Wang Peng has been reborn. He has returned to the day when his father forced him to give his college admission notice to his younger brother and dropped out of school to work and support his brothe...
In his previous life, he farmed the land his whole life, and worked outside during the off-season. He grew watermelons for five or six years, and his estimated yield was about 80-90%.
Du Geda said, "I estimate there are still 9,000 catties of melons left. I'll take a small loss and we'll just calculate it as 8,800 catties. Is that fair?"
"That's a good deal." Wang Peng gave him a thumbs up, opened his wallet and gave him fifty yuan. "This is for yesterday's melons. I only have two hundred and fifty yuan left. How about I write you an IOU and you use the notice as collateral?"
This was the only solution he could think of.
Eight thousand five hundred catties of watermelon, at one cent per catty, would cost a total of 880 yuan.
“Give me 240 first, and I'll write an IOU for the remaining 640.” Du Geda scratched his head. “We know each other very well, so we don’t need a mortgage notice.”
This time, Wang Peng was truly moved. "Okay, I'll write you an IOU right now."
He took out 240 yuan from his wallet and gave it to him, keeping only 10 yuan for himself for living expenses. Then he took out paper and pen to write an IOU for 640 yuan and signed his name.
“Uncle Du, I will definitely redeem the IOU before the start of the semester.” He handed the IOU to Du Geda.
"No need to rush, I believe you're a reliable guy."
Du Geda put away the IOU, took out a bottle of liquor and took a sip. "Xiao Lei and I are leaving tonight. You go sell the melons first, and then find someone to watch over them for you."
Wang Peng nodded, indicating that someone must guard the melon field day and night.
Those villagers who didn't grow watermelons, and their greedy kids, will definitely steal watermelons when no one's around.
Who can help watch over the melon field?
He thought of his second maternal uncle's eldest cousin, Li Fang.
In his past life, only two people were kind to him: his beautiful but ill-fated wife and his cousin Li Fang.
The siblings often visited each other, and she was willing to lend money to her unfortunate cousin for medical treatment.
While borrowing money from her to buy medicine, Wang Peng worked hard to pay off his debts, but he never finished repaying them before he died.
It's 1993 now. My cousin didn't get into university and was preparing to drop out to work. I don't know if she's still around.