Chapter 11 Paying the Money
Taking a step forward and looking around at the onlookers, Li Tu said loudly,
"My family's seven acres of paddy land are valued at least seventy taels of silver. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Why does my family owe you forty taels of silver, and I have to pay it with seventy taels of paddy fields! ”
didn't expect the other party to dare to contradict him, so Huang Kaichou didn't react for a long time. Half a ring, and when he came to his senses, there was already anger in his eyes. The look that looked at Li Tu was a little more vicious!
Glancing at Huang Kaichou, who was full of anger, Li Tu said:
"In addition, my family is in financial difficulties, and the original family of four only had seven acres of thin fields. You know that! My two men are about to get married, and it's time to spend money. I knew that my family couldn't pay the money, but they still lent me the money! What is your motive here? ”
"If it's a long-term debt, let my family repay it slowly, it's reasonable! But you borrowed money for three months, and you are in a hurry to ask my family to pay it back! ”
His eyes met Huang Kaichou's vicious eyes, and Li Tu said loudly,
"You've already planned to swallow my family's paddy fields!"
Hearing this, the onlookers all began to chatter.
But that Huang Kaichou is not a light-skinned scholar, since he has made up his mind to take the Li family's field, how could he retreat because of Li Tu's revelation.
Flicking his sleeves, Huang Kaichou replied fiercely:
"It is customary to have a discount on property to repay debts. Nothing that can be repaid is worth the original value, how can it be the value you say casually! Your seven acres of paddy fields can be repaid forty taels of silver! ”
"As for why I'm lending money to your family...
"As for why I'm in a hurry to collect my debts...
Huang Kaichou thought anxiously for a long time, but he couldn't think of a reasonable explanation.
Compared with the urging in the past, today Huang Kaichou is determined to get the Li family's land deed and put the seven acres of paddy fields into his own family. If you said that when you were urging in the past, you could still argue with the Li family in detail, but when you have a showdown today, you can't take care of so much benevolence and righteousness.
The so-called one-man three-point reason, if you don't be arrogant today, you can't do anything.
Seeing that the people around him had already talked about themselves, and he really couldn't say why he lent money to the Li family, who had no ability to repay, and why he was in a hurry to collect debts, Huang Kaichou's face changed, and he simply said,
"Yes, I just fell in love with your paddy field!"
"Pay off your debts! Unalterable principle! If you can't afford to pay it back, you can pay off your debts with waterfields! Unalterable principle! If you can say that it is also the end of bankruptcy, what can you do? ”
As soon as these words came out, the onlookers were in an uproar!
The Ming generation, starting with Zhu Yuanzhang, tried to avoid land annexation. During the Hongwu period, the people also had their own land to rent. But by the middle of the Ming Dynasty, small landlords began to annex the fields of yeoman farmers. In the late Ming Dynasty, the gentry and landlords with official positions began to directly grab the land of the common people under various names, and finally led to only landlords and tenants in the world, and there were no more yeoman farmers.
In short, the annexation of this land to the Ming Dynasty was something that the people hated, but it was commonplace.
The well-dressed officials and gentry of the Ming Dynasty were all full of benevolence, righteousness and morality as a cover. In private, what he did was a jackal, a tiger and a leopard. But in any case, the gentry who did bad things were still afraid of the Qing Dynasty, and always found some reason for their annexed land, and always wanted to win a good thing for fame and fortune.
It is really insulting to say something like Huang Kaichou who is naked to seek people's land.
It was Father Wei, the chief next to Huang Kaichou, who was also embarrassed at this time.
Huang Kaichou couldn't care so much, laughed a few times arrogantly, and said loudly,
"I haven't seen you for a few days, but you've become a sharp-tongued talker."
