Chapter 6: Young Woman Landlady

Zuo Shaoyang's eyes were not yet used to the dim light in the room, and he couldn't see other conditions clearly, and Fennel had already spoken: "Dad! Mother! We're back. ”

The thin old man just hummed, and heard an old woman in the darkness speak: "Fennel, go cook!" ”

Zuo Shaoyang immediately understood that this thin old man with a goatee was the father of the deceased who he possessed, that is, his future father, the old man who prescribes medicine and likes to use cinnamon branches. The woman with an old voice in the dark should be her mother Liang.

I heard a woman's voice in the dim voice interject sharply: "Ouch! Why don't you have money to pay my rent if you have food? I said Zuo's family, don't be so funny, I've been waiting for you for a long time, if you don't rent it today, don't expect to eat with the pot! ”

I heard the old woman sigh again, and said: "Sanniang, we don't don't give it, you have seen it in the past half a day, there are only two patients in total, and the medicine money is only more than ten yuan, and it has been given to you, but you can't take out the money anymore, these years, the war is in chaos, and you don't even care about your life, how can you have the money to see a doctor, so you can't make money by opening a pharmacy, and you can't even stutter, you can take care of it......"

"It's your business to make money or not! Tell you, it looks like the New Year is coming now, as the old saying goes, this year is a debt! There is no turning over the debts of the year! This year's debt has to be collected this year! Seeing that the year is coming, if you owe a few hundred wen, I won't force you, but this year you owe me rent, plus the money accumulated in previous years, plus the money you borrowed from me in a mess to buy medicinal herbs and marry your daughter, a total of nine thousand and seventy wen! Okay, I'll let you take another step, count me unlucky, I don't want this fraction of seventy yuan, you have to pay back the nine thousand yuan. ”

Zuo Shaoyang asked fennel on the road and already knew that in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, one tael of gold was equal to ten taels of silver, equal to consistent copper coins, and equal to one thousand copper coins. Equivalent to 5,000 RMB. In other words, one penny is equivalent to five yuan.

Guizhitang owes 9,000 yuan in rent, or 45,000 yuan. This amount of money is only an astronomical amount for this dilapidated pharmacy.

The old woman's voice said: "Sanniang, we really can't come up with the money, we say that it is nine thousand Wen, that is, Jiuwen, and we can't take it out at the moment." -- Speaking of eating, the pot was filled with black flour mixed with wild vegetables to make a hard bun, which was still used by the fennel family for the New Year, and the wild vegetables were also picked together by fennel and his brother when they went up the mountain to collect medicine. This year, ......, woo woo, I can't get by! ”

"Gotta it! Don't cry poor in front of me, who doesn't have a problem? I still want to cry if you cry, my man left this house for me, and his feet stretched out to death, and our mothers still count on this rent to eat, but I can't receive it, I will drink the northwest wind! Zuo's family, I beg you, even if you help me, give the rent first! ”

Zuo Shaoyang listened to the two women talking in the dim room, he couldn't see it really before, and slowly his eyes adapted to the light, and finally saw clearly, a young woman, sitting on a high-legged round stool in the middle, crossed Erlang's legs, holding a kraft paper roll in her hand, one hand kept taking things from the tube and throwing them into her mouth, her pointed chin kept turning and chewing, swallowing very loudly, the light was not bright, and she couldn't see what she was eating.

Her mother, Liang, stood in front of her, wearing a skirt, and her hands were also folded in her sleeves, her back arched, and her face could not be seen clearly.

The old man sitting behind the long table never spoke, just put his hands on his sleeves and lowered his head, looking at the ground, and he didn't know if he was thinking about something, or if he was forced to pay debts and had no face to see people.

