In Baihe Town, Diao Laosan was a well-known figure. In hundreds of households in the town, only his family's ancestors ran oil-squeezing houses. His real name was Zhao Laosan, and because of his stubborn and shrewd nature, everyone gave him the nickname "Diao Laosan".

One day, Diao Laosan was weighing oil for a few guests in the oil press when he suddenly saw his neighbor Liu Cheng hurrying past the door, saying as he walked, "Hurry up, hurry up, it's seeping, a lot of water has seeped, don't hurry up." As soon as the voice outside fell, the three people who were weighing oil waved at Diao Laosan and went out together. Diao Laosan held the oil raisin in his hand, and his face was blue. Good you Liu Cheng!

After a few days, Liu Cheng was going to pick up grain to pay the rent at the landlord's house, but he couldn't find the pole outside the door, so he had to borrow Diao Laosan's pole. When he came back, Liu Cheng found a snake on the side of the road. He hurriedly used the pole to beat the snake and accidentally discounted the pole. At this time, looking at the snake, it was already dead. I don't know which troublemaker put it in a scary look.

Liu Cheng sighed a few times, and when he got home, he told Diao Laosan the truth. Diao Laosan smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, just pay me five taels of silver for one ingot." Liu Cheng was surprised and said, "What? A flat pole is worth one ingot of silver?" Diao Laosan said, "Although the flat pole is not worth one ingot of silver, what did you do on the third day of April? You deliberately said loudly outside the door that water seeped and disrupted several of my businesses. I want five taels of silver, which is interest money." Liu Chengyi remembered and said, "How can I tell you? Do you know what I was doing that day?" Diao Laosan grinned: "What are you doing? "Nonsense! That day, I took a can of freshly stewed loach to visit my sick father-in-law. When I walked outside your oil house, the can suddenly dripped. When I saw the can seeping, I asked my daughter to go home and change the can." Third Brother Diao stared at him, "Don't defend yourself.

As soon as Liu Cheng went out, Lao San Diao covered his mouth and snickered, because he deliberately hid the pole of Liu Cheng's family, and he also deliberately put the dead snakes on the road.

One day, half a month later, Liu Cheng went to the mountains to chop firewood. When he picked it up and threw the firewood bundles, he accidentally crushed a hen from Diao Laosan's family to death. Diao Laosan stared at him and shouted at Liu Cheng to compensate him. Liu Cheng asked timidly in his heart, "How much should I pay for a chicken?" Diao Laosan said, "It depends on the situation. My chicken is not an ordinary chicken." When Liu Cheng heard this, he said worriedly, "Isn't it just a hen? Why is it an unusual chicken?" "My chicken can lay three eggs in two days, and I can have more than 500 chicks in a year. Then the chick reproduces eggs, the eggs become chickens, and the chickens lay eggs again. How much do you calculate in a year? It's worth 150 silver and 36 pieces of dried tofu. "

When Liu Cheng heard this, he panicked. He went home and told his daughter Yucui about it, asking Yucui to find a way to borrow some money from relatives in case Diao Laosan asked for debts. Yucui did not take it seriously and said easily to his father, "I have my own way to deal with this. You go and tell Diao Laosan in the afternoon and ask him to come to our house to pick up the money before lunch the day after tomorrow." Liu Cheng looked at his daughter suspiciously, and the daughter said again, "Dad, don't worry."

On the third day, Diao Laosan came to the door full of joy to ask for money. Yu Cui calmly left Diao Laosan at home for lunch. Diao Laosan thought that it would be more cost-effective to save money after eating. When it was time to serve the meal, Yucui asked Diao Laosan to pack it himself. Diao Laosan thought that it would be better to pack it myself, and I would pack more to eat a round belly. So he took a big bowl that Yucui handed over and walked to the stove. Who knew, when he was about to approach the stove, a fat white goose rushed towards him from outside the stove door. The goose opened its mouth and bit its leg and belly. Diao Laosan panicked and fell heavily to the ground, breaking the flower bowl in his hand into several pieces. When the goose saw Diao Laosan fell, it was startled, turned its head and ran out the door.

