CHAPTER XXXVIII

"What's wrong with you today? Why are they all so flustered? Qian Yuanwai frowned, looked at the housekeeper suspiciously, and motioned for the housekeeper to explain to him.

"Ahem, that's the case, just now when I went out to buy supplies for the house, I heard people in the streets and alleys reading a limerick poem about you, the poem is this, like this: outside the money clerk, outside the money clerk, the family has thousands of pieces around the waist, poor character, poor character, only borrow money to not pay back, no ~ pay back ~ money ~" The housekeeper had cold sweat on his forehead and looked at the money clerk carefully.

"Qian'er, I also heard this limerick poem in the teahouse just now, so I ......" Qian'er, the seventh concubine outside Qian Yuanwai, saw Qian Yuanwai's inquiring eyes, and replied stubbornly, and the Jinpa in her hand was almost crushed by her. Qian Yuanwai has a quirk, whenever he is angry, he likes to make fun of his wife and concubine, and his third and fifth concubines just can't stand his abuse and commit suicide.

Qian Yuanwai's face became darker and darker, and Qian'er's heart also rose to her throat, and she couldn't turn around and run immediately. "Hahahaha" Just when Qian'er was about to hold on, Qian Yuanwai suddenly burst out laughing.

Faced with such a strange scene, Qian'er and the housekeeper both looked at Qian Yuan suspiciously, thinking: The master shouldn't be crazy, right?

"Hmph, these people are so naïve, thinking that I will return the money to them this way? When money enters the door of my money house, how can there be a reason to send it out again? Qian Yuanwai was indeed very angry at first, and wanted to return everyone's money, so as to block everyone's mouth, but when he thought of the white silver flying out with wings like this, it hurt, and then he understood that this was the agitation of those creditors to force him to pay back!

"It's still the master's wisdom, if the concubine is afraid that she will fall for their tricks" The dark clouds above Qian'er's head instantly dispersed, and the sky was clear. She leaned shyly in the arms of the money clerk and flattered her.

"Housekeeper, don't ignore it when you hear such limericks in the future, they will automatically give up if they don't see the effect after a long time" Qian Yuan stared at the pretty man in his arms, but still didn't forget to tell the housekeeper.

"Yes, sir, I still have something to take care of, so I'll retire first" The housekeeper knew Shanren very well and didn't forget to close the door.

"Ruolan, it's been a few days, and there is no movement in the Qian Mansion at all, it seems that this method will not work, are we going to start the following plan?" Yin Yu and Peng Fei sat at the stone table in the courtyard of the Lanxiang Pavilion and waited for Ruolan, the commander-in-chief, to give the order.

"Well, this old guy is thick-skinned enough for money" Ruolan shook her head as she said, the ancients said: People die for money, and birds die for food, but it's really not wrong at all

The next day, early in the morning, there were a bunch of beggars squatting in front of the Qian Mansion, as long as someone came out of the Qian Mansion, they immediately surrounded them to beg, and the three layers inside and the three layers outside made people unable to take a step forward, and their mouths were still muttering: Anyway, it's not your own money, just pity us, send some kindness and charity. The subordinates of the Qian Mansion saw that they couldn't break through, so they had to return to the Qian Mansion to tell the housekeeper, (in fact, they didn't want to break in, those beggars didn't know how many days they hadn't taken a bath, and their bodies were stinky, and few people were willing to get that smell on their bodies) I hope he can come up with an idea.

"All of them are stupid? Can't go through the front door, won't go through the back door, side door? The housekeeper looked at these subordinates and reprimanded, and just as everyone was about to disperse, they heard Xiao Dezi in the second aunt's room shouting: "Butler, butler, what can I do?" We couldn't get out, just now my second aunt told me to buy her favorite xiaolongbao, but as soon as I went out, there were many beggars begging around me, I wanted to go through the back door when I didn't go, but as soon as I opened the back door, a large group of beggars surrounded me, and finally I went to the side door, and there was still a large group of beggars as before, what should I do? ”

Everyone looked at each other and stopped at the housekeeper, the housekeeper was also anxious, thinking for a long time and said: "I'll go and ask the master, see how the master decides, you can't go out of the house, find something else to do first, otherwise, let the master know that you are idle here will definitely deduct your monthly money" Suddenly everyone scattered, and the meanness outside the money clerk is well known, and a little little thing will be deducted from the monthly money if he is caught.

"Master, master, the little one has something to report," the butler said after standing outside the door of Master Qian's room and knocking lightly.

