Chapter 2: Past Life Debts
Mo Mo's family of four raised their eyes and saw a one-eyed slender middle-aged man stepping into the door, his eyes half-squinted, looking around the surroundings intentionally or unintentionally.
The person who came was the one-eyed three, the people from the other village, who specialized in usury.
The one-eyed three families ranked third, and when he was a child, the amplified firecracker was blown up and damaged his left eye, and the villagers secretly called him the one-eyed three, and to be polite, they called him the third brother.
When Mo Mo was a child in his previous life, he was still a little scared when he saw the fierce appearance of the one-eyed three, but now that he sees him again, he doesn't feel anything.
"It's rare that the third brother comes to the door in person, let's sit down and eat together. Mo Yao's face changed slightly, and he stood up and handed over the cigarette.
"I said Lao Mo, you borrowed money and said that you would repay it in three months, but now it has been half a year, and it should have been repaid a long time ago, 10,000 loans, the first three months and a half cents of monthly interest, and then five cents of monthly interest, a total of 11,650 yuan. One-eyed San took the cigarette unceremoniously, and said arrogantly in front of Mo Yao.
"Of course I remember, if it weren't for the 10,000 yuan and the salary that were stolen, I would have returned it to you. Mo Yao's face was flushed, he paused and continued,
"That's it, pay you back the interest first, in ten days, we will also pay your salary, and then pay you back 15,000, the sugarcane money cut last year will be in the account, and the debt will be repaid!"
Ning Lanxin helped her husband say good things while going back to the house to get money for One-Eyed Three. Now that the interest is repaid, the family really has no money.
"Okay, I'll come back in ten days!" One-eyed San took the money, counted it, muttered a few more words, waved his hand and refused Mo Yao's stay to eat, threw down his cigarette butts at will, and swaggered away.
The family watched One-Eyed Three leave, and continued to eat.
From beginning to end, Mo Mo was watching, and when he saw his father dealing with it hard, the disrespect of the borrower, he felt uncomfortable, but at that time he could only swallow his anger and hold his breath.
Parents borrow money from others, and there are IOUs, can they make their parents and creditors believe that they can repay the money just by saying a few words?
It's impossible!
He is only eight years old, and he is soft-spoken, maybe he will be slapped by his father if he interjects, and he can't come up with the money to make his parents even more embarrassed.
It is more rational to try to make money and solve the current problems.
He remembers that in order to pay off the debts, his parents took out all their wages and sugarcane to pay off the debts, so that the Chinese New Year was extremely poor, and he did not dare to visit relatives, and relatives and friends could not return the gifts.
My father was depressed for a while, and he was hit by a car and broke his leg while riding a tram, but the perpetrator escaped, and the whole family was covered with a layer of dust, which made matters worse, which was also the reason why my sister did not want to continue to go to school later.
Why did his parents borrow money, Mo Mo broke the silence of his family, he wanted to ask about it.
Mo Mu sighed, the children saw it, and it was useless to hide it, so she told the ins and outs.
A few minutes later, Mo Mo learned that the money was borrowed by One-Eyed Three on his own initiative, and the 10,000 yuan borrowed by his father wanted to pay off the debt for building a building, buy him and his sister a high and low bed, and then buy sugarcane fertilizer.
Mo Mo heard his father say that the interest rate for the first three months was not high anyway, and after three months, he would receive the sugarcane payment in June and pay off the debt in time.
The money his father borrowed was in the bedroom, but before it could be used, it was stolen within two days, and last year's sugarcane payment was also postponed.
Mo Mo always felt that there was something strange about this matter, how could it be that his father had just borrowed money, and the money was stolen within two days, and it was the one-eyed three who took the initiative to lend money to his father, but the low interest rate in the first three months, and the ultra-high interest rate after three months, this is obviously the one-eyed three digging pit to make people jump.
Although Mo Mo's parents found out that the money was stolen at that time and reported it to the police, the road was one foot higher, the magic was one foot higher, the thief was more clever, and there were no fingerprints, and the police couldn't find any clues, so the matter had to be stopped.
Mo Mo carefully scrutinized it, and speculated that if it wasn't for the one-eyed three thieves, most of them had something to do with him. Mo Mo felt that his father was too honest and was stepped on by someone.
Mo Yao and his wife, as insiders, have been confused, and after being reminded by their son, they suddenly opened up for a while.
Mo Yao's face sank, and he said solemnly: "Don't talk nonsense about you sisters and brothers, after all, there is no evidence." ”
"Okay!" Mo Mo could only sigh at his senses.
Even if he pays off his debts in the future, Mo Mo doesn't want to forget it so simply.
Mo Wanqing nodded, she couldn't figure out the trap and cattiness of one-eyed three borrowing money.
At ten o'clock in the evening, the family quickly returned to the house to get ready to rest.
"Husband, why don't you borrow money from the big guy first and pay off the bad debt?" Ning Lanxin leaned against the head of the bed, frowned, and asked Mo Yao.
Mo Yao was also at a loss, and sighed: "Before the last moment, don't borrow it yet, besides, we still owe his family two thousand yuan, and there are several thousand yuan of construction debts that have not been repaid." ”
"Hey, the interest is too high, our wages are not worth the family, and the interest is paid, and we can't save money at all, last year's sugarcane payment is not enough to pay off the debt, there is no money to buy fertilizer, and there is no money to hire someone to cut sugarcane at the end of the year!"
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That night, Mo Mo tossed and turned, feeling a little stuffy, and walked out of the house to breathe.
Originally, he wanted to enjoy the starlight at night in his yard, but in August, the weather in the south changes instantly.
Suddenly, the wind howled, and the night became darker, and soon the sky was accompanied by thunder, lightning shining all over the night sky, and then bean-sized raindrops poured down from the sky, crackling the windows, ticking on the ground, and splashing countless waters.
The vegetable leaves in the yard were pressed very low by the raindrops, the leaves on the grape branches swayed wildly, and from time to time dead leaves fell, falling with the wind on the stream formed by the convergence of countless waterlines, and drifting with the waves to the low lying with the flowing water.
Mo Mo stood under the eaves and watched the rain, the sky and the earth were foggy, and after a while, the clothes on his body were soaked through by the mist, and a burst of coldness hit him, making him sneeze a few times.
"Son, what are you doing outside, be careful of getting wet and catch a cold, go back to the house early to rest. ”
Ning Lanxin's concerned and gentle voice came, and Mo Mo felt a trace of warmth.
"Well, okay, it's a little stuffy in the house just now, I'll blow the wind for a while and I'll go back. ”
The rain comes and goes quickly.
A violent storm faded away the sultry heat of summer, and also drove away the confusion and impetuousness of Mo Mo's rebirth in the past few days, and he now became full of confidence and more determined.
Mo Mo returned to the bedroom and saw that his sister had fallen asleep soundly, so he quietly picked up a towel from the bedside, wiped her wet hair, and changed her clothes to sleep.
The family is poor, Mo Mo not only lives in a bedroom with his 11-year-old sister, but also sleeps in the same big bed, but for the current family economic situation, it is really helpless.
Maybe it didn't feel like much when I was a child in my previous life, but for Mo Mo, who was already 30 years old, he did feel embarrassed.
Mo Mo was lying on the bed, just wanting to fall asleep as soon as possible, wake up the next day and enter the other world, find a way to make money as soon as possible, and solve the family's predicament.