In the house, Tang Zhi'an pulled Lin Qiu'er in, pressed her on the stool and sat down, "Daughter-in-law, what's wrong with you?" ”

Lin Qiu'er shook her head weakly, "I'm fine, don't worry!" ”

"How can this be called okay? Look at how white your face has become now? Tang Zhian said bitterly.

Lin Qiu'er saw his anxious appearance, sighed and said, "It's nothing, I just saw the pitiful appearance of the two children just now, and remembered what happened to me before." ”

After Tang Zhian heard it, he immediately thought that his daughter-in-law had been sold to a big family as a maid since she was a child, and she must have had a bad time being bullied for so many years, and she missed her father, so she would be so sad when she looked at her two children now!

Lin Qiu'er remembered her past life, and Tang Zhi'an didn't know the inside story, thinking that it was what happened to the original owner, Lin Qiu'er naturally understood, but she didn't explain it, she couldn't say it clearly at all, so she just let Tang Zhi'an think that her idea was right!

Tang Zhian looked at his daughter-in-law and said, "Otherwise, let's help them this time!" Is it for the sake of the two children? ”

Lin Qiu'er hesitated.

Tang Zhi'an walked to her side, gently took her in his arms and said: "Daughter-in-law, I hope you can do well, since you can't see the child suffering, then this time we will pay for them, and then ask them to write an IOU to us, as long as we have an IOU in hand, I believe that even if the Tang family wants to trouble us in the future, we will have to weigh it." ”

Lin Qiu'er's eyes lit up, "You're right, we have this IOU, and the Tang family won't dare to do anything to us in the future, otherwise we'll let them pay back the money, okay?" ”

Seeing that his daughter-in-law finally smiled, Tang Zhian's expression was much better, "Okay, let's do it." ”

After the two of them discussed it in the house, they hurriedly went out, while Tang Zheng was still standing outside, and the two children were crying and shouting.

Tang Zhian glanced at them and said, "Dad, I have something to tell you." ”

Tang Zheng looked at him and said, "What? ”

"Come in with two children!" After Tang Zhi'an finished speaking, he turned around and went back to the house.

As soon as Tang Zheng heard this, his eyes lit up, is there hope? He hurriedly walked to the side of the two children and said, "Let's go, hurry in, your third uncle and they agreed." ”

The two children still had tears on their cheeks, and when they heard this, their eyes were shining, and they quickly got up and followed their grandfather in.

Tang Zhi'an sat in the hall and saw Tang Zheng coming in with the children, and said to him: "Dad, we did what you said this time, and we gave this hundred taels of silver, but there is a premise, you have to write me an IOU." ”

"IOUs?" Tang Zheng frowned, "We are all family, I am your father, can I still lie to you?" Why do you think so much about us? I have to write you an IOU for this money? ”

Lin Qiu'er smiled and said, "Dad, that's not what I said, my brother still has to settle accounts!" Naturally, we have to ask you to write something, otherwise you will come to us for money in the future, isn't it endless? ”

Tang Zheng actually understood in his heart that this was what he said, but he didn't want to write an IOU, because if it was written, if they asked Tang Zhian for money again in the future, they would have to have some scruples.

Tang Zhian looked at him and said, "Dad, if you write this IOU, I can give you silver, if you don't write it, I won't give money." ”

Tang Zheng thought about it for a while and finally nodded in agreement, "Yes, I'll write you this IOU." ”

Lin Qiu'er took out the pen and ink at home, Tang Zheng was illiterate, she wrote an IOU, and the two went to the village chief to make a witness, and after signing and drawing, Tang Zhian gave the silver to Tang Zheng.

And after Tang Zheng got the money, he didn't say a word, turned around and left, and the two children staggered after him.

And Tang Zhi'an and Lin Qiu'er's faces were not good-looking all of a sudden, and the two looked at each other and sighed and left directly.

Lin Qiu'er shook her head and said: "This Tang family is a snob, look at Dad, how good his attitude was when he came to ask for money just now, as soon as he got the money, he immediately turned his face and didn't recognize anyone, and went back directly without saying a word to us." ”

Tang Zhian smiled and said: "Whatever, we didn't want his gratitude anyway, we just looked at the faces of the two children, no matter what, it's good that we have an IOU in hand." ”

Lin Qiu'er and Tang Zhi'an could only comfort themselves like this.

Tang Zheng returned home, and the whole family was waiting, and when they saw him coming back, they hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Dad, is the silver coming?" ”

Feng hurriedly held her son in her arms, touched his hand, saw if he was cold, and saw that her son was fine, so she went over to look at her daughter and found that the two children were fine, so she let the two children go back to the house.

