In the famine year, the group pet cubs awakened to farm in Shanhaijing

Chapter 5 Pay off the debt
"Ten taels of silver is for our lives. Even if you kill us, you won't be able to get it out," the old lady Zhao cried with her neck stuck, her shrewd little eyes kept rolling, "Less less, let's go borrow it." Borrow it too!"

Scarface sneered, it turned out that was the idea.

He raised his foot and kicked Cheng Wulang's knee fiercely, Wulang groaned in pain, stepped on his back with a scarred face and pressed to the ground, pulled out a dagger from his black boots and laid it across Wulang's neck.

The surrounding villagers let out a frightened clap.

Mrs. Zhao was so frightened that her soul would fly out.

Old man Cheng almost dropped the cigarette rod in his hand, his face was full of horror, and his whole body became bent.

"I want to charge you less, but I give you less, who will charge me less?"

"I think your Xinlei house is not bad. If you can't collect money today, you can use tables, chairs, benches and anything. If you don't have money, you can use someone to pay off the debt. Don't your family have a few girls?"

Ye Ning's face suddenly turned pale, and subconsciously hid Miaomiao behind him.

As soon as these words came out, the big girls and the two girls were also frightened, and their faces turned pale.

Scarface said coldly: "My knife doesn't have eyes, don't even think about taking Joe with me. You were still digging in the ground when I was demanding debts!"

Cheng Wulang was so frightened that his eyes went dark, and his whole body trembled violently.

With a trembling voice, he begged for mercy: "Brother Dao, don't listen to my mother's nonsense, we have money, and we will definitely be able to pay back the money! Father, mother, I know I was wrong, and I still want to give you pensions until the end of my life, I beg you Already!"

Cheng Erlang pursed his lips, clenched his fists, and persuaded: "Father and mother, let's pay back the money quickly."

It's useless to procrastinate any longer. People who are capable of collecting debts are desperate, and bargaining with them is simply dizzy.

Scarface sneered and said, "This is the only way to know."

Mrs. Zhao clutched her chest and walked into the main room with her legs limp. Seeing this, Mrs. Qian hurriedly stepped forward to help her go in, but was stopped when she entered the room, and Mrs. Zhao spat and cursed. : "What are you doing here? You still want to clean up the money of our old bones!"

Qian's face turns blue and white.

After finishing speaking, Mrs. Zhao went into the house and took out a clay pot from under the bed. There were six or seven strings of copper plates in it, and some scattered silver. These were the money collected by various families last night. .

Shiro just got married some time ago, and the family's expenses are already stretched.

Among them, the money given by the second family is the least, so what's the use of more than one or two silver coins!Once you have a daughter-in-law, you forget your mother, the second child is hopeless, and Mrs. Zhao walks out tremblingly, and still has to rely on the fifth child to take care of her.

Although he made a mistake this time, his purpose was not to make everyone in the family eat.

As soon as Cheng Wulang saw his mother come out holding the clay pot, he knew that he was saved this time. Scarface raised his chin when he saw this, and immediately a thug stepped forward and snatched the pot.

Mrs. Zhao almost lost her balance, and Cheng Erlang hurriedly reached out to support her.

Unexpectedly, she sat down on the ground with her hair disheveled, and began to curse hysterically: "You guys who kill thousands of knives, even want to snatch the old woman's coffin, it's unreasonable! You will be punished!"

The thug laughed angrily when he heard this.

He simply smashed the pot to pieces, slowly took out the copper coins inside, and counted, saying, "It wasn't our brothers who stole your coffin, it was your youngest son. Who asked him to bet on it."

There are a total of six strings of copper coins, and there is also a string of scattered copper plates, as well as shredded silver pieces.

Zero and zero add up to exactly ten taels.

Scarface put away the dagger with a smile on his face, gently picked up Cheng Wulang who was paralyzed on the ground, straightened his collar, and said: "Remember, don't gamble if you don't have money, it's not who They're all as good-tempered as I am."

"...I know, I know Brother Dao."

