Chapter Ninety-Six: Debts
Liu Boyu rubbed his hands and smiled a little.
"Wu Yi, don't be afraid, you have such a good brother, what are you afraid of?"
Wu Yi didn't move, his eyes seemed to be frozen in his sockets, and he slowly turned from Wu Jin's face to Liu Boyu's face, his teeth were clenched, his cheeks bulged out into a hard lump, and a drop of cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
Liu Boyu sneezed, took out a handkerchief and rubbed his nose vigorously, feeling that he was also cold and about to catch a cold: "Changed to silver, a total of 11,861 taels, the sixty-one taels, count our Liu family's treat, and ask Wu Jieyuan to raise it in the first month and return it to us, and our Liu family will point to the money to get through the difficulties." ”
When Wu Yi heard this number, he almost fainted, his body was cold from the inside out, and he said in a hoarse voice: "Liar! ”
At the same time, a voice clearly appeared in his heart: "It's over." ”
He stepped back, his feet stiff and disobedient, tripping him to the ground, and he fell straight back with a thud.
No one stepped forward to help him, and he crawled up with his teeth bared and muttered, "It's fake." ”
He turned and ran, and tripped again as he stepped over the threshold, but this time he did not fall, but staggered a few steps forward, and then stumbled into the kitchen, and in a few moments he brought out a brazier with two burning charcoals in it.
Coming back in smoke, he put down the brazier and said to Wu Jin: "Brother, this is all made up by them, fake, he writes casually, he wants to slander people, how can I spend so much silver." ”
He was calm, his tongue swirling neatly in his mouth, stuffing the fluttering paper brazier.
Flames suddenly appeared in the brazier, licking the evidence cleanly, and the flames suddenly rushed to the old high, burning the broken hair on Wu Yi's forehead, emitting an unpleasant smell.
Wu Jin and Liu Boyu didn't move, letting the fire shine on their faces, and watching the fire go down, the paper turned into sections of gray and white, lying on the wood.
Wu Yi finished burning the things, and reached out to pull Liu Bowen: "I ate the candy, I admit it, tomorrow I will admit my mistake to my father and mother, and return you with the silver." ”
He dragged Liu Bowen and dragged him, trying to throw Liu Bowen out of the house, cutting it in two, and never going back and forth, Liu Bowen let him drag it all over the place, the leather robe on his body was loosened, his arms drilled out of his sleeves, and he sneezed in the cold.
Liu Boyu said "hey" twice, got up and separated the two younger brothers, and said to Wu Jin at the same time: "Yuhua Street on the Yan Pavilion, let my brother go three times a month, you are strict, he will skip school with Bowen, you will know as soon as you ask." ”
He turned his head to look at Wu Yi, who was full of fear, and smiled: "Little brother, didn't you also sign the list of the flower cards you ordered?" Why don't you admit it? ”
"That's it." Wu Yi hesitated, "It was Liu Bowen who coaxed me to sign, I don't know." ”
"Hard mouth," Liu Boyu pointed in the air, "Fortunately, your brother is Xie Yuan, reasonable." ”
He got up and walked to Wu Jin's side, raised his hand and gently patted Wu Jin's shoulder, through a thick layer of clothing, he didn't notice Wu Jin's trembling and fear, only the bones that had been tempered for thousands of years stood up and resisted everything.
He withdrew his hand: "I heard that you are the number one in arithmetic, and I will send someone to your house tomorrow to send the bill, and you can calculate it yourself." ”
After a moment of silence in the room, Wu Jin got up, stretched out one hand to the door, and made a gesture of sending off: "Okay, don't send it." ”
Liu Boyu took his younger brother and walked to the door, turned his head to look at Wu Jin, Wu Jin's two long black eyebrows pressed his bright eyes, as if he had an idea in his heart, so he stretched out his index finger and "shhh ”
If Wu Jin wanted to ask Mo Lingfeng for help, then he would have to make this account book public and let the world know about Wu Jieyuan's debts.
Wu Jin is a scholar, Xie Yuan, and he will enter Beijing to take the exam in the future, his reputation is like the wings on his body, if he doesn't cherish it, he will fall from mid-air, and there will be no chance to spread his wings.
Wu Jin nodded: "Okay." ”
Liu Boyu left with his younger brother at this time, Wu Yi stood in the room with a blank face, his soul had obviously left with the Liu brothers, the broken hair on his head was all soaked, even his back was cold, and tears were falling down one by one, he didn't know it himself.
He silently asked himself, "What to do?" ”
He replied silently: "I don't know." ”
"Second child," Wu Jin frowned and called him, he didn't react, just stood like a piece of wood, "Second brother!" ”
Wu Jin accentuated his voice, and when he heard it, his body began to tremble, and his teeth "gurgled", not knowing whether it was cold or afraid.
After a moment, he spoke in a weeping trill: "Brother." ”
Wu Jin saw that he couldn't give up, and reached out to lead him, but found that his palms were cold and sticky, and he looked like after sweating, so he led him all the way to the main room: "A-Niang." ”
Wu's mother was still sewing a cushion for the BMX, and the charcoal fire in the house was "crackling", and she didn't hear Wu Yi's previous shouts.
She rubbed his head full of cold sweat with her slap, and saw him shivering and shivering, and said hurriedly: "What's the matter?" Cold? ”
Wu Yi couldn't speak, walked to the bed with straight eyes, sat on the bed with his butt in his head, took off his shoes, raised his legs and curled up into the bed, he didn't know how to cover the quilt, just closed his eyes tightly, and thought, "What should I do?" ”
Mother Wu was startled, chased after him, touched his forehead, and touched his back, only touching his hands cold, and hurriedly called Father Wu to warm him up: "I'm afraid it's a cold, you put your arms around him and sleep, I'll go boil ginger soup." ”
After that, she scolded angrily and distressedly: "It's snowing heavily, what snow lions are piling up, it's good now, I'm sick for the New Year!" ”
Wu's father propped himself up on the bed, picked up Wu Yi's two feet, and put them in his heart, Wu's mother covered him with a quilt tightly, and the warmth around him made Wu Yi more and more afraid to open his eyes, wanting to escape into a dream.
"The lion of the Liu family opened his mouth, how can he not make up more than 10,000 taels," he couldn't think of a way anyway, "Brother will definitely have a way, but my brother can't spare me." ”
He thought and thought about it in a drowsy way, and wanted to admit his mistake to Wu Jin, but he couldn't open his eyes, and even the two lips were glued together and couldn't be opened.
And Wu Jin sat by the brazier, watching Wu's mother busy, bringing hot water to wipe Wu Yi's sweat, until Wu's mother was busy and splashed the dirty water, and then said: "Auntie, the second child is not a cold, he is scared." ”
"Scared?" Wu's mother turned off the charcoal fire and brought the charcoal basin closer to Wu Jin.
Wu Jin pondered and said: "Yes, he has been messing around outside for the past two years, and he owes the Liu family a lot of money. ”
"What!" Mother Wu's hand shook the fire basket, and suddenly raised countless charcoal fires, "How much do you owe?" ”
Wu Jin took the fire chopsticks and put the messy charcoal yard well: "Tomorrow the Liu family will send the bill, I will know until I calculate it." ”
Wu Mu noticed the concealment in Wu Jin's words, Wu Jin has always told the truth, and said that it would be the truth to know only after the calculation, but today's tone and demeanor seem to be helping Wu Yi conceal a big lie.