Master Chen Wu tightly grasped the paper in his hand. After a while, he raised his head with a fake smile and said, "I came in a hurry and didn't bring any silver. How about I send someone to deliver it to the king on the mountain?"
The boy stared at the ceiling, took out another piece of paper from his arms and handed it to Chen Laowu.
——"Write this IOU and deliver it here tomorrow at this time and hour."
Chen Laowu really wanted to crumple the note into a ball and stuff it into the boy's mouth!
Chen Laowu glanced at the wooden door behind him and said softly with gritted teeth, "...My brother has already paid off Li Laozhang's debt!"
I’ll pay for it with my life!
How can you pay a debt twice?
Chen Laowu raised his voice slightly and said shamelessly, "I don't have three thousand taels! I have now recovered the interest from Fushun Baozhai and gave up a shop. I don't have that much money!"
The boy slapped his hand on the table and took out another piece of paper from his pocket.
——"Assassinating blood relatives and colluding with mountain bandits, is this account worth three thousand taels?"
Chen Laowu stepped back and turned to look at the wooden door, "You have no evidence!"
He did it very secretly this time!
When he first established contact with the bandits from Baochanduo Temple, he went to Anyang Prefecture in person and visited the head of Furongji. He persuaded the young master of Furongji to help him speak for the Chen family in exchange for the Chen family's voluntary giving up the Liuzhangxuan. He did not show up directly during the whole process and did not even leave any writing!
He is not stupid Lao Liu!
He would never allow anything that could convict him to remain in the world!
The boy thought about it, then took out a fifty-liang silver note from his pocket and handed it to Chen Laowu, timidly pointing to the Chinese characters on the bottom of the note.
Chen Laowu squinted his eyes and read, "Rising Sun Private Bank, Zhaojia No. 6535."
Chen Laowu didn't know what he meant, but his palms were sweating.
Then, the little boy took out a booklet from his bosom and turned to the page. He tapped one of the lines with his finger. It clearly read:
"Rishengchang Private Bank - Zhaojiazi No. 6535 to Zhaojiazi No. 6545 - Chenji Paper Shop took out Jiachang - December 24th of the 14th year of Zhaode".
Chen Laowu took a few quick breaths—he understood!
In order to avoid attracting attention, he avoided using official banknotes, that is, the Ministry of Revenue official notes, when exchanging silver, and kept it in private banknotes. This way he could avoid the government's suspicion that he possessed large amounts of silver, and also reduce the commission for exchanging cash for silver notes.
Yes... He had heard that private banknotes would record the redemption of large-value silver bills one by one, but he thought that large expenditures were those of more than one thousand taels!
Therefore, he deliberately controlled the deposit paid to the bandits to five hundred taels!
After Chen Laowu had looked at them, the boy quickly put the account book and the banknote into his arms, then took out the fifth piece of paper and placed it in front of Chen Laowu.
It's a written IOU.
The names of the borrower and lender are left blank.
Chen Laowu looked at the boy.
The boy handed him the sixth piece of paper and said, "Lender, write Fu Shun Bao Zhai."
Fushun Baozhai?!
The gambling house where he lends money at high interest! ?
The gambling house where he lent money was backed by bandits! ?
Chen Laowu looked up in disbelief.
The boy pushed the pen, ink and ink pad on the table to Chen Laowu's side, motioning him to hurry up.
Chen Laowu didn't move for a long time.
From the inner room came the sound of a sharp blade coming out of its scabbard.
Chen Laowu shuddered all over - he had forgotten who he was messing around with!
Those are bandits!
What a bandit who kills people without shedding blood!
Even if he was dragged into the inner room and his neck was stabbed with a knife, in this place where all kinds of people gather, no one would stand up for him or redress his grievances!
After Chen Laowu finished writing, he trembled all over and pressed his thumb full of ink on the paper.
When Chen Laowu came to his senses, he was standing at the gate of Anle Tavern. The vulgar people, whom he usually looked down upon, were walking in groups of three or four, pointing and talking at him.
Three thousand taels...
And the two thousand taels that He Xianjin cheated him of before...
Five hundred taels given to the bandits...
Five thousand five hundred taels...
Five thousand five hundred taels...
He... all his wealth...
All the wealth!
Chen Laowu leaned against the dirty wall dejectedly, lowered his head unconsciously, and suffered a splitting headache.
In the private room on the second floor, the door to the inner room was pushed open.
The "mute" trembled and handed the book and banknotes in his arms to the master behind the desk like offering treasures. When he spoke, it was clearly the voice of a little girl, "Miss, Miss! Here you go!"
The little bear girl took the book with a smile, and fanned the pages through it. She threw the book on the table with a gentle laugh, "...You are really brave. You only forged three pages. If he is more thoughtful and turned two more pages, we won't be able to continue this game."
A slender hand with calloused hair stretched out from the side of the little bear girl and took the notebook again. The owner of the hand, Xianjin, said with dissatisfaction, "Time is limited. I have to get in touch with you, find a boy I don't know, write a lucky charm, forge account books, and pretend to be a bandit to bribe the night watchman in advance..."
"It's already great to have done this! I didn't sleep all night last night!"
Do you really think she has set up a one-stop industrial operation?
She is the screenwriter, director, and also the sound director. Xianjin carefully put away the ruby and sapphire scimitar dagger.
This is an important guest appearance in this play, and a chicken drumstick must be rewarded when the filming is completed.
The little bear girl pursed her lips and smiled, her eyes full of joy, "Why don't you write Fu Shun Bao Zhai as the lender? Aren't you afraid that he will come straight to our door and ruin our plan in a few words?"
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