Chapter 29 Debts are not repaid
Just a spring mud alley, there are dozens of families.
Annoyingly, in ancient times, there was no clear house number, and it was time-consuming and laborious to knock on doors from door to door.
"Why don't I howl?"
"I'm afraid it's not good to talk about the neighborhood, why don't you knock on the door and ask?"
"That's it."
Song Che found a door nearby, and just raised his hand to knock, when he suddenly heard an insult from inside:
"If you can't get any more money today, I'll drag you to the Qinglou and sell it!"
"I've paid you all my wages for this month, and I really don't have any money......
"Then let's go! Look at you, you also have a bit of style, and you can sell it to the Qinglou for dozens of taels! β
"You...... What do you want to do, you let me go! β
"A few uncles are good, let my daughter-in-law go......"
Song Che and Shen Wenjun looked at each other in surprise, wasn't this voice exactly Ru Mushroom's?
Song Che pushed the door hard, but he didn't know that he was locked by someone, he took two steps back, and flew up and kicked the door open-
I saw a middle-aged man with a thin body, a dog skin plaster on his face, and a sour and mean appearance, with two strong men, pulling a young woman in cloth clothes, and not far from the door of the hall, there was also a white-haired old woman.
"Robbing people's daughters in broad daylight, how can there be a king's law, let me go quickly!" Song Che scolded loudly.
The thin middle-aged man glanced up and down at Song Che and Shen Wenjun at the door, and saw that he was dressed with extraordinary dignity, holding his chin and rubbing his beard, and his obscene eyes kept rolling, only to see him wave his hand gently, and the two big men let go of the young woman.
"Miss, uncle......" Lu Mushroom burst into tears, and hurriedly went back to the house to help the old woman, "Mother......"
"Yo, the master is here?" The thin middle-aged man spread his palms at Song Che and made a asking gesture: "Then you will pay her back?" β
Song Che moved to the inner courtyard, protected Shen Wenjun and Lu Mushroom's mother and daughter behind him, and asked in a cold voice: "If you want me to pay back the money, you have to explain the ins and outs, right?" β
The thin middle-aged man pointed to Lu Mushroom and said: "Her uncle Liu Wei was unlucky in my gambling house, lost all the money and wanted to turn over the book, and borrowed a hundred taels of silver before and after, and then ran away before he could not get on, but the monk couldn't run away from the temple, so I had to come to the house to collect debts." β
Song Che couldn't help frowning, there was a rotten gambler in the family, who had been moldy for eight lifetimes, he glanced at Lu Mushroom: "Is that so?" β
Lu Mushroom hurriedly shook his head: "No, uncle, I paid back the one hundred taels that my uncle borrowed three days ago, but today he came to look for it again, and it still costs one hundred taels ......"
"Don't you want money for interest!" The thin middle-aged man blew his beard and glared: "Your short-lived little brother-in-law, I borrowed one hundred taels half a year ago, and I should pay two hundred and seven taels for profit, seeing that your family is pitiful, I wiped all the odds for you, and you are still not satisfied?!" β
Doubling in half a year, loan sharks don't dare to be so black!
Lu Mushroom couldn't cry: "Uncle, Miss, my savings in the past few years, all the money I can pawn in the family, I really don't have the money to pay them back......"
"Isn't it just a hundred taels? I'll do it for herβ"
"Hey." Song Che pressed Shen Wenjun's hand to pull out his sleeve, "Money is not spent like this," he looked at the thin middle-aged man with cold eyes:
"Since it's the money Liu Wei owes, why don't you go to him and pay him back, in broad daylight, lock the door and bully the old man and woman, what kind of thing are you?"
The middle-aged man twitched his cheeks, and said in a deep voice: "Father's debt is repaid by his son, it is only right, Liu Wei ran away, shouldn't he come to her mother and sister-in-law?" β
Song Che sneered lightly and said loudly: "The "Daliang Statute" has never explicitly stipulated that there is such a thing as 'repayment of father's debts and sons', not to mention doubling the interest in half a year, why do you say that you can borrow it, you just go and grab it!" β
"Childe! Listening to what you said today, don't you want to rely on my Chase casino's account? The thin middle-aged man said this, and the big man beside him gave him a look.
The big man rolled up his sleeves and looked like he was going to do it.
Chase Casino? Wasn't it opened by Hong Ye, who instigated people to come to find trouble? Song Che sneered in his heart, if the road was really narrow, he didn't go to them to settle accounts, but came to the door by himself first.
"I said, whoever owes the debt will be repaid by whom, and he can't do it, you can cut off his hands or gouge out his eyes, but you use this to coerce women from good families, I have to disagree!"
Song Che clenched his fists and strode down the courtyard, three or two crooked melons and cracked dates, he was still confident that he could deal with it.
Shen Wenjun saw that he was about to fight, so he hurriedly picked up a flat pole under the eaves, tiptoed behind Song Che, and said the most domineering words in the weakest tone: "What about the Chase Casino?" My Shen firm is not easy to mess with! Lu Mushroom is an employee of my firm, and if you bully her, you are against my Shen family! β
Song Che glanced at Shen Wenjun, who was holding the flat shoulder behind him, in surprise...... This wife can handle it, and she really has something to do.
Seeing the situation, Lu Mushroom also hurriedly ran into the kitchen, and when he came out, he had an extra kitchen knife in his hand: "It's too much to deceive people, I'll fight with you!" β
That's how it should be! Never bow down like the forces of sin!
The thin middle-aged man swallowed his saliva, looking at the posture and fighting hard, he really didn't necessarily end well, he gritted his teeth: "Okay...... Is Shen's firm a firm? We'll see! β
Soon after the debt collector leaves"
"Bang" Shen Wenjun landed on the ground with a flat shoulder in his hand, and said deflatedly: "I'm scared to death, I thought they really wanted to do it." β
Song Che said with a smile: "It seems that the Yangzhou incident has tempered a lot of courage for Mrs. β
"Uncle, miss, if you hadn't arrived in time today, I'm afraid that I would have been ...... by them," Lu Mushroom said, shedding tears of sadness again.
The old woman also burst into tears: "It's all my fault, I gave birth to such a useless son, and I hurt you as a good daughter-in-law!" β
Mother and daughter hugged each other and cried.
"Okay, after this trouble, you can't live here, hurry up and pack your things and go to the north of the city with us." Song Che urged.
Lu Mushroom hesitated: "But uncle, we only have this family business, dragging our mother, where should we go to settle down?" β
Song Che pursed his lips and thought about it, and asked the old woman, "I don't know if the old woman can cook?" β
The old woman was stunned for a moment and nodded: "Ordinary firewood, rice, oil and salt, I do it at home, but recently this matter has been disturbing and sick." β
"So how about this, you first live in the dormitory to recuperate, it happens that there are many people in the dormitory, and they can take care of you, and when your illness is cured, you will be tired to help the physical workers cook and eat, in addition to food and accommodation, I will also give you a salary of 200 yuan a month, how about it?" Song Che asked.
"Huh? Aunt Xie is generous! The old woman was moved and wanted to kneel, but Shen Wenjun hurriedly held her up and said, "Old man, Lu Mushroom has been my worker for many years, and he has been working hard and diligently. Now that the family is in trouble, it is not enough to help some small favors. β
"Alright, hurry up and pack your things, I'm afraid those wicked people will come back." Song Che urged again.
Lu Mushroom's family took all the valuable things to pawn, and there were not many things that could be taken away, so a few people quickly packed up their luggage and loaded them into the carriage, leaving Chunni Lane and heading to the north of the city.