Chapter Seventy-Six: How Much to Borrow
Seeing Li Minghe and his wife and Fu Jingheng, Li Jimin's ancestors and grandchildren stopped talking. Li Yao glared at Fu Jingheng with some resentment, and then buried her head there and played with her fingers. She scolded in her heart: "Nerd, long-tongued man, fake Taoism!" Even though she knew that the false doctrine was a bit excessive, she used it angrily.
At her glance, Fu Jingheng naturally saw it from the corner of her eye. Thinking about what happened before, he still couldn't figure it out. During the spring outing, Li Yao's lying was reported, and he was the culprit. Although it was wrong for Li Yao to lie at that time, she was also excusable at that time.
Li Jimin asked Fu Jingheng kindly: "Brother Jingheng, is your grandmother okay?" ”
Because of Li Yao's resentful and angry glare, Fu Jingheng's expression was a little stunned at this time. After the hand he hid in his sleeve tightened and loosened, he respectfully replied to Li Jimin's words: "My grandmother's body is bound to recuperate here for a while. The younger generation is useless, and this time I took the liberty to ask the grandfather of the Li family to borrow some money. I don't know if my grandfather might borrow some money for my grandmother's treatment. If they can, the Fu family and the younger generations will be grateful, and they will definitely return the silver as soon as possible! ”
When he talked about his grandmother's illness, his half-lowered eyes were full of sadness, and it was sad to look at. But Mrs. Li's heart was colder and harder, and she pointed to the key point with a straight face and asked, "How much to borrow?" ”
Fu Jingheng slurped: "One hundred ...... One hundred and fifty taels, if so...... If you can, borrow more...... It would be better to borrow more. ”
Fu Jingheng is a white-faced scholar, and for some reason he is still a tanner. When he was embarrassed, the two blushes on his face were easy to see.
But before he finished his unspeakable words, Mrs. Li said to him with an unhappy face: "Could it be that you kid is daydreaming? One hundred and fifty taels is not a small amount, how can my family have this silver! ”
Li Jimin was embarrassed. How much silver the old lady had in her hand, he had a number in his heart, probably less than a hundred taels. His family always had to spend money on food and clothing. The old lady later had a total of one hundred and eleven taels in her hand, and here was the fifty taels earned by her granddaughter.
Until now in Qinghe County, his family has spent nearly forty taels on treatment, food, clothing, and spending. Not to mention that Xiaojun Wang and Miao'er are cured, his family will have to pay more money. Thinking of this, Li Jimin wanted to say that he couldn't borrow much silver to Fu Jingheng.
Wu opened his mouth at this time: "Auntie, how much money does your family have, I also have a spectrum in my heart as a nephew and daughter-in-law, who doesn't know that your A-Yao sells vegetable recipes and cake recipes to earn a lot of silver, I think those recipes add up to sell for more than 100 silver, right?" These days, Ah Yao has cooked two meals, and I haven't eaten many dishes, so I don't believe that Xilaiju is such a big restaurant, so I only give Ah Yao a recipe for thirty taels of silver. At the very least, there must be no fifty-two dishes. And did A-Yao only sell one dish to Xilaiju? This still has to score to say! ”
Everyone thought that Li Yao was selling two kinds of cake recipes, the same braised pork recipe. Therefore, Wu is conservative in calculating money according to these three recipes.
I just heard her continue: "It's still too little. I counted according to the shortage, fifty taels each for two cakes and one dish, and at least one hundred and fifty taels in my aunt's hand will be credited to the account. At first, the aunt had sixty taels in her hand, so after calculation, the aunt should have a total of more than two hundred taels of silver in her hand! ”
Although Mrs. Li listened to Wu's words, she still said angrily: "I don't know that I have so much silver in my hand!" And you can count the money in my hand! On the same day, the seller paid back thirty taels of silver, why didn't you say it? ”
After saying this, she looked at Li Yao fiercely again. Seeing that her granddaughter didn't know what to think when she looked down, she raised her hand and slapped her granddaughter's head.
Li Yao didn't know that the Wu family had a food shop in his hands. Therefore when the amount of silver she had spoken of that day was small, she thought she could hide it. At this time, how to round Wu's words, she was thinking about it. After returning from Xilaiju that day, outside the kitchen, Wu overheard what she and Han Jin were saying. Although she dealt with it perfunctorily at that time, Mrs. Li specially asked her to speak privately today, and someone must have told the old lady that she was secretly hiding the silver.
