Liangyue Farm Gate

Chapter 447 Debt
The day before yesterday, Guan Wen asked Diao Lao Yao about those things. Yesterday Guan Wen went to town for a day, and today he came to the old house. Guan Ming and Guan Zhicheng are gone?
Guan Wen's face turned pale immediately, thinking that when he came here, he met Diao Laoyao, so he immediately went back to ask Diao Laoyao for clarification.

Ask him if he came here looking for someone, if he was indeed looking for someone, then did he find him?

Back at the new house, Guan Wen asked Li Xin to go back, and he continued to go east to Diao Laoyao's house.

Li Xin was worried, Guan Wen would be greatly stimulated if he couldn't find anyone in the old house.

Li Xin pulled Guan Wen and said, "Don't worry, everything in the house is in good order. There must be no accident, so it can only be..."

Guan Wen looked at Li Xin, but she couldn't say anything that had already flowed down her throat.

"I'll be back when I go."

Guan Wen dropped this sentence and continued to head east.

Li Xin went up the slope with a heavy heart. Xing'er was already sitting in front of the main room and was picking sweet potatoes with A-mei. The job went up to meet him, showing two points of worry.

"what happened?"

Li Xin whispered that she and Guan Wen went to the old house, only to find that the house was empty.

"Ah Wen found a lock for the broken door and locked it outside, but there are no valuables in the house, so it can't attract any thieves." Li Xin sighed: "It's just that this person doesn't know where to go." Where is it?"

Xing'er was stunned, and hesitated a little: "Could it be... ran away?"

Li Xin's complexion was not good, but he still nodded slightly.

Xing'er suddenly sucked in a breath of cold air.

"That's not right..." Xing'er calmed down and said, "No one suspected him, and the people in the town didn't say anything, how could..."

Li Xin shook his head: "Probably because I saw that Ah Wen and the others have been watching him closely recently, and they have gone to him twice, and the old demon is not strict. Maybe the night when Ah Wen asked him for questions... was the night before yesterday. , Diao Laoyao then went to him and told him about it."

"That's why he wants to run?" Xing'er's eyes widened, "That's not right! If he runs like this, doesn't it make him more guilty?"

Li Xin pursed his lips, "The household registration in the yamen now shows that there are not only the two of them in their household, but also the fourth younger brother. The fourth younger brother does not get a share when they split up, but they have severed the relationship. They are running away. The account is always here...but it doesn't rule out..."

"Isn't it ruled out that they went to another place and settled down under another name?" Xing'er covered her lips.

Li Xin looked solemn, and nodded slightly: "But Guan Zhicheng can't escape. If he wants to take the exam, he can only go to the state capital to take the exam under his original name."

After thinking about it, Li Xin shook his head again: "I don't know what's the use of his running, unless he is sure that he won't win the exam, otherwise, if he wins the exam, the good news will be sent to the county, and the county will send it to the county again." The government sent yamen servants to beat gongs and drums to deliver the good news to Hehua Village. How could he escape?"

Xing'er's expression was also very serious.

Li Xin patted her on the shoulder and said: "Don't think too much about it, wait until Ah Wen asks Diao Laoyao and come back. We met Diao Laoyao when we went this morning. He should go to the old house. It’s on the side, but he just said he was just going for a stroll by himself.”

Xing'er went back to the place where she was sitting just now and sat down, Li Xin also hooked up a stool and sat on the side, casually looking for a good sweet potato.

Guan Wen did not waste much time, and came back after a while, found Li Xin and said, "The old demon Diao still admitted that he was looking for them, but he knocked on the door for a long time and did not see anyone. The old man was the one after he left. I just went to the fields, so I don’t know if there is anyone in the old house.”

Li Xin pondered for a moment and said: "That is to say, no one knows where they went now?"

Guan Wen looked gloomy and nodded slightly.

"Otherwise, go ask Mr. Zhang Zishan?" Li Xin thought for a while and said, "Isn't your sixth brother always his favorite student? You can't just disappear without saying hello, right?"

Guan Wen shook his head, "We also know what kind of person Zhang Zishan is, and he won't know anything if we look for him. If we really look for him, wouldn't it be a surprise?"

Li Xin pursed her lips and sighed: "Then what should we do now?"

Guan Wen lowered his head slightly and said nothing.

In Li Xin's eyes, his appearance was full of frustration.Li Xin was also thinking, if she hadn't stopped Guan Wen the night before yesterday when he said he was going to find Guan Zhicheng, would Guan Zhicheng not be able to escape now?One day yesterday was enough time for Guan Zhicheng and Guan Ming to pack their things and left in the middle of the night.

Thinking of this, Li Xin was also a little annoyed, but after thinking about it, they left, wouldn't it be in line with her wishes?I can't see these two people in the future, out of sight and out of mind, life will be much more comfortable from now on.Guan Wen's remaining brothers and sisters are all well-measured people, and they never made her feel uncomfortable.

