Lu Badan's eyes were filled with tears. He tried hard to force a smile, but he looked a little embarrassed.
Xianjin:…
So ugly.
You might as well not laugh.
Xianjin turned his face away, took out a small purse from his sleeve, pushed it in front of Lu Badan, and said concisely, "Take it."
Lu Badan looked at Xianjin in horror, then looked at the purse. The purse was not even as big as his palm, so it should not be able to hold a hammer, right?
"Open it."
Xianjin urged.
Lu Badan tremblingly opened the purse, only to find a small silver ingot and a gold melon seed the size of a fingernail inside! ?
Gold! ?
Lu Badan suddenly looked up!
Xianjin said happily, "Keep it. It's the beginning of the twelfth lunar month. I'll give it to everyone as a New Year gift. They can all be exchanged for silver. I think everyone has never seen what gold looks like. These gold melon seeds are not big or heavy. They are for good luck and are not worth much."
Lu Badan’s eyes, including the eyeballs and the whites of his eyes, seemed to be blinded by the gold!
Is this gold...?
Gold!?
He had lived for most of his life, and this was the first time he saw gold!
Lu Badan touched the gold with his trembling hand.
Ah, so cold.
But, so beautiful!
Lu Badan held the golden melon seeds with both hands in disbelief, and his sunken cheeks even showed a look of excitement.
Xianjin smiled.
This looks much more beautiful.
People are most beautiful in front of money.
"I...I...I have it too?" Lu Badan spoke quickly with an accent from the countryside of Huizhou.
Xianjin was born in Sichuan in her previous life, and followed her nouveau riche father to Beijing to make a fortune. Sichuan dialect and Beijing accent are her native languages. She can understand Huizhou dialect purely because her aunt was born in northern Anhui and has a good talent for languages. After understanding it, she can also speak a few words along the way.
In addition, the Chen family wanted to climb up the social ladder, so they hired teachers to teach the boys and girls Mandarin when they were very young, so they did not show any fear when Xian Jin came.
Jing County was a bustling place, and almost all the ambitious scholars from the prefectures and states surrounding Southern Zhili were gathered here, and naturally they spoke Mandarin when doing business.
Now when Lu Badan got excited and started speaking his hometown dialect, Xianjin pricked up his ears to listen, and replied by guessing, "Everyone in the store has it. You are from the store, so naturally you have it too."
Lu Badan's eyes and mind were full of golden melon seeds. He first prepared to hide them in his sleeve pocket, but after thinking it over, he felt that it was not safe, so he hid them in his lapel, but still felt that was not safe. Finally, he took off his shoes and pressed the golden melon seeds under his insoles.
Xianjin:...
Don't let her see this golden melon seed again.
This is a flavorful golden pumpkin seed.
As Lu Badan was ecstatic, Xianjin poured himself a cup of tea as if nothing had happened, and asked casually, "You're not going home for the New Year this year, and your family isn't urging you?"
After Lu Badan found out that Xianjin didn't seem to be able to speak the Huizhou dialect, he immediately changed his accent to poor Mandarin. Jin was so timid that he shook his head like a rattle, "No, no, no! My wife at home loves playing mahjong. She has mahjong to play and money to lose. How could she remember me? The two girls are married now. When they go back on the second day of the Chinese New Year, they will also play mahjong with their mother!"
"Is that so..." Xianjin nodded and asked casually, "Is the card big?"
Lu Badan was immediately furious, "Why isn't it big? Old Pi Niang has five boards in one hand! That's a hundred boards in one night!"
Xianjin laughed and said, "This spendthrift woman—" He turned around and asked, "Doesn't that mean she owes money?"
Lu Badan nodded hurriedly, "Yes! I owe forty taels of foreign debt! I used to work as a clerk in the county government, and I didn't get much work a month! After work, I still had to fetch water and bricks to do the work. I signed and sealed the bills, and I acknowledged the debt!"
Xianjin smiled with an ambiguous expression, "Who do you owe it to? The banker? The retail investor? Or did you borrow money from someone else?"
After a few exchanges, Xianjin's accent already had a bit of the flavor of the Huizhou countryside.
Lu Badan was heartbroken, "All of them! The marks are the most!" He shook his head again and again, "It's not clear yet, it's not clear yet!"
Xianjin launched a surprise attack, "So, Master Chen Wu, you are the one who owes the most debt?"
Lu Badan nodded naturally, "Yes, I owe him thirty-four taels in total..."
As soon as Lu Badan finished speaking, he raised his head suddenly, and cracks appeared layer by layer on his sunken face.
Xianjin smiled very naturally, and his smile contained a sense of understanding that "as expected".
Judging from Lu Badan's performance over the past ten days, he is a timid person, superficial and easily startled. This kind of person was sent to be an informant.
Either Chen Laowu has no cards in his hand, or he is very confident about this card.
Kinship, that’s one thing.
Even close brothers may fall out over three pieces of land, let alone this kind of kinship which is thicker than a city wall.
Lu Badan must have some other evidence in Chen Laowu's hands.
Even if a simple and honest farmer has studied for two days and knows a few words, what can he do wrong? At most, he owes some money or takes a piece of land.
Isn't this the answer that can be answered as soon as you ask it?
Lu Badan was as timid as a chicken. His first line of defense was broken by Zhou Ergou's palm-leaf fan, and his second line of defense was broken by golden melon seeds that weighed less than a penny.
Once the two lines of defense were broken, the enemy army marched straight in and attacked Huanglong.
Xianjin smiled and asked again, "Did the Chen family allow Master Chen Wu to lend money out at high interest?"
Don’t you want the future of a rising star?
Lu Badan pursed his lips tightly and turned his dull eyes to the other side where Xianjin could not be seen.
Xianjin raised his eyebrows, lowered his head to drink a sip of tea, and said softly, "Suo'er, has our Lord Gou returned to his hometown?"
Xiao Suoer nodded, "Master Gou went back to his hometown for a blind date."
Gangsters also want blind dates?
Lu Badan shuddered and observed a moment of silence for the innocent girl.
Xianjin nodded slightly, "Is that so? Then I wish him success." After thinking for a while, he said, "Then go to the yard to find a thick rope, soak it in salt water, call Aunt Zhang in, close the door, and shut all the windows."
Xian Jinyun said calmly, "Wait, if they call the neighbors, it will be hard to explain."
Lu Badan swallowed hard.
Call?
Call?
What’s your name?
Xianjin saw that Lu Badan's face turned towards him, so he smiled and said, "Don't worry, although we are three women, we are all very strong. Women also have ways to deal with people - if we can't be whipped by whips, we have embroidery needles."
Xianjin bent down, gently took Lu Badan's hand and put it in front of him, "Look, insert the needle into the gap between your nails, and gently pierce it. You won't even have time to bleed. Ouch, your heart will be clenched into a ball and it will hurt so much."
Lu Badan felt the familiar warmth of his crotch again.
Lu Badan was trembling and shaking all over, and his teeth were chattering.
You worry too much.
Braids, you can also whip them.
Last time, that fat girl and the widowed sister-in-law dragged him away, easily, as if he was dragging a chicken.
"I...I..."
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