"But so what? It's only right to repay debts! If you can't pay it yet, you will pay it with water! ”
As soon as he turned around, Huang Kaichou asked Daddy Wei, "Daddy Wei, tell me, if you can't repay the debt, do you want to use the family property to pay it off?" ”
As if he couldn't stand this embarrassing atmosphere, Daddy Wei thought for a long time before he said:
"Borrowing money from others is a matter of helping the weak and helping the needy. The plot of the people's fields is not the work of a gentleman... ”
After a pause, Father Wei continued:
But in any case, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, it is indisputable that it is the duty to repay debts. If it can't be repaid, it is indeed to be repaid with the land. ”
Seeing that the lieutenant chief supported him, Huang Kaichou suddenly became proud. After thinking about it, Huang Kaichou almost roared and said loudly,
"Okay, you Li Tu, you have eaten the bear's heart and leopard gall, dare to come against me! Let me tell you today, after your land is repaid to me, I will give it to someone else. Your family, drink the northwest wind and go! ”
But his roar was coldly interrupted by Li Tu.
"Who says I can't pay yet?"
In the shocked eyes of everyone, Li Tu took out the ingot of silver from his arms.
Holding the silver in front of Huang Kaichou, Li Tu said loudly:
"Who says I can't get the money? This is silver! ”
As soon as the silver came out, Huang Kaichou was immediately stunned.
His eyes were fixed on the silver ingot, where could Huang Kaichou speak?
He never thought that Li Tu, the nerd he despised himself, would be able to raise forty taels of silver in just three days.
Obviously, Li Tu was running around and no one paid attention to him, and it was obviously his own little trick to make the Li family cornered, all the news pointed to this ending, why did things suddenly reverse?
What's going on?
Li Tu can repay the money, but he can't get the Li family's property. The land annex that he had been planning for months was cracked by this nerd Li Tu.
Wouldn't it be in vain to admit that he was plotting against the Li family's property? The people in Shilin usually flaunt themselves with benevolence, righteousness and morality, and now, don't they want to become the laughing stock of Shilin?
Forget about becoming a laughing stock, the key is to steal chickens and rice. If this kind of stupidity is known to the self-proclaimed elites, they will be discriminated against.
This Li Tu, this fool Li Tu, how did he become a person? This Li Tu, where did he go to raise the silver?
How did he become so powerful, why was he able to make himself lose face.
For a while, Huang Kaichou was stunned, unable to speak.
The crowd watching the excitement was also stunned by the silver that Li Tu took out.
This fool Li Tu actually raised money to save a family on the verge of bankruptcy? Everyone doubts that the sun is coming out of the west today?
The exclamations of the crowd converged into a loud bang. The audience squeezed forward one by one, to see the authenticity of the silver in Li Tu's hand.
Coughing, Father Wei looked at Huang Kaichou, who was stunned, and shook his head. He took the silver ingot that Li Tu handed over. Father Wei took out the prepared silver scale from his arms and measured the weight. Taking a bite on the silver ingot, he nodded again.
"It's indeed a barefoot silver ingot, forty taels!"
Lifting the silver ingot and showing it to the onlookers, Father Wei said loudly,
"The Li family owes the Huang family forty taels, and it has been repaid."
Unceremoniously stuffed the silver into Huang Kaichou's hand, and Father Wei snatched the IOU from Huang Kaichou's hand and handed it to Li Tu.
"The IOU has been returned to the Li family. Since then, Huang and Li's two families have been clear, and there is no debt to each other. ”
There was silence for a moment, and a cheer rang out in the crowd of onlookers.
Everyone has a snobbish heart that tends to be inflammatory, but there is also a sympathy for the death of a rabbit and a fox. Although Huang Kaichou is a talented man, he has a status. However, most of the onlookers were also destitute ordinary people, and when they saw that the landlords and wicked people had been exposed and defeated for snatching the land of the poor, they all rose up with a sense of pride and hatred for the enemy, and they all cheered for Li Tu one by one.
"Good!"
"The Li brothers have done a beautiful job!"
"The despicable and shameless people who seek the land!"
After a long time, Huang Kaichou reacted, and when he heard the people scolding him, he was so ashamed that he could only hide his face with his sleeves.
Where is there still the domineering spirit that just came, Huang Kaichou ran out of the yard with a few family members.
He wanted to go out, but the crowd of onlookers wouldn't let him. It took him several times before he reluctantly pushed a path out and got out of the cracks.
Seeing his embarrassed appearance, there was another burst of laughter in the crowd.