Li Xin let out a long sigh of relief, maybe this is a blessing in disguise.

Li Xin took Guan Wen's shoulders and comforted him a few words, telling him not to panic.Guan Wen looked up at her and said, "Xin'er, do you think Guan Zhicheng will go to the town to find Miss An?"

"It's unlikely." Li Xin shook his head and said, "Ms. An is now Mrs. Shen Fourth. Don't tell me, the Shen family sees her very strictly. Even Master An's funeral did not let her go back to An's house. How could it be possible for her to have a chance to meet a foreigner?"

Guan Wen naturally knew this truth, but he was still a little worried: "I'm afraid..."

After thinking about it, Li Xin still found it impossible, and said: "They probably don't have much money on them. It is possible to go to Miss An's family for money. But now Miss An's family is like a mud bodhisattva crossing the river. They probably won't go to the gun. Collide."

After a pause, Li Xin said: "Of course, there is another possibility, that is, they have saved enough money, and they don't need to ask Miss An's family for silver taels now, and now they are going directly to the state capital."

Guan Wen pinched his joints hard and clenched his fists tightly.

However, none of Li Xin's conjectures were true. On the second day, several big men came to their house, clamoring for Guan Wen and Li Xin to pay back the money.

Li Xin was very surprised, their family didn't take out foreign debts now, so where did they owe money?
A skinny man in the lead explained: "It's Guan Ming's eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law, right? He borrowed more than 100 taels of silver from our casino for gambling. Calculated with rolling interest, you have to pay it back today." Pay back 130 six taels. If you can’t pay it back today, it will increase by one tael every day. I think you should hurry up and make do with it today, and make sure to pay back 130 six taels.”

As he spoke, the lean man took out a deed from his pocket, on which Guan Ming's name was clearly written.

Li Xin was stunned.

130 six taels!
Guan Wen was surprised for a short while and then said to the thin man: "Whoever borrows the silver will pay it back, 130 six taels, you can't do it if you treat our family as a bank!"

The thin man's jaw snapped: "Then I don't care. Guan Ming himself said that if he doesn't pay back the money, there are still four sons under him. His family is in Hehua Village. He can run away like a monk but can't run away from the temple. But I just went to their house to look for it, and there was no one there, so I guess they ran away. What’s the matter, brother, the father’s debt is repaid, and your father ran away, you son can’t run away! What about repairing a new house? How can you not get the money?"

Li Xin only felt that he was holding a breath in his heart, unable to spit it out or swallow it.

Guan Zhicheng and Guan Ming... have to do this before they leave!
He borrowed more than 100 taels of silver without blinking an eye, and when converted in modern times, that would be about two hundred thousand taels!This is still a time when prices are on the low side, about two hundred thousand is enough for one person to eat and drink for years!

Guan Wen's clenched fists were trembling, Guan Wu stood up and glared at the group of people, shouting loudly: "How do we know that you are not here to cheat money!"

"Big brother, it's written here in black and white. At that time, when he borrowed money, many people watched him, and there were people around him, all of them were his gambling friends." The skinny man had a reason: " You can't trust us, you have to trust this clearly written deed, and you have to trust your father's gamblers in the village, right?"

The lean man smiled: "I knew you wouldn't necessarily admit it, I even found someone."

As he said that, he waved his hand, and immediately several tall and strong men grabbed some rascals who often fooled around and gambled in the village.

Naturally, they nodded repeatedly, and you repeated the scene of Guan Ming borrowing money one by one, and one of the thin men with cloudy eyes said: "We are still thinking about giving all the money he borrowed in the next period of time." If you win, then you can send it away...I didn't expect that he didn't come to gamble before and yesterday, and today we said we would go to him, so it didn't happen..."

Veins popped up on Guan Wen's forehead, Guan Wu held him back and said anxiously, "Brother, what should I do?"

Amei supported Xing'er, looking like she was about to cry.

Jiang Han led a group of men from the Gu family to stand behind Guan Wen and Guan Wu, and everyone's expressions were solemn.

130 six taels is not a small number.Villagers may not be able to come up with so much money in their entire lives.

Yang'er looked timidly at Guan Wen and then at Li Xin, stretched out her arms and hugged Li Xin's legs, and shouted, "Mother..."

"Sister-in-law..." Xing'er also looked at her worriedly, her face turned pale.

Fortunately, he was sleeping in the house at the end of the day, and didn't know what was going on outside, otherwise, if he heard it, he wouldn't be even more angry...

Li Xin took a deep breath, looked at the thin man, and said, "Show me the deed he borrowed money from."

If there is no doubt that Guan Ming's handwriting is true, then it can be proved that Guan Ming and Guan Zhicheng's departure from Hehua Village was premeditated and planned.Not only that, they "absconded with money", but pushed all the disasters on Guan Wen and her!
This makes Guan Wen feel so bad!This is tantamount to cutting off all of Guan Wen's retreats!

(End of this chapter)