Chapter 6 6, Life is full of routines
When Long Jun heard this, he immediately went to the wharf, and saw a row of low stone houses at the wharf, which were rented by the shipowner's hired men.
Now there is no fishing boat on Hulu Bay, indicating that they have gone out to sea to fish, so there are few people in the canopy, only a canopy window hole with a faint light, so I immediately went over, looked in from the window hole, and found that it was a small room, a dim fish oil lamp was lit on a broken wooden platform on the edge of the window, and a floor was laid against the wall, and the broken face was covered with a sleeping girl with a thin face, it was Long Zhaodi, and the woman with gray hair who was sewing clothes next to her was Zhou Huiying.
In the memory of this life, Zhou Huiying is full of black hair, and now she has become like this, she must have suffered a great pain, remembering that she used to take care of herself in every way, and did not dislike that she was a stupid and dumb soft bone, Long Jun's heart was sour, and he couldn't wait to knock on the door and pushed the door in, kneeling in front of the woman and shouting: "Mom!
Zhou Huiying saw that Long Jun in front of her was very strong, she was so surprised that she couldn't speak, and it took a while before she came back to her senses, took Long Jun's hand and said excitedly: "Jun'er! ”
Long Jun got up and said, "Mom! I'm back!"
Long Jun knew that Zhou Huiying was puzzled, so he told him about his experience at sea, of course, what chaos system was too shocking and hidden.
"Mom, I ate a big snake and a great white shark in the sea to become like this!"
Confirming that the strong guy in front of him was the soft-boned child who couldn't speak, Zhou Huiying cried with joy: "I thought you were ...... Alas, boy, it's fine!"
Long Jun looked at the sleeping Long Zhaodi and asked, "How did my sister become skinny?"
Zhou Huiying wiped her tears and said: "When you were thrown into the sea, your little sister jumped into the sea to find you, but she didn't find you and refused to come up no matter how much you were persuaded by others, but instead she drowned, and she has been unconscious since she was rescued." Now the conditions at home are not good, and I can't afford to treat it!"
Long Jun thought that he had eaten the flesh and blood of the emerald snake and the great white shark, and the great change had occurred, so the beautiful "jasper bead" on the emerald snake must have a miraculous effect, so he took out the core of the emerald snake beast and said: "I ate the big snake to become like this, this bead is obtained from the big snake, and the effect must not be bad, so give it to the young lady to eat!"
As soon as Zhou Huiying saw the "Jade Bead", she was shocked and said: "This is a beast core! ”
Long Jun asked, "What is a beast core?"
Zhou Huiying said with a shocked face: "There are some supernatural creatures in the sea, absorbing the aura of heaven and earth, cultivating into sea beasts, with infinite power, they can turn over rivers and seas, not we ordinary people can touch them." These sea beasts all have a beast core, which is where the blood and qi essence of its whole body is located, and the big snake you encounter is definitely a sea beast, this is the beast core. In the past, we fishermen could occasionally catch the carcasses of sea beasts, and we made a fortune extracting animal cores!"
When Long Jun heard this, he was even more determined that this "jasper bead" was beneficial to Long Zhaodi, so he opened Long Zhaodi's mouth and stuffed the beast core into it.
After looking at Long Zhaodi for a while, there was no reaction, so she asked, "Why did we live in someone else's house, but we moved here?"
Zhou Huiying said sadly: "Since you killed someone, the Haiqing Gang has arrested our family and put them in a water prison, forcing us to pay compensation, otherwise we will pay for our lives." As a last resort, your father sold his fishing boat and house, and your three brothers-in-law's family also bought all their wealth, and they also borrowed usury from Huirun Ticket Bank, so that they could scrape together 3,000 taels of silver. The Haiqing Gang saw that they really couldn't squeeze oil and water, so they let us go!"
Long Jun asked, "Where are my father, brother-in-law, and sisters now?"
Zhou Huiying said: "The interest rate of the loan shark is too high, your three sisters work as maids, and your father and brother-in-law work part-time on the fishing boat, but they can't pay the interest, and the loan sharks owed more and more, I'm afraid I won't be able to pay it off in this life!"
Long Jun didn't know how much time he had been adrift at sea, so he asked, "How long will I be away?"
Zhou Huiying said: "Eighty-one days!"
Long Jun said: "It's only been less than three months, why can't we pay it off? How many loan sharks have you borrowed?"
Zhou Huiying sighed: "I wanted to borrow 50 taels of silver, and the agreement was to pay 5 taels of interest for a period of 10 days, but I was deducted 5 taels of interest, 5 taels of intermediary fees, and 5 taels of service fees, and only got 35 taels of silver. ”
As soon as Long Jun heard that this was not a routine loan? How could he have encountered a routine loan in his past life and this life? Remembering that in his previous life he had died trying to save a female college student who had fallen into a routine loan, he said with hatred: "Why is it a routine loan again! This time we must bankrupt their family!"
Zhou Huiying was stunned when she heard this, and asked, "Jun'er, what are you talking about?"
Only then did Long Jun realize that he had leaked his mouth, so he covered it up: "With such a high interest, how can I pay off my debts just by relying on my father, sister, and brother-in-law to work?"
