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Chapter 277 - 137: The Mute Who Knows Dragon Slaying Technique_1

Chapter 277: Chapter 137: The Mute Who Knows Dragon Slaying Technique_1

Heizi was absolutely right.

Gao Bin is the type who will never complain no matter how tired or difficult it is, it doesn’t matter if he’s randomly criticized, he will never talk back, and surely no one will make fun of his embarrassing times.

Because Gao Bin is a deaf-mute. He can’t hear what others are saying, nor can he speak himself.

When Ma Chao was explaining to everyone, Yan Fei vaguely remembered such a person.

Gao Bin is a typical example of a child from a marriage between close relatives. His parents were first cousins, both families were poor at the time, so they let the cousins marry. They named their son Gao Bin with the hope that he would be talented in both literature and martial arts.

But when their son grew up a bit, they discovered that he couldn’t speak at all, he also couldn’t hear what others were saying, he could only make ahh ahh ahh sounds.

Although he couldn’t speak, he did grow to be a robust tall man. There was no school for the deaf and mute in the small town, so he just stayed home until he was in his teens.

Later his parents had a daughter, and the family planning policies prevented them from having more children. Their son just hanging around at home wasn’t a solution, so they decided to let him learn a trade.

A deaf-mute person, it’s not easy to learn other things. There used to be an old widower in the town who was a horseshoer, who was impressed with the lad’s physique, so he took him as an apprentice.

That’s right -- the kind who holds the horse’s leg, cuts the keratin layer flat and then fits a horseshoe. One holds the horseshoe, and the other quickly hammers the nails in.

The trade is rather simple, requiring strength more than anything. In no time at all, Gao Bin inherited the old man’s skills, and a few years later, when he laid the old man to rest, he also inherited the horseshoe shop.

The story ends here.

What comes next is unnecessary, tractors have been increasing in the past few years. Horses, being less versatile and more troublesome to feed than cows, are a rarity these days!

So, the horseshoemaker’s trade has become a dragon-slayer technique – regardless of how superb your skills are, if there are no dragons left to slay, then they are of no use!

Since there were no more horses for him to shoe, Gao Bin didn’t sit idle -- his family was financially strained, and his sister was still in school with bills to pay. So, he found work wherever he could.

He used to carry water for people, but now that most houses have their own wells, there’s no need for his water-carrying services.

Being a mute, he couldn’t cooperate with others for work, and besides physical labor, he didn’t have any other skills. Actually, there weren’t many jobs in the small town that he could do.

So now, he could only carry manure for people.

Truth be told, he wasn’t old at all, about the same age as Ma Chao and Heizi, otherwise, these two wouldn’t know his circumstances so clearly.

That’s life for you, unpredictable and ever-changing.

Gao Bin didn’t lack the will to work, in fact, compared to his peers, he would definitely be considered among the most diligent. A mute, learned horseshoeing while still a teenager, now not even twenty-years-old. For his livelihood, he braved people’s disdainful and sympathetic gazes, waking up early and working late into the night, collecting feces. Who can say he’s not doing an honest job?

But his luck had been poor, and nobody could do anything about it.

Despite his efforts, life was still a struggle. Collecting manure meant getting up early and sleeping late because during the day, when there are more people about, carrying feces around the streets would make people disgusted. He could only choose to work early in the morning or late at night.

He had no farmland of his own. Transporting the manure to other people’s vegetable farms, no matter the distance, would only earn him a few dimes. With the households who needed the manure contributing a few dimes too, each trip put together would still only earn him a few dimes, and certainly not more than a dollar.

As for marrying off daughters, which most people his age have started to take into consideration, he didn’t need to think about it that much. If he thought too much, he wouldn’t be able to sleep. Which girl would marry a deaf-mute who carries manure.

In reality, even his feces-carrying job won’t last much longer.

Nowadays, almost every household in town has built a new house. Those who haven’t built new ones have also installed sewage pipes when the streets were renovated. The toilets can now be connected directly to the sewage - in the past, most of the drains in the lanes were open, but now they have covers.

Heizi really has a useful brain sometimes, were it not for him mentioning Gao Bin, others would never have thought of him.

Because he carries manure when there are no people around early in the morning or late at night, and when he isn’t working, he just squats in his horseshoe shop where nobody goes. Except for the occasional person who asks him to collect fertilizer, nobody pays him any attention.

Knowing Gao Bin’s situation, Yan Fei thought he was quite suitable. Raising cows only requires carefulness, other requirements are not high, as long as you’re strong enough to do the work, being a deaf-mute is not a problem!

He immediately said to Heizi, "When you’re not busy later, go and ask him if he’s willing to come. When he first comes, his salary will be a hundred and fifty. It’ll go up later if he does well. Ask him if it’s okay for him to come over in a day or two, I’m going to buy more cows later."

After saying that, he reconsidered and said to the others, "Now the ranch is also busy, the wages have to go up. Brother Chao works the hardest, from now on it’s five hundred a month! Aunt Yu Mei gets three hundred, Heizi the same. Master Cheng gets one hundred now. What do you guys think?"

Old Cheng hurriedly declined, "No no, I can’t do much work, I eat and drink well here, and I don’t spend much money. I even thought fifty was too much before, if it’s more, I might have to leave!"

Yan Fei waved his hand, "It’s one hundred, it’s settled. Where would you go? If you leave, Aunt Yu Mei will be too busy and there will be nobody to cook."

The others didn’t say a word, they all knew his temperament, he doesn’t like the amount of people coming and going, exchanging courtesies, he finds it very annoying.

Heizi raised his hand, "I have something to say."

Yan Fei was puzzled, "Do you think the wages are low?"

Not only was Yan Fei puzzled, but the others were too. Truthfully, these wages weren’t considered low in this small rural town. Don’t forget, they are provided with meals and accommodation here!

Heizi once again successfully attracted everyone’s attention, looking righteous, he said, "I think the food in our farm needs to be improved! I was already disgusted with eating fish, but now every meal comes with eggs. I reek of fish and egg, it’s more disgusting than the smell of cow manure, I can’t even face people anymore."

Heizi was speaking the truth. Now that the chickens they are raising have started to lay eggs, Yan Fei has no intention of selling them, so he just lets the people on the farm eat them. Except for Heizi, the others are frugal people, always worried that the eggs might go bad in the summer heat, so they have to eat them every day.

Despite this, the others still looked at Heizi with contempt - you’re complaining about having fish and eggs every day, are you trying to reach the stars or something?

"Alright, we’ll have a variety from now on. When you want to eat fish, let me know and I’ll catch some, when you want to eat eggs, eat eggs. Later when you go out to find the mute, buy some meat on the way, for a change of taste," Yan Fei couldn’t care less. "And with the eggs, let me know when they pile up, I’ll find a place to give them to..."

Before he could finish, Heizi threw down his work and ran into the kitchen. When he came out, he was carrying a basket, and placed it in front of Yan Fei, "You don’t need to buy meat. But these eggs, you should figure out who to give them to as soon as possible, don’t keep them in the kitchen, they make me nauseous just looking at them!"

Yan Fei didn’t feel like bickering with this fellow about his tone, but he was a bit confused, "How come there are so many? Don’t you eat them every day?"