Chapter 2: A Poor Family
Pay back?
Li Chu was stunned, in the memory of his predecessor, it seems that he doesn't owe this guy money.
Seeing Li Chu stunned, Zhang Laocai thought he was afraid, swept away his depression, laughed madly, and the IOU was drawn on black and white paper, and he couldn't pay the money, everything in the family had to be replenished, and he had to be tortured and exiled.
Zhang Laocai had already inquired about Li Chu's situation, and in order to gamble money, Li Chu mortgaged the title deed to Murazheng, and now there are no valuable things in his house, only people.
Where is this going to be done to the county master, Li Chu's exile will not be able to escape, and the remaining weak wives and younger brothers in the family will not be bullied?
Originally, Zhang Laocai wanted to treat the Yang family's sister gently, but now, since he doesn't do it, then he won't do it, and he doesn't have to tell the Yang family's sister anything, so he tore up the disguise and directly put forward the request: "I know you don't have the money to pay back, if you want me not to sue the official, it's okay if you don't pay back, you divorce the Yang family's sister, and then let her marry me as a concubine, I will write off this matter with you, otherwise, we will see you in the county." ”
A line of tears flowed out of the corners of Ah Xiu's eyes......
Li Chu turned around and happened to see Ah Xiu secretly wiping away his tears with his sleeve, and he apologized softly and gently to Ah Xiu: "I'm sorry for making you suffer for a while, can you tell me about the specific situation?" ”
There were more tears in Ah Xiu's eyes, and Li Chuchu was in pain when he saw it, he could somewhat understand how heavy the burden on Ah Xiu's shoulders had been this month, and he could force such a strong person to be like this.
Ah Xiu softly told Li Chu about borrowing money, and after listening, Li Chu gently patted Ah Xiu's shoulder and said softly: "Leave this matter to me, I'll deal with it." ”
To put it simply, Ah Xiu was deceived, went to the doctor in a hurry, borrowed ten yuan from Zhang Laocai, and bought a century-old ginseng from a passing pharmacist.
It seems simple, there are many doorways inside, first of all, I don't know where the rumors came from, saying that as long as you take a hundred years of ginseng, Li Chu will be able to wake up, and secondly, the pharmacist only stays here for a moment, leaving not much time for Ah Xiu to think, and Zhang Laocai took the initiative to borrow money, and finally found out after buying it, what is a hundred years of ginseng, just an ordinary ten years of ginseng.
Zhang Laocai borrowed money, not ordinary interest, but usury......
This is a set, and it is clear that it is to pit Ah Xiu.
"Have you two discussed, do you want to go with me to see the official, or send the Yang family's sister into my house?" Zhang Laocai wiped the blood on his face, but he smeared it more and more, with Li Chu's fearful character, how could he dare to go to the official?
He had already begun to anticipate the scene after the Yang family's sister entered his house.
Very good, this secret loss, Li Chu wrote it down.
Judging from the current situation, I can only make this guy proud for a while.
Immediately, Li Chu called out the customization system and customized a small flashlight from it, which was a few dollars a piece on Taobao, which was quite fashionable and exquisite, and cost him 2 custom coins.
took out the flashlight and turned on the light to shoot at the corner of Zhang Laocai's eyes, which startled Zhang Laocai, and the surrounding crowd of onlookers also took a small step back.
Although it was broad daylight, the spotlight emitted by the flashlight was also relatively bright, and in the eyes of the surrounding crowd, the things in Li Chu's hands would actually glow, and a small light would appear wherever he pointed out, especially when he shot his eyes, he couldn't open his eyes.
"This thing is called a night lantern, made of the night pearl of the South China Sea and black jade glazed coral, it is now broad daylight, this treasure has little effect, if it is dim or at night, it is like day, the value does not need me to say more."
Made of Night Pearls?
Everyone was quite surprised, it turned out to be the pearl of the night, no wonder it can shine.
Look at this inky black smooth handle again, it is really a black jade coral, and this thing is very small, it is much more convenient to hold in your hand than the pearl of the night, and suddenly everyone's eyes are hot, and those who have no money can only be greedy, and those who have money are ready to move.
Li Chu demonstrated the switch to everyone, and after letting them understand, he casually threw the flashlight to Zhang Laocai, and said coldly: "This treasure is temporarily pressing you, and after a month, I will redeem this treasure with twenty-five yuan, if I can't take out so much money by then, this treasure will belong to you." ”
The items out of the system only said that they were directly sold to affect the score, but they did not say that they were not allowed to use them to mortgage the extension, as long as they gave him twenty-five yuan of money and took the flashlight back, it would have no effect.
Zhang Laocai held the flashlight, his face was full of surprise and disbelief, and carefully stroked the black and smooth plastic barrel body, and approached the careful observer in front of him.
It was so unexpected, when this baby appeared, he forgot everything, and his eyes were all focused on this baby, when Li Chu asked him if he agreed, Zhang Laocai muttered yes yes.
"There's a room next to it, you can go inside and try it out."
With Li Chu's finger, Zhang Laocai immediately jumped up and ran to the house with a fat body, and the crowd of onlookers on the street also followed Zhang Laocai to which house, all of them were curious and scrambling.
After the crowd on the street was gone, Li Chu looked at Ah Xiu with a blank face, put his finger on her forehead, picked up the bamboo basket on the ground and threw it into her arms.
