Chapter 174: Forced to Death
The two-day prison disaster made the people of the Sanfang family embarrassed, and every clean place on Zhou's body, his hair was messy and sticking to his face, but the greed that could not be hidden in his eyes was particularly attention-grabbing.
"Third aunt, do you still want my small courtyard?" Qian Qianqian smiled angrily, glanced at Qian Qiqi, and looked at the third aunt.
The sarcasm and disgust on her face made the third aunt's heart palpitate, her eyes dodged, she turned her head to look at Qian Fen and Qian Xuan, laughed twice and said weakly: "Qianqian, they are all a family, they should help each other, your family conditions are good, and a small courtyard is nothing ...... to you."
Not only Qian Qianqian, but Qian Fen, who has never had a good temper, also blushed, puffing out her cheeks and wanting to say something, but she couldn't say anything.
But Qian Qianqian is not easy to bully, nor is she an indelible person, her face fell, and her voice was like a three-foot cold: "The third aunt is afraid that her memory is not very good, some time ago someone came to collect debts, we can't even pay off the debts, where are the conditions good?" Besides, even if the conditions of our two-bedroom family are good, it was you who proposed the separation of the family, and it was you who drove the daughter-in-law with a big belly out of the house, and now you want to help each other? ”
Sentence by sentence, the third aunt was blocked speechless, Qian Qiqi was used to not being afraid of heaven and earth, but in front of Qian Qianqian, he was like a tiger that had been plucked, he couldn't be arrogant anymore, his neck shrank, and he peeked at Qian Qianqian in fear.
Qian Qianqian glanced at the third aunt with an ugly face, and continued: "It's reasonable, I can't give it to the third aunt in this small courtyard." ”
After a pause, Qian Qianqian said with a heavy face: "But third aunt, you have to be shameless, if you want to fight with me here, don't blame me for speaking ugly and acting unemotionally." ”
Suddenly, the third aunt exploded, and when she heard the phrase "shameless", she exploded.
With a brush, her eyes widened, and the third aunt gritted her teeth, and her face seemed to be burning: "You dead girl!" What more do you want to do to us? Do you have to force us to death to be happy! ”
She has always been unable to gossip about her work, and her reputation in Qianjia Village has always been good, but since the Erfang family moved out of the old house, her nightmare has come.
She thought that by driving out the orphans and widows of the second room, there would be less burden, and their lives would be better, but who expected that the family would be smooth, and they would be the poorest.
Who can be willing to eat bran at a table, and even know people better than herself, and in a blink of an eye, she eats big fish and meat, and becomes the person she dreamed of becoming.
So Qian Qianqian's family, why can't they help them by the way?
Qian Qianqian, this dead girl, is cold-faced and hard-hearted, she is really not helping the Qian family at all, and it is simply delusional to want to get something good from her.
But except for Qian Qianqian, the people around her are not poor, so the only person she can rely on is Qian Qianqian, as for the debts owed by their family, she just needs this yard.
Her eyes were red, and she suddenly knelt in front of Qian Qianqian with a pop, and a pair of boring hands tightly grasped the hem of Qian Qianqian's skirt.
Look, the rich people are dressed differently than they are.
Why can she wear embroidered silk clothes with Qian Qianqian, but she can only pick up the cloth that she doesn't want in other people's shops, bargain and talk about the price with a dry mouth, and finally the finished clothes have to be sewn and mended for three years and three years to wear on her body?
The third aunt cried bitterly, and tears fell: "Qianqian, the third aunt, please be okay, you can help the third aunt, do you want to help the third aunt." The third aunt is really going to die......"
The world has always been difficult, but how can we repay grievances with virtue? Qian Qianqian coldly shook off the third aunt's hand: "The third aunt has hands and feet, instead of begging me, think about how to be self-reliant." ”
The third aunt couldn't stop crying, and the pleading on her face was touching: "Qianqian......"
Qian Qianqian's face does not change, she can be kind, but she can't be kind to this family.
They are poisonous scorpions, and if they are entangled, they will be sucked dry of blood sooner or later.
Qian Qianqian hardened her heart: "Xiaofen, let's go." ”
After walking a few steps, she suddenly stopped, and the third aunt's eyes lit up, and the next moment they dimmed again.
It turned out that Qian Qianqian stopped not regretting it, but warning them: "By the way, third aunt, next time I report to the official, I will not intercede for anyone, you have to feel comfortable in that prison, you just toss us." ”
"And the master is waiting for you at the inn at the intersection."
After speaking, Qian Qianqian took Qian Fen and left without looking back.
The third aunt lay on the ground, her hair was messy, and tears left a few embarrassing marks on her gray face.
"Mother, our small courtyard ......"
"Qiqi, go home with your mother." The third aunt's eyes were dull, and the whole person seemed to be more than ten years old in an instant.
She shouldn't believe the people of the Dafang family, she wanted to use the big house as an arrow target, but who expected this arrow target to run so fast that all the plans ended up being a bamboo basket for water.
The third aunt staggered to her feet: "Let's go, let's pick up your grandfather and go back to Qianjia Village." ”
Since you can't please Qian Qianqian, you have to win the attention of the old man and make your life in the Qian family better.
In the blink of an eye, it was time for the rice harvest.
was busy for five whole days, and in these five days, for a hundred yuan, Qianjia Village basically went to help harvest rice.
