Chapter 209 Dalang, it’s time to take medicine (19)

"Dad, Mom, he's still running a fever. What should we do now? Should we call a doctor? What if he becomes mentally ill due to the fever?" Wei Er Niang said to Old Man Wei and Old Lady Wei while anxiously changing the hot rag that was covering Chu Ran's body.

"Why hire a doctor? Don't you know what our family's situation is now? We can't even afford to eat, how can we have the money to hire a doctor?" Old Mrs. Wei said with a stern face. Even though her daughter said that this man was a noble man, she didn't know whether he was still alive. If he died, wouldn't she lose even the money for the medicine?

"But he is injured so badly. If he doesn't see a doctor or take medicine, he will really die!" Wei Er Niang was so anxious that tears came out. She had a premonition that this man was very important to her and she couldn't let anything happen to him.

"Dad, Mom, if he dies in our house, won't his family blame us when they come looking for us later? On the contrary, if we save him, he will definitely repay us. Let's not talk about money. If Fourth Brother passes the imperial examination and becomes an official in the future, won't he need a backer?" After all, Wei Er Niang is the heroine. She has some brains and knows her parents' personalities very well. She immediately uses future benefits as a guise to tempt and seduce them.

Sure enough, Old Man Wei and Old Lady Wei were reluctant at first, but when they heard Wei Erniang say that saving this noble man could help their beloved fourth son, they immediately became enthusiastic. It didn't matter if they had no money, they could just sell a few more acres of land. Once the noble man was rescued, the profits they would get would be a thousand times more.

"Old man, let's sell a few more acres of the remaining land at home!" Old Mrs. Wei said decisively, and she was going to give it a try.

Old Man Wei nodded and agreed. Wei Er Niang breathed a sigh of relief. She was afraid that her parents would still be stubborn, but she didn't expect that they could be convinced so easily this time.

As expected, Old Man Wei soon found the village chief and said he wanted to sell his ten acres of land.

Village Chief Hu couldn't believe his ears: "How much did you sell it for?"

"Ten acres." Old man Wei said, sighing and complaining, "You know, I have lost my house. My family, young and old, can't live in a shabby house with holes in the roof, right? It doesn't matter for adults, but the children can't stand it..."

Village Chief Hu was silent for a while before he said, "But if you sell ten acres, wouldn't that be too much? Building a new house only costs a dozen taels of silver, right? Now an acre of good paddy fields costs seven or eight taels of silver. If you sell two or three acres, wouldn't that be enough to build a new house?"

This family went bankrupt too quickly. You know, before the Wei family's house was struck by lightning, they were one of the richest in the village. They owned 15 acres of land. But this time, old man Wei actually wanted to sell 10 acres. He was too generous.

Old Man Wei knocked the pipe on his hand and then said casually, "Hey, didn't Second Mother save a nobleman from the mountains two days ago? The nobleman is not well now and has a fever. We need to see a doctor and buy medicine. I have no money, so I have to continue selling the land, right?"

Village chief Hu looked at Old Man Wei with suspicion. He was about the same age as Old Man Wei, and they were neighbors from the same village. He knew exactly what kind of person Old Man Wei was. This man would not do anything without profit. He was blinded by greed and cruel. He would even abandon his own son if nothing could bring him benefits.

How could he be so selfless and kind this time that he would sell his own land to hire a doctor for the nobleman? This is very abnormal.

Unless - the benefits gained from doing so would far outweigh the costs...

Village chief Hu remembered what the villagers said about Wei Er Niang saving a person from a wealthy family, so he thought he knew that old man Wei wanted to make a small profit with a big investment. Since others had such courage, he would not stop him.

So he stopped trying to persuade her and said, "Okay, I'll find a buyer for you."

Old Man Wei said quickly, "It's better to act quickly. After all, the nobleman is still waiting to ask the doctor to buy medicine! It would be bad if we delay."

"Okay, okay, okay!" Village Chief Hu had no choice but to promise him that it would be done as soon as possible.

When Old Man Wei returned to the shabby house, he heard the noisy crying of children in the house, which made his head hurt.

"Why did you come back? The land hasn't been sold yet, and there's no new house yet. What are you doing back?" Old Man Wei asked, frowning as he looked at Wei Erlang, who was sitting on the broken threshold with his head covered.

Wei Erlang raised his head and answered awkwardly: "My mother-in-law chased me back. She thought we were freeloaders and said we were struck by lightning, which was unlucky. Living in their house would bring bad luck to the people in their family..."

"What? How dare they say that?! Where is your wife? Won't she help you? Didn't she secretly help her parents' family enough in the past? Now that it's her parents' turn to help, she changes her face?" Old man Wei was so angry that his face turned red.

"She was also kicked out. They said they would cut off all ties with her and would not allow her to go back." Wei Erlang said dejectedly.

"This is too much! They are just turning against us because we are temporarily in trouble!" Old man Wei was so angry that he cursed his in-laws at the door, but it was of no avail, so the whole family had to live in the broken house again.

But Chu Ran, who was rescued by Wei Er Niang, occupied the relatively intact door that was used as a bed, so the other people in the Wei family were not very happy.

Wei Sanlang fiercely kicked the door panel where Chu Ran was lying and said, "Where did this wild man come from?! We don't even have a bed to sleep in, why should we give it to him?"

Wei Erniang was so frightened that she rushed over, grabbed Wei Sanlang's arm, and said, "Brother San, this man is of extraordinary status. Our family saved him, how can he not repay us well? We can't treat him unfairly..."

Wei Er Niang had to persuade Chu Ran with all her might before he was able to continue lying on the door panel, which was really sad. The son of Marquis Anding had been sleeping on a high bed since he was a child, but now he couldn't even sleep on a decent bed and he almost couldn't even save the broken door panel.

You know, in the original owner's life, the Wei family's big house was not struck by lightning, so after Chu Ran was rescued, the bed he slept on was clean and tidy, and he was not wronged. But now it is different.

Chu Ran lay there in a daze, his consciousness hazy. In a trance, he heard the sharp cries of children, the screams and curses of women, and words like "my noble man, repay me". He wanted to open his eyes, but his eyelids were too heavy. He eventually ran out of strength and could not open his eyes, so he fell asleep again.

Because Old Man Wei was in a hurry to sell his land, Village Chief Hu had to sell the ten acres of land at a discount. Old Man Wei was reluctant at first, but his nobleman was waiting for a doctor, his family members were quarreling in the broken house all day long, and all kinds of things made him anxious. He could not wait any longer, so he had to sell the land at a painful price.

(End of this chapter)