Although most of the family's silver was used as a bride price because of marrying Gu Zizhong, no matter how poor the Zhu family was, chicken, duck and fish could be eaten.

You don't have to worry about life, what are you borrowing this money for?

Gu Zizhong supported Brother Zishan and comforted him: "Don't be like this, let's settle the matter." ”

Feng Ming also rushed over and cleaned up the scraps of paper in the house: "Yes, uncle, that person is a scoundrel, how much trouble has he caused us?" ”

Zhu Changxi is also straight, if Gu Zizhong hadn't stopped him just now, I was afraid that he would have blocked the door and prevented Zhu Liuhong from leaving.

Now Zhu Changxi was comforted by Gu Zizhong and sat back.

Feng Ming brought hot water.

Gu Zizhong didn't want to, and squeezed his eyebrows at Feng Ming.

Feng Ming immediately understood, and hurriedly went out, but after a while, he brought another cup.

Coming to his uncle, Feng Ming served: "Uncle, I just made you a pot of jasmine, you can drink two sips to quench your thirst." ”

Gu Zizhong smiled happily, still Feng Ming was sensible.

Gu Zizhong took it for Brother Zishan, handed it to him, and said, "Brother, don't be angry, otherwise Zizhong will be angry." ”

Zhu Changxi was really well-behaved, and immediately took the teacup and drank it clean.

Gu Zizhong stared at him, wanting to laugh, patted him on the back, and said, "Drink slowly." ”

Zhu Changxi relieved himself for a long time before he regained his strength and said, "If it weren't for this person surnamed Zhu, I would have lived for ten more years." ”

Gu Zi was so angry that he wanted to laugh, and he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Nonsense, you are young, what are you talking about that." ”

She coaxed and coaxed, and enough to serve, and simply changed her expression.

A change of face made her look very serious.

Zhu Changxi was originally angry in his heart, but he didn't expect Zizhong to suddenly change his face.

He looked at her and was startled.

Gu Zizhong said: "Brother Zishan, are you still not a man, I want it to see, since he said this, the two of us have to go and confirm it with our father." Besides, this kind of thing is not a big deal. ”

Feng Ming also hurriedly persuaded: "Yes, uncle, the strong dragon doesn't suppress the head snake, and besides, he Zhu Liuhong is an ordinary little flower child, how can he overpower our Zhu family?"

Feng Ming is really good at talking, and she herself is a member of the Zhu family.

However, Gu Zizhong liked Feng Ming's words.

So she also followed: "Yes, Brother Zishan, we can't sulk like this." ”

With a daughter-in-law like Gu Zizhong, who would be angry?

Zhu Changxi looked at Zizhong, and his smiling face was immediately revealed.

The smile on his face was brighter than anyone else's.

Zhu Changxi said: "Yes, what Zizhong said is that I can't suffer this dumb loss." I let him lie to him once. ”

With the character of Brother Zishan, it's no wonder that people are cheated.

The husband and wife are ready to ask Prince Zhu.

But Zhu Wangye came uninvited.

Zhu Changxi was naturally surprised when he saw his father standing in front of the door, and hurriedly welcomed his father in, saying, "Dad, why are you here?"

When Zhu Wangye entered the door, the whole person seemed less energetic.

How so?

The feeling to Gu Zizhong is that his father-in-law looks sluggish, as if he hasn't woken up.

Gu Zizhong also guessed that his father-in-law was afraid that he also knew that Zhu Liuhong had just come over to blackmail him, right?

Why is my father-in-law so depressed?

Could it really be that the Zhu family is at fault?

Gu Zizhong muttered this in her heart, but she didn't ask, and she didn't dare to ask casually.

Zhu Wangye came in and asked the children to make room for him.

He sat down and sighed.

He looked very haggard.

Zhu Changxi's mood was already depressed, and when he saw that his father's face was not good, he was excited, his nose was sour, and tears flowed down.

Zhu Wangye slapped the table: "I'm not dead yet, why are you crying?"

Zhu Changxi immediately stopped talking.

Zhu Wangye turned his head and stared at Gu Zi again.

"Zizhong, did that kid Zhu Liuhong come over just now?" asked Zhu Wangye very seriously.

Gu Zizhong looked at his father-in-law's appearance and couldn't help but tremble.

She hunched her shoulders and nodded.

Zhu Wangye stroked his beard: "This kid really came to the door to ask for an account?"

Zhu Changxi immediately said: "Dad, do we really owe that kid money?"

Zhu Wangye ignored his son, but slapped his thigh and said, "Oh, I have been involved in the world all my life, and in the end, I actually let this child be deceived." ”

Zhu Changxi and Gu Zizhong were both curious, and leaned over to hear what was going on.

Zhu Wangye sighed and said, "A few days ago, our family borrowed a thousand taels of silver from his family. ”

Zhu Changxi scratched his head: "Why don't I know about this?"

Zhu Wangye gritted his teeth angrily: "Isn't it for you to marry?"

Gu Zizhong was embarrassed.

When my father-in-law said this, it seemed that she had brought trouble to the Zhu family.

However, Zhu Wangye immediately said: "It's okay, Zizhong, I didn't say anything about you." ”

Gu Zizhong was even more embarrassed.

Zhu Shizi said: "The one thousand taels of ready-made silver in our house won't be borrowed from this kid, right?"

Zhu Wangye said: "It's the one thousand taels." Our family needs money lately. Behind the wing houses on the east side there was a garden to be repaired, and some stone tables and benches, all of which required silver. When you got married, our family needed to do these things, didn't we all catch up?"

Zhu Changxi said: "I only remember that the people who came at that time only needed silver, not silver tickets. ”

"That's right. Zhu Wangye said, "Otherwise, at that time, we had silver in circulation here, and silver tickets were also in circulation, but there was too little silver on the market." Silver itself is worth more than money. Besides, people's daily expenses need silver, and they don't need to be as big as silver tickets. Therefore, our family is not short of money, but there is a shortage of silver. I didn't borrow any money everywhere, and finally Zhu Liuhong took the initiative to come to the door, and I didn't take it seriously and borrowed him a thousand taels. ”

But......

Gu Zizhong only said the word "but", and he looked very anxious on the surface.

But what?

She couldn't go any further.

The doubts in her heart still made Zhu Changxi come and say: "But Zhu Liuhong came over just now, how can we say that we owe him 10,000 taels?"

Zhu Wangye patted his thigh: "The problem is here." I also wondered, how did a thousand taels become ten thousand taels?"

Gu Zi remembered that she had also experienced this in her previous life.

This is the Arabic numeral that the Westerners have passed on?

But she muttered in her heart, not daring to make a conclusion.

Zhu Wangye patted his head and said, "I also read the IOU, it is written in black and white, we can't deny it." ”

Zhu Changxi slapped the table again: "Isn't this a slander? There is such a person, he is really the scum of our Zhu family." ”