Tang Zheng looked at the people in the courtyard and said, "It's coming, you can rest assured!" ”

Hearing this, the people in the courtyard laughed, "It's good to be there!" Now I don't have to worry about it. ”

Xu also hurriedly asked: "His father, how much silver did the third family give?" ”

"One hundred taels."

As soon as these words came out, Xu's heart suddenly let go, great, the third family has all the silver, so I don't want her to take out the family's silver again.

This is really good news, she was worried about paying for it herself, but she didn't expect that she wouldn't have to pay for it herself.

Tang Zhichang and the others breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time they were a little jealous, thinking about how much money their family had run away from serving in order not to serve the conscription, but they were really angry that they could take out so much silver casually.

Especially the Song family, although she has said that she has enjoyed happiness in the town all her life, who knows what her life is like?

I am reluctant to buy anything, I have saved for more than ten years, and I only have a hundred taels of silver in my hand, but what about others! This hundred taels of silver was given so easily, this is really more popular than people!

Tang Zheng took out the silver, and the eyes of the family straightened when they saw it, after all, everyone likes money, doesn't they?

Especially Xu, he can't wait to get all this money into his arms as soon as possible, and then save it for himself.

Tang Zheng handed over the silver to Tang Zhichang and said, "Okay, you can hurry up and take Haoyu over to hand over the money, the village chief was at home when we went to sign the IOU just now." ”

"What IOU?"

Tang Zhichang looked at Tang Zheng suspiciously, and asked.

Tang Zheng sighed, frowned and said: "I'm really angry, I'm going to make a hundred taels of silver, who knows that this third child actually has to ask me to sign an IOU, this is true, I'm his father, will I still lie to him?" ”

Hearing that Tang Zheng signed an IOU, Tang Zhichang was also anxious, "Dad, how can you sign this thing, if this thing is in their hands, won't we have to pay back the money in the future?" ”

Tang Zhichang looked at him and said, "Then what should I do, this Tang Zhian said, if he doesn't sign, he will definitely not give money, what can I do?" ”

Song saw that Tang Zheng's face was already very ugly, thinking of what her man said, she hurriedly said: "Xianggong, you can't blame your father for this, the third family is too cunning, they should have helped us in this matter, right?" It's all a family that cares about what to do so much, and their family is obviously capable, but they don't even know how to help us. ”

Tang Zheng nodded when he heard Song's words and said: "That's right, the old man is right, this third child is becoming more and more disagreeable now, he only has his daughter-in-law at all, and the rest of the people don't want to think about it at all, I am his father, and he is now treating me like an enemy." ”

Tang Zhichang knew that he was too anxious about what Song had just said when he spoke, so he hurriedly said: "Dad, what Song said is right, this Tang Zhian is really too much now." ”

Tang Zheng waved his hand and said: "Okay, don't talk about this, you hurry up and hand over the silver to the village chief, as long as you don't go to the conscription this time, let's talk about the rest later!" ”

Tang Zhichang nodded and said, "Okay." ”

Tang Zhichang hurriedly went to the village chief's house, Tang Zheng went back to the house angrily because he signed the IOU, Xu snorted coldly and went back, as long as he didn't want her money, it didn't matter.

Most of the people of the village had to pay for it, and on the third day the people who were going to serve were gathered at the entrance of the village.

The people in the village all came out, regardless of whether there were people in their own families who were going to serve in the conscription, they all came out just to send these people.

Tang Zhi'an and Lin Qiu'er also came out, she stood with Ye Lan, looking at the men standing at the entrance of the village, they were all going to serve in the conscription.

The village chief's face was also a little uncomfortable, and the women who came to see off their men were in tears.

When the time was almost up, the village chief said: "Okay, the time is almost up, we have to go, you won't be beaten if you work hard after you go, and the other thing is that they are all in the same village, you take care of each other, and the family is waiting for you!" So you have to come back safely, you know? ”

"Got it."

Although the men were also worried, they pretended to be okay in order not to worry their families.

The village chief walked in front, and these people followed behind, and they had to go to the town first, and the village chief would give the town mayor the money that his village did not pay for servitude, and then the town chief would take these people to the county government with him.

Looking at their distant backs, the people in the village were a little uncomfortable, especially the women, and their hearts also left with the men in the family.

In the end, they wiped away their tears one by one and turned back, the men left, and they had to go back to take care of the children and be filial to the elderly, so there was not much time to cry here.

Lin Qiu'er looked at the backs of the men who were gone, and then looked at the tears of the women, her heart was a little uncomfortable, "Ah Zhi, in the future, we will take everyone to make more money, so that next time there is a conscription, everyone will not have to go." ”

Tang Zhian has never had any opinion on his daughter-in-law's decision, so he quickly nodded and said, "Okay, just do as you say." ”