"Huh? One hundred taels?! ”

When the embroidery girls around heard this, they couldn't help but whisper, and my face suddenly turned a little pale.

One hundred taels.

I used to take the big bag of silver that Ping'er gave me, which was about more than eighty taels, and in the past few months of moving to Jixiang Village, I have not been too frugal, and I only used more than five taels of silver, but even so, it is still a dozen taels of silver.

This is not a small amount, like the villagers here in Jixiang Village, a family can't earn so much money in a year.

Thinking of this, I forced a smile and said, "Can it be less?" ”

Boss Wang smiled: "This lady, the contemptible person is not embarrassed by you. You might as well ask Boss Gao, every time he bets less than this amount. ”

Boss Gao, who had been standing on the side and watching from the wall, said at this time: "Boss Wang's words are right. However, this time, can it be accommodating? ”

"That's not going to work. After all, it was the first time for her to come out to take the job, if it weren't for Boss Gao's introduction, I wouldn't have done it for her. ”

In the end, it is a businessman, Boss Gao just said a word, and it became a "recommendation" in his mouth, if something goes wrong, Boss Gao will have some joint responsibility. As soon as he heard this, Boss Gao stopped talking.

I thought about it for a while and said, "I don't have so much silver on me now, Boss Wang will give me a little time, and I will find a way to raise it." ”

Boss Wang said: "Okay, but don't say I didn't remind you, my boss has to be in a hurry for this job." If you want to do it, it's best to get the money together within two days, otherwise, I'll make some trouble myself and go back to the capital to find someone else to do. ”

"Okay."

By the time we returned to Jixiang Village, it was already too late.

I didn't expect it to take so long, but after leaving the embroidery workshop, I ran to two small money houses, but I also returned empty-handed. Not to mention that the interest they ask for is a bit scary, and I am single, and I have no net worth to guarantee a lone woman, and not many people dare to lend me money. This road is broken, I can only find another way, and I'm afraid that I'm going to turn the sky at home, although the steps are very heavy on the way back, but I still try my best to go back.

When I finally got home, before I pushed open the courtyard door, I heard Li'er crying loudly: "My mother definitely doesn't want me!" ”

When Rue Xiang and I heard this, we were stunned.

Then I heard Aunt Zhao coaxing: "How come?" Li'er is so well-behaved, how can your mother be willing to want you. ”

"She's definitely not going to want me anymore, woo-woo-woo......"

I don't know if it's angry or funny, but when I think of my daughter being so attached to me, although I am tired, my heart is warm.

Then he turned back to Rue Xiang and said, "I'll go back to see my daughter first." ”

Rue Xiang nodded, and saw me push open the courtyard door and walk in, and suddenly stopped me: "Light." ”

I stopped and looked back: "Huh? ”

She said with some hesitation: "The money is ......?"

My heart was also a little heavy, but I couldn't rush the money, so I said, "I'll find another way." ”

"Hmm...... All right. ”

She wanted to speak and stopped, but seeing that I was anxious to see my daughter, she didn't say anything more, and when I walked over and pushed open the door, I immediately saw that Li'er's mouth was big, and the crying in the room was deafening. This girl cried so much that she was hiccupping, I hurriedly stepped forward to hug her, kissing and red, and Aunt Zhao next to her was also tired and sweating.

I finally coaxed her not to cry, but I held my arm and refused to let go, I thanked Aunt Zhao and sent her out of the yard, and when I turned around, I still watched my daughter leaning on me, like a cat begging for someone to caress her.

I smiled and said, "Li'er, you promised your mother when you got up in the morning, and you won't cry today." ”

"Hmm......" she pouted.

"You're so old, it's embarrassing to still find your mother."

I said, nodded her little nose, this girl also knew that she blushed, fell into my arms, tired of me and said: "Mother, you said that you will come back in half a day, Li'er has been waiting for you for a long time......"

"Okay, today is my mother's late return, my mother is not right. In the future, if your mother often comes back late, will you cry every day? ”

She didn't answer me, but was taken aback: "Will my mother come back late every day in the future?" ”

"Well, maybe."

"Why? Mother, you didn't tell me, why did you leave for so long today, and you didn't take your departure with you. ”

I smiled and said, "Because, my mother has to go to find a lot of people, and every one of those people can embroider beautiful flowers, and some of them are even better than your Aunt Ruxiang." ”

"Really?!" She looked at me with wide eyes: "Did you find it?" ”

"Well, whether you can find it or not depends on whether your mother has time to go, do you want your mother to stay at home with you every day?"

“……”

This time she was in trouble, frowned and thought for a long time, and then said with some difficulty: "Then, can my mother promise to accompany me more in the future?" ”

Looking at her cute appearance, I only felt that the tiredness of the whole day had disappeared, but I was also sour for her coquettishness and attachment, and kissed her face hard: "Okay, mother promises you!" ”

The next time is to figure out how to raise the money.

Do you want to borrow?

This is of course the simplest and easiest way to solve the problem, after all, there is such a "big backer" across the river, and this money is not worth mentioning to Pei Yuanxiu at all, of course it is easy to borrow.

Just, what about after borrowing?

In the final analysis, a woman's use of a man's money will make people feel a little ambiguous, and besides, I know his intentions, so I shouldn't have anything to do with him. After all, when I left his sight, I hoped that he would forget himself and find his own happiness, so why should I appear in front of his eyes again and disturb his heart?

Forget it, in the end, I'm not at the end of the day, when I'm desperate, can I not trouble him or not trouble him.

But what's left?