"You go home first, I still have something to do, I'll come back later."
"Oh."
Ah Xiu nodded his head in a daze, walked a few steps with the bamboo basket before coming back to his senses, turned to look at Li Chu, and could only see Li Chu's gradually disappearing back.
……
Li Chu had already thought of a way to improve his life, but there was one more thing he wanted to confirm.
Out of Rufen Town, walk along the official road to the northeast, walk a short distance, and then turn the path to the east, in the original body memory, there seems to be an open-pit coal mine there.
Coal, the people of the Song Dynasty like to call this called black stone, coal, coal mining has also formed a scale, in the Shanxi generation, the government came forward to set up a charcoal factory, the official sold coal.
In the Jingbei Road generation, the coal wind is not prevalent, the coal resources are small, and the government has not promoted it, only occasionally some open-pit coal mines are quarried by some ordinary people, but they do not know how to burn, and there are several gas poisoning incidents.
Although it is cheap, it is not as convenient as firewood.
Li Chu found this open-pit coal mine, and the col was full of open-pit coal, covering an area of about ten acres. He broke a thick branch to make a small stick, walked to the middle of the col, and from time to time poked the coal under his feet with the branch to check the quality of the coal.
The quality of the coal here is much better than Li Chu expected, and it only needs to be sifted a little before it can be burned directly. It was an unexpected surprise.
Li Chu's house is on the edge of the water, not far from Rufen Town, only two miles away. There is a small road that can be passed directly through the coal mine.
When he got home, Ah Xiu was already waiting at the door of his house.
"You don't want to go out in the afternoon, the rest of the cage cake will be used as today's food, and you don't have to get up early tomorrow to make cage cake." Li Chu said, and turned out two baskets from the pile of debris in the yard, which were a little dilapidated and barely usable.
Without waiting for Ah Xiu to speak, he threw the shovel into the basket, picked up two baskets with a flat pole and went out again, and walked along the path to the open-pit coal mine.
When he came back, it was already noon, and Li Chu, who was covered with sweat, parked two baskets of coal in the courtyard, the quality of this body was still too poor, and he was tired like this when he loaded the coal, and before Li Chu could rest, he saw Ah Xiu staring at him with an aggrieved face, and there was a little anger in his eyes.
"Do you think I've disgraced you?"
Ah Xiu's angry appearance made Li Chu not understand for a while.
Li Chu wiped the sweat from his face and asked with a smile, "What's wrong?" ”
A tear slipped down Ah Xiu's face, Ah Xiu smashed the sweat towel against Li Chu, turned around with a sad and angry face, walked to the corner of the wall, picked up a long wooden stick, held a gun flower in his hand, and poked it at Li Chu's body.
No way!
Li Chu was frightened, and hurriedly picked up the flat pole next to him to block left and right, but he didn't block it once, the wooden stick in Ah Xiu's hand attacked quickly and accurately, and after a while, he clicked on Li Chu several times, and finally changed the stab to chop, driving Li Chu to run away from the courtyard.
Ah Xiu will be martial arts.
Li Chu reacted at this time, Daddy Yang knows marksmanship, and a spear is superb, he didn't expect that Axiu's daughter's family actually learned her father's marksmanship, and this posture has been eight years in less than ten years.
Slowly, Li Chu didn't run anymore, still beating himself by Ah Xiu, he noticed that every time Ah Xiu smashed a stick, the tears on his face would be more, and Ah Xiu's shot was not heavy, it seemed to be sharp, but it was very light when it fell on his body.
Ah Xiu stopped fighting, threw the long stick to Li Chu, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said seriously: "You think I want to embarrass you?" There is less than 400 yuan left in the family, and if I don't sell cage cakes, who will feed the family? ”
Li Chu was stunned, he didn't expect that the reason that made Ah Xiu sad was that he disliked a word.
The feudal class kills people.
"It's because you misunderstood that you didn't sell cage cakes because you were too tired. And I've got a better way to make money. Li Chu said earnestly to Ah Xiu Chen: "This catastrophe has made me figure out a lot of things, I was a bastard, and you have suffered so much, I will now get rid of my original bad habits, treat you well, and let you live a happy life." ”
Ah Xiu bowed her head and was shy, and Li Chu's true confession made her blush.
"Duplicity, hum!"
Ah Xiu walked quickly into the house without looking back, closed the door tightly, leaned back against the door, and blushed on his face. And in the house, an eight-year-old girl was holding a rag doll and looking at her eldest sister curiously.
……
Looking at it like this, she shouldn't be angry.
After Ah Xiu returned to the house, Li Chu cleared a vacant lot in the yard, poured two baskets of coal on the ground, and then carried the basket back and forth twice, and after transporting enough coal, he dug a lot of yellow mud on the soil slope outside the courtyard and poured it into the yard, adding water and mixing it with coal.
Calling out the customization system, I spent 1 custom coin and bought a lotus coal machine......
This is a simple lotus coal machine, which is the kind of hand-held manual press in the private family in the countryside, or called the honeycomb coal mold, which can only make one honeycomb coal at a time.
The briquette size is 160mm.
Better tools make good work.
Originally, Li Chuyi couldn't think of which line to start from, but after meeting Zhang Laocai today, he had already thought of what to do.