"What's the matter? Come so early in the morning to quarrel with the old man Ben is idle," the money clerk hadn't woken up yet, and a lazy voice came from the room.

"The little one has something to say, and I hope the old man will make an idea," the butler cautiously stood outside the door and replied, he didn't want to annoy him to deduct his monthly money, but he had an eighty-year-old mother and a toddler to feed.

"Just say anything outside the door, I'll listen," Qian Yuanwai said absentmindedly as he teased Qian'er beside him.

"Yes, sir, that's the case, no matter who goes out of the house early this morning, no matter which door they go out, they will be surrounded by a large group of beggars begging, so that no one in the house can enter or leave" These creditors have not moved much in these years, why are they so powerful now?

"En~ You write down all the things you want to buy in the house, and then let more than half of the housekeepers in the house escort you out of the house" Qian Yuanwai was also surprised at first, there were also creditors who used to play some tricks to ask him to pay back the money, but there had never been such a situation, he lowered his head and thought for a moment and said to the housekeeper outside the door.

"Yes, master" The housekeeper immediately turned around and arranged, but instead of him going out of the house to buy it, he arranged for someone else to go out of the house, and he didn't want to be surrounded by a group of stinky beggars in the morning.

For a few days, the Qian Mansion was like this, as long as you went out, you would be surrounded by beggars, and if you wanted to buy anything, you could only take turns waiting for the family to escort you, and the Qian Mansion was no different from the dungeon now.

"I'm angry, I'm angry, report to the official, report to the official and let the official arrest them all" Qian Yuanwai, who had just been blocked by the beggars, sat on the seat in the hall and shouted.

"Master, as the saying goes: The yamen is open to the south, you don't come in if you have any money or not, but I'm afraid that if you go to report to the official, it will cost you a lot of silver taels" The housekeeper stood aside and comforted, the lord is most afraid of spending money, if you pay back everything you owe to others, will it be like this?

"Well, this ...... This has to be carefully considered" When it comes to spending money, it hurts to be outside, and asking him to give it away is like stripping flesh on him. No, he'll have to think about it.

"Well, then let's do it, you go to the account office to get three hundred taels of silver, and go to the government in the afternoon" Qian Yuanwai's heart was bleeding when he said this, his silver, but just now he calculated, he owed others a total of one thousand taels of silver, if he could solve this matter with three hundred taels, then he could barely accept it.

"Yes, master, I'll go and arrange it" The butler was overjoyed when he heard the master's words, and they could go in and out openly in the future, and just as he was about to leave, a person came in from outside the door, making the butler stop.

"Who is the money clerk?" A servant stood in the middle of the hall of the Qian Mansion with a sword in one hand and a piece of paper in the other, looking at the two people in front of him arrogantly.

"Big brother, you sit down, this is our master, I don't know what big brother is doing to come to the Qian Mansion with all his hard work?" The butler stepped forward to flatter.

"There's no need to sit, it's just that the money clerk was accused of refusing to pay back the money, and asked the government to assist in recovering the arrears, this is a summons from the government, and I hope that the money clerk can be there on time when he arrives" The official turned around and left after handing the summons in his hand to the housekeeper.

"Master, how is this good?" The butler's hand holding the summons kept shaking, although he was so old, he had never had any contact with the government, let alone seen the summons, and he couldn't help but feel worried, looking at his own master who didn't say a word.

"What else? It's to pay back the money, do you see when the time on the summons is? Qian Yuanwai leaned behind him weakly, as if he had lost half his life.

"Back to the master, it's tomorrow" The housekeeper heard Qian Yuanwai say this, and his worried heart finally calmed down, but his hand kept shaking and he didn't mean to stop, so he had to put the summons on the table to see the contents of the summons.

"Well, you go down and tell the account office to prepare" The money clerk closed his eyes outside, as soon as he opened his eyes, he could see that his silver had wings and flew out, his silver~

The next day, in the lobby of the official mansion, Qian was forced to cooperate with all the previous arrears, which were two hundred taels of silver for Yin Yu, three hundred taels of silver for Jia Gu in the east of the city, four hundred taels of silver for Xue Shi in the south of the city, and one hundred taels of silver for Caiyan in the west of the city, totaling one thousand taels of silver. Qian Yuan watched the whole two large boxes of silver being carried away, couldn't stand the blow and fainted directly to the ground, and was sent to the hospital by the family members who followed.