Holding a bunch of IOUs and preparing to go home, he counted nearly three hundred taels, and before Miao Rencui could attack, the gambling house that got the letter invited people to drink tea again.

This gambling house and the hook fence have always been interconnected, grasshoppers on a rope, this kid owes so much debt, how can he let him go home with the silver?

The remaining 50 taels of silver were confiscated, and the account of the gambling house added a sum to the loan, which became one hundred and fifty taels.

"Remember to repay the money, otherwise if you don't pay it back in three days, I will come to collect the debt, and if you don't pay it back in seven days, I will send you to the old and young officials!" The shopkeeper of the gambling house picked up the stick and slapped it on the ground, so frightened that the family of three knelt on the ground and trembled.

When I returned to Chenjiagou, when I returned the ox cart, I was scolded by the cattle farmer for a dog blood spray, and the cow mooed with tears in his eyes when he saw the owner.

The cow's buttocks were drawn out of the blood, and there were scabbed blood clots hanging on it, and there was no money to pay, so I had to pay off the debt.

I was frightened in the county, and when I went home and lost my chickens, I couldn't live this day at all.

It's okay to live a tight life, and there is an unconscious scourge, Miao Rencui cried and howled and took the rope to hang herself, "I'm not alive anymore~, there is nothing that makes me happy...... Whining...... What did I do wrong in my last life to let me marry into your old Chen family...... Let me die~"

Old Man Chen was silent, Grandpa Chen sighed, Grandma Chen wiped her tears, and Chen Ping knelt in front of the ancestral tablet to confess. Only the Chen Qing brothers and sisters stood aside to watch the play.

Chen Qing sighed in his heart, if he dragged it out, he was afraid that he would never want to walk out of this door for the rest of his life. In this way, not to mention paying off the debt, this silver is only afraid of getting higher and higher than the construction of the platform.

Chen Bi couldn't help but feel relieved when she learned that the Wan family refused to withdraw from the marriage and drove them out, but she thought that this time she not only owed the Liang family 300 taels, but also Chen Ping's gambling debts of more than 200 taels.

"Let's take the money at home and pay it back to the gambling house first, if it's not enough, I'll go out and borrow some," Boss Chen said in a sullen voice.

There are still more than 30 taels left from the one hundred taels that I got back from the Liang family, and I can make up 45 taels if I sell the dowry.

"Then there are five hundred taels! It's five hundred taels! Even if you steal or rob, you won't be able to get back five hundred taels of silver!" Miao Rencui finished saying and hung the rope on the beam, this day can't be lived, or die happily, out of sight and out of mind!

"You come down for me!" Chen Lao shouted loudly, although he is cowardly and confused on weekdays, he can't hide when something happens, he is the pillar of this family after all.

"Pay off the gambling debts first, and you can't let the official arrest your son and go to prison," Boss Chen got up and borrowed money everywhere after speaking.

It's not the first time to pull down the old face and borrow money from the old brother, but everyone can help with a few taels of silver, and as soon as you open your mouth, it's 10 taels and 20 taels.

This inquiry, okay, I owe the county 100 taels. Come on, who would dare to borrow this? If you borrow, don't expect the family to pay it back.

Boss Chen was quite scruples, and he didn't say that he owed money to the gambling house, but could this paper contain the fire? As soon as the three days arrived, the people from the gambling house came to the door to ask for debts, and the neighbors did not dare to come forward to pull them.

Chen Qing's brothers and sisters hid in their yard and didn't go over, anyway, it wasn't him who owed the money, and he couldn't find him in this matter.

The people in the gambling house beat Chen Ping, Miao Rencui hated this son again, and it was also distressing. After all, he crawled out of his stomach, took a few beats for him, and saw that Chen Qing's brothers and sisters didn't care about it, and they were also ruthless to do things.

"What? A-Niang, this is a cheating marriage, and she is going to prison" Chen Ping knew that the law's treatment of cheating marriage was quite heavy.

"It's better than our whole family being sold, then Chen Qing is a brother, and it's not worth much if he is sold, or I really hate to sell him to pay off the debt" Miao Rencui gritted her teeth and scolded.

"How can this work?" disagreed.

"It doesn't work or not, anyway, when the dowry is accepted, Chen Qing will either go to ask the Wan family to quit his family, or go to the Liang family to pay off the debt" Miao Rencui rubbed the wound on his waist and gritted his teeth and said.

"What if the Wan family refuses to quit their relatives, or the Liang family refuses to accept Chen Qing? A little brother, even if he works for a lifetime, it is not worth five hundred taels, which of them sues the government, our family will be questioned" Boss Chen shook his head in fright.

"When the time comes, it's better to go to prison than to be beaten to death" Miao Rencui looked at her son's dying appearance, gritted her teeth, and in short, sent away the debt collectors in the gambling house first.

"Alas~ Let's take one step at a time," Boss Chen sighed sullenly.

On the second day, Boss Chen and Miao Rencui walked to Liangjia Village, and the Liang family came to the door, and the Liang family sat silently in a room, but fortunately, Liang Zijun was not there, otherwise they might have coaxed these two people out.

In the end, Liang Baida nodded and agreed, "Just do what your in-laws say, and the dowry will be sent to the house the day after tomorrow, and then it will be sent to you with an IOU." ”

"Success, just do it according to the owner's wishes" Miao Rencui nodded, took the two hundred taels of silver tickets, and dragged his man back.

