Chapter 62 The loan sharking crisis
In the battle for water, Xiahe Village won an unprecedented victory. It won a total of ten flags. Each flag is a five-day water period, and ten flags are a fifty-day water period. Next year The harvest is guaranteed.
The battle for water was a huge success, and the men, women, and children in Xiahe Village were in a state of excitement. They were all talking excitedly until they returned home after the gathering, about so and so, what happened to the children of Lao Zhu's family, and so on. Xiahe Village won, and the village elders and Li Zheng happily went straight to the village's ancestral temple to express their condolences to their ancestors. They were greatly relieved.
When Lao Zhu’s house was preparing to have dinner, Li Zheng from Xiahe Village led a few young people into the gate of Lao Zhu’s house carrying a jar of old wine, a pig thigh, and a bag of rice.
"Uncle Zhu, you have raised two good grandsons, especially your little pig. Today is very good. This is something I have discussed with the village elder, so please don't refuse." In the village of Hecun, there is an uncle in his forties, a kind of smooth-faced man, who holds his hands and talks to his grandfather.
The water battle was won, and the whole village celebrated together. Grandfather just declined and accepted, and then invited Zheng Zheng and the other young men to sit down to have tea and drinks. Li Zheng declined, saying that there were other young people who wanted to leave. He thanked his grandfather for his kindness and soon led a few young men to leave.
In the evening, Father Zhu made an exception and drank a few more glasses of wine, making him slightly tipsy.
The uncle of the Zhu family also came home from the ancestral hall, as if nothing happened, and as usual, he had the proud feeling of a scholar.
Time passed slowly like this for more than a month. Zhu Pingan rode an old scalper to school. He came out during the break to teach the two Lolita about shooting the eagle and Swordsman. In addition to what the master talked about, the things he said were getting more and more interesting. There are basically no other changes.
Oh, it’s not that there is nothing. Every time before telling a story to the big and small loli, there is an added activity, which is to watch the big and small loli dance the bunny dance and sing the song of bang bang. Of course, food is not allowed. Avoided.
Regarding the useless ability of luck, Zhu Ping'an has done many experiments and has roughly clarified part of it. Guangzong Yaozu, these four words are the key. You can check luck once every ten days, and you can watch it for about three seconds each time. Time is very useless.
In addition to these, Zhu Ping'an also used Chen's name to visit neighboring houses and told his aunt and daughter-in-law to give them raw materials for free and let them process them into bags, and then get them from their hands. Purchase, each is priced at 10 Wen in town. The aunt and daughter-in-law went to Mrs. Chen to confirm. Mrs. Chen was also smart. Although she knew that Zhu Pingan was using her name, she calculated the accounts and felt that she had made a profit, so she assured them that it was true. In short, except for the eldest aunt, the third aunt, and the fourth aunt, the whole basket was given to these aunts and daughters-in-law. After excluding the labor cost, Chen went to the town to sell it to a shop and made more than a tael of silver in one fell swoop. It's just a pity that when I went to the cloth store to buy rags, someone bought them. This made Chen, who had earned more than a tael of money, heartbroken.
Time passed slowly like this for more than a month. At dusk more than a month later, Zhu Pingan rode the old scalper home as usual. The only difference was that this time, the old Zhu family came home again. A lot of people gathered at one time. When they saw Zhu Pingan coming back on the old scalper, they looked at him sympathetically.
What happened? Zhu Pingan trembled.
Opening the door, the house was in a mess. My mother, Chen, was lying on the ground crying like a woman. My eldest brother, Zhu Pingchuan, also had red eyes and shed tears.
Father Zhu Shouyi was lying on a stretcher, trying to comfort the crying Mrs. Chen with a painful expression. One leg was intact, but the other leg was wrapped in a white cloth with blood still seeping on it
Seeing this scene, Zhu Pingan almost felt Everyone was confused.
In his mind, Father Zhu is a strong, ox-like man. Although he is not good at expressing, the love he gives is no less than that of Mr. Chen, and he is also the pillar of his small family. With his The body protects my small home from wind and rain. It is precisely because of such a tough guy that he can be carefree like a child when he travels through time. Before going to town to sell rabbit skins in the morning, Zhu's father smiled and asked Zhu Ping'an if he still wanted the rice paper from last time.
However, this iron-clad man is now lying on a stretcher with a painful expression.
Zhu's father was so honest, honest, and righteous, and he never made enemies with others. This time we are going to the town again, there will be no danger, it can only be someone doing something wrong.
"Who, who injured his father?"
There seemed to be a fire burning in Zhu Ping'an's heart. Gulu climbed off the ox's back and ran to Zhu's father with red eyes, angry. Tears rolled down the little chubby face.
"Don't cry, I'm fine. The doctors have said that I haven't hurt any muscles or bones. I just need to rest for a month." Father Zhu was lying on the stretcher, enduring the pain and trying to comfort everyone.
The rest of the Zhu family are also there. The women are all confused and don't know what to do. The fourth uncle also has a look of shock. This time he went to the town with Zhu's father. It's just that the uncle on the side has some evasive eyes.
“My second brother and I went to town and sold rabbit skins for money. We didn’t go far when we were surrounded by five or six people. Those people asked my second brother if his name was Zhu Shouyi. The second brother said Then they asked them what they wanted to do, and they asked the second brother to pay back the money. They said that the second brother had borrowed 10 taels of silver as usury more than a month ago, and now the interest rate had become 15 taels of silver. The second brother was confused at that time. I’ve never borrowed money”
"The man took out the IOU written by the second brother himself and said it was written in black and white and don't try to deny it. He robbed us of more than 100 yuan for selling rabbit skins, and then he started beating people without explanation. He said that this time it was just a light one, and he gave us his legs first. Keep it, if you can’t get the money out in three days, your legs will be really broken”
When the fourth uncle talked about the things in the town, he still looked scared. Even he was kicked twice. foot.
"Second brother, why did you borrow the money? What bad things did you do outside?" Grandfather was so angry that he almost fainted. He stood in front of Zhu's father with a thick stick and blew his beard and stared at him and asked loudly.
"Dad, how can my Shouyi know how to borrow money!" Mother Chen cried and protected Zhu's father.
“No, dad, I have no use for the land, so what can I do with borrowing money? Besides, my son can’t read a single word, how can he write an IOU!”
Father Zhu looked aggrieved and bitter. I was beaten for no reason, and I was still suspected when I returned home, which made me feel very bitter.
"It's definitely not the money my father borrowed!" Zhu Ping'an said loudly with red eyes.
“But your father’s name is on the IOU, and he also had his fingerprints printed on it.” The fourth aunt on the side also felt a little unbelievable.
"My dad can't even write!" Zhu Ping'an retorted angrily, and the fat man's face turned red with anger.
Things seem to have reached a dead end. Loan sharks will not come to people to ask for money for no reason. They will only ask for money based on the IOU when the loan is signed and deferred. If they make it up casually, the county magistrate will not let them go. However, Zhu's father obviously had never borrowed a loan with high interest rates, and he did not sign a deposit.
So where did this loan sharking come from? (End of this chapter)