water costs 15 cents to buy, but only 5 cents to smash. Win and you get the goods, lose and you lose money, simple and easy to do, as long as you have money and goods it's fine.

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  Weekend without rest, continue to work hard to update the child, should get a recommendation vote!!!!!!!!