After five busy days, the rice was harvested, and after some processing, bags of rice were loaded onto trucks and transported to the grain farms where the grain was stored.
"Why is it that there are 5,000 catties of grain more than expected?"
This bumper harvest was already beyond Mu Tianyue's expectations, and the extra five thousand catties made him even more surprised and delighted.
Qian Qianqian followed the car all the way, sweating profusely, sitting on the chair for more than half an hour, and before she could completely recover her strength, she saw Mu Tianyue holding an abacus and rushing in excitedly.
Qian Qianqian hadn't slept well recently, nor had she rested well, but now she finally rested for a while, so tired that she didn't bother to lift her fingers.
Her eyes glanced slightly, and the rest of the parts remained motionless: "Do you remember the thousand taels of silver?" ”
Mu Tianyue thought for a while, pulled down the abacus and said, "A thousand taels of silver for the village chief?" ”
"Yes." Qian Qianqian said lazily: "I used the 1,000 taels of silver to rent the idle vacant land in the village, if there is no accident, it will not be a problem to use it for decades." ”
Mu Tianyue paused again, then focused on the abacus, his fingers flicked up and down flexibly, and he raised his head after a while: "In this way, minus this thousand taels of silver, you still owe me three thousand five hundred and eighty taels of silver." ”
"What?" With a bang, Qian Qianqian stood up, and her voice was raised uncontrollably.
She smiled angrily at herself: "Eh, I haven't earned so much silver, why do I owe you three thousand five hundred and eighty taels of silver?" ”
And this number is very detailed, and it doesn't seem like it's made up, Qian Qianqian is afraid that she really owes him so much silver.
In comparison, the creditor Mu Tianyue looked much calmer: "First of all, the cloth, the silver that you will pay in the cloth village, and the expenses for your food, clothing, housing and transportation in Lianzhou City, for example, the small courtyard you rent costs one or two silver, and you fancy a sachet on the street is eighteen silver, and every time you spend money in Tianyue Restaurant, you and I will divide it evenly, and you have to have a ......."
"Okay, stop." The more Qian Qianqian listened, the more desperate she became, her face was loveless, and she looked at Mu Tianyue: "Boss Mu, I have to pay back the silver slowly, don't worry, it's useless to be anxious." ”
Mu Tianyue seemed to have an account to settle, and she was tired of standing, so she simply sat down on the chair next to her and put the abacus on her lap: "Since you owe money, it's better to pay it off earlier." ”
Qian Qianqian came to her senses, saw that his face didn't look like a fake, and her expression began to become solemn.
"Then give me a deadline, and I'll try to pay you back the money I owe you as soon as possible."
"The harvest of rice, the rent of labor and rented land was originally shared by us, but now the harvest is completed, because the methods and techniques of planting are provided by you, so I have three you seven, a total of three thousand two hundred taels of silver, and you have two thousand two hundred and forty taels, and the cloth of the garment shop is yours, the design is yours, and the rent and labor of the shop are mine, so I have four you six, and the income of these two months is eight hundred and twenty taels of silver, and you have four hundred and ninety-two taels of silver. The two parts add up to a total of two thousand seven hundred and thirty-two taels of silver, right? ”
The silver flowed in like flowing water, Qian Qianqian was dumbfounded when she heard it, and after Mu Tianyue finished speaking, after a long time, she asked with a complicated face: "...... Boss Mu, do you do this kind of business? ”
All the money was earned for her, and after deducting the cost, he earned only about half of hers.
"Although I owe you money, don't think I'm poor and take advantage of it everywhere, we can't lose ourselves when we do business."
Mu Tianyue disagreed: "Having said that, the idea is all yours, and I can't earn this money without your ideas, so why not give you more?" ”
His handsome eyebrows raised slightly, with a smile: "Besides, I really want to sympathize with your poverty, it's a big deal to hook up those accounts, how can I bother to bother with you?" ”
Qian Qianqian was almost taken away by his smile, and quickly shook her head to throw away the messy thoughts in her mind, and said in a daze: "It's you who suffered......
Mu Tianyue smiled, took the lead in getting up and walking out: "Come on, take a look at our granary." ”
The granary is located in the middle of Qianjia Village and Lianzhou City, where there are few people, the place is large, and the surroundings are also empty, and the sun is abundant, which is most suitable for drying rice and threshing grain.
The secluded granary, as soon as the door opens, the coolness on the face is mixed with the dry breath, and the bags of fruits that have been exposed to the sun, the rain, and the paddy fields have been piled up for months.
Mu Tianyue had a complicated mood: "The frontier is urgent, and this battle is not only a war of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, but also a war of millions of people in the Tong Dynasty. ”
The war is about to start, and Qian Qianqian also feels it deeply, and this feeling is still from Xiao Mohan. He was getting busier and busier, the official documents on the table were piling up more and more, and there were often people with him who came out of nowhere to discuss with him, and all signs showed that the war was coming.
"I heard that this year's taxes are still rising?"
"Yes."
Mu Tianyue's expression was heavy: "Because once the war starts, the grain and grass in the frontier are tight, and every grain of rice has to be pulled out of the mouths of the people, but there are so many harvests in a year, and if they are given to the frontier, the people's stomachs will be empty." ”
Qian Qianqian looked at the mountains of grain piled up in front of her, probably guessed Mu Tianyue's intentions, and deliberately asked, "So?" ”