Chapter 383: Borrowing Grain
"Is it possible that the village chief means that we have to hand over the grain? My family has more than a dozen people to eat, and there is not much left in the family, if we give the grain to these people again, then we have to hand over the grain to these people, right?" The crowd was indignant. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Everyone listen to me quietly, these errands are all fierce and vicious, and we can pay for it with silver if we can't hand over the grain, but which of us has so much food? So much silver?"
One hundred catties of grain per load, and twelve cents per catty of rice. Even if it is eight cents a pound for those who have not yet been threshed, that load will cost 800 yuan, and the sum of 3,000 loads of grain will cost at least 2,400 taels of silver, which means that they will not be able to get so much grain even if they are killed.
Aunt Qiao is the only mother and son in the family, and in total, they only need to pay nine loads of grain, that is, seven taels and two coins of silver.
Qiao Dalang has saved some private money with Song Li's side this year, and it is not too difficult to come up with these seven taels of silver, but other people are different, and some families have more than a dozen people. According to the head of the people, you have to pay more than 30 loads of grain at a time. It is equivalent to 3,000 catties of grain, which is almost a family's annual ration. Who can hand it over?
"Da Lang, you are doing things in the Song family, and you must be well-informed when you follow Song Li outside. You help come up with ideas. The village chief looked at Qiao Dalang with a look of hope.
In the past, Qiao Dalang basically belonged to the dogs in the village, but now he actually asked him to help with ideas, which is really unexpected.
"Village chief, there's nothing I can do about it. Qiao Dalang said.
"That's right, Da Lang, why don't you go and tell your boss to let them lend us a thousand loads of food, and then think of returning it to her when we get through this crisis. ”
Qiao Dalang is no longer the original Qiao Dalang, how can he not guess the thoughts of these people. The old owner is kind at heart, maybe he can really talk about moving, as for the young lady, although she has great ability, she can't stand it and is a filial piety. Maybe if the old club is willing to help, the young lady will probably not object.
"The proprietor doesn't have much room in the house. "The Song family is more than 50 acres of land, and it is good to be able to collect 200 quintals of grain, and these people are really embarrassed to say it when they open their mouths.
"Da Lang, that's not what I said, now these officials are persecuting us so much, we are from a village, and my dog grew up with you. You can't see death!" Feng Shi, who was still holding a half-year-old baby in his arms, grabbed Qiao Dalang's arm.
Although Mrs. Qiao's mind is a little unclear, the one who protects her the most is Qiao Dalang's son.
"Dog, you let go of my eldest man. Mrs. Qiao thought that the Feng family was going to attack Qiao Dalang, so she couldn't help shouting.
Feng ignored Mrs. Qiao, "Da Lang, we villagers have all watched you grow up, and now that the village has encountered such a big disaster, if you don't help, you can't say no." ”
Desperate faces stared at him like this, Qiao Dalang only felt uncomfortable, these people are all his own village, and many of them grew up with him, and now everyone is forced to such a point, which is really uncomfortable.
"I can't answer you about this, but I do have an idea, and it's up to you whether you want it or not. Qiao Dalang made up his mind not to implicate Song Li in this matter.
Everyone's eyes lit up, "What do you think?" ”
"You can go to your relatives to borrow food, wait until you receive it, and then change it slowly. Qiao Dalang said.
"How can this work, our relatives are all poor, what surplus food can we have?" As soon as Qiao Dalang's words landed, someone immediately jumped out against him.
Qiao Dalang glanced at it, and it was actually Feng's.
"Aunt Feng, I don't care if your relatives have food, but if you can't borrow food, these people will set fire to the village, and then you won't be able to complain about others. ”
Feng Shi hated it so much in his heart, he had always taken things from his mother-in-law back to his parents' house, and now he had to take food from his mother's house back to tide over the difficulties, but I was afraid that it would not be so easy at all.
"Da Lang, you forgot that you still ate at my house when you were a child. "Feng tried to understand it with reason, and moved with emotion.
Qiao Dalang did not deny that he had eaten at Feng's house, "I really should thank Aunt Feng for your kindness in the first place, but the person who ate at your house was me, not my host." Therefore I cannot grant what you ask. ”
"The Song family's shop in the town can earn a lot of money every day, and it makes sense to come up with some to help us now. Qiao Dalang, we asked you to go and tell Song Li just to leave this opportunity to do good deeds for you. Don't be ignorant. Several gangsters from the same village who used to fool around behind Qiao Dalang said viciously.
Although Qiao Dalang is now working under Song Li's hands, his temper has already been restrained a lot. But he couldn't allow others to calculate Song Li like this.
"Zhang Lao Er, don't think I don't know what your idea is, let me tell you, if you want to trouble my boss, I'll clean you up today. Qiao Dalang's fierce face in the past has returned to normal, these people who know Qiao Dalang know that Qiao Dalang is a desperate person, if he is really in a hurry, maybe he will really fight with himself.
"I haven't been to the Song family for a long time, and I don't even know what my surname is. The one who was called Zhang Lao Er by Qiao Dalang was a pockmarked face, and he also had double hanging triangle eyes, and he was looking at Qiao Dalang with a disgruntled face at this time.
"You. Qiao Dalang's fists were all in front of Zhang Laoer, but he stopped abruptly.
The village chief was anxious in the winter, and he couldn't care about his age. Kneel directly in front of Qiao Dalang.
"No one in our village knows any big names, the life of our entire village is in your hands, if you don't help us, then we can really only wait for death. Da Lang, do you really have to bear it?"
If these people are ruthless to Qiao Dalang, Qiao Dalang will only be more ruthless and horizontal than them. This is the village chief who often helps take care of his mother, and secretly doesn't know how many times he has helped the village chief kneeling in front of him and begging himself, Qiao Dalang knows that his heart has softened.
"I still have twenty taels of silver, which I can give to the village chief. Qiao Dalang said. That's all his savings now, and he really doesn't have any more.
What's the use of twenty taels of silver? That's two thousand four hundred taels of silver. Twenty taels of silver is a drop in the bucket.
"Da Lang, look at so many of us, what use do you say twenty taels of silver can be?" The village chief was so sad that he cried directly in front of Qiao Da Lang.