The door to Old Zhu’s house was closed from the inside, cutting off the eyes of the curious neighbours, and only sporadic voices came through, faintly inaudible.
Inside the courtyard, the atmosphere became more tense.
Under the crowd’s questioning, the Zhu family’s eldest uncle finally spilled face the whole truth.
“Dad ah, son is also helpless ah, son only so little money in the hands of how enough to give friends and teachers to eat wine gift, had to borrow money. As for why fill in the second brother’s name is also a helpless move ah, son also want to imperial examination it, this loan if I have my name on the son of the imperial examination is a stain, who still come to the son to do the insurance, even if the son in the future examined the scholar in the lifts, there is the existence of this stigma, I am afraid that even the official is difficult to do, son, son, all this, is helpless ah.”
Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren fell to his knees, hugged his grandfather’s thighs and cried out.
Eldest uncle’s words are clearly taking him out of himself, portraying him as a hooker who endured humiliation for the sake of the family’s prosperity!
“You still have the face to say that!” Grandfather trembled with anger and slapped his eldest uncle hard on the face, “The whole family tightened their belts to provide you with education, what kind of sinful things did you do!”
Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren didn’t hide, and ate his grandfather’s slap, his face was knocked askew.
“Father, my son did it for the sake of the family!” Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren suffered this slap and cried again, “Son is also for the revitalisation of the family ah, father ah, son to see that seat master but got the secret teachings of the Xuanqi, son can’t leave a stain ah, father ah!”
Grandfather looked at the eldest son kneeling at his feet, then looked at the second son lying on the stretcher with a leg of blood, the two grandchildren who were full of anger, and the second daughter-in-law who couldn’t wait to tickle the eldest son into shredded potatoes, and only felt a wave of powerlessness flooding his heart.
“Yo, this is still a future Xiu Cai Gong, the future lifer master ah, Uncle Zhu has a son like this, congratulations ah your old Zhu family not far from the centre of prosperity ah.” Horizontal meat fat man skin smile not laugh at this scene of farce, enjoy the oracle, “However, you are the king of heaven, debt repayment is also a natural thing.”
Said this cross-fleshed fat face pulled down, eyes show fierce light, speak also sheepish needle “I don’t care how your family tossed, owe me money, a son can’t be less. Now pay back the money or 15 two silver, if three days later I come again to collect that can be 16 two silver, then come to this can not be my men of these people, if they do not know the hand of the importance of letting your future Xiu Cai Gong out of the good and bad, then do not blame me.”
After saying that, the fat man is gloomy face waiting for the old Zhu family to give a reply.
Fifteen taels of silver, now the family where there is so much money, the grandfather closed his eyes, only feel exhausted, thinking for a long time, walked to the side of the cross-fleshed fat man arched his hand and said, “The family is unfortunate, so that the little brother look at the jokes, debt repayment, Zhu Mou is also aware of it. Today the family really can’t raise 15 two silver to, we also don’t mention three days later 16 two, tomorrow afternoon trouble little brother to come again, we are ready to 15 two silver, you see can be good.”
The cross-fleshed fat man grinned, and after a little thought, he nodded his head, “OK, I’m not a bad talker either. After all, maybe we’ll still do business in the future. Alright, tomorrow afternoon, I will bring someone over to collect the money. But the ugly words in front, money is good to discuss, if there is no money, this group of brothers under me who have no lightness of touch have bad tempers.”
“Let’s go!” The cross-fleshed fat man put down these words, and led his little brother to go out and leave.
Just at this time, a childish yet firm voice called out to him.
“Stop!”
Everyone was shocked, when they heard Zhu Pingan’s voice, each one of them was shocked, little ancestor hey, what are you calling him for, hurry up and send this plague god away ah.
Horizontal meat fat man is also shocked for a moment, what the hell, this is going to be reversed, reversed also do not need a little kid to say it!
“How?” Cross-meat fat man, stood still, turned round and asked with a gloomy face.
Zhu Pingan raised his head, not the slightest fear, and the cross-fleshed fat man stared at for a moment, red with a pair of eyes and said loudly:
“Injuring my father and wanting to leave without saying a word! Now you’re well aware that my eldest uncle is the real borrower, yet you guys injured my father!”
“It’s only right that debts be repaid, and even though I’m young I’ve heard of blood debts being repaid in blood! It’s your fault for getting the borrower wrong, and it’s also your fault for injuring my father by mistake!”
“You hurt my father and you want to leave like this?”
Hearing a question from a young kid like Zhu Pingan, the cross-featured fat man’s face was a bit untenable, and he said with a gloomy face, “What, do you still want to pay for your blood debts?”
“Swine child!”
“Little swine!”
The family was worried sick.
“I can’t beat you now that I’m small, so I’ll forget about the blood payment. But you have to give us a statement, if you were injured for no reason, can you just let it go?” Zhu Pingan wrung his hands and locked eyes with the cross-fleshed fat man.
Zhu Pingchuan also stepped forward and stood beside Zhu Pingan, looking straight at the cross-fleshed fatty with the same eyes.
The cross-fleshed fat man froze for a long time, thinking of what the storyteller often said about not bullying the young and then looking at the gaze of Zhu Pingan, this little kid and the boy next to him, he mumbled a bad luck sentence, and then fished out a dangling sum of money from his pocket and threw it on the ground.
Throwing it to the ground was fine.
Zhu Pingan didn’t act like those protagonists in some novels, and then forced the fat man to pick up the money and hand it to himself, just kidding, what kind of scene is this, and what is he, it would be good to have this consistent money as compensation. He was not forcing the fat man to pick up the money, come on, he was looking for sh*t!
Men’s blood is indispensable, but also understand that those who know what’s good for them are good at what they do.
The fat man left, but the loan sharks are still not solved.
The eldest uncle used the name of Zhu’s father to borrow money, causing Zhu’s father to be beaten, this family must also give a statement.
Chen led her two sons and stood there, looking at her grandparents.
“Father ah, not long after, son can be examined, son can not leave a stain ah! Son is also helpless ah, son is also for the sake of the family ah.” The eldest uncle hugged his grandfather’s thigh, crying and shouting.
“Don’t cry.” Grandfather patted the eldest uncle on the shoulder and sighed.
The eldest uncle immediately stopped his tears and whimpered, which made Zhu Pingan despise it, using such tactics was too underhanded.
The afterglow of the setting sun spilled over the earth, colouring a patchy ground. The doors of the Zhu Family opened once again! Out stepped the Zhu Pingan family, everyone carrying large bags on their shoulders, mother Chen and elder brother Zhu Pingchuan carrying a stretcher, the man on the stretcher who had been beaten and bled without shedding a tear looked at the Zhu family compound with tears streaming down his face.
All kinds of things are inferior, only the book is high!
It was also at this time that Zhu Pingan truly read and understood this sentence!
“Yi’er ah, father is sorry for you all!”
Or rather expelled from the family! Father Zhu also had to carry a reputation of having borrowed from loan sharks!
Two acres of paddy land, five acres of dry land, a few bags of grain, broken pots and pans, and a thatched hut at the east end of the village that didn’t even have a courtyard wall.
I have been a field house boy for a long time, but now I am in the hall of heaven in the twilight.
There is no seed for a general, but a man should be self-reliant!
Looking at the Zhu family compound, Zhu Pingan silently recited in his mouth, and then murmured in a low voice, the cold family, then let it rise.