Zhou Huiying sighed and said: "Alas, the first installment of interest was paid off on time, but the second installment was delayed by one day because your young sister wanted to buy medicine, and the silver was misappropriated, and a penalty of ten taels was added, and the interest will be repaid at sixty taels in the future, so that six taels of silver will be repaid in ten days, where can I repay it? Alas, even if we are all sold, we will not be able to pay it off! Not to be called by the people of Huirun Ticket Company to close the black house every once in a while, and starve for three to five days. ”
When Long Jun heard this, the loan sharks here were even worse than those encountered in his previous life, and he knew the harm of routine loans, and he knew that if he was not freed from routine loans, the family would never recover, and he now had an opportunity, and no one could solve it if he didn't come forward to solve it, so he asked: "When will this interest arrive?"
Zhou Huiying said with a sad face: "The day after tomorrow, I will pay back thirty taels of silver, but the family has no money now, I don't know how to pass this level!"
Long Jun straightened his chest and comforted: "Mom, don't worry about the child when he comes back." Isn't it just three hundred taels of silver? I found many gooseneck barnacles on the reef on the north side of the island, all half a foot long, and I wonder how many of them can be picked to pay off the debt?"
Zhou Huiying said: "Gooseneck barnacles are very delicious, and they grow on dangerous reefs, it is difficult to collect, and many people die for this, so they are called delicious from hell, and the value is very expensive, if it is as big as you said, then you can buy one or two pounds of silver, and you can pay off your debts with three hundred catties! Kid, don't pick it!"
Long Jun patted his chest and said, "Mom, don't worry, I'm the one who has eaten the big snake." It's a small thing, no danger!"
Zhou Huiying looked at it with a look of relief: a stupid and dumb seven-year-old soft bone, this time he has grown into a strong guy, and he is still so responsible!
At this time, hearing footsteps in the distance, Zhou Huiying immediately lost her smile on her face, hurriedly blew out the fish oil lamp, nervously grabbed Long Jun, and whispered: "Jun'er!
Long Jun asked, "Mom, why is the child leaving when he comes home?"
Zhou Huiying Long Jun didn't leave, and hurriedly leaned over to Long Jun's ear and whispered, "Jun'er, you shouldn't come back!"
Long Jun asked, "Why?"
Zhou Huiying said: "You killed three members of the Haiqing Gang, one of them is still a martial artist, they think that you are dead and they don't vent their anger, and they also bankrupt the money we looted." If I know that you are still alive and come back, can I still let you go? There are many people, and if you are found here, someone will definitely report it to the Haiqing Gang to ask for merit and receive a reward, so you should take advantage of the night and leave Dongji Island!"
Long Jun said, "Mom! It was that useless soft bone that killed people, and now I am like this, how can I be a little like a soft bone? Half a year of hard work has become like this, who will believe it? Mom, don't worry, you just say that I am a relative from afar, and no one will doubt it. Long Jun said as he lit the fish oil lamp.
Seeing Long Jun's resolute face, Zhou Huiying nodded and said: "Then you have to promise, you must not say your identity, just say that it is my mother's nephew, called Zhou Wei!"
Long Jun smiled: "Definitely!" and then patted his stomach and said, "I suddenly feel very hungry, go pick gooseneck barnacles now, come back and taste them together." Dad and brother-in-law are not here, so you can call your sisters to come along!"
Zhou Huiying saw that the sky had broken and thought that this matter needed to be explained clearly to her daughters, so she went out with Long Jun, and after separating at the intersection, Long Jun went straight to the reef where the raft was docked to the north, and the reef crevices were full of gooseneck barnacles.
Long Jun selected a half-foot-long ducai to load the snake skin, then tied the snake skin to the raft and sank into the sea, pushed the raft to Hulu Bay, and leaned on the pier opposite his fishing shed.
At this time, it was just dawn, and there was no one on the dock, so when I returned to the fishing shed, Zhou Huiying had not come back, so I took a large bucket to fill it with gooseneck barnacles, washed it and began to boil.
When Zhou Huiying led her three sisters back, it was naturally a mixture of joy and sorrow, and the gooseneck barnacles had also been cooked, and the aroma was pleasant, which aroused everyone's appetite, but they were reluctant to eat such expensive seafood, but under the persuasion of Long Jun, everyone ate wildly.
After eating a few large buckets, Long Jun still felt hungry, and when it was dawn, the gooseneck barnacle shells outside the fishing shed were already piled up as high as the wall, of course, this was mainly eaten by Long Jun.
At this time, there were more people on the wharf, and they gathered outside the fishing shed to ask long and short questions, and they were particularly curious about the sudden appearance of Long Jun, Zhou Huiying naturally insisted that it was her nephew, and she was lucky to pick gooseneck barnacles.
Long Jun didn't care about this, and in the envious eyes of the people, he took a few big bags full of gooseneck barnacles, and carried them to the street, and the pedestrians along the road were surprised to see that Long Jun was as powerful as an ox.
Long Jun relied on his memory to find the old vendor that Long Zhaodi used to frequent, sold all the gooseneck barnacles to him, and got three hundred and sixty taels of silver, so he bought one and stocked it on an uninhabited island, because he ate grass and ate the seafood on the island at the same time, so he called the goat and oil, salt, rice vinegar, etc.
On the way, I found that there was a man sneakily following behind me, and I didn't take it seriously, and when I came to the dock, I found that there were many people around in front of my fishing shed, and I heard Zhou Huiying crying and begging inside: "The shopkeeper, please let go of my daughter, and pay off the money when my nephew comes back!"