Chapter 10: Borrowing from usury
This qiē happened so quickly that the other people in the room didn't react.
By the time Li Shuangfeng threw away the spatula and rushed over, Zhang Yan had already finished teaching Zhang Bei a lesson.
Li Shuangfeng protected him distressedly, and scolded Zhang Yan: "Have you eaten bear bile and have long been able to do it? Who are you going to hack to death? Forget it about hacking me to death first, who am I busy working for all day, we can't afford to serve you, so I won't do it for you." ”
"It's just a bear child, don't let it go, don't do it, don't do it, I'll do it myself. Zhang Yan said and went to get a spatula.
Li Shuangfeng just threatened Zhang Yan, waiting for her to beg, who knew that Zhang Yan did it herself, and she still looked like her, she was hanging there, left and right.
Grandma Zhang felt sorry for her grandson, and she didn't go with the mud anymore, thinking about how good it was for Zhang Yan today, she couldn't help but say nothing about her, sighed and continued to work.
Li Shuangfeng and the two concubines watched a belly of jokes, and continued to play Zhang Yan with a smile.
The four of them were busy burning the fire, stir-frying, and cutting and washing vegetables and handing things.
Li Shuangfeng became an idler and had nothing to do.
She simply led Zhang Bei to sit in front of the stove, serving him freshly fried vegetables for a while, and coaxing him to eat two more bites, but Zhang Bei didn't pay much attention to her, picking and choosing to eat.
Zhang Yan was very speechless, get used to it, sooner or later there will be a time for you to cry.
Li Shuangfeng had already copied three dishes, and Zhang Yan continued to cook, and the two of them made a total of eight dishes and one soup, with six hot dishes and two cold dishes.
The hot dishes are whole chicken, whole fish, braised pork, crispy chicken and spinach, fried shredded pork with garlic, scrambled eggs with fungus, cold dishes are peanuts and cold preserved eggs, and the soup is a traditional sweet soup, which is filled with Lantern Festival, wine, oranges, apples and rock sugar.
Zhang Yan was not qualified to eat at the table after serving, and after serving, she made a big pot stew, put fried fish pieces, croquettes, fried crispy chicken and meat pieces, and put down a handful of vermicelli, cut half of the cabbage, and adjusted the flavor after cooking, and the five women in the house ate a bowl of steamed buns.
The hall had already drunk it.
If you want to fill your son-in-law, it's best to drink your son-in-law down, and the more you do, the more enthusiastic you are.
Jiang Tao drank an average amount of alcohol, but fortunately he came prepared today, and the three cousins who came to carry the box were all able to drink, but it was Grandpa Zhang and Zhang Chuanqing who drank in the end.
Jiang Tao didn't drink much except for the three matchmakers who were women, and only one of the remaining four was drunk, and the other three saw that they were almost drunk, so they began to pretend to be drunk very shrewdly, and finally ended the wine.
When saying goodbye, several people were full of red faces, walking crookedly, Zhang Chuanqing and Grandpa Zhang got drunk directly, snoring and falling asleep, Grandma Zhang stayed at home to take care of people, Li Shuangfeng and Zhang Yan's uncles and aunts went out to see off guests.
Zhang Yan stopped hiding in the house at this time, and followed out.
Today is obviously her and Jiang Tao's home field, but the two of them didn't say a few words, and she didn't care whether others laughed or not, she walked directly beside Jiang Tao and sent him off with a smile.
Although Zhang Yan didn't complain directly to him, Jiang Tao had already inquired about the situation in Zhang Yan's family from Zhang Zhiqiang's brothers and sisters, lest she be angry because of the money, and repeatedly told her to be well-behaved and not lose her temper over unworthy things.
Zhang Yan's eyes widened, and she looked like you know, which made Jiang Tao happy.
Jiang Tao and his party were carried to the highway with empty boxes, and when they drove the tractor parked there, Zhang Yan and his party turned around and went home.
At this time, Zhang Yan thought of the bear child Zhang Nan, and when she served the food, she could see that this little cub sat in the middle of the seat, which was the seat made by the most respected person, and she didn't want to think about how old she was, so she dared to sit there, which really embarrassed her face.
Zhang Nan fell asleep on the bed with Zhang Chuanqing because he secretly drank at the banquet, and Grandpa Zhang was also helped by the two sons who were not drunk to go home, and Grandma Zhang followed behind and nagged and drank too much.
Zhang Yan took advantage of Li Shuangfeng's inattention, and quickly rolled up Zhang Nan's wiping guns, fireworks, and picked up firecrackers and threw them into the dung heap for him, giving him a long memory.
Then he trotted to catch up with Grandma Zhang and went home with her.
