Chapter 4 Borrow one and return three
Zhao Ermu rolled up his sleeves and immediately became more energetic, with a hint of displeasure on his face: "I know! I should collect two copies, one from my ex-brother-in-law and one from my current brother-in-law! I'll go collect some more right now!"

As he was about to go out with the empty sack, Zhao Zhizhi hurriedly stopped him: "Stop! Send these things back to where they came from! Otherwise, stop recognizing me as your sister!"

Without even thinking about it, I knew that the villagers had clearly been beaten and blackmailed by the second brother for their share of the money!
Seeing her stern expression, Zhao Ermu was a little puzzled. He shook the cloth bag and said reluctantly: "Zhizhi, what's wrong with you? Isn't this how our family's money came from before?"

"It was the past, what's the use of being a bully! From now on, I want you to change your face and be a new person!"

Zhao Ermu looked aggrieved and reluctantly took the money. Zhao Zhizhi followed him and personally sent the money back to each family.

However, the people in Xiaohe Village had long hated the Zhao family. Even if they sent the money back, Zhao Zhizhi and Zhao Ermu did not receive any good looks.

Almost every villager's eyes were burning with hatred, and they wanted to spit in their faces.

He Si, who had always disliked the Zhao family, took advantage of his sister who had a concubine of the county magistrate. When he saw the Zhao Zhizhi brother and sister going from house to house returning money and apologizing, he sarcastically said: "I stole other people's money and came here to do favors. I took it and paid it back." , do you really think that just apologizing can solve the problem? Your Zhao family really has a good plan!"

"If you have the ability, I will pay you back three times the original amount with interest if you take other people's food! Otherwise, you are pretending to be a big-tailed wolf here!"

After saying that, he poohed fiercely at Zhao Zhizhi: "Brother wolf and sister tiger, all of them are not good things!"

Three times is nothing. If you have space, ten times will do!But it’s a good idea to restore your credibility!

Zhao Zhizhi shouted with a loud voice: "Fellow villagers, a severe drought is coming, and it is difficult to move without food in the famine years. Today, in order to apologize, our Zhao family specially borrowed food from the villagers for three days. After three days, the borrowed food will be tripled." Give it back!"

As soon as she finished speaking, it was like cold water being poured into a frying pan. Everyone was talking about it, "What did she say? I will pay three times the amount of food I borrowed?"

"How can such a good thing happen! The Zhao family must have come to defraud food again! Sooner or later, God will take care of the things that the family has shamelessly spoiled!"

"But if you lend one share, you can pay back three."

Everyone was a little moved by what he said. In such a disaster year and such a good thing, if what Zhao Zhizhi said is true,
"Don't let her fool you!"

At this time, a clear female voice came from the crowd. When everyone looked, they saw it was He Xiuer, the daughter of the village chief of Xiaohe Village.

She pointed at Zhao Zhizhi and said: "Zhao Zhizhi, as far as I know, your family doesn't farm at all. In this disaster year, every household has the food they collected in previous years. Your family is the only one who relies on looting, and everyone is as fat as a pig and has no food. Now what you are saying is one for three, you are clearly defrauding everyone of their last bit of food! You are a liar!"

He Xiuer's voice was sharp and her expression became ferocious:
"Li Lang obviously hates you, but you insist on marrying him, and now you force him away! Zhao Zhizhi, you and your Zhao family don't have any good people! You bully men and dominate women. Now you come to defraud the villagers of the last bit of food, yours My conscience has really been eaten by dogs!”

Seeing everyone's suspicious looks, Zhao Zhizhi took a bag of grain prepared in his hand and said:
"Let's do this. Whoever lends me food now, I will give this bag of food to her for free, and I will return three times the food to her in three days. How about that?"

Everyone was stunned for a while. Finally, only Madam Xu, who lives next door to the Zhao family, whispered: "Zhao, Madam Zhao, I am willing to lend you half a bag of my whole grains. Will your words count?"

There was a hesitant look on Mrs. Xu's face. The small half bag of grain in her hand was already the last ration for the family. If she didn't eat anymore, she would probably starve to death sooner or later.

Thinking of this, a trace of determination flashed in Xu's eyes.

Forget it, there is no other way out for the left and right, so it is better to trust the Zhao family for once.

If it were true, there would be a way to survive!
Zhao Zhizhi responded: "Naturally." After saying that, he took the small half bag of coarse grains handed over by Mrs. Xu and gave the bag of grains to Mrs. Xu.

Zhao Ermu suddenly felt very distressed and wished he could rush up and snatch all the food back. This was his own stuff. How could Zhizhi take it outside? He could just say something and lie about it, so there was no need to do anything real.

Besides, even if you want to give it, don't you still have a lot of old grains and rice at home, which can't kill people anyway, so you can give it to them, but how can you give it polished rice? !

He quickly shouted: "Zhizhi, you, why did you really give it to her!"

Zhao Zhizhi glared at him sharply, and Zhao Ermu immediately shut his mouth, but he still couldn't stop looking at Madam Xu's face.

Why don't you steal it back at night? No, you can just take it back. How can your things fall into the hands of outsiders?

Anyway, it would be dark and Xu had no evidence. If she dared to shout, he would kill her on the spot and let outsiders see how she seduced him!
Putting Mrs. Xu's coarse food into Zhao Ermu's hands: "Eldest brother, second brother, third brother, you see, if our family continues to bully our neighbors, no one will listen to or believe our words in the future."

"Now that there is famine all over the world and people's hearts are divided, if our family really encounters trouble, no one will stand up to help us."

After saying that, she turned around and said to the villagers in Xiaohe Village: "Fellow folks, our Zhao family has done a lot of stupid things before. Please give us a chance to change our minds and change our ways. Our Zhao family will never do anything like this in the future." I will never do anything stupid again, and I ask all the fellow villagers to bear witness here.”

"Hmph! Zhao Zhizhi, what you said sounds nice. Did you know that dogs can't change their eating shit?" He Xiuer continued to scold with disdain.

Zhao Zhizhi glanced at her coldly: "He Xiu'er, do you dare to make a bet with me? If I break my promise in three days, I will bark three times in front of all the dogs. If I bring out three times the amount of food, then it will be up to you. How about learning how to bark like a dog? Do you dare to bet with me?"

Seeing that everyone was looking at her, He Xiuer's face was ferocious: "Why don't I dare! I don't believe it. Where else can your family get so much food besides robbing!"

Zhao Zhizhi looked at her contemptuously: "Besides, Li Xiucai has nothing to do with me now. I, Zhao Zhizhi, don't even bother to have such an unkind and unjust man! You want to elope with Li Xiucai, but he doesn't want you. You should find him , you shouldn’t have come to me. I haven’t reached the point where I’m willing to abandon my elders in the family, stick to a man, and elope as a concubine.”

He Xiuer's expression suddenly changed, "You! How did you know!"

(End of this chapter)

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