Chapter 29: The Creditor Comes to the Door
"What's the use of bothering about it? As long as you run into your mother, you will be cowardly. You always tell me to endure it, I've endured it for more than ten years, when will I have to endure it? You also saw her appearance of Qiuluo today, let me tell you Bai Zixin, I have no hope in my life, but Qiuluo she must not follow in my footsteps. If your mother dares to hit Qiuluo's body and bully my family Qiuluo, I won't let her go. Chen Ping turned around and lay down after leaving the words, ignoring him.
Bai Zixin looked at her back and smiled bitterly.
Wang's approach is not pleasing to his eyes, if it weren't for the fact that she is his mother, he would have turned his face a long time ago.
But she is his mother, the grace of birth and nurturing is greater than the sky, what can he do?
But he has no way to refute what Chen Ping said, he himself wants to be filial to his mother, but if his mother really does something to Qiuluo, he is afraid that he will not be able to bear it, he only hopes that her mother is just a little more fierce and will not do anything to Qiuluo.
Bai Zixin thought about it, sighed lightly, and lay down beside Chen Ping.
Chen Ping's face hurt so badly that she tossed and turned for half a night before she barely fell asleep.
After she fell asleep, Bai Zixin, who was pretending to be asleep on the side, got up and lit the small lamp next to the bed, and took the ointment to apply medicine to Chen Ping's face who was careful.
Looking at Chen Ping's swollen face, Bai Zixin's eyes were full of distress.
He suddenly had some doubts, was he really right to be so unconditionally filial to his mother? Xiaoping followed him, but she really suffered too much.
Sighing lightly, Bai Zixin hugged Chen Ping and slowly fell asleep.
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After the Wang family came back, the Bai family became lively.
Of course, this is not a good one.
scolded and scolded every day that Bai Zixin's family was not good, and he would scold when he had the opportunity, Bai Qiuluo doubted that after a long time, would he be scolded for a nervous breakdown.
Fortunately, Bai Qiuluo went to Old Man Hua every day to learn medical skills from him, which was approved by Old Man Bai, but the Wang family didn't dare to say anything.
On this day, Old Man Hua went to the city for something, and Bai Qiuluo didn't have to go to him, so he fiddled with medicinal herbs in the house.
After finishing his work, Chen went to Bai Qiuluo's house to talk to her.
Before he could say a few words, there was a sudden movement outside, and a few people poured into the courtyard.
The leader was dressed in silk and satin, slightly rich, with a mustache, and a pair of eyes narrowed slightly, covering the light in his eyes, it was Li Chaoran, the chief butler of the Chu family.
He was followed by several men dressed in domestic clothes.
Bai Qiuluo squinted at him slightly, guessing in his heart the purpose of his visit.
It's been so long, Li Chaoran hasn't moved at all, she thought that he had completely believed that she had lost her memory and forgot about her little person, but now it seems that this is not necessarily the case.
Hearing movement in the upper room, the old man's voice sounded, "Steward Li, what kind of wind blew you here?" ”
Li Chaoran rolled his eyes angrily and said, "You should come when I want to, it's not because of the silver." ”
Old Man Bai was slightly stunned, "Silver? What silver? ”
Then he said: "You said that you paid the money for Luoluo's treatment, the boss said that the money was used for the third family's Luoluo's treatment, and there was nothing left." ”
Li Chaoran looked at him strangely, and said, "Old man Bai, I said that you really don't know or pretend not to know?" ”
Seeing that Old Man Bai was at a loss, Li Chaoran stopped detouring and said: "Let's put it this way, at the beginning, I was based on the life compensation money given by the dead person, and now that the person is alive, in addition to the money for treatment, the rest should be returned, but there has been no movement in your family these days, so I came to go this way." ”
Old Man Bai was really surprised this time.
The money that Bai Qiuluo compensated was gambled by Bai Zichao, in order to calm things and cover up his ugliness, Bai Qiuluo's money for medicine was all from the public, and when he heard Steward Li's words at this time, it seemed like a lot of money.
Without waiting for Old Man Bai to react, he heard Chen's voice sound, "What kind of treatment money pays for life?" We didn't receive a single copper plate at home. ”
Old Man Bai and Steward Li looked sideways, and saw Chen standing at the door with Bai Qiuluo in his arms, frowning and saying.
"Will it still be with Uncle?" Bai Qiuluo on the side followed.
Everyone's eyes fell on her, but she was not afraid, and said with an innocent face: "I was in terrible pain in those days when I was injured, and I couldn't sleep, and I heard my uncle counting money in the house." ”
"Luoluo, don't talk nonsense." Seeing that the old man's face was not good-looking, Chen hurriedly reprimanded in a low voice.
Bai Qiuluo muttered: "I'm not talking nonsense, I just heard the sound of copper plates coming from the uncle's house." She pursed her mouth, looking aggrieved and about to cry.
Bai Qiuluo could feel that Steward Ding was looking at her very strangely, full of scrutiny, but pretending not to know anything.
"Old man Bai, don't say that you don't know what kind of virtue your boss is." Steward Li said.