Grandma Zhang saw that Zhang Yan was still unwilling to live at home, so she began to persuade her again.
"Don't blame your parents for taking your money, you ask your mother, you ask your two aunts, don't they all come over like this, I myself came over like this, who made our family poor, my brother can't talk about his daughter-in-law if he doesn't expect this money. ”
Seeing that she didn't reply, Grandma Zhang continued: "You said that you are eccentric, who told you that you are not a leader, we are women, and women are this life, so you have to fight for it, and when you get married next year, the first child must give birth to a boy." ”
Zhang Yan probably understood why they did this, but she couldn't forgive, she thought, when she really got married in the future, she would be treated the same regardless of whether she had a boy or a girl.
Jiang Tao returned the tractor, thanked the matchmaker and the cousin who helped, and returned home with a happy face, just after four o'clock in the afternoon.
Seeing that Grandma Jiang was not drunk, she let go of her hanging heart, and the family affairs were finally settled, and she could sleep well.
Unexpectedly, within two days of the good days, all those debts came.
Grandma Jiang and Jiang Tao are two big heads, listening to those people's chatter.
"You have the money to get married, hurry up and return the rest of the money to us, how can you be selfish, you have a daughter-in-law, my son is still single, waiting for this money to build a house and say goodbye." ”
"I thought you really didn't have any money, we talked to you about benevolence and righteousness, and we never forced you to ask for it, but you didn't talk about benevolence and righteousness with us, and you didn't pay us back if you had money, do you think you have to spend money alone, and we just need to drink the northwest wind?"
"I want to marry my daughter, and my son needs money to marry his daughter-in-law to build a house, so you should have pity on us and return the money to us." ”
Grandma Zhang tried to explain: "His eldest brother, we won't repay the debt, Jiang Tao has no money to get engaged, it was borrowed from someone, it's not that we don't pay back the money, I swear that as long as we have the money, I will pay you back as soon as possible." ”
"Then I don't care, you can borrow money to get married, and you can borrow money to pay off your debts. ”
These people say that this is the meaning, they must repay the money, pay it back immediately, they are not worried about defaulting on the debt now, they are only worried about sooner or later, and they want to use the money as soon as possible.
Jiang Tao was forced to be helpless, and promised to repay the money before sending these people away, and he decided to borrow usury.
"Taozi, have you really thought about it? Usury harms people, if you can, you won't get it!"
"Grandma, I borrowed from an acquaintance, my classmate's father was the first 10,000 yuan household in their village, and he earned more and more in recent years, and began to lend usury, I went to my classmate to talk about it, it should be less interest. ”
"Then do you want to tell Zhang Yan, after all, she is already half of our family. ”
"I'll talk about it later. ”
Zhang Yan was asked out, frowning and listening to Jiang Tao's plan, she also felt that usury was not good, and suddenly remembered that Li Xiang was doing business at that time, and the capital was borrowed from loans, and the state had a policy to use the rural household registration book to borrow from the bank, and the head of the household was the guarantor, and a household account could be loaned 5,000.
A total of nearly 20,000 yuan is still owed, and it is enough to have four people to guarantee it.
Zhang Yan said: "Otherwise, let's try it, and if we can't borrow usury, we will borrow again." ”
Two people went to the bank to ask, there is indeed this policy, but the key problem is that no one is willing to borrow the account book as a guarantee.
"Jiang Tao, it's not that we don't help you, if you use it for relief, uncle is fine, but you are taking out a loan to repay the debt, and the debt is repaid, but what should I do with the bank loan? If you can't pay it back, the bank will come to me and ask me, but I can't afford to pay it back, this is too risky for me to do, otherwise I can't explain to the house." ”
The people who asked probably replied like this, and others disagreed, but Zhang Yan didn't expect that even Zhang Chuanqing disagreed.
"Dad, that's your son-in-law, you can help him, and lend him the household registration book. ”
"If you don't borrow it, let alone a son-in-law, and your own father can't do it. ”
Zhang Chuanqing played a scoundrel, and he didn't explain the reason, and he didn't borrow a word.
"Okay, you can do it, don't borrow it, right? Then I'll pack up my things, Jiang Tao borrowed a loan shark to pay off the debt, we'll go out to earn money, when you've earned enough, when you'll come back, don't regret it." ”
Zhang Chuanqing thought that Zhang Yan was threatening him again, shaking his head and watching TV, hum, he didn't eat this!
Zhang Yan packed up her clothes, glanced back at Zhang Chuanqing, who was pretending, Li Shuangfeng, who wanted to speak, and Zhang Nan and Zhang Bei, who didn't understand fart, and strode out.
No one came out to stop her, and she didn't have a trace of nostalgia.