Walking home in the middle of the night, the old couple was so tired that they couldn't lie down. Since he broke the cow, no one dared to borrow his cow. It is self-evident how important this oxen are to farming, and the law clearly stipulates that ploughing cattle are not allowed to be sold, not killed, and unless they are sick or disabled and cannot be cultivated, the rest of the cattle slaughterers are to be held accountable according to the law.

Since Chen Qing learned that Wan Jia would welcome her relatives in March, she secretly prepared a dowry for Chen Bi. There are a total of 90 taels of silver, and the rest is loose money.

It took 30 taels to buy a set of jade stone noodles, and the rest added up to nearly 40 taels, all the items were personally selected by Chen Qing, and he wanted to make up for all the grievances that his sister had suffered over the years. What's more, after this incident, if there is no decent dowry to support her, even if the sister marries, she will be looked down upon.

The fabrics are the best choice for the same cloth shop, and I asked my aunt to help make clothes and bedding. Originally, these things had to be sewn by A-Niang herself, but Chen Bi didn't have A-Niang, so she had to ask her aunt to do it for her.

Liu Xiulian has been taking care of their brothers and sisters for nearly 10 years, not A-Niang but more like A-Niang, but Liu Xiulian is enough to do this job.

The night before the Liang family's dowry gift came, Old Chen's family had a room of frost. It was obviously a hot summer, but Chen Qing felt cold all over his body. The uncle's family is trying to force themselves to death.

Chen Bi was left in her own house by her grandmother to talk about herself, and before her daughter got married, her mother's family had to teach some rules, so as not to be punished when she went to her mother-in-law's house.

Chen Qing was called to talk openly and honestly about the current situation at home.

Chen Qing only learned at this moment that the Wanjia family refused to give up their relatives, not only did they not let them die down, but boldly went to the Liang family to ask for a dowry of two hundred taels, and the rest of the items would be sent tomorrow.

"The money has been used to pay off your brother's debts, and the family doesn't have a penny now, so you can do it yourself" Boss Chen also felt sorry for his nephew, he still had a conscience after all.

Over the years, Chen Qing has helped the family earn a lot of money, and has delayed the marriage for this, a 19-year-old brother, even if he is looking for his in-law's family, it is estimated that he will only be a long-term worker, and it is good to be able to give birth to a child, but he can't give birth, and he is not as good as a long-term worker.

But what can he do? If it doesn't work, the whole family will have to go to jail. If you pay off your gambling debts, you don't have to worry about being sold or beaten to death, but when you sue the government, the whole family can't hide.

"What do you want me to do?" Chen Qing asked in a hoarse voice.

"There may be a way to live if you go to ask the Wan family to quit your family, and when Ah Bi marries the Liang family, you will get some money to come out and send the Wan family" Miao Rencui saw that Boss Chen was silent, so she had to turn her heart sideways.

"I won't let Abi marry into the Liang family, what is that Liang Zijun, I have already inquired, a scumbag who is a woman from a bad family on the street, you can bear it, I can't bear to let my sister jump into the fire pit!" Chen Qing took a few breaths and suppressed the pain in his chest.

"Then you will jump by yourself, anyway, if you don't have any money, you will die--connect you with a total of six" Miao Rencui shrank her head weakly, anyway, when the government is held accountable, except for Chen Bi, everyone in the family will be punished.

In addition to the fact that the parties do not know, the family members are all accomplices.

"Big brother, I'm begging you, help me, I won't dare to gamble in the future, I must study hard, and strive to be a showman and glory to my ancestors" Chen Ping opened his mouth with a hoarse voice to beg, but he was afraid that he would not get up from the ground and kowtow to Chen Qing.

"You save it, you still want to glorify your ancestors? The face of the old Chen family has already made you ruined," Chen Qingqi said in person for the first time. Chen Ping didn't dare to refute at this time, and even Miao Rencui couldn't bear to scold.

"Ah Qing, although the uncle can't stand you all these years, for the sake of me taking care of Chen Bi for 9 years, you should beg you as an uncle to help this family and let the ten families quit. Chen Bi can't go to Liang's house to eat and drink, it's better than living in our family, you can still talk a few words with the ten thousand families, I will be kicked out when I go with your uncle, I'm afraid I can't talk" Boss Chen got up and knelt down to plead.

Chen Qing couldn't let the uncle kneel on him no matter how cold he was, grabbed the uncle, gritted his teeth and said, "I'll weigh this matter myself, you don't have to say anything tomorrow, just accept the dowry, if I can solve it, you can do it yourself in the future, if you can't solve it, everyone will go to prison together."

Boss Chen thought that Chen Qing was agreeing to ask the Wan family to withdraw from his family, and immediately patted him with tears in his eyes, and the gloomy atmosphere at home for several days in a row dispersed.

"No one is allowed to talk nonsense in front of Chen Bi, I hope she can happily get married" Chen Qing looked at everyone with a cold face.

"Okay, good, this is always a happy event at home, and we also hope that Abi can happily get on the sedan chair" Miao Rencui hurriedly promised.

On the second day, a long string of dowry gifts were carried into Chen's house by young men in red shirts, and Chenjiagou attracted people to shout and watch from afar because of this arrogant scene, and all the old and young gathered at the door of Chen's house to watch the excitement.

The bamboo poles carried by the two were piled with red paper wrapped in dowry, and there were 18 people in the team alone, and the nine dowry gifts were sent into the courtyard together with the grains, and the matchmaker told a bunch of auspicious words as soon as they met, and asked Liang Baida to take out the dowry list for his in-laws.

Miao Rencui looked at the long list and smiled, she was illiterate, but she didn't say much, of course she was happy in her heart, and she could exchange it for a lot of money if she sold this thing, and the Liang family must have sent good things.