At this time, it was almost dark, Fennel took the medicine basket from Zuo Shaoyang's shoulder, quickly stepped into the next wing room and put it down, and came out again, through the lobby, to the other side of the wing. Soon, a dim oil lamp was lit up in the wing, and slowly floated out, but it was Fennel who walked to the long table and placed the oil lamp on the table. said to the old man: "Dad, my brother climbed the cliff to collect medicine today, stumbled and fell, and broke his head, you can take a look." ”

Before his father Zuo Gui could speak, his mother Liang had already run over in shock, grabbed Zuo Shaoyang's shoulder, and looked up and down: "Zhong'er, did you fall?" Isn't it amazing? Show it to my mother. ”

Zuo Shaoyang followed the dim light and saw the wrinkled face clearly, like a loess slope crisscrossing the ravines, and his cloudy eyes tried to open wide, looking at him, full of panic.

Zuo Shaoyang wanted to call his mother, but in the face of such a strange woman, he couldn't scream, so he just muttered vaguely: "I'm fine, I'm a little broken." ”

Zuo Gui finally raised his head and looked at Zuo Shaoyang: "Sit down, see where the injury is for my father." ”

Zuo Shaoyang sat on the round stool next to the long table, bent down and bowed his head: "The back of the head, there is a gap, there is some blood, it's okay." ”

Zuo Gui stretched out two thin hands to hold Zuo Shaoyang's head, and squinted at the dim oil lamp: "Hmm! There is a wound, it's quite long, but it's healed and doesn't bleed, how does it feel? Do you have a headache and want to throw up? ”

"I don't want to throw up, my head doesn't hurt, I'm fine."

"Give me your hand, and I'll feel the pulse."

Zuo Gui took Zuo Shaoyang's wrist, stroked the gray goatee with one hand, and carefully checked the pulse for a moment, slowly nodded and said, "Well, the pulse is peaceful, nothing is wrong." ”

Fennel chimed in, "Are you alright?" Dad, my brother's fall must not be light, he ...... He can't even remember ......, alas, I'll tell you later! ”

The landlord who forced the debt stood up and walked over: "You guys give the rent first, and then talk slowly." I'm going home in a hurry, too. ”

Liang said with a bitter face: "Sanniang, we really don't have it." ”

This young woman is the landlord of their Guizhitang rent, surnamed Zhao, the third in line, known as Zhao Sanniang.

Zhao Sanniang smiled coldly: "Okay, it seems that it will not be possible to say it well, if this is the case, then don't blame me for being rude, I also expected this result, you will move tonight!" Move out now! ”

"Moving? Where do you let us move in this cold winter, we Guizhitang have rented your house to open a pharmacy, and there have been many years, but there are also some regular customers who often come to see the doctor, if they move, first, they can't find a suitable house, and secondly, this regular customer will be gone. ”

"I don't care about that! If you want to eat, I will eat too! I can't starve to death with you, can I? You owe me a total of 9,000 Wen, and since you can't come up with the money, you can pay it off with medicinal materials! ”

Liang and Zuo Gui were both startled, glanced at each other, and Liang said with a bitter face: "Sanniang, we borrowed money to buy these medicines, if you take them, what will we do?" ”

Zhao Sanniang said: "I can't control this!" You owe money to others, and you owe me money! I don't care where you borrowed money to buy this herb! Also, your medicinal herbs, together it is estimated that they are not worth 9,000 Wen, I originally wanted to deduct your belongings to offset the rent, but your family is clear to me, and it is not worth a few dollars, this year, I will not go too far, just leave it to you to take away. Alas, whoever calls me good-hearted, if I lose, I should only take the copper coin and lose it. I'll give you an hour to clean up, and after an hour I'll bring someone to take back the house. If you don't move at that time, I can only ask someone to move for you. By the way, there is a saying that 'people die and debts do not die', and even if you move out, you have to pay me back the money you owe me! I'll find someone to collect the debt! Yes, that's all! I went back to dinner. ”

The landlord Zhao Sanniang said, and walked out.

Liang and Fennel hurriedly begged, but Zhao Sanniang seemed to have made up her mind, and only said that she would bring someone to collect the house in an hour.

Zuo Shaoyang stepped forward and said loudly: "Aunt Zhao, ah no, Aunt Zhao, ah no, Aunt Zhao, wait a minute, I have something to say." ”