Thinking in my heart, I couldn't help but let out a long sigh, and the Li'er next to me immediately let out an uneasy murmur, I hurriedly turned sideways to protect her, carefully stroked her back, she muttered twice, and fell asleep in my arms.

A child's heart is wide.

With that in mind, I gently caressed her with one hand as I turned my head to get ready for sleep. As soon as he turned his head, something fell out of his bosom and landed on the side of the pillow, shining with a warm luster by the moonlight that came in through the window.

Looking at the faint silver light, a light smile appeared on my face, and I slowly closed my eyes, but in the darkness, I still seemed to be able to see the silver light, and a few clear words in the light-

Light

Liu San

Never leave

Never leave ......

The next day, I went to several houses in the village.

As a result, of course, he returned empty-handed.

Jixiang Village was originally a small fishing village, and the people here rely on the sky to eat, even if they are a little more prosperous, but they can save too much money by making a new set of clothes every year, eating meat twice a month. And even if there is, in the face of a person like me, who is not related to me, naturally no one will be stupid enough to give generously.

I drooped my head and walked back a little dejectedly.

Do you really want to cross the river to find Pei Yuanxiu?

Or take another look?

But there is only one day, and if you can't raise money tomorrow, the matter will be yellow.

Thinking of this, I sighed again, and just turned a corner to see my house, but I saw a familiar figure standing at the gate of the courtyard, it was Ruxiang, but she did not walk in, but kept standing at the door, as if thinking about something.

I walked over: "Ruexiang, why don't you come into the house?" Come on in. ”

As he spoke, he opened the courtyard door and was about to welcome her in, but when I saw Rue Xiang standing there a little hesitantly, I felt something strange and said softly: "Rue Xiang, what's wrong?" ”

She looked up at me again, bit her lower lip, and as if she had made up her mind, she suddenly pulled me in again.

When I entered the house and closed the door, she took out a cloth bag from her sleeve and stuffed it into my hand: "You take it." ”

I was stunned for a moment, and immediately felt the heaviness in my hand, and hurriedly opened it to see, sure enough, it was two ingots of silver, about four or five taels.

I looked at her with some surprise, Rue Xiang's head was full of sweat, and she lowered her voice and said, "This is our family, I will secretly take it out for you, you can make it together, see if you can make up a hundred taels." ”

"Rue ......"

"Don't sue Sù Gou Er, that's all the money at home."

"......" I was so moved that I was almost speechless, my throat choked, and after a while, I said softly, "You-thank you." ”

She had been very nervous before, thinking that it was because the money was paid for the family, which made her a little uneasy, but it had been given to me, but she calmed down a little and took a few breaths before saying, "Don't be polite to me." I'm also thinking about myself. If the embroidery workshop can continue to do it, our family and everyone will not be so difficult. ”

“……”

Although she said so, I also knew that for such a small family, and in her situation, it was really not easy to come up with this money. I thought about it for a while and said, "Ruexiang, if this job is done, I will give you dividends according to this amount of commission." ”

"Dividends? What do you mean? ”

"......" I was stunned for a moment, but remembered that such a small family would not understand what dividends were, so I smiled and said: "In short, the principal will definitely be repaid to you, and the time will give you back the money." ”

"Well, it doesn't have to be."

"Don't shirk. I deserve this gratitude for helping me in this way. ”

As I spoke, I took her hand and squeezed it gently, and she looked up at me and smiled.

Afterwards, I borrowed a piece of money to weigh, Rue Xiang gave me four taels of silver, I wrote an IOU to her, she didn't dare to take it home to be seen by Gou Er, so she hid it in her mother's house, who knew that Aunt Zhao knew about it, and also lent me more than three taels of silver.

And what I didn't expect was that later, there were a few embroidery girls from the village who secretly came over and lent me a few taels of silver.

I was so moved that I couldn't speak, but one of them, a more stable embroidery lady in her forties, said: "You know, we are not helping you, but the embroidery workshop has been done, and we will have a settlement in the future." You have to pay back all this money, and the IOU must be clearly written. ”

These are indeed the truth.

But no matter what they said, this was not helping me, I still thanked them again and again, and wrote them a note, but I didn't mention the dividend again.

After all, it's something I might have to rely on in the future, and although I don't cheat with anyone, I'm not a selfless person who can spend all my money for others.

That night, Rue Xiang and I were at home, and we counted and counted the money, and weighed and weighed.

A total of ninety-seven taels and four dollars.

I really didn't expect that it would be a miracle to be able to get together so quickly in such a small fishing village.

But Ruxiang, who was helping me with the haircut, frowned tightly: "It's still more than two taels." ”

I comforted her and said, "Go talk to Boss Wang tomorrow and ask him to be lenient." ”

"But what if he refuses to forgive? Yesterday he was dead talked. ”

......I didn't speak, just looked at the silver shining under the candlelight, and said calmly for a while: "It's okay, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge." ”

Rue Xiang glanced at me, although she still had some doubts in her heart, but she also knew that I was not a person who did things indiscriminately, so she nodded and said, "Okay." Then I'll go back first, you must be careful at home, remember to close the doors and windows. ”

I know what she means, I want to take over the work of the embroidery workshop, and I have even prepared a large sum of silver as collateral, and this matter has already spread, in case there is a bad intention, and there are only me and Li'er at home, it will be troublesome.

When Rue Xiang was gone, I closed the courtyard door, thought about it and went to the kitchen to get a knife and put it next to the pillow, and when I returned to the room, I bolted the door, put a stool on the door, checked that the windows were closed tightly, and then took Li'er to sleep.