Chapter 230 High Interest

Zhou Ning is going to the Prime Minister's Mansion tomorrow to congratulate Xiangye on his birthday, so he can't go empty-handed, right? Zhou Ning didn't bring anything with him when he came from Yunjiang County. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

He only had a few hundred taels of silver with him now, and he couldn't afford too expensive gifts. Zhou Ning couldn't take out the treasures anyway, so he wanted to choose a random gift to express his congratulations.

The literati like to play calligraphy and painting, so he can pick and choose among them. Not far from the Spring Breeze Inn, there is a street that specializes in selling calligraphy and painting, and the shops on both sides of the street are almost all selling the four treasures of the study room and antiques.

After walking through a few shops, Zhou Ning didn't pick out anything he liked, and he felt tacky when he picked up anything. Those jade ornaments, celebrity calligraphy and paintings are all kind, and the dazzling array of things are good at first glance, and it is inevitable to fall into the vulgar after a closer look.

Lu Qing didn't know that Zhou Ning was choosing a birthday gift for Xiangye, he looked east and west, and took everything he thought the son could like to let Zhou Ning see.

Zhou Ning just shook his head when he saw it, and Lu Qing guessed that Gongzi was in a bad mood, so he didn't like anything. He didn't know what was bothering Childe, and he didn't know where to persuade him.

Walking out of the store and looking up at a shop selling fans, Zhou Ning remembered the jade fan pendant that Lin Ying bought, so it was better to go and see if there was a suitable fan to choose from.

In the golden autumn of October, Zhou Ning himself didn't hold a folding fan, how could anyone buy a fan at this time? The store was so deserted that only the shopkeeper was sitting at the counter dozing off.

Seeing Zhou Ning and Lu Qing walking in the door, the shopkeeper quickly stood up and greeted each other with a smile: "Do the two guests want to choose a fan?" ”

Lu Qingxin said, "Do you have anything else in this house besides a fan?" What do you choose without choosing a fan? Zhou Ning nodded slightly: "I want to choose a good fan, do you have tortoiseshell on the fan bones?" ”

The things given to Xiangye are too light, so that people don't laugh at them, and they are also disliked. As long as it's not an antique, Zhou Ning can still afford a good fan.

The shopkeeper's smile that had just raised his smiling face froze suddenly: "Here, I only have a bamboo bone fan here." ”

The bamboo bone fan is the most ordinary fan, it is impossible to choose the bamboo bone fan for the Xiangye, and there is no shortage of matches, what is the use of your bamboo bone fan?

It's better to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion empty-handed, empty-handed may not be someone to pick you, take a bamboo bone fan is to find trouble, who are you in Han Ling (Yin Chen)?

Although it was not necessary to give gifts, Zhou Ning did not turn around and leave. He still looked at the fan in the shop, the painting on the fan was very rough, the poems were written with no new meaning, all the old verses of the ancients were written, and the words were not very good.

There are a few blank fans of good quality, Zhou Ning picked one up and looked at it carefully. Lu Qing came up and said, "Buy two and go back, and the son will draw a fan for me." ”

Zhou Ning closed the folding fan and knocked Lu Qing's head: "What painting?" It's almost winter, do you use a fan? ”

At this moment, a woman's crying came from the inner room, and the shopkeeper sighed heavily. Zhou Ning was wondering what the situation was, and a teenage child came out of the inner room with a curtain on the door.

The child cried so much that his eyes were red, and while rubbing his eyes, he said to the shopkeeper, "Dad, you should think of a way, my mother and grandmother are crying again." ”

"It's okay, you go study, you don't have to worry about the affairs of adults." The shopkeeper hugged the child and patted him before letting him go, and the shopkeeper leaned against the counter with a sad face and sighed again.

It seems that his family is sad, and Zhou Ning is not easy to inquire about other people's affairs, he doesn't have the heart to buy a fan, and people are not in a good mood, Zhou Ning put down the folding fan in his hand and walked out with Lu Qing.

Before they reached the door, four big men came in from outside, blocking Zhou Ning and Lu Qing with no way out.

The four big men glared at the shopkeeper viciously, and the shopkeeper hurriedly ran out from behind the counter, bowed and said to him: "You have also seen that my business is not open at all, and I can't open the pot at home, but if there is a penny left, I will take you first." ”

However, when he had said all the good things, the four of them were as if they couldn't hear them. One of them also looked at Zhou Ning and Lu Qing: "Who are they?" ”

The store hates the two of them very much at this time, why don't you buy a fan and run in? The shopkeeper had to tell the truth: "They are here to buy fans, and they are about to go out without a photo." ”

"Nothing in the picture?" The man's face was full of meat, and the corners of his mouth were slanted: "Your house is full of fans, how can you not be in love?" Did you hide your money? ”

The shopkeeper explained to them vigorously that these two guest officers wanted to buy a good fan, but he really didn't have it here.

Those people didn't bother to listen to his explanation, so they pressed him every step to ask for money. "Don't tell us that it's useless, we're here to ask for money, you hurry up and take out the money to save us from doing it."

Zhou Ning and Lu Qing glanced at each other, and they both showed uncertain looks. This blue sky and white day are at the feet of the Son of Heaven, how can someone blatantly come to the door to blackmail?

Zhou Ning and Lu Qing took a few steps back in both directions, and the two of them stood in an inconspicuous corner watching the excitement. The so-called business is not about yourself, it is better to stay away, in case they fight, don't splash blood on their bodies.

The shopkeeper bowed and couldn't stop saying good things, and those people just forced him to take the money without relenting. In the end, he was forced to be helpless, and the store took out the money bag and poured it down, and there was less than a penny.

"Who are you sending here?" A big man raised his foot and kicked the copper coins everywhere, and was about to go up to hit the shopkeeper, but his companion stopped him.

The shopkeeper was so frightened that he knelt on his knees and kowtowed, and kept begging for mercy: "Ask a few masters to raise their noble hands for some time, and I will definitely pay back when I sell this store." ”

The store really couldn't come up with the money, so those people left a few cruel words with yelling and scolding. The shopkeeper wiped the sweat from his forehead, let out a long breath, and slowly picked up the copper coins scattered on the ground.

There were two copper coins lying flat in front of Zhou Ning's feet, Zhou Ning picked up the copper coins and handed them to the store, the store took the copper coins, and thanked Zhou Ning embarrassedly: "Thank you." ”

"Who are they?" Zhou Ning asked softly.

The shopkeeper sighed, pinched the money bag in his hand, lowered his head and said weakly: "It's my creditor, and I don't blame others, I can't pay back the money I owe to others for more than two years." ”

It turns out that those people are not here to blackmail, and the debt collection is too domineering, and the store keeps saying that they will pay them back if they have money, and they don't admit it, so why be so fierce?

"How do you owe the money, is it convenient to talk about it?" Zhou Ning didn't look like a no. A person with good hobbies, he must have his troubles.

"It's a long story, this debt was owed by my father, and he only borrowed twenty taels of silver at that time, and now he has more than three hundred taels of interest."