In addition to Wu's mother and daughter, Aunt Chen's mother and daughter and her eldest brother were eavesdropping outside that day. Excluding the Wu mother and daughter and her eldest brother, it is Aunt Chen's mother and daughter who can tell Mrs. Li that she is secretly hiding the silver. As soon as she figured it out, she was beaten.
Li Yao was slapped on the head, she raised her hand and touched it, walked away a few steps with an aggrieved face, and asked Mrs. Li angrily, "Grandmother, why did you beat me?" ”
"You still said that you didn't hide the silver, listen to your cousin's calculations, you sold more than that, where did the rest of the money go, you still don't give it to me!" After saying this, Old Lady Li's cloudy eyes rolled and said, "The silver you secretly hid can't be from the Han family!" ”
After all, there are outsiders here, and if they make trouble at home, they and their families' faces are not good-looking. Li Jimin was quite dissatisfied and stopped his old wife and said, "Okay, now let's talk about borrowing silver!" ”
Mrs. Li was finally unwilling, she pointed at Li Yao and scolded: "Little hoof, troublemaker, you wait for me, and I will settle accounts with you later!" ”
Li Yao was scolded, she obediently walked behind her grandfather, aggrievedly tugged at the corner of her grandfather's sleeve, pursed her lips and bowed her head and stood there without speaking.
After a series of things, Wu quickly figured it out. It turned out that the niece was hiding the money from her grandmother, so it was no wonder that the three uncles were avoiding people in the backyard.
Seeing Li Yao being beaten, she felt relieved. Who asked Li Yao to target her daughter.
This...... Hey, because of Li Yin's lies, Li Yao, who was misunderstood, was really wronged!
Li Minghe was instinctively afraid of his aunt, but he knew that he would seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and he knew that his uncle was reasonable, so at this time he said respectfully to Li Jimin: "Uncle, you can't borrow one hundred and fifty taels, if you can borrow one hundred taels of silver, it's okay." ”
What are the three ancestors and grandchildren of the Li family doing here, Fu Jingheng has already understood at this time. He glanced at Li Yao uncomfortably, and then looked at Li Jimin, waiting for Li Jimin's answer.
"Hmm...... My family will also leave silver to eat and live, and if I don't have a hundred taels, I can take thirty taels. The old lady will give Brother Jing Heng thirty taels! ”
As soon as she heard this, Mrs. Li yelled at her husband with a complaining face: "Old man, you are cutting meat to feed the eagle!" I don't count the fraction in my hand, I still have seventy taels of silver left, you promise to treat the injuries of the little county king, and also to treat Miao'er, you have to prepare forty or fifty taels here, right? ”
She asked this, and then pointed to Fu Jingheng and said, "This is another thirty taels for this kid, how can I live with the little bit of silver I have left?" The weather is getting hotter and hotter, so I have to spend silver to let the Han family boy buy some medicinal materials to prevent the heatstroke. In this way, if there is a good thing on the road, how can I live with this little bit of silver? God, this is going to kill people! ”
After the old lady finished speaking, she also slapped her thighs with both hands, her mood was full of resentment, and her expression seemed to be full of sorrow.
It is said that Mrs. Li is also planning in every way for her own affairs, which is not a shortcoming. Li Yao also supported Mrs. Li's behavior at this time, of course, she didn't mean that she didn't borrow Fu Jingheng's money, she could secretly help depending on the situation, in short, now is not the time to talk about this......
"Okay, I got it. Don't talk about it......" Li Jimin hesitated for a moment and continued: "If you can lend something, you can lend it." Otherwise, borrow twenty taels? Cutting meat and feeding the eagle is what the Buddha did, where can I compare with the Buddha! His old wife was actually illiterate, but she knew some words after marrying him, so he could understand the indiscriminate use of idioms. Obviously, the word cutting meat to feed the eagle is not the right word. The Fu family is a well-informed family, where can it be compared with the ferocious vultures that eat human flesh.
It seems that Li Jimin is a little too kind.
Mrs. Li is illiterate, and Li Yao and these juniors don't know. If they knew, they would have said that Mrs. Li had kept them secret. In the past, the old lady also copied a lot of Buddhist scriptures! In fact, there is still something hidden here, which is a later story, so I won't show it for the time being. (To be continued.) )