Hearing the sound, Yucui rushed over, saw the broken bowl on the ground and shouted, "Oh my God! How did you break my fine porcelain flower bowl?" As he spoke, he wiped his tears with his hands. Diao Laosan thought to himself, I have one hundred and fifty taels of silver in your house, what's the problem with paying you a fine porcelain flower bowl? He said, "Don't cry, girl, it's just a bowl, since it's broken, how much will it cost, I'll pay you, what's the point of being sad!" Yucui glanced at him and said, "Can I not be sad? My porcelain bowl is not an ordinary porcelain bowl, this bowl is the treasure of our Liu family's ancestors. This bowl, put it in a rice bowl and stir it a few times, put it into the pot and shake it a few times, and a bowl of rice is topped with three buckets of nine. This bowl is worth 390 silver and 39 pieces of dried bacon. You broke a treasure bowl like mine, how can we live as a family? "

When Diao Laosan heard this, he was stunned for a while, and thought to himself: In addition to the 150 taels of silver he should have received, he also owed 240 taels of silver; besides, 39 pieces of dried bacon were more valuable than tofu. He was so angry that he didn't have the mood to eat anymore, and escaped from the Liu family without a word. As soon as Diao Laosan left, Yucui laughed secretly, hugged the big fat goose he borrowed from his uncle's house last night and said, "Thank you, big white goose, for helping me write off a debt. I will definitely get you something delicious later."

Diao Laosan always hid from Liu Cheng's family, for fear that they would ask for the money they owed. But Diao Laosan was always unwilling, he secretly swore that sooner or later he would think of a clever way to get another one.

On this day, when Lao San Diao saw Liu Cheng eating breakfast and going up the mountain to collect firewood with a pointed pole and a firewood chopping knife, he used a copper basin to fill most of the poon vegetable oil and waited at home. It was almost noon, and he thought Liu Cheng would be back soon, so he found an old straw hat and put it on his head, took the half pot of vegetable oil to the river, and sat under a tree to wait.

After a while, Liu Cheng came back with a load of firewood. Seeing that Liu Cheng carried the firewood to the middle of the wooden bridge on the river, Diao Laosan pressed down the edge of the grass hat, put on half a pot of vegetable oil and walked towards Liu Cheng. As he was about to pass Liu Cheng, he deliberately touched Liu Cheng's firewood, his hands shook suddenly, and the copper basin in his hand fell into the river. Diao Laosan grabbed Liu Cheng's clothes and pointed to the vegetable oil stained on his body and roared: "Liu Cheng, you are against me again! Do you know the treasure of my pot of vegetable oil? My uncle is seriously ill and cannot eat any oil. This is a life-saving oil specially prepared for my uncle. My uncle can't eat vegetable oil now. If your life is wrong, can you take this responsibility? You know what season it is, there is a shortage of oil! "

Liu Cheng is an honest man. Seeing this situation, he was stunned for a while, knowing that he was wrong, so he had to go home dejectedly to find a way.

Daughter Yucui was very angry when she heard her father's story. It was Diao Laosan who was looking for trouble again. She comforted her father and said that she would solve this matter by herself.

The next day, Yucui found a jar that could hold 30 catties of water, filled it with three pots of water, poured in a bowl of vegetable oil, and put the jar on the fire to roast. Then he asked his father to tell Diao Laosan that he would pay for the vegetable oil for his family today and asked him to wait at home. When Liu Cheng came back after passing the word, Yucui used two wet cotton balls to pad his hands and hold the jar to Diao Laosan's house. As he walked to Diao Laosan's yard door, Yucui shouted for Diao Laosan to come out and help.

Diao Laosan answered and saw that Yucui was holding a big jar. He was stunned for a while, and Yucui said, "Uncle Zhao, the money for your vegetable oil is here, and you haven't come to take over the help! Do you think it's too little or what?" Diao Laosan thought to himself, this jar is really a lot of money! So he happily ran over and took the jar from Yucui's hand. Who knows, before he took a step, he shouted and threw the jar, and suddenly the jar broke into seven or eight pieces, and the ground was covered with colorful oil flowers.

Yucui looked at Old Third Diao who was stunned and said, "What are you doing? My father knocked over a pot of vegetable oil for you, and now I will pay you a jar of vegetable oil. Not only did you splash the oil, but you also broke my ancestral jar! This jar is worth fifteen taels of silver."

Diao Laosan knew that he had been fooled again! He knew that he could not fight Yucui. This is called "having a good girl in the family reaches a thousand troops," and he can't accept it.