Just when Liu Changshan was about to write a normal IOU, he was suddenly stopped by Hu Lili.
She looked at Liu Changshan with a smile: "Grandpa Liu, this loan note is a little different today."
"Besides the Shen family's promise that I need to pay it back within three months, I also want more guarantees."
"If they can't pay it back within three months, then their work points will be used to offset it for me. The money will be converted into the grain price according to the grain ration distribution standard of our village, and then calculated as work points and deducted directly from me."
It was the first time that Liu Changshan heard of such a conversion, so he looked at Old Man Shen.
Before Old Man Shen could react, Wang Huilian next to him refused to listen.
"That won't work. How can we give you work points? If I give them to you, we won't be able to exchange them for food, won't we starve to death?"
Hu Lili raised her eyebrows and looked at Wang Huilian in surprise: "Auntie, are you planning to lend me money and not pay it back?"
"I just said that your work points will be deducted only if you can't pay it back within three months. If you can pay it back within the stipulated time, there will be no more problems!"
"Unless... you have no intention of paying me back!!!"
When she said the last sentence, Hu Lili narrowed her eyes and looked at all the Shen family members in the room.
This time, Old Man Shen also fell silent.
Although he had no intention of defaulting on his debt, he did intend to delay the payment as long as possible at the beginning.
As a result, Hu Lili now asked to use work points to offset the debt, which was really beyond his expectation.
Just as Old Man Shen was hesitating, Wang Huilian couldn't help but whispered, "Then it's not suitable for us to do what you said!"
"You need coupons to buy grain at the supply and marketing cooperative. Aren't coupons money?"
Hu Lili immediately sneered and said, "Auntie, if you say that, I won't lend it to you."
"Everything has to be a good match between you two. Do you think everyone else is just a scapegoat?"
"You have to know that you were the ones who asked me to lend you money first. I'm lucky enough that I didn't ask you for interest! If you think it's inappropriate, you can borrow from someone else, right?"
When Shen Chunshu saw that Hu Lili was about to back out, he quickly pulled Wang Huilian aside.
Turn your head and glare at her to tell her to say less.
Wang Huilian shook off Shen Chunshu's hand with all her strength. Although she rolled her eyes at him, she didn't say anything else.
Liu Changshan looked at Old Man Shen and asked him, "What do you think about this?"
Old man Shen was thinking in his mind that if he borrowed from others, he would have to borrow from many families to get enough money.
Rather than losing face many times, it is better to just embarrass Hu Lili's family!
As for exchanging it with work points, although it is a bit disadvantageous, it is not impossible.
Pay as much as you can first, and if you can’t pay off the rest, use work points to make up for it!
Old Man Shen nodded at Liu Changshan: "Okay, just write it like this!"
After getting Old Man Shen's approval, Liu Changshan picked up his pen and started writing quickly.
After a while, a special IOU was written.
Liu Changshan handed it to Hu Lili first: "Hu Zhiqing, do you think there is anything else that needs to be changed or supplemented?"
Hu Lili took it and saw that it said: Today, Chen Zhifu and his family borrowed 3 yuan from Hu Lili and promised to pay it back within three months from today. If this is violated, the remaining debt will be converted into work points according to the grain price and deducted from Hu Lili.
Below that are written the witnesses, debtor, borrower, and the current date.
Hu Lili handed it to Old Man Shen again: “There’s nothing wrong with my side, Grandpa Shen, take a look!”
Old man Shen took it, glanced at it, and returned it to Liu Changshan: "I believe Changshan, just follow what is written above!"
So Liu Changshan took out the ink from his arms and asked the Shen family members to come forward one by one and put their fingerprints on the borrower's place.
While waiting for the Shen family to put their fingerprints on the paper, Liu Changshan looked at Old Man Shen and joked meaningfully, "I used to use this ink less than twice a year, but this year I've used up almost half of it for your family."
Old man Shen remembered that the last time was because of Shen Siyue's separation from the family, and his family had indeed not been at peace this winter.
So he felt a little embarrassed: "I don't know what's wrong with me this winter. There's always this and that going on at home. I've never had such bad luck in previous years. Oh! Sometimes I even wonder if it's because of something."
Liu Changshan couldn't help but persuade him: "We are old now, we have to give up power to our children."
"As long as they are not really unable to make ends meet, just let them make the decision."
"There is one more thing. As parents, we have to be fair in our dealings with our brothers. Otherwise, it will only drive them apart."
Liu Changshan had said these words to Old Man Shen before, but he never listened to a word he said.
The same is true now.
Old man Shen still disagreed with what Liu Changshan said: "It's not that I don't want to give up power, it's that they are all so useless."
"If I let them do nothing, do you believe they will squander all this wealth? This is the wealth I have worked so hard to save my whole life, how can I let them squander it all like this?"
Seeing that Old Man Shen was still stubborn, Liu Changshan was too lazy to say anything.
After all the Shen family members had put their fingerprints on the document, he put his own fingerprint on the witness's field and handed the loan note to Hu Lili.
"Hu Zhiqing, you have to keep this IOU."
Hu Lili nodded, folded it and put it in her trouser pocket.
Seeing that the work had been done, Liu Changshan said, "Okay, is there anything else I can do? If not, I'll go back first."
At this time, Hu Lili said, "Grandpa Liu, wait a moment. I'll give Grandpa Shen the money now. Please keep it for a while. I'll go get it."
After saying that, Hu Lili went downstairs to the west room.
Wang Huilian, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but want to go over and take a look, but was stopped by Hu Lili.
"Ma'am, you should just stay in this room. I don't need anyone's help to get the money."
Hu Lili's words, which were obviously meant to defend herself, made Shen Chunshu feel very embarrassed.
He pulled Wang Huilian back in anger: "Can you be more serious? What are you doing with him?"
Wang Huilian also knew that she shouldn't have followed. She just heard Hu Lili going to get the money, and her body involuntarily wanted to go and see.
But she would not admit it: "Who... who said I was going to follow? I just walked around to stretch my legs, isn't that okay?"
Hearing Wang Huilian's lame excuse, everyone in the house looked at the roof, looked at the ground, pretending that they didn't hear what she had just said.
This time, Shen Chunshu felt even less ashamed. He gritted his teeth and stared at Wang Huilian hatefully.
What else can this stupid woman do besides bringing shame to him?
Shen Chunshu's dissatisfaction with Wang Huilian was about to reach its peak.
At this time, Hu Lili had already returned from the west room.
She put the money in her hand on the kang and said to Old Man Shen, “Grandpa Shen, count it!”
Old man Shen didn't hesitate to take the money from the kang and started counting it one by one with his hands.
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