Cheng Wulang nodded in embarrassment.

Scarface left with the thugs.

Old man Cheng and his brothers sent away the watching villagers with ugly smiles. After only the family members were left, they closed the door. Old man Cheng picked up the broom next to the wall and beat Wulang on him.

"I'll kill you prodigal son!"

"I'll let you gamble! Let you gamble! Now it's all over, the whole family's savings have been lost by you alone!"

Cheng Wulang was beaten and ran around with his head in his arms.

Cheng Miaomiao poked her head out from behind A Niang, and thought it was interesting to see them jumping up and down, so she took out a fruit from her pocket, wiped it on her clothes, put it in her mouth, and watched carefully with blinking eyes.

Ye Ning noticed what his daughter was doing: "..."

It's not polite to watch a movie while watching a movie.

She moved her body and blocked her daughter behind her.

Seeing this, Mrs. Zhao, who was crying and howling, immediately protected him like a calf, and scolded: "This is your son, he has been beaten like this by that group of people, you still want to beat him to death, don't you? !"

"Then who is Goro gambling for? It's to make us all have enough to eat. What's wrong with him!"

"Father, I swear that I really thought of going to the gambling house to try because I saw that there was no food at home. I had already won, but who knew that I would lose everything in the next game. They must have played tricks."

Cheng Wulang hid behind, crying while clutching the wound on his face.

Mrs. Zhao immediately stared over and said, "Did you hear that, the people from the gambling shop intentionally harmed us Wulang!"

The brothers of the Cheng family, who stood by and watched, were instantly shattered when they heard this. The fifth brother lost all the family savings, and in the eyes of his mother, he was not wrong. It was ridiculous.

Qian shrieked dissatisfiedly: "Mother, that's not what you said before. This money is borrowed from us by Fifth Brother."

"What's the matter with borrowing some money? Your fifth younger brother is the smartest among you, and he will definitely be promising in the future, so he can still repay your money?"

Mrs. Zhao turned her head and stared at her.

Cheng Miaomiao was very puzzled, just as she was about to see more clearly, a hand suddenly appeared on her head and pushed her back.

Why is Mrs. Zhao so sure that my uncle will be successful in the future?

The old man Cheng was dizzy with anger, pointed at him with a broom and cursed: "You brat, kneel here for me, and keep kneeling until we call you to get up, or you will never eat again!"

"Don't, don't, dad, I'll just kneel!"

Cheng Wulang didn't dare to talk back anymore, and knelt down on the ground obediently.

After such a toss, the whole family was physically and mentally exhausted. Old man Cheng squatted on the edge of the threshold, smoking a pipe sullenly, shrinking there, as if he had suddenly aged a few years.

"Why are you still standing there, why don't you hurry up and cook!"

Several daughter-in-laws present, including Ye Ning, all went to the kitchen together.

Cheng Miaomiao followed behind her, holding the dug myrtle tree in her arms, raised her head after entering the kitchen and asked, "Mother, I want to plant a tree, can I plant it at home? "

"What is Sanya holding in her hand?"

Cheng Silang's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Zhou, could barely smile. She had just married in, hadn't saved any private money, and killed herself without a dowry, so she didn't lose anything.

"Twister trees that children randomly pull up on the mountain."

Ye Ning patted her head, and coaxed softly: "You sit here and wait a while, after dinner, my mother will accompany you to plant."

Cheng Miaomiao said hello, found a low stool and sat on it, and ate a piece of fruit from his pocket.

The undecided Daya and Erya also followed into the kitchen, sitting around her like ducklings, their faces still a little pale, Daya asked curiously: "Sanya, why do you still have fruit? "

She remembered that they didn't pick so many.

Cheng Miaomiao tilted her head, took out a handful of fruits from her pocket and distributed them to them, and said triumphantly, "I picked these later, and those trees gave them to me to eat."

"Hahahaha Sanya, what are you talking about?"

"How could the tree give you fruit? You must have fallen asleep in a dream."

(End of this chapter)