Rise From the Humble

  Chapter 62 Usury incident

   In the battle for water, Xiahe Village won an unprecedented victory, winning a total of ten flags. Each flag has a five-day water period, and ten flags have a fifty-day water period. Next year's harvest is guaranteed.

  The battle for water was a big victory, and the men, women, and children in Xiahe Village were all excited. They talked excitedly until they returned home after the rally, and so and so, what happened to the children of the old Zhu's family, and so on. Xiahe Village won, and the village elders and Li Zheng happily went straight to the ancestral temple in the village to comfort their ancestors.

  When Lao Zhu’s house was preparing to have dinner, several young people from Xiahe Village were leading a few young people into the gate of Lao Zhu’s house carrying a jar of old wine, a pig’s thigh, and a bag of rice.

"Old Uncle Zhu, you have raised two good grandchildren, especially your little pig, who is doing very well today. This is what I discussed with the village elders, so don't refuse." Li of Xiahe Village is exactly one The uncle in his forties is the kind of person with a delicate face, who crosses his hands and talks to his grandfather.

   Winning the water competition, the whole village celebrates together, but the grandfather just declines and accepts, and then invites the boys in Lizheng to sit down and have tea and drink together. Li Zheng declined, saying that there were other young people who wanted to leave, thanked his grandfather for his kindness, and soon led a few young men to leave.

  In the evening, Father Zhu made an exception and drank a few more glasses of wine, making him slightly tipsy.

  The uncle of the Zhu family also came home from the ancestral hall, as if nothing happened, just like before, with the pride of a scholar.

The time passed slowly like this for more than a month. Zhu Pingan rode an old scalper to school, and came out between classes to tell two girls, big and small, about shooting the eagles and laughing proudly. Nothing has changed.

  Oh, it’s not without it. Every time before telling a story to the big and small loli, an activity is added, which is to watch the big and small loli dance the rabbit dance and sing the song of love. Of course, eating is unavoidable.

Zhu Pingan has done many experiments on the tasteless ability of luck, and he has roughly figured out a part of it. Guangzong Yaozu, these four words are the key. You can roughly watch luck every ten days, and you can watch it for about three seconds each time. Time is very tasteless.

In addition to these, Zhu Pingan also used the name of the Chen family when he went to the neighbors and eight houses to play, and told the aunt and daughter-in-law to give them free raw materials for them to process into purses, and then buy them from them. The price is 10 texts. The aunt and daughter-in-law went to Chen's place to confirm, and Chen was also shrewd. Although she knew that Zhu Ping'an was using her name, she settled the score and felt that she was profitable, so she assured them that it was true. In short, the big basket was given to these aunts and daughter-in-laws, except for some for the eldest aunt, third aunt, and fourth aunt. After excluding the labor costs, Mrs. Chen went to the town and sold it to a store, earning more than one or two taels of silver at once. It's just a pity that when I went to the cloth store to buy rags, they were bought away. This made Chen, who had earned more than one or two taels of silver, feel distressed.

Time passed slowly like this for more than a month. At dusk more than a month later, Zhu Pingan rode the old scalper home as usual, but the difference was that this time the old Zhu’s house gathered a lot of people again. When he saw Zhu Pingan coming back riding the old scalper, he gave him sympathetic eyes.

  What happened, Zhu Ping'an shuddered.

  Pushing open the door, the house was in a mess. His mother, Mrs. Chen, sat slumped on the ground crying like a tearful person, and her eldest brother Zhu Pingchuan also had red eyes and tears.

  Father Zhu Shouyi was lying on a stretcher, trying to comfort the weeping Chen with a painful expression. One leg was intact but the other leg was wrapped in a white cloth, and the white cloth was still seeping blood

   Seeing this scene, Zhu Ping'an was almost stunned.

In his mind, Father Zhu is a strong man like an ox. Although he is not good at expressing, the love he gives is no less than Chen's, and he is also the pillar of his small family. Protect from the wind and rain. It is precisely because of such a hard-working man that he can be carefree like a child when he travels through time. Before going to the town to sell rabbit skins in the morning, Father Zhu still smiled and asked Zhu Pingan if he wanted the rice paper from last time.

  However, this iron-like man is now lying on a stretcher with a painful expression.

  Father Zhu is so honest and honest, he is righteous and has never had any enemies. This time I went to the town again, there would be no danger, only someone did something wrong.

   "Who, who hurt father?"

   There seemed to be a fire burning in Zhu Ping'anjue's heart. Gulu climbed off the back of the ox all at once, ran to Father Zhu with red eyes, tears slid down the angry chubby face.

   "Don't cry, I'm fine, the doctor said, I didn't hurt my bones, I'll be fine after a month of rest." Father Zhu lay on the stretcher, enduring the pain and trying to comfort everyone.

  The rest of the Zhu family were also there. The women were all liu shen wu zhu and didn't know what to do. The fourth uncle also looked shocked. This time he went to the town with Father Zhu. It's just that the elder uncle's eyes dodged a little.

"My second brother and I went to the town and sold the rabbit skins for money. We didn't go very far when we were surrounded by five or six people. Those people asked the second brother if his name was Zhu Shouyi, and the second brother said yes and asked what they were doing. What, they want the second brother to pay back the money, saying that the second brother borrowed 10 taels of usury more than a month ago, and now the interest rate has become 15 taels of silver. The second brother was deceived at that time, and he never borrowed money."

"The man took out the IOU written by the second brother himself, saying in black and white that you should not try to deny it, and robbed us of more than 100 yuan for selling rabbit skins, and then started beating people without any explanation. Said that this time it was only light, and gave the legs first. Keep it, if you can't get the money after three days, you will really break your leg."

  When the little fourth uncle talked about the town, he still looked terrified, even he was kicked twice by others.

   "Second, what are you borrowing money for? What bad things did you do outside?" Grandfather was so angry that he almost fainted, and he stood in front of Father Zhu with a thick stick, blowing his beard and staring loudly.

   "Father, how can my family Shouyi borrow money!" Mother Chen cried and protected Father Zhu.

   "No, dad, I don't have any land to use the money on, so what can I borrow money for. Besides, my son can't read a single word, so how can he write IOUs!"

  Father Zhu looked aggrieved and bitter. I was beaten up for no reason, and I was still suspected when I got home. I felt so bitter.

   "My father definitely didn't borrow the money!" Zhu Pingan said loudly with red eyes.

   "But the IOU has your father's name on it, and it's also fingerprinted." The fourth aunt on the side also felt a little unbelievable.

   "My father can't even write!" Zhu Ping angrily retorted, and Xiaopang's face flushed with anger.

  Things seem to have reached a dead end, and loan sharks will not ask people for money for no reason. They will only ask for money with this IOU after they sign and sign the loan. The county magistrate will not let them go if they fabricate casually. However, Zhu's father obviously never borrowed usury, let alone signed a pledge.

   Then how did this usury come about?

  (end of this chapter)