The old man was silent for a moment, and said in a low voice: "If I really have this money, my Bai family will definitely pay it back." ”
"Still? Old man Bai, I'm afraid that you can't pay off this silver even if you smash the pot and sell iron. Li Chaoran looked at this old man Bai with amusement.
While talking here, someone happened to step in at the door, who was it not Bai Zichao?
Bai Zichao saw that Steward Li was leading people in the courtyard, and his foot that had just stepped into the gate turned, and he turned around and wanted to run out.
Bai Qiu fell into sharp eyes, saw Bai Zichao, and shouted: "Uncle, you are back." ”
Everyone in the courtyard looked at Bai Zichao's body in unison.
A drop of cold sweat suddenly rolled down Bai Zichao's forehead.
The corners of his mouth twitched, and he glared at Bai Qiuluo viciously, but he didn't dare to slack off, hurriedly stepped forward a few steps, and saluted and flattered Steward Li, "I've seen Steward Li." ”
"Don't give me these fictitious things, since your girl didn't die, the compensation money should also be returned." Steward Li said.
Bai Zichao smiled and said: "Look at what you said, although my niece and nephew are not dead, but she was also seriously injured, and she was lying in bed a few days ago and couldn't move, and she raised her for a long time." And her brain was injured, I don't remember a lot of things, the doctor said that it hurt her brain, and the money for this compensation was all paid by the doctor to catch the medicine, which is not enough, you still said that you want to return it, I'm afraid it's not appropriate. ”
"Besides, Chu Yuanwai is a well-known good man in the town, and the amount of silver that does good deeds every year is uncountable, and you work under him, which is also famous, this bit of silver, I think you don't have to pay attention to it."
Li Chaoran heard that Bai Qiuluo hurt his brain and couldn't remember anything, a flash of light flashed in his eyes very quickly, and then he said coldly: "My money didn't fall from the sky, doing good deeds and compensating are two different things, one yard is one yard, you have to pay back this money today, otherwise don't blame me for being polite." ”
He came here this time to verify whether Bai Qiuluo really had amnesia, but now it seems to be true?
"This ...... How can this be, I didn't lie to you, the money was really taken to catch the medicine, there is nothing left, I ...... "Bai Zichao still wants to cheat."
"You should pay for hitting your girl, but you can't do so much, you don't have to pay back all the money, just pay back half of it." Steward Li said neatly.
Bai Zichao was stunned, he gambled all the money, where did he get the money back.
Seeing him like this, Li Chaoran raised his hand, and the family members he brought stepped forward together, surrounded Bai Zichao in the middle, and looked at him with unkind eyes.
With Li Chaoran's move of instructing his subordinates to surround Bai Zichao in the middle, the atmosphere in the entire courtyard suddenly became tense.
Bai Zichao was even more frightened, his face turned pale, and beads of sweat were rolling, for fear that Li Chaoran would let his subordinates do it.
Old Man Bai was even more nervous and said: "Steward Li, we have something to say, we have something to say, you tell me how much money you lost at the beginning, how much money you have to pay back, you just have to say, my Bai family has to take out the money to you." ”
No matter what Bai Zichao did, he was still his son in the end, and the old man couldn't see Bai Zichao having an accident in front of him.
Steward Li looked at Bai Zichao like this, and pursed his lips disdainfully, "At the beginning, I lost fifty taels of silver, and I have asked people to inquire clearly in the past few days, you invite a doctor and sell medicine, and it will cost less than two taels in total, even if you count your expenses in the later stage, this will be four or five taels." I don't care so much about you, I will pay you twenty-five taels, and as long as you pay back the remaining twenty-five taels, this matter will be over. ”
When the old man Bai heard this, his body shook suddenly, and he almost fell backwards.
"Dad, you're okay, don't scare me." Chen on the side hurriedly supported him.
"Master, are you okay?" Bai Qiuluo's face was also full of anxiety.
"It's okay, I'm fine." Old Man Bai pursed his lips and waved his hand.
Bai Zichao sat on the ground even more when he heard this, his face sluggish.
As soon as Old Man Bai saw Bai Zichao like that, he knew that he definitely didn't have so much money on hand, so he smiled and said: "Steward Li, you are doing well, can you give a few days, let's get together, you can rest assured, this money is recognized by our old Bai family, it is definitely not bad." ”
Steward Li's eyes swept over him, and then at Bai Zichao, who was sitting on the ground, sneered, and said, "Okay, you don't dare to repay the bills, so you will be given a few days of grace and the money will be sent to the town in five days." If it wasn't delivered, don't blame me for being ruthless, and directly report to the official to let your boss go to prison. ”
After finishing speaking, Steward Li didn't care about the reaction of the Bai family, and left directly with people.
As soon as Steward Li left, Old Man Bai gasped a few times, raised his crutches and beckoned to Bai Zichao's body, "You unconscionable loser, didn't you say you don't have much money?" Didn't you say that Steward Li wouldn't pursue it? Fifty taels, that's fifty taels, you actually took it to gamble, why don't you gamble with your life. ”
Old man Bai scolded while chasing Bai Zichao, but his legs and feet were not dexterous and he couldn't catch up with Bai Zichao, so Bai Zichao ran back to his room and closed the door with a bang.