Chapter Seventy-Two: Debts, Debt Collection

Sometimes the heart is very much like window paper, even if you know it before you pierce it, you can be safe, but the words are hard to collect.

Qingqing left, leaving only half of the Night Pearl on the table, and a note was pressed under the Night Pearl.

"Thanks to your care over the years, think about it, I may indeed take you too seriously, I am still young, there are infinite possibilities in life, a while ago the South China Sea Shenni traveled to Yangzhou City, fancy my qualifications, and want to accept you as a disciple. Let's take this opportunity to separate for a while, and see each other in three years, hoping that you will change your mind then. ”

The night pearls each hold half of it, but also to break the pearl and reunite in the future.

Nanhai Shenni comes from the water-stopping nunnery near the sea in Chaozhou, which can be said to be one of the most mysterious sects in the Tang Dynasty.

One insisted on going north to Chang'an, but the other went south thousands of miles to Chaozhou, and the ends of the world were separated from each other.

Yu Lang held the note tightly in his hand, but he didn't know whether to chase it or not. What should I say when I catch up? Tear down the statement of the day before yesterday and rebuild the old good? Otherwise, even if they chase back, how should the two get along?

In the end, he didn't chase him out, Qingqing's handling like this was naturally the result of his careful consideration, and Yu Lang respected Qingqing's choice.

Red Silk stood at the door for a long time with a bowl of chicken soup, not daring to make a sound to disturb Yu Lang's thinking.

Yu Lang opened the cabinet where Qingqing hid money on weekdays, and found that half of the seven hundred and fifty-six taels of silver that the two had saved over the years had been taken away by Qingqing, one cent was no more, one cent was not less, and one person was three hundred and seventy-eight taels. Thinking of the sweet appearance that Qingqing had saved money for the two of them in the past, Yu Lang held on to the cabinet door and cried sadly.

Under the dim oil lamp, Qingqing once raised her little face and carefully planned the use of every sum of money, these were used to buy land, those were used to buy shops, and finally these opened a big teahouse, so that travelers from the south to the north had a place to rest and tell stories.

The Chang'an that Yu Lang wants to go to is also a young Chang'an, without her company, many things will be boring. For a second or two, he almost couldn't resist the impulse to chase Qingqing back, but he didn't leave after all, if he really wanted to be with Qingqing, he had to wait until he completely took Ning Xiaoyu out of his heart and gave Qingqing a pure feeling.

Hongsu had never seen a man of this size crying, and she was even more helpless when she stood at the door, and the bowl of chicken soup in her hand was already cold.

Yu Lang let out a deep breath, calmed down, and took out an ingot of silver weighing about fifty taels from the cabinet.

He sat back in his chair, put the silver ingot on the table, and said to Red Silk a little tiredly, "Take the fifty taels of silver and go home, find a good man to marry, and you don't have to follow me in the future." ”

Hongsu was a little anxious: "But when Sister Qingqing left, she specially told me to take care of your ......"

Yu Lang shook his head resolutely: "Let's go." Qingqing went south alone, to endure the loneliness and misery of the southern barbarian land, how could he let other girls take care of him, although it was meaningless to share food alone, he wanted to do his best.

Hongsu looks soft and soft, but she is very stubborn in her bones, she doesn't let go: "Sister Qingqing bought me, I am a member of the Yu family, you sweep me out, I am still a member of the Yu family......"

Yu Lang feigned anger and said, "Is the servility in your body so heavy? Do you want to be a cow or a horse for others? What do you think about the parents who are going to give birth to you and raise you? Straighten your waist and be a man, you don't owe anyone anything, there is no need to compromise! ”

Hongsilk is not a person who doesn't know how to rely on it, and knows that what Yu Lang does and says is for his own good. She walked into the house and put the chicken soup in front of Yu Lang: "Young master, the soup is cold, you have to go back to the pot to heat it up before drinking." This silver and red silk can't be asked for to death, as the young master said, if you want to straighten your waist and be a man, you can't owe anything to others. ”

Yu Lang smiled and watched the red silk leave, then closed the door and thanked the guests, sitting alone in the empty room in a daze.

