Chapter Seventy-Four: Door-to-door Borrowing Money
Sister Zhang looked at Zhang Ruolin who came over, slightly cramped and uneasy, pinched the corner of her clothes tightly with her two hands, and lowered her head.
Gao Xiangrong on the side was also blushing, and his face was full of embarrassment.
Zhang Ruolin took out the key in the cloth bag, "You guys have something?"
"Little ...... Sister, me and ......"
Zhang Ruolin opened the big iron lock of the door, pushed open the door, looked at a letter on the ground, picked it up and looked at it, and saw that it was written by Zhao Jianguo, frowning slightly, what does this guy mean?
"Come in and talk about it!"
Sister Zhang let out a "hey", reached out and pulled Gao Xiangrong's clothes, and followed in.
Back in the house, Zhang Ruolin put the cloth bag back in the room, and returned to the hall to look at the two people who were still standing, "Sit down!
"That...... No need. Gao Xiangrong said in a low voice, and then looked at Sister Zhang on the side, Sister Zhang shook her head slightly.
"That...... Uncle, he's not at home?"
"Something to say directly. ”
Sister Zhang stretched out her trembling hand, pulled Gao Xiangrong, and the two knelt down.
"If you have something to say, you don't need to come to this set, if you don't need to say it like this, just go!"
Gao Xiangrong pulled Sister Zhang to stand up, and said in a low voice with a flushed face: "I didn't think about bothering you, the last time the child was given fifty yuan by his uncle, but I didn't expect that after this operation, the hospitalization would cost a day like running water, more than 100 yuan, it was only more than ten days, and it was spent, and I still owed the hospital more than 30 yuan." I was able to borrow 50 yuan, and the doctor said that I would have to stay in the hospital for more than ten days, and I am afraid it would cost more than 100 yuan. ”
Zhang Ruolin sat down, glanced at Sister Zhang, who was looking at her with a cowardly pleading face, and exhaled slightly, "The last time I helped was for my eldest sister's sake, although she and I are sisters, there is no sisterhood at all, it is completely based on blood relationship, fifty yuan is a lot." ”
"I know. Sister Zhang said weakly, "Little sister, I know that my sister is not qualified, but I don't want to, I was sent to your brother-in-law's house as a child daughter-in-law since I was a child." You also know the daughter-in-law married by the eldest brother and the second brother in the family, they looked at me and bullied me, I was still pregnant, and when I went home on the second day of the first month, they asked me to wash my clothes in cold water, and your brother-in-law felt sorry for me, and took me back in a fit of anger, and I haven't been back to my parents' house all these years. ”
"Every year during the Chinese New Year, that is, your brother-in-law or someone sent something to your father and mother for the holidays, and I don't know much about you, and your brother-in-law said that you are not living very well when you marry a mother-in-law. A few years ago, my father-in-law died of illness, and the family still owes a lot of debts, and my family has little land, and one person does not even have an acre, and my in-laws sell some maltose to subsidize the family. I was at home for the children, cleaned up the fields, and your brother-in-law did some odd jobs in the county, and only paid off the debt the year before last, and the family had a slightly better life. ”
"I didn't expect my mother-in-law to get such a disease, and my mother-in-law said that it couldn't be cured, but your brother-in-law and I can't watch her die......!
Sister Zhang sobbed and knelt down, looked at Zhang Ruolin and begged: "Little sister, I beg you, you can help me! I and my brother-in-law are cattle and horses to repay your kindness, I really don't have the cheekiness to come to you, but your brother-in-law and I really have no choice." ”
"Just this once, this time, even if I encounter great difficulties in the future, I will not come to beg you, just this time, your brother-in-law and I really have no choice, this disease has been cured for the most part, it can't be cured!"
"Little sister, I borrowed this money from you, if you don't believe in your brother-in-law's character, you can go to the village to inquire, we are definitely not the kind of people who borrow money and don't pay it back, that is, we borrowed too much this time, I'm afraid we won't be able to pay it back for a while." ”
Zhang Ruolin looked at Sister Zhang, originally thought that she was an honest person who didn't talk much, but she didn't expect to be able to say so, and sighed in a low voice, "Last time, I originally wanted to give you twenty, but I didn't expect him to give fifty, and I borrowed the fifty yuan from him, and I was just friends with him." I divorced Zhao Erzhu, he remarried his daughter-in-law outside, I went out of the house, this house is for me to help others see, the main family is good, give six yuan a month. You see that I am well dressed, and think that I am rich, and that these clothes are not left by the Lord's house. ”
Gao Xiangrong and Sister Zhang said "ah", and suddenly their faces turned red, and they didn't expect it to be like this at all.
"That little sister, I'm really sorry, your sister and I don't know at all, you ...... Divorced, my father-in-law, they didn't stand up for you, so they let you leave Zhao Erzhu's house cleanly?"
"My eldest brother and second brother, you don't know, how can you stand up for me, but you want to take advantage, but you don't take advantage of it. ”
Sister Zhang stood up and said with an apologetic face: "Little sister, I'm ...... I'll leave first, I'll sell all the food in the house, and I'll send you some food in two days." ”
"I didn't borrow money, what are you going to do?"
"Originally, your brother-in-law wanted to sell the three houses in the family, but the house was sold, where do we live?"
"How much do you owe?"
"I borrowed more than 60 yuan everywhere, and I am afraid that I will have to lack 60 or 70 yuan. ”
Zhang Ruolin sighed, stood up, walked out of the room, and took out fifty yuan from the cloth bag, feeling that living in this county was really not a suitable choice.
In fact, she also knows that this is that Sister Zhang knows that she lives here, and she has been in trouble twice.
The cheap father and sister-in-law in this hometown don't know yet, and the shameless old Zhao family doesn't know either, if they know, I'm afraid there will be trouble.
If it weren't for the arrival of the red years, she would not have chosen to live in the county nearby, she must have hid as far away as she wanted, and completely drew a line with these people.
Zhang Ruolin also knew that if she was really unlucky in that era, she would probably be the only one who could prove that her ancestors had been poor for eight generations.
Counting on her cheap father and sister-in-law, it is estimated that the possibility is relatively small, but it is close, and it is convenient to investigate, at least there is no need to suffer too much sin, of course, this is also for the purpose of divorce after the incident.
"Take the fifty yuan, I only have so much, and I still borrow this money from others. Zhang Ruolin handed five pieces of ten yuan to Sister Zhang, and said lightly.
"Little sister, you gave me this money, what should you do?" asked Zhang Damei with red eyes.
"I don't need to worry, anyway, it's just one person, there is rice in the house, and vegetables are planted in the backyard. Okay, it's not too early, and I won't leave you to eat here at noon, go back!"