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Red Silk said goodbye to Obaba, went back to the house and simply packed a few clothes, one of which was a colorful narrow-sleeved skirt shirt that Qingqing bought for her, she thought for a while, there is no woman in Yu Mansion now, and it is useless to keep this dress, so she also took it away. It's not that she's greedy for a little cheap, it's that this dress is good-looking, and she likes it tightly. These days, Qingqing casually rewarded her with three or four taels of silver, and took it home, so that the family would not look down on her.

Hongsilk's home is in the long line where the poor live, and their family is still a relatively decent family in the long line where broken houses and tiles can be seen everywhere, but firstly, my brother has contracted the vice of gambling this year, and secondly, he was seriously ill before he came, and the small family can't afford to toss like this.

This trip home was not as smooth as expected, although the elder brother's illness was cured, he could not quit the problem of gambling, and within a few days he lost all the silver brought back by the red silk.

The family re-lived a hard life of boiling gruel and mixed life, and the red silk couldn't bear to say a few words to her brother, and was beaten by her mother who picked up a stick. When she was beaten, the red silk didn't cry, but the colorful narrow-sleeved skirt was discounted by the grandfather for rice, but the red silk cried when she came back. The tears of red silk are the cheapest thing in this family, and the only one who will feel sorry for red silk is the younger brother Lin Shuisheng, but unfortunately he has just turned ten years old this year, although he is a male dependent, he has no right to speak at home.

This dress is worth a lot of money, and a jar of rice is enough for five people to eat for three or four months, and the elder brother has no choice but to find a job, and his life has finally improved slightly.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and the people who chased gambling debts finally found Changxingli.

The debt collector is a gentleman, followed by a dozen followers with big shoulders and round waists, he does not seem to be short of money, and debt collection and bullying are just a pastime for him. Walking on the street, you have to risk going to jail for a meal, but no matter how unscrupulous you are when collecting debts, the government will not care about you.

The government protects the obedient people who can work, and the families who owe money and can't pay their taxes are broken when they are broken.

Lin Yusheng, the elder brother of the red silk, said to the boy with a smiling face: "Brother Zhang, I owe you the money and give me a few more days, I found a job as a coolie at the dock, and I will be able to make up enough soon......"

Brother Zhang opened the folding fan, revealing a colorful tiger lying behind a boulder on the fan: "Oh? How much do you earn a day as a coolie at the docks? ”

"When I live less, there are seven or eight copper coins, and when I live more, there are about a dozen." Lin Yusheng told the truth.

Brother Zhang knocked Lin Yusheng's head hard: "You owe me one hundred and thirty taels of silver, you earn ten Kaiyuan Tongbao every day, you tell me how many days will you earn it back?" Do you have no brains yourself or do you think I don't have brains?! ”

Lin Yusheng's face changed greatly: "Brother Zhang, I obviously only borrowed ten taels of silver, and I repaid five taels a while ago, even if you count the profits, that is, you still owe seven taels of silver." ”

Brother Zhang'er's smile became gentle: "Invite me Zhang Tianba to collect debts, it costs silver, and the creditor of this silver can't come out, so you have to pay it, and the remaining one hundred and twenty taels of silver are the carriage and horse expenses for me and my brothers." ”

Lin Yusheng knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Brother Zhang, Brother Zhang, give me a way to live, you must know in your heart, how can a family like us get one hundred and twenty taels of silver, even if we sell our whole family, it is not worth so much money." ”

These Brother Zhang naturally knew in his heart, he didn't come here to ask for money, he paced two steps leisurely, and picked up the red silk chin with the fan bone of the folding fan: "Okay, I also accumulate some virtue, I don't want your family's life to pay off the debt, as long as your sister is for the brothers to play for a few days, how about the matter will be settled?" ”